SAT Hot Prospects & High Frequency Vocab 7
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| discerning | adj. mentally quick and observant; having insight | Though no genious, the star was sufficiently discerning to tell her true friends froom the countless phonies who flattered her.
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| disclose | v. reveal | Although competitors offered him bribes, he refused to disclose any information about his company's forthcoming product.
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| discordant | adj. not harmonious; conflicting | Nothing is quite so discordant as the sound of a junior high school orchestra tuning up.
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| discount | v. disregard; dismiss | Be prepared to discount what he has to say about his ex-wife.
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| discrepancy | n. lack of consistency; difference | The police noticed some discrepancies in his description of the crime and did not believe him.
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| discriminating | adj. able to see differences; prejudiced | A superb interpreter of Picasso, she was sufficiently discriminatiing to judge the most complex works of modern art.
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| disdain | v. view with scorn or contempt | In the film "Funny Face," the bookish heroine disdained fashion models for their lack of intellectual interests.
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| disinclination | n. unwillingness | Some mornings I feel a disinclination to get out of bed.
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| dismiss | v. put away from consideration; reject | Believing in John's love for her, she dismissed the notion that he might be unfaithful.
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| disparage | v. belittle | A doting mother, Emma was more likely to praise her son's crude attempts at art than to disparage them.
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| disparity | adj. basically different; unrelated | Unfortunately, Tony and Tina have disparate notions of marriage. Tony sees it as a carefree extended love affair, while Tina sees it as a solemn commitment to build a family and a home.
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| disperse | v. scatter | The police fired tear gas into the crowd to disperse the protesters.
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| disputatious | adj. argumenative; fond of arguing | Convincerd he knew more than his lawyers, Alan was a disputatious client, ready to argue about the best way to conduct the case.
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| disseminate | v. distribute; spread; scatter (like seeds) | By their use of the internet, propagandists have been able to disseminate their pet doctrines to new audiences around the globe.
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| dissent | v. disagree | In the Supreme Court decision, Justice O'Connor dissented from the majority opinion.
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| distend | v. expand; swell out | I can tell when he is under stress by the way his veins distend on his forehead.
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| divergent | adj. differing, deviating | Since graduating from medical school, the two doctors have taken divergent paths, one going on to become a nationally prominent surgeon, the other dedicating hinself to a small family practice in his home town.
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| doctrine | n. teachings, in general; particular principle (religious, legal, etc) taught | He was so committed to the doctrines of his faith that he was unable to evaluate them impartially.
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| document | v. provide written evidence | She kept all the receipts from her business trip in order to document her expenses for the firm.
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| dogmatic | adj. opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal | We tried to discourage Doug from being so dogmatic, but never could convince him that his opinions might be wrong.
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| dubious | adj. questionable; filled with doubt | Many critics of the SAT contend the test is of dubious worthj. Jay claimed he could get a perfect 2400 on the new SAT, but Ellen was dubious; she knew he hadn't cracked a book in three years.
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| dupe | n. someone easily fooled | While the gullible Watson often was made a dupe by unscrupulous parties, Sherlock Holmes was far more difficult to fool.
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| duplicity | n. double-dealing; hypocrisy | When Tanya learned that Mark had been two-timing her, she was furious at his duplicity.
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| discourse | n. formal discussion; conversation (also a verb) | The young Plato was drawn to the Agora to hear the philosophical discouse of Socrates and his followers.
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| diminution | n. lessening; reduction in size | Old Jack was as sharp at eighty as he had been at fifty; increasing age led to no diminution of his mental acuity.
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