For Mrs. Rooks English 2 Pre-AP class. Ch 1-5 in the SAT Vocab book
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| factious | causing disagreement
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| ignoble | dishonorable; shameful
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| boor | a rude or impolite person
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| aegis | a shield; protection
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| perspicacity | keenness of judgment
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| fervent | eager
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| rectify | to correct; to make right
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| enervate | to weaken
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| besiege | to overwhelm
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| ephemeral | lasting a brief time
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| altruism | carrion
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| erotic | pertaining to sexual love
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| amorphous | shapeless
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| opulent | rich; wealthy
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| impotent | powerless
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| antithesis | exact opposite
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| maelstrom | whirlpool or an agitated state of mind
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| emendation | a correction
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| chagrin | embarrassment
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| bauble | a showy but useless thing
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| diaphanous | very sheer and light
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| labyrinth | a maze; a complicated network of winding passages
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| gloat | to brag; to look at or think about with great satisfaction
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| impediment | a barrier
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| bestial | savage; brutal
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| effete | worn out
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| shard | a fragment
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| bland | dull; tasteless
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| nihilism | a rejection of laws
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| pedestrian | ordinary and dull
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| bona fide | in good faith
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| adventitious | accidental
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| fecund | fertile
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| deviate | to stray; to turn aside from a course
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| obfuscate | to confuse; bewilder
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| impale | to pierce with a sharp stake through the body
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| extenuate | to lessen seriousness by providing partial excuses
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| parochial | narrow; limited
(sometimes referred to a point of view)
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| glower | to glare; to stare at angrily
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| edify | to improve someone morally
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| ambiguous | open to more than one interpretation
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| cataclysm | a violent change
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| optimum | best; most favorable
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| importune | to beg; to ask persistently
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| celibate | abstaining from intercourse
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| fortuitous | happening by chance or accident
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| recapitulate | to summarize
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| perfunctory | done with care
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| baroque | overly decorated
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| hedonism | pursuit of pleasure
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| obloquy | strong disapproval
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| debacle | a complete failure
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| quasi | resembling; seeming
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| besmirch | to stain; to make dirty
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| imperative | extremely necessary
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| sacrosanct | extremely holy
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| sadistic | deriving pleasure from inflicting pain on others
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| demeanor | behavior
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| facetious | comical
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| fop | a fashionable man
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| imprecation | a course
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| non sequitur | something that does not logically follow
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| sanguine | cheerful; optimistic
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| bowdlerize | to remove offensive passages of a play, novel, etc.
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| impair | to weaken; cause to become worse
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| panegyric | an expression of praise
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| quandary | a puzzling situation; a dilemma
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| ebullient | enthusiastic
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| deference | respect; consideration
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| carnal | relating to physical appetite, especially sexual
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| nebulous | hazy; vague; uncertain
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| rakish | carefree; dashing; jaunty
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| elegy | a sad or mournful poem
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| pedantic | tending to show off one's learning
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