Sat-Wordlist-5

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abase 

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 verb cause to feel shame; hurt the pride of

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abdicate 

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 verb give up, such as power, as of monarchs and emperors, or duties and obligations

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abrogate 

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 verb revoke formally

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absurd 

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 adj. inconsistent with reason or logic or common sense;incongruous; inviting ridicule; noun a situation in which life seems irrational and meaningless

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aided 

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 adj. having help; often used as a combining form

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alter 

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 verb remove the ovaries of; make an alteration to; make or become different in some particular way, without permanently losing one's or its former characteristics or essence; cause to change; make different; cause a transformation; insert words into texts, often falsifying it thereby

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assisted 

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 adj. having help; often used as a combining form

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beneficiary 

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 adj. having or arising from a benefice; noun the recipient of funds or other benefits; the semantic role of the intended recipient who benefits from the happening denoted by the verb in the clause

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cheat 

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 noun a deception for profit to yourself; the act of swindling by some fraudulent scheme; someone who leads you to believe something that is not true; weedy annual native to Europe but widely distributed as a weed especially in wheat; weedy annual grass often occurs in grainfields and other cultivated land; seeds sometimes considered poisonous; verb defeat someone in an expectation through trickery or deceit; deprive somebody of something by deceit; engage in deceitful behavior; practice trickery or fraud; be sexually unfaithful to one's partner in marriage

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childish 

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 adj. indicating a lack of maturity

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consistently 

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 adv. in a systematic or consistent manner

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contestant 

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 noun a person who participates in competitions; a person who dissents from some established policy

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conviction 

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 noun (criminal law) a final judgment of guilty in a criminal case and the punishment that is imposed; an unshakable belief in something without need for proof or evidence

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dairy 

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 noun a farm where dairy products are produced

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deceased 

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 adj. dead; noun someone who is no longer alive

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decrepitude 

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 noun a state of deterioration due to old age or long use

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defense 

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 noun protection from harm; military action or resources protecting a country against potential enemies; a defendant's answer or plea denying the truth of the charges against him; the justification for some act or belief; an organization of defenders that provides resistance against attack; the defendant and his legal advisors collectively; (sports) the team that is trying to prevent the other team from scoring; a structure used to defend against attack;the speech act of answering an attack on your assertions; the federal department responsible for safeguarding national security of the United States; created in 1947; (psychiatry) an unconscious process that tries to reduce the anxiety associated with instinctive desires

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abetted

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to actively second and encourage (as an activity or plan)

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ablate

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to remove or destroy especially by cutting, abrading, or evaporating

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fortitude

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strength of mind that enables a person to encounter danger or bear pain or adversity with courage

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mistrial

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a trial that has no legal effect by reason of some error or serious prejudicial misconduct in the proceedings

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participated

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took part

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registering

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enrolling

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testified

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to make a statement based on personal knowledge or belief : bear witness

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witnessed

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1: : to testify to : attest
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: to act as legal witness of
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: to furnish proof of : betoken
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a : to have personal or direct cognizance of : see for oneself

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delirious 

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 adj. marked by uncontrolled excitement or emotion;experiencing delirium

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discordant 

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 adj. not in agreement or harmony; lacking in harmony

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disingenuous 

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 adj. not straightforward or candid; giving a false appearance of frankness

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elevate 

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 verb raise in rank or condition; raise from a lower to a higher position; give a promotion to or assign to a higher position

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energize 

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 verb cause to be alert and energetic; raise to a higher energy level

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enervate 

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 verb weaken mentally or morally; disturb the composure of

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enticing 

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 adj. highly attractive and able to arouse hope or desire

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erudite 

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 adj. having or showing profound knowledge

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exemption 

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 noun an act exempting someone; a deduction allowed to a taxpayer because of his status (having certain dependents or being blind or being over 65 etc.); immunity from an obligation or duty

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existence 

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 noun everything that exists anywhere; the state or fact of existing

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fabulous 

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 adj. barely credible; extremely pleasing; based on or told of in traditional stories; lacking factual basis or historical validity

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financed 

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 adj. supported financially

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frown 

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 noun a facial expression of dislike or displeasure; verblook angry or sullen, wrinkle one's forehead, as if to signal disapproval

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gerrymander 

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 noun an act of gerrymandering (dividing a voting area so as to give your own party an unfair advantage); verb divide unfairly and to one's advantage; of voting districts

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hanging 

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 adj. supported from above; noun a form of capital punishment; victim is suspended by the neck from a gallows or gibbet until dead; decoration that is hung (as a tapestry) on a wall or over a window; the act of suspending something (hanging it from above so it moves freely)

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humorous 

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 adj. full of or characterized by humor

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incompetent 

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 adj. not qualified or suited for a purpose; not doing a good job; not meeting requirements; showing lack of skill or aptitude; noun someone who is not competent to take effective action

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inept 

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 adj. revealing lack of perceptiveness or judgment or finesse; generally incompetent and ineffectual; not elegant or graceful in expression

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ingenious 

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 adj. showing inventiveness and skill; skillful (or showing skill) in adapting means to ends; (used of persons or artifacts) marked by independence and creativity in thought or action

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ingenuous 

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 adj. characterized by an inability to mask your feelings; not devious; lacking in sophistication or worldliness

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inverted 

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 adj. being in such a position that top and bottom are reversed; (of a plant ovule) completely inverted; turned back 180 degrees on its stalk

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lassitude 

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 noun weakness characterized by a lack of vitality or energy; a feeling of lack of interest or energy; a state of comatose torpor (as found in sleeping sickness)

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leniency 

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 noun lightening a penalty or excusing from a chore by judges or parents or teachers; a disposition to yield to the wishes of someone; mercifulness as a consequence of being lenient or tolerant

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majority 

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 noun the property resulting from being or relating to the greater in number of two parts; the main part; (elections) more than half of the votes; the age at which persons are considered competent to manage their own affairs

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mastermind 

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 noun someone who has exceptional intellectual ability and originality; someone who creates new things; verb plan and direct (a complex undertaking)

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maudlin 

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 adj. effusively or insincerely emotional

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meager 

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 adj. deficient in amount or quality or extent

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mitigate 

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 verb make less severe or harsh; lessen or to try to lessen the seriousness or extent of

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nominal 

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 adj. existing in name only; insignificantly small; a matter of form only (`tokenish' is informal); being value in terms of specification on currency or stock certificates rather than purchasing power; pertaining to a noun or to a word group that functions as a noun; relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name; named; bearing the name of a specific person; noun a phrase that can function as the subject or object of a verb

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pensioner 

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 noun the beneficiary of a pension fund

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perambulate 

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 verb walk with no particular goal; make an official inspection on foot of (the bounds of a property)

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persistently 

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 adv. with persistence; in a persistent manner

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picayune 

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 adj. (informal) small and of little importance

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precinct 

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 noun a district of a city or town marked out for administrative purposes

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prerogative 

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 noun a right reserved exclusively by a particular person or group (especially a hereditary or official right)

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presumptuous 

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 adj. excessively forward

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prevaricate 

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 verb be deliberately ambiguous or unclear in order to mislead or withhold information

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rectitude 

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 noun righteousness as a consequence of being honorable and honest

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shift 

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 noun the act of moving from one place to another; an event in which something is displaced without rotation; a crew of workers who work for a specific period of time; the time period during which you are at work; the act of changing one thing or position for another; a loose

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solitude 

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 noun a solitary place; a state of social isolation; a disposition toward being alone

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spurious 

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 adj. intended to deceive; born out of wedlock; plausible but false

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stare 

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 noun a fixed look with eyes open wide; verb fixate one's eyes; look at with fixed eyes

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sternly 

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 adv. with sternness; in a severe manner

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stoutly 

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 adv. in a resolute manner

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strengthen 

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 verb gain strength; make strong or stronger; give a healthy elasticity to

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sublimate 

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 adj. made pure; noun the product of vaporization of a solid; verb direct energy or urges into useful activities; vaporize and then condense right back again; change or cause to change directly from a solid into a vapor without first melting; remove impurities from, increase the concentration of, and separate through the process of distillation; make more subtle or refined

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sybaritic 

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 adj. displaying luxury and furnishing gratification to the senses

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tepid 

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 adj. feeling or showing little interest or enthusiasm;moderately warm

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unattractive 

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 adj. lacking beauty or charm; lacking power to arouse interest; not appealing to the senses

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uninviting 

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 adj. neither attractive nor tempting; not tempting

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upbraid 

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 verb express criticism towards

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veil 

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 noun a garment that covers the head and face; a vestment worn by a priest at High Mass in the Roman Catholic Church; a silk shawl; the inner membrane of embryos in higher vertebrates (especially when covering the head at birth); verb to obscure, or conceal with or as if with a veil; make undecipherable or imperceptible by obscuring or concealing

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wanly 

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 adv. in a weak or pale or languid manner