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SAT Vocab Words
9-15-06
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English
11th Grade
09/14/2006

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absetemious
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moderate or sparing in eating or drinking
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acrimonious
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harsh in speech or behavior
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adventitious
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accidental; nonessential
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ambivalence
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conflicting feelings toward something or someone
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animadversion
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criticism; comment that opposes
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appurtenance
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something added to another more important thing
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asperity
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harshness; roughness
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auspicious
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favorable
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beget
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to produce
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benignant
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kindly; gentle
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blandishment
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flattery
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bugbear
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something causing fear
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capricious
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erratic; impulsive
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cathartic
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cleansing
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circumspect
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cautious; careful
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commodious
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roomy; spacious
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compunction
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uneasiness; remorse
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consanguinity
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close relationship, usually by blood
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contumacious
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disobedient; obstinate
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cudgel
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club; thick stick
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decorum
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appropriate social behavior
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deleterious
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harmful
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desultory
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wandering from subject to subject; rambling
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dichotomy
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division into two parts
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dissolute
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immoral; unrestrained
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doggedly
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stubbornly
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egregious
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remarkably bad; outrageous
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encomium
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an expression of high praise
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epiphany
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appearance of a deity; revelation
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esoteric
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for a select few; not generally known
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exculpate
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to free from blame; to vindicate
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extrapolate
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to estimate; to infer
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filial
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like a son or daughter
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folderol
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nonsense
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gait
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manner of walking
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genial
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warm; friendly
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genteel
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polite; refined
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guileless
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sincere
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hackneyed
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trite; commonplace; overused
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hoodwink
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to deceive
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