SAT 2400 Flashcards
(156 cards)
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Bevy
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A large group
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Bilk
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To steak; to embezzle
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Boor
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A rude person
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Acme
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High point; zenith
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Windfall
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1 : something (as a tree or fruit) blown down by the wind
2 : an unexpected, unearned, or sudden gain or advantage
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Fawn
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To flatter subserviently
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Gait
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A manner or rate of walking
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Glib
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Easeful w speaking, storytelling
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Glut
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To oversupply; to stuff
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Hail
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To praise
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Hale
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Healthy
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Iota
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A very small amount
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Onus
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A duty or burden
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Opus
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A great work, esp of music
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Tout
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To flaunt
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Tyro
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A beginner, a neophyte, a fledgling
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Whet
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To sharpen; to stimulate an interest in
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Wily
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Crafty, sly
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Alacrity
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Cheerful readiness
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Aphorism
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A wise saying; an adage; a maxim
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Appropriate
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To take another’s property as one’s own
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Asylum
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A safe place to practice one’s religion or follow one’s convictions
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Auspicious
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Foretelling well for the future
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Avant-garde
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Cutting-edge; new; experimental
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Behemoth
A huge animal; sth of great size or power
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Bequest
A gift upon one's death
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Breadth
Range or scope
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Bungle
To botch; to mess up
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Byzantine
Ornate; fancy
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Chagrin
Embarrassment
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Circumscribed
Defined or limited; isolated
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Constituents
Voters
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Consummate
Complete; perfect
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Curtail
To cut short; abridge
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Debased
Morally low; base
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Decorous
Having propriety
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Denuded
Made infertile or ineffective
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Desultory
Aimless; lacking a plan or purpose
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Didactic
Relating to instruction, lecturing
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Dilatory
Lacking goals of purpose; aimless
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Din
Noise
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Dirge
Funeral song
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Discomfited
Embarrassed; disconcerted
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Discretionary
Showing prudence; based on personal choice
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Disingenuous
Dishonest; crafty
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Disposed
Behaviorally inclined
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Edifice
A building
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Egregious
Blatantly wrong
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Emollient
A soothing lotion
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Enervate
To weaken; to drain of energy
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Enfranchise
To free from slavery; to bestow the right to vote
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Espouse
To support
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Expurgate
To delete obscene or other undesirable material from text
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Facile
Easy
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Felicitous
Suitable; pleasant
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Galvanize
To incite; to arouse into action
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Gaunt
Thin; haggard
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Gingerly
Carefully
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Hapless
Unlucky; unfortunate
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Harbringer
A messenger; an omen
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Hermetic
Sealed in an airtight manner
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Histrionic
Over theatrical; melodramatic
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Incantation
A calling out for inspiration or guidance; an invocation
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Inchoate
Not fully formed
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Incisive
Harsh; cutting; vitriolic
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Incumbent
One who holds political office
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Indelible
Permanent; unable to be erased
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Ineffable
Incapable of expression in words
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Inexorable
Steadfast; resolute
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Inflammatory
Likely to excite rage or disorder
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Insular
Isolated; remote
ignorant of or uninterested in cultures, ideas, or peoples outside one's own experience.
"a stubbornly insular farming people"
Relating to or from an island
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Interlocutor
One who participates in conversation or dialogue
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Intractable
Hard to manage or control
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Jaded
Bored from too much pleasure or overindulgence
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Jingoism
Aggressive touting of one's patriotism
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Juggernaut
Relentless force
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Juxtapose
To place things side by side for the sake of comparing
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Legion
A very large number
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Licentious
Morally lax
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Leviathan
Something huge; a subaquatic, mythological sea creature
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Melee
A hand-to-hand fight involving several participants
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Milieu
Environment
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Myopic
Short-sighted
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Naivete
Lack of exp or sophistication
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Nihilism
A philosophical belief involving the rejection of established valued and morality
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Nondescript
Hard to describe; featureless
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Nonplussed
Confused to the point of being unable to act or speak
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Obfuscate
To obscure the meaning of
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Oblique
Indirect; slanted
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Onerous
Burdensome
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Opprobrium
Disgrace, disapproval
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Ostensible
Apparent
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Panacea
A cure-all
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Partisan
Biased; opinionated
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Pedantic
Narrowly or pretentiously learned
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Perfidious
Traitorous; disloyal
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Petulant
Irritable
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Plaudits
Applause; praise
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Pontificate
To speak in a supercilious and self-important manner
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Pragmatist
A practical person
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Precept
A rule of behavior or action
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Precipitate
To hurry up; to make happen before planned
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Prescience
Advance knowledge; foresight; anticipation
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Probity
Honesty; integrity
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Profligate
Extravagant to a fault; prodigal
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Proliferate
To reproduce or multiply quickly
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Prose
Writing that is not poetry; language ordinarily used in speaking
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Prowess
Valor; skill
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Pundits
Erudite persons
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Quibble
To find fault with
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Refracftory
Stubborn
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Relegate
To demote to an inferior position
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Reprehensible
Worthy of blame
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Rescind
To take back, to withdraw
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Retrograde
Going backward and therefore not progressing
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Sanctimonious
Pretending to be religious
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Sanction
To approve
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Scrupulous
Very conscientious
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Sophistry
Deceptive thinking; invalid arguments
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Spate
An outpouring
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Specious
False, not authentic; spurious
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Steadfastness
Loyalty, resolve
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Subterfuge
Deception
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Supplant
To replace; to substitute for
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Surfeit
A surplus
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Sybarite
A pleasure-loving person
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Table(v)
To set aside an issue to be discussed at a later time
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Tawdry
Cheap-looking; gaudy
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Temerity
Reckless boldness
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Temper (v)
To lessen the severity of
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Threadbare
Very worn; shabby
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Perfidy
Treachery
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Unctuous
Inky, oily
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Untenable
Unable to be defended
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Upstary
A rebel, an insurgent; a maverick
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Vaunt
To brag or boast
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Venial
Forgivable
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Verisimilitude
Probability; sth that has the appearance of truth
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Vestigial
Extremely small
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Victuals
Food
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Vignette
A brief written description
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Virile
Manly, strong
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Visceral
Relating to the abdomen,; instinctive rather than reasoned
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Vitiate
To impair; to render ineffective
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Vitriolic
Harsh, biting, caustic
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Vocation
A profession to which one feels called to carry out
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Watershed
A defining moment; a turning point
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Waylay
To ambush
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Wheedle
To cajole or coax
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Wily
Sly
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Windfall
An unexpected gain or boon
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Winsome
Attractive
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Witticism
A clever remark
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Xenophobic
Fearful of foreigners
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Zephyr
A light breeze
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Obsequious
: marked by or exhibiting a fawning attentiveness
| synonyms see subservient
