SSAT Upper-Level Vocabulary emphatic - Correct Answers showing or giving emphasis; expressing something forcibly and clearly abdicate - Correct Answers to give up a position, right, or power assent - Correct Answers agreement coalesce - Correct Answers to come together enigma - Correct Answers a puzzle; a mystery ephemeral - Correct Answers lasting a very short time novice - Correct Answers beginner obstinate - Correct Answers stubborn pacify - Correct Answers (v.) to make peaceful or calm; to soothe tenacious - Correct Answers persistent demure - Correct Answers quiet and modest; reserved cerebral - Correct Answers intellectual maxim - Correct Answers a general truth or rule of conduct; a short saying Jargon - Correct Answers vocabulary distinctive to a particular group of people recalcitrant - Correct Answers stubbornly disobedient 1 / 2
aberration - Correct Answers something that differs from the norm clairvoyant - Correct Answers able to see the future burgeon - Correct Answers to grow and flourish derelict - Correct Answers abandoned, run-down stymie - Correct Answers to hinder, impede austere - Correct Answers severe or stern in appearance; undecorated fortify - Correct Answers to strengthen quell - Correct Answers to put an end to proclivity - Correct Answers a natural inclination formidable - Correct Answers Causing fear erratic - Correct Answers unpredictable conciliatory - Correct Answers appeasing; soothing; showing willingness to reconcile credible - Correct Answers believable culpable - Correct Answers deserving blame; guilty guile - Correct Answers deceit; trickery
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