SAT Exam #4

sadistic

enjoy pain

viable

able to live

adamant

stubbornly unyielding

feral

wild

herculean

strong, tough

quixotic

impractical ideas

cynical

skeptical

laconic

brief

nostalgic

longing for

stoic

showing no emotion

Machiavellian

successful in a negative way

egregious

negative stand out

martial

warlike, military

precarious

risky

bulbous

round relating to bulb

supercilious

scornful looking down on

progeny

children

detriment

damage, cause damage

longevity

long continuance

oration

formal speech

pandemonium

all hell breaks loose

stigma

disgraceful mark

cupidity

greed, possessive

foible

small weakness

labyrinth

maze

philistine

hostile to art

aberration

departure from normal, out of pattern

forte

strength

odyssey

long adventurous journey

idiosyncrasy

a person's peculiarity

narcissism

extreme self love

elegy

song expressing sorrow

coerce

force

initiate

introduce

bowdlerize

censor

expedite

speed up

pander

play against what someone loves

impede

slow down

tantalize

to tempt

galvanize

to stimulate, excite

vita

life

adamas

unconquerable, hard steel, diamond

ferus

wild

oracion

prayer

coercere

to control, restrain

initium

beginning

pan

all

daimon

demon

stigma

tattoo

expedio

to release the foot

pedis

foot

ex

out

nostos

a return home

egregis

out of the flock or herd

ab

away from

errare

to stray

im

in

precarious

obtained by prayer or begging, risky

super

over, above

cilium

eyelid

idio

private, peculiar, one's own

syn

together

crasis

mixture

elegos

song of mourning

sadistic

enjoy pain

viable

able to live

adamant

stubbornly unyielding

feral

wild

herculean

strong, tough

quixotic

impractical ideas

cynical

skeptical

laconic

brief

nostalgic

longing for

stoic

showing no emotion

Machiavellian

successful in a negative way

egregious

negative stand out

martial

warlike, military

precarious

risky

bulbous

round relating to bulb

supercilious

scornful looking down on

progeny

children

detriment

damage, cause damage

longevity

long continuance

oration

formal speech

pandemonium

all hell breaks loose

stigma

disgraceful mark

cupidity

greed, possessive

foible

small weakness

labyrinth

maze

philistine

hostile to art

aberration

departure from normal, out of pattern

forte

strength

odyssey

long adventurous journey

idiosyncrasy

a person's peculiarity

narcissism

extreme self love

elegy

song expressing sorrow

coerce

force

initiate

introduce

bowdlerize

censor

expedite

speed up

pander

play against what someone loves

impede

slow down

tantalize

to tempt

galvanize

to stimulate, excite

vita

life

adamas

unconquerable, hard steel, diamond

ferus

wild

oracion

prayer

coercere

to control, restrain

initium

beginning

pan

all

daimon

demon

stigma

tattoo

expedio

to release the foot

pedis

foot

ex

out

nostos

a return home

egregis

out of the flock or herd

ab

away from

errare

to stray

im

in

precarious

obtained by prayer or begging, risky

super

over, above

cilium

eyelid

idio

private, peculiar, one's own

syn

together

crasis

mixture

elegos

song of mourning