SAT Core List 6 Flashcards by Paige Min | Brainscape

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Abrogate

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Abolish by authority

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Acerbic

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Bitter

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Ambiguous

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Uncertain

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Analgesic

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Something that reduces pain

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Annex

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A small room attached to a larger one

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Ascetic

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Practicing restraint for discipline or religion

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Assail

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Attack

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Bombastic

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Excessively confident

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Buttress

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Support

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Catalyze

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Charge or inspire

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Cloying

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Sickeningly sweet

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Congeal

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Thicken into a solid

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Convention

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Assembly of people

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Corpulence

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Extreme fatness

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Denounce

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Criticize publicly

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Desiccated

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Dehydrated

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Diffuse

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Scatter and break up

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Dissent

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Disagreeing

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Dissuade

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To persuade someone to not do something

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Dogmatic

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Arrogant

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Empirical

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Capable of being proved or disproved by experiment

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Equanimity

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Composure

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Espouse

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Support

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Flabbergasted

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Astounded

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Grandiose

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Magnificent and exaggerated scale

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Hypothetical

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Supposed or assumed

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Impudent

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Casually rude

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Incumbent

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Obligatory

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Injunction

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Order for official warning

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Innovate

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To do in an unprecedented way

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Invective

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Angry verbal attack

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Inviolable

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Secure from assault

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Lucid

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Clear and easy to understand

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Mitigate

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Make less violent

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Noisome

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Unpleasant and offensive

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Opulent

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Rich abundance

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Panacea

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Remedy for ills and difficulties

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Phlegmatic

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Uninterested

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Pithy

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Concisely meaningful

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Potentate

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A ruler

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Pulchritude

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Physical beauty

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Quaint

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Charmingly old fashioned

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Reciprocate

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Give in return

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Revel

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Enjoy intensely

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Ruse

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A trick

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Saccharine

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Sickeningly sweet

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Somnolent

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Sleepy

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Tacit

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Expressed without words

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Utilitarian

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Relating to or aiming at usefulness

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Vicissitude

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Event that occurs by chance

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Yoke

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To join