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SAT Vocabulary
Vocabulary words on the SAT top 100 list
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11th Grade
11/15/2011

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hedonist
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someone motivated by desires for sensual pleasures
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conformist
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someone who conforms to established standards of conducts (especiall in religious matters)
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anarchronistic
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chronologically misplaced
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reclusive
Definition
withdrawn from society; seeking solitude
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extenuating
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partially ecusing or justifying
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rancorous
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showing deep-seated resentment
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inconsequential
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lacking worth or importance
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camaderie
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the quiality of affording or easy familiartiy socaibility
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delterious
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harmful ot living things
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enervating
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causing deblillitation
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convergence
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the occurence of two or more things coming together
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jubilation
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a feeling of extreme joy
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hackneyed
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repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
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empathy
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understanding and entering into another's feelings
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fortuitous
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having no cause or apparent cause
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procrastinate
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postpone doing what one should be doing
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evanescent
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tending to vanish like vapor
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longevity
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duration of service
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ephemeral
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lasting a very short time
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abberation
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a state or condition markedly different from the norm
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renovation
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the act of improving by rnewing and restoring
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mundane
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found in the ordinary couse of events
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perfidious
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tending to betray; especially having a trecherous charater as attributed to the Carthaginians by the romans
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substantiate
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establish or strengthen as with new evidence or facts
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clairvoyant
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someone who has the power of clairvoyance
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digression
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a message that departs from the main subject
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querulous
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habitually complaining
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demagogue
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a political leaders who seeks support by appealing to popular passions and prejudices
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surreptitious
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marked by quiet and caution and secrecy; taking pains to avoid being observed
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precocious
Definition
characterized by or characteristic of exceptionally early development or maturity (especially in mental aptitude)
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pragmatic
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concerned with practical matters
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tactful
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having or showing a sense of what is fitting and considerate in dealing with others
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capacious
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large in capacity
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condescending
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(used of behavior or attitude) characteristic of those who treat others with condescension
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sprious
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plausible but false
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florid
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elaborately or excessively ornamented
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provocative
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serving or tending to provoke, excite, or stimulate; stimulating discussion or exciting
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nonchalant
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marked by blothes unconcern
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brusque
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marked by rude or peremptory shortness
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