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SAT Vocab Latin Roots 1-12 Flashcards

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Amateur

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unexperienced unskilled

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Amiable

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showing good qualities, friendly, good natured

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amicable

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Characterized by showing good will

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Amity

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friendship peaceful harmony

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Amorous

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Showing or expressing love

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Enamored

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to fill with love

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Animosity

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a feeling of strong dislike

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Animus

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strong dislike, animation

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Equanimity

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mental or emotional stability

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Magnanimous

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generous or forgiving

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Unanimity

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the quality of being numerous, or undivided

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Unanimous

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complete agreement

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Affinity

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a natural liking to

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confine

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to inclose within bounds

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definitive

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most reliable or complete

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finale

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the last piece

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finis

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end conclusion

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fluctuate

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to change continually

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fluent

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spoken or written with ease

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fluid

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a substrate such as liquid or gas.

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flux

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flowing or flow, Movement

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influx

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act of flowing in

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Degenerate

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to fall below normal or desirable level

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Engender

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to produce cause or give rise to.

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Genre

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a class or category of artistic endeavor

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Progenitor

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a biologically related ancestor

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Regenerate

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to affect complete or moral reform

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Aggregate

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Collection of a particular group

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aggregation

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a group or mass of distinct things

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Congregation

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an assembly of persons brought together for religious worship

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Gregarious

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fond of the company of others

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Segregation

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the act or practice of segregating

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Adhere

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to stay attached

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Cohere

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to stick together

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Coherence

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the act or state of cohering. Logical connection

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Cohesion

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the act or state of being united

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Incoherent

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without logical meaning of connection

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Inherent

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existing in someone or something as a permanent and inseparable element.

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Bilateral

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pertaining to involving or affecting two or both

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Collateral

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security pledged for the payment of a loan

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Equilateral

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having all sides the same

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Lateral

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pertaining to the side

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Multilateral

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pertaining to many sides

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Quadrilateral

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having four sides

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Unilateral

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one side

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Alliteration

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the stress of two to more syllables of a word.

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Literacy

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the quality or state of being literate

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Literal

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in accordance to, Primary meaning of a word, True

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Literary

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The quality or state of being literate

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Literate

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able to read or write

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Elucidate

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to make clear or lucid

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Lucid

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easily understood clear

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Luminary

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a celestial body, a person who has attained eminence in his or her field, an inspiration

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Luminous

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radiating or reflecting light, brilliant intellectually

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Translucent

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permitting light to pass through

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Emancipate

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free from restraint

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Manacle

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a shackle for the hand

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Mandate

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a command or authorization to act

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Manipulate

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to manage or influence skillfully

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Manual

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done operated worked by hand

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Manuscript

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original text of a authors work

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Append

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to add as a supplement to the end Attach or suspend

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Appendix

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supplementary material at the end of a book.

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Impending

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about to happen

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Pendant

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a hanging ornament, a match or parralel

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Pending

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while waiting, in the period before the decision

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Suspend

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to hand off the wall, to cause of cease to put a stop to

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Suspense

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a state or condition of being mentally uncertain about the future.

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Depose

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to remove from office

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Impose

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to lay or set on someone, to thrust onto

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Postpone

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to put off till later

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Superimpose

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to place or set above all

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Transpose

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to change the relative position

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Conscript

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to draft for military or naval service

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Inscription

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something inscribed

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Prescribe

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to lay down in writing

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proscribe

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to denounce or condemn as harmful. to banish

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Scribe

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a erson who serves as a writer to record history

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Assimilate

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to take in or incorporate. to draw in together

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Dissimilar

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Not similar

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Similarity

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similar or alike

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Simile

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figure of speech where two unlike thing are compared.

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Simulate

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to create a pretense of

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Simultaneous

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happening at the same time

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Desolate

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barren or laid to waste

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Sole

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being the only one

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Soliloquy

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an utterance of a speech without any others present

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Solitary

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alone

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Solitude

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in the state of being alone

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Solo

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by one person

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absolute

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free from imperfection, not mixed

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dissolution

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the act or process of resolving or dissolving into parts

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Dissolve

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to melt, to make a solution

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Resolution

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an formal expression of opinion, decision at the end of thought

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Resolve

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to come to a ernest decision about

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Soluble

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capable of being dissolved, or explained

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Solvent

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able to pay all debts, having the power to dissolve

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Abound

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to occur or exist in great quantities

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Abundant

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present in great quantity

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inundate

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to flood

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Redound

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to have good or bad feelings for

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Redundant

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characterized by excess

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aver

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to assert or affirm with confidence

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veracity

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habitual observance, conform to truth or fact

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verdict

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a judgement

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verify

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to confirm

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veritable

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being true or very much true, obsolete

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verity

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the state or quality of being true

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envision

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to picture mentally

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improvise

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to do without script

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invisible

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not able to be seen

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revise

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to redo

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videotape

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a recording device

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video

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a device with audio and video

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visibility

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the ability to be seen

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visual

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sense of being able to see

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