SAT Core List 3 Flashcards by Paige Min

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Abjure

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To reject

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Abstruse

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Hard to understand

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Advocate

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To fight for something

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Aggregate

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To gather

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Aggrieved

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Injured and distressed

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Archaic

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Historical, used in the past

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Arrogate

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To take without a reason

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Auspicious

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A sign for good things to come

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Blight

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Something that destroys hope

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Canvass

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Questioning and trying to get or force answers out of people

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Circumspect

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Cautious

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Colossus

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Something giant

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Concoct

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To make (a concoction)

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Convoluted

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Complicated

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Curtail

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Lessen

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Delegate

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To give a task to someone / assign a task

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Demure

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Quiet and reserved

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Discretion

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Being reserved and under self-control

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Dissent

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Disagree

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Entail

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Requires as a necessary step or process

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Fetid

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Stinky

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Harrowing

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Something traumatic and terrible

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Impute

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Blame

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Inchoate

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Just beginning / recently developed

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Incumbent

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Someone holding office

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Intransigent

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Refuses to compromise / stubborn

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Lethargic

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Sluggish

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Neophyte

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Rookie

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Obtuse

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Slow at understanding

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Penultimate

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Next to last

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Pertinacious

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Stubbornly persistent

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Plethora

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Surplus

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Pretense

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Disguise or deceiving trick

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Punctilious

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Disciplined and eager to follow rules

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Rail

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Scold

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Requisition

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Demand for goods

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Resplendent

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Shiny and glowing

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Superfluous

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More the necessary

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Ubiquitous

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Existing everywhere

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Veneer

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Fake attractiveness or appeal

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Vituperate

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Scold