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Sat Prep Flashcards

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Abominate

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To have intense dislike or hatred

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Adventitious

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Resulted from chance

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Commiserable

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To sympathize

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Enjoin

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To direct or order

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Expiate

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To make amends, make up for

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Inadvertent

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Resulting from or marked by lack attention; unintentional, accidental

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Noncommittal

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Not decisive or definite; unwilling to take a clear position

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Proclivity

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A natural or habitual inclination or tendency (especially of human character or behavior)

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Sangfroid

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Composure or coolness, especially in trying circumstances

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Tenuous

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Thin, slender, not dense; lacking or sharpness; of slight importance; lacking a sound basis or poorly supported

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Aggrandize

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To increase in greatness or power

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Amorphous

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Shapeless

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Aura

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That which surrounds (as at atmosphere)

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Erudite

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Scholarly, learned

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Inscrutable

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Incapable of being understood

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Propensity

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A natural inclination or predilection toward

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Querulous

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Peevish, complaining, fretful

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Remonstrate

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To argue with someone against something, protest

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Resilient

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Able to return yo original shape or form able to recover quickly

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Sedulous

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Persistent, showing industry and determination

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Amnesty

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A general pardon for offense against a government in general, any act for forgiveness or absolution

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Blazon

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To adorn or embellish; to display conspicuously; to publish or proclaim widely

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Equitable

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Fair, just, embodying justice

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Filch

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To steal, especially in a sneaky and way in petty

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Fractious

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Tending to be troublesome, unruly, quarrelsome, contrary; unpredictable

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Precept

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A rule of conduct or action

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Scathing

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Bitterly severe, withering; causing great harm

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Soporific

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Tending to cause sleep, relating to sleepiness or lethargy

Something that induces sleep

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Straitlaced

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Extremely strict in regard to moral standards and conduct; prudish, puritanical

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Vapid

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Dull, uninteresting, tiresome; lacking sharpness flavor, liveliness or force

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Anomaious

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Abnormal, irregular, departing from the usual

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Bizarre

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Extremely strange, usual, atypical

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Cajole

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To coax, persuade through flattery or artifice to deceive with soothing thoughts or false promises

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Demagogue

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A leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power

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Disabuse

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To free from deception or error, set rights in ideas or thinking

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Fetter

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A chain or shackled placed on feet (often used in plural) anything that confines or restrains

  • To chain or shackle
  • To render helpless or impotent
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Heinous

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Very wicked, often offensive, hateful

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Megalomania

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A delusion marked by a feeling of power, wealth, talent etc, far in excess or reality

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Surreptitious

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Stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation: made or accomplished by faud

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Transmute

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To change from one nature, substance, or form to another

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Beneficent

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Performing acts of kindness or charity

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Concoct

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To prepare by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish)

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Crass

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Coarse, unfeeling: stupid

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Desecrate

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To commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverntly

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Pillage

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To rob or goods by open force (as in war), the act of looking

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Prate

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To talk a great deal in a foolish action

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Punctilious

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Very careful and exact

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Redoubtable

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Inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, eminent

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Vulnerable

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Open to attack; capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotected

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Acrimonious

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Stinging, bitter in temper or tone

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Consternation

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Dismay, confusion

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Dispassionate

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Impartial; calm; free from emotion

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Dissipate

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To cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure

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Expurgate

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To remove objectionable passages or words from written text; to cleanse purify

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Hypothetical

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Based on an assumption or guess

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Intemperate

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Immoderate, lacking in self control

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Odium

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Hatred; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful condoct

58
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Relegate

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To place in a lower position

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Susceptible

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Open to; easily influenced

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