SAT words (page 4)

...[she is] referring to the corpulent King of England who lived so well off the labor of his peasantry.

Over dinner, a taciturn staff gave him a quick primer on how to direct a movie.

Or maybe, as its detractors contend, Therapeutic Touch is a form of New Age mumbo jumbo, a no-touch laying on of hands that has no legitimate place in medicine.

a canny (movie) producer.

That answer is probably just as good as the so called “correct” answer, which always seemed a bit contrived to me.

Here is where NeXT's doleful record cannot be entirely exonerated by the biological metaphor, which is after all a figure of speech, not an explanation.

avert, obviate, forestall

partiality, penchant, prejudice, proclivity, propensity

There are lots of apocryphal stories floating on the internet. For example, i was reading an article on the story of casino in the early days (http://www.quatloos.com/gamble/parhedg.htm); about how they murdered a man who was using some nuclear-physicist kids's stratagem to win away some 10 million dollars. Urban legends are either completely baseless, or distorted true stories.

capricious, volatile, mercurial, whimsical

disdainful

sublime

abolish, annihilate, void, annul, repeal, revoke

... the university had ignored decades of constitutional law and abrogated its responsibility as a center for free inquiry.

dominant, predominant, preponderant, paramount, preeminent, supremacy, preponderance, pre-eminence

abutting, adjoining, conterminous, juxtaposed

He believed that art must be analyzed for both its overt and covert meaning: Beneath its explicit content there exists a vast reservoir of latent social and psychic information.

envy, begrudge

censurable, reprehensible

superficial, shallow