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SAT VOCABULARY
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Acquiesce - verb To agree to To give in to
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Bombast - noun Arrogant, pompous language
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Curtail - verb To cut short
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Epicure - noun Someone who appreciates good food and drink
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Heed - verb To listen to
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Lampoon - verb To ridicule or spoof
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Oblivious - adjective Totally unaware
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Podium - noun A raised platform
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Resonate - verb To echo
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Tenuous - adjective Flimsy; not solid
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Bellicose - adjective War-like; aggressive
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Consummate - adjective
complete; total; supremely good
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Elusive - adjective Hard to pin down
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Gregarious - adjective
Sociable; extroverted; outgoing
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Jaundiced - adjective Sickly; yellow in appearance
Cynical; pessimistic
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Nettle - verb To annoy
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Phenomenon - noun an event or happening (plural: phenomena)
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Recuperate - verb To get better from something, especially an illness
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Superlative - adjective
Extremely good; the best
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Whet - verb To sharpen
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Clemency- noun mercy
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Flout- verb defy; reject
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Mendacious -adjective
given to lying
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Sophomoric-adjective
juvenile; immature
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Venal- adjective corrupt; can be bribed
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Cliché - noun overused expression; something unoriginal
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Disparage -verb criticize; belittle
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Flustered-verb worked-up; not calm
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Protégé- noun person under protection of, or guided by another
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Articulate- adjective
clear; lucid; eloquent
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Ingrate- noun ungrateful person
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Mercenary- adjective concerned only with money
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Soporific- adjective inducing sleep
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Veneer- noun surface coating
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Clientele -noun customers
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Disparity-noun an inequality
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Inimical- adjective hostile
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Protocol procedure; code of behavior
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Sparse-adjective spare; bare; meager
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Venerate-verb revere; worship
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Coalesce- verb come together; merge
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Artifice- noun deception; trickery
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Dispassionate- adjective
neutral; objective
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Innate- adjective inherited; inborn
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Merge- verb come together
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Pedestrian- noun common; mundane; banal
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Provincial- adjective
unsophisticated; narrow-minded
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Specious- adjective false
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Venial- adjective minor; unimportant
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Cerebral-Adjective intellectual
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Diffident- Adjective Lacking confindence
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Inconspicuous-Adjective
not easily seen; subtle; not noticeable
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Malefactor-Noun A wrong-doer
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Paradigm-Noun 1. example; 2. model; 3. way of looking at things
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Pristine-Adjective Unspoiled
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Unprecedented-Adjective
never having happened before
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Anomaly-Noun something which does not fit in a pattern; irregularity
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Certitude-Noun Certainty
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Digress-Verb wander off the subject
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Falter-Verb hesitate; waver
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Indelible-Adjective cannot be wiped out
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Malinger-Verb deliberately avoid work; shirk
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Paradox-Noun apparently contradictory statement
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Proclivity-Noun tendency towards
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Seminary-Noun an institution in which priests are trained
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Annex-Verb take possession of; seize; capture
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Forensic- adjective concerned with argument or debate (esp. for legal evidence)
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Pedant- noun person who insists on strict adherence to rules or narrow learning
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Mercurial- adjective volatile; changeable
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Archives - noun collections of old records; place of storage of old documents Hello my name is adam
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