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Vocabulary 10
SAT Study words. Test Monday 11/22 !
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English
11th Grade
11/17/2010

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Inexorable
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Stubborn, unyielding
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Opaque
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Not allowing light to go through it, dull, unintelligible
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Ostensible
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presented as being true, but hiding a different meaning
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Ostentatious
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marked by a rude display of wealth, talents, or success
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Pithy
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brief and forceful
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Pittance
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very small amount of something, usually money
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Placate
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to make someone less angry or upset
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Profligate
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extremely wasteful or immoral (wrong)
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Propinquity
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nearness in space, time, or relationship
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Proselytize
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to try to convert someone to a religious faith; political belief
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Rhetorical
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asked with no expectation of response
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Ribald
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humorous in a rude way
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Ruminate
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to think carefully and at link or to ponder
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Succinct
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clear and expressed without unnecessary word
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Surreptitious
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secret or sneaky
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Sycophant
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someone who flatters a powerful person for personal gain
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Anathema
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is someone or something that is greatly disliked
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Ancillary
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in a position of lesser importance
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Animosity
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hostility to a person of thing that usually takes the form of action
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