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TiennyBier SAT 11
| Words | Definition |
|---|---|
| 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. |