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tractable (adj.) easily controlled (The horse was so tractable, Myra didn’t even need a bridle.)

tranquil (adj.) calm (There is a time of night when nothing moves and everything is tranquil.)

transgress (v.) to violate, go over a limit (The criminal’s actions transgressed morality and human decency.)

transient (adj.) passing through briefly; passing into and out of existence (Because virtually everyone in Palm Beach is a tourist, the population of the town is quite transient.)

transmute (v.) to change or alter in form (Ancient alchemists believed that it was possible to transmute lead into gold.)

travesty (n.) a grossly inferior imitation (According to the school newspaper’s merciless theater critic, Pacific Coast High’s rendition of the musical Oklahoma was a travesty of the original.)

tremulous (adj.) fearful (I always feel a trifle tremulous when walking through a graveyard.)

trenchant (adj.) effective, articulate, clear-cut (The directions that accompanied my new cell phone were trenchant and easy to follow.)

trepidation (n.) fear, apprehension (Feeling great trepidation, Anya refused to jump into the pool because she thought she saw a shark in it.)

trite (adj.) not original, overused (Keith thought of himself as being very learned, but everyone else thought he was trite because his observations about the world were always the same as David Letterman’s.)

truculent (adj.) ready to fight, cruel (This club doesn’t really attract the dangerous types, so why was that bouncer being so truculent?)

truncate (v.) to shorten by cutting off (After winning the derby, the jockey truncated the long speech he had planned and thanked only his mom and his horse.)