SSAT 3000 HARD 2901-2933 Flashcards by Drake Gallien

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Budgetary

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Relating to a plan that outlines the amount of money to be spent for a given purpose

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Badinage

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Good-natured joking

Banter, teasing

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Natalité

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Birth rate

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Sagacity

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Keen, sound judgement

Wisdom, acumen

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Tympanic

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Of the eardrum

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Macerate

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Soften or separate the parts of a substance

Mash, liquefy

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Periphery

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An outside boundary

Outskirts, edge

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Libation

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Pouring out of wine as an offering to a god

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Obligatory

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Binding morally or legally

Compulsory, imperative

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Inspissate

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To make thick or thicker

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Bipartisan

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Supported by two political parties

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Flippant

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Smart or pert in speech or manner

Impertinent, cheeky

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Erudition

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Much knowledge acquired from learning

Scholarship, bookishness

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Flagitious

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Shamefully vile

Infamous, atrocious

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Retrogress

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To move backward, degenerate

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Carmine

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A deep red color with a slight purple tint

Crimson, scarlet

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Napery

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Tablecloths, napkins and doilies

Linen, cloth

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Sustenance

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Food or provisions

Necessities, nourishment

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Legionary

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Having to do with a body of soldiers

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Metropolitan

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Relating to a large city

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Repatriate

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To send back or restore to one’s own country

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Attidudinize

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To assume a certain way of thinking or feeling

Pose

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Synchronism

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Occurrence at the same time

Coincidence, concurrence

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Gravitation

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The attraction of one body toward another

Turgescence

Act or fact of swelling

Sanctuary

A sacred place Altar, shrine

Phalanx

A body of troops in close array Army, legion

Vacuity

The state of being vacant or empty Nothingness, void

Satiable

That can be satisfied

Clinical

Coldly impersonal, Unemotional, detached

Collude

Act together through a secret understanding Conspire, connive

Misogynous

Hatred of women

Subadjacent

Situated below Underlying, beneath