Flashcards in SAT Vocabs #501-550 Deck (50)
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insipid
uninteresting; having no flavor
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convene
to bring together
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fortuitous
occurring by chance (either positive or negative)
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feasible
capable of being alone
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guile
slyness in dealing with others
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kin
one's relatives
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apology
a defense in speech or writing of one's beliefs
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specious
seeming to be truthful on the surface, but actually false
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vogue
prevailing fashion
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extrapolate
to predict by extending known information
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turbid
cloudy, muddy; in a state of turmoil
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turgid
excessively ornate or complex in style; swollen, as from fluid
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redolent
aromatic; fragrant; suggestive
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embrace
to hug; to include as part of something larger; to support eagerly
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entrenched
dug in
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enmesh
to entangle or trap, as in a net or web
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comprehensive
complete; covering broadly and all-inclusively
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fraught
full of a particular quality
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rue
to regret
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venturesome
adventurous, risky, daring
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noxious
harmful to health or the mind
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desist
to cease; stop
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founder
to sink below the water; to fail completely; to go lame (of horses)
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trudge
to walk in a heavy-footed way
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disenchant
to free from false belief
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squalid
having a dirty or lowly appearance
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servile
slavish; abjectly submissive
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pallid
faint in color; pale
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assess
to estimate
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