PowerPlus SAT Vocabulary Book H Lesson 7

wastefully excessive or reckless and indifferent toward morality, decency, or justice

lacking water or rainfall; very dry

The project progressed smoothly because the workers had __________ personalities.

to mock with contempt

filled with; laden   or   emotioanlly distressed or distressing

a small part that represents the whole of a system

richly and elaborately decorated

polite and refined in manner, as from vast social experience

tending to change suddenly; explosively

impossible to dispute or disprove

to excite by flaunting a desired thing and keeping it just out of reach

easily annoyed; peevish

capable of existing or working together

He _______ his former life of crime because it hurt so many people.

a witty remark, sometimes sarcastic  or  to make a witty or clever remark

Most people _______ the thought of children working in coal mines.

talkative

Dust clouds occasionally drifted across the ________  fields.

to condemn; or to regret