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SAT Vocab Practice pt 1
Common vocabulary words on the SAT
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07/07/2008
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Apathy
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(n) indifferent
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Mercurial
 Definition
(adj) shifting, always changing
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Gregarious
 Definition
(adj) social, friendly
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Reclusive
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(adj) to prefer being alone; hermit-like
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Ambivalent
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(adj) of mixed or uncertain feelings
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Proliferate
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(v) to increase in number
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Stoic
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(adj) showing little emotion
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Virtuoso
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(n) someone with extreme skill
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Mitigate
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(v) to make less severe
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Penurious
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(adj) excessively stingy
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Conciliatory
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(adj) willing to compromise
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Affect
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(v) to show a false exterior to others
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Prosaic
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(adj) dull, commonplace
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Eclectic
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(adj) selecting from various sources
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Affable
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(adj) friendly, likable
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Indolence
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(n) laziness
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Reticent
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(adj) quiet, not prone to say much
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Cerebral

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(adj) intellectual
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Narcissist
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(n) someone who is in love with him or herself
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Aesthetic
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(n/adj) pertaining to beauty
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Superficial
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(adj) lacking in depth
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Frugal

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(adj) cheap, tight with money
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Anachronistic
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(adj) out of place in time
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Foolhardy
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(adj) overly bold
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Orthodox
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(adj) traditional
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Surreptitious
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(adj) stealthy, sneaky
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Querulous
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(adj) quarrelsome
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Sacrosanct
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(adj) very holy, inviolable
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Precarious
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(adj) unsteady, unbalanced
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Frenetic
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(adj) continuously moving
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Dupe
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(v) to con or trick
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Ascetic
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(adj) depriving oneself of indulgences; self-denying
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Novel
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(adj) new or unique
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Undermine
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(v) to rebel against
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Belie
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(v) to contradict
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Benevolent
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(adj) good hearted
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Histrionic
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(adj) theatrical, exaggerated
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Hedonist
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(n) one who obsessively indulges in pleasure
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Spurious
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(adj) of false or fake origins
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Esoteric
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(adj) known or understood by only a few
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Vindictive
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(adj) desiring to get revenge
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Culpable
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(adj) worthy of blame
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Jaded
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(adj) worn down by excessive exposure to something
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Laconic
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(adj) using few words, brief, short to the point
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Pedestrian
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(adj) ordinary
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Anomaly
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(n) out of the norm
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Caustic
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(adj) something that burns like acid
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Egregious
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(adj) exceptionally bad
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Innocuous
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(adj) harmless
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Volatile
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(adj) something that will easily vaporize or explode
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Idiosyncratic
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(adj) to act in a way that is different than what is expected
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Introvert
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(n) a shy or quiet person
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Extrovert
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(n) a loud or outgoing person
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Parsimonious

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(adj) cheap
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Surfeit
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(n) an excess
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Disingenuous
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(adj) characterized by craftiness
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Mollify
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(v) to soothe or make better
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Moralistic
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(adj) to be hypocritical about morals
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Hackneyed
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(adj) overused, as in a saying or espression
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Bombastic
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(adj) showy language or speech
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Laud
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(v) to praise
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Indomitable
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(adj) unable to be dominated or controlled
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Reprieve
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(n) a break or slowing down
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Alleviate

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(v) to relieve
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Verbose
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(adj) excessively wordy
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Equivocate
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(v) to state something so as to be ambiguous
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Malign
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(v) to speak badly about someone
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Probity
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(adj) integrity
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Mundane
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(adj) boring
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Ardor
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(n) passion
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Scruples
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(n) ethics
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Tenacity
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(n) quality of not giving up or giving in
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Diffident
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(adj) shy
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Intrepid

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(adj) courageous
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Preclude
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(v) to make impossible
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Sluggard
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(n) someone who lacks energy or motivation
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Ineffable
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(adj) unable to be described with words
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Ubiquitous
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(adj) seeming to present everywhere
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Lugubrious
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(adj) gloomy to an extreme degree
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Exacerbate
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(v) to make worse
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Enmity
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(n) negative feelings towards something
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Penchant
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(n) strong liking or inclination towards something
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Peripheral
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(adj) something to the side or off-center
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Extricate
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(v) to remove or free from a difficult situation
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Perfunctory
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(adj) something done mindlessly out of habit
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Disseminate
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(v) to spread or pass out to others
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Prophetic
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(adj) able to speak on the future or other divine things
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Revel
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(v) to party or carry on wildly
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Lumen
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(n) a unit to measure the brightness of light
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Morose
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(adj) very sad or glum
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Neophyte
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(n) a beginner or novice
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Ostracize
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(v) to exclude from a group
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Ostentatious
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(adj) showy
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Lethargy
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(n) a slow laziness
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Servile
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(adj) extremely submissive
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Pariah
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(n) an outcast
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Adorn
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(v) to decorate
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Nascent
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(adj) starting to develop
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Nebulous

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(adj) cloud-like
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Maudlin
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(adj) overly sentimental
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