Sat Vocabulary List 15

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Abase

Back 1

To humiliate, degrade

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Accolade

Back 2

High praise, special distinction

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Adumbrate

Back 3

To sketch out In a vague way

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Aggregate

Back 4

A whole or total

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Aloof

Back 5

Reserved, distant

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Anonymous

Back 6

Being unknown or Un recognized

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Aversion

Back 7

To particularly dislike something

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Balk

Back 8

To stop, block abruptly

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Bane

Back 9

A burden

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Brazen

Back 10

Excessively bold, brash

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Calibrate

Back 11

To set, standardize

Front 12

Choreography

Back 12

The arrangement of dances

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Coagulate

Back 13

To thicken, clot

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Comprehensive

Back 14

Including everything

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Conflagration

Back 15

Great fire

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Covet

Back 16

To desire enviously

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Daunting

Back 17

Intimidating, causing one to lose courage

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Dearth

Back 18

To lack, scarcity

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Diffuse

Back 19

It concentrated, scattered, disorganized

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Discomfit

Back 20

To thwart, baffle

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Discordant

Back 21

Not agreeing, not in harmony with

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Efficacious

Back 22

Effective

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Emend

Back 23

To correct or revise a written text

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Ennui

Back 24

Boredom, weariness

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Exorbitant

Back 25

Excessive

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Expurgate

Back 26

To remove offensive or incorrect parts, usually of a book

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Forestall

Back 27

To prevent, thwart, delay

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Frugal

Back 28

Thrifty, economical

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Hedonist

Back 29

One who believes pleasure should be the primary pursuit of humans

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Impervious

Back 30

Impenetrable, incapable of being affected

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Inept

Back 31

Not suitable or capable, unqualified

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Innocuous

Back 32

Harness, inoffensive

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Legerdemain

Back 33

Deception, slight of hand

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Luminous

Back 34

Brightly shining

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Meritorious

Back 35

Wither of esteem or reward

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Metamorphosis

Back 36

The change of form, shape, substance

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Oblivious

Back 37

lacking consciousness or awareness of some thing

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Pathos

Back 38

The emotion of sympathy

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Paucity

Back 39

Small in quantity

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Primeval

Back 40

Original, ancient

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Quagmire

Back 41

A difficult situation

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Relegate

Back 42

To assign to a proper place

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Remedial

Back 43

Attended to represent gaps in a students basic knowledge

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Renovate

Back 44

To restore, return to original state

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Resolute

Back 45

Firm, determined

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Soluble

Back 46

Able to dissolve

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Temerity

Back 47

Audacity, recklessness

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Torrid

Back 48

Giving off intense hear, passionate

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Tortuous

Back 49

Winding

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Transmute

Back 50

To change or alter in form

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Vociferous

Back 51

Loud, boisterous

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Palliate

Back 52

To reduce severity of