AP 10 - SAT Vocab 2
connive | v. to cooperate secretly in a wrongdoing |
chutzpah | n. nerve; audacity |
liege | n. a lord, master, or sovereign |
odium | n. hatred |
crass | adj. coarse; tasteless |
hypercritical | adj. overcritical; too severe in judgment |
fallacy | n. a mistaken notion; a misconception |
befuddle complacent | v. to confuse; to perplex adj. self-satisfied, smug |
pandemonium parsimonious | n. a wild disorder, noise, or confusion adj. excessively thrifty; stingy |
verbose | adj. using more words than are needed; wordy |
laudable | worthy of praise; commendable |
indiscreet | adj. not wise or judicious; imprudent, as in speech or action |
pique | v. to cause resentment; to provoke |
linguistics | n. the scientific study of the structure, sounds, and meaning of language |
plebeian | n. a commoner; one from the lower class |
precocious | adj. showing early development, especially mental |
predatory | adj. inclined to prey on others |
prowess | adj. superior skill or ability |
pugnacious | adj. eager and ready to fight; quarrelsome |
Writer's Notes:
ww - wrong word - choose a different word
awk - awkward phrasing - change order of words
sp - spelling error
col - avoid colloqialisms (use of slang)
ro - run-on sentence (too long)
cs - comma splice (too many commas to connect ideas)
single underline - spelling
triple underline - capitalization error
slash - erase
frag - fragmented sentence or idea (incomplete)
^ - insert word
circled punctuation is wrong
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