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SAT 8
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Amity | friendship |
| Castigate | scold strongly |
| Destitution | hardship; poverty; misery |
| Expedient | convenient; practical |
| Incantation | chant; invocation; prayer |
| Lynch | assassinate; kill; illegal hanging |
| Overt | obvious; not hidden |
| Sanguine | optimistic; cheerful |
| Ubiquitous | found everywhere; omnipresent |
| Amorphous | lacking in shape |
| Catharsis | purging of pent-up emotions |
| Deter | put off; prevent |
| Incarceration | putting in prison |
| Machinations | plots and plans |
| Overwrought | worked up; in an emotional state |
| Preeminent | famous; outstanding |
| Sardonic | mocking |
| Unalloyed | undiluted; total |
| Analgesic | medicine to combat pain |
| Caucus | type of private political meeting |
| Exposition | clear explanation |
| Prerogative | right or privilege |
| Savant | person with knowledge |
| Unctuous | oily; using excessive flattery |
| Analogous | comparable |
| Caustic | burning |
| Detrimental | harmful |
| Incipient | just beginning |
| Magnanimous | generous; big-hearted |
| Palisade | fence made of posts |
| Prescient | having fore-knowledge |
| Scale | to climb |
| Anarchy | chaos; lack of government |
| Cavalcade | procession of vehicles |
| Devoured | greedily eaten/consumed |
| Extradite | deport from one country back to the home country |
| Inclination | tendency; a leaning toward |
| Magnate | powerful businessman |
| Palliative | a remedy that improves but doesn't cure |