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SAT 13
Term | Definition |
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Archetype | a typical example of |
Clemency | mercy |
Disinterested | unbiased |
Flout | defy; reject |
Mendacious | given to lying |
Paucity | shortage |
Protean | changeable |
Flustered | worked-up; not calm |
Ingrate | ungrateful person |
Mercenary | concerned only with money |
Peccadillo | minor weakness; trivial offence |
Protégé | person under protection of, or guided by another |
Soporific | inducing sleep |
Veneer | surface coating |
Clientele | customers |
Disparity | an inequality |
Fly-by-night | unreliable; disreputable |
Inimical | hostile |
Mercurial | volatile; changeable |
Pedant | person who insists on strict adherence to rules or narrow learning |
Protocol | procedure; code of behavior |
Sparse | spare; bare; meager |
Venerate | revere; worship |
Coalesce | come together; merge |
Dispassionate | neutral; objective |
Merge | come together |
Pedestrian | common; mundane; banal |
Provincial | unsophisticated; narrow-minded |
Specious | false |
Disseminating | circulating; broadcasting; spreading (information) |
Fortitude | bravery |
Peerless | without equal |
Speckled | spotted; freckled; dotted |
Veracity | Truthfulness |
Misanthrope | hater of the rest of mankind |
Perceptive | observant |
Pyromania | compulsion to start fires |
Vignette | small sketch |