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Fossilized

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to make outmoded, rigid, or fixed

antediluvian-fossil

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Realign

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Change or restore to a different or former position or state
they worked to relieve his shoulder pain and realign the joint

Change one’s position or attitude with regard to (a person, organization, or cause)
he wished to realign himself with Bagehot’s more pessimistic position

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Baneful

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adverse, bad, baleful,nocuous, noxious, pernicious

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Obtuse

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Blunt, dull

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imposing

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: impressive in size, bearing, dignity, or grandeur

august, distingué, dignified, imposing, portly, solemn, staid, stately

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Perspicacious

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Shrewd

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Synonyms

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Synonyms: assumptive, bumptious, cavalier, chesty, haughty, highfalutin (also hifalutin), high-and-mighty, high-handed, high-hat, huffish, huffy, imperious, important, lofty, lordly, masterful, overweening, peremptory, pompous, presuming, presumptuous, pretentious, self-asserting, self-assertive, sniffy, stiff-necked, supercilious, superior, toplofty (also toploftical), uppish, uppity

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Maverick

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an independent individual who does not go along with a group or party

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Interloper

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an illegal or unlicensed trader ;

one that intrudes in a place or sphere of activity

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Patent

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Evident

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Eradicate

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Exterminate
1 : to pull up by the roots
2 : to do away with as completely as if by pulling up by the roots

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prevalent

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Powerful, dominant, widespread;

conventional, customary, going, popular, prevailing, current, standard, stock, usual

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Disingenuous

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: lacking in candor; also : giving a false appearance of simple frankness : calculating

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Tossing

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Uc

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Virtue

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Uc

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Posterity

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Uc

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Convoluted

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Uc

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Tempered

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Uc

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Condenscension

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1 : voluntary descent from one’s rank or dignity in relations with an inferior
2 : patronizing attitude or behavior

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Patronize

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provide aid or support for;
treat haughtily or coolly;
to be a frequent or regular customer or client of

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Dismay

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1 : to cause to lose courage or resolution (as because of alarm or fear)
2 : upset, perturb

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Brooded

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Uc

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Unpeg

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Uc

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Fretful

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Uc-restless

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Cite

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Uc

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Incite

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Merriam

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Resentment

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Uc

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Implicit

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implied, tacit, unexpressed, unspoken, unvoiced, wordless

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Stem from

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Uc

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Grudge

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Uc

Resentment

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Defiance

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Uc

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Allied

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Uc

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Pluralistic

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Uc

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sovereign

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Uc

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sublime

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Uc

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Uneven

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Uc

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Enthrall

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Uc

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Plight

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Merriam

Sat Vocab -2005 (1 decks)

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