SSAT 3000 HARD 2201-2238 Flashcards

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Telepathy

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Communication of one mind with another without using

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Blarney

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Blandishments, compliments

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3
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Soporiferous

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Calming, hypnotic

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4
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Cognition

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Perception, awareness

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5
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Embargo

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An order from the government forbidding trade by law

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Annular

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Circular

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7
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Antipodes

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Two places on the opposites side of the earth

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Recantation

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Retraction, abnegation

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Surfeit

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Excess, profusion

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10
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Parvenu

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Person who has risen above his or her class

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11
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Saponification

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Process of making soapy

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12
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Joviality

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Gaiety, geniality, merriment

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Baleful

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Disastrous, poisonous

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14
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Impertinence

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Impudence, audacity

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15
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Exasperation

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Displeasure, fury

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Conterminous

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Adjacent, bordering

17
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Ligature

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Link, binding

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Pinnate

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Like a feather

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Scabrous

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Rough, scaly

20
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Usurer

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Person who lends money and charges an unlawful interest rate

21
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Comestible

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Food, edible

22
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Enormity

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Delight, goodness

23
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Carrion

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Corpse, remains

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Efflorescence

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Flower, burgeon, to burst into bloom

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Coruscate

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Glitter, sparkle

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Septennial

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Lasting seven years

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Schism

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Separation, fissure

28
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Omniscience

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Knowledge of everything

29
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Chimera

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Delusion, fantasy

30
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Besot

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Infatuate, to make foolish

31
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Anticlimactic

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Relating to an abrupt descent from important to unimportant

32
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Artifice

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A clever trick, con, ploy

33
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Antimony

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Show of holiness

34
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Dipsomania

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An uncontrollable craving for alcohol

35
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Necrologist

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A person who prepares obituaries

36
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Xénophobe

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Bigot, racist

37
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Clangorous

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Cacophonous, noisy