SAT (Even More Vocabulary III)

...continued [WARNING] This post contains some (almost all) highly shit words...:-P..proceed on your own risk...

• Deleterious (adj) (it can delete ya :P) harmful. This drug can be deleterious for kids even if given in the prescribed amounts.
• Noxious (adj) [noxa- harm] physically harmful or disgusting. This drink has got some noxious preservatives, I won't recommend it!! [!] Obnoxious (also one of the SAT words) is not related to noxious, it means  very offensive or unpleasant; like an obnoxious sludge pile.
• Disinterested (adj) not biased. Sports judges or referees should be disinterested. [!] Don't confuse it to mean lack of interest (uninterested), it is basically to undo any interest.
• Fecund (adj) productive or fertile. This area is quite fecund; last year we got a bumper crop from it.
• Hermetic (adj) airtight or free/protected from any outside influence. A hermetic cookie jar. The count lead a hermetic existence in his mansion, with only few trusted servants around.
• Salubrious (adj) [salub- health] beneficial for health. Apple is a salubrious fruit.
• Foster (v) to promote the growth or development of. The fecund region fostered the growth of cash crops.
• Transitory (adj) not staying for a long time; fleeting. Transitory success.
• Transient (adj) short in duration. Yesterday was one cloudy day, we will only saw transient sunlight in between unending periods of cloud cover.
• Goad (v) to urge or force someone into an action. The radical leader goaded his listeners into a rebellious mood. The farmer goaded the cow into moving out of the barn.
• Ingenuous (adj) naive and overly innocent. The ingenuous kid handed out the wet $100 bill, that he had found on the pavement, to the man for drying. [!] Don'tconfuse with the almost identical ingenious which means clever, effective or inventive.
• Savor (v) to take in something with an unhurried attitude; relish something. Jane stood there savoring the moment. Eyre savored the thick creamy chocolate in her mouth.
• Correlate (v) related together. What is the affect of a change in temperature to the three correlated variables. A kid's IQ correlates with his/her academic performance.
• Facetious (adj) [facetie a joke] supposed to be funny but often silly or inappropriate. Many people take facetious proposals seriously, the same holds true with compliments. [!] The F house; here are some 'f' words that are closely related to one another: flippant (not taking something serious enough), frivolous (silly and not worth of taking seriously), frolicsome (full of fun), frisky (feeling playful)....whew!
• Petulant (adj) ill tempered and complaining. The petulant manager was an apathy in the office; no one liked him because he would ask you to redo every project.
• Rampart (n) fortified walls that enclose a city. The missile ripped through the rampart and the sky was rendered red by exploding flesh and drops of blood. (The Battle)
• Temerity (n) [temerit- rashness] boldness, audacity to an offensive extent. The temerity shown by Wilkinson to the German teacher was unbelievable, he should be expelled for that.
• Truculent (adj) (the opposite of truce :P) [trux- fierce] aggressively defiant. The truculent daughter would never listened to what her mother asked her to do. The rebel forces were getting truculent by the hour and the leader had started to get worried about her life.
• Incisive (adj) cutting right to the core or quick to understand. An incisive analysis of the problem. The incisive commander knew what was behind this actions of his opposing better.
• Aberration (n) deviation from norm. An aberration in the ammeter readings had the student suspicious about it order.
• Alacrity (n) [alacr- lively] eager enthusiasm and speedy readiness. The alacrity of the soldiers was worth acknowledgement; everyone of them wanted to die for their nation.
• Arid (adj) extremely dry or unimaginative. An arid desert. An arid script.
• Beget (v) to produce or cause; to engender. Secrecy begets suspicion.
• Conundrum (n) a puzzle, riddle. Harry Potter solved a conundrum about the Chamber of Secrets.
• Debacle (n) a sudden and often humiliating disaster, defeat or failure. The Dhaka debacle of 1971 will remain a dark moment in the history for Pakistan. (History of Asian Countries)
• Doggerel (n) a comic or out of sync verse. Little Linda's poem was full of doggerels.
• Exorbitance (n) [ex- out, -orbis circle] an exceedingly large or high amount. Exorbitant prices.
• Intransigent (adj) refusing to compromise, without even considering to change a stance. The government dreaded their intransigent opposition; when they get stuck on something they won't even budge. An intransigent hardliner. Los Intransigentes is a Spanish political party..."The Uncompromising Ones"!
• Maverick (adj) an independent thinker who doesn't agree with settled views. A maverick philosopher with out of the ordinary theories.
• Turpitude (n) [turpis- repulsive] extreme immorality or wickedness; depravity (a state of moral corruption). The government sent the minister packing because of his deed of turpitude; he was involved in one of the biggest corruption scandal in the history of the country.
• Axiom (n) a widely accepted saying.
• Impugn (v) to cast doubt on. Recent police raids impugned the authority of the Don.