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SAT Vocabulary
SAT Vocabulary pt 10
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| hamper | prevent the progress or free movement of |
| hindrance | any obstruction that impedes or is burdensome |
| hostility | a state of deep-seated ill-will |
| immutable | not subject or susceptible to change or variation |
| impair | make worse or less effective |
| incorporate | make into a whole or make part of a whole |
| indict | accuse formally of a crime |
| inherent | existing as an essential constituent or characteristic |
| inimical | not friendly |
| intransigent | impervious to pleas, persuasion, requests, or reason |
| intricacy | the quality of having elaborately complex detail |
| meek | humble in spirit or manner |
| merit | the quality of being deserving |
| metamorphosis | (n) a change in form or shape, often from one stage of development to another, as a caterpillar turning into a butterfly |
| minimize | (v) to make as small as possible |
| nonchalance | the trait of remaining calm and seeming not to care |
| notorious | (adj) widely known but viewed negatively or critically |
| opprobrious | expressing offensive reproach |
| optimist | a person disposed to take a favorable view of things |
| pare | strip the skin off |
| pariah | a person who is rejected from society or home |
| perpetual | continuing forever or indefinitely |
| persist | refuse to stop |
| point | a distinguishing or individuating characteristic |
| portend | indicate by signs |