SAT Vocabulario
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| abjure | to reject, renounce
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| abrogate | to abolish, usually by authority
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| acerbic | biting, bitter in tone or taste
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| acrimony | bitterness, discord
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| acumen | keen insight
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| adumbrate | to sketch out in a vague way
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| alacrity | a cursed, detested person
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| antipathy | a strong dislike, repugnance
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| approbation | praise
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| arrogate | to take without justification
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| ascetic | practicing restraint as a means of self-discipline, usually religious
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| aspersion | a curse, expression of ill-will
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| assiduous | hard-working, diligent
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| blandish | to coax by using flattery
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| boon | a gift or blessing
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| brusque | short, abrupt, dismissive
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| buffet | to strike with force
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| burnish | to polish, shine
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| buttress | to support, hold up
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| cacophony | tremendous noise, disharmonious sound
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| cajole | to urge, coax
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| calumny | an attempt to spoil someone else’s reputation by spreading lies
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| capricious | subject to whim, fickle
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| clemency | mercy
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| cogent | intellectually convincing
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| concomitant | accompanying in a subordinate fashion
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| conflagration | great fire
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| contrite | penitent, eager to be forgiven
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| conundrum | puzzle, problem
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| credulity | readiness to believe
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| cupidity | greed, strong desire
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| cursory | brief to the point of being superficial
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| decry | to criticize openly
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| defile | to make unclean, impure
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| deleterious | harmful
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| demure | quiet, modest, reserved
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| deprecate | to belittle, depreciate
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| deride | to laugh at mockingly, scorn
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| desecrate | violate the sacredness of a thing or place
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| desiccated | dried up, dehydrated
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| diaphanous | light, airy, transparent
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| diffident | shy, quiet, modest
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| discursive | rambling, lacking order
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| dissemble | to conceal, fake
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| dither | to be indecisive
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| ebullient | extremely lively, enthusiastic
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| effrontery | impudence, nerve, insolence
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| effulgent | radiant, splendorous
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| egregious | extremely bad
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| enervate | to weaken, exhaust
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| ephemeral | short-lived, fleeting
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| eschew | to shun, avoid
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| evanescent | fleeting, momentary
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| evince | to show, reveal
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| exculpate | to free from guilt or blame, exonerate
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| execrable | loathsome, detestable
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| exigent | urgent, critical
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| expiate | to make amends for, atone
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| expunge | to obliterate, eradicate
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| extant | existing, not destroyed or lost
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