SSAT 3000 MEDIUM 1031-1067 Flashcards

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Adversity

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Condition of being faced with unfavorable circumstances

Difficulty, misfortune

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Perverse

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Morally bad

Corrupt, immoral

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Fetching

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Attractive, charming

Enchanting, captivating

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Sagacious

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Wise in a practical way

Astute, judicious

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Strenuous

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Requiring or characterized by exertion, such as action or effort

Difficult, arduous

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Inhibition

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A nervous feeling that prevents you from expressing your thoughts or feelings

Reserve, suppression

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Indecorous

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Not in accordance with proper behavior

Rude, improper

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Decentralize

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To spread or distribute into smaller groups

Disperse, distribute

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Unaccountable

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That cannot be fully explained

Arcane, inexplicable

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Emphatic

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Said or done with force or stress

Forceful, vehement

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Blockbuster

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Something that is large or overwhelming

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Dispassionate

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Free from emotion

Impartial, indifferent

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Scrunch

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To crunch or crush

Rumple, crumple

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Transparency

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Quality of being able to see completely through

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Antiquity

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Great age

Antique, relic

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Intolerable

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Too much to be endured

Unacceptable, impossible

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Apathy

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Lack of interest

Indifference, disinterest

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Intricacy

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Complicated in nature or condition

Complexity, elaborateness

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Opine

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Holding or expressing

Conceive, think

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Crotchety

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Full of odd notions

Cantankerous, grouchy

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Odometer

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Device for measuring distance traveled by a vehicle

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Infiltration

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To secretly enter or join in order to get information or do harm

Invasion, intrusion

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Dissipation

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The act of slowly disappearing or becoming less

Dissolution

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Theoretical

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Planned or worked out in the mind, not from experience

Hypothetical, abstract

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Rejuvenate

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To make young or vigorous again

Revivify, refresh

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Ejaculate

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Say suddenly and briefly

Exclaim, proclaim

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Prohibitive

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Enough to prevent something

Restrictive, limiting

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Delicatessen

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Store that sells foods such as meat, cheese, and sandwiches

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Oblivious

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Not mindful

Forgetful, inattentive

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Flimsy

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Lacking material strength

Feeble, rickety

31
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Unisex

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Suitable for use by either male or female

32
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Surveillance

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Watch kept over a person

Observation, scrutiny

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Polychrome

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Having many various colors

Multicolored, mottled

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Tyrannical

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Of a person who uses power cruelly or unjustly

Oppressive, despotic

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Gorge

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Stuff with food

Gobble, devour

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Surreal

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Eerie, bizarre, dreamlike

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Partition

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Dividing up

Apportionment, separation

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Cavort

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To prance about

Romp, caper

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Minstrel

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A singer, musician or poet

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Parasitic

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Living on others

41
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Hacker

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A person who specializes in breaking into computer systems

42
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Franchise

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Right to vote

Suffrage, vote