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PSAT vocab 03
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25
English
10th Grade
11/15/2012

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Abtruse
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difficult to understand, intricate, concealed
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Affable
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friendly, amiable, courteous
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Audacity
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Excessive boldness, rashness, daring
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Contrite
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Extremely apologetic, remorseful, repentant
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Credulous
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Believing on slight evidence, gullible
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Depravity
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moral corruption, a wicked or perverse act
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deprecate
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to disapprove regretfully, to belittle, to express mild disaproval
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didactic
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instructive, designed to teach
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dormant
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inactive sleeping
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enigmatic
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mysterious, inexplicable, puzzling
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erudite
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scholarly, not lacking knowledge
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exotic
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foreign, unfamiliar
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fuse
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to mix or to join usually by melting
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immutable
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unchanging
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incorrigible
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incapable of being reformed or improved
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loathe
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to detest
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mitigate
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to cause to become less harsh or hostile; to make less severe
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nullify
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to cause not to be in effect, to negate,
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pacifistic
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opposed to war or use of force
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pretentious
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pompous, self important
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prologue
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introductory remarks in a speech, play, or literary work, introductory action
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recant
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to withdraw or repudiate a statement of belief, revoke
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servile
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overly submissive, not authoritive
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trepidation
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fear, agitation
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villify
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to malign, to defame, to utter abusive statements against
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