SSAT 3000 HARD 2332-2363 Flashcards by Drake Gallien

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Sparsity

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In a scattered condition

Scarceness, eagerness

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Cogency

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Persuasion, conviction

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Bureaucracy

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Officials running government division

Administration, government

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Dowry

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Money or property a woman brings to the man she marries

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Novelized

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To make into a novel

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Preternatural

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Out of the ordinary

Unusual, abnormal

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Sinuosity

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Having many curves or turns

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Cordate

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Heart-shaped

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Spiritualism

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Belief that spirits of the dead communicate with the living

Mysticism

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Sidereal

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Having to do with stars

Stellar, astral

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Corpulence

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Fatness, stoutness, plumpness

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Vainglorious

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Extreme pride in oneself

Arrogant, boasting

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Calcify

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To make or become rigid

Fortify

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Intramural

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Inside, indoors, internal

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Stockade

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Pen or other enclosure, barrier

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Pixilated

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Slightly crazy

Capricious, eccentric

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Biopsy

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Examination of cells or tissues

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Irresolute

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Unable to make up one’s mind

Indecisive, faltering

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Flattery

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Praising too much

Blandishment, cajolery

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Privation

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Lack of comforts, poverty destitution

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Scurrility

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Coarse joking, indecency, obscenity

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Inexpedient

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Not practical, futile, detrimental

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Calibration

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Being adjusted to the scale of something

Adjustment

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Jerkin

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A short, close fitting coat or jacket without sleeves

Shibboleth

An old idea, opinion or saying | Old-fashioned

Poltroon

A wretched coward

Hematoma

Tumor or swelling made up of blood

Itinerate

Travel from place to place, | Nomadic, wandering

Venerability

Commanding respect because of age

Naturalistic

A natural history

Impugn

Attack by words or argument

Hegemony

Political domination | Dominion, command