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SAT Hit Parade #1
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11th Grade
09/25/2011
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egregious
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conspicuously bad or offensive
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ponderous
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extremely dull
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adage
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wise old saying
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hackneyed
trite
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overfamiliar, unoriginal, overused
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fluid
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easily flowing
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propriety
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appropriateness of behavior
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squalor
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a filthy condition or quality
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florid
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flowery, over-elaborate
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pervasive
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everywhere at the same time
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garrulous
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excessive, rambling talk
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frenetic
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wildly excited, active
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farce
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absurd, ridiculous situation
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ebullience
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intense enthusiasm
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annihilate
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to destroy completely
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stupor
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state of reduced or suspended sensibility
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sedentary
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not migratory, settled
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dilatory
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intended to delay or waste time
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impenetrable
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incapable of being understood
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impede
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to slow the progress of
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futile
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useless
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soporific
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causing sleep or sleepiness
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indolent
listless
torpor
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lazy, lacking energy, inactivity, dullness
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compelling
emphatic
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forceful, urgently demanding attention, conviction
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insipid
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uninteresting, unchallenging, bland
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recalcitrant, obdurate
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stubborn, defiant of authority, not easily managed
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decorous
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proper, marked by good taste
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abstruse
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hard to understand
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superfluous
gratuitous
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extra, unnecessary
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enervate
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to weaken strength, vitality of
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cohesive
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sticking together
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clarity
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clearness in thought
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parody
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imitate style of another work for comic affect
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dogmatic
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stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
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didactic
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intended to instruct, containing a message
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convoluted
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too intricate or complex to be easily understood
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facetious
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intended to be humorous, often silly or innappropriate
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wry
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dryly humorous, irony
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lampoon
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broad satirical piece
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sonorous
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producing sound
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arduous
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difficult
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cogent
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convincing, reasonable
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