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SAT List 10
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10th Grade
01/19/2009

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accost
Definition
to approach and speak to often in a challenging or aggressive way
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agnostic
Definition
a person who holds the view that any ultimate reality is unknown and probably unknowable (doesn't believe in god and or gods)
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apt
Definition
unusually fitted or qualified
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augury
Definition
divination from auspices or omens
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bibliophile
Definition
a lover of books especially for qualities of format
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cache
Definition
a hiding place especially for concealing and preserving provisions or implements
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cherubic
Definition
related to or resembling an angel
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clandestine
Definition
marked by, held in, or conducted with secrecy
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condign
Definition
Appropriate
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coruscate
Definition
to give off or reflect light in bright beams or flashes
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debacle
Definition
a violent disruption
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diatribe
Definition
a bitter and abusive speech or writing
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discomfiture
Definition
the act of being defeated
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duress
Definition
forcible restraint or restriction
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emaciated
Definition
thin , feeble, malnorished
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equivocal
Definition
subject to two or more interpretations and usually used to mislead or confuse
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exigent
Definition
requiring immediate aid or action
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fatuous
Definition
complacently or inanely foolish
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fiasco
Definition
a comlete failure
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fulsome
Definition
generous in amount, extent, or spirit
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guileless
Definition
Innocent Naive
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heresy
Definition
denial of a revealed truth by a baptized member of the Roman Catholic Church
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Imponderable
Definition
uncapable of being weighed or evaluated with exactness
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incumbent
Definition
imposed as a duty
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interment
Definition
the act or ceremony of interring
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irrefutable
Definition
unable to deny the truth or accuracy of
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lacerate
Definition
to tear or rend roughly
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levity
Definition
exessive or unseemly frivolity
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miry
Definition
related to or indicative of wet spongy earth( bog or marsh)
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moribund
Definition
being in the state of dying
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ogle
Definition
to eye amoroussly or provocatively
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pandemonium
Definition
a wild uproar
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paucity
Definition
smallness in number
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philology
Definition
the study of literature and of disciplines relevant to literature or to language as used in literature
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Precedent
Definition

something done or said that may serve as an example or rule to authorize or justify a subsequent act of the same or an analogous kind

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proclivity
Definition
an inclination or predisposition toward something
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provincial
Definition
marked by simplicity, informality, and relative plainness
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querulous
Definition
habitually complaining
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recondite
Definition
difficult or impossible for one of ordinary understanding or knowledge to comprehend
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remonstrate
Definition
to present and urge reasons in opposition
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rococo
Definition

excessively ornate and intricate

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sanguine
Definition
having the bodily conformation and temperament held characteristic of such predominace and marked by sturdyness, high color, and cheerfulness
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sententious
Definition
given to or abounding in aphoristic expression
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somnolent
Definition
inclined to or heavy with sleep
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subvert
Definition
to over turn or overthrow from foundation
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tautological
Definition

true by virtue of its logical form alone

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tether
Definition

somehting by which an animal is fastened so that it can range only with in a set radius

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unconscionable
Definition
not guided or controlled by conscience
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virtuoso
Definition
one skilled in or having a taste for the fine arts
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wastrel
Definition
one who dissipates resources foolishly and self-indulgently
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