Week 13 SAT Words

Pretentious (adj.) - characterized by showing importance; ostentatious.  If you are an average person, which I agree on average, most people are in the world, they seem to pretend to have the ability to do something or popularity. And they are very "pretend"tious.

Procrastinate (v.) - to delay unnecessarily.  The first time I heard this word, had a connotation of daydreaming, leading into a delay of time.

Profligate (adj.) - shamelessly wasteful; immoral way of wasting.  In the early 1800s, during the Napoleonic wars, American, whom was neutral traded with the British and the French. They did not have large ships with large crews, for Jefferson had destroyed them, but had Frigates, which were fast, cheap, and produced in large quantities. These ships were constantly seized and attacked by the British. Although these ships were fast, they did sink.

Frigate on the Left, British ship on the right.

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Provocative (adj.) - ability to provoke, or persuade, stir up, anger, or annoy.  Provocatice is pronounced provo[ka]tive, not provo[sa]tive ot provo[kay]tive, another fine example of the annoying English language.

Prudent (adj.) - wise, judicious, cautious, or careful.  When people drive, it is prudent of them to not be prone to dent their cars, thus, being careful when they drive.

Pugnacious (adj.) - like to fight, quarrelsome, fond of fighting.  Pugs are really ugly and I dislike them, whenever I see one, I just have the tendency to kill one. (Over exaggerated).

Quadrant (n.) - a quarter of a circle; a specific area or part of something.  In math classes, involving graphing or any sort of solving polynomial equations, the first vocabulary you learn is the parts of the coordinate plane.

Quantitative (adj.) - existing in large quantities, numbers. Teachers often recite "quality, not quantity" when writing an essay to prove that the quality of something in worth more than the multiple numbers of another, in an essays case, more evidence, less repetition.

Querulous (adj.) - complaining, and irritating.  While I was typing this word out, I kept saying and typing querluous, instead of querulous, I is extremely annoying to press the backspace, type the wrong letters again, and press backspace continuously.

Mr. Mosely, not Mr. Mosley.

Quixotic (adj.) - impractical, unpredictable; resembling romantic emotions.  Firstly the word is impractical. Secondly, I see the word exotic in the word, meaning different or unorthodox.