SAT Vocabulary #2 Flashcards

(25 cards)

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Auspicious

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Showing that future success is likely

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Assuage

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Something that pains or distresses

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Autonomous

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Power of self government

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Banality

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Lacking originality or freshness

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Benevolent

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Marked by doing something good

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Benign

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Gentle kindhearted

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Boon

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Something that is helpful or beneficial

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Calamity

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An event causing sudden distress, disaster

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Calumny

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Making false statements to damage a reputation

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Camaraderie

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A mutual trust between people who spend a lot of time together, friendship

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Candor

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The quality do being very open and honest, frankness

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Censure

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To express severe disproval, typically in a formal statement

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Chronology

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The arrangement of orders and dates in the order of occurrence

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Circuitous

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A route or journey longer that the most typical way

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Circumvent

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Finding a way around an obstacle

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Civility

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Formal politeness and courtesy and behavior in speech

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Cogent

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An argument clear, logical, and convincing

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Cognizant

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Having knowledge of being aware

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Colloquial

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Language used in ordinary of familiar conversation

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Compatriots

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Fellow citizen or national of country

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Comprehensive

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Complete, including all elements

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Conciliatory

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Intended or likely placate or pacify

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Condensation

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Water vapor, physical change

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Condescending

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Having or showing a feeling of patronizing superiority

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Conformity
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