PSAT Lesson 14 Flashcards

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Animosity

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Harsh feelings, enmity, resentment, hatred

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Adulterate

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To make impure by adding lesser substances; to corrupt

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Apocryphal

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Of doubtful origin or authenticity, not genuine

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Avarice

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Greed for wealth

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Coalesce

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To merge, to fuse, to join, or to unite

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Collaborate

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To work together

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Cryptic

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Mysterious, secret

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Desultory

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Jumping around, aimless, random

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Dissipation

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Wasteful spending, squandering

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Edifying

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Instructing an improving spiritually or morally

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Equivocate

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To attempt to lie, to mislead, or to hide the truth

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Espousing

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Marrying, giving ones loyalty; adopting or embracing a cause

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Hedonist

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One go seeks pleasure as the sole aim in life

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Indefatigable

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Tireless, incapable of being fatigued

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Interminable

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Having or seeming to have no end, wearisomely protracted

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Naive

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Unsophisticated; inexperienced

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Parody

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Humorous or ridiculous imitation

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Peripheral

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On the edge, not important

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Portent

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A sign or forewarning

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Prodigious

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Extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree great size, enormous

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Profane

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Showing contempt toward sacred things

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Respite

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A rest, a delay, a period of relief

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Sordid

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Filthy, foul

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Surfeited

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Fed or supplied excess

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Trifling

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Not significant, frivolous