SSAT 3000 HARD 2434-2467 Flashcards

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Lobate

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Having to do with lobes (like on your ear)

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Chaste

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Pure, virtuous, untainted

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Gyrate

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Move in a circle or spiral

Revolve, whirl

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Bounteous

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Plentiful

Abundant, ample

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5
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Japery

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A jest or gibe,

Joke, prank

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Babushka

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A woman’s scarf worn on the head and tied under the chin

Bandanna, shawl

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Foretoken

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Indicate beforehand

Forebode, forewarn

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Vagarious

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Marked by vagaries

Capricious, erratic

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Juvénility

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Young or immature in quality, condition or manner

Youth, adolescence

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Dictum

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An authoritative opinion

Decree, pronouncement

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Prognostic

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Indicating something in the future

Diagnosis, forecast

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Stellate

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Spreading out like the points of star

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Dubious

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Filled with or being doubtful

Questionable, debatable

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Machinate

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Contrive or devise artfully or with evil purpose

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Necropolis

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Cemetery, usually a large one

Graveyard, tombs

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16
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Hemophilia

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An inherited disorder of the blood in which clotting does not occur, making it difficult to stop bleeding even after a slight injury

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Commensurable

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Measured by the same standard

18
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Epilogue

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Concluding section to a novel, poem

Prologue, introduction

19
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Corrugated

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Bent into wavy folds

Wrinkled, pleated

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Conjuncture

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Combination of events and circumstances

Coincidence, chance

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Votive

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Consisting of or expressing a religious vow, wish, or desire

Swear, promise

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Ephemera

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Things lasting for only a very short Tim

23
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Insomniac

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Person who suffers from an inability to sleep

Unsleeping, wakeful

24
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Osculate

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To kiss

25
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Emulous

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Wishing to equal or excel

Aspiring, competitive

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Cozenage

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Practice of deceiving

Trickery, deceit

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Commination

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Denunciation

Condemnation, curse

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Conquest

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Act of conquering

Invasion, subjugation

29
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Configuration

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Manner of arrangement

Composition, structure

30
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Equestrian

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Having to do with horses or horseback

31
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Motile

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Being able to move by itself

Mobile, ambulatory

32
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Cataract

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Large, steep waterfall

Rapids, torrent

33
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Hortatory

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Serving to urge or encourage

34
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Strangulation

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A being choked

Asphyxiation, suffocation