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SAT Vocabulary #3
Terms and Definitions
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Adversary | An enemy, opponent |
| Alienate | To turn away; to make indifferent or hostile; to transfer, convey |
| Artifice | A skill or ingenious device; a clever trick; clever skill; trickery |
| Coerce | To compel, force |
| Craven | Cowardly; A coward |
| Culinary | Of or related to cooking or to the kitchen |
| Delete | To erase, wipe out, cut out |
| Demise | A death, especially of a person in a lofty position |
| Exhilarate | To enliven, cheer, give spirit or liveliness |
| Fallow | Plowed but not seeded; inactive; reddish-yellow; Land left unseeded; To plow but not seed |
| Harass | To disturb, worry; to trouble by repeated attacks |
| Inclement | Stormy, harsh; severe in attitude or action |
| Muse | To think about in a dreamy way, ponder |
| Negligible | So unimportant that it can be disregarded |
| Perpetuate | To make permanent or long lasting |
| Precedent | An example that may serve as a basis for imitation or later action |
| Punitive | Inflicting or aiming at punishment |
| Redress | To set right, remedy; Relief from wrong or injury |
| Sojourn | A temporary stay; To stay for a time |
| Urbane | Refined in a manner or style, suave |