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SAT vocab 7
Question | Answer |
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covert | concealed, especially for an evil purpose |
cower | to crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame |
crass | course or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine |
credulous | easily decieved |
cupidity | avarice |
cursory | rapid and superficial |
curtail | to cut off or cut short |
cynosure | that to which general interest or attention is directed |
dearth | scarcity, as of something customary, essential, or desirable |
defer | to delay or put off to some other time |
deign | to deem worthy of notice or account |
deleterious | hurtful, morally or physically |
delineate | to represent by sketch or diagram |
deluge | to overwhelm with a flood of water |
demagogue | an unprincipled politician |
denizen | inhabitant |
denouement | that part of a play or story in which the mystery is cleared up |
deplete | to reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion, or waste |
deposition | testimony legally on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in court |
deprave | to render bad, especially morally bad |
deprecate | to express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite |
deride | to ridicule |
derision | ridicule |
derivative | coming or aquired from some origin |
descry | to discern |