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Vocabulary 10 - SAT
Mrs. Denny
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Literature
11th Grade
02/19/2011

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Discern
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verb detect with the senses
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Discreet
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adj. marked by prudence or modesty and wise self-restraint; heedful of potential consequences; unobtrusively perceptive and sympathetic
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Discrete
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adj. constituting a separate entity or part
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Indiscrete
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adj. not divided or divisible into parts
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Discriminate
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adj. marked by the ability to see or make fine distinctions; noting distinctions with nicety; verb recognize or perceive the difference; distinguish; treat differently on the basis of sex or race
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Disdain
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noun a communication that indicates lack of respect by patronizing the recipient; lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike; verb reject with contempt; look down on with disdain
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Disinterested
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adj. unaffected by self-interest
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Disparage
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verb express a negative opinion of
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Disparate
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adj. including markedly dissimilar elements; fundamentally different or distinct in quality or kind
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Disseminate
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verb cause to become widely known
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Dissipate
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verb live a life or pleasure, especially with respect to alcoholic consumption; spend frivolously and unwisely; move away from each other; to cause to separate and go in different directions
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Dissolution
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noun the termination or disintegration of a relationship (between persons or nations); separation into component parts; the termination of a meeting; dissolute indulgence in sensual pleasure; the process of going into solution
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Distend
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verb swell from or as if from internal pressure; cause to expand as it by internal pressure; become wider
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Distinguish
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verb mark as different; be a distinctive feature, attribute, or trait; sometimes in a very positive sense; identify as in botany or biology, for example; make conspicuous or noteworthy; detect with the senses
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Docile
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adj. willing to be taught or led or supervised or directed; easily handled or managed; ready and willing to be taught
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Doctrinaire
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. stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability; noun a stubborn person of arbitrary or arrogant opinions
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Dogmatic
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adj. characterized by assertion of unproved or unprovable principles; relating to or involving dogma; of or pertaining to or characteristic of a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative
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Dogma
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noun a doctrine or code of beliefs accepted as authoritative; a religious doctrine that is proclaimed as true without proof
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Domestic
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adj. produced in a particular country; of concern to or concerning the internal affairs of a nation; of or involving the home or family; converted or adapted to domestic use; of or relating to the home; noun a servant who is paid to perform menial tasks around the household
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Dormant
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adj. inactive but capable of becoming active; of e.g. volcanos; not erupting and not extinct; in a condition of biological rest or suspended animation
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Dubiety
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noun the state of being unsure of something
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Duplicity
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noun acting in bad faith; deception by pretending to entertain one set of intentions while acting under the influence of another; a fraudulent or duplicitous representation
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Ebullient
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adj. joyously unrestrained
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Eccentric
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adj. not having a common center; not concentric; conspicuously or grossly unconventional or unusual; noun a person with an unusual or odd personality; a person of a specified kind (usually with many eccentricities)
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Eclectic
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adj. selecting what seems best of various styles or ideas; noun someone who selects according to the eclectic method
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Edify
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verb make understand
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Efface
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verb make inconspicuous; remove completely from recognition or memory; remove by or as if by rubbing or erasing
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Effusion
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noun flow under pressure; an unrestrained expression of emotion
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Egalitarian
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adj. favoring social equality; noun a person who believes in the equality of all people
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Egocentric
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adj. limited to or caring only about yourself and your own needs; noun a self-centered person with little regard for others
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Egotist
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noun a conceited and self-centered person
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Egregious
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adj. conspicuously and outrageously bad or reprehensible
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Elicit
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verb derive by reason; deduce (a principle) or construe (a meaning); call forth (emotions, feelings, and responses)
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Elliptical
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adj. characterized by extreme economy of expression or omission of superfluous elements; rounded like an egg
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Elusive
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adj. skillful at eluding capture; difficult to describe; be difficult to detect or grasp by the mind
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Emigrate
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verb leave one's country of residence for a new one
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Immigration
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noun migration into a place (especially migration to a country of which you are not a native in order to settle there); the body of immigrants arriving during a specified interval
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Eminent
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adj. of imposing height; especially standing out above others; having achieved eminence; standing above others in quality or position; (used of persons) standing above others in character or attainment or reputation
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Empirical
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adj. derived from experiment and observation rather than theory; relying on medical quackery
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