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SAT Vocab
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1. Impulsive action - unplanned events
travesty
chastise
meddle
spontaneity
2. Biting or harsh in odor or taste; deeply or violently bitter
ablution
haggard
acrid
murky
3. To hint at
allude
decorum
integrity
quintessence
4. Not belonging to a religious order
invigorate
arduous
condescending
secular
5. A group of companies trying to control a market ('oil cartel')
arbitrary
deplore
salacious
cartel
6. A violent whirlpool
maelstrom
absolve
crass
sever
7. Future generations
vitality
posterity
buffer
transitory
8. Causing dissension; divisive
retinue
modulate
gallantry
factious
9. Lowest point
nadir
megalomania
philology
precursor
10. Clear and easy to understand
pristine
fulminate
perspicuity
deplore
11. Earthy
toxic
enmity
modulate
terrestrial
12. To avoid work by making up excuses
piquant
avuncular
malinger
prototype
13. Public declaration
extraneous
momentous
preemptive
promulgation
14. In human form
deplete
stymie
incarnate
rail
15. Thrifty - not wasteful
sanctity
frugal
opus
longevity
16. Loyalty
seismology
decorous
fealty
testator
17. To beat
dawdled
bludgeon
emeritus
revamp
18. Clear; obvious
sycophant
procure
patent
peripheral
19. 1. frank; honest; open 2. an informal photograph or snapshot
heresy
candid
panacea
discomfiture
20. Kindly or pleasant in disposition ('a genial attitude')
fumigant
translucent
genial
levity
21. Lie adjacent
evince
abuts
gustatory
condign
22. An expression of praise
discomfiture
abide
panegyric
discombobulate
23. To completely revise
condiment
ecumenical
overhaul
sycophancy
24. Division into two contrasting parts
ascribe
blatant
expatiate
dichotomy
25. Non-interference
pedantic
rarefied
genteel
laissez faire
26. Theft
delinquent
larceny
wane
winnow
27. Beginner; a recent convert
lethal
neophyte
facsimile
sundry
28. Agree in time ('synchronize our watches')
flout
invidious
emolument
synchronize
29. To result in
vacuous
albatross
culminate
cant
30. To instruct in a body of doctrine or principles
indoctrinate
culinary
dolorous
mordant
31. Series; linking together
concatenation
portentous
castigate
coronation
32. Justice
feign
astute
equity
travesty
33. Abating the courage of; discouraging
daunting
impetus
discomfiture
inane
34. Someone with a big ego
fortify
braggart
comport
fabricate
35. To go forward
wend
agnostic
garner
sanctity
36. To idolize
inculcate
deify
harbinger
nemesis
37. To claim
complaisant
iniquity
physiognomy
purport
38. A room on the top floor of a house - typically under a pitched roof; an attic
facet
vitiate
emeritus
garret
39. Positive in nature; factually valid
deplete
aggregate
triennial
affirmative
40. A parley or conference
sophistry
cleavage
palaver
confederation
41. Made worse
stringent
compounded
exculpate
derogatory
42. To incriminate
refulgent
restitution
trifle
inculpate
43. Sneering; bitter or sarcastic ('a sardonic laugh')
livid
sardonic
hegemony
delinquent
44. Cliched - worn out by overuse
hackneyed
decorum
abject
impute
45. The science of formal classification and naming
fracas
renovation
taxonomy
euphemism
46. The repairing of damaged relations
retroactive
temerarious
rapprochement
cavalcade
47. To involve - entangle - or implicate
germane
barrage
punctilious
enmesh
48. Food
kudos
ingrate
progressive
victuals
49. In common conversational use
adage
colloquial
entice
sleazy
50. Gained at an unjustifiably high cost
sagacity
ulterior
belie
pyrrhic
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