Test Prep Words

harmful, injurious

• deleterious

• nefarious

• chastise

• precocious

to reduce strength

• adversity

• arid

• chastise

• enervate

angered at something unjust or wrong

• querulous

• assiduous

• indignant

• resilient

to criticize severely

• cryptic

• chastise

• covert

• perfidious

exceeding what is sufficient or required; excess

• querulous

• perfidious

• mundane

• superfluous

winding, twisted, crooked; devious

• dormant

• soporific

• tortuous

• austere

the change of form, shape, substance

• metamorphosis

• egregious

• satiated

• jubilation

to get around

• circuitous

• circumvent

• precarious

• eclectic

tending to cause sleep, relating to sleepiness or lethargy

• soporific

• discredit

• bellicose

• languid

drooping from exhaustion, sluggish, slow

• soporific

• languid

• satiated

• obstinate