S.A.T. 11
boreal – adj. - Of or relating to the north; northern. Of or concerning the northern wind.
fez – n. pl. - A man’s felt cap in the shape of a flat-topped cone, usually red with a black tassel hanging from the crown.
draconian – adj. - Exceedingly harsh; very severe.
litigious – adj. - Of, relating to, or characterized by litigation. Tending to engage in lawsuits.
cryptic – adj. - Having hidden meaning; mystifying. Secret or occult.
malleable- adj. - Capable of being shaped, as by hammering. Easily controlled or influenced; tractable.
pretext – n. - An ostensible or professed purpose; an excuse. An effort or strategy intended to conceal something.
auspices – n. pl. - Protection or support; patronage.
affectation – n.- A show, pretense, or display. Behavior that is assumed rather than natural; artificiality
carnage – n. - Massive slaughter, as in war; a massacre.
postmodern – adj. - Of or relating to art, architecture, or literature that reacts against earlier modernist principles, as by using traditional, classical, or extreme modernist styles or practices.
oxymoron – n. pl. - A rhetorical figure in which incongruous or contradictory terms are combined, as in deafening silence.
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