SAT vocab 200 Flashcards
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compliant
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submissive, yielding
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concomitant
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existing concurrently
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concord
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agreement
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condole
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to grieve; to express sympathy
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conflagaration
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big, destructive fire
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confluence
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the act of two things flowing together; the junction or meeting place wherre two things meet
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consanguineous
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having the same lineage or ancestry; related by blood
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consternation
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an intense state of fear or dismay
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constituent
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component, part; citizen, voter
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constraint
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something that restricts or confines within prescribed bounds
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contemptuous
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quarrelsome, disagreeable, belligerent
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contiguous
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sharing a boundary; neighboring
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continence
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self-control, self-restraint
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convalesce
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to recover gradually from an illness
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convergence
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the state of seperate elements joining together or coming together
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coquette
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a flirtatious woman
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coterie
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an intimate group of persons with a similar purpose
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countervail
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to act or react with equal force
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covert
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secretive, not openly shown
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cull
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to select, weed out
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cumulative
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increasing, collective
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curt
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abrupt, short with words
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dearth
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a lack, scarcity, insufficiency
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debacle
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a sudden, disastrous collapse or defeat; a total, ridiculous failure
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declaim
to speak loudly and vehemently
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defamatory
injurious to the reputation
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demagogue
a leader, rabble-rouser, usually appealing to emotion or prejudice
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denizen
an inhabitant, a resident
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deride
to laugh at contemptuously, to make fun of
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diffuse
to spread out widely; to scatter freely; to disseminate
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digress
to turn aside, especially from the main point; to stray from the subject
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dilapidated
in despair, run down
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diluvial
pertaining to a flood
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discomfit
to disconcert, to make one lose one's composure
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discrete
individually distinct; seperate
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disingenuous
giving a false appearance of simple frankness; misleading
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disinterested
fair-minded, unbiased
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dispassionate
unaffected by bias or strong emotionsl not personally or emotionally involved in something
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dissident
disagreeing with an established religious or political system
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doctrinaire
rigidly devoted to theories without regard for practicality; dogmatic
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dogged
stubbornly perservering
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doleful
sad, mournful
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dour
sullen and gloomy; stern and severe
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effluvia
waste; odorous fumes given off by waste
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elegy
a mournful poem, usually about the dead
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elude
to avoid cleverly, to escape the perception of
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emollient
soothing, especially to the skin
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emulate
to strive to equal or excel, to imitate
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encumber
to weigh down, to burden
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enjoin
to direct or impose with urgent appeal, to order with emphasis; to forbid
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epochal
momentous, highly significant
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eponymous
giving one's name to a place, book, resteraunt
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equivocate
to avoid committing oneself in what one says; to be deliberately unclear
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ersatz
being an artifiicial and inferior substitute or imitation
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eschew
to shun; to avoid (as something wrong or distasteful)
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espouse
to take up and support as a cause; to marry
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espy
to catch a sight of, glimpse
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euphemism
an inoffensive and agreeable expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive
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euthanasia
the practice of ending the life of terminally ill individuals; assissted suicide
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excoriate
to censure scathingly; to express strong disapproval of
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exponent
one who champions or advocates
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expound
to explain or describe in detail
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expunge
to erase, eliminate completely
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extirpate
to root out, eradicate, literally or figuratively, to destroy wholly
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extrapolation
using known data and info to determine what will happen in the future, prediction
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extrinsic
external, unessential; originating from the outside
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extrude
to form or shape something by pushing it out; to force out, esp through a small opening
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facetious
witty, humorous
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facile
easily accomplished; seeming to lack sincerity or depth; arrived at without due effort
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fallacious
tending to deceive or mislead; based on a fallacy
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febrile
feverish, marked by intense emotion or activity
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feckless
ineffective, worthless
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feign
to pretend; to give the false appearance of
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feral
suggestive of a wild beast, not domesticated
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fictive
fictional, relating to imaginative creation
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filibuster
to use obstructionist tactics, esp prolonged speech making, in order to delay something
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fitful
intermittent, lacking steadiness; characterized by irregular bursts of activity
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flippant
marked by disrespectful lightheartedness or casualness
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flout
to scorn, to disregard with contempt
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fodder
raw material, as for artistic creation, readily abundant ideas or images
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forego
to precede; to go ahead of
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forgo
to do without; to abstain from
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formidable
fearsome, daunting; tending to inspire awe or wonder
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fortitude
strength of mind that allows one to encounter adversity with courage
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fortuitous
by chance, esp by favorable chance
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frenetic
frantic, frenzied
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fulsome
abundant; flattering in an insincere way
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furlough
a leave of absence, esp granted to a soldier or a prisoner
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furtive
sly, with hidden motives
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galvanize
to shock; to arouse awareness
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gamely
spiritedly, bravely
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gauche
lacking social refinement
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grandiloquence
pompous talk; fancy but meaningless language
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gregarious
outgoing, sociable
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grotto
a small cave
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harangue
to give a long speech
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hedonist
one who pursues pleasure as a goal
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hegemony
the domination of one state or group over its allies
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heretical
departing from accepted beliefs or standards, oppositional
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hiatus
a gap or interruption in space, time, or continuity
