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SAT Verbal Vocabulary
The Vocabulary I did not know off the top of my head.
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12th Grade
09/10/2010

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Abstruse
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Difficult to Understand
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Acumen
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Quickness, accuracy, and keeness of judgement or insight.
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Alacrity
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Cheerful willingness; eagerness.
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Ambivalent
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Uncertain; simultaneously feeling conflicting emotions.
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Anachronisitic
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The representation of someone as existing or something as happening in other than chronological, proper, or historical order.
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Apathetic
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Feeling or showing little emotion.
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Aural.
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Of, relating to, or percieved by the ear
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Belie
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To picture falsely; misrepresent
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Bombastic
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Given to pompous speech or writing.
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Castigate
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To inflict severe punishment on.
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Cathartic
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Causing relaxation after an emotionarl outburst
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Chicanery
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A trick; deception by trickery
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Contigous
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Sharing an edge or boundary; touching
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Dearth
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A scarce supply, a lack.
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Demure
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Modest and reserved in manner and behavior.
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Derivative
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A by-product.
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Diffidence
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Timidity or shyness
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Dilatory
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habiutally late
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