<p>People get annoyed by his mecurial character.</p>
<p>volition</p>
<p>Nicolas Sarkozy outshines most of his contemporaries because he can shrewdly and extemporaneously answer every question the press bombards him.</p>
<p>extemporaneously-impromptu</p>
<p>repudiate</p>
<p>Selling Yahoo to Microsoft was always against Jerry Yang's *volition * and the latter categorically refused any accord on all fronts, even though the management threatened his stature of chief executive.</p>
<p>repudiate
rescind</p>
<p>The policeman repudiated that he had not deceived pp.
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predicament**</p>
<p>Many people faced major predicament during their college admissions.</p>
<p>antiquated</p>
<p>in the next few years, TV may be antiquated.</p>
<p>conjecture</p>
<p>Due to the limited amount of hard evidence, the scientists were forced to make a conjecture based on their previous observations.</p>
<p>pedantic</p>
<p>Obama's campaign is based on pedantic approach where every little detail is important - a visit to in Iraq, a rhetoric speech in France or an interview in Berlin are little, yet subtle means to earn global prominence.</p>
<p>cynical</p>
<p>The cynical teenager always questioned the motives behind his peers' actions and felt sure that everyone was inherently selfish.</p>
<p>Serendipity.</p>
<p>this life is a *serendipity *,which means you meet many things by chance.</p>
<p>necromancy</p>
<p>In our current age of reason, an infinitesimal amount of people still believe in necromancy, voodoo, witchcraft and similar practices that essentially dress up an intellectual fraud.</p>
<p>inimical</p>
<p>Spiteful for dumping her, my ex stared at me with an inimical gaze each time we crossed paths.</p>
<p>Incredulous</p>
<p>I was incredulous to believe that i got a 800 on the critical reading section.</p>
<p>equanimity</p>
<p>be equanimous when your unrequited crush breaks your heart,do know that showing equanimity marks your strength,being unequanimous is what women do when they lose their lovers,but men keep their equanimity all the way</p>
<p>cow</p>
<p>I am completely cowed by the thought of not scoring a 2400 on the SAT!</p>
<p>emulate</p>
<p>The children thought it was hysterical to emulate their teacher.
(hmmm turns out emulate means to imitate only when its referring to computers...=[ )</p>
<p>Deride</p>
<p>Michael and Dwight derided Phyllis by criticizing her weight.</p>
<p>Caustic</p>
<p>Caustic in her tone, Sarah replied "I hope you score a 2400!"</p>
<p>Effluvia</p>
<p>The room was full of effluvia; no one could enter it without plugging his or her nose.</p>
<p>I don't know if I used that correctly, but I doubt "effluvia" is a word that could appear on the SAT, either way.</p>
<p>Halcyon</p>
<p>after entering her dirty room,the effluvia started to bother me</p>
<p>disparage</p>