SAT Vocabs #1151-1200

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nondescript

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lacking distinction or individual character

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mar

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to damage

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docile

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easy to teach; submissive

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ambiance

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environment

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invoke

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to call upon; to appeal to, as for confirmation; to summon

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quotidian

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daily; customary

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melange

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a mixture; a hodgepodge

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beatific

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showing joy or saintliness

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succumb

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to give in or yield

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mountebank

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someone who sells quack medicines; an imposter or fraud

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grimace

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a facial expression that shows disapproval or pain

to make such an expression

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occult

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relating to the supernatural; beyond human comprehension; mysterious

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teeming

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overfilled; crowded; pouring out

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pedantic

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putting unnecessary stress on minor or purely academic knowledge

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mangle

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to mutilate; to disfigure something by cutting or crushing

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respite

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temporary relief

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pandemonium

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a situation of great confusion, esp. because of fear or anger

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urban

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relating to a city

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sweltering

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oppressively hot and humid

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explicit

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fully revealed or made cssionlear

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candor

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frankness or sincerity of expression

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surmise

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to infer something by intuition or with slender evidence

such an inference

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rectitude

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conduct according to moral principles

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trek

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to travel or migrate, esp. slowly or with great difficulty

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aural

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perceived by the ear

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resonate

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to echo

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quarry

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a haunted bird or animal; prey

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clamor

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a loud and continuous noise

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fracas

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a noisy fight

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fluke

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an accidental stroke of good luck

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predominant

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surpassing all others; most common

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insatiable

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incapable of being satisfied

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sedate

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calm; quiet

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nirvana

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a place of ideal peace and harmony

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haggard

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appearing tired and thin, as from anxiety, disease, hunger, etc.

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collateral

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parallel; serving to support; of a secondary nature

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rural

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relating to the country or farming

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nuance

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variation of meaning; subtlety

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etymology

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the study of origins of words

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mayhem

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deliberate injury of someone, esp. maiming; a state of violent chaos

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alliteration

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repetition of initial consonants in several words in a phrase or line

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inception

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commencement; beginning; origin

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tout

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to solicit customers; to praise or recommend highly

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acoustics

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science of sound; quality that makes a room easy or hard to hear in

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assail

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to attack; to assault

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lummox

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a clumsy person

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abject

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of the lowest degree; brought low in condition

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xenophobia

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fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners

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palpable

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capable of being handled, touched, or felt; easily perceived

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subvert

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to corrupt; to overthrow completely