Sat Vocab

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ambiguous

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open to more than one interpretation

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ambivalent

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simultaneously feeling oppposing feelings; uncertain

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amenable

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responsive; agreeable

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anthology

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a collection of literary pieces

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arbiter

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a judge who eicdes a disputed issue

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arbitrary

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determined by impulse rather than reason

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arid

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describing a dry, rainlewss climate.

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assertion

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a declaration or statement

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assiduous

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hard-working

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assimilation

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to absorb, to make similar

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astute

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shrewd, clever

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auspicious

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favorable, promising

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comprehensive

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large in scope or content

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brusque

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rudely abrupt

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camaraderie

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good will between friends

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candor

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sincerity, openness

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capricious

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impulsive and unpredicatable

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caustic

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bitingly sarcastic or witty

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clandestine

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secretive

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cogent

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convincing, reasonable

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coherent

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logically connected

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conception

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the ability to form or understand an idea

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confalgration

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a widespread fire

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contemptous

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feeling hatred, scornful

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context

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circumstances of a situation, environment

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convoluted

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intricate, complex

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copius

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pentiful, having a large quantity

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coup

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a brillantly exectued plan

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cryptic

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difficult to comprehend

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decorous

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proper, marked by good taste.

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deleterious

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having a harmful effect, injurious

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despotic

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excercising absolute power, tyrannical

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didactic

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intended to instruct

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dilatory

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habitually late

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dilettante

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one with an amateurish or superficial understand of a field of knowledge

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discourse

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verbal expression or exchange, conversation

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disingenuous

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not straightforward, crafty

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disparage

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to speak of in a slighting way or negatively, to belittle

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disparity

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inequality in age, rank, or degree, difference

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dogged

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stubbornly perservering

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dogmatic

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stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs

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dubious

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doubtful, of unlikely authenticity

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ebullience

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intense enthusiasm

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eclectic

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made up of a variety of sources or styles

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effusive

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emotionally unrestrained, gushy

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egregious

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conspicuously bad or offensive

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elusive

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difficult to capture

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emollient

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softening and soothing, something that softens or soothes

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enmity

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mutual hatred or ill-will

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equanimity

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the quality of being calm and even-tempered, composure

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equivocate

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to avoid making a definite statement

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exculpate

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to free from guilt or blame

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facetious

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playfully humorous

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fastidious

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possessing careful attention to detail, difficult to please

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feral

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savage, untamed

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florid

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describing flowery or elaborate speech

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fracticious

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quareelsom, unruly

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frenetic

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wildly excited or active

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futile

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having no useful purpose, pointless

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gratuitous

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given freely, unearned, unwarranted