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SAT Vocab Set #!
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Language - English
11th Grade
10/14/2012
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recriminations
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make criminal
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capricious
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on a whim
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indignant
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made not dignified (pissed)
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substantiation
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to give substance or prove
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fallacy
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falseness
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filibustered
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to talk a lot
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divulge (a secret)
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to uncover
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mercurial
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shapeshifting
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cosseted
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pamper or coddle (kiss)
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assiduous
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working ones ass off
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clairvoyant
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able to see the future (clear vision)
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paramount
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pinacle
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repudiated
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push back
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ambivalence
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to see two values or undecided
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vindication
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proving yourself in a revengeful way
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petulance
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stuck-up ness or unruliness
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compunction
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remorse
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litigate
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to go to court or sue
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solicitous
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a sails person
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regressive
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to fade away or move backward
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mitigating
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to pass through a mini gate (small)
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deleterious
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harmful
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vacillating
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oscillate
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deter
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to halt or stop (detour)
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proliferation
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pro-life (to make a lot of )
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perfunctory
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the perfect function
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tenacious
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to never give up
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excoriated
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to take the skin off of
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arduous
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difficult
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assuaged
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to calm down (suave)
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solace
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solitude
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banality
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beneath you (boring)
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strident
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mean
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conciliatory
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to win over or council (uniting people)
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polemical
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controversial argument (divides people)
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incantatory
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a prayer of song
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unstinting
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unrestricted or uncontrolled
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cryptic
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hard to understand secretive
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culpable
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the culprit or guilty
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succinct
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really short
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anecdote
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personal story
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demographic
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population data
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autonomy
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auto=self, nom=name, self naming
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contiguous
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continuous
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vituperative
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really negative or harsh
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perspicacious
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wise advice
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extrapolate
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to make an inference
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didactic
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intended to instruct
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esoteric
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random unique rare unexpected
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erudition
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well spoken
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acumen
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how well you can understand -good businessman
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enigma
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a mystery (a riddler)
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gaffe
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a social blunder or a joke
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speculate
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to make a prediction
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abstruse
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abstract or hard to understand
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effrontery
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doing something stupid, an idiotic action
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chicanery
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trickery
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exonerate
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to free from blame
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sycophant
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self serving flatterer
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sanctimonious
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fake holiness
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abasement
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lowering yourself
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sophistry
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fancy tricky speech
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pejorative
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a harmful phrase- cussing
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extol
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to apply praise (church bells)
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indict
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to bring someone to trial
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supplant
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replace
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expurgate
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to send something bad out. to purge
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rectitude
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moral uprightness, rector
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partisan
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political following
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stymie
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to block or stop
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raze
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destroy
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quell
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to stop or calm down
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obsequious
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flattering
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litigious
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wanting to go to court
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