SAT Hot Words
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| prudent | careful
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| profound | wise, deep
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| felicitous | well chosen
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| reconcile | to reach an agreement
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| dubious | doubtful
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| futile | useless
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| indignant | annoyed
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| vindicate | to prove something right
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| ambiguous | unclear
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| ambivalent | undecided
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| rhetoric | impressive
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| ephemeral | short lived
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| spurious | not genuine
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| mundane | relating to everday life
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| impetuous | rash, impulsive
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| repudiate | to reject completely
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| definitive | settling a dispute finally
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| debunk | to prove false
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| digress | to wander away from the subject
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| incongruous | not fitting
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| diffident | lacking confidence, shy
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| inconsequential | not worth noticing
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| assert | to claim
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| foster | to promote
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| prosaic | ordinary, matter of fact
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| substantiate | to offer supporting evidence
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| illusory | deceptive
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| nostalgia | fondness for and missing the past
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| polemical | arguing a position
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| belie | to contradict
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| compromised | to make insecure
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| disdain | despise, something beneath oneself
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| presumption | a bold assumption
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| caustic | burning, sarcastic
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| deferential | respectful
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| subjective | open to interpretation
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| capricious | unpredictable
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| endorse | to support
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| auspicious | promising, favorable
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| exacerbate | to worsen
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| obscure | dark, unclear
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| dogmatic | stubbornly opinionated
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| venerate | to honor above others
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| gregarious | friendly, outgoing
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| tenacious | persistent
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| mediate | to help reach an agreement
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| meticulous | careful
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| negligible | unimportant
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| equanimity | calm
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| mitigate | to lesson the severity of something, to alleviate
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| transitory | brief
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| immutable | unchanging
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| evoke | to inspire
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| cursory | hurried or superficial
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| rancor | extremely bad feelings about something
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| intuitive | knowing by instinct rather than by rational thought
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| satirize | to mock
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| devoid | lacking
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| erroneous | wrong
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| thwart | to block or impede
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| implement | to put into practice
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| underscore | to emphasize
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| explicate | to explain or analyze logically
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| exasperate | to annoy someone to the point of frustration
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| pertinent | important
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| conspicuous | obvious
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| pervasive | appearing or being everywhere
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| prophetic | foretelling events
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| cynical | looking at the bad side of things, pesimistic
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| tenuous | thin
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| innate | inherited
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| explicit | clearly stated
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| patronize | to treat rudely
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| exacting | demanding
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| contentious | to fight
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| conscientious | careful
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| deter | to prevent
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| champion | to support
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| pedantic | overly academic, being a stickler for academic correctness
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| wary | cautious
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| adept | skillful
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| anachronistic | out of date
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| heresy | a statement
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| detached | unemotional
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| complement | to fit well with
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| intrepid | brave
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| proponent | a supporter
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| reprehensible | deserving great blame
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| extol | to praise highly
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