Sat Vocab.

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arable

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fit for cultivation

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enervate

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weaken

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Mendacious

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equoivocal, misleading, untruthful

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Ruminate

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ponder

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Penury

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penniless, destitute, indigent

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prosaic

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mundane, pedestrian, banal

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Profligate

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extravagant, wasteful, reckless

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stoic

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one who is emotionally unresponsive

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Fulsome

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effusive, excessive, generous

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hackneyed

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over familiar through overuse (esp. pertaining to adages); trite (esp

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salacious

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lustful, bawdy, lascivious

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Languid

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lethargic, lazy, relaxed, unrushed

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Flippant

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Marked by disrespectful levity or casualness; pert.

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pert

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High-spirited; vivacious.
Impudently bold; saucy.

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deference

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respecting or curteously yielding to the wishes, opinions, or judgements of another

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Ambivalent

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unsure, undecided, of two minds

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Impecunious

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impoverished, indigent, poor

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Furtive

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secretive, stealthy, sly

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Voracious

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insatiable, ravenous, gluttonous

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Munificent

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generous, bountiful, liberal

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Hedonist

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Pursuit of or devotion to pleasure, especially to the pleasures of the senses

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Miser

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One who lives very meagerly in order to hoard money.
A greedy or avaricious person.

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av·a·ri·cious

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Immoderately desirous of wealth or gain; greedy.

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allay

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alleviat, assuage

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EPHEMERAL

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short-lived, passing, fleeting, temporary

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volatile

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unconstant, ephemeral

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evanescent

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vanishing or likely to vanish quickly, of short duration

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PERENNIAL

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constant, lasting, returning (for flowers 2x per year)

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Diurnal

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Relating to or occurring in a 24-hour period; daily.
Occurring or active during the daytime rather than at night: diurnal animals.

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SOPHISTICATE

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n: A sophisticated person.

v: To cause to become less natural, especially to make less naive and more worldly.
To make impure; adulterate.
To make more complex or inclusive; refine.

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Tyro

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novice, learner, neophyte, trainee

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Pummel

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to beat with fists

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Prosody

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The study of the metrical structure of verse.
A particular system of versification.

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Covert

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clandestine, secret

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Ingenuous

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frank, honest, candid, innocent, naive, guileless

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Wile

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trick, ploy, subterfuge, con, scam, hoax, deception

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paltry

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Lacking in importance or worth. See Synonyms at trivial.
Wretched or contemptible.

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Conscript

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n.
One compulsorily enrolled for service, especially in the armed forces; a draftee.

adj.
Enrolled compulsorily; drafted.

tr.v. con·script·ed, con·script·ing, con·scripts (kn-skrpt)
To enroll compulsorily into service; draft.

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Trite

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hackneyed

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Sybarite

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A person devoted to pleasure and luxury; a voluptuary.

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Philanderer

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To carry on a sexual affair, especially an extramarital affair, with a woman one cannot or does not intend to marry. Used of a man.
To engage in many love affairs, especially with a frivolous or casual attitude. Used of a man.

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Ruse

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trick, subterfuge

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Hamlet

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village, settlement, rural community, sm. town

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Axiomatic

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self-evident, obvious, clear

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Inviolate

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Not violated or profaned; intact

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Conciliate

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to appease, to reconile, to attempt to gain friendship of.

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Cathartic

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therapeutic, healing, a bowl stimulant

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HONE

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sharpen, whet, perfect

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Burnish

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polish, shine, wax

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Adjudge

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judge, deem, consider

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Abrogate

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To abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority.

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ESCHEW

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to avoid, to shun, to want/have nothing to do with

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Ostracize

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to exclude from a group

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Ostentatious

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pretentious, showy

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Concatenate

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To connect or link in a series or chain

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RACONTEUR

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a narrator or conversationalist

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Ruffian

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a tough or rowdy person, or a ganster or thug

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Spendthrift

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One who spends money recklessly or wastefully.

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recluse

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hermit, loner, outsider,

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tawdry

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cheap, gaudy, flashy, showy, flamboyant

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Intrinsical

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Intimate; closely familiar

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bibulous

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1. Of, pertaining to, marked by, or given to the consumption of alcoholic drink.
2. Readily absorbing fluids or moisture.