SAT- N Flashcards

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Nadir

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lowest point

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Naive

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lacking experience and understanding

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Narcissism

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excessive love or admiration of oneself

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Nascent

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starting to develop, coming into existence

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Navigable

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sufficient for vessels to pass through

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Nebulous

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vague, undefined

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Necromancy

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the practice of communicating with the dead in order to predict the future

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Nefarious

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intensely wicked or vicious

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Negate

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nullify, deny

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Negligent

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careless, inattentive

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Negligible

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not worth considering

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Neologism

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new word or expression

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Neonate

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a newborn child

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Neophyte

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novice, beginning

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Nettle

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to irritate

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Neutrality

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disinterest, impartiability

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Neutralize

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to balance

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Nihilism

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the belief that traditional values and beliefs are unfounded and that existence is useless; the belief that conditions in the social organization are so bad as to make destruction desirable

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Noisome

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stinking, putrid

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Nomenclature

A

a system of scientific names

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Nominal

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existing in name only, negligible

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Nonchalant

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calm, casual, seemingly unexcited

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Nondescript

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lacking interesting or distinctive qualities

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Non sequitur

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A statement that does not follow logically from or is not clearly related to anything previously said.

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Nostalgic

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longing for things of the past

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Notable

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remarkable, worthy of notice

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Notion

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idea or conception

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Notoriety

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unfavorable fame

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Novel

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new and not resembling anything formerly known

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Novelty

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something new and unusual

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Novice

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beginner

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Noxious

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harmful, unwholesome

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Nuance

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shade of meaning

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Nudge

A

gentle push

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Nullify

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to make legally invalid to counteract the effect of

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Numismatics

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coin collecting

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Nurture

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to help develop, cultivate