Sat Prep Flashcards

(59 cards)

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Abominate

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To have intense dislike or hatred

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Adventitious

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Resulted from chance

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Commiserable

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To sympathize

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Enjoin

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To direct or order

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Expiate

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To make amends, make up for

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Inadvertent

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Resulting from or marked by lack attention; unintentional, accidental

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Noncommittal

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Not decisive or definite; unwilling to take a clear position

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Proclivity

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A natural or habitual inclination or tendency (especially of human character or behavior)

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Sangfroid

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Composure or coolness, especially in trying circumstances

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Tenuous

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Thin, slender, not dense; lacking or sharpness; of slight importance; lacking a sound basis or poorly supported

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Aggrandize

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To increase in greatness or power

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Amorphous

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Shapeless

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Aura

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That which surrounds (as at atmosphere)

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Erudite

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Scholarly, learned

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Inscrutable

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Incapable of being understood

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Propensity

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A natural inclination or predilection toward

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Querulous

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Peevish, complaining, fretful

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Remonstrate

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To argue with someone against something, protest

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Resilient

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Able to return yo original shape or form able to recover quickly

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Sedulous

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Persistent, showing industry and determination

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Amnesty

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A general pardon for offense against a government in general, any act for forgiveness or absolution

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Blazon

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To adorn or embellish; to display conspicuously; to publish or proclaim widely

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Equitable

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Fair, just, embodying justice

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Filch

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To steal, especially in a sneaky and way in petty

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Fractious
Tending to be troublesome, unruly, quarrelsome, contrary; unpredictable
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Precept
A rule of conduct or action
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Scathing
Bitterly severe, withering; causing great harm
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Soporific
Tending to cause sleep, relating to sleepiness or lethargy | Something that induces sleep
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Straitlaced
Extremely strict in regard to moral standards and conduct; prudish, puritanical
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Vapid
Dull, uninteresting, tiresome; lacking sharpness flavor, liveliness or force
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Anomaious
Abnormal, irregular, departing from the usual
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Bizarre
Extremely strange, usual, atypical
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Cajole
To coax, persuade through flattery or artifice to deceive with soothing thoughts or false promises
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Demagogue
A leader who exploits popular prejudices and false claims and promises in order to gain power
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Disabuse
To free from deception or error, set rights in ideas or thinking
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Fetter
A chain or shackled placed on feet (often used in plural) anything that confines or restrains - To chain or shackle - To render helpless or impotent
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Heinous
Very wicked, often offensive, hateful
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Megalomania
A delusion marked by a feeling of power, wealth, talent etc, far in excess or reality
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Surreptitious
Stealthy, secret, intended to escape observation: made or accomplished by faud
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Transmute
To change from one nature, substance, or form to another
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Beneficent
Performing acts of kindness or charity
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Concoct
To prepare by combining ingredients, make up (as a dish)
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Crass
Coarse, unfeeling: stupid
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Desecrate
To commit sacrilege upon, treat irreverntly
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Pillage
To rob or goods by open force (as in war), the act of looking
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Prate
To talk a great deal in a foolish action
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Punctilious
Very careful and exact
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Redoubtable
Inspiring fear or awe; illustrious, eminent
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Vulnerable
Open to attack; capable of being wounded or damaged; unprotected
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Acrimonious
Stinging, bitter in temper or tone
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Consternation
Dismay, confusion
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Dispassionate
Impartial; calm; free from emotion
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Dissipate
To cause to disappear; to scatter, dispel; to spend foolishly, squander; to be extravagant in pursuit of pleasure
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Expurgate
To remove objectionable passages or words from written text; to cleanse purify
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Hypothetical
Based on an assumption or guess
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Intemperate
Immoderate, lacking in self control
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Odium
Hatred; disgrace or infamy resulting from hateful condoct
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Relegate
To place in a lower position
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Susceptible
Open to; easily influenced