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9th grade SAT words
(summer work) Part 1
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| absolution | a freeing from blame or guilt; release from consequences, obligations, or penalties |
| alacrity | cheerful readiness, promptness, or willingness |
| antagonism | an active hostility or opposition, as between unfriendly or conflicting groups |
| antecedent | a preceding circumstance, event, object, style, phenomenon, etc.; a word, phrase, or clause, usually a substantive, that is replaced by a pronoun or other substitute later, or occasionally earlier |
| antithesis | opposition; contrast |
| arbiter | a person empowered to decide matters at issue; judge; umpire. |
| archetypal | the original pattern or model from which all things of the same kind are copied or on which they are based; a model or first form; prototype |
| cacophony | harsh discordance of sound; a discordant and meaningless mixture of sounds |
| capitulate | o surrender unconditionally or on stipulated terms |
| clairvoyant | having or claiming to have the power of seeing objects or actions beyond the range of natural vision. |
| collusion | a secret agreement, especially for fraudulent or treacherous purposes; conspiracy |
| confluence | a flowing together of two or more streams or rivers; their place of junction |
| convergence | the degree or point at which lines, objects, etc., converge or meet; concurrence of opinions, results, etc |
| credulity | willingness to believe or trust too readily, especially without proper or adequate evidence; gullibility |
| dissonance | disagreement or incongruity |
| equivocal | allowing the possibility of several different meanings, as a word or phrase, especially with intent to deceive or misguide |
| etymology | the study of historical linguistic change |
| exculpate | to clear from a charge of guilt or fault; free from blame |
| expurgate | to purge or cleanse of moral offensiveness;to amend by removing words, passages, etc., deemed offensive or objectionable |
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Kelsey R
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