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Regressive

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Movement backward

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Idiosyncratic

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Peculiarity; individualizing characteristic

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Disparaging

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Lowering in rank or reputation

Depreciate

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Dalliance

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Act of dallying, play

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Infelicity

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Awkward, unfortunate, not appropriate

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Temporize

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To act to suit the time/ occasion; draw out discussions to gain time

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Vindictive

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Seeking revenge

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Petulant

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Rude

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Fastidious

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Having high and capricious standards

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Sedulous

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Diligent; perserverance

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Treacly

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Sentimental

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Cursory

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Rapidly and superficially performed and produced

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Prosaic

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Dull, unimaginative

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Consecrated

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Dedicated to a sacred purpose

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Anthropology

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Study of human beings

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Pernicious

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Highly injurious or destructive; wicked

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Nominal

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Insignificant

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Salutary

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Beneficial effect

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Tractable

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Easily handled, easily capable of being led

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Intransigent

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Characterized by refusal to compromise

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Volatile

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Fickle; eruptable

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Umbrage

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Suspicion

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Acerbic

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Biting; sarcastic

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Affront

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Offend

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Barbed

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Biting criticism

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Discreet

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Modest

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Churlish

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Vulgar

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Incur

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To become subject to

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Enervated

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Lacking physical, mental, or moral vigor

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Precarious

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Depending on will or pleasure of another; depending on chance circumstances

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Prescient

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Having or showing knowledge of events before they take place

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Labyrinthine

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Intricate

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Execrable

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Very bad

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Metaphysical

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2 a : of or relating to the transcendent or to a reality beyond what is perceptible to the senses
b : supernatural

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Dogmatic

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characterized by or given to the expression of opinions very strongly or positively as if they were facts

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Straitlaced

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Excessively strict in manners opinions

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Pedantic

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Unimaginative

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Laud

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Praise

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Deprecating

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Make little of

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Interspersed

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To place something @ intervals

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Retrograde

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Moving in a backwards direction

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Dilatory

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Procrastination; delay

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Munificent

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Liberal

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Indefatigable

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Incapable of being fatigued

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Unwieldy

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Not easily managed

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Obsequious

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Subservient

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Egregious

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Conspicuously bad

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Perfunctory

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Characterized by routine

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Ineluctable

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Inevitable

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Scintillating

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Exciting senses

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Pestilence a

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A contagious disease

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Cantankerous

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Grouchy old

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Exorbitance

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Excessive

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Laconic

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Few words

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Acerbic

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Sarcastic

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Garrulous

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Talkative

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Brusque

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Someone with bad manners

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Emphatic

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Emphasizing

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Benevolent

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Marked by or disposed to doing good

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Raiment

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Clothing

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Esoteric

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Limited to a small circle

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Tenable

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Capable of being held, maintained, or defended

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Erroneous

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Characterized by error

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Impugned

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Attack as false or lacking integrity

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Flotsam

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Floating wreckage of a ship or it’s cargo

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Implacable

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Incapable of being changed

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Irascible

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Marked by hot temper

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languid

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Weak, slow

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Didactic

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Designed or intention to teach

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Impetuous

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Marked by an impulsive vehemence or passion

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Vehement

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Impassioned

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Remiss

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Negligent

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Dubious

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Doubtful

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Amass

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To collect for oneself

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Preclude

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To make impossible by necessary consequence

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Ascertain

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To find out or learn with certainty

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Motley

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Composed of different elements

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Languid

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Weak, slow, listless

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Copious

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Plentiful in number

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Excise

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To remove

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Derision

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Use of ridicule or scorn to show contempt

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Ameliorate

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To make better

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Augment

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To add strength

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Equanimity

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Evenness of mind ESP in stressful times

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Truculence

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Cruel, savage

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Abstruse

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Difficult to comprehend

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Arcane

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Mysterious

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Esoteric

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Private, confidential, limited to a small circle

SAT vocab (6 decks)

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