{"id":3160,"date":"2015-01-26t23:52:52","date_gmt":"2015-01-26t23:52:52","guid":{"rendered":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/sat\/?p=3160"},"modified":"2015-04-14t00:57:11","modified_gmt":"2015-04-14t00:57:11","slug":"sat-vocab-monday-really-hard-sat-words","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"\/\/www.catharsisit.com\/hs\/sat\/sat-vocab-monday-really-hard-sat-words\/","title":{"rendered":"sat vocab monday: really hard sat words"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><iframe width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/usncnkgumqu?rel=0\" frameborder=\"0\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/p>\n<p>even if you are, say, 50-years old, you probably remember that there were these terribly difficult words on sat that you\u2019d never seen before. that kind of dread doesn\u2019t dissipate with the decades. <\/p>\n<p>so, yes, the sat has long been making life difficult with these tough words. <\/p>\n<p><strong>perfidious<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>\u201cet tu brute\u201d can be loosely translated as either \u201cwatch out for that knife\u201d or \u201cyou are the worst friend ever\u2014back stabber\u201d. to commit such an act of betrayal is to involve perfidy, or deceitful, underhanded disloyalty. <\/p>\n<p>in less shakespearean terms, your friend is being perfidious if they smile in front of your face but are talking you down in front of others.  <\/p>\n<p><strong>mercurial<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>2:36 p.m. i am so happy! school is out.<br \/>\n2:45: i can\u2019t get out of this terrible parking lot. the world sucks.<br \/>\n3:08: why didn&#8217;t i just go home? it\u2019s completely boring here.<br \/>\n3:10: i can\u2019t believe that jerk just texted me that. i\u2019m going to defriend them.<\/p>\n<p>this might sound like a typical day in the life of a high schooler, but the focus here is on the roller coaster, unpredictable emotions. in other words, this person is being totally mercurial. <\/p>\n<p><strong>munificent<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>if somebody asked you what you\u2019d do with 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