SSAT 3000 HARD 2901-2933 Flashcards by Drake Gallien

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Budgetary

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Relating to a plan that outlines the amount of money to be spent for a given purpose

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Badinage

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Good-natured joking

Banter, teasing

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Natalité

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Birth rate

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Sagacity

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Keen, sound judgement

Wisdom, acumen

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Tympanic

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Of the eardrum

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Macerate

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Soften or separate the parts of a substance

Mash, liquefy

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Periphery

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An outside boundary

Outskirts, edge

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Libation

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Pouring out of wine as an offering to a god

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Obligatory

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Binding morally or legally

Compulsory, imperative

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Inspissate

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To make thick or thicker

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Bipartisan

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Supported by two political parties

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Flippant

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Smart or pert in speech or manner

Impertinent, cheeky

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Erudition

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Much knowledge acquired from learning

Scholarship, bookishness

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Flagitious

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Shamefully vile

Infamous, atrocious

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Retrogress

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To move backward, degenerate

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Carmine

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A deep red color with a slight purple tint

Crimson, scarlet

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Napery

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Tablecloths, napkins and doilies

Linen, cloth

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Sustenance

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Food or provisions

Necessities, nourishment

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Legionary

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Having to do with a body of soldiers

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Metropolitan

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Relating to a large city

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Repatriate

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To send back or restore to one’s own country

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Attidudinize

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To assume a certain way of thinking or feeling

Pose

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Synchronism

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Occurrence at the same time

Coincidence, concurrence

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Gravitation

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The attraction of one body toward another

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Turgescence

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Act or fact of swelling

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Sanctuary

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A sacred place

Altar, shrine

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Phalanx

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A body of troops in close array

Army, legion

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Vacuity

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The state of being vacant or empty

Nothingness, void

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Satiable

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That can be satisfied

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Clinical

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Coldly impersonal,

Unemotional, detached

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Collude

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Act together through a secret understanding

Conspire, connive

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Misogynous

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Hatred of women

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Subadjacent

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Situated below

Underlying, beneath