SAT Vocabulary Flashcards
(95 cards)
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Sonorous
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to be rich or loud in sound
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Venerate
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to regard with respect or to honour
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Tenacity
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to have persistent determination
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Apathy
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an indifference
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Arboreal
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Of or like a tree
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Iniquitous
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Immoral
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Breach
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Being broken
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Tumultuous
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Wild and noisy
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Demise
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Dead/ cease to exist
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Anthology
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A collection of poems, stories, songs
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Conduit
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A pipe or or tunnel for water or wires
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Lummox
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Clumsy, stupid person
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Amenable
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Willing to follow advice
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Laudatory
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Expressing praise
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Ameliorate
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To improve/ make tolerable
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Avid
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Desirous to the point of greed
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Blasphemy
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Lack of reverence of God
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Crone
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A withered old woman
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Flailing
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Swinging freely
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Indignant
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Marked with worthiness
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Pallor
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Paleness
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Poppet
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Guidance of a machine fastened at the bottom
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Vengeance
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punishment for offense
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Wily
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Sneaky
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Abundant
A lot of
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Auger
A snake or carpenter's tool
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Deposition
Removal from office
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Effrontery
Shameless boldness
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Gait
A manner of walking
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Imperceptible
Subtle
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Incredulously
Disbelief
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Plaintiff
A complaining person or a person that brings a suit to court
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Vestry
A room or building attached to a church
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Wrath
Anger
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Agape
Open-mouthed
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Beguile
Influenced by trickery
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Cleave
To cling or remain faithful
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Disputation
Debate
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Excommunication
To expel from a membership
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Gaunt
Boney or thin
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Gibbet
The gallows
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Indictment
Any cause for blame
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Reprieve
To delay a punishment
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Sibilance
Any sound involving the consonants s, t or c
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Edify
to instruct morally and spiritually
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Maladroit
awkward or tactless
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Querulous
inclined to whine and complain
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Diminutive
little or small
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Felicitous
pleasant or well fitting
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Meticulous
showing extreme attention or care to detaills
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Diabolical
evil
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Glower
stare angrily
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Abomination
disgust or cause of disgust
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Conjured
to summon supernaturally
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Contention
striving in debate or rivalry
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Deference
courteous or yielding to opinion
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Innate
possessed at birth or inborn
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Licentious
lacking moral discipline
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Manifestation
the presence of something or reality
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Paradox
contrary to expectation
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Prodigious
being an omen
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Vindictive
disposed to seek revenge
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Ideology
visionary theorizing
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Floundering
to struggle or move to obtain footing
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Adamant
hardest metal, diamonds
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Conciliatory
unite or win over
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Daft
stupid
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Dissemble
to hide under a false appearance
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Faction
the act of making up
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Smirched
to make dirty or stain
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Tainted
to color or influence
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Ameliorate
to make better or more tolerable
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Affidavit
A written statement confirmed by oath, for use as evidence in court.
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Contempt
The feeling that a person or thing is below consideration or worthless.
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Abhorred
Hated
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Adept
Skilled
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Adroit
Skillful
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Aggrandizement
High praise
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Annihilated
Completely destroyed
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Argot
Secret slang
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Ascended
Rise up
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Asinine
Inexcusably stupid
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Audibly
Aloud
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Azure
Blue like a clear sky
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Beseeched
Pleaded with
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Bolted
Suddenly moved/ dashed
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Brooded
Thought gloomily about
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Bustle
Noisy activity
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Catipulating
Giving in
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Coerced
Forced
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Candid
Straightforward
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Conjecture
Inference or guesswork
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Didactic
Instructive
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Effusive
Overflowing (emotion)
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Euphemism
A mild term for a harsh, blunt one
