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TiennyBier SAT 11
Words | Definition |
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beguile | vo to influence by trickery, flattery, etc.; mislead; delude. |
gullible | a easily deceived or cheated. |
resolute | a firmly resolved or determined; set in purpose or opinion. |
revere | vo to regard with respect tinged with awe; venerate |
venerate | vo to regard or treat with reverence; revere. |
esteem | vo to regard highly or favorably; regard with respect or admiration |
embezzle | vo to appropriate fraudulently to one's own use, as money or property entrusted to one's care. |
bifurcate | vo,vw to divide or fork into two branches. |
reverse | a opposite or contrary in position, direction, order, or character |
irreversible | a not reversible incapable of being changed |
avarice | n insatiable greed for riches; inordinate, miserly desire to gain and hoard wealth. |
greed | n excessive or rapacious desire, especially for wealth or possessions. |
cupidity | n eager or excessive desire, especially to possess something; greed; avarice. |
emaciated | vo to make abnormally lean or thin by a gradual wasting away of flesh. |
corpulent | a large or bulky of body; portly; stout; fat. |
culinary | a of, pertaining to, or used in cooking or the kitchen. |
glutton | n a person who eats and drinks excessively or voraciously. |
bulimia | n abnormally voracious appetite or unnaturally constant hunger. |
anorexia | n loss of appetite and inability to eat. |
dyslexia | n any of various reading disorders associated with impairment of the ability to interpret spatial relationships or to integrate auditory and visual information. |
symbiotic | n the living together of two dissimilar organisms, as in mutualism, commensalism, amensalism, or parasitism. |
avuncular | a of, pertaining to, or characteristic of an uncle |
filial | a of, pertaining to, or befitting a son or daughter |
antipode | n a direct or exact opposite. |
compromise | n a settlement of differences by mutual concessions; an agreement reached by adjustment of conflicting or opposing claims, principles, etc., by reciprocal modification of demands. |
dichotomy | n division into two parts, kinds, etc.; subdivision into halves or pairs. |