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sat vocabualry
| word | definition |
|---|---|
| dubious | uncertain |
| singular | special |
| sanctimonious | phony holy |
| preempt | to replace by prior arrangement |
| frenetic | frantic |
| immutable | unchangeable |
| affinity | natural attraction |
| transient | on the move |
| vindictive | to be spiteful |
| exigent | urgent |
| facile | easily done |
| precedent | something that comes before something else |
| concord | harmony |
| willful | headstrong |
| precipitate | to bring about |
| fauna | animals |
| rigorous | exacting |
| illicit | forbidden |
| reprove | to criticize |
| capitulate | surrender |
| robust | strong |
| coalesce | to merge |
| superficial | to be shallow |
| scrutinize | to examine |
| aptitude | a natural ability |
| obfuscate | to make unclear |
| mundane | ordinary |
| harbinger | a forerunner |
| circumspect | cautious |
| approbation | praise |
| static | not moving |
| anarchy | lawlessness |
| colloquial | informal |
| hermetic | airtight |
| expedite | facilitate |
| impervious | unable to be penetrated |
| apartheid | a rigid policy of racial segregation |
| edify | to uplift |
| fetter | to restrain |
| connoisseur | someone who has refined taste in a given area |
| compelling | forceful |
| paradox | self-contradiction |
| despot | a tyrant |
| erudite | scholarly |
| deprecate | to deplore |
| vocation | a calling |
| auspicious | promising |
| languish | to experience prolonged |
| credulous | gullible |
| decorous | proper |
| consumate | extermly skillful |
| categorical | unconditional |
| malaise | a sense of lethargy and unease |
| awry | off course |
| platitude | a trite |
| destitute | extremely poor |
| extrovert | outgoing |
| ephemeral | short lived |
| callow | immature |
| malleable | easy to shape or mold |
| legacy | something inherited or passed down |
| discriminate | to make a distinction |
| monolithic | the idea of massiveness and the idea of being all of one piece |
| abject | hopeless |
| vitriolic | caustic |
| beset | to be besieged |
| renounce | to give it up |
| matriculate | to enroll |
| convivial | festive |
| venerate | to honor |
| contiguous | adjoining |
| arbitrary | unfair |
| pristine | pure |
| succinct | concise |
| farcical | absurd |
| nepotism | the practice of showing favoritism to relatives or close friends in business or politics |
| cogent | persuasive |
| rustic | rural |
| doctrinaire | to be dogmatic |
| vitiate | to pollute |
| uniform | consistent |
| coherent | to be understandable |
| transgress | to violate a law |
| stagnation | lack of movement that also implies staleness |
| onerous | burdensome |
| covert | secret |
| adulation | excessive |
| discern | to distinguish |
| genteel | refined |
| demagogue | a rubble-rouser |
| comprehensive | to be complete |
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