<p>Michael's extreme** largess** was such that he always showered his grandchildren with gifts and money, regardless of the occasion. </p>
<p>The flood's effects were cataclysmic, devastating both the city and its inhabitants.</p>
<p>Adroit</p>
<p>We can't let this die.</p>
<p>One cannot be sure to become adroit in the art of the SAT without this thread.</p>
<p>THIS </p>
<p>IS </p>
<p>SPARTAAAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!</p>
<p>Spartan</p>
<p>The Spartan kicked all the unskilled producers of parody movies like Epic Movie or Disaster Movie down a bottomless pit.</p>
<p>perquisites</p>
<p>Formal education in the middle ages was a perquisite held only by the rich.</p>
<p>Loquacious</p>
<p>The loquacious teenager single handedly debilitated the Verizon wireless network, talking over 8 trillion minutes. </p>
<p>Finagled</p>
<p>He **finagled **his way into the executive position at the Fortune 500 company.</p>
<p>Cavil</p>
<p>John cavils at the most trivial matters, he's never satisfied with anything.</p>
<p>Pedantic</p>
<p>My parents are not very pedantic about my academics.</p>
<p>levity</p>
<p>Paul was often accused of levity after having joked and laughed at his father's funeral.</p>
<p>Ambivalent</p>
<p>khan's ambivalent behaviour towards the SAT irked his parents</p>
<p>supplant</p>
<p>David Patterson supplanted Ellior Splitzer as the NY Governor after Splitzer's prostitution scandel.</p>
<p>abjure</p>
<p>When Mark received his PhD as a doctor, he abjured the title of Doctor, instead preferring the title 'Mr.'</p>
<p>banal</p>
<p>The banal comedian failed to induce laughter within the audience. </p>
<p>Exasperation</p>
<p>The boy gasped in exasperation when he realized he had marked 8 E's (No Error) in a row. </p>
<p>recalcitrant</p>
<p>The recalcitrant student, refusing to comply with school rules and regulations, vandalized the school walls and demanded a 7 hour lunch period. </p>
<p>Verdant</p>
<p>Emma was so verdant that she was unable to see through her boyfriend's blatant lies.</p>
<p>Remonstrant (adj.)</p>
<p>In June 1989, the Chinese government crushed thousands of Chinese remonstrant students at Tian'anmen Square.</p>
<p>adulation</p>
<p>The teenager's adulation of the pop group worried her parents.</p>
<p>gregarious</p>
<p>Chloe was known to be a social butterfly; her many friends were the result of her gregarious manner.</p>
<p>Magnanimous</p>