Name----------------------------------Period----- Date----------------------ACT SAT Vocabulary #6
18 vocabulary words from The Most
Important SAT* #6 puzzles.
Alphabetical list of 18 words:
acumen, chicanery, deleterious,
epiphany,
facetious, homogeneous, incognito,
kinetic,
loquacious, lugubrious, nihilism,
obsequious,
paradigm, precipitous, sanguine,
unctuous,
vacuous, xenophobe
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1. _____ paradigm
2. _____ epiphany
3. _____ lugubrious
4. _____ obsequious
5. _____ acumen
6. _____ homogeneous
7. _____ chicanery
8. _____ xenophobe
9. _____ kinetic
10. _____ sanguine
11. _____ incognito
12. _____ facetious
13. _____ nihilism
14. _____ vacuous
15. _____ deleterious
16. _____ loquacious
17. _____ unctuous
18. _____ precipitous
Match the 18 definitions below to the vocabulary
words on the left.
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a. -- characteristic of an ointment;
excessively suave or smug
b. -- characterized by deference; fawning;
sycophantic
c. -- Injurious to health; harmful; injurious
d. -- a person who fears or hates foreigners,
strange customs, etc.
e. -- characterized by excessive talk;
garrulous; wordy
f. -- characterized by movement or caused
by motion
g. -- cheerfully optimistic, hopeful or
confident; reddish; ruddy
h. -- composed of the same kind or nature;
not heterogeneous
i. -- with one's identity hidden, disguised or
unknown
j. -- of the nature of a situation of great
peril; extremely steep
k. -- empty; showing a lack of ideas or
intelligence; purposeless
l. -- an example serving as a model; pattern
m. -- a sudden, intuitive perception of or
insight
n. -- not meant to be taken seriously or
literally
o. -- the use of sly language, reasoning etc.
to trick or deceive
p. -- belief that all existence is senseless
Q. -- keen insight; shrewdness
r. -- mournful or gloomy, esp. in an
affected, exaggerated manner