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RHHS SAT Prep - 18
SAT Vocabulary
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11th Grade
03/03/2010

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GENIAL
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warmly and pleasantly cheerful
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ESOTERIC
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understood by or meant for only a few
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SUBVERSIVE
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intended to overthrow or undermine an establishment
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ENSURE
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to secure or guarantee
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DOLED
Definition
to give out in small portions
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AVERT
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to turn away or aside
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INGENUITY
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cleverness or skillfulness in conception or design
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PEREMPTORY
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leaving no opportunity for denial or refusal
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ASTUTE
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Perceptive and of keen judgment
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DEFERENTIAL
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respectful
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PERFUNCTORY
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performed merely as a routine duty
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CAUSTIC
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severely critical or sarcastic; capable of burning or destroying live tissue
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FRIVOLOUS
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characterized by lack of seriousness or sense
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EMOTE
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to show or pretend emotions
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FAWN
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to behave affectionately; to seek favor by servile demeanor
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PONTIFICATE
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to speak in a pompous or dogmatic manner
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REMONSTRATE
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To say or plead in protest
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MUNIFICENCE
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the act of giving very generously
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CANDOR
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the state or quality of being sincere and open
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ASSIDUOUS
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working diligently at a task
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FECKLESS
Definition
ineffective
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RUSTIC
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unsophisticated
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QUIESCENT
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inactive or motionless
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HALCYON
Definition
calm; peaceful; tranquil
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ONEROUS
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burdensome; oppressive; troublesome
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ABJURE
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to renounce or give up under oath
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ACRIMONY
Definition
sharpness, harshness, or bitterness of nature, speech, disposition
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ABROGATE
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to abolish by formal or official means
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ACUMEN
Definition
keen insight; shrewdness
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APPROBATION
Definition
official approval or sanction
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ASPERSION
Definition
a damaging or derogatory remark or criticism; slander
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DISPUTATIOUS
Definition
fond of or given to disputation; argumentative; contentious
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AVARICE
Definition
insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth
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VIRULENT
Definition
actively poisonous; intensely noxious; violently or spitefully hostile
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SECLUSION
Definition
the state of being secluded; retirement; solitude
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TORPOR
Definition
lethargic indifference; apathy
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EQUIVOCAL
Definition
allowing the possibility of several different meanings, as a word or phrase, esp. with intent to deceive or misguide
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INTREPID
Definition
resolutely fearless; dauntless
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ELEGY
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a mournful, melancholy, or plaintive poem, esp. a funeral song or a lament for the dead
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COLLOQUIAL
Definition
characteristic of or appropriate to ordinary or familiar conversation rather than formal speech or writing; informal
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MITIGATE
Definition
to lessen in force or intensity, as wrath, grief, harshness, or pain; moderate
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PLACATE
Definition
to appease or pacify, esp. by concessions or conciliatory gestures
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NEFARIOUS
Definition
extremely wicked or villainous
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OBSTINATE
Definition
firmly or stubbornly adhering to one's purpose, opinion, etc.; not yielding to argument, persuasion, or entreaty.
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RAZE
Definition
to tear down; demolish; level to the ground
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