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Vocab 1
SAT Vocab
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English
10th Grade
11/03/2008

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Paranoia
Definition
a mental illness of unreasonable anxiety
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Facilitate
Definition
to make easire, to help bring about
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Beget
Definition
to give birth to ;to create
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Curtail
Definition
to truncate or abridge; to lessen
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Gluton
Definition
one who eats or consumes a great deal
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Muster
Definition
to collect or gather; the act of inspection
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Catapult
Definition
slingshot
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Craven
Definition
cowardly
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Mode
Definition
a way or method of doing something
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Alienate
Definition
to make hostile; to cause to feel
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obtuse
Definition
insenstive; block headed
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Scrutinize
Definition
to look very carefully
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Congenial
Definition
pleasant to be around; social
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Fjord
Definition
a long narrow inlet from the sea between steep
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Aspire
Definition
Something one hopes to achieve; goal
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Martyr
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someone willing to scrifice and even give his/her life for a cause
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Citadel
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a fortress overlooking a city
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Doldrums
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a period or condition of depression or inactivity
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Consensus
Definition
General agreement
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Blather
Definition
to talk nonsensically
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