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SAT VOCABULARY
Acquiesce - verb • To agree to • To give in to
Bombast - noun • Arrogant, pompous language
Curtail - verb • To cut short
Epicure - noun • Someone who appreciates good food and drink
Heed - verb • To listen to
Lampoon - verb • To ridicule or spoof
Oblivious - adjective • Totally unaware
Podium - noun • A raised platform
Resonate - verb • To echo
Tenuous - adjective • Flimsy; not solid
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Bellicose - adjective • War-like; aggressive
Consummate - adjective • complete; total; supremely good
Elusive - adjective • Hard to pin down
Gregarious - adjective • Sociable; extroverted; outgoing
Jaundiced - adjective • Sickly; yellow in appearance • Cynical; pessimistic
Nettle - verb • To annoy
Phenomenon - noun • an event or happening (plural: phenomena)
Recuperate - verb • To get better from something, especially an illness
Superlative - adjective • Extremely good; the best
Whet - verb • To sharpen
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Clemency- noun • mercy
Flout- verb • defy; reject
Mendacious -adjective • given to lying
Sophomoric-adjective • juvenile; immature
Venal- adjective • corrupt; can be bribed
Cliché - noun • overused expression; something unoriginal
Disparage -verb • criticize; belittle
Flustered-verb • worked-up; not calm
Protégé- noun • person under protection of, or guided by another
Articulate- adjective • clear; lucid; eloquent
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Ingrate- noun • ungrateful person
Mercenary- adjective • concerned only with money
Soporific- adjective • inducing sleep
Veneer- noun • surface coating
Clientele -noun • customers
Disparity-noun • an inequality
Inimical- adjective • hostile
Protocol • procedure; code of behavior
Sparse-adjective • spare; bare; meager
Venerate-verb • revere; worship
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Coalesce- verb • come together; merge
Artifice- noun • deception; trickery
Dispassionate- adjective • neutral; objective
Innate- adjective • inherited; inborn
Merge- verb • come together
Pedestrian- noun • common; mundane; banal
Provincial- adjective • unsophisticated; narrow-minded
Specious- adjective • false
Venial- adjective • minor; unimportant
Cerebral-Adjective • intellectual
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Diffident- Adjective • Lacking confindence
Inconspicuous-Adjective • not easily seen; subtle; noticeable
Malefactor-Noun • A wrong-doer
Paradigm-Noun • 1. example; 2. model; 3. way of looking at things
Pristine-Adjective • Unspoiled
Unprecedented-Adjective • never having happened before
Anomaly-Noun • something which does not fit in a pattern; irregularity
Certitude-Noun • Certainty
Digress-Verb • wander off the subject
Falter-Verb • hesitate; waver
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Indelible-Adjective • cannot be wiped out
Malinger-Verb • deliberately avoid work; shirk
Paradox-Noun • apparently contradictory statement
Proclivity-Noun • tendency towards
Seminary-Noun • an institution in which priests are trained
Annex-Verb • take possession of; seize; capture
Forensic- adjective • concerned with argument or debate (esp. for legal evidence)
Pedant- noun • person who insists on strict adherence to rules or narrow learning
Mercurial- adjective • volatile; changeable
Archives - noun • collections of old records; place of storage of old documents
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