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Admonish

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To Dis

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Adjunct

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Something added

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Adroit

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Skillful

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Adulation

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Praise

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Adumbrate

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To sketch

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Adversarial

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Enemy-like

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Adverse

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Harmful

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Aerie

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Best high in the air

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Affable

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Friendly

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Affected

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Phony

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Affinity

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Liking

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Affront

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Insult

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Agenda

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Schedule

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Aggrandize

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To make larger

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Aggregate

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Total

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Aggreive

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Annoy

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Agnostic

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One who doubts that people can know god.

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Agrarian

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Relating to farming

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Alacrity

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Eagerness

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Allay

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To soothe

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Allegory

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Story using symbols

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Blanch

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Take the colour out of

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Blandish

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To pacify with flattery

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Blasphemous

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Cursing religious things

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Blight

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Destroy

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Blithe

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Joyful

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Bombastic

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Using high-sounding but meaningless language

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Bonanza

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Extremely large amount

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Bonhomie

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Good cheer

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Boon

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Be thankful for

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Boor

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One lacking manners

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Bourgeois

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Middle-class

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Brazen

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Bold

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Brigand

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Outlaw

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Broach

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To mention for the first time

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Brusque

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Rough and abrupt manner

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Bulwark

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Anything serving as a defence

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Burgeon

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To sprout

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Burnish

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To polish

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Bustle

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Energetic activity

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Butt

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Person or thing that is object of ridicule

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Byway

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Back road

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Charlatan

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Fake

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Chary

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Cautious

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Chicanery

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Trickery

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Chide

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Dis

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Chimerical

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Imaginary

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Choleric

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Easily angered

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Circuitous

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Indirect

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Circumlocution

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Lengthy way of saying something

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Circumscribe

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To set limits on

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Circumscribe

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Cautious

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Clairvoyant

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Having esp

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Clamor

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Noisy outcry

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Clandestine

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Secretive

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Clarity

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Clearness

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Cleave

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To spit or to stick to

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Clemency

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Forgiveness

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Cloister

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To continue

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Coalesce

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To cause to unite as one

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Coddle

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To baby

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Coerce

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To force

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Coffee

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Large chest for money

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Cogent

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Convincing

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Cognate

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Related

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Cognition

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Reasoning

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Cognomen

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Family name

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Collateral

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Accompanying

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Colloquy

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Conversation or conference

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Collusion

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Collaboration

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Comeliness

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Beauty

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Commensurate

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Proportional

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Commission

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Permission

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Commodious

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Spacious

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Commute

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To change a penalty to a less severe one

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Compelling

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Having a powerful effect

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Complacent

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Self-satisfied

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Complement

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To complete

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Compliant

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Submissive

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Compound

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To combine

SAT Vocab Root (3 decks)

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