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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

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to speak loudly and vehemently

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defamatory

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injurious to the reputation

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demagogue

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a leader, rabble-rouser, usually appealing to emotion or prejudice

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denizen

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an inhabitant, a resident

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deride

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to laugh at contemptuously, to make fun of

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diffuse

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to spread out widely; to scatter freely; to disseminate

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digress

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to turn aside, especially from the main point; to stray from the subject

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dilapidated

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in despair, run down

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diluvial

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pertaining to a flood

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discomfit

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to disconcert, to make one lose one’s composure

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discrete

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individually distinct; seperate

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disingenuous

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giving a false appearance of simple frankness; misleading

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disinterested

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fair-minded, unbiased

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dispassionate

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unaffected by bias or strong emotionsl not personally or emotionally involved in something

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dissident

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disagreeing with an established religious or political system

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doctrinaire

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rigidly devoted to theories without regard for practicality; dogmatic

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dogged

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stubbornly perservering

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doleful

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sad, mournful

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dour

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sullen and gloomy; stern and severe

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effluvia

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waste; odorous fumes given off by waste

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elegy

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a mournful poem, usually about the dead

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elude

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to avoid cleverly, to escape the perception of

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emollient

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soothing, especially to the skin

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emulate

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to strive to equal or excel, to imitate

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encumber

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to weigh down, to burden

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enjoin

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to direct or impose with urgent appeal, to order with emphasis; to forbid

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epochal

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momentous, highly significant

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eponymous

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giving one’s name to a place, book, resteraunt

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equivocate

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to avoid committing oneself in what one says; to be deliberately unclear

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ersatz

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being an artifiicial and inferior substitute or imitation

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eschew

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to shun; to avoid (as something wrong or distasteful)

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espouse

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to take up and support as a cause; to marry

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espy

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to catch a sight of, glimpse

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euphemism

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an inoffensive and agreeable expression that is substituted for one that is considered offensive

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euthanasia

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the practice of ending the life of terminally ill individuals; assissted suicide

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excoriate

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to censure scathingly; to express strong disapproval of

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exponent

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one who champions or advocates

62
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expound

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to explain or describe in detail

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expunge

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to erase, eliminate completely

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extirpate

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to root out, eradicate, literally or figuratively, to destroy wholly

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extrapolation

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using known data and info to determine what will happen in the future, prediction

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extrinsic

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external, unessential; originating from the outside

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extrude

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to form or shape something by pushing it out; to force out, esp through a small opening

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facetious

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witty, humorous

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facile

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easily accomplished; seeming to lack sincerity or depth; arrived at without due effort

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fallacious

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tending to deceive or mislead; based on a fallacy

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febrile

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feverish, marked by intense emotion or activity

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feckless

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ineffective, worthless

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feign

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to pretend; to give the false appearance of

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feral

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suggestive of a wild beast, not domesticated

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fictive

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fictional, relating to imaginative creation

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filibuster

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to use obstructionist tactics, esp prolonged speech making, in order to delay something

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fitful

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intermittent, lacking steadiness; characterized by irregular bursts of activity

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flippant

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marked by disrespectful lightheartedness or casualness

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flout

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to scorn, to disregard with contempt

80
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fodder

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raw material, as for artistic creation, readily abundant ideas or images

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forego

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to precede; to go ahead of

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forgo

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to do without; to abstain from

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formidable

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fearsome, daunting; tending to inspire awe or wonder

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fortitude

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strength of mind that allows one to encounter adversity with courage

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fortuitous

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by chance, esp by favorable chance

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frenetic

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frantic, frenzied

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fulsome

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abundant; flattering in an insincere way

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furlough

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a leave of absence, esp granted to a soldier or a prisoner

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furtive

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sly, with hidden motives

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galvanize

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to shock; to arouse awareness

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gamely

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spiritedly, bravely

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gauche

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lacking social refinement

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grandiloquence

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pompous talk; fancy but meaningless language

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gregarious

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outgoing, sociable

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grotto

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a small cave

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harangue

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to give a long speech

97
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hedonist

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one who pursues pleasure as a goal

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hegemony

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the domination of one state or group over its allies

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heretical

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departing from accepted beliefs or standards, oppositional

100
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hiatus

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a gap or interruption in space, time, or continuity

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