Sat Vocabulary List 6

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Abrogate

Back 1

To abolish, usually by authority

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Acerbic

Back 2

Biting, bitter in tone or taste

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Alleviate

Back 3

To relieve, make more bearable

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Ambiguous

Back 4

Uncertain, variably interpretable

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Analgesic

Back 5

Something that reduces pain

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Annex

Back 6

A room attached to a larger room or space

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Ascetic

Back 7

Practicing restraint as a means of self discipline, usually religious

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Assail

Back 8

To attack

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Bombastic

Back 9

Excessively confident, pompous

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Buttress

Back 10

Something that offers support

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Catalyze

Back 11

To charge, inspire

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Cloying

Back 12

Sickeningly sweet

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Compliment

Back 13

An expression of esteem or approval

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Congeal

Back 14

To thicken into a solid

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Convention

Back 15

An assembly of people

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Corpulence

Back 16

Extreme fatness

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Denounce

Back 17

To criticize publicly

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Dessicated

Back 18

Dried up, dehydrated

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Diffuse

Back 19

To scatter, thin out, break up

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Dissent

Back 20

The act of disagreeing

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Dissuade

Back 21

To persuade someone not to do something

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Dogmatic

Back 22

Aggressively or arrogantly certain about unproved principles

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Empirical

Back 23

Capable of being proved or disproved by experiment

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Equanimity

Back 24

Composure

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Espouse

Back 25

To take up as a cause, support

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Flabbergasted

Back 26

Astounded

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Grandiose

Back 27

On a magnificent or exaggerated scale

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Hypothetical

Back 28

Supposed or assumed true, but unproven

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Impudent

Back 29

Casually rude, insolent, impertinent

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Incumbent

Back 30

Obligatory

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Injunction

Back 31

An order of official warning

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Innovate

Back 32

To do something in an unprecedented way

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Invective

Back 33

An angry verbal attack

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Inviolable

Back 34

Secure from assault

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Lucid

Back 35

Clear, easily understandable

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Mitigate

Back 36

Unpleasant, offensive, especially to the sense of smell

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Opulent

Back 37

Characterized by rich abundance verging ostentation

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Panacea

Back 38

A remedy for all ills or difficulties

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Phlegmatic

Back 39

Uninterested, unresponsive

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Pithy

Back 40

Concisely meaningful

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Potentate

Back 41

One who has great power, a ruler

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Pulchritude

Back 42

Physical beauty

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Quaint

Back 43

Charmingly old fashion

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Reciprocate

Back 44

To give in return

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Revel

Back 45

To enjoy intensely

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Ruse

Back 46

A trick

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Saccharine

Back 47

Sickeningly sweet

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Somnolence

Back 48

Sleepy, drowsy

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Tacit

Back 49

Express without words

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Utilitarian

Back 50

Relating to or aiming at usefulness

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Vicissitude

Back 51

Event that occurs by change

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Yoke

Back 52

To join, link