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Vocabulary List #7
SAT Vocabulary #7
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English
10th Grade
02/26/2015
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abate (v.)
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to reduce, lessen
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allocate (v.)
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to distribute, set aside
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aloof (adj.)
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reserved, distant
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anathema (n.)
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a cursed, detested person
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arbiter (n.)
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one who can resolve a dispute, make a decision
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arcane (adj.)
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obscure, secret, known only by a few
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battery (n.)
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assault, beating
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boon (n.)
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a gift or blessing
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bourgeois (n.)
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a middle-class person, capitalist
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brazen (adj.)
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excessively bold, brash
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circuitous (adj.)
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roundabout
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solicitous (adj.)
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concerned, attentive
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cloying (adj.)
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sickeningly sweet
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coagulate (v.)
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to thicken, clot
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enervates (v.)
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to weaken, exhaust
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equivocal (adj.)
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ambiguous, uncertain
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erudite (adj.)
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learned
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abstruse (adj.)
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hard to comprehend
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fettered (v.)
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to chain, restrain
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forlorn (adj.)
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lonely, abandoned, hopeless
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forsake (v.)
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to give up, renounce
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impregnable (adj.)
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resistant to capture or penetration
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imputed (v.)
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to ascribe, blame
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inimical (adj.)
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hostile, enemylike
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veracity (n.)
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truthfulness, accuracy
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wily (adj.)
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crafty, sly
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