act/ sat words for vocabulary session 3
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| fatuous | adj. inanely foolish, silly |
| feckless | adj. weak, inefficent |
| fiduciary | noun or adj. involving a confidence or founded in trust |
| filibuster | noun using extreme dialogue in attempt to delay or prevent an action from occuring |
| gamete | noun a mature male or female germ cell usually processing a haploid chromosome set |
| gauche | adj. lacking social experience or grace, not tactful |
| gerrymander | noun the act of dividing up land into political units to give a group an advantage |
| hegemony | noun authority over others, dominate |
| hemoglobin | noun any of numerous iron-containing pigments |
| homogeneous | adj. uniform structure/compositon throughout |
| aberration | noun-distortion |
| abstinence | noun-refrain from doing somthing |
| acclaim | noun-give praise to |
| aquiesce | verb-consent |
| admonish | verb-rebuke |
| aesthetic | adjective-relating to beauty |
| affinity | noun-close attraction or relationship |
| abstract | adjective-expressing a quality apart from an object |
| aggrandizement | verb-make great or greater |
| alleviate | verb-relive or improve |
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