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SAT Prep Words- Week 1
SAT prep vocabulary
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11th Grade
09/17/2010

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Term

Acquisitive

Definition

(n.)

 

able to get and retain ideas or information: concerned with acquiring wealth or property: greedy.

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Arrogate
Definition

(v.)

 

to claim or take without right.

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Banal
Definition

(adj.)

 

hackneyed, trite, commonplace, overused, ordinary.

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Belabor
Definition

(v.)

 

to work exessively; to thrash soundly; overwork.

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Carping
Definition

(adj.)

 

tending to find fault, especially in a petty, nasty, or hairsplitting way.

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Coherent
Definition

(adj.)

 

holding or sticking together, making a logical whole; comprehensive.

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Congeal
Definition

(v.)

 

to change from liquid to solid state, thicken; to make inflexible or rigid.

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Emulate
Definition

(v.)

 

to imitate with the intent of equaling or surpassing the model.

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Encomium
Definition

(n.)

 

a formal expression of praise, a lavish tribute.

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Eschew
Definition

(v.)

 

to avoid, shun, keep away from.

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Germane
Definition

(adj.)

 

relevent, appropriate, apropos, fitting.

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Insatiable
Definition

(adj.)

 

so great or demanding as not to be satisfied.

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Intransigent
Definition

(adj.)

 

refusing to compromise, irreconcilable, uncompromising.

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Invidious
Definition

(adj.)

 

offensive, hateful, tending to cause bitterness and resentment.

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Largesses
Definition

(n.)

 

generosity in giving; lavish or bountiful contributions.

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Reconnaissance
Definition

(n.)

 

a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination.

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Substantiate
Definition

(v.)

 

to establish by evidence, prove; to give concrete or subatantial form to.

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Tactiturn
Definition

(adj.)

 

habitually silent or quiet, inclined to talk very little.

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Temporize
Definition

(v.)

 

to stall or act evasively in order to gain time, avoid a confrontation, or postpone a decision; to compromise.

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Tenable
Definition

(adj.)

 

capable of being held or defended.

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