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SAT ACI Week 5 Vocab
Wk5 Vocab
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Language - English
11th Grade
08/01/2009

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voracious
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(adj.) eating with greediness or in very large quantities
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imprudent
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(adj.) unwise or indiscreet; heedless
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sedentary
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(adj.) involving or requiring much sitting; taking little exercise
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indigent
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(adj.) experiencing want or need, impoverished, very poor
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sojourner
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(n.) someone who lives somewhere temporarily, usually while traveling
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virulent
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(adj.) exceedingly noxious or deleterious
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errant
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(adj.) roving or wandering, as in search of adventure or oppurtunity for gallant deeds
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conveyance
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(n.) that by which anything is transported or communicated
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apprehend
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(v.) to grasp the meaning of; understand, especially intuitively; to take into custody, arrest
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impotent
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(adj.) desitute of or lacking in power, physical, moral, or intellectual
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integral
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(adj.) necessary for completeness; containing everything essential
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laud
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(v.) to praise in words or song
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undermine
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(adj.) to subvert in an underhanded way
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efface
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(v.) to obliterate
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preclude
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(v.) to prevent
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feisty
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(adj.) quarrelsome, especially in a courageious, spirited, or excitable way
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intuition
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(n.) instinctive knowledge or feeling
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contentious
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(adj.) quarrelsome; likely to cause an argument
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gregarious
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(adj.) sociable, friendly
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tractable
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(adj.) easily led or controlled
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hardy
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(adj.) strong and in good health, able to endure
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muse
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(v.) to become absorbed in one's thoughts; engage in meditation
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patriarch
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(n.) the leader of a tribe or family, who derives his authority frome being a father in a lineage of rulers
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prolix
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(adj.) tediously wordy
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anecdotal
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(adj.) based on casual observations or subjective accounts rather than rigorous scientific analysis
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sanction
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(v.) to approve authoritatively
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negligible
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(adj.) not significant or important enough to be worth considering
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incredulous
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(adj.) skeptical, expressing disbelief
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belie
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(v.) to misrepresent, to contradict, to show to be false
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recant
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(v.) to withdraw formally a statement or belief
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innocuous
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(adj.) harmless
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radical
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(adj.) departing form the usual; extreme, revolutionary
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intersperse
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(v.) to distribute at intervels
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scathing
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(adj.) harshly critical
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indigenous
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(adj.) native to a region
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transient
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(n.) a person or thing who remains only a short ime in any place
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sporadic
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(n.) occurring at irregular intervals
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spurious
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(adj.) not genuine; false
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tenable
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(adj.) capable of being maintained in an argument; rationally defensible
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veritable
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(adj.) true, genuine
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lugubrious
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(adj.) mournful and gloomy, especially to an exaggerated degree
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rudimentary
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(adj.) relating to basic facts or principles, elementary; being in the early stages of development
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pretentious
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(adj.) showy; claiming a position of distinction or merit, especially when unjustified
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stymie
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(v.) to block; to present an obstacle; to thwart; to stump
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erudite
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(adj.) very learned, scholarly
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ostentation
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(n.) boastful showiness; pretentious display meant to impress others
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officious
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(adj.) excessively eager to help, offering unwanted advice
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exigent
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(adj.) very urgent
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chastise
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(v.) to punish or criticize severely
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inscrutable
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(adj.) impenetrably mysterious or profound
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evince
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(v.) to make manifest or evident
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magniloquence
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(n.) extravagant and pretentious speech, highly styled and verbally ornamented
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mendacious
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(adj.) dishonest; untrue
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pervasive
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(adj.) thoroughly penetrating or permeating
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concord
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(n.) harmony
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axiomatic
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(adj.) being self-evident, as a universally recognized truth
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avant-grande
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(adj.) using ideas or techniques in advance of those generally accepted; innovative, especially in the arts
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abstruse
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(adj.) difficult to understand
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pedestrian
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(adj.) undistinguished; ordinary
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incidental
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(adj.) of minor importance; being an unpredictable or minor result of something
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ingenious
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(adj.) showing skill, originality or cleverness
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indeterminate
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(adj.) not precisely determined; not precisely fixed, as to extent, size, nature, or number; lacking clarity or precision; vague
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guileless
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(adj.) frank, honest, without deception
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exalted
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(adj.) raised in rank or status; glorified, praised or honored
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ardent
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(adj.) having warm, passionate feeling; enthusiastic in devotion
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deplore
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(v.) to express strong disapproval; to regard with grief or sorrow
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expatriate
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(v.) to drive from one's country
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juxtapose
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(v.) to place close together, especially to show contrast or highlight similarities
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chide
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(v.) to scold mildly in an attempt to correct
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abscond
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(v.) to leave quickly and secretly hide, often to avoid arrest of prosecution
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verifiable
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(adj.) able to be proved
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finite
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(adj.) limited
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paradox
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(n.) a statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction
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awestruck
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(adj.) filled with a mixture of respect, reverence, and fear
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indefatigable
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(adj.) tireless
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compensate
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(v.) to give payment for services performed, to reimburse; to make up for a shortcoming, to counterbalance
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admonish
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(v.) to criticize gently but earnestly; to caution
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tangential
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(adj.) merely touching or slightly connected; only superficially relevant; divergent
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tyranny
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(n.) absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly administrated
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haphazard
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(adj.) dependent on mere chance
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overbearing
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(adj.) domineering in manner, arrogant; owerwhelming in force
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stern
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(adj.) harsh and sever in manner
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spontaneous
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(adj.) arising from a natural impulse, not planned; occuring without apparent cause
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suscepitble
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(adj.) easily influence or affected, sensitive to; likely ot be affected with
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arrogant
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(adj.) having an overbearing pride or self-importance
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perplexing
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(adj.) confusing or troubling; causing uncertainty or doubt
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insurmountable
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(adj.) unable to be overcome
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unflinching
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(adj.) showing no fear or indecision; not pulling away from danger or difficulty
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negate
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(v.) to cancel; to deny the existence or truth of
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sober
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(adj.) serious and solemn; marked by self-constraint; not drunk
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