Sparknotes' Sat Vocabulary - I

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Iconoclast

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One who attacks common beliefs or institutions

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Idiosyncratic

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Peculiar to one person; highly individualized

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Idolatrous

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Excessively worshiping one object or person

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Ignominious

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Humiliating, disgracing

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Illicit

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Forbidden, not permitted

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Immutable

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Not changeable

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Impassive

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Stoic, not susceptible to suffering

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Impeccable

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Exemplary, flawless

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Impecunious

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Poor

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Imperative

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Necessary, pressing OR a rule, command, or order

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Impertinent

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Rude, insolent

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Impetuous

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Rash, hastily done

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Impinge

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To affect, impact, make an impression OR to encroach, infringe

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Implacable

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Incapable of being appeased or mitigated

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Implement

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An instrument, utensil, tool OR to put into effect, to institute

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Implicate

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To involve in an incriminating way, incriminate

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Impregnable

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Resistant to capture or penetration

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Impudent

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Casually rude, insolent, impertinent

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Impute

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To ascribe, blame

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Inane

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Silly and meaningless

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Inarticulate

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Incapable of expressing oneself clearly through speech

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Incarnate

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Existing in flesh, embodied OR to give human form to

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Incendiary

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A person who agitates OR inflammatory, causing combustion

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Incessant

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Unending

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Inchoate

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Unformed or formless, in a beginning stage

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Incisive

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Sharp, clear, direct

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Incorrigible

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Incapable of correction, delinquent

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Incumbent

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One who holds an office OR obligatory

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Indefatigable

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Incapable of defeat, failure, decay

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Indigent

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Very poor, impoverished, destitute

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Indignation

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Anger sparked by something unjust or unfair

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Indomitable

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Incapable of being conquered

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Ineffable

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Unspeakable, incapable to be expressed in words

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Inept

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Not suitable or capable, unqualified

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Inexorable

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Incapable of being persuaded or placated

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Infusion

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An injection of one substance into another; the permeation of one substance by another

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Ingenuous

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Not deviant; innocent and candid

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Inimical

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Hostile, enemylike

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Iniquity

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Wickedness or sin

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Injunction

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An order of official warning

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Innocuous

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Harmless, inoffensive

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Innuendo

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An insinuation

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Inoculate

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To introduce a microorganism, serum, or vaccine into an organism in order to increase immunity to illness; to vaccinate

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Inquisitor

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One who inquires, especially in a hostile manner

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Insatiable

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Incapable of being satisfied

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Insidious

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Appealing but imperceptively harmful, seductive

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Insolent

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Rude, arrogant, overbearing

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Instigate

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To urge, goad

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Insular

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Separated and narrow-minded; tight-knit, closed off

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Insurgent

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One who rebels

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Integral

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Necessary for completeness

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Interject

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To insert between other things

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Interlocutor

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Someone who participates in dialogue or conversation

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Interminable

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Without possibility of end

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Intimation

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An indirect suggestion

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Intractable

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Difficult to manipulate, unmanageable

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Intransigent

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Unwilling to compromise, often on an extreme opinion

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Inundate

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To flood with abundance

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Inure

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To cause someone or something to become accustomed to a situation

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Invective

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An angry verbal attack

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Inviolable

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Secure from assault

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Irascible

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Easily angered

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Iridescent

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Showing rainbow colors