Castle Juniors SAT Vocabulary #3
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| Ambiguous | Able to interpret in more than one way; not clear.
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| Dissident | A person oppossed to establish ideas or beliefs; especially in politics.
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| Embellish | To decorate, to beautify by adornment; to enhance (a statement or narrative) with fictitious additions.
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| Fritter | To spend or waste a little at a time. To break or tear into small pieces or shreds.
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| Inadvertent | Unintentional; accidental
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| Inane | without sense or meaning; foolish
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| Juxtapose | To place close together; compare or contrast
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| lethargy | a great lack of energy; inactivity due to laziness
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| Sporadic | Happening now and then
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| Subsidize | To support financially; provide a grant or contribution.
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| ambiguous | Unclear, obscure, vague
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| dissident | a rebel, a dissenter, heretic
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| embellish | to decorate, ornamentation; ornament;
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| fritter | to waste, to dwindle, shrink, degenerate, to break into fragments
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| inadvertent | Unintentional, not attentive; heedless inattentive, thoughtless, careless, negligent.
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| sporadic | Irregular, on and off, infrequently, intermittent, periodic
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| subsidize | to pay for to back, to capitalize, to finance, to fund, to grubstake, to stake, to bankroll, to put up money for
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| inane | silly empty; void, pointless.
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| juxtapose | to put side by side, compare, contrast
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| lethargy | Inactivity -- sluggishness, , apathy lassitude, torpor, torpidity, stupor, languor
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| Her answer was so _________, I could tell she really did not know the answer. | ambiguous
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| The ____________ voiced his objections to the angry crowd. | dissident
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| If you ________ your story too much your mother will catch your lie. | embellish
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| Please do not ________ away your time. | fritter
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| His errors were ____________, he was not really paying attention. | inadvertent
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| The silly student continuously interrupts the class with _________ comments. | inane
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| The writer __________ satire with tragedy in his essay. | juxtaposed
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| Growing teens who skimp on sleep can usually be recognized by their __________ in school. | lethargy
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| His attendance was so __________ that I feared he would never graduate from college. | sporadic
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| My mother helped _________ my rent in college so I only needed a part-time job. | subsidize
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