Soph. ACT words 1-15
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| temper | to moderate, to soften
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| sage | wise person
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| sagacious | wise
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| lethargic | tired, languid, weak
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| mitigate | to make milder, less severe
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| jeopardy | danger
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| orthodox | standard, commonly accepted, conventional
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| taciturn | quiet, saying little
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| dogmatic | strongly opinionated
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| extraneous | irrelevant, extra, unnecessary
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| meander | to wander randomly
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| insipid | bland, boring, tasteless
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| fickle | unpredictable, capricious, whimsical, changeable
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| scrutinize | to examine closely
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| innocuous | harmless
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| blasphemy | heretical departure from accepted practice or belief
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| esoteric | understood by only a few
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| pretentious | pompous, self-important, intending to seem impressive
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| ameliorate | to make feel better; to improve
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| avarice | greed
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| blithe | free-spirited, carefree
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| hedonistic | pleasure-seeking, indulgent, devoted to pleasure
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| slander | to defame, to speak maliciously of someone
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| amass | to accumulate; to pile up
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| fortuitous | accidental happening by chance or luck
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| hackneyed | overused, trite, banal, repeated too often
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