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SAT 13
| Term | Definition |
|---|---|
| Archetype | a typical example of |
| Clemency | mercy |
| Disinterested | unbiased |
| Flout | defy; reject |
| Mendacious | given to lying |
| Paucity | shortage |
| Protean | changeable |
| Flustered | worked-up; not calm |
| Ingrate | ungrateful person |
| Mercenary | concerned only with money |
| Peccadillo | minor weakness; trivial offence |
| Protégé | person under protection of, or guided by another |
| Soporific | inducing sleep |
| Veneer | surface coating |
| Clientele | customers |
| Disparity | an inequality |
| Fly-by-night | unreliable; disreputable |
| Inimical | hostile |
| Mercurial | volatile; changeable |
| Pedant | person who insists on strict adherence to rules or narrow learning |
| Protocol | procedure; code of behavior |
| Sparse | spare; bare; meager |
| Venerate | revere; worship |
| Coalesce | come together; merge |
| Dispassionate | neutral; objective |
| Merge | come together |
| Pedestrian | common; mundane; banal |
| Provincial | unsophisticated; narrow-minded |
| Specious | false |
| Disseminating | circulating; broadcasting; spreading (information) |
| Fortitude | bravery |
| Peerless | without equal |
| Speckled | spotted; freckled; dotted |
| Veracity | Truthfulness |
| Misanthrope | hater of the rest of mankind |
| Perceptive | observant |
| Pyromania | compulsion to start fires |
| Vignette | small sketch |