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SAT Summer Intensive > Class 4 Vocab > Flashcards

Class 4 Vocab Flashcards

1
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Distort

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Twist out of shape

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2
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Espouses

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Adopt or support

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Trivialized

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Make something less significant

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4
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Stoic

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A person who can endure pain without showing feelings

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5
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Cordially

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Friendly

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Dubious

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Doubtful

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Obtrusive

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Noticeable in an intrusive way

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Promulgated

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Promote

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Enfranchised

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Give the right to vote

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Baleful

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Pernicious, harmful

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Sagacious

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Having the ability to understand difficult ideas and make good decisions, insightful, discerning

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12
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Outmoded

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Antiquated, obsolete

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Entrenched

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Embedded, ingrained

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14
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Supercilious

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Arrogant

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15
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Debilitating

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Weaken

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Salvage

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Rescue, retrieve

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17
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Consign

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To hand over something officially

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Penitent

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Shamed, sorrowful

19
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Maverick

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Person who does not follow the norm

20
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Potentate

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Monarch

21
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Cathartic

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Purgative drug

22
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Ascetic

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Self denying, abstemious

23
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Caricature

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Drawings that makes someone look funny or foolish

24
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Hackney

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Horse use for riding

25
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Indignation

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Strong displeasure at something considered unjust

26
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Repository

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An abundant source or supply

27
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Steamship

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Large commercial vessel

28
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Fir

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The wood of trees

29
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Clandestine

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Done in secret

30
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Oxlike

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Any member of the bovine family

31
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Neuro-anatomy

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The nerve structure of organisms

32
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Recapitulate

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To review a brief summary

33
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Elocutionist

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A person with the skill of clear and expressive speech

34
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Troubadour

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A poet who writes verse into music

35
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Pantomime

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Entertainment in which performers express meaning through gesture accompanied with music

36
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Acrimony

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Bitterness or ill feeling

37
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Detractors

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A person who disparages someone or something

38
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Conundrum

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Confusing question or problem

39
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Inexorableness

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State of being inflexible

40
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Tourniquet

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Device use to stop blood flow in the blood vessel or artery

41
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Servile

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Having excessive willingness to serve/please another

42
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Truculent

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Eager to fight/argue

43
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Lavish

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Luxurious

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