SAT Core List 8 Flashcards by Paige Min | Brainscape

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Abstain

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To choose not to do something

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Acute

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Having keen insight

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Ameliorate

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Improve

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Amenable

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Willing

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Antecedent

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Something that came before

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Arbitration

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Resolving a dispute

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Assuage

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Ease

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Atypical

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Not typical

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Calamity

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Disaster

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Circuitous

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Roundabout

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Cognizant

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Aware

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Compound

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Stalled area with a group of buildings

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Consecrate

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Dedicate to something holy

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Coronation

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Crowning

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Cosmopolitan

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Sophisticated and worldly

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Deprecate

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Belittle

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Despondent

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Depressed and discouraged

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Divulge

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Reveal a secret

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Dour

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Stern and joyless

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Duplicity

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Crafty and dishonest

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Embezzle

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Steal money with false records

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Epistolary

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In letters and mail

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Exalt

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Glorify

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Fidelity

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Loyalty

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Flagrant

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Offensive

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Hardy

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Can survive in hard situation

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Ignominious

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Humiliating and disgracing

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Indigent

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Very poor

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Inquisitor

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Someone who forcefully questions people

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Instigate

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Urge

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Iridescent

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Showing rainbow colors

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Irrevocable

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Incapable of being taken back

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Larceny

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Taking thought stealing or trickery

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Manifest

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Easily understandable and obvious

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Mollify

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Soften in temper

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Nominal

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Insignificant

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Orthodox

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Conventional and based of a protocol

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Paradox

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Contradictory but true

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Pliable

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Flexible

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Predilection

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A preference

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Preponderance

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Superiority

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Quixotic

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Idealistic and impractical

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Reconcile

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Make consistent with existing ideas

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Restitution

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Restoration to the rightful owner

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Rhapsodize

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Excessive enthusiasm

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Salient

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Significant

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Semaphore

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Visual signal

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Staid

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Serious and disciplined

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Tangential

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Divergent and on a tangent

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Vapid

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Dull

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Vocation

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Profession or job