Sat I Week One Vocab

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Adulation

Back 1

excessive admiration or devotion, often involving flattery

Hint 1

Synonysm: reverence, veneration, adoration, exaltion, extolling, doting, lionization, idolization

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Adulterate

Back 2

to debase or make impure by adding inferior materials or elements

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Affable

Back 3

friendly, pleasant, courteous, easy to talk to

Hint 3

Synonyms: amiable, genial, congenial, cordial, gracious, civil

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Alleviate

Back 4

To lighten or lessen (physical or mental troubles)

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Amiable

Back 5

having or showing pleasant, good-natured personal qualities

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Anesthetics

Back 6

a drug which causes numbess or relieves pain, such as Novocain

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Appease

Back 7

to bring to a state of peace, quiet, ease, calm, or contentment; pacify

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Arable

Back 8

farmable, capable of producing crops by plowing or tillage

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Assiduous

Back 9

diligent, hard-working, constantly striving

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Avalanche

Back 10

1. a mass of snow or rock which falls suddenly down a mountain slope
2. anything which overwhelms suddenly

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Blasphemy

Back 11

insulting or cursing God, or acting impiously toward religious things

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Blemish

Back 12

a mark that detracts from the appearance; a flaw or stain

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Caustic

Back 13

1. cabable of burning or destroying living tissue
2. very critical or sarcastic

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Clamor

Back 14

a loud uproar, shouts and yelling

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Compulsion

Back 15

1. forcing someone to do something
2. an overpowering urge to do something, especially something that is irrational

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Conflagration

Back 16

a large, very distinct fire

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Cordial

Back 17

courteous and gracious

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Corrode

Back 18

to eat or wear away, usually by chemical action, as in rust

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Cursory

Back 19

going over something quickly without paying much attention; quick and careless

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Dainty

Back 20

of delicate beauty or form; pleasing to the taste

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Demeanor

Back 21

behavior, conduct, facial expression

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Dilapidated

Back 22

falling apart, falling into decay

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Detained

Back 23

to delay, to keep under restraint

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Discursive

Back 24

passing aimlessly from one subject to another; digressive rambling

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Genial

Back 25

warmly and pleasantly cheerful

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Impiety

Back 26

lack of reverance for God and other sacred things

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Lethargic

Back 27

drowsy; sluggish

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Listless

Back 28

showing little or no interest in anything

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Mollify

Back 29

to soften in feeling or temper

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Profanity

Back 30

Abusive, vulgar, or irreverent language

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Relegated

Back 31

to demote someone or something, to move to a lower position

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Resilient

Back 32

1. able to spring back to an original form
2. able to recover from emotional distress

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Retain

Back 33

to keep possession of; to hold in place; to remember

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Sluggish

Back 34

moving slowly, or having little motion

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Sully

Back 35

to soil, stain, or tarnish

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Taint

Back 36

to contaminate, adulterate or pollute

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Torpid

Back 37

inactive, sluggish, slow-moving

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Totalitarian

Back 38

dictatorial, autocratic; having a centralized state that controls all speech and actions

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Unqualified

Back 39

absolute, complete, without limit or qualification

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Vagrants

Back 40

wandering, unsettled

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Voluminous

Back 41

of great volume, size, or extent; writing enough to fill a volume