501 sat vocabulary tests meanings by word

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501 SAT Vocabulary Tests 5010 Meanings by Word

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Test 1/words: enlighten, enamor, advert, maritime, genitive, creamery ......................

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Test 2/words: inmost, raucous, reflectible, lenient, immaculate ............................

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Test 3/words: preoccupation, obesity, pomposity, excellency, sarcasm .......................

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Test 4/words: recapture, bereave, legalize, sacrifice, manumit .............................

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Test 5/words: head foremost, nowadays, secondly, naturally, finally ........................

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Test 6/words: impute, paragon, plenteous, nauseous, irreducible ............................

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Test 7/words: incompressible, loath, premier, prolix, thermoelectric .......................

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Test 8/words: foreigner, amour, sergeant, antiphony, disavowal .............................

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Test 9/words: extradite, encroach, engross, overpay, elapse ................................

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Test 10/words: verbatim, severely, forthright, forby, inchmeal, afoot ......................

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Test 11/words: impiety, knavery, predecessor, cat-o-nine-tails .............................

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Test 12/words: narrow-minded, nasal, sympathetic, usurious .................................

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Test 13/words: momentum, discord, impertinence, ultimatum, auricle .........................

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Test 14/words: atone, ameliorate, prefix, promenade, efface, bedeck ........................

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Test 15/words: inwardly, readily, therefor, head first, dimly, anew ........................

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Test 16/words: liquefy, inebriate, hosiery, philosophize, instance .........................

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Test 17/words: vernal, alienable, pugnacious, resurgent, agile .............................

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Test 18/words: typography, huckster, persistence, impatience ...............................

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Test 19/words: imbibe, reign, capitulate, jeopardize, incarcerate ..........................

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Test 20/words: consecutive, transcript, wiry, solicitor, bombardier ........................

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Test 21/words: pandemic, insular, decapod, reducible, infrequent ...........................

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Test 22/words: premonition, oration, piece, benediction, furtherance .......................

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Test 23/words: quadrate, abrade, crystallize, bombard, sibilate ............................

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Test 24/words: proffer, repress, hydrodynamics, equalize, phonology ........................

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Test 25/words: frantic, tentative, insatiable, inland, conjugate ...........................

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Test 26/words: virago, homophone, diversion, regalia, efficacy .............................

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Test 27/words: devise, rejuvenate, consummate, cull, extrude, recure .......................

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Test 28/words: crustaceous, prominent, pare, pauper, bray ..................................

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Test 29/words: diaphanous, unique, succinct, accursed, repressible .........................

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Test 30/words: preexistence, decaliter, judgment, bumper, symphony .........................

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Test 31/words: obviate, transfuse, overleap, retrace, purloin ..............................

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Test 32/words: workmanship, pervasion, inarticulate, incipient .............................

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Test 33/words: impartial, unicellular, perceptible, complex, ichthyic ......................

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Test 34/words: expense, breach, demurrage, conscience, efficiency ..........................

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Test 35/words: writhe, aggravate, transmit, evanesce, refer, disown ........................

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Test 36/words: network, opinion, monotonous, transcontinental ..............................

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Test 37/words: impersonal, immaterial, didactic, gallant, convergent .......................

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Test 38/words: metaphysics, pledger, decency, reversion, antitoxin .........................

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Test 39/words: pollute, enrapture, repel, attest, stifle, ingraft ..........................

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Test 40/words: parley, felicity, buffoon, numeration, chromatic ............................

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Test 41/words: permissible, vindicative, pectoral, impure, galore ..........................

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Test 42/words: confinement, subsistence, vinery, mausoleum .................................

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Test 43/words: reunite, consolidate, avow, forfend, luxuriate ..............................

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Test 44/words: inadequate, radiance, nit, neology, alcohol .................................

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Test 45/words: audible, sumptuous, impassible, lifelong, creamy ............................

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Test 46/words: seignior, penitence, abyss, moderator, cosmos, theism .......................

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Test 47/words: mimic, exhaust, assimilate, uproot, exhale, comprise ........................

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Test 48/words: energetic, erratic, redolence, blase, beneficial ............................

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Test 49/words: inflammable, paronymous, transfusible, miniature ............................

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Test 50/words: confessor, emigrant, monopoly, plagiarism, vegetation .......................

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Test 51/words: necessitate, exasperate, squabble, despond, readjust ........................

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Test 52/words: liking, pantoscope, egotism, invert, mystification ..........................

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Test 53/words: coniferous, phenomenal, explosive, sheer, curable ...........................

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Test 54/words: magnificence, denouement, prohibition, monitory .............................

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Test 55/words: misrule, interrogate, maltreat, exorcise, infuse ............................

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Test 56/words: drachma, intoxicate, success, reluctant, principality .......................

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Test 57/words: negligent, blatant, exhaustible, laborious, inedible ........................

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Test 58/words: logic, formation, sufficiency, assonance, transmission ......................

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Test 59/words: butt, explicate, satirize, ascribe, inveigh, appertain ......................

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Test 60/words: insolence, intangible, scribble, disciple, curtsy ...........................

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Test 61/words: racy, transalpine, descendent, norman, impermissible ........................

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Test 62/words: devilry, alchemy, nectarine, finality, despot ...............................

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Test 63/words: deplete, bestride, prickle, emaciate, vociferate ............................

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Test 64/words: sinuosity, transplant, divulgence, disavow, negate ..........................

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Test 65/words: indescribable, referable, obsequious, proficient ............................

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Test 66/words: executor, dead-heat, aperture, undergarment, attache ........................

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Test 67/words: obvert, resuscitate, navigate, arbitrate, preexist ..........................

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Test 68/words: endurance, flatulence, posse, sensuous, subservience ........................

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Test 69/words: volant, illogical, resonance, vendible, pleasurable .........................

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Test 70/words: midsummer, retinue, edict, regime, coronation, sequel .......................

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Test 71/words: protrude, absolve, frizz, molt, expand, joust ...............................

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Test 72/words: triennial, penitential, nutritive, blithesome ...............................

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Test 73/words: insecure, primeval, transatlantic, excusable, tolerant ......................

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Test 74/words: metempsychosis, progression, vivacity, siege, protege .......................

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Test 75/words: mismanage, disqualify, stultify, gamble, perjure, fuse ......................

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Test 76/words: subside, steppe, ballad, ungainly, depreciation .............................

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Test 77/words: multiform, consonant, euphonious, cardinal, fabulous ........................

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Test 78/words: witticism, decagon, resource, clairvoyance, pendulum ........................

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Test 79/words: deface, amalgamate, aggress, telescope, disinfect ...........................

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Test 80/words: betimes, hideous, emergent, palpable, mystic, tribune .......................

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Test 81/words: defensive, inefficient, buoyant, intracellular ..............................

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Test 82/words: inspector, flection, statecraft, kerchief, veto .............................

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Test 83/words: speculate, disrobe, collide, overrun, adduce ................................

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Test 84/words: tutelar, calculable, unlawful, outburst, parlor .............................

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Test 85/words: untimely, inaudible, liquefacient, productive ...............................

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Test 86/words: tact, tactician, entirety, ardor, bitterness, bursar ........................

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Test 87/words: officiate, deluge, oversee, expend, vaccinate ...............................

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Test 88/words: sensibility, furlough, dendrology, clothier, unctuous .......................

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Test 89/words: achillean, prefatory, salacious, duteous, conciliatory ......................

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Test 90/words: homonym, anglo-saxon, culprit, renaissance, salutation ......................

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Test 91/words: minimize, ensnare, dominate, translate, palliate ............................

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Test 92/words: mawkish, teem, intemperance, visage, menace, navel ..........................

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Test 93/words: nefarious, putrescent, immense, solar, intestate ............................

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Test 94/words: carcass, quantity, tack, palinode, armada ...................................

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Test 95/words: relish, defraud, impoverish, fray, badger, satiate ..........................

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Test 96/words: consulate, outdo, expiate, imperfectible, regnant ...........................

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Test 97/words: ramose, nimble, subtle, doleful, discreet, insensible .......................

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Test 98/words: heritage, ground, miscreant, ablution, specialty ............................

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Test 99/words: recreate, misunderstand, inquire, impede, detrude ...........................

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Test 100/words: credulous, zodiac, fruition, brooch, intercessor ...........................

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Test 101/words: impalpable, corporate, proportionate, submarine ............................

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Test 102/words: scintilla, sirocco, principle, elusion, rein, sol ..........................

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Test 103/words: reinstate, differentiate, befriend, pommel, nestle .........................

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Test 104/words: inaccurate, conversion, gait, sisterhood, unconscious ......................

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Test 105/words: innumerable, meddlesome, gigantic, lustrous ................................

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Test 106/words: upheaval, irruption, forepeak, committal, replica ..........................

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Test 107/words: emulate, recover, constrict, safeguard, circulate ..........................

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Test 108/words: neo-darwinism, savage, multiplicity, glazier ...............................

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Test 109/words: orthogonal, slight, migratory, inexplicable ................................

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Test 110/words: dedication, ostracism, sanctity, aura, likelihood ..........................

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Test 111/words: recline, revoke, recruit, disarrange, accept ...............................

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Test 112/words: coincidence, reconsider, lattice, peter, further ...........................

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Test 113/words: pompous, disreputable, quixotic, transferable, venous ......................

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Test 114/words: thrall, adjuration, tannery, biography, determination ......................

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Test 115/words: inscribe, undulate, narrate, recede, bide, annotate ........................

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Test 116/words: intermittent, dictum, boll, mesmerize, brigade .............................

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Test 117/words: generic, satiric, antispasmodic, impassable ................................

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Test 118/words: muleteer, optic, bolero, grantor, bedlam, anticyclone ......................

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Test 119/words: persist, obliterate, captivate, bedaub, patter .............................

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Test 120/words: sentinel, undervalue, malaria, philanthropic ...............................

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Test 121/words: patronymic, angular, amphibious, definite, laxative ........................

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Test 122/words: protoplasm, furrier, apothecary, denizen, shuffle ..........................

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Test 123/words: derive, alleviate, penetrate, enumerate, liberate ..........................

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Test 124/words: decimal, physiography, gumption, junta, needy ..............................

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Test 125/words: psychic, indivisible, penetrable, tangible .................................

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Test 126/words: abidance, gratification, acreage, absorption, fez ..........................

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Test 127/words: encamp, inhibit, believe, retaliate, outlive, forerun ......................

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Test 128/words: hydrometer, compliment, phenomenon, vaudeville, irk ........................

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Test 129/words: triple, herbivorous, extemporaneous, pulmonary .............................

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Test 130/words: carnage, conceit, criterion, procrastination, languor ......................

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Test 131/words: migrate, equivocate, intimidate, overeat, blazon ...........................

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Test 132/words: normalcy, lackadaisical, martial, possession ...............................

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Test 133/words: subsequent, diplomatic, unspeakable, poignant ..............................

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Test 134/words: faun, apostle, anteroom, derrick, scarcity, lawgiver .......................

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Test 135/words: posit, discolor, abet, preestablish, subjugate .............................

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Test 136/words: contiguous, expedient, accede, diabolic, loquacious ........................

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Test 137/words: cognizant, absent-minded, amorous, infirm, peerless ........................

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Test 138/words: extravagance, epitome, ascension, encyclopedia .............................

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Test 139/words: incapacitate, subvert, journalize, federate ................................

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Test 140/words: violation, vignette, alcove, circumscribe, unbiased ........................

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Test 141/words: apparent, graceless, navigable, typical ....................................

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Test 142/words: perseverance, nil, misnomer, supplicant, quarto ............................

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Test 143/words: agitate, materialize, defalcate, eject, corrode ............................

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Test 144/words: renovate, exigency, decamp, profile, denomination ..........................

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Test 145/words: inconceivable, peccant, auriferous, treasonable ............................

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Test 146/words: corroboration, buoyancy, writing, polemics, keepsake .......................

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Test 147/words: grapple, entangle, tolerate, prate, deviate, dissever ......................

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Test 148/words: stratagem, delusion, poetics, scythe, bric-a-brac ..........................

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Test 149/words: tantamount, festive, futile, festal, auburn ................................

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Test 150/words: madonna, valedictorian, tilth, misdeed, regiment ...........................

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Test 151/words: deform, rue, decapitate, antipathize, modernize ............................

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Test 152/words: perception, distention, evolve, kind-hearted ...............................

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Test 153/words: archaic, corporal, provident, peripatetic, nomic ...........................

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Test 154/words: hesitancy, shriek, plurality, papacy, tripod ...............................

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Test 155/words: accumulate, disinherit, arrogate, assassinate ..............................

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Test 156/words: pseudonymity, illegitimate, misogyny, maleficent ...........................

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Test 157/words: hard-hearted, imaginary, plenary, earnest ..................................

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Test 158/words: drainage, octave, incisor, excrescence, kilometer ..........................

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Test 159/words: guzzle, immerse, retract, unsettle, inure, clarify .........................

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Test 160/words: supernatural, voluble, bureau, cosmology, dermatology ......................

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Test 161/words: invalid, timorous, logical, medieval, scriptural ...........................

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Test 162/words: locomotion, inroad, monotone, integrity, pseudapostle ......................

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Test 163/words: regale, excel, misrepresent, fulminate, emerge .............................

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Test 164/words: defray, noticeable, panorama, ministry, propeller ..........................

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Test 165/words: immune, omnipotent, fusible, unbridled, pertinent ..........................

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Test 166/words: metamorphosis, trestle, conduit, chateau, plumb ............................

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Test 167/words: usurp, nettle, emit, explode, reseat, botanize .............................

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Test 168/words: plutocracy, geology, systematic, extort, vigilant ..........................

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Test 169/words: preponderant, delirious, mischievous, apposite .............................

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Test 170/words: optimism, preservation, defamation, virtu, bristle .........................

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Test 171/words: deduce, dissipate, persevere, muffle, rehabilitate .........................

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Test 172/words: skirmish, adherence, avert, culvert, riddance ..............................

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Test 173/words: canine, significant, receivable, querulous .................................

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Test 174/words: sleight, parable, fallacy, unison, creak, mockery ..........................

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Test 175/words: confiscate, convalesce, loathe, evict, juggle, infest ......................

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Test 176/words: inversion, vindicatory, equitable, proficiency .............................

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Test 177/words: privy, staid, bountiful, indispensable, precipitant ........................

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Test 178/words: incentive, employer, magnitude, gaiety, hussar .............................

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Test 179/words: protuberate, overreach, overstride, facilitate .............................

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Test 180/words: tranquility, equestrian, percolate, fathom .................................

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Test 181/words: inviolable, sequacious, abdominal, well-bred, spinous ......................

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Test 182/words: chasm, plasticity, heterogeneity, privateer ................................

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Test 183/words: transgress, vitalize, legislate, effervesce, forego ........................

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Test 184/words: reconstruct, tactics, voala, betrothal, outbreak ...........................

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Test 185/words: unaffected, desultory, edible, venal, indiscreet ...........................

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Test 186/words: aspirant, anthracite, plenipotentiary, cajolery ............................

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Test 187/words: precede, savor, wrest, illumine, eschew, perambulate .......................

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Test 188/words: reflection, probity, faulty, rhapsody, stagnate ............................

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Test 189/words: principal, hibernian, impervious, formidable, gaseous ......................

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Test 190/words: trepidation, sycophant, soldier, personnel, contusion ......................

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Test 191/words: resonate, negotiate, coincide, commingle, evince ...........................

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Test 192/words: polygamy, propriety, opportunist, rapid, impious ...........................

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Test 193/words: tangent, subservient, paternal, reckless, inexpensive ......................

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Test 194/words: truism, earthenware, requiem, conflagration, dialect .......................

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Test 195/words: militate, maroon, surfeit, ought, designate, trisect .......................

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Test 196/words: superfluity, outpost, metropolis, acidify, armory ..........................

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Test 197/words: isothermal, outrageous, confident, oral, momentary .........................

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Test 198/words: duckling, plenitude, presentiment, overtone ................................

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Test 199/words: gesticulate, mutilate, discountenance, confide .............................

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Test 200/words: belittle, quackery, gravity, guinea, tolerable .............................

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Test 201/words: inexpressible, vincible, finite, ominous, implausible ......................

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Test 202/words: medley, lexicography, simile, sarcophagus, obelisk .........................

228

Test 203/words: bustle, enrage, implicate, degenerate, dissect .............................

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Test 204/words: repine, antediluvian, inundation, treachery, balsam ........................

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Test 205/words: fluential, non-existent, ubiquitous, heathenish ............................

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Test 206/words: enormity, callosity, audition, opponent, pedigree ..........................

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Test 207/words: adhere, humiliate, annex, demolish, upheave, overdo ........................

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Test 208/words: platitude, alluvion, qualification, dismount, mongrel ......................

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Test 209/words: memorable, munificent, exemplary, insufficient .............................

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Test 210/words: modernity, ailment, arrangement, extensor, photometer ......................

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Test 211/words: predict, embezzle, irradiate, scuttle, reestablish .........................

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Test 212/words: bigamist, abase, countercharge, indestructible .............................

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Test 213/words: tenacious, curt, extinct, partible, hereditary .............................

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Test 214/words: paradox, queue, intension, ingenuity, beneficiary ..........................

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Test 215/words: mislay, recant, fortify, cite, maneuver, inhume ............................

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Test 216/words: overproduction, sylph, fabricate, comical, brogue ..........................

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Test 217/words: agrarian, conjugal, eloquent, hexangular, covert ...........................

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Test 218/words: autarchy, expulsion, havoc, planisphere, domicile ..........................

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Test 219/words: confront, wreak, specialize, circumnavigate, miscount ......................

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Test 220/words: desistance, grindstone, acetic, congeal, stature ...........................

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Test 221/words: nomad, sidereal, merciless, suggestive, nestling ...........................

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Test 222/words: gynecology, prototype, pollen, compulsion, critique ........................

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Test 223/words: ossify, radiate, interact, disengage, enshrine .............................

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Test 224/words: secondary, extempore, travesty, submerge, verity ...........................

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Test 225/words: mountainous, obnoxious, able-bodied, metaphysical ..........................

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Test 226/words: forefather, omission, disunion, spherometer, iciness .......................

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Test 227/words: replenish, vitiate, brandish, embark, disarm, orate ........................

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Test 228/words: aristocrat, incomparable, philanthropy, hesitant ...........................

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Test 229/words: unconscionable, bulbous, natal, beneficent, prima ..........................

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Test 230/words: polyarchy, theocrasy, pentathlon, importation ..............................

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Test 231/words: invigorate, cipher, immortalize, henpeck, vie ..............................

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Test 232/words: prehension, elegy, violoncello, inefficiency, donor ........................

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Test 233/words: incandescent, foreign, reflexible, profuse, effective ......................

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Test 234/words: regicide, antipodes, abbess, perigee, acknowledgment .......................

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Test 235/words: disquiet, counteract, gnash, pall, baffle ..................................

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Test 236/words: forejudge, exhaustion, panel, foresee, parisian ............................

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Test 237/words: vituperable, laudable, bibulous, separable, sequent ........................

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Test 238/words: monogamy, reluctance, midwife, material, triumvir ..........................

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Test 239/words: emigrate, reorganize, extinguish, rescind, patronize .......................

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Test 240/words: aye, noxious, prohibitionist, unlimited, dispensation ......................

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Test 241/words: termagant, involuntary, epicurean, feminine, meager ........................

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Test 242/words: corps, euphemism, underling, probation, submittal ..........................

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Test 243/words: contrive, compensate, perceive, deceive, superadd ..........................

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Test 244/words: coddle, cursive, lithotype, invariable, superheat ..........................

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Test 245/words: eleemosynary, fickle, sedulous, unbearable .................................

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Test 246/words: physique, seance, avidity, conservatory, aberration ........................

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Test 247/words: indict, philander, moralize, isolate, enjoin ...............................

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Test 248/words: editorial, quarterly, came, kinsfolk, irrigant .............................

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Test 249/words: gregarious, pestilent, urban, manlike, lifelike ............................

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Test 250/words: lieu, symmetry, bronchitis, presumption, repartee ..........................

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Test 251/words: rearrange, embody, perspire, misapprehend, placate .........................

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Test 252/words: territorial, overshadow, abrogate, omniscient, rotary ......................

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Test 253/words: antislavery, irate, accessible, ineffable, baritone ........................

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Test 254/words: casualty, flora, assassination, cohesion, literacy .........................

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Test 255/words: confer, seize, relent, demonstrate, connote, denote ........................

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Test 256/words: despicable, tincture, solvent, fondle, theologian ..........................

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Test 257/words: exorbitant, akin, heterodox, comparable, incongruous .......................

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Test 258/words: liqueur, archbishop, insurgence, doublet, menagerie ........................

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Test 259/words: temporize, postdate, enthrall, exhilarate, endear ..........................

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Test 260/words: witling, mannerism, batter, speculator, proximately ........................

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Test 261/words: anesthetic, indelible, tremulous, mordant, unbecoming ......................

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Test 262/words: campaign, miter, mythology, bight, diagnosis ...............................

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Test 263/words: accompany, browbeat, liquidate, fumigate, diagnose .........................

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Test 264/words: antiquate, chronometer, lapse, inevitable, maze ............................

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Test 265/words: amatory, illicit, punctilious, furtive, sterling ...........................

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Test 266/words: thermoelectricity, ingratitude, rivulet, gestation .........................

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Test 267/words: secede, parse, counterbalance, estrange, cant, affect ......................

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Test 268/words: biology, percipience, evanescent, testator, sequence .......................

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Test 269/words: literal, intolerant, dissolute, indigent, puissant .........................

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Test 270/words: prudery, barcarole, radix, execration, proctor .............................

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Test 271/words: empower, concur, bolster, rebuild, misplace, frizzle .......................

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Test 272/words: advisory, vocative, moat, perhaps, rationalism .............................

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Test 273/words: coagulant, pellucid, theological, inconstant, foggy ........................

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Test 274/words: paternity, bomb, flue, archipelago, masterpiece ............................

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Test 275/words: gastric, dogma, unwise, temerity, seditious, autumnal ......................

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Test 276/words: guileless, pious, carnal, obdurate, incomplete .............................

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Test 277/words: felon, distinction, blaze, dialogue, accomplice ............................

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Test 278/words: patrimony, self-respect, embolism, dutiable, hackney .......................

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Test 279/words: penurious, volitive, imperceptible, tyrannical .............................

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Test 280/words: righteousness, diplomacy, guy, harbinger, sensorium ........................

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Test 281/words: brokerage, folio, respondent, acoustic, parricide ..........................

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Test 282/words: colloquial, undue, legislative, plebeian ...................................

308

Test 283/words: phosphorescence, pentameter, hanger-on, verification .......................

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Test 284/words: dentifrice, luscious, clan, henchman, operative ............................

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Test 285/words: deleterious, massive, neuter, auricular, impotent ..........................

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Test 286/words: virtuoso, resumption, excerpt, pantheon, drudgery ..........................

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Test 287/words: fervor, retrieve, anemometer, philanthropist ...............................

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Test 288/words: tortious, lax, analogous, effectual, quarrelsome ...........................

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Test 289/words: resemblance, aide-de-camp, forecastle, mead, exterior ......................

315

Test 290/words: alley, spheroid, distrust, collapsible, incipience .........................

316

Test 291/words: conducive, deplorable, oblong, antemundane, bleak ..........................

317

Test 292/words: lingua, ally, day-man, grotto, intestacy ...................................

318

Test 293/words: undermine, supposition, hydraulic, tireless ................................

319

Test 294/words: likely, tremendous, inverse, studious, locative ............................

320

Test 295/words: polyhedron, peccadillo, onrush, transferrer ................................

321

Test 296/words: superfluous, quarter, encourage, emblem, rejoin ............................

322

Test 297/words: intelligible, fundamental, heedless, adjutant, bodily ......................

323

Test 298/words: introgression, proletarian, lunatic, aspiration ............................

324

Test 299/words: levee, fluent, petulance, despondent, vacuum ...............................

325

Test 300/words: observant, rightful, illiberal, inadvertent ................................

326

Test 301/words: garrison, vitality, munificence, artesian well .............................

327

Test 302/words: coalescence, hernia, effervescent, impersonate .............................

328

Test 303/words: declamatory, recurrent, lacteal, temporary .................................

329

Test 304/words: epicure, introversion, rigmarole, retrospect ...............................

330

Test 305/words: lactic, bemoan, oddity, peninsular, derelict ...............................

331

Test 306/words: conclusive, egregious, disciplinary, spontaneous ...........................

332

Test 307/words: brotherhood, finesse, homogeneity, frigidarium .............................

333

Test 308/words: constellation, ardent, conferee, lyre, deponent ............................

334

Test 309/words: non-resident, comparative, paly, juicy, triplicate .........................

335

Test 310/words: vivisection, alcoholism, judiciary, accessory ..............................

336

Test 311/words: ultramundane, utmost, contemplate, vegetate, assent ........................

337

Test 312/words: correlative, desperate, irritable, malevolent ..............................

338

Test 313/words: litigant, dyne, dominance, variant, honorarium .............................

339

Test 314/words: granule, expeditious, participate, proscribe, oratory ......................

340

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Test 315/words: precise, peevish, perfectible, submersible .................................

341

Test 316/words: glimmer, millet, reprobate, proviso, egotist ...............................

342

Test 317/words: peddle, epode, fragile, theocracy, recognizance ............................

343

Test 318/words: prehensile, apprehensible, sophistical, weak-kneed .........................

344

Test 319/words: vocable, donee, sensation, lethargy, domesticity ...........................

345

Test 320/words: regenerate, foolery, accompanist, discomfort ...............................

346

Test 321/words: somber, wizen-faced, amorphous, baconian, promissory .......................

347

Test 322/words: commitment, introspection, feudalism, entreaty .............................

348

Test 323/words: anecdote, tirade, conversant, triplicity, nunnery ..........................

349

Test 324/words: tiresome, ornate, acute, sidelong, philharmonic ............................

350

Test 325/words: luxuriance, detriment, stanza, intrigue, sophism ...........................

351

Test 326/words: conjoin, mellifluous, nausea, torpor, maxim ................................

352

Test 327/words: intrepid, suspicious, ashen, anxious, cycloid ..............................

353

Test 328/words: suspension, hygiene, pontiff, kiln, reproof ................................

354

Test 329/words: convolution, tense, promiscuous, mendicant .................................

355

Test 330/words: susceptible, intolerable, anterior, subjacent ..............................

356

Test 331/words: hydrostatics, consensus, moccasin, signification ...........................

357

Test 332/words: misbehavior, chameleon, gradient, scoundrel ................................

358

Test 333/words: prescriptible, sibilant, ineligible, auditory, lewd ........................

359

Test 334/words: tableau, beau, dramatist, magistracy, coxswain .............................

360

Test 335/words: augustinian, wearisome, percipient, wholly, altruism .......................

361

Test 336/words: pusillanimous, inactive, captious, abject, plural ..........................

362

Test 337/words: magician, premise, accusation, disbeliever, testament ......................

363

Test 338/words: matrimony, predominate, outreach, eclipse ..................................

364

Test 339/words: effete, tercentenary, luminescent, comprehensive ...........................

365

Test 340/words: prowess, controller, immersion, vestment, polygon ..........................

366

Test 341/words: monosyllable, decagram, emphatic, secretive, stealth .......................

367

Test 342/words: deterrent, scrupulous, ludicrous, wee, artful ..............................

368

Test 343/words: junction, vertigo, octavo, sonata, utilitarianism ..........................

369

Test 344/words: enthrone, noisy, dogmatize, castigate, recoil ..............................

370

Test 345/words: repugnant, incompetent, harmonious, phonic, jocular ........................

371

Test 346/words: abduction, hypocrisy, juncture, folk-lore, foresight .......................

372

Test 347/words: sanctimonious, equivalent, glorious, urbanity ..............................

373

Test 348/words: juridical, sinuous, tranquil, ridiculous, amicable .........................

374

Test 349/words: anagram, pentad, rhetorician, fidelity, pageant ............................

375

Test 350/words: addle, dun, composure, sapid, subtend, brae ................................

376

Test 351/words: resplendent, extraneous, latent, telltale ..................................

377

Test 352/words: perturbation, lode, interlocutor, pledgee, actuality .......................

378

Test 353/words: incomprehensible, instill, inhospitable, transverse ........................

379

Test 354/words: polysyllable, actionable, superficial, untoward ............................

380

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Test 355/words: novellette, conjunction, antecedent, financier .............................

381

Test 356/words: insistent, audacious, reparable, prefer, ruth ..............................

382

Test 357/words: torturous, artless, syllabic, invidious, specious ..........................

383

Test 358/words: penalty, demerit, hiatus, ordnance, papyrus ................................

384

Test 359/words: durance, counter-claim, petulant, surveyor, seclusion ......................

385

Test 360/words: dendroid, enthusiastic, profligate, resistant ..............................

386

Test 361/words: chiffon, crag, prelate, cryptogram, meditation, depth ......................

387

Test 362/words: stupor, frugal, pedagogics, plaudit, calvinize .............................

388

Test 363/words: heartrending, lascivious, irksome, sprightly ...............................

389

Test 364/words: cosmogony, seminar, privity, interpolation .................................

390

Test 365/words: norm, motley, vendition, virulence, ordinal, icily .........................

391

Test 366/words: grandiloquent, cosmic, numerical, pudgy, pyrotechnic .......................

392

Test 367/words: negligence, apology, hawthorn, playwright, calvinism .......................

393

Test 368/words: intolerance, occupant, furbish, wield, prologue ............................

394

Test 369/words: pernicious, abstemious, incoercible, velvety ...............................

395

Test 370/words: perversion, inchoative, deity, cartilage, foible ...........................

396

Test 371/words: sonnet, quiescent, repute, doubly, animalcule ..............................

397

Test 372/words: anthropomorphous, punctual, diacritical, naval .............................

398

Test 373/words: finery, extension, medicine, contender, naphtha ............................

399

Test 374/words: conveyance, mercantile, supramundane, vendor, cower ........................

400

Test 375/words: clement, eligible, immeasurable, decrepit, soluble .........................

401

Test 376/words: courtesy, candor, assignee, derivation, ambulance ..........................

402

Test 377/words: ecstatic, antecede, connive, malign, obsolescent ...........................

403

Test 378/words: contemporary, morbid, unitarian, pervious, leonine .........................

404

Test 379/words: divagation, specimen, soothsayer, decasyllable, isle .......................

405

Test 380/words: chaos, deficient, sophisticate, laud, sergeant-major .......................

406

Test 381/words: conformity, tremor, dialectician, free trade, trinity ......................

407

Test 382/words: aversion, suave, uproarious, truthful, declamation .........................

408

Test 383/words: benevolence, vermin, recreant, ointment, continuity ........................

409

Test 384/words: recourse, technicality, incite, darkling, carouse ..........................

410

Test 385/words: viceroy, postscript, sphericity, absolution, militia .......................

411

Test 386/words: freemason, fulsome, resurrection, denominator ..............................

412

Test 387/words: piccolo, liniment, hypocrite, myth, infidelity .............................

413

Test 388/words: physiology, inconsiderable, abbey, craving, strait .........................

414

Test 389/words: upcast, luminosity, exemplar, overseer, transfusion ........................

415

Test 390/words: estimable, dilemma, accession, statistician, purveyor ......................

416

Test 391/words: pupilage, diplomat, antiseptic, odium, fete ................................

417

Test 392/words: apogee, append, treatise, stagnation, corroborate ..........................

418

Test 393/words: despotism, payee, electrolysis, peerage, missive ...........................

419

Test 394/words: edify, divulge, requisite, taxidermy, subaquatic ...........................

420

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Test 395/words: melodrama, rapine, narcissus, sedition, oakum ..............................

421

Test 396/words: newtonian, imitation, lordling, induct, transposition ......................

422

Test 397/words: nuance, adamant, crusade, bowler, operetta .................................

423

Test 398/words: remonstrance, coincident, burgher, monsieur, inject ........................

424

Test 399/words: heptagon, hospitality, affront, unbelief, monogram .........................

425

Test 400/words: intelligence, monotony, venison, neo-latin .................................

426

Test 401/words: personage, cadenza, counting-house, soprano, cygnet ........................

427

Test 402/words: moratorium, becalm, photoelectric, salient, genital ........................

428

Test 403/words: redemption, automaton, obsequies, antonym, reservoir .......................

429

Test 404/words: hinder, daring, variegate, legionary, onerous ..............................

430

Test 405/words: continuation, pervert, acerbity, dejection, irritant .......................

431

Test 406/words: philology, recapitulate, benefit, diffusible, imbrue .......................

432

Test 407/words: nutriment, tapestry, exclusion, freethinker, missile .......................

433

Test 408/words: ambulate, chancery, expectorate, triad, palsy ..............................

434

Test 409/words: aristocracy, bibliomania, lodgment, conspirator, loch ......................

435

Test 410/words: domination, jugglery, contingent, contrivance ..............................

436

Test 411/words: acme, loneliness, perfidy, lough, effeminacy ...............................

437

Test 412/words: rigorous, ascetic, desert, initiate, assassin ..............................

438

Test 413/words: immigrant, guise, sufferance, aerostatics, machinist .......................

439

Test 414/words: convalescence, deport, habitude, fanatic, insurgent ........................

440

Test 415/words: satyr, manufacturer, squatter, lune, carrion ...............................

441

Test 416/words: nurture, et cetera, militarism, inexcusable, secrecy .......................

442

Test 417/words: constable, theology, omnipotence, gusto, analyst ...........................

443

Test 418/words: ponder, recrudescent, cholera, obstruct, disallow ..........................

444

Test 419/words: advocacy, wile, complacence, sacrilege, exposure ...........................

445

Test 420/words: impetus, necropolis, trident, depress, rupture .............................

446

Test 421/words: secession, ampersand, emergence, nonpareil .................................

447

Test 422/words: utility, revile, recrudescence, protestant, entrench .......................

448

Test 423/words: sentence, autonomy, geniality, nectar, erudition ...........................

449

Test 424/words: sapient, remiss, statute, venerate, irreligious ............................

450

Test 425/words: intuition, sediment, predominance, gamester, jingo .........................

451

Test 426/words: obstreperous, ennoble, globular, antistrophe ...............................

452

Test 427/words: decalogue, lawmaker, sibilance, effusion, gambol ...........................

453

Test 428/words: psychotherapy, simplify, primer, depression ................................

454

Test 429/words: fief, antic, prevalence, partition, isobar, physicist ......................

455

Test 430/words: propaganda, vegetarian, cameo, eureka, adjudge .............................

456

Test 431/words: narrative, bosom, mantel, laundress, purport ...............................

457

Test 432/words: apposition, involve, acquire, requite, belle, anode ........................

458

Test 433/words: transition, expectancy, bodice, alkali, revisal ............................

459

Test 434/words: irradiance, defame, acid, transparent, cornucopia ..........................

460

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Test 435/words: affluence, inception, profession, abscission, actuary ......................

461

Test 436/words: pedagogy, olfactory, predicate, dolesome, dissatisfy .......................

462

Test 437/words: retrogression, incidence, jubilation, penetration ..........................

463

Test 438/words: origin, ichthyology, digraph, homologous, angelic ..........................

464

Test 439/words: regent, academy, convenience, justification, pioneer .......................

465

Test 440/words: debonair, digress, heredity, academic, impetuous ...........................

466

Test 441/words: surcharge, generosity, infrequence, barometer ..............................

467

Test 442/words: observance, misadventure, absence, galvanic ................................

468

Test 443/words: infusion, external, misogamy, cantonment, dexterity ........................

469

Test 444/words: abominable, beatify, engrave, ascendant, endemic ...........................

470

Test 445/words: nemesis, outcast, equilibrium, manumission, tempter ........................

471

Test 446/words: sparse, undeceive, embargo, incident, physiognomy ..........................

472

Test 447/words: impetuosity, lever, presentment, soliloquy, reliance .......................

473

Test 448/words: gluttonous, contuse, outlandish, expository, arrange .......................

474

Test 449/words: blemish, tenant, purgatory, corrosion, resilience ..........................

475

Test 450/words: conjecture, preemption, obese, tinge, remembrance ..........................

476

Test 451/words: aborigine, hypotenuse, avarice, octagon, manor .............................

477

Test 452/words: inexperience, docile, illuminant, latish, pittance .........................

478

Test 453/words: superintendent, stimulus, joggle, cadence, makeup ..........................

479

Test 454/words: heifer, promoter, antedate, linguist, entwine, expect ......................

480

Test 455/words: obstruction, course, pantomime, abstinence, monition .......................

481

Test 456/words: nugatory, credence, protuberant, nameless, degeneracy ......................

482

Test 457/words: nominee, indulgence, constituency, furlong, nonentity ......................

483

Test 458/words: atheism, pitiable, monetary, distemper, tricolor ...........................

484

Test 459/words: pantheism, aggregate, fernery, antiphon, humbug ............................

485

Test 460/words: intrusion, forcible, penury, reliant, interpreter ..........................

486

Test 461/words: atomizer, indolence, effulgence, precaution ................................

487

Test 462/words: illegible, propel, epizootic, embolden, trait ..............................

488

Test 463/words: perspicacity, bevel, biograph, dragoon, dolor ..............................

489

Test 464/words: incinerate, displace, breech, municipal, thoroughbred ......................

490

Test 465/words: allegory, gynecocracy, non-combatant, jurisdiction .........................

491

Test 466/words: asexual, hilarious, oratorio, peaceful, resistive ..........................

492

Test 467/words: statics, dilettante, dissent, abbot, paucity ...............................

493

Test 468/words: protract, by-law, overture, delineate, inseparable .........................

494

Test 469/words: death's-head, kernel, transient, municipality ..............................

495

Test 470/words: repellent, assailant, excitable, salutatory, bronchus ......................

496

Test 471/words: vicissitude, pyromania, submergence, alienation ............................

497

Test 472/words: impunity, misanthropy, titanic, congregate, fungous ........................

498

Test 473/words: divisor, brogan, equity, hypnosis, inherence ...............................

499

Test 474/words: packet, succeed, intersect, succumb, diplomatist ...........................

500

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Test 475/words: shrinkage, iridescence, epicycloid, antechamber ............................

501

Test 476/words: pertinacity, consumptive, optics, indigestible, reck .......................

502

Test 477/words: pendant, epoch, possessor, eccentricity, battalion .........................

503

Test 478/words: revert, marvel, raillery, reprehension, preternatural ......................

504

Test 479/words: insignificance, motto, hillock, freshness, narrator ........................

505

Test 480/words: injunction, gibe, interim, pungent, abnormal, assuage ......................

506

Test 481/words: collegian, fulcrum, ripplet, doe, transference .............................

507

Test 482/words: oust, fraternal, misanthropic, forth, disappear ............................

508

Test 483/words: reticence, telepathy, calvary, mien, infidel ...............................

509

Test 484/words: modish, convertible, verbiage, wittingly, maharaja .........................

510

Test 485/words: pinchers, collier, stimulant, aroma, iliad, alliance .......................

511

Test 486/words: prejudice, bibliography, sagacious, ladle, disburden .......................

512

Test 487/words: offshoot, precedence, sentience, ordeal, profiteer .........................

513

Test 488/words: disapprove, hazard, abjure, reliquary, voracious ...........................

514

Test 489/words: option, flag-officer, flux, incandescence ..................................

515

Test 490/words: fissure, venom, out-and-out, bestrew, semiannual ...........................

516

Test 491/words: altruist, retort, knighthood, consul, ancestry .............................

517

Test 492/words: progeny, irrefrangible, census, mistrust ...................................

518

Test 493/words: masquerade, distillation, palate, pillory, legislator ......................

519

Test 494/words: autonomous, idiosyncrasy, inane, adoration .................................

520

Test 495/words: allot, expostulate, low-spirited, lassie ...................................

521

Test 496/words: mnemonics, alternate, proverb, sebaceous, scholastic .......................

522

Test 497/words: siren, rote, genealogist, magisterial, left-handed .........................

523

Test 498/words: waive, vehement, reform, rectitude, bulwark, foresail ......................

524

Test 499/words: alias, reassure, bale, convulsion, illegal .................................

525

Test 500/words: ligature, perspicacious, annals, sanguine, ascent ..........................

526

Test 501/words: acridness, perpendicular, prohibitory, stagy, benison ......................

527

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528

Answer 1/words: enlighten, enamor, advert, maritime, genitive ..............................

529

Answer 2/words: inmost, raucous, reflectible, lenient, immaculate ..........................

530

Answer 3/words: preoccupation, obesity, pomposity, excellency ..............................

531

Answer 4/words: recapture, bereave, legalize, sacrifice, manumit ...........................

532

Answer 5/words: head foremost, nowadays, secondly, naturally, finally ......................

533

Answer 6/words: impute, paragon, plenteous, nauseous, irreducible ..........................

534

Answer 7/words: incompressible, loath, premier, prolix .....................................

535

Answer 8/words: foreigner, amour, sergeant, antiphony, disavowal ...........................

536

Answer 9/words: extradite, encroach, engross, overpay, elapse ..............................

537

Answer 10/words: verbatim, severely, forthright, forby, inchmeal ...........................

538

Answer 11/words: impiety, knavery, predecessor, cat-o-nine-tails ...........................

539

Answer 12/words: narrow-minded, nasal, sympathetic, usurious ...............................

540

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Answer 13/words: momentum, discord, impertinence, ultimatum, auricle .......................

541

Answer 14/words: atone, ameliorate, prefix, promenade, efface, bedeck ......................

542

Answer 15/words: inwardly, readily, therefor, head first, dimly, anew ......................

543

Answer 16/words: liquefy, inebriate, hosiery, philosophize, instance .......................

544

Answer 17/words: vernal, alienable, pugnacious, resurgent, agile ...........................

545

Answer 18/words: typography, huckster, persistence, impatience .............................

546

Answer 19/words: imbibe, reign, capitulate, jeopardize, incarcerate ........................

547

Answer 20/words: consecutive, transcript, wiry, solicitor, bombardier ......................

548

Answer 21/words: pandemic, insular, decapod, reducible, infrequent .........................

549

Answer 22/words: premonition, oration, piece, benediction ..................................

550

Answer 23/words: quadrate, abrade, crystallize, bombard, sibilate ..........................

551

Answer 24/words: proffer, repress, hydrodynamics, equalize, phonology ......................

552

Answer 25/words: frantic, tentative, insatiable, inland, conjugate .........................

553

Answer 26/words: virago, homophone, diversion, regalia, efficacy ...........................

554

Answer 27/words: devise, rejuvenate, consummate, cull, extrude .............................

555

Answer 28/words: crustaceous, prominent, pare, pauper, bray ................................

556

Answer 29/words: diaphanous, unique, succinct, accursed, repressible .......................

557

Answer 30/words: preexistence, decaliter, judgment, bumper, symphony .......................

558

Answer 31/words: obviate, transfuse, overleap, retrace, purloin ............................

559

Answer 32/words: workmanship, pervasion, inarticulate, incipient ...........................

560

Answer 33/words: impartial, unicellular, perceptible, complex ..............................

561

Answer 34/words: expense, breach, demurrage, conscience, efficiency ........................

562

Answer 35/words: writhe, aggravate, transmit, evanesce, refer, disown ......................

563

Answer 36/words: network, opinion, monotonous, transcontinental ............................

564

Answer 37/words: impersonal, immaterial, didactic, gallant .................................

565

Answer 38/words: metaphysics, pledger, decency, reversion, antitoxin .......................

566

Answer 39/words: pollute, enrapture, repel, attest, stifle, ingraft ........................

567

Answer 40/words: parley, felicity, buffoon, numeration, chromatic ..........................

568

Answer 41/words: permissible, vindicative, pectoral, impure, galore ........................

569

Answer 42/words: confinement, subsistence, vinery, mausoleum ...............................

570

Answer 43/words: reunite, consolidate, avow, forfend, luxuriate ............................

571

Answer 44/words: inadequate, radiance, nit, neology, alcohol ...............................

572

Answer 45/words: audible, sumptuous, impassible, lifelong, creamy ..........................

573

Answer 46/words: seignior, penitence, abyss, moderator, cosmos .............................

574

Answer 47/words: mimic, exhaust, assimilate, uproot, exhale, comprise ......................

575

Answer 48/words: energetic, erratic, redolence, blase, beneficial ..........................

576

Answer 49/words: inflammable, paronymous, transfusible, miniature ..........................

577

Answer 50/words: confessor, emigrant, monopoly, plagiarism .................................

578

Answer 51/words: necessitate, exasperate, squabble, despond, readjust ......................

579

Answer 52/words: liking, pantoscope, egotism, invert, mystification ........................

580

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Answer 53/words: coniferous, phenomenal, explosive, sheer, curable .........................

581

Answer 54/words: magnificence, denouement, prohibition, monitory ...........................

582

Answer 55/words: misrule, interrogate, maltreat, exorcise, infuse ..........................

583

Answer 56/words: drachma, intoxicate, success, reluctant ...................................

584

Answer 57/words: negligent, blatant, exhaustible, laborious, inedible ......................

585

Answer 58/words: logic, formation, sufficiency, assonance ..................................

586

Answer 59/words: butt, explicate, satirize, ascribe, inveigh ...............................

587

Answer 60/words: insolence, intangible, scribble, disciple, curtsy .........................

588

Answer 61/words: racy, transalpine, descendent, norman, impermissible ......................

589

Answer 62/words: devilry, alchemy, nectarine, finality, despot .............................

590

Answer 63/words: deplete, bestride, prickle, emaciate, vociferate ..........................

591

Answer 64/words: sinuosity, transplant, divulgence, disavow, negate ........................

592

Answer 65/words: indescribable, referable, obsequious, proficient ..........................

593

Answer 66/words: executor, dead-heat, aperture, undergarment, attache ......................

594

Answer 67/words: obvert, resuscitate, navigate, arbitrate, preexist ........................

595

Answer 68/words: endurance, flatulence, posse, sensuous, subservience ......................

596

Answer 69/words: volant, illogical, resonance, vendible, pleasurable .......................

597

Answer 70/words: midsummer, retinue, edict, regime, coronation .............................

598

Answer 71/words: protrude, absolve, frizz, molt, expand, joust .............................

599

Answer 72/words: triennial, penitential, nutritive, blithesome .............................

600

Answer 73/words: insecure, primeval, transatlantic, excusable ..............................

601

Answer 74/words: metempsychosis, progression, vivacity, siege ..............................

602

Answer 75/words: mismanage, disqualify, stultify, gamble, perjure ..........................

603

Answer 76/words: subside, steppe, ballad, ungainly, depreciation ...........................

604

Answer 77/words: multiform, consonant, euphonious, cardinal, fabulous ......................

605

Answer 78/words: witticism, decagon, resource, clairvoyance, pendulum ......................

606

Answer 79/words: deface, amalgamate, aggress, telescope, disinfect .........................

607

Answer 80/words: betimes, hideous, emergent, palpable, mystic ..............................

608

Answer 81/words: defensive, inefficient, buoyant, intracellular ............................

609

Answer 82/words: inspector, flection, statecraft, kerchief, veto ...........................

610

Answer 83/words: speculate, disrobe, collide, overrun, adduce ..............................

611

Answer 84/words: tutelar, calculable, unlawful, outburst, parlor ...........................

612

Answer 85/words: untimely, inaudible, liquefacient, productive .............................

613

Answer 86/words: tact, tactician, entirety, ardor, bitterness, bursar ......................

614

Answer 87/words: officiate, deluge, oversee, expend, vaccinate .............................

615

Answer 88/words: sensibility, furlough, dendrology, clothier ...............................

616

Answer 89/words: achillean, prefatory, salacious, duteous ..................................

617

Answer 90/words: homonym, anglo-saxon, culprit, renaissance ................................

618

Answer 91/words: minimize, ensnare, dominate, translate, palliate ..........................

619

Answer 92/words: mawkish, teem, intemperance, visage, menace, navel ........................

620

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Answer 93/words: nefarious, putrescent, immense, solar, intestate ..........................

621

Answer 94/words: carcass, quantity, tack, palinode, armada .................................

622

Answer 95/words: relish, defraud, impoverish, fray, badger, satiate ........................

623

Answer 96/words: consulate, outdo, expiate, imperfectible, regnant .........................

624

Answer 97/words: ramose, nimble, subtle, doleful, discreet .................................

625

Answer 98/words: heritage, ground, miscreant, ablution, specialty ..........................

626

Answer 99/words: recreate, misunderstand, inquire, impede, detrude .........................

627

Answer 100/words: credulous, zodiac, fruition, brooch, intercessor .........................

628

Answer 101/words: impalpable, corporate, proportionate, submarine ..........................

629

Answer 102/words: scintilla, sirocco, principle, elusion, rein, sol ........................

630

Answer 103/words: reinstate, differentiate, befriend, pommel, nestle .......................

631

Answer 104/words: inaccurate, conversion, gait, sisterhood .................................

632

Answer 105/words: innumerable, meddlesome, gigantic, lustrous ..............................

633

Answer 106/words: upheaval, irruption, forepeak, committal, replica ........................

634

Answer 107/words: emulate, recover, constrict, safeguard, circulate ........................

635

Answer 108/words: neo-darwinism, savage, multiplicity, glazier .............................

636

Answer 109/words: orthogonal, slight, migratory, inexplicable ..............................

637

Answer 110/words: dedication, ostracism, sanctity, aura, likelihood ........................

638

Answer 111/words: recline, revoke, recruit, disarrange, accept .............................

639

Answer 112/words: coincidence, reconsider, lattice, peter, further .........................

640

Answer 113/words: pompous, disreputable, quixotic, transferable ............................

641

Answer 114/words: thrall, adjuration, tannery, biography ...................................

642

Answer 115/words: inscribe, undulate, narrate, recede, bide, annotate ......................

643

Answer 116/words: intermittent, dictum, boll, mesmerize, brigade ...........................

644

Answer 117/words: generic, satiric, antispasmodic, impassable ..............................

645

Answer 118/words: muleteer, optic, bolero, grantor, bedlam .................................

646

Answer 119/words: persist, obliterate, captivate, bedaub, patter ...........................

647

Answer 120/words: sentinel, undervalue, malaria, philanthropic .............................

648

Answer 121/words: patronymic, angular, amphibious, definite, laxative ......................

649

Answer 122/words: protoplasm, furrier, apothecary, denizen, shuffle ........................

650

Answer 123/words: derive, alleviate, penetrate, enumerate, liberate ........................

651

Answer 124/words: decimal, physiography, gumption, junta, needy ............................

652

Answer 125/words: psychic, indivisible, penetrable, tangible ...............................

653

Answer 126/words: abidance, gratification, acreage, absorption, fez ........................

654

Answer 127/words: encamp, inhibit, believe, retaliate, outlive .............................

655

Answer 128/words: hydrometer, compliment, phenomenon, vaudeville, irk ......................

656

Answer 129/words: triple, herbivorous, extemporaneous, pulmonary ...........................

657

Answer 130/words: carnage, conceit, criterion, procrastination .............................

658

Answer 131/words: migrate, equivocate, intimidate, overeat, blazon .........................

659

Answer 132/words: normalcy, lackadaisical, martial, possession .............................

660

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Answer 133/words: subsequent, diplomatic, unspeakable, poignant ............................

661

Answer 134/words: faun, apostle, anteroom, derrick, scarcity ...............................

662

Answer 135/words: posit, discolor, abet, preestablish, subjugate ...........................

663

Answer 136/words: contiguous, expedient, accede, diabolic, loquacious ......................

664

Answer 137/words: cognizant, absent-minded, amorous, infirm, peerless ......................

665

Answer 138/words: extravagance, epitome, ascension, encyclopedia ...........................

666

Answer 139/words: incapacitate, subvert, journalize, federate ..............................

667

Answer 140/words: violation, vignette, alcove, circumscribe, unbiased ......................

668

Answer 141/words: apparent, graceless, navigable, typical ..................................

669

Answer 142/words: perseverance, nil, misnomer, supplicant, quarto ..........................

670

Answer 143/words: agitate, materialize, defalcate, eject, corrode ..........................

671

Answer 144/words: renovate, exigency, decamp, profile, denomination ........................

672

Answer 145/words: inconceivable, peccant, auriferous, treasonable ..........................

673

Answer 146/words: corroboration, buoyancy, writing, polemics ...............................

674

Answer 147/words: grapple, entangle, tolerate, prate, deviate ..............................

675

Answer 148/words: stratagem, delusion, poetics, scythe, bric-a-brac ........................

676

Answer 149/words: tantamount, festive, futile, festal, auburn ..............................

677

Answer 150/words: madonna, valedictorian, tilth, misdeed, regiment .........................

678

Answer 151/words: deform, rue, decapitate, antipathize, modernize ..........................

679

Answer 152/words: perception, distention, evolve, kind-hearted .............................

680

Answer 153/words: archaic, corporal, provident, peripatetic, nomic .........................

681

Answer 154/words: hesitancy, shriek, plurality, papacy, tripod .............................

682

Answer 155/words: accumulate, disinherit, arrogate, assassinate ............................

683

Answer 156/words: pseudonymity, illegitimate, misogyny, maleficent .........................

684

Answer 157/words: hard-hearted, imaginary, plenary, earnest ................................

685

Answer 158/words: drainage, octave, incisor, excrescence, kilometer ........................

686

Answer 159/words: guzzle, immerse, retract, unsettle, inure, clarify .......................

687

Answer 160/words: supernatural, voluble, bureau, cosmology .................................

688

Answer 161/words: invalid, timorous, logical, medieval, scriptural .........................

689

Answer 162/words: locomotion, inroad, monotone, integrity ..................................

690

Answer 163/words: regale, excel, misrepresent, fulminate, emerge ...........................

691

Answer 164/words: defray, noticeable, panorama, ministry, propeller ........................

692

Answer 165/words: immune, omnipotent, fusible, unbridled, pertinent ........................

693

Answer 166/words: metamorphosis, trestle, conduit, chateau, plumb ..........................

694

Answer 167/words: usurp, nettle, emit, explode, reseat, botanize ...........................

695

Answer 168/words: plutocracy, geology, systematic, extort, vigilant ........................

696

Answer 169/words: preponderant, delirious, mischievous, apposite ...........................

697

Answer 170/words: optimism, preservation, defamation, virtu, bristle .......................

698

Answer 171/words: deduce, dissipate, persevere, muffle, rehabilitate .......................

699

Answer 172/words: skirmish, adherence, avert, culvert, riddance ............................

700

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Answer 173/words: canine, significant, receivable, querulous ...............................

701

Answer 174/words: sleight, parable, fallacy, unison, creak, mockery ........................

702

Answer 175/words: confiscate, convalesce, loathe, evict, juggle ............................

703

Answer 176/words: inversion, vindicatory, equitable, proficiency ...........................

704

Answer 177/words: privy, staid, bountiful, indispensable, precipitant ......................

705

Answer 178/words: incentive, employer, magnitude, gaiety, hussar ...........................

706

Answer 179/words: protuberate, overreach, overstride, facilitate ...........................

707

Answer 180/words: tranquility, equestrian, percolate, fathom ...............................

708

Answer 181/words: inviolable, sequacious, abdominal, well-bred .............................

709

Answer 182/words: chasm, plasticity, heterogeneity, privateer ..............................

710

Answer 183/words: transgress, vitalize, legislate, effervesce, forego ......................

711

Answer 184/words: reconstruct, tactics, voala, betrothal, outbreak .........................

712

Answer 185/words: unaffected, desultory, edible, venal, indiscreet .........................

713

Answer 186/words: aspirant, anthracite, plenipotentiary, cajolery ..........................

714

Answer 187/words: precede, savor, wrest, illumine, eschew ..................................

715

Answer 188/words: reflection, probity, faulty, rhapsody, stagnate ..........................

716

Answer 189/words: principal, hibernian, impervious, formidable .............................

717

Answer 190/words: trepidation, sycophant, soldier, personnel ...............................

718

Answer 191/words: resonate, negotiate, coincide, commingle, evince .........................

719

Answer 192/words: polygamy, propriety, opportunist, rapid, impious .........................

720

Answer 193/words: tangent, subservient, paternal, reckless .................................

721

Answer 194/words: truism, earthenware, requiem, conflagration ..............................

722

Answer 195/words: militate, maroon, surfeit, ought, designate ..............................

723

Answer 196/words: superfluity, outpost, metropolis, acidify, armory ........................

724

Answer 197/words: isothermal, outrageous, confident, oral, momentary .......................

725

Answer 198/words: duckling, plenitude, presentiment, overtone ..............................

726

Answer 199/words: gesticulate, mutilate, discountenance, confide ...........................

727

Answer 200/words: belittle, quackery, gravity, guinea, tolerable ...........................

728

Answer 201/words: inexpressible, vincible, finite, ominous .................................

729

Answer 202/words: medley, lexicography, simile, sarcophagus, obelisk .......................

730

Answer 203/words: bustle, enrage, implicate, degenerate, dissect ...........................

731

Answer 204/words: repine, antediluvian, inundation, treachery, balsam ......................

732

Answer 205/words: fluential, non-existent, ubiquitous, heathenish ..........................

733

Answer 206/words: enormity, callosity, audition, opponent, pedigree ........................

734

Answer 207/words: adhere, humiliate, annex, demolish, upheave, overdo ......................

735

Answer 208/words: platitude, alluvion, qualification, dismount .............................

736

Answer 209/words: memorable, munificent, exemplary, insufficient ...........................

737

Answer 210/words: modernity, ailment, arrangement, extensor ................................

738

Answer 211/words: predict, embezzle, irradiate, scuttle, reestablish .......................

739

Answer 212/words: bigamist, abase, countercharge, indestructible ...........................

740

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Answer 213/words: tenacious, curt, extinct, partible, hereditary ...........................

741

Answer 214/words: paradox, queue, intension, ingenuity, beneficiary ........................

742

Answer 215/words: mislay, recant, fortify, cite, maneuver, inhume ..........................

743

Answer 216/words: overproduction, sylph, fabricate, comical, brogue ........................

744

Answer 217/words: agrarian, conjugal, eloquent, hexangular, covert .........................

745

Answer 218/words: autarchy, expulsion, havoc, planisphere, domicile ........................

746

Answer 219/words: confront, wreak, specialize, circumnavigate ..............................

747

Answer 220/words: desistance, grindstone, acetic, congeal, stature .........................

748

Answer 221/words: nomad, sidereal, merciless, suggestive, nestling .........................

749

Answer 222/words: gynecology, prototype, pollen, compulsion, critique ......................

750

Answer 223/words: ossify, radiate, interact, disengage, enshrine ...........................

751

Answer 224/words: secondary, extempore, travesty, submerge, verity .........................

752

Answer 225/words: mountainous, obnoxious, able-bodied, metaphysical ........................

753

Answer 226/words: forefather, omission, disunion, spherometer ..............................

754

Answer 227/words: replenish, vitiate, brandish, embark, disarm, orate ......................

755

Answer 228/words: aristocrat, incomparable, philanthropy, hesitant .........................

756

Answer 229/words: unconscionable, bulbous, natal, beneficent, prima ........................

757

Answer 230/words: polyarchy, theocrasy, pentathlon, importation ............................

758

Answer 231/words: invigorate, cipher, immortalize, henpeck, vie ............................

759

Answer 232/words: prehension, elegy, violoncello, inefficiency, donor ......................

760

Answer 233/words: incandescent, foreign, reflexible, profuse ...............................

761

Answer 234/words: regicide, antipodes, abbess, perigee .....................................

762

Answer 235/words: disquiet, counteract, gnash, pall, baffle ................................

763

Answer 236/words: forejudge, exhaustion, panel, foresee, parisian ..........................

764

Answer 237/words: vituperable, laudable, bibulous, separable, sequent ......................

765

Answer 238/words: monogamy, reluctance, midwife, material, triumvir ........................

766

Answer 239/words: emigrate, reorganize, extinguish, rescind ................................

767

Answer 240/words: aye, noxious, prohibitionist, unlimited ..................................

768

Answer 241/words: termagant, involuntary, epicurean, feminine, meager ......................

769

Answer 242/words: corps, euphemism, underling, probation, submittal ........................

770

Answer 243/words: contrive, compensate, perceive, deceive, superadd ........................

771

Answer 244/words: coddle, cursive, lithotype, invariable, superheat ........................

772

Answer 245/words: eleemosynary, fickle, sedulous, unbearable ...............................

773

Answer 246/words: physique, seance, avidity, conservatory, aberration ......................

774

Answer 247/words: indict, philander, moralize, isolate, enjoin .............................

775

Answer 248/words: editorial, quarterly, came, kinsfolk, irrigant ...........................

776

Answer 249/words: gregarious, pestilent, urban, manlike, lifelike ..........................

777

Answer 250/words: lieu, symmetry, bronchitis, presumption, repartee ........................

778

Answer 251/words: rearrange, embody, perspire, misapprehend, placate .......................

779

Answer 252/words: territorial, overshadow, abrogate, omniscient ............................

780

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Answer 253/words: antislavery, irate, accessible, ineffable, baritone ......................

781

Answer 254/words: casualty, flora, assassination, cohesion, literacy .......................

782

Answer 255/words: confer, seize, relent, demonstrate, connote, denote ......................

783

Answer 256/words: despicable, tincture, solvent, fondle, theologian ........................

784

Answer 257/words: exorbitant, akin, heterodox, comparable ..................................

785

Answer 258/words: liqueur, archbishop, insurgence, doublet, menagerie ......................

786

Answer 259/words: temporize, postdate, enthrall, exhilarate, endear ........................

787

Answer 260/words: witling, mannerism, batter, speculator, proximately ......................

788

Answer 261/words: anesthetic, indelible, tremulous, mordant ................................

789

Answer 262/words: campaign, miter, mythology, bight, diagnosis .............................

790

Answer 263/words: accompany, browbeat, liquidate, fumigate, diagnose .......................

791

Answer 264/words: antiquate, chronometer, lapse, inevitable, maze ..........................

792

Answer 265/words: amatory, illicit, punctilious, furtive, sterling .........................

793

Answer 266/words: thermoelectricity, ingratitude, rivulet, gestation .......................

794

Answer 267/words: secede, parse, counterbalance, estrange, cant ............................

795

Answer 268/words: biology, percipience, evanescent, testator ...............................

796

Answer 269/words: literal, intolerant, dissolute, indigent, puissant .......................

797

Answer 270/words: prudery, barcarole, radix, execration, proctor ...........................

798

Answer 271/words: empower, concur, bolster, rebuild, misplace ..............................

799

Answer 272/words: advisory, vocative, moat, perhaps, rationalism ...........................

800

Answer 273/words: coagulant, pellucid, theological, inconstant, foggy ......................

801

Answer 274/words: paternity, bomb, flue, archipelago, masterpiece ..........................

802

Answer 275/words: gastric, dogma, unwise, temerity, seditious ..............................

803

Answer 276/words: guileless, pious, carnal, obdurate, incomplete ...........................

804

Answer 277/words: felon, distinction, blaze, dialogue, accomplice ..........................

805

Answer 278/words: patrimony, self-respect, embolism, dutiable ..............................

806

Answer 279/words: penurious, volitive, imperceptible, tyrannical ...........................

807

Answer 280/words: righteousness, diplomacy, guy, harbinger, sensorium ......................

808

Answer 281/words: brokerage, folio, respondent, acoustic, parricide ........................

809

Answer 282/words: colloquial, undue, legislative, plebeian .................................

810

Answer 283/words: phosphorescence, pentameter, hanger-on ...................................

811

Answer 284/words: dentifrice, luscious, clan, henchman, operative ..........................

812

Answer 285/words: deleterious, massive, neuter, auricular, impotent ........................

813

Answer 286/words: virtuoso, resumption, excerpt, pantheon, drudgery ........................

814

Answer 287/words: fervor, retrieve, anemometer, philanthropist .............................

815

Answer 288/words: tortious, lax, analogous, effectual, quarrelsome .........................

816

Answer 289/words: resemblance, aide-de-camp, forecastle, mead ..............................

817

Answer 290/words: alley, spheroid, distrust, collapsible, incipience .......................

818

Answer 291/words: conducive, deplorable, oblong, antemundane, bleak ........................

819

Answer 292/words: lingua, ally, day-man, grotto, intestacy .................................

820

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Answer 293/words: undermine, supposition, hydraulic, tireless ..............................

821

Answer 294/words: likely, tremendous, inverse, studious, locative ..........................

822

Answer 295/words: polyhedron, peccadillo, onrush, transferrer ..............................

823

Answer 296/words: superfluous, quarter, encourage, emblem, rejoin ..........................

824

Answer 297/words: intelligible, fundamental, heedless, adjutant ............................

825

Answer 298/words: introgression, proletarian, lunatic, aspiration ..........................

826

Answer 299/words: levee, fluent, petulance, despondent, vacuum .............................

827

Answer 300/words: observant, rightful, illiberal, inadvertent ..............................

828

Answer 301/words: garrison, vitality, munificence, artesian well ...........................

829

Answer 302/words: coalescence, hernia, effervescent, impersonate ...........................

830

Answer 303/words: declamatory, recurrent, lacteal, temporary ...............................

831

Answer 304/words: epicure, introversion, rigmarole, retrospect .............................

832

Answer 305/words: lactic, bemoan, oddity, peninsular, derelict .............................

833

Answer 306/words: conclusive, egregious, disciplinary, spontaneous .........................

834

Answer 307/words: brotherhood, finesse, homogeneity, frigidarium ...........................

835

Answer 308/words: constellation, ardent, conferee, lyre, deponent ..........................

836

Answer 309/words: non-resident, comparative, paly, juicy, triplicate .......................

837

Answer 310/words: vivisection, alcoholism, judiciary, accessory ............................

838

Answer 311/words: ultramundane, utmost, contemplate, vegetate, assent ......................

839

Answer 312/words: correlative, desperate, irritable, malevolent ............................

840

Answer 313/words: litigant, dyne, dominance, variant, honorarium ...........................

841

Answer 314/words: granule, expeditious, participate, proscribe .............................

842

Answer 315/words: precise, peevish, perfectible, submersible ...............................

843

Answer 316/words: glimmer, millet, reprobate, proviso, egotist .............................

844

Answer 317/words: peddle, epode, fragile, theocracy, recognizance ..........................

845

Answer 318/words: prehensile, apprehensible, sophistical, weak-kneed .......................

846

Answer 319/words: vocable, donee, sensation, lethargy, domesticity .........................

847

Answer 320/words: regenerate, foolery, accompanist, discomfort .............................

848

Answer 321/words: somber, wizen-faced, amorphous, baconian .................................

849

Answer 322/words: commitment, introspection, feudalism, entreaty ...........................

850

Answer 323/words: anecdote, tirade, conversant, triplicity, nunnery ........................

851

Answer 324/words: tiresome, ornate, acute, sidelong, philharmonic ..........................

852

Answer 325/words: luxuriance, detriment, stanza, intrigue, sophism .........................

853

Answer 326/words: conjoin, mellifluous, nausea, torpor, maxim ..............................

854

Answer 327/words: intrepid, suspicious, ashen, anxious, cycloid ............................

855

Answer 328/words: suspension, hygiene, pontiff, kiln, reproof ..............................

856

Answer 329/words: convolution, tense, promiscuous, mendicant ...............................

857

Answer 330/words: susceptible, intolerable, anterior, subjacent ............................

858

Answer 331/words: hydrostatics, consensus, moccasin, signification .........................

859

Answer 332/words: misbehavior, chameleon, gradient, scoundrel ..............................

860

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Answer 333/words: prescriptible, sibilant, ineligible, auditory, lewd ......................

861

Answer 334/words: tableau, beau, dramatist, magistracy, coxswain ...........................

862

Answer 335/words: augustinian, wearisome, percipient, wholly ...............................

863

Answer 336/words: pusillanimous, inactive, captious, abject, plural ........................

864

Answer 337/words: magician, premise, accusation, disbeliever ...............................

865

Answer 338/words: matrimony, predominate, outreach, eclipse ................................

866

Answer 339/words: effete, tercentenary, luminescent, comprehensive .........................

867

Answer 340/words: prowess, controller, immersion, vestment, polygon ........................

868

Answer 341/words: monosyllable, decagram, emphatic, secretive ..............................

869

Answer 342/words: deterrent, scrupulous, ludicrous, wee, artful ............................

870

Answer 343/words: junction, vertigo, octavo, sonata, utilitarianism ........................

871

Answer 344/words: enthrone, noisy, dogmatize, castigate, recoil ............................

872

Answer 345/words: repugnant, incompetent, harmonious, phonic, jocular ......................

873

Answer 346/words: abduction, hypocrisy, juncture, folk-lore ................................

874

Answer 347/words: sanctimonious, equivalent, glorious, urbanity ............................

875

Answer 348/words: juridical, sinuous, tranquil, ridiculous, amicable .......................

876

Answer 349/words: anagram, pentad, rhetorician, fidelity, pageant ..........................

877

Answer 350/words: addle, dun, composure, sapid, subtend, brae ..............................

878

Answer 351/words: resplendent, extraneous, latent, telltale ................................

879

Answer 352/words: perturbation, lode, interlocutor, pledgee ................................

880

Answer 353/words: incomprehensible, instill, inhospitable, transverse ......................

881

Answer 354/words: polysyllable, actionable, superficial, untoward ..........................

882

Answer 355/words: novellette, conjunction, antecedent, financier ...........................

883

Answer 356/words: insistent, audacious, reparable, prefer, ruth ............................

884

Answer 357/words: torturous, artless, syllabic, invidious, specious ........................

885

Answer 358/words: penalty, demerit, hiatus, ordnance, papyrus ..............................

886

Answer 359/words: durance, counter-claim, petulant, surveyor ...............................

887

Answer 360/words: dendroid, enthusiastic, profligate, resistant ............................

888

Answer 361/words: chiffon, crag, prelate, cryptogram, meditation ...........................

889

Answer 362/words: stupor, frugal, pedagogics, plaudit, calvinize ...........................

890

Answer 363/words: heartrending, lascivious, irksome, sprightly .............................

891

Answer 364/words: cosmogony, seminar, privity, interpolation ...............................

892

Answer 365/words: norm, motley, vendition, virulence, ordinal, icily .......................

893

Answer 366/words: grandiloquent, cosmic, numerical, pudgy ..................................

894

Answer 367/words: negligence, apology, hawthorn, playwright ................................

895

Answer 368/words: intolerance, occupant, furbish, wield, prologue ..........................

896

Answer 369/words: pernicious, abstemious, incoercible, velvety .............................

897

Answer 370/words: perversion, inchoative, deity, cartilage, foible .........................

898

Answer 371/words: sonnet, quiescent, repute, doubly, animalcule ............................

899

Answer 372/words: anthropomorphous, punctual, diacritical, naval ...........................

900

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Answer 373/words: finery, extension, medicine, contender, naphtha ..........................

901

Answer 374/words: conveyance, mercantile, supramundane, vendor, cower ......................

902

Answer 375/words: clement, eligible, immeasurable, decrepit, soluble .......................

903

Answer 376/words: courtesy, candor, assignee, derivation, ambulance ........................

904

Answer 377/words: ecstatic, antecede, connive, malign, obsolescent .........................

905

Answer 378/words: contemporary, morbid, unitarian, pervious, leonine .......................

906

Answer 379/words: divagation, specimen, soothsayer, decasyllable ...........................

907

Answer 380/words: chaos, deficient, sophisticate, laud .....................................

908

Answer 381/words: conformity, tremor, dialectician, free trade .............................

909

Answer 382/words: aversion, suave, uproarious, truthful, declamation .......................

910

Answer 383/words: benevolence, vermin, recreant, ointment, continuity ......................

911

Answer 384/words: recourse, technicality, incite, darkling, carouse ........................

912

Answer 385/words: viceroy, postscript, sphericity, absolution ..............................

913

Answer 386/words: freemason, fulsome, resurrection, denominator ............................

914

Answer 387/words: piccolo, liniment, hypocrite, myth, infidelity ...........................

915

Answer 388/words: physiology, inconsiderable, abbey, craving, strait .......................

916

Answer 389/words: upcast, luminosity, exemplar, overseer, transfusion ......................

917

Answer 390/words: estimable, dilemma, accession, statistician ..............................

918

Answer 391/words: pupilage, diplomat, antiseptic, odium, fete ..............................

919

Answer 392/words: apogee, append, treatise, stagnation, corroborate ........................

920

Answer 393/words: despotism, payee, electrolysis, peerage, missive .........................

921

Answer 394/words: edify, divulge, requisite, taxidermy, subaquatic .........................

922

Answer 395/words: melodrama, rapine, narcissus, sedition, oakum ............................

923

Answer 396/words: newtonian, imitation, lordling, induct ...................................

924

Answer 397/words: nuance, adamant, crusade, bowler, operetta ...............................

925

Answer 398/words: remonstrance, coincident, burgher, monsieur, inject ......................

926

Answer 399/words: heptagon, hospitality, affront, unbelief, monogram .......................

927

Answer 400/words: intelligence, monotony, venison, neo-latin ...............................

928

Answer 401/words: personage, cadenza, counting-house, soprano, cygnet ......................

929

Answer 402/words: moratorium, becalm, photoelectric, salient, genital ......................

930

Answer 403/words: redemption, automaton, obsequies, antonym ................................

931

Answer 404/words: hinder, daring, variegate, legionary, onerous ............................

932

Answer 405/words: continuation, pervert, acerbity, dejection ...............................

933

Answer 406/words: philology, recapitulate, benefit, diffusible .............................

934

Answer 407/words: nutriment, tapestry, exclusion, freethinker ..............................

935

Answer 408/words: ambulate, chancery, expectorate, triad, palsy ............................

936

Answer 409/words: aristocracy, bibliomania, lodgment, conspirator ..........................

937

Answer 410/words: domination, jugglery, contingent, contrivance ............................

938

Answer 411/words: acme, loneliness, perfidy, lough, effeminacy .............................

939

Answer 412/words: rigorous, ascetic, desert, initiate, assassin ............................

940

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Answer 413/words: immigrant, guise, sufferance, aerostatics ................................

941

Answer 414/words: convalescence, deport, habitude, fanatic, insurgent ......................

942

Answer 415/words: satyr, manufacturer, squatter, lune, carrion .............................

943

Answer 416/words: nurture, et cetera, militarism, inexcusable ..............................

944

Answer 417/words: constable, theology, omnipotence, gusto, analyst .........................

945

Answer 418/words: ponder, recrudescent, cholera, obstruct, disallow ........................

946

Answer 419/words: advocacy, wile, complacence, sacrilege, exposure .........................

947

Answer 420/words: impetus, necropolis, trident, depress, rupture ...........................

948

Answer 421/words: secession, ampersand, emergence, nonpareil ...............................

949

Answer 422/words: utility, revile, recrudescence, protestant ...............................

950

Answer 423/words: sentence, autonomy, geniality, nectar, erudition .........................

951

Answer 424/words: sapient, remiss, statute, venerate, irreligious ..........................

952

Answer 425/words: intuition, sediment, predominance, gamester, jingo .......................

953

Answer 426/words: obstreperous, ennoble, globular, antistrophe .............................

954

Answer 427/words: decalogue, lawmaker, sibilance, effusion, gambol .........................

955

Answer 428/words: psychotherapy, simplify, primer, depression ..............................

956

Answer 429/words: fief, antic, prevalence, partition, isobar ...............................

957

Answer 430/words: propaganda, vegetarian, cameo, eureka, adjudge ...........................

958

Answer 431/words: narrative, bosom, mantel, laundress, purport .............................

959

Answer 432/words: apposition, involve, acquire, requite, belle, anode ......................

960

Answer 433/words: transition, expectancy, bodice, alkali, revisal ..........................

961

Answer 434/words: irradiance, defame, acid, transparent, cornucopia ........................

962

Answer 435/words: affluence, inception, profession, abscission .............................

963

Answer 436/words: pedagogy, olfactory, predicate, dolesome .................................

964

Answer 437/words: retrogression, incidence, jubilation, penetration ........................

965

Answer 438/words: origin, ichthyology, digraph, homologous, angelic ........................

966

Answer 439/words: regent, academy, convenience, justification ..............................

967

Answer 440/words: debonair, digress, heredity, academic, impetuous .........................

968

Answer 441/words: surcharge, generosity, infrequence, barometer ............................

969

Answer 442/words: observance, misadventure, absence, galvanic ..............................

970

Answer 443/words: infusion, external, misogamy, cantonment, dexterity ......................

971

Answer 444/words: abominable, beatify, engrave, ascendant, endemic .........................

972

Answer 445/words: nemesis, outcast, equilibrium, manumission, tempter ......................

973

Answer 446/words: sparse, undeceive, embargo, incident, physiognomy ........................

974

Answer 447/words: impetuosity, lever, presentment, soliloquy ...............................

975

Answer 448/words: gluttonous, contuse, outlandish, expository ..............................

976

Answer 449/words: blemish, tenant, purgatory, corrosion, resilience ........................

977

Answer 450/words: conjecture, preemption, obese, tinge, remembrance ........................

978

Answer 451/words: aborigine, hypotenuse, avarice, octagon, manor ...........................

979

Answer 452/words: inexperience, docile, illuminant, latish, pittance .......................

980

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Answer 453/words: superintendent, stimulus, joggle, cadence, makeup ........................

981

Answer 454/words: heifer, promoter, antedate, linguist, entwine ............................

982

Answer 455/words: obstruction, course, pantomime, abstinence ...............................

983

Answer 456/words: nugatory, credence, protuberant, nameless ................................

984

Answer 457/words: nominee, indulgence, constituency, furlong ...............................

985

Answer 458/words: atheism, pitiable, monetary, distemper, tricolor .........................

986

Answer 459/words: pantheism, aggregate, fernery, antiphon, humbug ..........................

987

Answer 460/words: intrusion, forcible, penury, reliant, interpreter ........................

988

Answer 461/words: atomizer, indolence, effulgence, precaution ..............................

989

Answer 462/words: illegible, propel, epizootic, embolden, trait ............................

990

Answer 463/words: perspicacity, bevel, biograph, dragoon, dolor ............................

991

Answer 464/words: incinerate, displace, breech, municipal ..................................

992

Answer 465/words: allegory, gynecocracy, non-combatant, jurisdiction .......................

993

Answer 466/words: asexual, hilarious, oratorio, peaceful, resistive ........................

994

Answer 467/words: statics, dilettante, dissent, abbot, paucity .............................

995

Answer 468/words: protract, by-law, overture, delineate, inseparable .......................

996

Answer 469/words: death's-head, kernel, transient, municipality ............................

997

Answer 470/words: repellent, assailant, excitable, salutatory ..............................

998

Answer 471/words: vicissitude, pyromania, submergence, alienation ..........................

999

Answer 472/words: impunity, misanthropy, titanic, congregate, fungous ...................... 1000 Answer 473/words: divisor, brogan, equity, hypnosis, inherence ............................. 1001 Answer 474/words: packet, succeed, intersect, succumb, diplomatist ......................... 1002 Answer 475/words: shrinkage, iridescence, epicycloid, antechamber .......................... 1003 Answer 476/words: pertinacity, consumptive, optics, indigestible ........................... 1004 Answer 477/words: pendant, epoch, possessor, eccentricity, battalion ....................... 1005 Answer 478/words: revert, marvel, raillery, reprehension ................................... 1006 Answer 479/words: insignificance, motto, hillock, freshness, narrator ...................... 1007 Answer 480/words: injunction, gibe, interim, pungent, abnormal ............................. 1008 Answer 481/words: collegian, fulcrum, ripplet, doe, transference ........................... 1009 Answer 482/words: oust, fraternal, misanthropic, forth, disappear .......................... 1010 Answer 483/words: reticence, telepathy, calvary, mien, infidel ............................. 1011 Answer 484/words: modish, convertible, verbiage, wittingly, maharaja ....................... 1012 Answer 485/words: pinchers, collier, stimulant, aroma, iliad ............................... 1013 Answer 486/words: prejudice, bibliography, sagacious, ladle ................................ 1014 Answer 487/words: offshoot, precedence, sentience, ordeal, profiteer ....................... 1015 Answer 488/words: disapprove, hazard, abjure, reliquary, voracious ......................... 1016 Answer 489/words: option, flag-officer, flux, incandescence ................................ 1017 Answer 490/words: fissure, venom, out-and-out, bestrew, semiannual ......................... 1018 Answer 491/words: altruist, retort, knighthood, consul, ancestry ........................... 1019 Answer 492/words: progeny, irrefrangible, census, mistrust ................................. 1020

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Answer 493/words: masquerade, distillation, palate, pillory ................................ 1021 Answer 494/words: autonomous, idiosyncrasy, inane, adoration ............................... 1022 Answer 495/words: allot, expostulate, low-spirited, lassie ................................. 1023 Answer 496/words: mnemonics, alternate, proverb, sebaceous ................................. 1024 Answer 497/words: siren, rote, genealogist, magisterial, left-handed ....................... 1025 Answer 498/words: waive, vehement, reform, rectitude, bulwark .............................. 1026 Answer 499/words: alias, reassure, bale, convulsion, illegal ............................... 1027 Answer 500/words: ligature, perspicacious, annals, sanguine, ascent ........................ 1028 Answer 501/words: acridness, perpendicular, prohibitory, stagy ............................. 1029

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 1

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Answers Index

v. enlighten (a) to cause to see clearly (b) to dig out of the earth (what has been buried) (c) to sail around the world (d) to get first sight or knowledge of, as something previously unknown or unperceived

Q2

v. enamor (a) to await (c) to inspire with ardent love

Q3

(b) to raise or lift with effort (d) to adapt

v. advert (b) to refer incidentally (d) to appear or act in the character of

(a) to mean; to signify (c) to deem worthy of notice or account Q4

adj. maritime (a) less important or effective than that which is primary (b) situated on or near the sea (c) foolishly headless of danger (d) composed of heterogeneous or inharmonious elements

Q5

adj. genitive (a) situated on the other side of the Alps (b) exhibiting haughty and careless contempt (c) unendurable (d) indicating source, origin, possession or the like

Q6

n. creamery (a) a butter-making establishment (c) an expert in linguistics

Q7

(b) structure; adaptation; adjustment (d) the quality of curving in and out

n. judicature (a) inequality (b) a species of lyric poems (c) the science of poetical forms (d) distribution and administration of justice by trial and judgment

Q8

v. recollect (a) to superintend (b) to recall the knowledge of (c) to be superior or distinguished (d) to take; seize; cause to stop; delay; hinder; obstruct

Q9

n. exegesis (a) a difficult, trying situation or plight (b) the act of training or the state of being under instruction (c) lawful power or right to exercise official authority (d) biblical exposition or interpretation

Q10

v. transfer (a) to to annex, as something extrinsic (b) to turn from the accustomed course or a line of action already established (c) to convey, remove or cause to pass from one person or place to another (d) to search through and through

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 2

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Answers Index

adj. inmost (a) having fine and penetrating discernment (b) participating with another or others in the knowledge of a secret transaction (c) deepest within (d) fitted for expression in song

Q2

adj. raucous (a) fit to be dwelt in (c) pertaining to stars or constellations

Q3

(b) fit for a destined purpose (d) harsh

adj. reflectible (a) juicy (c) curving in and out

Q4

(b) capable of being turned back (d) descended from the same parent or ancestor

adj. lenient (a) easy to manage (c) permissive; tolerant; indulgent; not strict

Q5

(b) pertaining to the heart (d) doomed to evil, misery or misfortune

adj. immaculate (a) unsuited to the wearer, place or surroundings (b) of no essential consequence (c) not good for food (d) without spot or blemish

Q6

adj. littoral (a) seizing and devouring living prey (c) watery

Q7

adj. flimsy (a) deepest within

Q8

(b) clumsy (d) of, pertaining to or living on a shore

(b) insubordinate

(d) unyielding

adj. extravagant (a) curving in and out (c) idiotic

Q9

(c) thin and weak

(b) needlessly free or lavish in expenditure (d) usual or customary

v. affix (a) to consist of (b) to describe, as a sentence, by separating it into its elements and describing each word (c) to fasten (d) to relinquish, especially temporarily, as a right or claim

Q10 adj. migrant (a) controlling or preventing spasms (b) disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods (c) wandering (d) having superior rank or precedence

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 3

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Answers Index

n. preoccupation (a) tendency to adhere to the existing order of things (b) the condition of being manifold or very various (c) an act or exercise of will (d) obsession; fixation; thought that is constantly on one's mind; prior tenure or possession

Q2

n. obesity (a) an ornamental molding running round the walls of a room close to the ceiling (b) the keeping of a thing within one's power or possession (c) excessive fatness (d) a trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observation

Q3

n. pomposity (a) a labyrinth (b) the quality of being marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner (c) that part of anything that is in excess of what is needed (d) a return from death to life

Q4

n. excellency (a) an authoritative direction (b) the highest point, as of a mountain (c) a mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of evil-doing (d) a title of honor bestowed upon various high officials

Q5

n. sarcasm (a) cutting and reproachful language (b) person who beholds or looks on (c) plant-life in the aggregate (d) a deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier

Q6

n. reminiscence (a) transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases, etc., from parent to offspring (b) slander (c) the calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience (d) an assumed name

Q7

n. caucus (a) person who tends to speculate (b) knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world (c) a private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates (d) the branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man

Q8

n. kiloliter (a) a measure of volume (b) ardor or intensity of feeling (c) a fatty preparation with a butter-like consistency in which a medicinal substance exists (d) a speech recited or intended for recitation from memory in public

Q9

n. vestige (a) a small flag (b) a grotesque, ludicrous or fantastic action (c) a visible trace, mark or impression, of something absent, lost or gone (d) that which oppresses, injures or causes grief and at the same time a sense of wrong

Q10

n. leaflet (a) a large decorative metal disk worn on a chain around the neck (b) a sheet of paper on which information has been printed; flyer (c) an aggressive display of boldness (d) any starlike meteor or phenomenon

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 4

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v. recapture (a) to cover or pave, as a path or roadway, with small broken stone (b) to retake; to repossess (c) to rearrange (d) to enlist men for military or naval service

Q2

v. bereave (a) to eradicate (b) to make desolate with loneliness and grief (c) to reconstruct; erect again (d) to go from one country, state or region for the purpose of settling or residing in another

Q3

v. legalize (a) to give the authority of law to (b) to enlarge in all directions (c) to postpone; lengthen; continue; maintain; preserve (d) to reorganize; put in order again

Q4

v. sacrifice (a) to make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar (b) to deprive of something dishonestly (c) to conquer (d) to meet and strike violently; to crash into each other

Q5

v. manumit (a) to set free from bondage (b) to demonstrate; to reveal; to display (c) to distinguish, as a disease, by its characteristic phenomena (d) to find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible

Q6

v. superintend (a) to designate as a candidate for any office (b) to forerun; to come or go before; to live in a previous life (c) to have the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement (d) to render clear and intelligible

Q7

v. baste (a) to come to pass (b) to separate the parts of by violence (c) to cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking (d) to abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned

Q8

v. gyrate (a) to produce by sexual generation (b) to revolve (c) to indulge in profane oaths (d) to effect by negotiating as an agent between parties

Q9

v. litigate (a) to divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions (b) to cause to become the subject-matter of a suit at law (c) to push out or thrust forth (d) to throw out of order

Q10

v. revere (a) to put in definite or proper order (b) to regard with worshipful veneration (c) to overcome by force of will (d) to predict or foretell, especially under divine inspiration and guidance

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 5

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adv. head foremost (a) precipitately, as in diving (c) soon; early

Q2

(b) rudely; meekly, modestly; humbly (d) at a subsequent time

adv. nowadays (a) word for word (c) with no outward manifestation

Q3

(b) in a vague or uncertain way (d) in the present time or age

adv. secondly (a) not able to get up (c) next after the first

Q4

(b) precipitately, as in diving (d) with a side or indirect glance or meaning

adv. naturally (a) according to the usual order of things (c) into notice or view

Q5

adv. finally (a) without preparation (c) at last

Q6

(b) in or at whatever place (d) in a vague or uncertain way

adv. afire (a) an expression of assent (c) threefold; triply

Q7

(b) ablaze; burning (d) without studied or special preparation

adv. afresh (a) with directness (c) once more, after rest or interval

Q8

(b) with no outward manifestation (d) according to the usual order of things

adv. trebly (a) fully (c) without objection or reluctance

Q9

(b) genuinely (d) possibly

(b) threefold; triply (d) at last

adv. offhand (a) without preparation (c) an expression of assent

(b) piecemeal (d) possibly

Q10 adv. aloof (a) not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others (b) with no outward manifestation (c) in twofold degree or extent (d) from side to side

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 6

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v. impute (a) to attribute (b) to find and declare chargeable with crime (c) to make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat (d) to reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree

Q2

Q3

n. paragon (a) a model of excellence

(b) undress or negligent attire

(c) person who absorbs and comprehends something

(d) caution

adj. plenteous (a) revengeful

Q4

Q5

(b) feasible

(c) abundant

(d) conveying knowledge

adj. nauseous (a) heedless

(b) loathsome

(c) mentioned previously

(d) detestable

adj. irreducible (a) that can not be lessened (b) pertaining to time before the world's creation (c) loving others and actively desirous of their well-being (d) noisily or offensively loud or clamorous

Q6

n. intercession (a) eruption; explosion (usually of an unpleasant thing) (b) any difficulty the only issue out of which is by bold or unusual manners (c) an introductory or opening performance (d) entreaty in behalf of others

Q7

n. ferocity (a) a high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff (b) savageness (c) a servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence (d) offspring

Q8

n. professor (a) a city or district with its own government; city council; governing body of the local area (b) the young in the womb or in the egg (c) a declaration or memorandum of agreement less solemn and formal than a treaty (d) a public teacher of the highest grade in a university or college

Q9

n. diffidence (a) self-distrust (b) rudeness (c) a raise in rank; promotion; appointment; fondness; affinity (d) any state of great happiness

Q10

adj. ingenious (a) produced or displayed in overabundance (b) having the right or privilege of entry (c) evincing skill, originality or cleverness, as in contrivance or arrangement (d) capable of being conveyed from one person or place to another

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 7

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adj. incompressible (a) impartial, as judgment (b) being in a state of repose or inaction (c) resisting all attempts to reduce volume by pressure (d) cautious in action for fear of doing wrong

Q2

adj. loath (a) a place for cremating dead bodies (c) averse

Q3

(b) moving onward quickly and heedlessly (d) having a hairy covering

adj. premier (a) first in rank or position (c) given to excess in eating

Q4

(b) deadly; fatal; contagious; infectious (d) contentious

adj. prolix (a) having womanish traits or qualities (c) affecting the sense of smell

Q5

(b) lacking honor; having a bad reputation (d) verbose

adj. thermoelectric (a) denoting electricity produced by heat (c) holding the commonly accepted faith

Q6

(b) relating to one of the English queens (d) tainted

adj. abhorrent (a) very repugnant; hateful (b) that may be done, performed or effected; practicable (c) perfidious (d) aware that one lives, feels and thinks

Q7

adj. botanical (a) unendurable (b) countless (c) not to be approved, considered or allowed, as testimony (d) connected with the study or cultivation of plants

Q8

adj. absurd (a) adverse (b) being not beyond the reach of power natural, moral or supernatural (c) inconsistent with reason or common sense (d) light and unsubstantial

Q9

adj. inherent (a) incapable of being injured or disturbed (c) exhibiting moral skepticism

(b) intrinsic (d) noisy

Q10 adj. officious (a) multiplied by six (b) intermeddling with what is not one's concern (c) reddish-brown, said usually of the hair (d) coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 8

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n. foreigner (a) person from another country; stranger (b) any growth of leaves (c) a special school, as of theology or pedagogics (d) somebody who climbs for sport

Q2

n. amour (a) a composition of different songs or parts of songs arranged to run as a continuous whole (b) mercy (c) a love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature (d) one who or that which aids or helps, especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory

Q3

n. sergeant (a) a filter (b) a non-commissioned military officer ranking next above a corporal (c) a continuous area or stretch (d) a chief spirit servant of God

Q4

n. antiphony (a) person who or that which regulates or directs (b) a wild and uncivilized human being (c) an anthem or other composition sung responsively (d) a person who is habitually lazy or idle

Q5

n. disavowal (a) person from another country; stranger (b) a bad name or character (c) the chemical analysis or testing of an alloy ore (d) denial

Q6

n. specter (a) an institution for instruction and training in music and declamation (b) interruption or intermission (c) apparition (d) a woman who is a center of attraction because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc.

Q7

n. realism (a) the principle and practice of depicting persons and scenes as they are believed really to exist (b) a logician (c) the act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war (d) a legal claim or hold on property, as security for a debt or charge

Q8

n. autobiography (a) the story of one's life written by himself (b) a restriction (c) a sour substance (d) the art of correct intonation, inflection and gesture in public speaking or reading

Q9

n. contagion (a) the quality or character of being godlike (b) the communication of disease from person to person (c) a probability (d) a tomb of more than ordinary size or architectural pretensions

Q10

n. condensation (a) the act or state or conforming (b) an obstacle (c) the act or process of making compact or more compact (d) affluence

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 9

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Answers Index

v. extradite (a) to take too much food in (b) to surrender the custody of (c) to bargain with others for an agreement, as for a treaty or transfer of property (d) to be the ground or support of

Q2

v. encroach (a) to invade partially or insidiously and appropriate the possessions of another (b) to avoid by artifice (c) to fill with dismay or horror (d) to remove from office; oust

Q3

v. engross (a) to cause spasms in (c) to recant, renounce or repudiate under oath

Q4

v. overpay (a) to renounce upon oath (c) to blend

Q5

(b) to give a salary that is too high (d) to disentangle

v. elapse (b) to set free from bondage (d) to quietly terminate

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(b) to occupy completely (d) to pursue inquiries and form conjectures

v. recuperate (a) to mesmerize; to fascinate; to rivet; to spellbind (b) to recover (c) to present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong (d) to put in definite or proper order

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v. defer (a) to deprive of simplicity of mind or manner (b) to recover something by searching (c) to devote oneself to a particular profession or field of study (d) to delay or put off to some other time

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v. outride (b) to move faster than (d) to hold back

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n. anathema (a) person who loves books (b) a visible trace, mark or impression, of something absent, lost or gone (c) anything forbidden, as by social usage (d) an indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it

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v. complement (a) to make beautiful or elegant by adding attractive or ornamental features (b) to divide (c) to make whole; to make perfect (d) to act upon

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 10

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adv. verbatim (a) possibly

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(b) for that or this

(c) frigidly

(d) word for word

adv. severely (a) extremely (b) into notice or view (c) genuinely (d) not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others

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adv. forthright (a) with directness (c) precipitately, as in diving

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(b) immediately (d) next after the first

adv. forby (a) completely (b) once more, after rest or interval (c) out of the proper form, direction or position (d) besides

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adv. inchmeal (a) once more

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(b) threefold; triply

(b) in progress (d) next after the first

adv. gaily (a) blindly (c) merrily

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(b) word for word (d) with a side or indirect glance or meaning

adv. nowhere (a) ablaze; burning (c) besides

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(d) frigidly

adv. afoot (a) and so forth (c) entirely

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(c) piecemeal

(b) in no place or state (d) with knowledge and by design

v. operate (a) to remind oneself (b) to make adroit or artful moves: manage affairs by strategy (c) to put in action and supervise the working of (d) to legislate; ordain; decree; perform

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 11

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n. impiety (a) division of words into that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse (b) one who kills or tries to kill, treacherously or secretly (c) irreverence toward God (d) a disease or malady

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n. knavery (a) a woman who makes a business of assisting at childbirth (b) an article of jewelry fastened by a hinged pin and hook on the underside (c) self-restraint with respect to desires, appetites and passion (d) deceitfulness in dealing

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n. predecessor (a) the arrangement of composed type or the appearance of printed matter (b) pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons (c) an incumbent of a given office previous to another (d) a solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead

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n. cat-o-nine-tails (a) a flock of quails or partridges (b) an instrument consisting of cords, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy (c) estrangement (d) the quality of affecting the sense of smell

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adj. compulsory (b) forced (d) vivacious

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v. disappoint (a) to utter taunts or reproaches (b) to fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish or desire of (c) to put ashore and abandon (a person) on a desolate coast or island (d) to cause to become less or worse

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v. forfeit (a) to water, as land, by ditches or other artificial means (b) to subject a person to distress (c) to lose possession of through failure to fulfill some obligation (d) to set forth publicly or in glowing terms

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n. protector (a) a defender (b) a member of an academy of literature, art or science (c) unusually prolonged life (d) extreme insincerity

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v. discover (a) to maintain by noisy argument or dispute (b) to entrap (c) to get first sight or knowledge of, as something previously unknown or unperceived (d) to ward off

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n. canto (a) an apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights (b) sign-language (c) one of the divisions of an extended poem (d) insensibility to kindness

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 12

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adj. narrow-minded (a) unutterable (b) characterized by illiberal views or sentiments (c) full of meaning (d) being in a middle place or degree or between extremes

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adj. nasal (a) unmindful; oblivious; rash

(b) having an air of authority

(c) not according to law

(d) pertaining to the nose

adj. sympathetic (a) having a fellow-feeling for or like feelings with another or others (b) tending in different directions (c) stingy (d) wandering

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adj. usurious (a) that may be pardoned or forgiven; a forgivable sin (b) characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink or food (c) capable of being poured from one vessel to another (d) taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned

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adj. neglectful (a) exhibiting or indicating omission (b) having equal or equivalent value, effect or import (c) very repugnant; hateful (d) courageous

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adj. deceitful (a) indicating source, origin, possession or the like (b) not perceptible (c) fraudulent (d) green with vegetation

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adj. distraught (a) insane (b) bewildered (c) wretched (d) cannot be expressed in words; beyond description; indefinite

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n. pamphlet (a) the upper part of the face, between the eyes and the hair (b) a brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest (c) a man who owns and lets a tenement or tenements (d) space in front of building

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adj. cogent (a) appealing strongly to the reason or conscience (b) easily broken; capable of being broken (c) qualified (d) worldly, as opposed to spiritual or celestial

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adj. humane (a) masculine (c) compassionate

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 13

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n. momentum (a) a description or report of something as modified by one's character or opinion (b) an impetus (c) outward appearance (d) an image or likeness

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n. discord (a) absence of harmoniousness

(b) a performer of moral and social duties

(c) simultaneousness

(d) something that begins or expresses beginning

n. impertinence (a) the change of endings in nouns and adjectives to express their different relations of gender (b) set way of saying or doing something (c) rudeness (d) particular conduct or administration of affairs

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n. ultimatum (a) carriage of the body in going (b) a final statement or proposal, as concerning terms or conditions (c) a mark for failure or bad conduct (d) an instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes

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n. auricle (a) a person raving with madness (b) one of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins (c) any dialectic pronunciation of English, especially that of the Irish people (d) a great Hindu prince

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n. entrails (a) the galaxy (b) that which moves the mind or inflames the passions (c) the junction of two bodies at an equally divided angle (d) internal parts of an animal

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n. pentagon (a) temporary diminution of a disease (b) conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state (c) interpretation (d) a figure, especially, with five angles and five sides

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n. degradation (a) diminution, as of strength or magnitude (b) the setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness (c) masculinity (d) a brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest

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n. opprobrium (a) any growth of leaves (b) a young goose (c) a probability (d) the state of being scornfully reproached or accused of evil

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n. corpuscle (a) a minute particle of matter (c) something added or to be added

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 14

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v. atone (a) to surpass in importance or excellence (b) to drink in or suck up (c) to make amends for (d) to devote oneself to a particular profession or field of study

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v. ameliorate (a) to relieve, as from pain or hardship (b) to place the products or merchandise of under a ban (c) to mislead the mind or judgment of (d) to imprison

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v. prefix (a) to cover or fill the surface of (c) to live sumptuously

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(b) to attach at the beginning (d) to make heavier, worse or more burdensome

v. promenade (a) to provoke (c) to suffer extremity of hunger or thirst

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(b) to bridge (d) to walk for amusement or exercise

v. efface (a) to consist of (b) to cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts (c) to obliterate (d) to make more sharp, severe or virulent

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v. bedeck (a) to be indignant at, as an injury or insult (b) to cover with ornament (c) to review with care, especially with a view to a reversal of previous action (d) to lose spirit, courage or hope

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v. underwrite (a) to educe or extract gradually or without violence (b) to issue or be party to the issue of a policy of insurance (c) to clear from involvement (d) to utter with a shout

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v. braze (a) to make to conform to some mental or imaginary standard (b) to please, as by satisfying a physical or mental desire or need (c) to make of or ornament with brass (d) to plunder

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v. consign (a) to entrust (c) to unite or blend as by melting together

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(b) to turn away or aside (d) to come into view or into existence

v. contravene (a) to walk about (b) to chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated (c) to follow backward or toward the place of beginning, as a track or marking (d) to prevent or obstruct the operation of

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 15

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adv. inwardly (a) obscurely (c) piecemeal

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(b) for that or this (d) with no outward manifestation

adv. readily (a) near that number, quantity, degree, place or time; approximately (b) in progress (c) without objection or reluctance (d) threefold; triply

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adv. therefor (a) for that or this

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(b) besides

(b) precipitately, as in diving (d) blindly

adv. dimly (a) frigidly (c) obscurely

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(b) without preparation (d) precipitately, as in diving

adv. anew (a) genuinely (c) rudely; meekly, modestly; humbly

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(b) once more (d) without preparation

adv. indefinitely (a) an expression of assent (c) gradually

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(b) in a vague or uncertain way (d) soon; early

adv. lowly (a) after which (c) without objection or reluctance

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(d) and so forth

adv. head first (a) in the present time or age (c) after which

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(c) in truth

(b) according to the usual order of things (d) rudely; meekly, modestly; humbly

adv. askance (a) obscurely (b) after which (c) with a side or indirect glance or meaning (d) near that number, quantity, degree, place or time; approximately

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 16

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v. liquefy (a) to give up using or having

(b) to move faster than

(c) to separate and cast aside

(d) to cause to melt

v. inebriate (a) to give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s (b) to cease to exist, either actually or for the time being (c) to intoxicate (d) to fail to put strongly enough, as a case

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n. hosiery (a) security for payment or performance (b) an artificial trance-sleep (c) a stocking (d) supremacy; superiority; prevailing influence; state of being widespread

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v. philosophize (a) to make brilliant or shining

(b) to strengthen, as proof or conviction

(c) to extend in time or duration

(d) to seek ultimate causes and principles

n. instance (a) a single occurrence or happening of a given kind (b) forbearance (c) premeditation (d) favoring, protecting or propitious influence or guidance

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n. aurora (a) the external appearance or manner of a person (b) friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof (c) violation of allegiance, confidence or plighted faith (d) a luminous phenomenon in the upper regions of the atmosphere

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n. valediction (a) one who represents a client in court of justice; an attorney (b) an eight-page newspaper of any size (c) language used by a certain group or class of people (d) a bidding farewell

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v. bawl (a) to take hold of (b) to mark with different shades or colors (c) to proclaim by outcry (d) to mesmerize; to fascinate; to rivet; to spellbind

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n. umbrage (a) reserve army of citizens that are called upon during emergencies (b) a sense of injury (c) the dignity, condition, office or term of office of government official (d) a book or collection of paper in which the sheets are so folded as to make eight leaves

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v. transact (a) to settle or arrange beforehand (b) to look into (c) to do business (d) to have knowledge of or receive impressions concerning, through the medium of the body senses

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 17

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adj. vernal (a) appealing strongly to the reason or conscience (b) belonging to or suggestive of the spring (c) furiously voracious or hungry (d) exempt, as from disease

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adj. alienable (a) capable of being sold or confiscated (b) voluntarily (c) plausible; reasonable; probable; possible; appropriate; promising (d) that may be read with ease

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adj. pugnacious (a) corresponding (to some other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion or relations (b) pertaining to a chief city (c) quarrelsome (d) forced

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adj. resurgent (a) innate (c) wanting water

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(b) surging back or again (d) understood

adj. agile (a) cutting deeply and quickly (b) able to move or act quickly, physically or mentally (c) heavy with sleepiness (d) pertaining to a hundred years or a period of a hundred years

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adj. facial (a) judicious (c) characterized by lust or lasciviousness

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adj. vegetative (a) governed by moral standard (c) pertaining to the process of plant-life

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(b) tending to produce sleep (d) guilty

adj. prescript (a) pertaining to milk (c) that can not be refuted or disproved

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(b) pertaining to the face (d) composite; made up of interconnected parts

(b) fixed beforehand; set in advance; settled (d) capable of erring

v. absorb (a) to obtain the friendship of (c) to utter vehement censure or invective

(b) to drink in or suck up (d) to have or produce resonance

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(b) hateful

(c) fleeting

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 18

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n. typography (a) the arrangement of composed type or the appearance of printed matter (b) some auxiliary person or thing; partner (c) a misunderstanding attended by ill feeling, perplexity or strife (d) the point in the orbit of the moon when it is nearest the earth

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n. huckster (a) a high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff (b) person who retails small wares (c) the property or state of allowing the passage of light (d) a very wide-angled photographic lens

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n. persistence (a) a state of balance (b) extensive knowledge of literature, history, language, etc (c) means that nourish and support (d) a fixed adherence to a resolve, course of conduct or the like

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n. impatience (a) a collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body (b) sanction (c) unwillingness to brook delays or wait the natural course of things (d) person who attends to correspondence, keeps records or does other writing for others

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n. separatist (a) a seceder (b) a bibliographical sketch or notice (c) stay-rope (d) that part of anything that is in excess of what is needed

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n. desiccant (a) one given to self-mention or who is constantly telling of his own views and experiences (b) a cannibal; femme fatale (c) one who or that which aids or helps, especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory (d) any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds

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n. thearchy (a) a public street or road (b) a Spanish dance, illustrative of the passion of love, accompanied by caste nets and singing (c) government by a supreme deity (d) inflexibility

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n. parish (a) a priest; clergyman; parson; spiritual leader; spiritual guide (b) an extent of projection (c) a trifling act, thought, saying or practice (d) a proposition following so obviously from another that it requires little demonstration

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v. invalidate (a) to write over again (something already written) (b) to render of no force or effect (c) to lose spirit, courage or hope (d) to accuse in return

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adj. illusive (a) compassionate (c) deceptive

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 19

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v. imbibe (a) to throw into confusion (b) to drink or take in (c) to make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients (d) to encircle

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v. reign (a) to put out of proper place or order (b) to share the sentiments or mental states of another (c) to rule; control; govern; predominate; prevail; be widespread (d) to put in order after disarrangement

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v. capitulate (a) to surrender or stipulate terms (b) to converse in (c) to diminish and come to a stop; give out; expire; fade; die out (d) to make milder or more endurable

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v. jeopardize (a) to imperil (b) to make complex, difficult or hard to deal with (c) to ruin or destroy little by little (d) to depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest

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v. incarcerate (a) to imprison (c) to refer incidentally or by suggestion

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(b) to burn slightly or superficially (d) to be in pain or distress

v. preordain (a) to pass backward and forward irregularly from one state or degree to another (b) to foreordain (c) to attribute (d) to articulate or enunciate with special impressiveness upon a word or a group of words

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v. wizen (a) to regard with blame (c) to dispossess pursuant to judicial decree

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(b) to clear of woods (d) to become or cause to become withered or dry

n. impulsion (a) a small or unimportant particular or detail (b) the act or process of sucking up (c) impetus (d) a fleshy fruit; trailing or climbing plant which bears this fruit

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v. sear (a) to kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person (b) to predict (c) to burn on the surface (d) to perceive by taste or smell

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v. impugn (a) to assail with arguments, insinuations or accusations (b) to pull or force away by or as by violent twisting or wringing (c) to mediate between persons (d) to beg

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 20

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adj. consecutive (a) following in uninterrupted succession

(b) not general or public

(c) affording gratification

(d) mentioned previously

n. transcript (a) an inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father (b) reproof (c) a copy made directly from an original (d) diversion

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adj. wiry (a) thin, but tough and sinewy (b) belonging to or under control of neither of two contestants (c) hurtful, morally or physically (d) affected with a whirling or swimming sensation in the head

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n. solicitor (a) profound lethargy (b) a hereditary nobility (c) one who represents a client in court of justice; an attorney (d) a total departure from one's faith or religion

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n. bombardier (a) harmony (b) a person who receives money (c) an instrument for determining the density of solids and liquids by flotation (d) a person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells

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v. tarnish (a) to suffer a return of a disease after partial recovery (b) to lessen or destroy the luster of in any way (c) to make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients (d) to hold back

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adj. semiconscious (a) calm (c) partially awake

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(b) furiously voracious or hungry (d) dormant

adv. amply (a) without objection or reluctance (b) sufficiently (c) not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others (d) merrily

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n. interdict (a) a view or contemplation of something past (b) authoritative act of prohibition (c) a young goose (d) anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc

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adj. mediocre (a) bewildered

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 21

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adj. pandemic (a) religious (b) affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease (c) marked by extreme suffering (d) habitually inactive or idle

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adj. insular (a) extraordinarily generous (b) pertaining to an island (c) gloomy (d) given to severe self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion

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adj. decapod (a) speedy

(b) ten-footed or ten-armed

(c) boisterously merry

(d) insufficient

adj. reducible (a) hurtful (b) economical (c) harsh (d) can be decreased; diminishable; can be expressed in a simpler form

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adj. infrequent (a) uncommon (b) inexplicable (c) capable of reformation (d) having a fellow-feeling for or like feelings with another or others

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adj. supernumerary (a) extra; additional; being more than the usual amount (b) passable; can be crossed; can be steered through (c) characteristic of woman or womankind (d) not copied nor produced by imitation

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adj. granular (a) having no limit or end (c) expressing an engagement to pay

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(b) composed of small grains or particles (d) mischievous; harmful; evil

adj. pluperfect (a) necessary (b) pertaining to the moon (c) expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action (d) urgent

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adj. incoherent (a) absolute (b) not logically coordinated, as to parts, elements or details (c) above price (d) opening in flower

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adj. terminal (a) fancied (b) showing abundance (c) warlike (d) pertaining to or creative of a boundary or limit

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 22

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n. premonition (a) foreboding (c) an insane propensity to set things on fire

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(b) unyielding adherence (d) the act or process of change

n. oration (a) a Greek epic poem describing scenes from the siege of Troy (b) somebody or something that is substituted for or appointed to act in place of another (c) an elaborate or formal public speech (d) an alloy or union of mercury with another metal

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n. piece (a) a loose or separated part, as distinguished from the whole or the mass (b) the violation of official duty, lawful right or a legal obligation (c) something that moves to action or serves as an incentive or stimulus (d) a cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, intended for dipping up and pouring liquids

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n. benediction (a) interval of rest (c) a solemn invocation of the divine blessing

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n. furtherance (a) a castle or manor-house (c) lack of manly qualities; femininity

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(b) hatred of mankind (d) uncertainty

(b) the moon (d) advancement

n. blockade (a) stubborn adherence to opinion, arising from conceit or the desire to have one's own way (b) importance (c) anything done or said on the impulse of the moment (d) the shutting up of a town, a frontier or a line of coast by hostile forces

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n. potion (a) the presiding officer of a meeting (c) a dose of liquid medicine

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(b) a European unit of length (d) an agreeable odor

n. hardihood (a) hillside (b) a question or inquiry (c) the written or printed productions of the human mind collectively (d) foolish daring

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n. employee (a) person who works for wages or a salary (c) the act of taking back or taking again

(b) a bad name or character (d) a range of action or view

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 23

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v. quadrate (a) to burn slightly or superficially (c) to divide into quarters

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(b) to afflict with pain, vexation or fatigue (d) to move back or away

v. abrade (a) discharge from military service; disband an army (b) to inflict, as a revenge or punishment (c) to deny (d) to wear away the surface or some part of by friction

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v. crystallize (a) to be in collusion (b) to swallow greedily or hastily; to gulp (c) to bring together or give fixed shape to (d) to become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service

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v. bombard (a) to liquefy or soften, as by heat or moisture (b) to assail with any missile or with abusive speech (c) assist; aid; stand by (d) to comply; to submit

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v. sibilate (a) to recover after a sickness (b) to give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s (c) to perform ceremony; perform duty; serve as officiator; referee (Sports) (d) to return to a former place or condition

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v. undercharge (a) to request an inadequate price for something (b) to apportion (c) to make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar (d) to hasten the movement or progress of

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n. narration (a) donor; donator (b) the act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence (c) a condition of perfect agreement and accord (d) the act of conveying from one person or place to another

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adj. esthetic (a) easily bent (b) pertaining to beauty, taste or the fine arts (c) extra; additional; being more than the usual amount (d) biting

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v. eliminate (a) to separate and cast aside (b) to review with care, especially with a view to a reversal of previous action (c) to swing back and forth (d) to force in by means of a syringe or other device; to infuse

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v. intercede (a) to cut or carve in or upon some surface (b) to cause to incline and approach nearer together (c) to mediate between persons (d) to perform ceremony; perform duty; serve as officiator; referee (Sports)

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 24

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v. proffer (a) to extend opposite to (b) to divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions (c) to suggest; to propose (d) to harden or toughen by use, exercise or exposure

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v. repress (a) to ask information about

(b) to move or excite (the feelings or thoughts)

(c) to keep under restraint or control

(d) to disenchant

n. hydrodynamics (a) the study of force exerted by the motion of liquids (b) the quality of frankness or outspokenness (c) the coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state or personage (d) the union of a man and a woman in marriage

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v. equalize (a) to oppose with an equal force (b) to refer to specifically (c) to group, sort, arrange systematically; make confidential (d) to render uniform

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n. phonology (a) the science of man in general (b) a ready, witty or apt reply (c) the science of human vocal sounds (d) a body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment

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n. entree (a) access; act of accessing (b) a variety of the peach (c) any act of condemnation and rejection from favor and privilege (d) temperance

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adj. risible (a) capable of exciting laughter (b) happening out of court (c) making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety (d) dominant

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n. trio (a) three things grouped or associated together (b) a pavement or floor or any supporting surface on which one may walk (c) a criticism or critical review (d) a group of seven governments

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v. hoodwink (a) to deprive attractive properties (c) to deceive

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(b) to make sad; discourage (d) to tear rudely or raggedly

n. topography (a) mode of speech (b) the art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy (c) a complete series of connected military operations (d) a judgment as a conclusion

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adj. frantic (a) violently abusive and quarrelsome (c) detestable

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(b) capable of being appealed to (d) frenzied

adj. tentative (a) beginning (b) done as an experiment (c) fixed or done capriciously (d) caused by or denoting a diseased or unsound condition of body or mind

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adj. insatiable (a) bulging (b) that desires or craves immoderately or unappeasably (c) countless (d) not mandatory

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adj. inland (a) remote from the sea (b) impersonating; putting on a false appearance; feigning; arrogant; haughty (c) inexpedient (d) ungracious

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adj. conjugate (a) hilly (c) joined together in pairs

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(b) expressing an engagement to pay (d) sweetly or smoothly flowing

adj. septennial (a) binding in law or conscience (c) recurring every seven years

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(b) broken in spirit because of a sense of sin (d) afraid to express facts or opinions plainly

adj. suggestible (a) compassionate (b) operative on, affecting or having reference to past events, transactions or responsibilities (c) biting (d) proposable

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adj. indicant (a) like a lion (c) nervously high-strung

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(b) nourishing; healthy; of high food value (d) that which points out

v. alienate (a) to suffer extremity of hunger or thirst (c) to play tricks of sleight of hand

(b) to give up using or having (d) to cause to turn away

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 26

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n. virago (a) relatives (b) form of speech used only or chiefly in conversation (c) a bold, impudent, turbulent woman (d) the manner in which a thing is placed

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n. homophone (a) the territory of a reigning prince (b) the arrangement of composed type or the appearance of printed matter (c) a word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another (d) seriousness

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n. diversion (a) the state or feeling of trust in or reliance upon another (b) a sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted (c) pastime (d) a fixed adherence to a resolve, course of conduct or the like

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n. regalia (a) the emblems of royalty (c) development or growth

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(b) unwillingness (d) the art of discourse

n. efficacy (b) resemblance or correspondence in sound (d) adequate return for good or ill

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n. spectator (a) forcible ejection (c) funeral rites

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(b) description of nature (d) person who beholds or looks on

n. dissentient (a) one who manages affairs of any kind (b) encroachment, as by an act of intrusion or trespass (c) person who disagrees (d) a token fee or payment to a professional man for services

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n. intoxicant (a) a solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine (b) anything that unduly exhilarates or excites (c) a small body of water leading into a larger (d) the doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth

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n. rancor (a) malice (c) prolonged sluggishness of body or mind

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(b) evasion (d) deceitfulness in dealing

n. superlative (a) something that is of the highest possible excellence or eminence (b) a distinguishing feature or quality (c) a consequence (d) the branch of science that treats of the pressure and equilibrium of fluids

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v. devise (a) to invent (b) to maltreat (c) to speculate (d) to take, demand or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds

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v. rejuvenate (a) to gain supremacy; to subdue; to take control of (b) to run, organize, or deal with something incompetently (c) to restore to youth (d) to go before as introducing or ushering in

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v. consummate (a) to delegate authority to

(b) to encircle

(c) to bring to completion

(d) to wet or moisten

v. cull (a) to fill with impediments so as to prevent passage, either wholly or in part (b) to agree (c) to pick or sort out from the rest (d) to be the ground or support of

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v. extrude (a) to continue to exist after (c) to drive out or away

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(b) to indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding (d) to cause to turn aside or downward

v. recure (a) to have knowledge of or receive impressions concerning, through the medium of the body senses (b) to find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible (c) to make bigger (d) to recover; to regain; to repossess

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adj. heteromorphic (a) fear-inspiring (b) of good ancestry (c) deviating from the normal form or standard type (d) funny

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n. dowry (a) a violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow (b) a renewal of youth (c) the property which a wife brings to her husband in marriage (d) person who consumes time idly

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v. deliquesce (a) to drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass (b) to dissolve gradually and become liquid by absorption of moisture from the air (c) to reorganize; put in order again (d) to make satisfaction or amends for

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v. emancipate (a) to represent by sketch or diagram (b) to manage or carry through by some device or scheme (c) to release from bondage (d) to crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 28

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adj. crustaceous (a) resembling a hard shell (b) without resolute purpose or energy (c) indicating source, origin, possession or the like (d) slanting; said of lines

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adj. prominent (a) conspicuous in position, character or importance (b) of senatorial or noble rank (c) showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of feeling (d) melancholy

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v. pare (a) to set right, as a wrong by compensation or the punishment of the wrong-doer (b) to utter with complaining tone (c) to wish joy or happiness to somebody, especially in view of a coming event (d) to cut, shave or remove (the outside) from anything

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n. pauper (a) a dictionary (c) use of many words without necessity

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(b) person without means of support (d) active humanitarianism

n. bray (a) a loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or the blast of a horn (b) one of the small triangular plane surfaces of a diamond or other gem (c) a church office endowed with funds or property for the maintenance of divine service (d) a brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral

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n. contraposition (a) something that does not accomplish an intended purpose; incompetency; incapability (b) a placing opposite (c) a city or district with its own government; city council; governing body of the local area (d) description of nature

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v. boycott (a) to endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill or possessions (b) to remove or destroy the poison of infectious or contagious diseases (c) to lessen the worth of (d) to place the products or merchandise of under a ban

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v. commemorate (a) to call on for assistance or protection (c) to serve as a remembrance of

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(b) to smother (d) to calculate arithmetically

adj. insidious (a) easy to approach (c) excessively sparing in the use of money

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(b) working ill by slow and stealthy means (d) befuddled with drinks

v. preempt (a) to secure the right of preference in the purchase of public land (b) to delay or put off to some other time (c) to renounce upon oath (d) to deduce, as from a premise

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 29

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adj. diaphanous (a) transparent (c) directed toward the side

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(b) reddish-brown, said usually of the hair (d) pleased or satisfied with oneself

adj. unique (a) being the only one of its kind (c) punitive

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(b) situated beneath the tongue (d) having womanish traits or qualities

adj. succinct (a) of a wild, fierce, and savage nature (b) concise (c) having such anger and scorn as is aroused by meanness or wickedness (d) exhibiting moral skepticism

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adj. accursed (a) of or pertaining to the animal reproductive organs (b) utterly ridiculous or absurd (c) doomed to evil, misery or misfortune (d) mentally sound

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adj. repressible (a) measureless (c) able to be kept under restraint or control

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adj. octogenarian (a) not perceptible to the touch (c) shameful

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(b) resembling waves (d) lasting or continuous until a person's death

(b) capable of being turned back (d) a person of between eighty and ninety years

adj. cereal (a) impartial (b) pertaining to edible grain or farinaceous seeds (c) without resolute purpose or energy (d) even-tempered

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n. almanac (a) that which is agreeable to a fine taste (b) that of which anything is composed or may be constructed (c) a series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information (d) the quality of curving in and out

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adj. ambidextrous (a) having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease (b) philosophical (c) habitually complaining (d) withered

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 30

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n. preexistence (a) previous life; life before the present (b) any application soothing to an irritable surface (c) power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas (d) self denial

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n. decaliter (a) anything that gives security or defense (b) a liquid and dry measure of 10 liters (c) the act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation (d) a cloak

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n. judgment (a) self-imposed punishment; self-mortification; affliction (b) in prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet (c) the name or title by which a particular person, class or thing is called (d) the faculty by the exercise of which a deliberate conclusion is reached

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n. bumper (a) solitude (b) a cup or glass filled to the brim, especially one to be drunk as a toast or health (c) a person raving with madness (d) self-conceit

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n. symphony (a) a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds (b) the science of life or living organisms (c) any condition of which the elements or parts are in utter disorder and confusion (d) a settled course or manner of progress

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n. insistence (a) the chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right (b) a tenant in possession of property, as distinguished from the actual owner (c) urgency (d) the flesh of deer

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n. irreverence (a) person who or that which precedes or goes before, as in time, place, rank, order or causality (b) the quality showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things (c) angry or violent difference of opinion (d) hindrance

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n. deportment (a) melancholy (b) a renewal of youth (c) demeanor (d) a critical judge of art, especially one with thorough knowledge and sound judgment of art

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n. codicil (a) the science that treats of the functions and diseases peculiar to women (b) voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies (c) an allurer or enticer to evil (d) a supplement adding to, revoking or explaining in the body of a will

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n. novice (a) a beginner in any business or occupation (b) a loose or separated part, as distinguished from the whole or the mass (c) number that is deducted from an amount (d) emptying of liquid; channeling; sewage; waste water

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 31

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v. obviate (a) to change in nature, substance or form (b) to clear away or provide for, as an objection or difficulty (c) to spread abroad or from person to person (d) to proclaim by outcry

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v. transfuse (a) to pour or cause to pass, as a fluid, from one vessel to another (b) to assail with any missile or with abusive speech (c) to cough up and spit forth (d) to chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated

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v. overleap (a) to go too far; skip (b) to assert as a fact (c) to cause to assume a leaning or recumbent attitude or position (d) to make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law

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v. retrace (a) to deprive of the power to act (b) to reunite after separation (c) to deprive of any right privilege or power (d) to follow backward or toward the place of beginning, as a track or marking

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v. purloin (a) to warn of a fault (c) to steal

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(b) to correspond (d) to render flustered or agitated

v. retouch (a) to modify the details of (b) to go about with a small stock of goods to sell (c) to like the taste or savor of (d) to extend

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adv. thereabout (a) at a subsequent time (b) near that number, quantity, degree, place or time; approximately (c) sufficiently (d) gradually

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adj. irrefragable (a) pithy (c) of or pertaining to or like a city

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(b) that can not be refuted or disproved (d) verbose

v. disrupt (a) to make to conform to some mental or imaginary standard (b) to sprinkle or cover with things strewn (c) to contend (d) to burst or break asunder

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v. repudiate (a) to refuse to have anything to do with (b) to play at courtship with a woman (c) to oppose by argument or a sufficient answer (d) to secure the right of preference in the purchase of public land

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 32

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n. workmanship (a) blessing (c) person who incites to evil

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(b) depravity (d) artistry; skillfulness; manner of execution

n. pervasion (a) a laborer who changes jobs frequently (c) the state of spreading through every part

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adj. inarticulate (a) speechless (c) made to resemble something else

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(b) pliable (d) not connected with what precedes

adj. incipient (a) following in uninterrupted succession (c) untenable

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(b) impetus (d) a journey

(b) initial (d) capable of being thrust out

n. prudence (a) a legislative body (b) caution (c) the act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination or product (d) nonsense

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n. galvanism (a) current electricity, especially that arising from chemical action (b) particular conduct or administration of affairs (c) the call for a repetition, as of some part of a play or performance (d) a muscle that causes extension

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n. needlework (a) the act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination or product (b) embroidery (c) the time of year when the sun is at its greatest declination (d) the act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy

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adv. wherever (a) in or at whatever place (c) immediately

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(b) fully (d) rudely; meekly, modestly; humbly

n. diminution (a) an allurer or enticer to evil (b) silence; noiselessness; stillness; tranquility; muteness; speechlessness; peacefulness; calmness (c) reduction (d) a slave or bondman

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 33

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adj. impartial (a) commonplace

(b) incipient

(c) prevailing among animals

(d) unbiased

adj. unicellular (a) smooth (b) one who advocates reconstruction of society by collective ownership of land and capital (c) consisting of a single loculus (d) consisting of two pairs

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adj. perceptible (a) cognizable (b) fearless and bold (c) having or marking equality of temperature (d) having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease

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adj. complex (a) belonging, relating to or abounding in color

(b) joined together in pairs

(c) composite; made up of interconnected parts

(d) impious

adj. ichthyic (a) marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner (b) flimsy (c) fish-like (d) economical

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adj. uppermost (a) tasteless (b) eating or living upon food of all kinds indiscriminately (c) mentally sound (d) first in order of precedence

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adj. airy (a) being in a condition of perfect agreement and accord (b) delicate; ethereal (c) not full-grown (d) colorless

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adj. oaken (a) characterized by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds (b) imperceptible to the touch (c) of unequaled excellence or worth (d) made out of wood

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adj. glutinous (a) pedantic; cautious concerning minute details; scrupulous (b) sticky (c) abominable (d) having an aptitude for applying oneself to new and varied tasks or to various subjects

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adj. odorous (a) capable of being conveyed from one person or place to another (b) inapplicable (c) separating, as oil and water (d) fragrant; releasing a good smell

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 34

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n. expense (a) the laying out or expending or money or other resources, as time or strength (b) person who mortgages; person who gives property as security to the bank in order to receive a credit (c) change for the better (d) the system, doctrine and practice of the Roman Church

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n. breach (a) a detailed account or diary of a journey (b) a light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints (c) a situation where the supply of products exceeds demand (d) the violation of official duty, lawful right or a legal obligation

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n. demurrage (a) the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing (b) a sense of injury (c) a young girl; sweetheart (d) an instrument for illustrating the laws of rotation

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n. conscience (a) the faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct (b) a conclusion or judgment held with confidence but falling short of positive knowledge (c) divider; act of dividing; segment; section; division of the storage area of a hard disk (d) accordance with recognized usage, custom or principles

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n. efficiency (a) anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms (b) a file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance (c) wide-spread occurrence of a disease in a certain region (d) the state of possessing adequate skill or knowledge for the performance of a duty

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n. attorney-general (a) the chief law-officer of a government (b) the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind (c) an image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy (d) tendency to adhere to the existing order of things

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n. felony (a) one of the highest class of offenses, and punishable with death or imprisonment (b) advancement (c) any impulse or incentive (d) the quality showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things

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adj. sentient (a) having no fixed abode (b) falling off at maturity as petals after flowering, fruit when ripe, etc (c) antiquated (d) possessing the power of sense or sense-perception

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n. deference (a) a substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms (b) respectful submission or yielding, as to another's opinion, wishes or judgment (c) a very boastful and talkative person; a vain boaster (d) the act or sensation of hearing

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n. pedant (a) misfortune (b) a person having charge as of a library or museum (c) a scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning (d) cultivation

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 35

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v. writhe (a) to speak evil of, especially to do so falsely and severely (b) to debar (c) to twist the body, face or limbs or as in pain or distress (d) to clear of woods

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v. aggravate (a) to make heavier, worse or more burdensome (b) to bargain with others for an agreement, as for a treaty or transfer of property (c) to divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts (d) to prove to be wrong

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v. transmit (a) to await (b) to send trough or across (c) to anger; to infuriate; to annoy; to irritate (d) to regard with grief or sorrow

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v. evanesce (a) determine beforehand before hearing evidence (c) to retake; to repossess

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(b) to tear rudely or raggedly (d) to vanish gradually

v. refer (a) to direct or send for information or other purpose (b) to burn or sear as with a heated iron (c) to chide or rebuke for a fault (d) to influence controllingly

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v. disown (a) to cut off (from an inheritance, family, etc.); repudiate; disavow; renounce (b) to cause to be loved (c) to anger; to infuriate; to annoy; to irritate (d) to cause to burst in pieces by force from within

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v. animate (a) to deduce, as from a premise (b) to cause to explode (c) to make alive (d) to render ludicrous by imitating the language of

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v. felicitate (a) to derive or draw as a conclusion by reasoning from given premises or principles (b) to wish joy or happiness to somebody, especially in view of a coming event (c) to devote oneself to a particular profession or field of study (d) to mumble something over and over

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v. forgo (a) to add or affix at the end (c) to pollute

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(b) to deny oneself (d) to apportion

v. insulate (a) to pass criticism or censure (c) to place in a detached state or situation

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 36

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n. network (a) a liquid and dry measure of 10 liters (b) a wild and uncivilized human being (c) something that annoys, vexes or irritates (d) anything that presents a system of cross lines

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n. opinion (a) a conclusion or judgment held with confidence but falling short of positive knowledge (b) a wise and faithful teacher, guide and friend (c) the quality of affecting the sense of smell (d) a continuance in the same state or without any change that destroys the essential form or nature

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adj. monotonous (a) pertaining to war or military operations

(b) supreme in authority

(c) unchanging and tedious

(d) noteworthy

adj. transcontinental (a) scornfully or bitterly sarcastic (b) from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the United States (c) revengeful (d) wandering

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adj. passible (a) having the nature or quality of soap (c) pertaining to streams

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(b) lacking the power of feeling or perceiving (d) capable of feeling of suffering

v. deteriorate (a) to wear away the surface or some part of by friction (b) to convey, remove or cause to pass from one person or place to another (c) to make payment for (d) to grow worse

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v. emblazon (a) to estimate something less than the true worth (b) to set forth publicly or in glowing terms (c) to draw out (d) to keep sacred

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v. macadamize (a) to deceive (b) to cover or pave, as a path or roadway, with small broken stone (c) to foreordain (d) to cause to turn on or as on its axis, as a wheel

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adj. frigid (a) intrinsic

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(b) lacking warmth

(c) well-balanced

(d) imperceptible

n. paleontology (a) a list, in the order of succession, of ancestors and their descendants (b) a constituent element or part (c) the branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms (d) a use of words peculiar to a particular language

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 37

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adj. impersonal (a) lacking friendliness or warmth; inhuman; detached (b) pertaining to a piece of land almost surrounded by water (c) having little or no book-learning (d) oily

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adj. immaterial (a) thorough and complete in execution (b) of no essential consequence (c) inexpedient (d) less important or effective than that which is primary

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adj. didactic (b) delightful to the taste or to the senses (d) characterized by charity and kindness

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adj. gallant (a) reluctant (b) possessing a brave or chivalrous spirit (c) showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things (d) pliable

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adj. convergent (a) pertaining to the domain over which a sovereign state exercises jurisdiction (b) tending to one point (c) moderately good (d) pertaining to teaching

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adj. disobedient (a) neglecting or refusing to obey (c) laughable and contemptible

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(b) pertaining to war or military operations (d) rich, sweet, and delicious

adj. extensible (a) pedigreed; cultured (c) fleeting

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(b) capable of being thrust out (d) lacking color or brilliancy

n. aqueduct (a) the crime of marrying any other person while having a legal spouse living (b) a council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon the affairs of government (c) an emergency legislation authorizing a government suspend some action temporarily (d) a water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance

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adj. extant (a) still existing and known (b) first in rank or position (c) wanton (d) evil in nature or tending to do great harm or mischief

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adj. potent (b) belonging to or suggestive of the spring (d) very significant

(a) boundless (c) physically powerful

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 38

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n. metaphysics (a) the principles of philosophy as applied to explain the methods of any particular science (b) a grotesque imitation (c) sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone (d) person who works with or controls some machine or scientific apparatus

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n. pledger (a) person who mortgages; person who gives property as security to the bank in order to receive a credit (b) thought-transference (c) digression (d) treatment

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n. decency (a) a bibliographical sketch or notice (b) a coin or coins of gold, silver, copper or other metal (c) moral fitness (d) a stream that unites with another

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n. reversion (a) dependence on charity (b) a return to or toward some former state or condition (c) a species of lyric poems (d) a person who is moved or directed

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n. antitoxin (a) a substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms (b) a woman who has never been married (c) Irish word for lake; long inlet of the sea; bay (d) an utterance intended to cast censure or reproach

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n. arcade (a) any opinion, principle, dogma or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as true (b) a vaulted passageway or street; a roofed passageway having shops etc., opening from it (c) a substance possessing or reputed to possess curative or remedial properties (d) a gum or resin which on burning yields aromatic fumes

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n. hindrance (a) a leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows (b) writing or handwriting of the ordinary cursive form (c) person who asks humbly and earnestly (d) an obstacle

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n. alteration (a) an action or event considered as coming between others of greater length (b) a happening (c) a six-stringed instrument from the 16th and 17th centuries (d) change or modification

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adj. virulent (a) situated beyond or on the other side of the ocean (b) disposed to peevishness (c) exceedingly noxious or deleterious (d) of or pertaining to the eye

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n. component (a) a constituent element or part (b) any guard or watch stationed for protection (c) a cup or glass filled to the brim, especially one to be drunk as a toast or health (d) deep wisdom or knowledge

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v. pollute (a) to designate by word or mark (c) to make light by fermentation, as dough

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(b) to league together (d) to contaminate

v. enrapture (a) to disturb greatly (b) to delight extravagantly or intensely (c) to diminish in size and brilliancy (d) adapt for theatrical presentation; exaggerate

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v. repel (a) to force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally (b) to make a mathematical error (c) to inscribe with a future point of time (d) to secure the right of preference in the purchase of public land

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v. attest (a) to inflame with passion (b) to cause to cease temporarily (c) to turn from the accustomed course or a line of action already established (d) to certify as accurate, genuine or true

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v. stifle (a) to name one by one (c) to become worse or inferior

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(b) to proclaim by outcry (d) to smother

v. ingraft (a) to deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate (b) to set or implant deeply and firmly (c) to puncture slightly with fine, sharp points (d) to build up or strengthen, especially in morals or religion

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adj. demonstrable (a) judicious (c) agreeable

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(b) warlike (d) capable of positive proof

n. regality (a) enmity (b) largeness; stateliness, magnificence; importance; nobility (c) a waiting room for those who seek audience (d) royalty

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v. petrify (a) to delight extravagantly or intensely (b) to convert into a substance of stony hardness and character (c) to bestow (d) to exercise a directing, restraining or governing influence over

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v. parody (a) to render ludicrous by imitating the language of (b) to be under moral obligation to be or do (c) to do anything extemporaneously or offhand (d) to make warm by genial heat

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v. parley (a) to pile or heap together (b) to converse in (c) to be an obstacle or to place obstacles in the way of (d) to push down forcibly

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n. felicity (a) frequency (b) censure or ridicule under cover of praise or compliment (c) a state of well-founded happiness (d) ill or poor conduct

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n. buffoon (a) a clown (b) a loose or separated part, as distinguished from the whole or the mass (c) a theory of evolution that includes findings of modern genetics (d) that which is agreeable to a fine taste

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n. numeration (a) the written or printed productions of the human mind collectively (b) process by which a word is traced from its original root or primitive form and meaning (c) the quality of making a clamor (d) the act or art of reading or naming numbers

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adj. chromatic (a) loathsome (b) indulging, ministering or pertaining to daintiness of appetite (c) sharing the same views or sentiments (d) belonging, relating to or abounding in color

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v. outweigh (a) to lower in position, estimation or the like; to degrade (b) to surpass in importance or excellence (c) to become dull or inert (d) to give an exalted meaning or glorified appearance to

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adj. habitable (a) irregular (c) eagerly desirous and aspiring

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(b) done or made in jest (d) fit to be dwelt in

n. tenor (a) enmity (c) in cricket, the player who delivers the ball

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(b) a settled course or manner of progress (d) a faint trace of color

n. discussion (a) a title of honor or respectful address, equivalent to sir (b) luster (c) debate (d) a parasite

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n. abhorrence (a) the act of detesting extremely (b) dependence (c) a figure having seven sides and seven angles (d) one of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins

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adj. permissible (a) speaking several tongues

(b) difficult of approach

(c) proposable

(d) that may be allowed

adj. vindicative (a) mercenary, corrupt (b) appropriate (c) radically different or contrary in action or movement (d) revengeful

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adj. pectoral (a) pertaining to the breast or thorax

(b) doomed to evil, misery or misfortune

(c) of senatorial or noble rank

(d) uncommon

adj. impure (a) having no money (b) of or pertaining to cooking or the kitchen (c) tainted (d) siding with a specific group or cause; devoted; zealously supportive; biased

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adj. galore (a) of similar nature or qualities (b) exhibiting haughty and careless contempt (c) consisting of that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse (d) abundant

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adj. powerless (a) impotent (b) eating or living on flesh (c) extra; additional; being more than the usual amount (d) having a malign influence or effect

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adj. decent (a) characterized by great strength or power of endurance (b) qualified for selection (c) characterized by propriety of conduct, speech, manners or dress (d) wordy

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n. propulsion (a) the rule of many (b) a schoolmaster (c) a driving onward or forward (d) lawful power or right to exercise official authority

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adj. subordinate (a) imperceptible to the touch (b) roving or wandering, as in search of adventure or opportunity for gallant deeds (c) belonging to an inferior order in a classification (d) of prime or special importance

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adj. plausible (a) pertaining to the nature of sound (b) composed of heterogeneous or inharmonious elements (c) seeming likely to be true, though open to doubt (d) fleeting

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n. confinement (a) one who earns his bread by physical labor (b) self-distrust (c) restriction within limits or boundaries (d) any ointment or lubricant for local application

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n. subsistence (a) protrusion of any internal organ in whole or in part from its normal position (b) one of the most ancient of stringed instruments of the harp class (c) existence; being; something which supports or maintains life or existence (d) toleration

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n. vinery (a) the communication of disease from person to person (b) the skull of an animal, especially that part enclosing the brain (c) a greenhouse for grapes (d) relative disposition of parts

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n. mausoleum (a) a tomb of more than ordinary size or architectural pretensions (b) the state of possessing adequate skill or knowledge for the performance of a duty (c) in prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet (d) a trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observation

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n. continuance (a) a formal token of regard, often presented in public (b) a certain time of year (in July) (c) permanence (d) a man who owns and lets a tenement or tenements

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n. trickery (a) a person against whom a suit is brought (b) artifice (c) a petty male monarch (d) a note or designation of honor, officially recognizing superiority or success in studies

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n. interrogatory (a) the earliest victim in any cause (c) a treasurer

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(b) impetus (d) a question or inquiry

n. countryman (a) scarcity, as of something customary, essential or desirable (b) a rustic (c) the branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms (d) emptying of liquid; channeling; sewage; waste water

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n. epidermis (a) a smoke-duct in a chimney (c) deceitfulness in dealing

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(b) the outer skin (d) the act of moving or going downward

n. ire (a) a slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coast-line (b) preconceived opinion; bias; sentence passed before proper examination of the circumstances (c) a superficial amateur (d) wrath

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v. reunite (a) to continue steadfast against opposition (c) to bring together again

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v. consolidate (a) to combine into one body or system (c) to communicate or work together

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(b) to deny (d) to foil or frustrate

(b) to inflict severe pain or agony upon (d) to bring into a peaceful state

v. avow (a) to declare openly (b) to pour or cause to pass, as a fluid, from one vessel to another (c) to indicate as being about to happen, especially by previous signs (d) to give courage to

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v. forfend (a) to make more easy (b) to produce or cause to be (c) to determine the amount of (a tax or other sum to be paid) (d) to ward off

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v. luxuriate (a) to speak or write a laudation of a person's life or character (b) to place the products or merchandise of under a ban (c) to live sumptuously (d) to present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong

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v. shrivel (a) to conquer (b) to yield to or display intense and rapturous feelings (c) to trouble with importunities, cares or annoyances (d) to draw or be drawn into wrinkles

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v. disparage (a) to regard or speak of slightingly (b) to place, keep or withdraw from the companionship of others (c) to confine within bounds (d) to reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree

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adv. aboveboard (b) without concealment, fraud or trickery (d) in progress

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v. cede (a) to cease from action (c) to pass title to

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(b) to fill with high or cheerful spirits (d) to deaden the sound of, as by wraps

v. granulate (a) to get or sit upon astride, as a horse (b) to form into grains or small particles (c) to twist into an unnatural or irregular form (d) to forerun; to come or go before; to live in a previous life

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 44

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adj. inadequate (a) that can not be blotted out, effaced, destroyed or removed (b) pertaining to, expressing or containing praise (c) fleeting (d) insufficient

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n. radiance (a) sweat (b) a casket, coffer or repository in which relics are kept (c) a weight hung on a rod, serving by its oscillation to regulate the rate of a clock (d) brilliant or sparkling luster

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n. nit (a) shortness of duration (c) a charge for a firearm or for blasting

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(b) a winding motion (d) the egg of a louse or some other insect

n. neology (a) one who makes or sells fabrics (b) a spirit of charitable leniency (c) restriction within limits or boundaries (d) the coining or using of new words or new meanings of words

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n. alcohol (a) discontinuance, as of action or motion (b) trickery (c) a volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste (d) a general name for all kinds of weapons and their appliances used in war

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n. univalence (a) monovalency (b) a hollow projectile containing an explosive material (c) truth (d) the act of ending or concluding

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n. heptarchy (a) that which contains and gives shape or form to anything (b) sadness; low spirits (c) component (d) a group of seven governments

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n. canon (a) a projection; act of causing to bulge outward; something that sticks out (b) any rule or law (c) a mark that mars beauty (d) gentlemen

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v. harass (a) to trouble with importunities, cares or annoyances (b) to flow forth or proceed, as from some source (c) to hide by pretending something different (d) to render uniform

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v. ingratiate (a) to imperil (b) to quarrel (c) to win confidence or good graces for oneself (d) to fill with impediments so as to prevent passage, either wholly or in part

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adj. audible (a) loud enough to be heard (b) awe-inspiring (c) very great in degree, extent, size or quantity (d) of, pertaining to or contained or carried in a vein or veins

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adj. sumptuous (a) noteworthy (b) yielding to the desires or humor of oneself or those under one's care (c) rich and costly (d) conducted or acting on business principles; commercial

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adj. impassible (a) not moved or affected by feeling

(b) tremendous

(c) more than sufficient

(d) severely painful or acute to the spirit

adj. lifelong (a) of a warlike or combative disposition or tendency (b) farthest from the front (c) at variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion (d) lasting or continuous until a person's death

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adj. creamy (a) smooth (b) peculiar to or proceeding from the weakness or infirmity of old age (c) beyond which there is nothing else (d) eating or living upon food of all kinds indiscriminately

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adj. demonstrative (a) inclined to strong exhibition or expression of feeling or thoughts (b) having the right or privilege of entry (c) pertaining to studies that are pursued after receiving a degree (d) pertaining to or creative of a boundary or limit

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adj. irreverential (a) idiotic (b) relating to or denoting equal intervals of time (c) showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things (d) vague

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adj. lyric (a) producing coagulation (b) situated directly underneath (c) characterized by illiberal views or sentiments (d) fitted for expression in song

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adj. reticent (a) habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance (b) possessing wisdom (c) lasting but a short time (d) roomy

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adj. clandestine (a) having a hairy covering (c) surreptitious

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n. seignior (a) mercy (b) an excessive amount of a medicine which is toxic (c) a title of honor or respectful address, equivalent to sir (d) that property of matter by which a body tends to return to a former shape after being changed

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n. penitence (a) a statement so plainly true as hardly to require statement or proof (b) insensibility to kindness (c) sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone (d) the art of preparing and serving appetizing food

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n. abyss (a) the act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition (b) a thing that differs from another in form only, being the same in essence or substance (c) frequency (d) bottomless gulf

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n. moderator (a) the act of placing side by side, together or in contact (b) the presiding officer of a meeting (c) political and social system of medieval Europe (d) a professor of divinity

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n. cosmos (a) the world or universe considered as a system, perfect in order and arrangement (b) a levy, by government, of a fixed contribution (c) a list of persons who have died in a certain place or time (d) a retraction

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n. theism (a) a mechanical, chemical or pathological agent of inflammation, pain or tension (b) the state or quality of being of one mind (c) one who takes part in forcible opposition to the constituted authorities of a place (d) belief in God

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n. malevolence (a) ill will; spitefulness (b) liability to be broken or destroyed (c) an intermediate state where souls are made fit for paradise or heaven by expiatory suffering (d) that by which anything is transported

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n. egoist (a) one who advocates or practices egoism (b) verbal controversy (c) an instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure (d) a collection of tabular masses of floating polar ice

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n. consort (a) a mental condition of fixed opposition to or dislike of some particular thing (b) an incident or story in a literary work, separable from yet growing out of it (c) a companion or associate (d) the contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants

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n. diatribe (a) an emergency legislation authorizing a government suspend some action temporarily (b) a bibliographical sketch or notice (c) rapt or rapturous utterance (d) a bitter or malicious criticism

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v. mimic (a) to express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite (b) to imitate the speech or actions of (c) to sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom (d) to hypnotize

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v. exhaust (a) to wash or bathe (c) to empty by draining off the contents

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(b) to meditate or reflect upon (d) to convert into bone

v. assimilate (a) to drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass (b) to prevent or obstruct the operation of (c) to adapt (d) to attach at the beginning

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v. uproot (a) to eradicate (b) to make more fluid or less concentrated by admixture with something (c) to deprive of weapons (d) to cut or carve in or upon some surface

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v. exhale (a) to look forward to as certain or probable (c) precede in time

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(b) to bind (d) to breathe forth

v. comprise (a) to give and take mutually (b) to consist of (c) to make inefficient or worthless; to muddle (d) to endow with a privilege, especially with the right to vote

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n. revocation (a) the science of man in general (c) a variety show

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(b) repeal (d) acceptance of the common faith

n. imminence (a) impending evil or danger (b) any act of saving property (c) any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus of the oak family (d) banter

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v. disagree (a) to praise in words or song (b) to be opposite in opinion (c) to fill with high or cheerful spirits (d) to lose possession of through failure to fulfill some obligation

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v. interrupt (a) to expose to peril (b) to stop while in progress (c) to overtax the strength of (d) to take away in such manner as to lessen value or estimation

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adj. energetic (a) working vigorously (c) justifiable

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(b) vacillating (d) of a small importance or significance

adj. erratic (a) pertaining to the beginning or early times (b) pertaining to or concerned with the affairs of the present life (c) existing for a short time only (d) irregular

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n. redolence (b) a general truth or proposition (d) smelling sweet and agreeable

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adj. blase (a) pertaining to farmers and farming (b) of considerable bulk and weight (c) pertaining to or designating bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium (d) sated with pleasure

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adj. beneficial (b) helpful (d) wanting water

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adj. symphonious (a) denoting electricity produced by heat (b) marked by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds (c) not genuine (d) of or pertaining to the sea or matters connected with the sea

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v. itinerate (a) to comfort (b) to come between other things or persons (c) to wander from place to place (d) to lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring or other destructive methods

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n. herbarium (a) any great and sudden misfortune or calamity (b) alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger (c) a collection of dried plants scientifically arranged for study (d) estrangement

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adj. linear (a) directed toward knowledge for its own sake without respect to applications (b) matchless (c) lawful (d) straight; one dimensional; pertaining to length; narrow and elongated

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adj. paramount (b) of or pertaining to plants (d) giving or radiating light

(a) listless (c) supreme in authority

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adj. inflammable (a) not to be understood

(b) easily set on fire or excited

(c) capable of erring

(d) untenable

adj. paronymous (a) hanging, especially so as to swing by an attached end or part (b) capable of reformation (c) difficult of approach (d) derived from the same root or primitive word

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adj. transfusible (a) capable of being poured from one vessel to another (b) conformed to a just claim according to established laws or usage (c) mercenary, corrupt (d) pertaining to St. Augustine, his doctrines or the religious orders called after him

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adj. miniature (a) much smaller than reality or that the normal size (b) quinqeuvalent (c) of or pertaining to or like a city (d) pertaining to the recollection of matters of personal interest

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adj. anemic (a) contemptible (b) affected by a condition caused by a lack of red blood cells (c) that may e sent through or across (d) straight up and down

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adj. selective (a) having the power of choice (c) inadequate for some need, purpose or use

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(b) cheap, unwilling to spend money (d) very depressing

adj. imaginable (a) sufficient to convince or decide (b) belonging to a people not Jewish (c) pertaining to the universe (d) that can be imagined or conceived in the mind

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adj. unisonant (a) containing gold (b) affected with a whirling or swimming sensation in the head (c) being in a condition of perfect agreement and accord (d) worthy of scorn or disdain

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adj. eminent (a) contemptible (b) branch-like (c) mature for one's age; unusually well-developed (d) high in station, merit or esteem

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adj. terse (a) trivial

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n. confessor (a) foolish daring (b) a word that contains of only one segment of speech (c) the state of having passed out of the memory or of being utterly forgotten (d) a spiritual advisor

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n. emigrant (a) a grotesque imitation (b) a base or support as for a column, statue or vase (c) person who moves from one place to settle in another (d) a superior production

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n. monopoly (a) the control of a thing, as a commodity, to enable a person to raise its price (b) a beginner in any business or occupation (c) induction or elevation, as to dignity, office or government (d) proclamation

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n. plagiarism (a) a solid bounded by five plane faces (b) recklessness (c) one of the small triangular plane surfaces of a diamond or other gem (d) the stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one's own

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n. vegetation (a) tact, shrewdness or skill in conducting any kind of negotiations or in social matters (b) extreme poisonousness (c) plant-life in the aggregate (d) any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part

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n. glacier (a) a maze (c) a field or stream of ice

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(b) lack of manly qualities; femininity (d) in cricket, the player who delivers the ball

n. patriotism (a) love and devotion to one's country (b) a gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said (c) rectitude (d) a duplicate executed by the artist himself and regarded, equally with the first, as an original

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v. abut (a) to intensify (b) to effect by negotiating as an agent between parties (c) to act or give judgment as umpire (d) to touch at the end or boundary line

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n. diffusion (a) dispersion (b) is a post-medieval version of an ancient Indo-European language (c) defamation (d) a leader in any enterprise or contest

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n. iconoclast (a) confused, unintelligible speech or highly technical speech (b) the practical unit of electric-current strength (c) chemical agent that destroys a harmful organism (d) an image-breaker

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v. necessitate (a) to render indispensable (c) to turn within

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(b) to drive or urge forward (d) to sprinkle or cover with things strewn

v. exasperate (a) to talk about vainly or foolishly (b) to obtain by violence, threats, compulsion or the subjection of another to some necessity (c) to anger; to infuriate; to annoy; to irritate (d) to certify as accurate, genuine or true

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v. squabble (a) to praise in words or song (b) to show or prove to be involved in or concerned (c) to deprive of power, capacity, competency or qualification (d) to quarrel

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v. despond (a) to have or produce resonance (c) to lose spirit, courage or hope

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(b) to pass criticism or censure (d) to regard or worship as a god

v. readjust (a) to estimate the money value of (b) to put in order after disarrangement (c) to catch or take hold of suddenly and forcibly (d) to come into a country or region from a former habitat

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v. whine (a) to inflict severe pain or agony upon (c) to grow worse

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(b) to utter with complaining tone (d) to make alive

adj. priggish (a) offering or tending to produce resistance (c) furiously voracious or hungry

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(b) unlawful (d) conceited

v. surround (a) to wet or moisten (b) to encircle (c) to tear rudely or raggedly (d) to teach or imbue with the doctrines of Calvinism

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v. famish (a) to involve in difficulties, confusion or complications (b) to tell a story (c) to release from bondage (d) to suffer extremity of hunger or thirst

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v. reprieve (a) to delay a punishment (esp. death sentence); provide temporary relief (b) to cut apart or to pieces (c) to deprive of weapons (d) to take perceptible or substantial form

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n. liking (a) detective (b) a trying and purifying test or agency (c) the body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance (d) fondness

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n. pantoscope (a) the condition of not flowing or not changing (c) a very wide-angled photographic lens

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(b) a person to whom a donation is made (d) harangue

n. egotism (a) a change (b) a liquid preparation for rubbing on the skin in cases of bruises, inflammation, etc (c) self-conceit (d) person who manages large amounts of money (privately or corporately)

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v. invert (a) to make desolate with loneliness and grief (b) to turn inside out, upside down or in opposite direction (c) to fill again, as something that has been emptied (d) to swear falsely to

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n. mystification (a) the act of artfully perplexing (b) a tirade (c) cutting and reproachful language (d) a chief city, either the capital or the largest or most important city of a state

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n. confederacy (a) that part of anything that is in excess of what is needed (b) a number of states or persons in compact or league with each other, as for mutual aid (c) the unnecessary and indiscriminate killing of human beings (d) a theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society

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v. stimulate (a) to excite a slight degree of anger in

(b) to hurry

(c) to convert into bone

(d) to rouse to activity or to quickened action

n. parallelism (a) a favorable or prosperous course or termination of anything attempted (b) essential likeness (c) the consequences that follow the transgression of natural or divine law (d) the egg of a louse or some other insect

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v. dispel (a) to make positive assertions without supporting them by argument or evidence (b) to drive away by or as by scattering in different directions (c) to name one by one (d) to produce

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v. exceed (a) to waver (c) to deliver the amount or value of

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adj. coniferous (a) cone-bearing trees (b) corresponding (to some other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion or relations (c) boisterous (d) invulnerable

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adj. phenomenal (a) flushed with red (b) necessary (c) extraordinary or marvelous (d) resembling a thorn; having pointed projections

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adj. explosive (a) unutterable

(b) akin to or befitting hell or its occupants

(c) of, pertaining to or near the stomach

(d) pertaining to a sudden and violent outbreak

adj. sheer (a) dedicated by a vow

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(b) moderately good

(c) absolute

(d) credulous

adj. curable (a) having no essential relation to a subject (b) practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession (c) poor; indigent (d) capable of being remedied or corrected

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v. disillusion (a) to disenchant (b) to assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court (c) to disfigure (d) to make a preliminary examination of for military, surveying or geological purposes

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n. sapience (a) a manner or method of acting (b) any special impressiveness added to an utterance or act or stress laid upon some word (c) inadequacy (d) deep wisdom or knowledge

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n. apiary (a) increase of amount, size, scope or the like (c) a fatal or serious accident or disaster

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(b) a place where bees are kept (d) the territory of a reigning prince

adj. exigent (a) urgent (b) full of zeal and fervor (c) describes plants or plant parts that are fleshy and wither after each growing season (d) unfavorably known to the general public

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adj. obligatory (a) succulent (c) bloody

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n. magnificence (a) long shaft with a revolving spiral blades that move a vehicle (b) peak; highest point; top; summit (c) the exhibition of greatness of action, character, intellect, wealth or power (d) a state of constant movement, change or renewal

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n. denouement (a) the pressure of necessity (b) that part of a play or story in which the mystery is cleared up (c) proverb (d) an action or mode of conduct that excites resentment

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n. prohibition (a) any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees (b) a decree or an order forbidding something (c) one of the heavenly bodies as a source of light (d) fatherhood

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n. monitory (a) admonition or warning (b) a fossil reptile (c) a personal weakness or failing (d) chemical or person who starts a fire-literally or figuratively

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n. morphology (a) a slight degree of difference in anything perceptible to the sense of the mind (b) the science of organic forms (c) the condition resulting from one's dying not having made a valid will (d) a detailed account or diary of a journey

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adj. inadvisable (a) unadvisable (c) living or existing at the same time

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(b) assumed by law to exist (d) ashen; colorless; white; faint; weak; sickly

n. bigamy (a) high praise (b) capacity to know or understand (c) indigence (d) the crime of marrying any other person while having a legal spouse living

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n. salvage (a) any act of saving property (b) an office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc. (c) that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse (d) repeal

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n. rigor (a) amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree centigrade (b) the state or condition of being joined together (c) inflexibility (d) a metallic copy of any surface, as a coin

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n. autocracy (a) the world or universe on a small scale (b) a union of two characters representing a single sound (c) priority in place, time or rank (d) absolute government

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 55

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v. misrule (a) to take, demand or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds (b) to manage badly; to govern in an evil manner (c) to protect (d) to converse in

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v. interrogate (a) to select or appoint, as by authority (b) to remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body (c) to deprive of peace or tranquillity (d) to examine formally by questioning

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v. maltreat (a) to place in position of office again (b) to behave cruelly or unkindly toward a person or animal (c) to precede (d) to prove indubitably

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v. exorcise (a) to happen first (b) to foreordain (c) to cast or drive out by religious or magical means (d) to utter with a loud and vehement voice

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v. infuse (a) to cause to cease temporarily (b) to twist into a misshapen form (c) to instill, introduce or inculcate, as principles or qualities (d) to bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness

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v. introspect (a) to pass criticism or censure (b) to serve as a characteristic example of (c) to look into (d) to use, control or manage, as a weapon or instrument, especially with full command

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v. seclude (a) to become dull or inert (b) to fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish or desire of (c) to place, keep or withdraw from the companionship of others (d) to regard with inordinate love or admiration

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v. adulterate (a) to consider thoughtfully (b) to refresh after labor (c) to make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients (d) to give pictorial vividness to a mental representation

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v. dissuade (a) to become detached (b) to separate (c) to translate freely (d) to change the purpose or alter the plans of by persuasion, counsel or pleading

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v. imply (a) to return to a previous condition or position (b) to empower (c) to kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person (d) to signify

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 56

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n. drachma (a) person who has forsaken a doctrine regarded as true for one esteemed false (b) a modern and an ancient Greek coin (c) any concerted movement, vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an idea or principle (d) a clause in a contract, will, etc., by which its operation is rendered conditional

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v. intoxicate (a) to come into a country or region from a former habitat (b) to put something, especially something less severe, in place of (c) to clear of woods (d) to make drunk

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n. success (a) adequate return for good or ill (b) person who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing (c) a legal claim or hold on property, as security for a debt or charge (d) a favorable or prosperous course or termination of anything attempted

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adj. reluctant (a) pertaining to time before the world's creation (b) suitable for the purpose and circumstances (c) unwilling (d) pertaining to the art of beautifying, especially the complexion

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n. principality (a) the act of repeating (b) a ruler acting with royal authority in place of the sovereign in a colony or province (c) one of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia (d) the territory of a reigning prince

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v. conciliate (a) to turn the front or principal side of (a thing) toward any person or object (b) to separate from others of its kind (c) to obtain the friendship of (d) to unclothe

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n. orthopedist (a) comprehension; insight (b) an article of jewelry fastened by a hinged pin and hook on the underside (c) person who practices the correcting or preventing of deformity (d) a hereditary nobility

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n. bole (a) a nervous affection occurring typically in paroxysms of laughing and crying (b) the trunk or body of a tree (c) proximity (d) something that is of short duration

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v. illuminate (a) to return to a previous condition or position (b) to supply with light (c) to preserve from extinction or oblivion (d) to overcome by force of will

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n. enigma (a) a passing from one form or shape into another (b) a riddle (c) favoring, protecting or propitious influence or guidance (d) the act or operation of cutting in pieces, specifically of a plant or an animal

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 57

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adj. negligent (a) without importance, force or influence (c) apt to omit what ought to be done

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adj. blatant (a) noisily or offensively loud or clamorous (c) showing or feeling envy

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(b) pertaining to the act or sense of hearing (d) most important

(b) characteristic of an erudite person (d) ready to be led

adj. exhaustible (a) of or pertaining to cooking or the kitchen (b) that can not be wounded or hurt (c) urgent in complaint or demand (d) consumable; depletable; capable of being ejected

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adj. laborious (a) having a tendency to go back (c) answering

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(b) toilsome (d) consisting of two pairs

adj. inedible (a) desolate (b) abundant (c) not good for food (d) not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard

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adj. hospitable (a) not amenable to control (b) disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness (c) pertaining to, expressing or containing praise (d) exceedingly fat

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adj. divisible (a) exhausted, as having performed its functions (c) incapable of being injured or disturbed

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(b) severely simple; unadorned (d) capable of being separated into parts

adj. inoffensive (a) easily set on fire or excited

(b) relating to measurement

(c) improvident

(d) causing nothing displeasing or disturbing

adj. indignant (a) partially awake (b) effected by divine guidance (c) having such anger and scorn as is aroused by meanness or wickedness (d) straight up and down

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 58

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n. logic (a) a comparison which directs the mind to the representative object itself (b) a person given to saving and hoarding unduly (c) the science of correct thinking (d) a botanical garden or place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs

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n. formation (a) relative disposition of parts (b) an advanced state of acquirement, as in some knowledge, art or science (c) an interval of time, memorable for extraordinary events (d) a going forth or departure from a place or country, especially of many people

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n. sufficiency (a) a criminal or depraved person (b) an ample or adequate supply (c) an assault; mighty attack; overwhelming quantity appearing all at once (as of people) (d) hot winds from Africa

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n. assonance (a) accuracy of limitation, definition or adjustment (b) a person or thing is united in a relationship with another (c) something joined to or connected with another thing but holding a subordinate place (d) resemblance or correspondence in sound

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n. transmission (b) a throwing upward (d) the act of sending through or across

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n. commotion (a) a disturbance or violent agitation (b) person without means of support (c) control by the exercise of power or constituted authority (d) ill or poor conduct

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n. auspice (a) a going or moving backward or in a reverse direction (b) favoring, protecting or propitious influence or guidance (c) a ritual (d) lamentation

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n. extortion (a) cheerful willingness (b) an abrasive wheel that sharpens or polishes something (c) a display dictated by vanity and intended to invite applause or flattery (d) the practice of obtaining by violence or compulsion

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adj. impeccable (a) blameless (b) pedigreed; cultured (c) unwilling (d) making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety

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n. onset (a) a distortion of the features, occasioned by some feeling of pain, disgust, etc (b) a solemn assertion of a falsity (c) an assault, especially of troops, upon an enemy or fortification (d) well-being

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 59

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v. butt (a) to speculate (c) to cause to become frightened

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(b) to make somewhat different (d) to strike with or as with the head or horns

v. explicate (a) to pay out or expend, as money from a fund (b) to clear from involvement (c) to encounter, as difficulties or obstacles (d) to give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect

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v. satirize (a) to cause to be one (c) to engage in a tilt with lances on horseback

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(b) to disencumber (d) to treat with sarcasm or derisive wit

v. ascribe (a) to appropriate (private property) as forfeited to the public use or treasury (b) to grind or strike the teeth together, as from rage (c) to assign as a quality or attribute (d) to convert into a substance of stony hardness and character

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v. inveigh (a) to retake; to repossess (c) to utter vehement censure or invective

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(b) to disencumber (d) to drive from one's own country

v. appertain (a) to belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession or natural relation (b) to be imminent (c) to hold to the fulfillment of duty (d) to cooperate with another or others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits

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v. coerce (a) to force (b) to rouse to activity or to quickened action (c) to make joyous (d) to direct or send for information or other purpose

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v. denude (a) to strip the covering from (c) to make an effort

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(b) to entrust (d) to form an idea, mental image or thought of

v. verify (a) to prove to be true, exact or accurate (b) to dissolve gradually and become liquid by absorption of moisture from the air (c) to predetermine (d) to remunerate

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 60

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n. insolence (a) foreboding (b) pertaining to the eye or vision (c) a person having charge as of a library or museum (d) pride or haughtiness exhibited in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others

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adj. intangible (a) ascribable (b) surging back or again (c) not perceptible to the touch (d) exhibiting changing rainbow-colors due to the interference of the light

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n. scribble (a) hasty, careless writing (b) a real estate owner (c) falsehood (d) in continental Europe, particularly in France, a uniformed and armed police officer

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n. disciple (a) that part of the world where Christianity is generally professed (b) person who believes the teaching of another or who adopts and follows some doctrine (c) restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs (d) premeditation

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n. curtsy (a) a simplified representation (b) careful and persevering effort to accomplish what is undertaken (c) a downward movement of the body by bending the knees (d) a liquid preparation for rubbing on the skin in cases of bruises, inflammation, etc

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n. excess (a) three things grouped or associated together (b) a character consisting of two or more letters interwoven into one, usually initials of a name (c) the act or process of entrusting or consigning for safe-keeping (d) something that passes the ordinary, proper or required limit, measure or experience

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adj. transmissible (a) uncommon (b) that may e sent through or across (c) possessing ample and ready knowledge or of skill in any art, science or industry (d) enraptured

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v. elucidate (a) to comply; to submit (b) to pass backward and forward irregularly from one state or degree to another (c) to bring out more clearly the facts concerning (d) to absorb, as a gas by a metal

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adj. cadaverous (a) making statements without argument or evidence (b) resembling a corpse (c) unwilling (d) extraordinarily generous

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n. brine (a) a laborer who changes jobs frequently (b) water saturated with salt (c) a scream; shout; protest (d) something that moves to action or serves as an incentive or stimulus

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 61

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adj. racy (a) exciting or exhilarating to the mind

(b) impartial, as judgment

(c) highly profitable

(d) insane

adj. transalpine (a) pertaining to the beginning or early times (b) situated on the other side of the Alps (c) clumsy (d) unduly changeable in feeling, judgment or purpose

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adj. descendent (a) deceptive

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(b) proceeding downward

(d) relevant

adj. norman (a) observant and exact in points of time

(b) struck with terror and amazement

(c) capricious

(d) relating to a region in northern France

adj. impermissible (a) quarrelsome (c) not allowed; forbidden

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(c) prone to anger

(b) based on or growing out of divine revelation (d) agreeable

adj. vegetal (a) fit for a destined purpose (b) having excess decoration; showy; flamboyant; flowery or elaborate in literary style (c) of or pertaining to plants (d) being in a state of or resembling sleep

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adj. conformable (a) different (b) being without restraint (c) much smaller than reality or that the normal size (d) harmonious

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adj. bellicose (a) conveying knowledge (b) indicating place or the place where or wherein an action occurs (c) containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory (d) warlike

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adj. invincible (a) occurring or acting together (c) not to be conquered, subdued or overcome

(b) marketable (d) beneficial

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 62

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n. devilry (a) the act of deciding (b) malicious mischief (c) existence; being; something which supports or maintains life or existence (d) a college student

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n. alchemy (a) patient endurance or toleration of offenses (b) an association of individuals united for the prosecution of some enterprise (c) belief (d) chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold

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n. nectarine (a) one of the wandering warrior who in the middle ages went forth in search of adventure (b) miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment (c) a person's line of ancestors (d) a variety of the peach

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n. finality (a) an unprincipled politician (b) a print made by printing from stone (c) conclusiveness; something which cannot be revoked (d) beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency

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n. despot (a) defamation (b) an absolute and irresponsible monarch (c) the derivation of a judgment from any given material of knowledge on the ground of law (d) one who writes or is skilled in writing

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n. dissipation (a) the state of being dispersed or scattered (b) the art of measuring the intensity of light (c) active humanitarianism (d) an instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind

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n. decameron (a) any structure or sculpture in stone formed of a single piece (b) a volume consisting of ten parts or books (c) passage from one place, condition or action to another (d) the smaller in number of two portions into which a number or a group is divided

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n. alderman (a) a member of a municipal legislative body who usually exercises also certain judicial functions (b) general officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general (c) deck of a ship located near the bow (d) the condition of standing out distinctly

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n. eminence (a) a ruler acting with royal authority in place of the sovereign in a colony or province (b) encroachment, as by an act of intrusion or trespass (c) high position; elevated rank; title of honor; excellence; height; hill (d) a geometrical figure

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n. adjunct (a) a brief account of some interesting event or incident (b) a means for conducting something, particularly a tube, pipe or passageway for a fluid (c) inflammation of the bronchial tubes (d) something joined to or connected with another thing but holding a subordinate place

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 63

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v. deplete (a) to free or clear, as from accusation (b) to make quiet (c) to reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion or waste (d) to give an exalted meaning or glorified appearance to

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v. bestride (a) to intoxicate (c) to cut down or reduce in extent or quantity

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v. prickle (a) to frighten away (c) to support, as something wrong

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(b) to get or sit upon astride, as a horse (d) to recover something by searching

(b) to puncture slightly with fine, sharp points (d) to cherish reverentially

v. emaciate (a) to produce by sexual generation (b) to waste away in flesh (c) to use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention (d) to add or affix at the end

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v. vociferate (a) to utter with a loud and vehement voice (b) to meet and strike violently; to crash into each other (c) to designate by word or mark (d) to wander from place to place

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v. idolize (a) to appear or act in the character of (c) to disseminate

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(b) to give up (royal power or the like) (d) to regard with inordinate love or admiration

n. taxation (a) hole (b) a threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance (c) receiver of a degree; one who is granted something (d) a levy, by government, of a fixed contribution

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v. allay (a) to have a care or thought for (b) to move faster than (c) to calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; to mitigate (d) to take in a wrong sense; to interpret incorrectly

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v. deify (a) to cause spasms in (c) to conduct or behave (oneself)

(b) to touch at the end or boundary line (d) to regard or worship as a god

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(b) to restore brightness or beauty (d) to prove indubitably

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 64

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n. sinuosity (a) the part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered (b) the quality of curving in and out (c) anything that unduly exhilarates or excites (d) restriction within limits or boundaries

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v. transplant (a) to cut off (from an inheritance, family, etc.); repudiate; disavow; renounce (b) to diminish or become less (c) to remove from one place and introduce into another (organ, person, etc.); transfer; relocate (d) to make bigger

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n. divulgence (a) a pausing to consider (b) any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical (c) disclosure; act of exposing (d) that which contains and gives shape or form to anything

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v. disavow (a) to place, keep or withdraw from the companionship of others (b) to use words of double meaning (c) to rebuild (d) to disclaim responsibility for

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v. negate (a) to deny (c) to league together

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(b) to multiply by four (d) to surrender or stipulate terms

n. aldermanship (a) a beggar (b) power (c) the dignity, condition, office or term of office of government official (d) intuitive sagacity or perception

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v. ration (a) to provide with a fixed allowance or portion, especially of food (b) to raise or lift with effort (c) to remove from one place and introduce into another (organ, person, etc.); transfer; relocate (d) to be imminent

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adj. trenchant (a) cutting deeply and quickly (c) pertaining to one's birth

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(b) living both on land and in water (d) of or pertaining to cooking or the kitchen

v. control (a) to exercise a directing, restraining or governing influence over (b) to approve authoritatively (c) to fret at the edge so as to loosen or break the threads (d) to restore to youth

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n. myriad (a) transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases, etc., from parent to offspring (b) a vast indefinite number (c) a body possessing that peculiar form of polarity found in nature in the lodestone (d) the beginning

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 65

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adj. indescribable (a) resisting all attempts to reduce volume by pressure (b) relating to making proof, as of a will (c) having great speed (d) cannot be expressed in words; beyond description; indefinite

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adj. referable (a) untrustworthy (c) unchangeable

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(b) ascribable (d) of or pertaining to the ear

adj. obsequious (a) showing a servile readiness to fall in with the wishes or will of another (b) undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors (c) capable of being stretched out or expanded in every direction (d) not perceptible

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adj. proficient (a) prone to anger (b) continuing though the year or through many years (c) discordant (d) possessing ample and ready knowledge or of skill in any art, science or industry

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adj. gratuitous (b) having the color of blood (d) voluntarily

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adj. jugular (a) pertaining to the throat (c) looking old an shriveled

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(b) uttered through the mouth (d) more desirable than others

n. witchcraft (a) agreeableness of sound (b) a giving characterized by generous motives and extraordinary liberality (c) a homeless, neglected wanderer (d) sorcery

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adj. prolific (a) producing offspring or fruit (b) having or determined by right angles (c) multiplied by three (d) having the voice harsh or rough, as from a cold or fatigue

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adj. livid (a) easily broken; capable of being broken (b) of or pertaining to the night (c) worldly, as opposed to spiritual or celestial (d) black-and-blue, as contused flesh

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adj. tacit (b) designed for gradual destruction (d) not fit or suitable

(a) understood (c) hard-hearted

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 66

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n. executor (a) a person nominated by the will of another to execute the will (b) a European unit of length (c) person who delivers an elaborate or formal speech (d) virtue or integrity tested and confirmed

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n. dead-heat (a) an ill turn (b) a race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner (c) person without regard for law or life (d) a word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another

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n. aperture (a) hole (b) a place where things are stored or gathered together (c) an instrument consisting of cords, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy (d) an instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio or ballet

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n. undergarment (a) the prevalent way or fashion (b) any article of personal property (c) a piece of clothing worn beneath outer clothes (d) rare, curious or beautiful quality

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n. attache (a) something joined to or connected with another thing but holding a subordinate place (b) a place or structure dangerous to life; a mechanical device for catching trespassers and poachers (c) the order in which a number or persons, things or events follow one another in space or time (d) a subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy

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n. aeronaut (a) an incorporated village or town (b) person who navigates the air; a balloonist (c) an intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner (d) the office or dignity of a minor judicial officer who has limited jurisdiction in criminal cases

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n. giver (a) donor; donator (b) prolongation (c) deepness (d) a French title of respect, equivalent to Mr. and sir

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n. insurrection (a) the state of being in active resistance to authority (b) the act of reading carefully or thoughtfully (c) the faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct (d) a condition of mind resulting from spiritual or inherent feeling

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n. fungus (a) the comparative number of any kind of occurrences within a given time or space (b) a plant destitute of chlorophyll, as a mushroom (c) a carrying away of a person against his will or illegally (d) person who leads another person to a source of information

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n. dearth (a) a body of soldiers (b) the branch of medicine that relates to mental disease (c) scarcity, as of something customary, essential or desirable (d) something added to a letter after the writer's signature

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 67

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v. obvert (a) to turn the front or principal side of (a thing) toward any person or object (b) to excite ill temper or impatience in (c) to make old or out of date (d) to depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest

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v. resuscitate (a) to restore from apparent death (b) to strike with or as with the head or horns (c) to do anything extemporaneously or offhand (d) to bring or hold under any overmastering influence

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v. navigate (a) to have the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement (b) to plot (c) to traverse by ship (d) to punish

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v. arbitrate (a) to envy one of the possession of (b) to act or give judgment as umpire (c) to pass backward and forward irregularly from one state or degree to another (d) to disentangle

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v. preexist (a) to bubble up (b) to put something in a wrong position (c) to pay out or expend, as money from a fund (d) to forerun; to come or go before; to live in a previous life

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v. lave (a) to intoxicate (b) to wash or bathe (c) to render indispensable (d) to hold or preserve in any particular state or condition

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n. pharmacopoeia (a) a book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists (b) an object of favor or choice (c) fitness for some desirable practical purpose (d) any alcoholic or intoxicating drink

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v. intervene (a) to accomplish (b) to support, as something wrong (c) to obtain by violence, threats, compulsion or the subjection of another to some necessity (d) to interfere for some end

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v. evoke (a) to pile or heap together (c) to call or summon forth

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(b) to extend in time or duration (d) to legislate; ordain; decree; perform

v. bequeath (a) to deprive of power, capacity, competency or qualification (b) to give by will (c) to regain (d) to delay past the proper hour

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n. endurance (a) a mirror, as of metal, for sending back light, heat or sound in a particular direction (b) helpful result (c) the ability to suffer pain, distress, hardship or stress of any kind without succumbing (d) person who navigates the air; a balloonist

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n. flatulence (a) an executive officer in legislative bodies who enforces the orders of the presiding officer (b) a solemn invocation of the divine blessing (c) something may be logically assumed to be true until disproved; supposition (d) accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowels

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n. posse (a) a force of men (c) change for the better

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(b) infringement (d) the principal portion

adj. sensuous (a) standing out prominently (b) having an imposing style or effect (c) having a warm appreciation of the beautiful or of the refinements of luxury (d) humble

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n. subservience (a) politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually (b) the quality, character or condition of being servilely following another's behests (c) a legislator (d) a bazaar or shop

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adj. ferocious (a) high in station, merit or esteem (c) having strong sexual desires

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(b) sufficient to convince or decide (d) of a wild, fierce, and savage nature

adv. quite (a) fully (b) with directness (c) out of the proper form, direction or position (d) completely

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adj. pan-american (a) being in a condition of perfect agreement and accord (b) including or pertaining to a certain continent (c) helpful (d) inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires

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adj. maudlin (a) first (c) constituting or consisting of salt

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(b) odiously sinful (d) foolishly and tearfully affectionate

adj. patrician (a) conducted or acting on business principles; commercial (b) small in quantity or importance (c) indispensably requisite or absolutely needed to accomplish a desired result (d) of senatorial or noble rank

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adj. volant (a) flying or able to fly (b) akin to or befitting hell or its occupants (c) moving or advancing by steps (d) especially fit as occurring, said or done at the right moment

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adj. illogical (a) preliminary (c) contrary to the rules of sound thought

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(b) marking a difference (d) pertaining to the nose

adj. resonance (a) very dry (b) able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations (c) openly scandalous (d) lacking color or brilliancy

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adj. vendible (a) methodical (c) marketable

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(b) of no essential consequence (d) hypercritical

adj. pleasurable (b) constituting or consisting of salt (d) indisputable

(a) affording gratification (c) good and kind of heart Q6

adj. dissonant (a) of or related to the art of printing (b) affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease (c) founded on truth (d) harsh or disagreeable in sound

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adj. well-to-do (a) in prosperous circumstances (b) of or pertaining to the ear (c) lacking foresight or thrift (d) pertaining to electricity developed water or steam

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adj. remonstrant (b) pertaining to fireworks or their manufacture (d) of or pertaining to the capital of France

(a) having the character of a reproof (c) pertaining to Ireland or its people Q9

adj. intensive (a) having the nature of a tree (b) afraid to express facts or opinions plainly (c) adding emphasis or force (d) speaking in or characterized by a pompous or bombastic style

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adj. hindmost (a) abundant (b) of or pertaining to particular English philosopher (c) without spirit or bravery (d) farthest from the front

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n. midsummer (a) discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-vessel (b) person who attacks (c) a certain time of year (in July) (d) a god, goddess or divine person

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n. retinue (a) a leader in any enterprise or contest (b) the body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance (c) the act or process of making compact or more compact (d) any act of saving property

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n. edict (a) the number five (b) that which is uttered or proclaimed by authority as a rule of action (c) dizziness (d) agreement

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n. regime (a) the act of reading carefully or thoughtfully (b) the state of being hard and insensible (c) an image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy (d) particular conduct or administration of affairs

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n. coronation (a) the act or ceremony of crowning a monarch (b) a protective covering made of a strong material (c) the getting rid of waste matter (d) person who makes or repairs metal-working tools

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n. sequel (a) opposition to conservatism (b) that which follows in consequence of what has previously happened (c) the moon (d) equality, as of condition or rank

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n. alien (a) a sudden outburst of any kind of activity (b) the branch of zoology that treats of fishes (c) a minute particle of matter (d) person who owes allegiance to a foreign government

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n. brevity (a) the study of language in connection with history and literature (b) a little island (c) a person of expectant temperament (d) shortness of duration

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n. jaundice (a) an utterance intended to cast censure or reproach (b) knowledge of events before they take place (c) the head-harness of a horse consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and the reins (d) a morbid condition, due to obstructed excretion of bile or characterized by yellowing of the skin

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n. scope (a) the time of year when the sun is at its greatest declination (b) interpretation (c) a range of action or view (d) a place or structure dangerous to life; a mechanical device for catching trespassers and poachers

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v. protrude (a) to push out or thrust forth (c) to deprive of water

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(b) to disparage (d) to yield

v. absolve (a) to sow or scatter abroad, as seed is sown (b) to live in a monotonous, passive way without exercise of the mental faculties (c) to free from sin or its penalties (d) to adapt

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v. frizz (a) to exceed; to go beyond (c) to make inquiry

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(b) to give a crinkled, fluffy appearance to (d) to discuss

v. molt (a) to make a copy of (c) to soothe

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(b) to cast off, as hair, feathers, etc (d) to clear from involvement

v. expand (a) to give an appearance of foolishness to (b) to force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally (c) to increase in range or scope (d) to fill with extreme fear

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v. joust (a) to overstate (c) to move with a circling or winding motion

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(b) to engage in a tilt with lances on horseback (d) to fasten

v. pamphleteer (a) to soothe (b) to cause to appear greatly (c) to continue striving in spite of discouragements (d) to compose or issue short books

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v. actuate (a) to throw out of order (c) to move or incite to action

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(b) to adjust cozily in snug quarters (d) to take when offered

v. compute (a) to clear away or provide for, as an objection or difficulty (b) to pour forth (c) to utter in simple or childish talk (d) to ascertain by mathematical calculation

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adj. triennial (a) taking place every third year (b) having a ready or easy flow of words or ideas (c) having little or no book-learning (d) worthless; cheap; low in value; trivial

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adj. penitential (a) thinly diffused (b) very eager or urgent (c) pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone (d) first in order of precedence

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adj. nutritive (a) without importance, force or influence

(b) nourishing; healthy; of high food value

(c) pertaining to or appearing like fat

(d) gloomy

adj. blithesome (a) can be fixed; mendable; can be corrected

(b) cheerful

(c) foolish

(d) having six feet

adj. elizabethan (a) relating to one of the English queens (b) willing and ready to submit (c) lying prone or with the head to the ground (d) adapted to or characterized by minute observation

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n. birthright (a) vigor; liveliness; newness; recentness (b) a figurine (c) a supplement adding to, revoking or explaining in the body of a will (d) a privilege or possession into which one is born

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n. acetate (a) division of words into that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse (b) a salt of acetic acid (c) person who practices the correcting or preventing of deformity (d) a monologue

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n. aliment (a) means that nourish and support (b) any concerted movement, vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an idea or principle (c) harshness or roughness of temper (d) stubborn adherence to opinion, arising from conceit or the desire to have one's own way

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n. generality (a) the principal portion (b) that which makes a thing to be what it is (c) structure; adaptation; adjustment (d) the branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man

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n. nostrum (a) any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character (b) deficiency of blood or red corpuscles (c) sophistication; worldliness (d) the depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached

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adj. insecure (a) merry (c) not assured of safety

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(b) capable of being disjoined or divided (d) hazy; foggy; vague; obscure

adj. primeval (a) practical; useful (c) ghastly and sensational

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(b) unlawful (d) belonging to the first ages

adj. transatlantic (a) steadfast (b) deviating from that which is proper or right (c) not stringent or energetic (d) situated beyond or on the other side of the ocean

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adj. excusable (a) justifiable (c) justly or legally responsible

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(b) adding emphasis or force (d) intrinsic

adj. tolerant (a) indulgent (c) falling behind

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(b) severely painful or acute to the spirit (d) open to bribery

adj. successful (a) living both on land and in water (b) thin and weak (c) showing abundance (d) having reached a high degree of worldly prosperity

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adj. valorous (a) morally irresponsible (c) pertaining to a sudden and violent outbreak

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adj. immature (a) concordant in sound (c) petulant (irritable)

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(b) first in order of precedence (d) courageous

(b) promiscuous (d) not full-grown

adj. languid (a) antiquated (b) relaxed (c) thorough and complete in execution (d) of or pertaining to marriage, especially to the marriage ceremony

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n. metempsychosis (a) massacre (b) a mental condition of fixed opposition to or dislike of some particular thing (c) transition of the soul of a human being at death into another body, whether human or beast (d) an open braced framework for supporting the horizontal stringers of a railway-bridge

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n. progression (a) a crack or crack-like depression (b) a moving forward; advancement (c) person who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method (d) a rural view, especially one of picturesque effect, as seen from a distance or an elevation

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n. vivacity (a) liveliness (b) essential likeness (c) spiritual or social fellowship or solidarity (d) heir; inheritor; one who or that which follows or takes the place of another

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n. siege (a) a place where crows congregate to breed (c) a government administered by ecclesiastics

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(b) combination in a body or mass (d) a beleaguerment

n. protege (a) a peace offering; a gesture of goodwill (b) a clause in a contract, will, etc., by which its operation is rendered conditional (c) warmth and kindliness of disposition (d) person who is specially cared for and favored by another usually older person

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n. existence (a) one who takes part in a conversation or oral discussion (b) rivulet (c) any act of saving property (d) possession or continuance of being

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n. mouthful (a) self-government (c) food

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(b) a sip; a bite (d) any small portion or meager allowance

n. masonry (a) warmth and kindliness of disposition (b) the art or work of constructing, as buildings, walls, etc., with regularly arranged stones (c) a character consisting of two or more letters interwoven into one, usually initials of a name (d) long shaft with a revolving spiral blades that move a vehicle

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n. aviary (a) the art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy (b) a seller (c) a spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept (d) the department of natural science that treats of the constitution and structure of the earth

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n. cessation (a) subtle contrivance used to gain a point (b) a response or alteration of responses, generally musical (c) a person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris (d) discontinuance, as of action or motion

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v. mismanage (a) to run, organize, or deal with something incompetently (b) to drive away by or as by scattering in different directions (c) to deny oneself (d) to serve as a remembrance of

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v. disqualify (a) to vandalize (c) to debar

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(b) to twist into an unnatural or irregular form (d) to overcome by force

v. stultify (a) to estimate the money value of (c) to give an appearance of foolishness to

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(b) to cause to crinkle or curl, as the hair (d) to stick together

v. gamble (a) to make stale or trite by repetition (b) to risk money or other possession on an event, chance or contingency (c) to bring about (d) to support; to inspire; to give hope

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v. perjure (a) to render intelligible (c) to punish

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(b) to swear falsely to (d) to call or summon forth

v. fuse (a) to unite or blend as by melting together (c) to present in an orderly manner

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(b) to study plant-life (d) to give by will

n. malady (a) a young goose (b) any physical disease or disorder, especially a chronic or deep-seated one (c) a party to a lawsuit (d) a person nominated by the will of another to execute the will

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v. paralyze (a) to make joyous

(b) to deprive of the power to act

(c) to dignify

(d) to regret extremely

v. correlate (a) to put in some relation of connection or correspondence (b) to place in position of office again (c) to bend or turn from a direct course (d) to put in action and supervise the working of

Q10 v. complicate (a) to make complex, difficult or hard to deal with (b) to make brilliant or shining (c) to cause to withdraw or retire, as from society or public life (d) to pay or pay for

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v. subside (a) to lament (b) to relapse into a state of repose and tranquillity (c) to put into confusion (d) to perceive by taste or smell

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n. steppe (a) the fact of not being present or available (b) fairness or impartiality (c) one of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia (d) a privilege or possession into which one is born

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n. ballad (a) an opening or cavity (b) any popular narrative poem, often with epic subject and usually in lyric form (c) unusually prolonged life (d) a story or drama told or performed by one person

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adj. ungainly (a) clumsy (c) following the exact words

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(b) not essential under the circumstances (d) grossly indecent or vulgar

n. depreciation (a) a lowering in value or an underrating in worth (b) debate (c) disclosure; act of exposing (d) person who beholds or looks on

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n. bulrush (a) one who journeys on foot (b) a philanthropist (c) an officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country (d) papyrus

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v. entail (a) to involve; to necessitate (b) to cause to turn away (c) to make positive assertions without supporting them by argument or evidence (d) to bring forward or name for consideration

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adj. suppressible (a) affected by a condition caused by a lack of red blood cells (b) habitually disposed to speak the truth (c) capable of being held back or kept down (d) small and fat

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n. quibble (a) the examination of a dead body by dissection to ascertain the cause of death (b) an utterly trivial distinction or objection (c) authoritative stoppage of foreign commerce or of any special trade (d) one who calculates insurance risks and premiums according to statistical probabilities

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n. potential (a) a line of ten syllables (b) the formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority (c) anything that may be possible (d) a continuous area or stretch

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adj. multiform (a) having many shapes or appearances (c) lying on the back

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adj. consonant (a) that can not be lessened (c) lustful

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(b) being in agreement or harmony with (d) open to ridicule

adj. euphonious (a) of unchangeable length or area (c) fragrant; releasing a good smell

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(b) indivisible; close; devoted (d) urgent in complaint or demand

(b) being beneath the threshold of consciousness (d) characterized by agreeableness of sound

adj. cardinal (a) capable of receiving injuries (b) of prime or special importance (c) lying or being across or in a crosswise direction (d) touching or joining at the edge or boundary

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adj. fabulous (a) incredible (c) lacking courage

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(b) worn and gaunt in appearance (d) extraordinary or marvelous

adj. vapid (a) having lost sparkling quality and flavor (c) standing out prominently

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(b) not separable into parts (d) amusing

adj. collective (a) including or pertaining to a certain continent (b) consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass or sum (c) urgent in character, request or demand (d) siding with a specific group or cause; devoted; zealously supportive; biased

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adj. incombustible (a) that can not be burned (c) capable of being conceived

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(b) having gentle or courteous bearing or manner (d) without experience of the world

adj. sedate (a) even-tempered (b) having the property of consistency (c) able to be turned from the accustomed course or a line of action already established (d) having or determined by right angles

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n. witticism (a) direction or inclination, as toward some objector end (b) the nobility (c) an important event or celebration (d) a clever or sarcastic remark

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n. decagon (a) one who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts (b) an open insult or indignity (c) a print made by printing from stone (d) a figure with ten sides and ten angles

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n. resource (a) government administered by new or untried persons (b) a solemn invocation of the divine blessing (c) a state of suspension or temporary inaction (d) that which is restored to, relied upon or made available for aid or support

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n. clairvoyance (a) an anthem or other composition sung responsively (b) a covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room (c) the act of detesting extremely (d) intuitive sagacity or perception

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n. pendulum (a) a place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified (b) a weight hung on a rod, serving by its oscillation to regulate the rate of a clock (c) hatred or dread of England or of what is English (d) statesmanship; art of governing

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n. antidote (a) idiosyncrasy (b) anything that will counteract or remove the effects of poison, disease or the like (c) sulfur (d) resort to or application for help in exigency or trouble

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n. syllabication (a) acridity, as to the taste (b) ghost (c) division of words into that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse (d) person who joins or supports others

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n. datum (a) a connoisseur in the delicacies of the table (c) the act of imbuing or pouring in

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(b) a premise, starting-point or given fact (d) a retraction

n. occasion (a) sulfur (c) an important event or celebration

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(b) an opening or cavity (d) an animal having two feet

n. nomination (a) a vivid glowing flame (b) the act or ceremony of naming a man or woman for office (c) a word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another (d) a bias in favor of something

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v. deface (a) to dig out of the earth (what has been buried) (b) to pervade (c) to turn away or aside (d) to vandalize

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v. amalgamate (a) to recover; to regain; to repossess (b) to turn aside from the main subject and for a time dwell on some incidental matter (c) to mix or blend together in a homogeneous body (d) to promote or advertise in an understated manner

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v. aggress (a) to arouse, as emotion, interest or the like

(b) to exceed in influence or power

(c) to make smaller using pressure; condense

(d) to make the first attack

v. telescope (a) to drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass (b) to bring or hold under any overmastering influence (c) to surpass in importance or excellence (d) to expel

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v. disinfect (a) to render flustered or agitated (b) to overstate (c) to remove or destroy the poison of infectious or contagious diseases (d) to give the authority of law to

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v. vacillate (a) to interweave (c) to waver

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(b) to put in order after disarrangement (d) to regard with blame

v. upbraid (a) to belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession or natural relation (b) to reproach as deserving blame (c) to disclaim responsibility for (d) to examine minutely or critically

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v. precipitate (a) to render ludicrous by imitating the language of (b) to force forward prematurely (c) to encircle (d) to wet or moisten

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v. distill (a) to free from sin or its penalties (b) to expose to peril (c) to return to a former place or condition (d) to extract or produce by vaporization and condensation

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v. repeal (a) to cover or pave, as a path or roadway, with small broken stone (b) to abridge; to shorten (c) to render of no further effect (d) to warn of a fault

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adv. betimes (a) with knowledge and by design

(b) soon; early

(c) not able to get up

(d) ablaze; burning

adj. hideous (a) appalling

(b) well-bred or refined

(c) sorrowful; anguished; remorseful

(d) answering yes; to a question at issue

adj. emergent (a) taxable (b) lying or being across or in a crosswise direction (c) pertaining to ships (d) coming into view

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n. palpable (a) person who makes false professions of their views or beliefs (b) an associate in wrong-doing (c) a weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something (d) perceptible by feeling or touch

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n. mystic (a) a mark for failure or bad conduct (b) extreme misery or unhappiness (c) person who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books or the like (d) one who professes direct divine illumination or relies upon meditation to acquire truth

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n. tribune (a) any champion of the rights and liberties of the people: often used as the name for a newspaper (b) the intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch (c) the act of reciting or repeating, especially in public and from memory (d) a detachment of troops stationed at a distance from the main body to guard against surprise

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adj. inexhaustible (a) so large or furnishing so great a supply as not to be emptied, wasted or spent (b) cutting, especially into two parts (c) capable of being dissolved, as in a fluid (d) indicative

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v. outlast (a) to survive longer (b) to stretch out too far (c) to subject to punitive measures (d) to deprive of power, capacity, competency or qualification

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v. whet (a) to take the place of (b) to make more keen or eager (c) to make movements of the body, as in speaking or in place of speech (d) to waver

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n. confederate (a) lack of manly qualities; femininity (b) one who is united with others in a league, compact or agreement (c) previous life; life before the present (d) power to refract

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adj. defensive (a) easily led or controlled (b) much smaller than reality or that the normal size (c) characterized by a sweet succession of sounds (d) carried on in resistance to aggression

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adj. inefficient (a) moved to anger (b) capable of being poured from one vessel to another (c) not accomplishing an intended purpose (d) unutterable

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adj. buoyant (a) pertaining to ancient times (b) negligent (c) invulnerable (d) having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat

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adj. intracellular (a) quinqeuvalent (b) within the smallest unit of life (c) resistant to progress; aspiring to return to a previous state or condition (d) exceptionally brave; rigorously severe

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adj. accusatory (a) tending to blame (c) denoting electricity produced by heat

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(b) going beyond usual and proper limits (d) not difficult to do

adj. subacid (a) somewhat sharp or biting (c) pertaining to milk

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(b) such as can not be made plain (d) governed by moral standard

adj. irresistible (a) that can not be successfully withstood or opposed (b) realistic (c) belonging to or suggestive of the spring (d) offensive to taste and feeling

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adj. valid (a) careless of or unable to meet responsibilities (b) capable of being dissolved, as in a fluid (c) scanty (d) founded on truth

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adj. static (a) clandestine (b) pertaining to or designating bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium (c) pertaining to one's birth (d) pertaining or peculiar to a mother or to motherhood

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adj. choleric (a) ardent in feeling (c) not moving

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n. inspector (a) papyrus (b) discernment (c) an official appointed to examine or oversee any matter of public interest or importance (d) an astronomical viewing place

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n. flection (a) the act of bending (b) any announcement made in a public manner (c) a person of rank or importance (d) an instrument having two jaws working on a pivot

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n. statecraft (a) the general use of equipment to provide voice communication over distances (b) statesmanship; art of governing (c) friendship (d) satisfaction with one's acts or surroundings

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n. kerchief (a) a labyrinth (b) a square of linen, silk or other material, used as a covering for the head or neck (c) ridicule (d) a treasurer

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n. veto (a) a square shaft with pyramidal top, usually monumental or commemorative (b) equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed (c) the constitutional right in a chief executive of refusing to approve an enactment (d) a state of constant movement, change or renewal

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n. indigestion (a) the place where streams meet (b) person who disagrees (c) a small sharp-pointed nail (d) difficulty or failure in the alimentary canal in changing food into absorptive nutriment

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n. remuneration (a) a fixed adherence to a resolve, course of conduct or the like (b) the progeny resulting from the crossing of different breeds or varieties (c) a forcible putting or keeping down (d) compensation

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n. minority (a) a criticism or critical review (b) a spirit of charitable leniency (c) the smaller in number of two portions into which a number or a group is divided (d) transition of the soul of a human being at death into another body, whether human or beast

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n. denunciation (a) participation or partnership, as in wrong-doing or with a wrong-doer (b) a philanthropist (c) a white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum (d) the act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment

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n. obstetrician (a) a maze (b) existence; being; something which supports or maintains life or existence (c) a maker of plays for the stage (d) a practitioner of midwifery

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v. speculate (a) to pursue inquiries and form conjectures (b) to increase in range or scope (c) to give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s (d) to deprive of water

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v. disrobe (a) to make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar (b) to unclothe (c) to delay or put off to some other time (d) to twist the body, face or limbs or as in pain or distress

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v. collide (a) to envy one of the possession of (b) to meet and strike violently; to crash into each other (c) to deprive of the power to act (d) to make an effort to vomit

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v. overrun (a) to serve as a characteristic example of (c) to infest or ravage

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(b) to cherish reverentially (d) to make more keen or eager

v. adduce (a) to cause to withdraw or retire, as from society or public life (b) to bring forward or name for consideration (c) to protect (d) to take away honors or position from

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v. preoccupy (a) to gather and store away for the sake of accumulation (b) to have a care or thought for (c) to go before as introducing or ushering in (d) to fill the mind of a person to the exclusion of other subjects

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v. belate (a) to ruin or destroy little by little (b) to enter or force a way into the interior parts of (c) to delay past the proper hour (d) to survive longer

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v. supersede (a) to displace (b) to cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking (c) to send or give out (d) to put out; to quench; to totally destroy; to annihilate

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v. consecrate (a) to endanger (c) to set apart as sacred

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(b) to contend angrily or zealously in words (d) to imitate

v. nominate (a) precede in time (b) to recall the identity of (a person or thing) (c) to be under moral obligation to be or do (d) to designate as a candidate for any office

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adj. tutelar (a) resembling a corpse (b) protective (c) full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit (d) harmonious

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adj. calculable (a) capable of being refuted (b) engrossed; absorbed; fascinated; charmed; enchanted (c) affected with a whirling or swimming sensation in the head (d) that may be estimated by reckoning

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adj. unlawful (a) so large or furnishing so great a supply as not to be emptied, wasted or spent (b) undecipherable (c) of or pertaining to the act of calling (d) illegal

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n. outburst (a) a speech recited or intended for recitation from memory in public (b) fulfillment (c) a majority (d) a violent issue, especially of passion in an individual

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n. parlor (a) hindrance (b) entreaty in behalf of others (c) a room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests (d) somebody or something that is only of temporary existence

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n. nihilist (a) intensified emotion or action (b) a gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said (c) a solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine (d) an advocate of the doctrine that nothing either exists or can be known

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n. maintenance (a) a change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune (b) a hereditary noble or one nearly connected with nobility (c) upkeep; process of supporting and sustaining (d) a collective unanimous opinion of a number of persons

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v. bungle (a) to embellish (c) to cut through or into so as to divide

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(b) to take a different course (d) to execute clumsily

n. rendezvous (a) a prearranged place of meeting (b) person who attacks (c) a person or thing that aids the principal agent (d) any rule or law

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adj. arbitrary (a) of or related to the art of printing (c) cognizable

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adj. untimely (a) existing for a short time only (c) unseasonable

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(b) melancholy (d) ghastly and sensational

adj. inaudible (a) not moved or affected by feeling (c) fitted for expression in song

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(b) pertaining to ancient times (d) that can not be heard

adj. liquefacient (a) grasping and representing facts as they are (c) possessing a liquefying nature or power

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adj. productive (a) yielding in abundance (c) auxiliary

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(b) inherent (d) easily under a specified power or influence

adj. irreversible (a) incapable of being concealed (c) unalterable; unchangeable; final

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(b) pertaining to the later stone age (d) characteristic of woman or womankind

(b) lucid (d) hard to please

adj. peaceable (a) tranquil (b) anticipating and making ready for future wants or emergencies (c) so large or furnishing so great a supply as not to be emptied, wasted or spent (d) seeming likely to be true, though open to doubt

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adj. ductile (a) unlawful (b) transparent (c) capable of being drawn out, as into wire or a thread (d) very depressing

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adj. witless (a) cruel (c) foolish, indiscreet or silly

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(b) coming too soon (d) attractively tall, graceful, and dignified

adj. stationary (a) not fit or suitable (b) not moving (c) financial (d) much smaller than reality or that the normal size

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n. tact (a) a concealed manner of acting (b) an insane person (c) fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing (d) person who makes dictionaries

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n. tactician (a) the utterance of criticism or censure (b) an object of favor or choice (c) person who directs affairs with skill and shrewdness (d) a collection of wild animals, especially when kept for exhibition

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n. entirety (a) deceitfulness in dealing (b) a rectangular piece set in or as in a frame (c) a complete thing (d) the quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch

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n. ardor (a) the opening oration at the commencement in American colleges (b) general officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general (c) stay-rope (d) intensity of passion or affection

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n. bitterness (a) receiver of a degree; one who is granted something (b) an explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege (c) acridity, as to the taste (d) the United Kingdom of Great Britain

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n. bursar (a) cheerful willingness (b) a line joining points at which the barometric pressure is the same at a specified moment (c) conjecture (d) a treasurer

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n. obsolescence (a) conclusiveness; something which cannot be revoked (b) an overthrow, as from the foundation (c) the condition or process of gradually falling into disuse (d) an umpire

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n. intervale (a) the fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock (b) a condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages (c) a detachment of troops stationed at a distance from the main body to guard against surprise (d) a low tract of land between hills, especially along a river

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n. bacterium (a) a volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste (b) a microbe (c) a system of principles and formulas designed to assist the recollection in certain instances (d) person who believes in God but denies supernatural revelation

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n. respite (a) a lyric poem lamenting the dead (b) interval of rest (c) an elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts (d) superstitious devotion to one's religion

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v. officiate (a) to hurry (b) to draw or be drawn into wrinkles (c) to perform ceremony; perform duty; serve as officiator; referee (Sports) (d) to steal

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v. deluge (a) to impose and collect by force or threat of force (b) to overwhelm with a flood of water (c) to seek ultimate causes and principles (d) to separate, to distinguish; to treat differently; to show partiality

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v. oversee (a) to superintend

(b) to comply; to submit

(c) to cause to turn aside or downward

(d) to find and declare chargeable with crime

v. expend (a) to settle firmly; strongly establish; establish a strong defensive position (b) to assail with arguments, insinuations or accusations (c) to spend (d) to free or clear, as from accusation

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v. vaccinate (a) to reconstruct (b) to render unsusceptible to a disease by inoculating (c) to put something, especially something less severe, in place of (d) to make familiar by use

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v. intercept (a) to imbue with life or animation (b) to force in by means of a syringe or other device; to infuse (c) to take; seize; cause to stop; delay; hinder; obstruct (d) to assail with arguments, insinuations or accusations

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v. acquit (a) to make a mathematical error (b) to withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained) (c) to free or clear, as from accusation (d) to impose and collect by force or threat of force

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v. sanction (a) to to judge the value, degree, or worth of somebody or something to be less than it really is (b) to excite a slight degree of anger in (c) to approve authoritatively (d) to eject

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v. modify (a) to twist the body, face or limbs or as in pain or distress (b) to make somewhat different (c) to cause to appear less guilty (d) to cause to last or to be known or remembered throughout a great or indefinite length of time

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v. comport (a) to mislead by or as by falsehood (c) to render bad, especially morally bad

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(b) to proclaim by outcry (d) to conduct or behave (oneself)

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n. sensibility (a) the art of public speaking (b) equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed (c) something that is given without demand or claim; bonus; tip (d) power to perceive or feel

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n. furlough (a) the military force stationed in a fort, town or other place for its defense (b) an eight-page newspaper of any size (c) leader; supervisor (d) a temporary absence of a soldier or sailor by permission of the commanding officer

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n. dendrology (a) the natural history of trees (b) reduction (c) a prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse or performance (d) disregard

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n. clothier (a) an expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured (b) a washing or cleansing, especially of the body (c) one who makes or sells fabrics (d) a measure of volume

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adj. unctuous (b) oily (d) characterized by agreeableness of sound

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v. misbehave (a) to regard with suspicion or jealousy (b) to start back as in dismay, loathing or dread (c) to be naughty and troublesome (d) to lose possession of through failure to fulfill some obligation

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n. brimstone (a) diminution, as of strength or magnitude (b) person who is lawfully deputized to administer the government for the time being in the name of the ruler (c) sulfur (d) a yielding to the power or authority of another

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v. simulate (a) to imitate (b) to cause to melt (c) to review with care, especially with a view to a reversal of previous action (d) to unfold or expand

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n. overdose (a) the process of fostering or promoting growth (b) an excessive amount of a medicine which is toxic (c) an instrument for assisting the eye in the vision of minute objects or features of objects (d) a sea-nymph, described by Homer as dwelling between the island of Circe and Scylla

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adj. conscious (a) lewd (b) capable of being discerned by the senses or intellect (c) aware that one lives, feels and thinks (d) containing a formal, positive or explicit statement or affirmation

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adj. achillean (a) stingy (no longer acceptable to use) (c) invulnerable

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(b) fixed beforehand; set in advance; settled (d) situated on or near the sea

adj. prefatory (a) indiscernible (b) conclusive (c) pertaining to a brief explanation to the reader at the beginning of a book (d) making a loud outcry

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adj. salacious (a) having strong sexual desires (b) sincere (c) pithy (d) indispensably requisite or absolutely needed to accomplish a desired result

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adj. duteous (a) having superior rank or precedence (c) following in time

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(b) hazy; foggy; vague; obscure (d) showing submission to natural superiors

adj. conciliatory (a) possessing ample and ready knowledge or of skill in any art, science or industry (b) incredible (c) having courage or spirit (d) tending to reconcile

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adj. duplex (a) not to be conquered, subdued or overcome (c) absolute

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(b) having two parts (d) worthless; cheap; low in value; trivial

adj. preparatory (a) a person of between eighty and ninety years (b) serving or designed to make ready; serving to put into the proper condition (c) that may be estimated by reckoning (d) having an aptitude for applying oneself to new and varied tasks or to various subjects

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adj. frightful (a) pertaining to the domain over which a sovereign state exercises jurisdiction (b) apt to induce terror or alarm (c) inconsistent with reason or common sense (d) dealing with matters difficult to be understood

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adj. incompatible (a) wrongful (b) discordant (c) a syllable or member of a series that is last but one (d) contrary to the rules of sound thought

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adj. supple (a) easily bent (b) hating mankind (c) full of bitterness (d) showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things

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n. homonym (a) a word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another (b) a doer of kindly and charitable acts (c) any large body of water studded with islands or the islands collectively themselves (d) a place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified

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n. anglo-saxon (a) the maker of a will (b) an intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner (c) a declaration or memorandum of agreement less solemn and formal than a treaty (d) member of an ancient Germanic people who invaded and settled parts of Britain

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n. culprit (a) compensation (b) the act or practice of bringing from one country into another (c) the study of force exerted by the motion of liquids (d) a guilty person

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n. renaissance (a) gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration (b) the revival of letters, and then of art, which marks the transition from medieval to modern time (c) the junction of two bodies at an equally divided angle (d) creation

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n. salutation (a) rectitude (b) a member of an academy of literature, art or science (c) any form of greeting, hailing or welcome, whether by word or act (d) mode of behavior; particular way of acting; affectation; pretension

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n. plea (a) a branch; a derivative (b) in England, a title of nobility, ranking fourth in the order of British peerage (c) an outline or contour (d) an argument to obtain some desired action

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n. album (a) a book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like (b) virtue (c) the side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle (d) the yielding to inclination, passion, desire or propensity in oneself or another

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n. confectionery (a) that which is agreeable to a fine taste (b) candy or pastry; pastry shop; bake shop (c) a whim (d) malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another

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v. ostracize (a) to hypnotize (c) to oppose with an equal force

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(b) to exclude from public or private favor (d) to send or give out

n. bromine (a) a dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid element with a suffocating odor (b) knowledge shared with another or others regarding a private matter (c) a morbid process in some part of the body characterized by heat, swelling and pain (d) a part built or arranged to project beyond a natural outline for support

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v. minimize (a) to cough up and spit forth (b) to reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree (c) to drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass (d) to disfigure

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v. ensnare (a) to take hold of (c) to get or sit upon astride, as a horse

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(b) to put an end or stop to (d) to entrap

v. dominate (a) to search through and through (c) to influence controllingly

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(b) to leave (d) to wander from place to place

v. translate (a) to cause to appear greatly (b) to fascinate, as by excellence, eloquence or beauty (c) to give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect (d) to wander from place to place

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v. palliate (a) to set free or release from bondage (c) to make payment for

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(b) to cause to appear less guilty (d) to punish

v. outstretch (a) to extend (b) to have the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement (c) to catch or take hold of suddenly and forcibly (d) to assign a definite thing or part to a certain person

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v. evert (a) to bring to pass (c) to make of or ornament with brass

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(b) to cause to appear less guilty (d) to turn inside out

v. transmute (a) to leave

(b) to throw into confusion

(c) to injure the reputation of

(d) to change in nature, substance or form

v. transpire (a) to make beautiful or elegant by adding attractive or ornamental features (b) to come to pass (c) to delay a punishment (esp. death sentence); provide temporary relief (d) to certify as accurate, genuine or true

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adj. mawkish (a) sickening or insipid (b) making statements without argument or evidence (c) having strong sexual desires (d) exceptionally brave; rigorously severe

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v. teem (a) to be full to overflowing

(b) to swear falsely to

(c) to set apart as sacred

(d) to divide into quarters

n. intemperance (a) a cup or glass filled to the brim, especially one to be drunk as a toast or health (b) immoderate action or indulgence, as of the appetites (c) a plant destitute of chlorophyll, as a mushroom (d) a model, pattern or original to be copied or imitated

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n. visage (a) in England, a title of nobility, ranking fourth in the order of British peerage (b) the world or universe on a small scale (c) the face, countenance or look of a person (d) distribution and administration of justice by trial and judgment

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n. menace (a) fondness

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(b) a threat

(c) compensation

(d) a small mound

n. navel (a) violation of allegiance, confidence or plighted faith (b) an English monetary unit (c) the depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached (d) discontinuance, as of action or motion

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n. prediction (a) the branch of medical science concerned with the treatment and care of women during pregnancy (b) a ready, witty or apt reply (c) a model of excellence (d) a prophecy

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n. promontory (a) the attributes, taken collectively, that make up the character and nature of an individual (b) any champion of the rights and liberties of the people: often used as the name for a newspaper (c) a harmonic (d) a high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea

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v. cajole (a) to impose on or dupe by flattering speech (c) to reorganize; put in order again

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(b) to hide by pretending something different (d) to interfere for some end

adj. magnificent (a) somewhat sharp or biting (b) notoriously bad (c) grand; splendid; majestic; superb; glorious; impressive (d) impudent

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adj. nefarious (a) not amenable to control (b) wicked in the extreme (c) clinging or sticking fast (d) bearing resemblance to one another or to something else

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adj. putrescent (a) magnificent (b) describes plants or plant parts that are fleshy and wither after each growing season (c) undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors (d) obligatory

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adj. immense (a) inclined to strong exhibition or expression of feeling or thoughts (b) done as an experiment (c) thin, but tough and sinewy (d) very great in degree, extent, size or quantity

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adj. solar (a) exercising the will (b) scornfully or bitterly sarcastic (c) pertaining to or concerned with the affairs of the present life (d) pertaining to the sun

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adj. intestate (a) that may be pierced by physical, moral or intellectual force (b) not having made a valid will (c) attractive (d) not full-grown

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n. morale (a) capacity for sensation or sense-perception (b) a stringed instrument held between the player's knees (c) the condition of existing in three identical copies (d) a state of mind with reference to confidence, courage, zeal and the like

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v. conspire (a) to plot (c) to adjust cozily in snug quarters

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(b) to sail around the world (d) to suggest; to propose

adj. infallible (a) stretched tight (b) forced (c) not stringent or energetic (d) exempt from error of judgment, as in opinion or statement

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adj. intricate (a) recurring every seven years (c) difficult to follow or understand

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(b) laborious (d) consisting of two pairs

adj. complacent (a) pleased or satisfied with oneself (c) pertaining to the process of plant-life

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(b) capable of sinning (d) perceptible by touch

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n. carcass (a) the dead body of an animal (b) passion for getting and keeping riches (c) concluding performance (d) something upon which the mind is set; goal; plan; purpose

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n. quantity (a) the science and art of teaching (b) magnitude (c) the system of doctrine taught by a French theologian and reformer (d) one who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions

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n. tack (a) a small sharp-pointed nail (b) a treatise discussing a single subject or branch of a subject (c) an embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument (d) the principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure

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n. palinode (a) a retraction (b) superior ruler (especially in feudal system); one with great influence (c) hole (d) the setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness

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n. armada (a) form of speech used only or chiefly in conversation (b) an atomizer (c) a dwelling-place occupied in common by persons under religious vows of seclusion (d) a fleet of war-vessels

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n. luminescence (a) an ox (c) denial

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(b) a specific capability of feeling or emotion (d) showing increase

n. borough (a) cessation (b) a vertical bar or a pair of bars, used to confine cattle in a stall (c) one who one who makes positive changes; improver (d) an incorporated village or town

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n. rejuvenescence (a) a portable free-reed musical instrument (c) a butter-making establishment

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(b) person who receives a candidacy (d) a renewal of youth

v. dehydrate (a) to infuriate (c) to passively permit or put up with

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(b) to touch at the end or boundary line (d) to deprive of water

n. feint (a) means that nourish and support (b) readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work (c) any sham, pretense or deceptive movement (d) the state of becoming raw or sore again

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v. relish (a) to have or produce resonance (c) to lessen the worth of

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(b) to like the taste or savor of (d) to deprive of peace or tranquillity

v. defraud (a) to deprive of something dishonestly (c) to recover after a sickness

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(b) to live sumptuously (d) to throw into confusion

v. impoverish (a) to charge with wrong doing, misconduct or error (b) to extend in all directions, as from a source or focus (c) to drive from one's own country (d) to make indigent or poor

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v. fray (a) to fret at the edge so as to loosen or break the threads (b) to multiply by four (c) to collect into a mass (d) to prove true, right or real

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v. badger (a) to excrete through the pores of the skin (b) to draw or be drawn into wrinkles (c) to pester; to annoy (d) to describe by distinctive marks or peculiarities

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v. satiate (a) to satisfy fully the appetite or desire of (b) to make brilliant or shining (c) in cookery, to surround with additions for embellishment (d) to treat with sarcasm or derisive wit

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v. parallel (a) to cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts (b) to remove or pass from one country, region or habitat to another (c) to to judge the value, degree, or worth of somebody or something to be less than it really is (d) to exceed in influence or power

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v. separate (a) to place in the earth, as a dead body (c) to rouse to activity or to quickened action

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(b) to go beyond; to pass; to surpass; to outdo (d) to take apart

v. knead (a) to draw out (b) to enlarge in all directions (c) to mix and work into a homogeneous mass, especially with the hands (d) to dissolve gradually and become liquid by absorption of moisture from the air

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v. retrograde (a) to move backward; repeat; reiterate; recapitulate; worsen (b) to relinquish, especially temporarily, as a right or claim (c) to determine the amount of (a tax or other sum to be paid) (d) to drive or urge forward

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 96

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n. consulate (a) a narrow strip of wood (b) office of an official chosen by a government to represent its interests in a foreign country (c) birthright (d) stead

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v. outdo (b) to seek ultimate causes and principles (d) to debar

(a) to waste away in flesh (c) to surpass Q3

v. expiate (a) to make more keen or eager (b) to make satisfaction or amends for (c) to act upon (d) to be present in such numbers as to be a source of annoyance, trouble or danger

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adj. imperfectible (a) pertaining to Mars, either the Roman god of war or the planet (b) that can not be perfected (c) forbidding; disallowing; enjoining; preventing; hindering; preclusive (d) capable of being appealed to

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adj. regnant (a) occurring outside of an individual's awareness (b) having a dark hue, especially a dark or sunburned complexion (c) exercising royal authority in one's own right (d) inevitable

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n. incitement (a) a dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one (b) favorable or advantageous chance or opening (c) something that moves to action or serves as an incentive or stimulus (d) a criminal or depraved person

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n. fawn (a) a brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest (b) smelling sweet and agreeable (c) risk (d) a young deer

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n. extradition (a) an instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot (b) a prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse or performance (c) the surrender by a government of a person accused of crime to the justice of another government (d) a noxious or ill-smelling exhalation from decaying or putrefying matter

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adj. opportune (a) especially fit as occurring, said or done at the right moment (b) suitable for the purpose and circumstances (c) tending to kill or hurt (d) juicy

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n. epitaph (a) the process by which an animal or plant gives rise to another of its kind (b) a person of the lowest or poorest class (c) the act of sinking until covered completely with water (d) an inscription on a tomb or monument in honor or in memory of the dead

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adj. ramose (a) artificial (b) branch-like (c) offensive from excess of praise or commendation (d) foreknowing

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adj. nimble (a) light and quick in motion or action (c) irregular

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(b) hilly (d) relevant

adj. subtle (a) allowing the passage of light (c) lyrical

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(b) of or pertaining to a tree or trees (d) discriminating

adj. doleful (a) melancholy (c) multiplied by three

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(b) wanton (d) excessively sparing in the use of money

adj. discreet (a) judicious (c) expressing an engagement to pay

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(b) neglecting or refusing to obey (d) thin, but tough and sinewy

adj. insensible (a) living, occurring or existing at the same time (b) pertaining to winter (c) imperceptible (d) sickening or insipid

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adj. transitory (a) marked by lightness and softness (c) existing for a short time only

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(b) sticky (d) that may be estimated by reckoning

adj. convivial (a) devoted to feasting or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking (b) nourishing; healthy; of high food value (c) harsh or disagreeable in sound (d) having the texture of appearance of wood

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adj. retroactive (a) boisterous (b) vivacious (c) operative on, affecting or having reference to past events, transactions or responsibilities (d) pertaining to, intended for or performed by a chorus or choir

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n. heritage (a) a woman's or boy's voice of high range (c) birthright

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(b) the state of touching (d) any small engraved or carved work in relief

n. ground (a) a person's line of ancestors (b) a discharge from accusation by judicial action (c) a person given to saving and hoarding unduly (d) a pavement or floor or any supporting surface on which one may walk

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n. miscreant (a) a villain (b) a small stream or brook (c) a place where animal skin is converted into leather (d) a greenhouse for grapes

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n. ablution (a) a washing or cleansing, especially of the body (b) a length of ten meters (c) a figure with eight sides and eight angles (d) a goddess; divinity of chastisement and vengeance

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n. specialty (a) any religious ceremonial (b) a race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner (c) an employment limited to one particular line of work (d) a view or contemplation of something past

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n. tricycle (a) balance (c) a front or cutting tooth

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(b) a three-wheeled vehicle (d) impending evil or danger

n. recitation (a) the act of reciting or repeating, especially in public and from memory (b) a condensed form as of a book or play (c) person who navigates the air; a balloonist (d) intensity of passion or affection

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n. benefactor (a) a doer of kindly and charitable acts (b) the roof of the mouth (c) any physical disease or disorder, especially a chronic or deep-seated one (d) uninterrupted connection in space, time, operation or development

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n. onslaught (a) looks or acts expressing amused contempt (b) the traditions, beliefs, and customs of the common people (c) the state or quality of being in accord with (d) an assault; mighty attack; overwhelming quantity appearing all at once (as of people)

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n. bauble (a) a trinket (c) splendor

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v. recreate (a) to beat with something thick or bulky (c) to refresh after labor

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(b) to subject to punitive measures (d) to drive or urge forward

v. misunderstand (a) to extend in time or duration (b) to entrap (c) to put off till tomorrow or till a future time (d) to take in a wrong sense; to interpret incorrectly

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v. inquire (a) to arouse, as emotion, interest or the like (c) to ask information about

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(b) to produce irritation or festering (d) to revolve

v. impede (a) to disperse or disappear (b) to say or do again and again (c) to be an obstacle or to place obstacles in the way of (d) to cause to be less harsh, violent or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain or disease

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v. detrude (a) to take too much food in (b) to push down forcibly (c) to restore to youth (d) to fill the mind of a person to the exclusion of other subjects

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v. decipher (a) to ascertain by mathematical calculation (b) to find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible (c) to unfold or expand (d) to reproduce

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v. disconnect (a) to make supremely happy (b) to entice to surrender chastity (c) to cut off (d) to accept as true on the testimony or authority of others

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v. acknowledge (a) to put in action and supervise the working of (b) to separate from others of its kind (c) to expel (d) to recognize; to admit the genuineness or validity of

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adj. momentous (a) unrelenting (c) of vast size or strength

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(b) very significant (d) deadly; fatal; contagious; infectious

v. delude (a) to unite (b) to comfort (c) to distinguish, as a disease, by its characteristic phenomena (d) to mislead the mind or judgment of

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 100

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adj. credulous (a) easily deceived (b) concise, compressed and abrupt in act or expression (c) that can not be destroyed (d) indulging, ministering or pertaining to daintiness of appetite

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n. zodiac (a) a state of mind with reference to confidence, courage, zeal and the like (b) similarity in quality or form (c) that which is used to decorate the person or dress (d) an imaginary belt encircling the heavens within which are the larger planets

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n. fruition (a) a slender, graceful young woman or girl (c) anything forbidden, as by social usage

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(b) fulfillment (d) blessing

n. brooch (a) a plot or scheme, usually complicated and intended to accomplish something by secret ways (b) an article of jewelry fastened by a hinged pin and hook on the underside (c) a person who receives money (d) mode of speech

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n. intercessor (a) the inversion of terms in successive classes as in 'the home of joy and the joy of home' (b) a number of persons combined for a common purpose (c) an opinion or doctrine subversive of settled beliefs or accepted principles (d) a mediator

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n. ichthyosaurs (a) double-dealing

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(b) self-conceit

(c) a lake

(d) a fossil reptile

n. assets (a) property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts; anything of material value or usefulness (b) a whim (c) a unit of electrical energy (d) a classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus

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v. reprimand (a) to chide or rebuke for a fault (b) to injure the reputation of (c) to grind or strike the teeth together, as from rage (d) to prevent; to eliminate; to remove; to make impossible

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n. grievance (a) that which oppresses, injures or causes grief and at the same time a sense of wrong (b) reasoning sound in appearance only, especially when designedly deceptive (c) a sea-nymph, described by Homer as dwelling between the island of Circe and Scylla (d) a stringed instrument held between the player's knees

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n. braggart (a) a very boastful and talkative person; a vain boaster (b) that from or on which something is developed (c) the ethical doctrine that actions are right because they are useful or of beneficial tendency (d) a formal summary of fundamental points of religious belief

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 101

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adj. impalpable (a) imperceptible to the touch (b) cheerful (c) adapted to or characterized by minute observation (d) existing, done or operating beneath the surface of the sea

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adj. corporate (a) having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance (b) belonging to a corporation (c) guilty (d) occurring or made at intervals of three months

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adj. proportionate (a) creating affliction

(b) wandering

(c) slanting; said of lines

(d) relative; corresponding

adj. submarine (a) turning around its axis, like a wheel or so constructed as to turn thus (b) of a wild, fierce, and savage nature (c) existing, done or operating beneath the surface of the sea (d) of or pertaining to the animal reproductive organs

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adj. peccable (a) capable of sinning (c) beyond which there is nothing else

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(b) possessing wisdom (d) speechless

adj. exempt (a) inclined to doubt or mistrust (b) having the spirit or sentiment of rural life (c) free, clear or released, as from some liability or restriction affecting others (d) that can not be perfected

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adj. foursome (a) consisting of two pairs (b) pertaining to the nose (c) knowing and understanding only the ordinary and the obvious (d) inconsistent with reason or common sense

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adj. votary (a) very small (b) consecrated by a vow or promise (c) laughable (d) longer than broad: applied most commonly to rectangular objects considerably elongated

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adj. deciduous (a) belonging to a corporation (b) falling off at maturity as petals after flowering, fruit when ripe, etc (c) sated with pleasure (d) pertaining to the area under the skin

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adj. possible (a) sheltering (b) surreptitious (c) being not beyond the reach of power natural, moral or supernatural (d) spasmodic

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 102

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n. scintilla (a) engagement to marry (b) a square of linen, silk or other material, used as a covering for the head or neck (c) remorseful feeling (d) the faintest ray

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n. sirocco (a) a note at this interval above or below any other, considered in relation to that other (b) apparition (c) artistry; skillfulness; manner of execution (d) hot winds from Africa

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n. principle (a) a general truth or proposition (b) an obstacle (c) a receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept (d) person who writes plays

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n. elusion (a) evasion (b) a part built or arranged to project beyond a natural outline for support (c) prevention; rejection; leaving out; keeping out; shutting out (d) ability to sway the will of another

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n. rein (a) a yawning hollow, as in the earth's surface (b) mental excitement or confusion (c) a step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal (d) a beginner in any business or occupation

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n. sol (a) essential likeness (c) the sun

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(b) a prearranged place of meeting (d) flow

n. statuette (a) the right, power or liberty of choosing (c) a figurine

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n. annunciation (a) a college student

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(b) person who steers a small boat (d) direction and management

(b) an earnest request

(c) an impediment

(d) proclamation

n. filibuster (a) an office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc. (b) a standard by which to determine the correctness of a judgment or conclusion (c) person who possesses great power or sway; person with great authority (d) one who attempts to obstruct legislation

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n. citadel (a) malice (b) the state or quality of being unfit, unseemly or inappropriate (c) the superior of a community of monks (d) any strong fortress

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 103

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v. reinstate (a) to cover or fill the surface of (b) to return to a previous condition or position (c) to cease to exist, either actually or for the time being (d) to rouse to a particular action

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v. differentiate (b) to acquire a distinct and separate character (d) to state as belonging to something

(a) to deny oneself the pleasure or profit of (c) to impede with obstacles Q3

v. befriend (a) to make warm by genial heat (b) to make an effort to vomit (c) to offer to (somebody) an inducement to do wrong (d) assist; aid; stand by

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v. pommel (a) to go beyond (b) to excite sensations of uneasiness or displeasure in (c) to make or enact a law or laws (d) to beat with something thick or bulky

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v. nestle (a) to stop while in progress (b) to adjust cozily in snug quarters (c) to pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended (d) to be present in such numbers as to be a source of annoyance, trouble or danger

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v. espy (a) to keep close watch (b) to make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles (c) to rule; control; govern; predominate; prevail; be widespread (d) to mix or blend together in a homogeneous body

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n. overhang (a) a court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court (b) deportment (c) a ritual (d) an extent of projection

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v. allege (a) to become or cause to become withered or dry (b) to assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court (c) to survive longer (d) to pour forth

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v. discredit (a) to cause to see clearly (b) to educe or extract gradually or without violence (c) to injure the reputation of (d) to multiply by four

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v. foist (a) to palm off (b) to remove by digging or scooping out (c) to deprive of any right privilege or power (d) to cast or drive out by religious or magical means

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 104

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adj. inaccurate (a) insufferable (b) promotive of conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state (c) full of zeal and fervor (d) not exactly according to the facts

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n. conversion (a) change from one state or position to another or from one form to another (b) any place of exit (c) foreboding (d) self-imposed punishment; self-mortification; affliction

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n. gait (a) a landed estate held under feudal tenure (b) a moving forward; advancement (c) a substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms (d) carriage of the body in going

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n. sisterhood (a) a body of sisters united by some bond of sympathy or by a religious vow (b) a story or drama told or performed by one person (c) a substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms (d) expression of blame

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adj. unconscious (a) capable of being remedied or corrected (c) ingenuous

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(b) very significant (d) not cognizant of objects, actions, etc

adj. achromatic (a) given too little light to a piece of photographic film when taking a photograph (b) colorless (c) pertaining to marriage or matrimony (d) awe-inspiring

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adj. admissible (a) hypercritical

(b) having the right or privilege of entry

(c) pertaining to or consisting of air or gas

(d) easy to approach

adj. concurrent (a) having fine and penetrating discernment (c) occurring or acting together

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(b) not exactly according to the facts (d) plentiful

adj. irrational (a) not possessed of reasoning powers or understanding (b) a full and formal style of utterance (c) able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations (d) not understandable

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adj. haggard (a) characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink or food (b) worn and gaunt in appearance (c) having excess decoration; showy; flamboyant; flowery or elaborate in literary style (d) untrustworthy

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 105

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adj. innumerable (a) unadvisable (c) contradictory

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(b) given to excess in eating (d) countless

adj. meddlesome (a) standing out prominently (c) incredible

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(b) blameless (d) interfering

adj. gigantic (b) assured (d) transparent

(a) tremendous (c) belonging to or suggestive of the spring Q4

adj. lustrous (a) capable of being or fit to be accepted — often money (b) shining (c) stealthy or sly, like the actions of a thief (d) easily provoked to anger

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adj. dauntless (a) fearless (b) not to be conquered, subdued or overcome (c) disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness (d) untiring

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n. knight errant (a) casual occurrence (b) one of the wandering warrior who in the middle ages went forth in search of adventure (c) one who attempts to obstruct legislation (d) a woman's ornamental corset-shaped laced waist

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n. acquittal (a) the worship of nature for itself or its beauty (b) a discharge from accusation by judicial action (c) love and devotion to one's country (d) the entertainment of doubt concerning something

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adj. fastidious (a) easy to approach (b) hard to please (c) devoted to feasting or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking (d) resorted to in a last extremity or as if prompted by utter despair

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adj. insipid (a) showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of feeling (b) hazy; foggy; vague; obscure (c) unrelenting (d) tasteless

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adj. delectable (a) pertaining to marriage, marital rights or married persons (b) opposed to human servitude (c) indescribable (d) delightful to the taste or to the senses

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 106

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n. upheaval (a) that part of a play or story in which the mystery is cleared up (b) sleeplessness (c) overthrow or violent disturbance of established order or condition (d) unnecessary activity or ceremony

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n. irruption (a) sudden invasion (b) previous life; life before the present (c) a servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence (d) a fabric to which a pattern is applied with a needle, designed for ornamental hangings

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n. forepeak (a) one who journeys on foot (b) the extreme forward part of a ship's hold, under the lowest deck (c) a small body of water leading into a larger (d) the art of painting on a surface of plaster, particularly on walls and ceilings

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n. committal (a) the quality of making a clamor (b) the hinder part (c) a collection of wild animals, especially when kept for exhibition (d) the act, fact or result of committing or the state of being

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n. replica (a) a treasurer (b) person who delivers an elaborate or formal speech (c) a duplicate executed by the artist himself and regarded, equally with the first, as an original (d) a priest; clergyman; parson; spiritual leader; spiritual guide

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n. kimono (a) the path described by a projectile moving under given forces (b) a young bird (c) a loose robe, fastening with a sash, the principal outer garment in Japan (d) the neglect or omission of a legal requirement

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n. archangel (a) the study of religions and religious teachings (b) the state or feeling of trust in or reliance upon another (c) a chief spirit servant of God (d) the traditions, beliefs, and customs of the common people

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n. permanence (a) a continuance in the same state or without any change that destroys the essential form or nature (b) the act of reciting or repeating, especially in public and from memory (c) anything unnaturally huge or distorted (d) the emblems of royalty

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n. conformation (a) person who has the right to vote at an election (b) a flock of quails or partridges (c) structure; adaptation; adjustment (d) the state of spreading through every part

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n. legacy (a) the whole body of legends cherished by a race concerning gods and heroes (b) any guard or watch stationed for protection (c) tendency towards a former or opposite state of things, as after reform, revolution or inflation (d) a bequest

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 107

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v. emulate (a) to imitate the speech or actions of (b) to imitate with intent to equal or surpass (c) to put in definite or proper order (d) to recall or take back (something that one has said)

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v. recover (a) to rearrange

(b) to impose on or dupe by flattering speech

(c) to regain

(d) to fill with an overflowing abundance

v. constrict (a) to raise or lift with effort (b) to get as one's own (c) to cause to last or to be known or remembered throughout a great or indefinite length of time (d) to bind

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v. safeguard (a) to recant, renounce or repudiate under oath (c) to plunder

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v. circulate (a) to correct

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(b) to protect (d) to imitate the speech or actions of

(b) to endue with life

(c) to disseminate

(d) to imply

v. persuade (a) to win the mind of by argument, eloquence, evidence or reflection (b) to unite or blend as by melting together (c) to repay either good or evil to, as to a person (d) to use, control or manage, as a weapon or instrument, especially with full command

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v. humanize (a) to cause to be less harsh, violent or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain or disease (b) to fill with an overflowing abundance (c) to make gentle or refined (d) to inflict severe pain or agony upon

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v. abdicate (a) to drive or urge forward (b) to give up (royal power or the like) (c) to foretell (d) to aid, promote or encourage the commission of (an offense)

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v. console (b) to abominate (d) to dignify

(a) to give a wrong impression (c) to comfort Q10

v. transcribe (a) to step beyond (b) to write over again (something already written) (c) to reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion or waste (d) to excite sensations of uneasiness or displeasure in

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 108

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n. neo-darwinism (a) a theory of evolution that includes findings of modern genetics (b) poverty (c) chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold (d) voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies

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n. savage (a) sanction

(b) a wild and uncivilized human being

(c) a consecration to the ministry

(d) a probability

n. multiplicity (a) rudeness (b) a distinctive feature (c) a room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests (d) the condition of being manifold or very various

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n. glazier (a) person who cuts and fits panes of glass, as for windows (b) importance (c) a rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge (d) that by which a number or quantity is divided

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adv. generally (a) extremely

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(b) without intention

(c) ordinarily

(d) entirely

v. deprave (a) to keep under restraint or control (b) to render bad, especially morally bad (c) to fill with dismay or horror (d) to teach or imbue with the doctrines of Calvinism

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v. leaven (a) to rule; control; govern; predominate; prevail; be widespread (b) to make light by fermentation, as dough (c) to relieve, as from pain or hardship (d) to clear away or provide for, as an objection or difficulty

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n. perjury (a) the condition resulting from one's dying not having made a valid will (b) a formal conversation in which two or more take part (c) a number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together (d) a solemn assertion of a falsity

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v. exemplify (a) to continue to exist after (b) to prevent; to eliminate; to remove; to make impossible (c) to render clear and intelligible (d) to show by example

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n. floe (a) the act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment (b) release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation or responsibility (c) the quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy (d) a collection of tabular masses of floating polar ice

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 109

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adj. orthogonal (a) somewhat rough or rude in manner or speech (b) having or determined by right angles (c) exempt from error of judgment, as in opinion or statement (d) of or pertaining to plants

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Q3

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adj. slight (a) looking back on the past

(b) averse

(c) of a small importance or significance

(d) diligent

adj. migratory (a) black-and-blue, as contused flesh

(b) not cognizant of objects, actions, etc

(c) accidental

(d) wandering

adj. inexplicable (a) such as can not be made plain (b) capable of being conveyed from one person or place to another (c) exciting or exhilarating to the mind (d) yielding

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adj. discernible (a) of or pertaining to the middle (b) perceivable (c) having no force, weight or cogency (d) curving like the segment of the globe or of the surface of a circle

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adj. propitious (a) Biblical; pertaining to the Bible; written; inscribed (b) usual or customary (c) of a steady and sober character (d) kindly disposed

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adj. instructive (b) pale (d) conveying knowledge

(a) competent for physical service (c) pertaining to the later stone age Q8

adj. liege (a) interfering

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(b) belligerent

(c) sovereign

(d) vivacious

adj. presumptuous (a) unchangeable (b) assuming too much (c) protective (d) of or pertaining to particular English philosopher

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adj. aural (a) pertaining to decisions made by courts of law (b) smooth (c) harshly pungent or bitter (d) of or pertaining to the ear

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 110

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n. dedication (a) the voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause (b) avarice (c) any prediction or foretelling (d) the killing of a king or sovereign

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n. ostracism (a) exclusion from intercourse or favor, as in society or politics (b) that form of the numeral that shows the order of anything in a series, as first, second, third (c) a condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages (d) a clown

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n. sanctity (a) sorrow (b) holiness (c) an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule (d) nothing

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n. aura (a) good-humored satire (b) hot winds from Africa (c) a prophecy (d) pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons

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n. likelihood (a) the name or title by which a particular person, class or thing is called (b) fairness or impartiality (c) an excessive amount (d) a probability

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n. amusement (a) an executive officer in legislative bodies who enforces the orders of the presiding officer (b) hard or agonizing labor (c) diversion (d) recklessness

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n. adjacent (a) object or device which is near or bordering upon (b) one who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose (c) a small dagger (d) a modern and an ancient Greek coin

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n. matricide (a) a woman who is a center of attraction because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc. (b) the killing, especially the murdering, of one's mother (c) the maker of a deed (d) absolute government

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v. arraign (a) to examine for the correction of errors or for the purpose of making changes (b) to lament (c) to call into court, as a person indicted for crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not (d) to return or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like

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n. asperity (a) a person to whom a donation is made (b) something that exerts or through through which one may exert great power (c) a work, original in character, afterward imitated in form or spirit (d) harshness or roughness of temper

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v. recline (a) to draw into entanglement, literally or figuratively (b) to stretch out or expand in every direction (c) to cause to assume a leaning or recumbent attitude or position (d) to make familiar or conversant

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v. revoke (a) to trouble with importunities, cares or annoyances (b) to rescind (c) to impede with obstacles (d) to ascertain by mathematical calculation

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v. recruit (a) to comfort (b) to enlist men for military or naval service (c) to give pictorial vividness to a mental representation (d) to make adroit or artful moves: manage affairs by strategy

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v. disarrange (a) to puncture slightly with fine, sharp points (b) to put ashore and abandon (a person) on a desolate coast or island (c) to throw out of order (d) to find fault with

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v. accept (a) to request an inadequate price for something (c) to take when offered

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(b) to empower (d) to make alive

v. dispossess (a) to command (b) to foretell (c) to become greater in quantity or number (d) to deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate

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v. appall (a) to become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service (b) to surrender the custody of (c) to fill with dismay or horror (d) to be involved; join in

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v. remunerate (a) to explain or understand incorrectly (b) to pay or pay for (c) to slowly weaken or injure; sabotage; subvert (d) to pester; to annoy

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v. debase (a) to turn within (b) to enter voluntarily the military service by formal enrollment (c) to lower in character or virtue (d) to evade the search or pursuit of by dexterity or artifice

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v. improvise (a) to do anything extemporaneously or offhand (b) to cut off or cut short (c) to calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; to mitigate (d) to imbue with life or animation

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n. coincidence (a) the science that treats of plants (b) a circumstance so agreeing with another: often implying accident (c) any strong fortress (d) the state of being joined together or the things so joined

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v. reconsider (a) to review with care, especially with a view to a reversal of previous action (b) to to annex, as something extrinsic (c) to invent (d) to get first sight or knowledge of, as something previously unknown or unperceived

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n. lattice (a) harsh or malignant oppression (b) openwork of metal or wood, formed by crossing or interlacing strips or bars (c) dizziness (d) the constitutional right in a chief executive of refusing to approve an enactment

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v. peter (a) to remove from office; oust (b) to reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation (c) to diminish and come to a stop; give out; expire; fade; die out (d) to chide or rebuke for a fault

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adj. further (a) philosophical (c) following in the order of time

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(b) more distant or advanced (d) hideous

v. rankle (a) to assert as a fact (c) to cause to whirl, as in an eddy

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(b) to produce irritation or festering (d) to talk about vainly or foolishly

n. missal (a) a simplified representation (b) forbearance (c) the book containing the service for the celebration of mass (d) any unusual occurrence

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n. violator (a) depravity (c) a person who has little understanding

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(b) the earliest victim in any cause (d) person who transgresses

n. consternation (a) panic (b) person who owns, enjoys or controls anything, such as property (c) flood; inundate; engulf (d) an impetus

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adj. congenial (a) that may be estimated by reckoning (b) mutually involving or implying one another (c) that can not be blotted out, effaced, destroyed or removed (d) having kindred character or tastes

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adj. pompous (a) marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner (b) characterized by illiberal views or sentiments (c) faultfinding (d) quick at contrivance

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adj. disreputable (a) wicked in the extreme (b) lacking honor; having a bad reputation (c) characterized by unlimited or infinite knowledge (d) a person of between eighty and ninety years

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adj. quixotic (a) that may be measured, counted or weighed (b) showing a servile readiness to fall in with the wishes or will of another (c) boundless (d) chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree

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adj. transferable (a) capable of being conveyed from one person or place to another (b) self-governing (c) pertaining or peculiar to a mother or to motherhood (d) showing or feeling envy

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adj. venous (a) persevering in effort or endeavor (b) yielding to the desires or humor of oneself or those under one's care (c) affecting the sense of taste (d) of, pertaining to or contained or carried in a vein or veins

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adj. polar (a) pertaining to the poles of a sphere, especially of the earth (b) steadfast (c) stingy (d) relative

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adj. impliable (a) counterfeit (b) lacking color or brilliancy (c) capable of being inferred (d) turning around its axis, like a wheel or so constructed as to turn thus

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adj. invulnerable (a) that may or can collapse (c) formidable

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(b) not according to law (d) that can not be wounded or hurt

adj. contumacious (a) smelling sweet and agreeable (c) tranquil

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(b) something that isn't there (d) rebellious

adj. acrid (a) tranquil (c) having no force, weight or cogency

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n. thrall (a) the property of some substances through which the form of the mass can readily be changed (b) a formal or discriminating expression of praise (c) one controlled by an appetite or a passion (d) a water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance

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n. adjuration (a) a monastic house (b) a church office endowed with funds or property for the maintenance of divine service (c) a vehement appeal (d) the color of the sky

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n. tannery (a) a place where animal skin is converted into leather (b) close or confidential friendship (c) government by a single, sovereign ruler (d) a presentation; proposition; offer

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n. biography (a) person who is fond of women (b) a base or support as for a column, statue or vase (c) a written account of one's life, actions, and character (d) vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea

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n. determination (a) deficiency of blood or red corpuscles (b) the act of deciding (c) power to perceive or feel (d) a book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists

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n. obstinacy (a) a complete series of connected military operations (b) double-dealing (c) a monologue (d) stubborn adherence to opinion, arising from conceit or the desire to have one's own way

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n. redound (a) a body of Christians united by a common faith and form of worship and discipline (b) to accumulate; to accrue; to collect; to have a desired result or effect; to return; to come back (c) one who or that which points out (d) any sham, pretense or deceptive movement

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n. centimeter (a) a standard by which to determine the correctness of a judgment or conclusion (b) a European unit of length (c) any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object (d) an alloy or union of mercury with another metal

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n. intellect (a) the close of a narrative or dramatic poem (b) insolent disrespect (c) any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority (d) the faculty of perception or thought

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n. servitude (a) person who practices the correcting or preventing of deformity (b) uncertainty (c) slavery (d) the side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle

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v. inscribe (a) to translate freely (b) to strengthen, as proof or conviction (c) to excite a slight degree of anger in (d) to enter in a book or on a list, roll or document by writing

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v. undulate (a) to articulate or enunciate with special impressiveness upon a word or a group of words (b) to move like a wave or in waves (c) to waver (d) to look upon with disfavor

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v. narrate (a) to tell a story (b) to lose possession of through failure to fulfill some obligation (c) to address or gratify with expressions of delicate praise (d) to confuse or becloud

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v. recede (a) to put in some relation of connection or correspondence (b) to exercise an arrogant condescension toward (c) to move back or away (d) to become or cause to become withered or dry

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v. bide (a) to pursue inquiries and form conjectures (c) to pitch tents for a resting-place

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(b) to await (d) to imply

v. annotate (a) to make explanatory or critical notes on or upon (b) to cut off (from an inheritance, family, etc.); repudiate; disavow; renounce (c) to take apart (d) to make light by fermentation, as dough

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v. befog (a) to approve authoritatively

(b) to afflict with pain, vexation or fatigue

(c) to confuse

(d) to restore to youth

v. intromit (a) to remove from one place and introduce into another (organ, person, etc.); transfer; relocate (b) to shrink, fall in or fail (c) to insert (d) to pursue a policy of delay

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v. chastise (a) to separate and cast aside (c) to subject to punitive measures

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(b) to bubble up (d) to win confidence or good graces for oneself

v. presage (a) to put into confusion (b) to overwhelm or attempt to do so, by stern, haughty or rude address or manner (c) to foretell (d) to use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention

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adj. intermittent (a) protective

(b) a temporary discontinuance

(c) compassionate

(d) concordant in sound

n. dictum (a) surmise (b) a positive utterance (c) trade forbidden by law or treaty (d) person who is acquainted with several languages

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n. boll (a) birthright (b) any soft, gentle wind (c) the process of decomposing a chemical compound by the passage of an electric current (d) a round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton

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v. mesmerize (a) to mix or blend together in a homogeneous body (b) to throw down, push off or remove otherwise from a horse or the like (c) to hypnotize (d) to make a hole or holes through

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n. brigade (a) a body of troops consisting of two or more regiments (b) a disease or malady (c) incentive (d) unwillingness

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n. reformer (a) mercy (b) a small mound (c) a system of church government (d) one who one who makes positive changes; improver

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n. medallion (a) a large decorative metal disk worn on a chain around the neck (b) a hereditary noble or one nearly connected with nobility (c) an expert reasoner (d) caution

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n. delectation (a) delight (b) a movement or action of the hands or face, expressive of some idea or emotion (c) reverential regard or worship (d) a threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance

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v. perturb (a) to disencumber (c) to disturb greatly

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(b) to regret extremely (d) to invest with sovereign power

v. converge (a) to attach at the beginning (b) to cause to incline and approach nearer together (c) to keep sacred (d) to make a beginning in some occupation or scheme

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adj. generic (a) describes plants or plant parts that are fleshy and wither after each growing season (b) noting a genus or kind; opposed to specific (c) prudent (d) unconquerable

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adj. satiric (a) first in rank or position (b) resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity or corruption is held up to ridicule (c) pertaining to or creative of a boundary or limit (d) descended from the same parent or ancestor

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adj. antispasmodic (a) bloody (b) unsusceptible to outside ideas or influences; unfathomable; inscrutable (c) controlling or preventing spasms (d) free from doubt or hesitation

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adj. impassable (a) strained to stiffness (c) stingy

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(b) silent (d) that can not be passed through or over

n. divination (a) exultation (b) the pretended forecast of future events or discovery of what is lost or hidden (c) a collection of extracts from the writings of various authors (d) a formal conversation in which two or more take part

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adj. wintry (a) lacking warmth of manner (b) retired from active service but retained to an honorary position (c) of, pertaining to or of the nature of vinegar (d) possessing strength

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n. sorcery (a) particular conduct or administration of affairs (b) a bold, impudent, turbulent woman (c) witchcraft (d) a wanderer

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adj. causal (a) detestable (b) having several syllables, especially more than three syllables (c) immense (d) indicating or expressing a cause

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adj. fraudulent (a) helpful (c) situated within the walls of a city

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(b) counterfeit (d) inevitable

adj. affable (a) ultimate (c) not essential under the circumstances

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(b) false (d) easy to approach

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n. muleteer (a) an elastic animal tissue of firm consistence (b) a person who drives animals that are hybrids of horses and donkeys (c) an occupant (d) the superior of a community of monks

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n. optic (a) patient endurance or toleration of offenses

(b) sparkle; flicker; faint light; gleam

(c) pertaining to the eye or vision

(d) the science of poetical forms

n. bolero (a) evasion (b) means of subsistence (c) a Spanish dance, illustrative of the passion of love, accompanied by caste nets and singing (d) any prediction or foretelling

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n. grantor (a) the act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war (b) a hanging from a support (c) the maker of a deed (d) the science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events

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n. bedlam (a) the character or condition of being impatient, capricious or petulant (b) madhouse; uproar (c) sign-language (d) a character consisting of two or more letters interwoven into one, usually initials of a name

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n. anticyclone (a) an atmospheric condition of high central pressure with currents flowing outward (b) conservation (c) deviation from a right, customary or prescribed course (d) one who rejects authority or inspiration in religion

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n. scabbard (a) folly (b) a long curved blade for mowing, reaping, etc (c) person who believes in God but denies supernatural revelation (d) the sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon

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n. investigator (a) insinuation (b) detective (c) a Spanish dance, illustrative of the passion of love, accompanied by caste nets and singing (d) that to which general interest or attention is directed

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adj. laggard (a) exhibiting or indicating omission (c) evil

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(b) milky (d) falling behind

n. unguent (a) a word of two syllables (b) discontinuance, as of action or motion (c) any ointment or lubricant for local application (d) a chief spirit servant of God

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v. persist (a) to continue steadfast against opposition (b) to foretell (c) to take or send away forcibly, as to a penal colony (d) to summon or cause to assemble

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v. obliterate (a) to rebuild (b) to reunite after separation (c) to cause to disappear (d) to fill the mind of a person to the exclusion of other subjects

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v. captivate (a) to run, organize, or deal with something incompetently (b) to reconstruct (c) to fascinate, as by excellence, eloquence or beauty (d) to dig out of the earth (what has been buried)

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v. bedaub (a) to make movements of the body, as in speaking or in place of speech (b) to kiss (c) to smear over, as with something oily or sticky (d) to produce or cause to be

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v. patter (a) to animate (c) to go beyond

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(b) to mumble something over and over (d) to accuse in return

v. assonate (a) to maintain by noisy argument or dispute (c) to cut off or cut short

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(b) to put in order after disarrangement (d) to accord in sound, especially vowel sound

v. ante (a) to produce irritation or festering (b) to assail with arguments, insinuations or accusations (c) in the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt (d) to gain supremacy; to subdue; to take control of

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v. obligate (a) to force forward prematurely (b) to harden or toughen by use, exercise or exposure (c) to hold to the fulfillment of duty (d) to make stale or trite by repetition

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v. condescend (a) adapt for theatrical presentation; exaggerate (b) to award or bestow by formal decision (c) to come down voluntarily to equal terms with inferiors (d) to force into military service

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v. decimate (a) to strike with or as with the head or horns (b) to reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion or waste (c) to destroy a measurable or large proportion of (d) to cause to become frightened

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n. sentinel (a) deviation from a right, customary or prescribed course (b) any guard or watch stationed for protection (c) conversation (d) intellectual discernment

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v. undervalue (a) to estimate something less than the true worth (b) to drink in or suck up (c) to exercise a directing, restraining or governing influence over (d) to cut through or into so as to divide

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n. malaria (a) contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority (b) a fever characterized by alternating chills, fever and sweating (c) cleverness in contriving, combining or originating (d) one who makes or sells fabrics

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adj. philanthropic (a) false (b) appalling (c) exercising royal authority in one's own right (d) benevolent

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n. delicacy (a) the act of giving for a common purpose (b) the voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause (c) an object of favor or choice (d) that which is agreeable to a fine taste

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adj. postgraduate (a) seeming likely to be true, though open to doubt (b) pertaining to studies that are pursued after receiving a degree (c) tending in different directions (d) competent for physical service

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n. cabinet (a) the body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation (b) inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects (c) a break (d) rudeness

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n. prepossession (a) forms of speech collectively that are peculiar to the people of a particular district (b) a simplified representation (c) a preconceived liking (d) a fictitious narrative presented as historical but without any basis of fact

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v. appease (a) to soothe by quieting anger or indignation (b) to discern beforehand (c) to group, sort, arrange systematically; make confidential (d) to frighten away

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adj. supine (a) lying on the back (c) inconsistent with itself

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adj. patronymic (a) formed after one's father's name (b) incapable of being forced, constrained or compelled (c) relating to a region in northern France (d) pertaining to the throat

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adj. angular (a) exhibiting or indicating omission (c) extreme; fanatical

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(b) sharp-cornered (d) improvident

adj. amphibious (a) cutting deeply and quickly (b) succulent (c) living both on land and in water (d) a syllable or member of a series that is last but one

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adj. definite (a) pertaining to edible grain or farinaceous seeds (b) impassive to feelings of humanity or pity (c) shocking in conduct (d) having an exact signification or positive meaning

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adj. laxative (a) offering or tending to produce resistance (c) highly profitable

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adj. presentient (a) composed of small grains or particles (c) quarrelsome

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(b) having power to open or loosen the bowels (d) involving or requiring much sitting

(b) perceiving or feeling beforehand (d) capable of being conducted or transmitted

adj. technic (a) pushing; thrusting; driving; moving forward (b) inclined to strong exhibition or expression of feeling or thoughts (c) practical; useful (d) not to be justified

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adj. off (b) stimulating to thought or reflection (d) delivering bad news; foreboding; threatening

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adj. receptive (a) servilely following another's behests (b) without spirit or bravery (c) a published notice of a death (d) having the capacity, quality or ability of receiving, as truths or impressions

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adj. impecunious (a) serving to water lands by artificial means (b) having many shapes or appearances (c) relating to physical or, especially, sexual pleasure (d) having no money

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n. protoplasm (a) an open pan or basin for holding live coals (b) anything that will counteract or remove the effects of poison, disease or the like (c) the substance that forms the principal portion of an animal or vegetable cell (d) predestination

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n. furrier (a) a measure of length; 6 feet (b) a person who makes garments using animal hair (c) perceptible by feeling or touch (d) a positive utterance

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n. apothecary (a) a trying and purifying test or agency (b) a grain or seed (c) one who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions (d) entrance or the right or permission to enter

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n. denizen (a) that which is made as a likeness or copy (c) inhabitant

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(b) the state of touching (d) a dead body

n. shuffle (a) a small sharp-pointed nail (b) a mixing or changing the order of things (c) customary relation or association (d) that part of the digestive tube below or behind the stomach, extending to the anus

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n. mobocracy (a) boundless or immeasurable extension or duration (b) lawless control of public affairs by the populace (c) any application soothing to an irritable surface (d) a word having the same or almost the same meaning as some other

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n. hypothesis (a) untruthfulness (b) strength, skill and intrepidity in battle (c) a proposition taken for granted as a premise from which to reach a conclusion (d) a very detestable act or practice

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n. arbiter (a) expression of sympathy with a person in pain, sorrow or misfortune (b) the process of decomposing a chemical compound by the passage of an electric current (c) person who is chosen or appointed, by mutual consent of parties in dispute, to decide matters (d) the climax

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n. censor (a) a weight of 10 grams (b) an official examiner of manuscripts empowered to prohibit their publication (c) a little aristocrat (d) a special school, as of theology or pedagogics

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n. epithet (a) earthenware made from baked clay (b) word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in 'Father Aeneas' (c) delay (d) acuteness or discernment

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v. derive (a) to animate (b) to restore to a former status, capacity, right rank or privilege (c) to introduce or strive to introduce new things (d) to deduce, as from a premise

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v. alleviate (a) to recover; to regain; to repossess (b) to repudiate; disavow; renounce; deny connection with (c) to give and take mutually (d) to make less burdensome or less hard to bear

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v. penetrate (a) to exercise an arrogant condescension toward (b) to put into confusion (c) to enter or force a way into the interior parts of (d) to bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin

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v. enumerate (a) to predetermine (c) to be in collusion

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(b) to name one by one (d) to overtax the strength of

v. liberate (a) to speak or write a laudation of a person's life or character (b) to harass with persistent demands or entreaties (c) to set free or release from bondage (d) to diminish and come to a stop; give out; expire; fade; die out

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v. accuse (a) to harden or toughen by use, exercise or exposure (b) to charge with wrong doing, misconduct or error (c) to embellish (d) to describe, as a sentence, by separating it into its elements and describing each word

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v. eulogize (a) to speak or write a laudation of a person's life or character (b) in the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt (c) to involve; to necessitate (d) to predict

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v. excavate (a) to remove by digging or scooping out (c) to entrust

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(b) to speculate (d) to be superior or distinguished

v. denounce (a) to repudiate; disavow; renounce; deny connection with (b) to debilitate (c) to point out or publicly accuse as deserving of punishment, censure or odium (d) to invade partially or insidiously and appropriate the possessions of another

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v. characterize (a) to support; to inspire; to give hope (b) to describe by distinctive marks or peculiarities (c) to strip the covering from (d) to repay evil with a similar evil

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adj. decimal (a) founded on the number 10 (c) undecipherable

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(b) that may be measured, counted or weighed (d) indulgent

n. physiography (a) a sharp, harsh, squeaking sound (b) description of nature (c) in prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet (d) a state of balance

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n. gumption (a) a figure with eight sides and eight angles (c) a corrupted substance

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(b) common sense (d) leader; supervisor

n. junta (a) person who mortgages; person who gives property as security to the bank in order to receive a credit (b) the general principles, laws or causes that furnish the rational explanation of anything (c) a council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon the affairs of government (d) adequate qualification or capacity

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adj. needy (a) poor; indigent (b) having the quality of springing back to a former position (c) unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money (d) pertaining to, embracing or practicing many arts

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adj. bilingual (a) manifesting a warlike spirit (c) full to the uttermost

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(b) speaking two languages (d) brave

n. ostentation (a) a dead body (b) a display dictated by vanity and intended to invite applause or flattery (c) a theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society (d) the part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered

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adj. intrinsic (b) neglectful of obligation (d) handsome

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n. potency (a) a clown (b) a very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc (c) power (d) the external appearance as produced by garb or costume

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n. circumlocution (a) the face, countenance or look of a person (b) in mammals, the visceral cavity between the diaphragm and the pelvic floor; the belly (c) the practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness (d) indirect or roundabout expression

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adj. psychic (a) wanting in resource, energy or executive ability (b) stimulating to thought or reflection (c) pertaining to the mind or soul (d) having gentle or courteous bearing or manner

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adj. indivisible (a) amusing; funny (c) not separable into parts

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(b) having or exercising the power of resistance (d) foreknowing

adj. penetrable (a) walking about (b) peculiar (c) fit to be eaten (d) that may be pierced by physical, moral or intellectual force

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adj. tangible (a) perceptible by touch (c) belonging to the first ages

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(b) lewd (d) lasting or continuous until a person's death

adj. impersuadable (a) belonging or relating to or descriptive of the middle ages (b) serene (c) listless (d) unyielding

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n. leviathan (a) a place where animal skin is converted into leather (b) any large animal, as a whale (c) the negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery (d) thesis

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v. demagnetize (a) to force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally (b) to name in baptism (c) to render unsusceptible to a disease by inoculating (d) to deprive attractive properties

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adj. ravenous (a) that can not be altered or varied (b) designed to excite love (c) furiously voracious or hungry (d) pertaining to the combined action of light and electricity

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adj. morose (a) neglectful of obligation (c) violently abusive and quarrelsome

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(b) pliable (d) gloomy

adj. luxuriant (b) abundant or superabundant in growth (d) not moved or affected by feeling

(a) thoroughly informed (c) intense

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n. abidance (a) an embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument (b) obedience (c) the form of lyric poetry anciently intended to be sung (d) a vivid glowing flame

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n. gratification (a) satisfaction (b) an excessive amount of a medicine which is toxic (c) an impediment (d) a loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or the blast of a horn

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n. acreage (a) the coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state or personage (b) quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land (c) native; indigenous person; member of a people considered to be the earliest known inhabitants of a country or region (d) the relative importance of facts or matters from any special point of view

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n. absorption (a) government by departments of men transacting particular branches of public business (b) a part of the study of liquids (c) hasty, careless writing (d) the act or process of sucking up

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n. fez (a) the countries lying west of Asia and the Turkish dominions (b) a brimless felt cap in the shape of a truncated cone, usually red with a black tassel (c) a rustic (d) a majority

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n. spectrum (a) an image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy (b) an extract or selection from written or printed matter (c) spare time (d) deviation from a right, customary or prescribed course

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n. adjacency (a) a disagreeable, harsh or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones (b) acuteness or discernment (c) the science that treats of the functions and diseases peculiar to women (d) the state of being adjacent

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n. technique (a) a solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine (b) manner of performance (c) the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing (d) in mammals, the visceral cavity between the diaphragm and the pelvic floor; the belly

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n. rebuff (a) the act or ceremony of crowning a monarch (b) a peremptory or unexpected rejection of advances or approaches (c) an unreal image presented to the senses (d) indirect or roundabout expression

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n. corrosive (a) congruity of the members or elements or parts (b) that which causes gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration (c) a lawgiver (d) the number five

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v. encamp (a) to put off till tomorrow or till a future time (b) to turn inside out (c) to pitch tents for a resting-place (d) to manage or carry through by some device or scheme

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v. inhibit (a) to hold back or in

(b) to command

(c) to stretch out too far

(d) to inscribe with a future point of time

v. believe (a) to accept as true on the testimony or authority of others (b) to plunge or dip entirely under water or other fluid (c) to reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree (d) to cause to turn on or as on its axis, as a wheel

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v. retaliate (a) to disperse or disappear (b) to repay evil with a similar evil (c) to turn aside from the main subject and for a time dwell on some incidental matter (d) to be superior or distinguished

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v. outlive (a) to utter in simple or childish talk (c) to utter taunts or reproaches

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(b) to continue to exist after (d) to move with haste and promptness

v. forerun (a) to cause or constitute the beginning or first stage of the existence of (b) to go before as introducing or ushering in (c) to ask information about (d) to send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destination

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v. deject (a) to dishearten (b) to vanquish an established ruler or government (c) to repay evil with a similar evil (d) to destroy a measurable or large proportion of

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v. endue (a) to continue striving in spite of discouragements (b) to refuse to have anything to do with (c) to endow with some quality, gift or grace, usually spiritual (d) to come between other things or persons

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v. possess (a) to deem worthy of notice or account (b) to remove or pass from one country, region or habitat to another (c) to own (d) to remove from one place and introduce into another (organ, person, etc.); transfer; relocate

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v. terminate (a) to lament (b) to make explanatory or critical notes on or upon (c) to filter (d) to put an end or stop to

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n. hydrometer (a) penmanship (b) washerwoman (c) a renewal of youth (d) an instrument for determining the density of solids and liquids by flotation

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v. compliment (a) to promote or advertise in an understated manner (b) to reveal in trust (c) to transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment (d) to address or gratify with expressions of delicate praise

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n. phenomenon (a) embroidery (b) a plant destitute of chlorophyll, as a mushroom (c) the state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease (d) any unusual occurrence

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n. vaudeville (a) a change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune (b) a variety show (c) deportment (d) a bundle, as of letters

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v. irk (a) to afflict with pain, vexation or fatigue (b) to unclothe (c) to tell or make known, as something previously private or secret (d) to quarrel

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adj. treble (a) supernatural

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(b) turbulent

(c) fearless and bold

(d) multiplied by three

n. metonymy (a) a gaseous body of unorganized stellar substance (b) the science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events (c) an official numbering of the people of a country or district (d) a figure of speech that consists in the naming of a thing by one of its attributes

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adj. indistinct (a) within the smallest unit of life (c) vague

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(b) possessing wisdom (d) tending to produce sleep

n. caricature (a) a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted (b) property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts; anything of material value or usefulness (c) a written or spoken statement that is flat, dull or commonplace (d) an anthem or other composition sung responsively

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v. mollify (a) to put off till tomorrow or till a future time (b) to make satisfaction or amends for (c) to please, as by satisfying a physical or mental desire or need (d) to soothe

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adj. triple (a) grossly indecent or vulgar (c) threefold

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(b) wretched (d) capable of being remedied or corrected

adj. herbivorous (a) very-learned (b) producing coagulation (c) willing and ready to submit (d) feeding on herbs or other vegetable matter, as animals

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adj. extemporaneous (a) done or made without much or any preparation (b) genuine (c) bearing resemblance to one another or to something else (d) expressing or causing sorrow or pain

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adj. pulmonary (a) perceptible (c) capable of various forms

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(b) pertaining to the lungs (d) having great fluency in speaking

adj. luminous (a) chewing the cud (c) giving or radiating light

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(b) being more than is needed (d) melancholy

adj. drastic (a) acting vigorously (c) within the smallest unit of life

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(b) astute (d) interfering

n. parliament (a) a legislative body (b) the art of public speaking (c) a leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows (d) submission to death or persecution for the sake of faith or principle

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adj. obtrusive (a) exhausted, as having performed its functions (b) tending to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence (c) quarrelsome (d) pertaining to a religious body that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity

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adj. trivial (a) of little importance or value (c) marketable

(b) vague (d) fit to be compared

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n. carnage (a) any starlike meteor or phenomenon (b) escape (c) massacre (d) resort to or application for help in exigency or trouble

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n. conceit (a) a step, degree, rank or relative position in an order or series (b) self-flattering opinion (c) a captain of a company of one hundred infantry in the ancient Roman army (d) superstitious devotion to one's religion

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n. criterion (a) a person who makes garments using animal hair (b) a standard by which to determine the correctness of a judgment or conclusion (c) the business of making sales and purchases for a commission (d) change

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n. procrastination (a) the act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation (b) delay (c) flood (d) any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned

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n. languor (a) a small article, more for ornament that use (c) an authoritative direction

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n. courser (a) a fleet and spirited horse (c) the act or art of reading or naming numbers

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(b) lassitude of body or depression (d) dissimilarity in any respect

(b) a range of action or view (d) agreement

n. prodigy (a) a person or thing of very remarkable gifts or qualities (b) a dealer in flowers (c) a number of persons combined for a common purpose (d) the signification conveyed by some word, phrase or action

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n. grantee (a) the having, holding or detention of property in one's power or command (b) the person to whom property is transferred by deed (c) a figure having many angles (d) a labyrinth

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adj. predatory (a) that may be measured, counted or weighed (c) praiseworthy

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(b) swollen (d) prone to pillaging

n. disparity (a) a thorny shrub much used in England for hedges (b) inequality (c) madhouse; uproar (d) the act or state or conforming

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v. migrate (a) to deprive of an inheritance (b) to remove or pass from one country, region or habitat to another (c) to entice to surrender chastity (d) to hold in general opinion

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v. equivocate (a) to get or sit upon astride, as a horse (c) to praise in words or song

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v. intimidate (a) to look into (c) to cause to become frightened

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(b) to move or excite (the feelings or thoughts) (d) to deduce, as from a premise

v. overeat (a) to settle or arrange beforehand (c) to acquire a distinct and separate character

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(b) to consider thoughtfully (d) to use words of double meaning

(b) to take too much food in (d) to examine minutely or critically

v. blazon (a) to make widely or generally known (b) to worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances (c) to excite sensations of uneasiness or displeasure in (d) to intoxicate

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v. excruciate (a) to contend (c) to inflict severe pain or agony upon

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(b) to suggest; to propose (d) to talk about vainly or foolishly

v. hustle (a) to describe by distinctive marks or peculiarities (b) to move with haste and promptness (c) to be under moral obligation to be or do (d) to provide with a fixed allowance or portion, especially of food

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v. chasten (a) to purify by affliction (b) to bestow as a gift, especially for a worthy cause (c) to regret extremely (d) to walk about

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v. perpetuate (a) to preserve from extinction or oblivion (c) to disclaim responsibility for

(b) to ward off (d) to deceive

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n. normalcy (a) a pithy phrasing of a shrewd observation (b) person who is attached to the army or navy, but having duties other than that of fighting (c) regularity (d) a balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air

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adj. lackadaisical (a) different

(b) not copied nor produced by imitation

(c) bulging

(d) listless

adj. martial (a) having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority (b) pertaining to war or military operations (c) recurring at intervals of six months (d) perceptible by touch

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n. possession (a) the having, holding or detention of property in one's power or command (b) dandyism (c) agreeableness of sound (d) government by a single person

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adj. distensible (a) ancient; pure; immaculate; unrefined; unpolluted (b) capable of being stretched out or expanded in every direction (c) speaking in or characterized by a pompous or bombastic style (d) peculiar to or proceeding from the weakness or infirmity of old age

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n. cabal (a) something peculiar to a particular art, trade or the like (b) a number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose (c) the shutting up of a town, a frontier or a line of coast by hostile forces (d) a service

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adj. extrajudicial (a) prudent (b) happening out of court (c) exercising royal authority in one's own right (d) offensive to taste and feeling

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n. clarion (a) commerce unrestricted by tariff or customs (b) the state of being scornfully reproached or accused of evil (c) a small shrill trumpet or bugle (d) student who delivers an address at graduating exercises of an educational institution

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v. dislocate (a) to find fault with (c) to surpass

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(b) to put out of proper place or order (d) to exist; live; stay alive

v. suffuse (a) to throw out of order (b) to keep oneself back (from doing or using something) (c) to cover or fill the surface of (d) to move with haste and promptness

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adj. subsequent (a) capable of being grasped (b) following in time (c) pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary (d) despotic

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adj. diplomatic (a) no longer practiced or accepted (b) foolish, indiscreet or silly (c) characterized by special tact in negotiations (d) capable of influencing to action by entreaty, statement or anything that moves the feelings

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adj. unspeakable (a) abominable (b) inevitable (c) eating with greediness or in very large quantities (d) partly cultured

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adj. poignant (a) severely painful or acute to the spirit (c) fancied

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(b) invincible (d) controlling or preventing spasms

adj. improper (a) spoken with any special impressiveness laid upon an act, word or set of words (b) not appropriate, suitable or becoming (c) characterized by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds (d) characterized by outward form or ceremony

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adj. close-hauled (a) having the sails set for sailing as near to the wind as possible (b) made to resemble something else (c) lacking some element, part or adjunct necessary or required (d) beginning, ending or changing suddenly or with a break

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v. belay (a) to blend (b) to show by example (c) to subject to the action of smoke or fumes, especially for disinfection (d) to make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat

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adj. hirsute (a) binding in law or conscience (b) having a hairy covering (c) resembling a corpse (d) spoken with any special impressiveness laid upon an act, word or set of words

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adj. crass (a) offering or offered as an atonement for sin (b) pertaining to the universe (c) coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine (d) having and exercising the power to produce effects or results

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adj. provincial (a) free from care (c) very depressing

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n. faun (a) a consequence (b) one of a class of deities of the woods and herds represented as half human, with goats feet (c) insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands (d) any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy

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n. apostle (a) any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority (b) the act of bending (c) a related group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought (d) roundness

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n. anteroom (a) a waiting area

(b) disagreement

(c) likeness; resemblance; counterpart

(d) the external appearance merely

n. derrick (a) an apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights (b) a poem celebrating in formal verse the mythical achievements of great personages, heroes, etc (c) a fleet and spirited horse (d) a situation where the supply of products exceeds demand

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n. scarcity (a) hard or agonizing labor (b) one to whom secrets are entrusted (c) a single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc. (d) insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands

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n. lawgiver (a) a part of the study of liquids (b) a legislator (c) a scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning (d) in colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of Maryland or Virginia

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n. landmark (a) a familiar object in the landscape serving as a guide to an area otherwise easily lost track of (b) a total departure from one's faith or religion (c) the act or ceremony of naming a man or woman for office (d) a solid bounded by plane faces, especially by more than four

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n. perspiration (a) sweat (c) person who supplies

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(b) nothing (d) some auxiliary person or thing; partner

n. fresco (a) harangue (b) an animal having two feet (c) the art of painting on a surface of plaster, particularly on walls and ceilings (d) a loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or the blast of a horn

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n. obstetrics (a) the condition of being manifold or very various (b) the branch of medical science concerned with the treatment and care of women during pregnancy (c) a subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc (d) the captain of a special ship

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v. posit (a) to present in an orderly manner (b) to group, sort, arrange systematically; make confidential (c) to assert as a fact (d) to obtain the friendship of

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v. discolor (a) to lessen or destroy the luster of in any way (b) to swallow greedily or hastily; to gulp (c) to stain (d) to subject a person to distress

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v. abet (a) to inflame with passion (b) to await (c) to deprive of something dishonestly (d) to aid, promote or encourage the commission of (an offense)

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v. preestablish (a) to steal (c) to tell a story

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(b) to settle or arrange beforehand (d) to prove to be wrong

v. subjugate (b) to bring together again (d) to conquer

(a) to keep close watch (c) to renounce (a right or privilege) Q6

v. depopulate (a) to deliver the amount or value of (c) to pay or pay for

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(b) to put out of proper place or order (d) to remove the inhabitants from

v. superannuate (a) to take or send away forcibly, as to a penal colony (b) to become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service (c) to smear over, as with something oily or sticky (d) to acquire a distinct and separate character

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v. conquer (a) to set forth publicly or in glowing terms (b) to state as belonging to something (c) to predict or foretell, especially under divine inspiration and guidance (d) to overcome by force

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adj. eccentric (a) peculiar (c) hindering from action through fear

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(b) cowardly (d) unpremeditated

v. bowdlerize (a) to expurgate in editing (a literary composition) by omitting words or passages (b) to withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body (c) to animate (d) to force

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adj. contiguous (a) wrongful

(b) descended from the same parent or ancestor

(c) aware that one lives, feels and thinks

(d) touching or joining at the edge or boundary

adj. expedient (a) contributing to personal advantage (b) cutting, especially into two parts (c) pertaining to or concerned with the affairs of the present life (d) occurring, done or existing at the same time

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v. accede (a) to educe or extract gradually or without violence (b) to swallow greedily or hastily; to gulp (c) to agree (d) to correspond

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adj. diabolic (a) more distant or advanced (b) obese (c) living, occurring or existing at the same time (d) characteristic of the devil

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adj. loquacious (a) fatiguing

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(b) pithy

(c) talkative

(d) unrelenting

n. polytheism (a) the doctrine or belief that there are more gods than one (b) one who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs (c) a place where anything is kept in safety (d) one versed or skilled in treating diseases of the eye

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n. massacre (a) a doer of kindly and charitable acts (b) the unnecessary and indiscriminate killing of human beings (c) satisfaction (d) harmony

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n. functionary (a) extreme poisonousness (c) an official

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(b) a festival or feast (d) dispersion

v. curtail (a) to cut off or cut short (b) to render ludicrous by imitating the language of (c) to regard or worship as a god (d) to move backward; repeat; reiterate; recapitulate; worsen

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n. plummet (a) a piece of lead for making soundings; adjusting walls to the vertical (b) one who denies the existence of God (c) one who makes in imitation (d) admonition or warning

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adj. cognizant (a) characteristic of the devil (b) becoming raw or sore again (c) taking notice (d) consisting of that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse

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adj. absent-minded (a) lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business (b) indirect; oblique; not direct or straightforward (c) speaking two languages (d) indulgent

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adj. amorous (a) having a propensity for falling in love (b) surpassing (c) tending to kill or hurt (d) arising from inherent qualities or tendencies without external efficient cause

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adj. infirm (a) fearless (b) capable of being drawn out, as into wire or a thread (c) lacking in bodily or mental strength (d) spherical

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adj. peerless (a) of unequaled excellence or worth (b) situated or occurring below the surface of the earth (c) nervously high-strung (d) especially fit as occurring, said or done at the right moment

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adj. unsophisticated (a) attractive (b) basal (c) of or pertaining to marriage, especially to the marriage ceremony (d) showing inexperience

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n. morality (a) virtue (b) a race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner (c) that which is indispensably requisite to an end desired (d) a place in which ferns are grown

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adj. pecuniary (a) sunk to a low condition (c) consisting of money

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(b) taking place every third year (d) definite

adj. taciturn (a) living or existing at the same time (b) awkward of movement (c) disinclined to conversation (d) characterized by skill at understanding and profiting by circumstances

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adj. punitive (a) compassionate (c) brave

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(b) pertaining to punishment (d) taking place every third year

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n. extravagance (a) undue expenditure of money (b) knowledge shared with another or others regarding a private matter (c) writing or handwriting of the ordinary cursive form (d) person who leads another person to a source of information

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n. epitome (a) a waiting area (b) the science that treats of light and vision, and all that is connected with sight (c) any small portion or meager allowance (d) a simplified representation

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n. ascension (a) a display dictated by vanity and intended to invite applause or flattery (b) extravagance or enormity (c) the act of rising (d) a solemn assertion of a falsity

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n. encyclopedia (a) magnitude (b) prolongation (c) a work containing information on subjects or exhaustive of one subject (d) a return to or toward some former state or condition

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n. chivalry (a) combination in a body or mass (b) a poem celebrating in formal verse the mythical achievements of great personages, heroes, etc (c) the knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices (d) violent contact

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n. persiflage (a) the art or business of compounding and dispensing medicines (b) gentlemen (c) creation (d) banter

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n. manliness (a) devastation (c) a gathered multitude of human beings

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(b) masculinity (d) a command

n. bier (a) a horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave (b) a plant that produces leaves and roots the first year and flowers and fruit the second (c) the tongue (d) a component or essential part

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adj. turgid (a) pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary (b) scornfully or bitterly sarcastic (c) being in a middle place or degree or between extremes (d) swollen

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n. pariah (a) a member of a degraded class; a social outcast (b) a person engaged in military service (c) the branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure and mechanical properties (d) a proposition following so obviously from another that it requires little demonstration

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v. incapacitate (a) to deprive of power, capacity, competency or qualification (b) to manage badly; to govern in an evil manner (c) to be in pain or distress (d) to come down voluntarily to equal terms with inferiors

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v. subvert (b) to recover after a sickness (d) to make more sharp, severe or virulent

(a) to regard with grief or sorrow (c) to bring to ruin Q3

v. journalize (a) to perform the first act or rite (b) to keep a diary (c) to remove or destroy the poison of infectious or contagious diseases (d) to obliterate

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v. federate (a) to intensify (b) to impair or injure the beauty, symmetry or appearance of (c) to execute by strangling (d) to league together

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v. blaspheme (a) to accomplish what is attempted or intended (b) to show or prove to be involved in or concerned (c) to indulge in profane oaths (d) to engage to marry

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v. typify (a) to cast off, as hair, feathers, etc (b) to serve as a characteristic example of (c) to make a preliminary examination of for military, surveying or geological purposes (d) to confuse

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v. transfigure (a) to put to confusion (b) to show or have a feeling of antagonism, aversion or dislike (c) to extend in all directions, as from a source or focus (d) to give an exalted meaning or glorified appearance to

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v. loot (a) to plunder (b) to recover; to regain; to repossess (c) to diminish in size and brilliancy (d) to instill, introduce or inculcate, as principles or qualities

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adj. malignant (a) incapable of being forced, constrained or compelled (b) stubborn; steadfast; tenacious; obstinate (c) not having the abilities desired or necessary for any purpose (d) evil in nature or tending to do great harm or mischief

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v. classify (a) to group, sort, arrange systematically; make confidential (b) to collect into a mass (c) to pursue inquiries and form conjectures (d) to plot

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n. violation (a) a servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence (b) a forerunner or herald (c) excessive or superfluous growth or quantity (d) infringement

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n. vignette (a) a bidding farewell (b) expression of blame (c) a picture having a background or that is shaded off gradually (d) devastation

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n. alcove (a) intent (b) person who makes exploration, search or examination, especially for minerals (c) a certain time of year (in July) (d) a covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room

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v. circumscribe (a) to confine within bounds (c) to examine formally by questioning

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(b) to surrender or stipulate terms (d) to be full to overflowing

adj. unbiased (a) biting or giving to biting (b) impartial, as judgment (c) unmindful; oblivious; rash (d) that desires or craves immoderately or unappeasably

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n. foreknowledge (a) a certain profession (c) anything that unduly exhilarates or excites

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n. superabundance (a) an excessive amount (c) murderer, as by secret assault or treachery

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(b) prescience (d) a cannibal; femme fatale

(b) one who advocates or practices egoism (d) lassitude of body or depression

n. service (a) any work done for the benefit of another (b) the pretended forecast of future events or discovery of what is lost or hidden (c) the external appearance or manner of a person (d) a man without principle

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adj. bumptious (a) full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit (b) free, clear or released, as from some liability or restriction affecting others (c) intermeddling with what is not one's concern (d) binding in law or conscience

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n. reparation (a) a remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases (b) water saturated with salt (c) the seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by Hercules (d) the act of making amends, as for an injury, loss or wrong

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adj. apparent (a) easily understood (b) sovereign (c) hard to believe; not credible; lacking the appearance of truth (d) existing but not immediately perceptible

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adj. graceless (a) ungracious (c) of, pertaining to or like the air

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(b) consecrated by a vow or promise (d) fearless

adj. navigable (a) relating to physical or, especially, sexual pleasure (b) not stringent or energetic (c) passable; can be crossed; can be steered through (d) consisting of blood

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adj. typical (a) having courage or spirit (c) characteristic

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(b) laughable (d) frank

adj. contradictory (b) openly scandalous (d) inconsistent with itself

(a) hurtful, morally or physically (c) efficient Q6

adj. inexpedient (a) loving others and actively desirous of their well-being (b) unadvisable (c) multiplied by six (d) boisterously merry

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adj. efficient (a) liable to a lawsuit (b) valueless (c) having and exercising the power to produce effects or results (d) alternate; other; additional; subordinate

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adj. globose (a) containing gold (c) occurring, done or existing at the same time

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(b) spherical (d) equal in value, force, meaning or the like

adj. rabid (a) strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom (b) unimaginative (c) definitely limited or fixed (d) extreme; fanatical

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adj. acrimonious (a) bearing resemblance to one another or to something else (b) full of bitterness (c) growing, climbing or running without check or restraint (d) impious

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n. perseverance (a) oppressive drowsiness (b) the state of touching (c) a circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof (d) diligence; industriousness; stubbornness

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n. nil (a) the shutting up of a town, a frontier or a line of coast by hostile forces (b) that which contains and gives shape or form to anything (c) person who absorbs and comprehends something (d) nothing

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n. misnomer (a) death (b) a name wrongly or mistakenly applied (c) chemical or person who starts a fire-literally or figuratively (d) the surrender by a government of a person accused of crime to the justice of another government

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n. supplicant (a) diversion (b) person who asks humbly and earnestly (c) tendency to adhere to the existing order of things (d) the secretion of milk

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n. quarto (b) the state or quality of being of one mind (d) uprising

(a) a message in writing (c) an eight-page newspaper of any size Q6

n. confluent (a) the knowledge relating to industries and manufactures (b) a fictitious reason or motive (c) a premise, starting-point or given fact (d) a stream that unites with another

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n. microphone (a) anything that gives security or defense (b) importance; significance; superiority; supremacy; distinctiveness (c) fulfillment (d) an apparatus for magnifying faint sounds

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n. monastery (a) a dwelling-place occupied in common by persons under religious vows of seclusion (b) an abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling (c) something upon which the mind is set; goal; plan; purpose (d) philanthropist; person who is very unselfish

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n. sluggard (a) a loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or the blast of a horn (b) a person who is habitually lazy or idle (c) the maker of a deed (d) an affection of the stomach producing dizziness and usually an impulse to vomit

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n. invective (a) the ability to suffer pain, distress, hardship or stress of any kind without succumbing (b) a petty male monarch (c) a vehement desire (d) an utterance intended to cast censure or reproach

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v. agitate (a) to happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals (b) to quietly terminate (c) to move or excite (the feelings or thoughts) (d) to vandalize

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v. materialize (a) to steal (b) to set up again; to found anew (c) to take perceptible or substantial form (d) to behave cruelly or unkindly toward a person or animal

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v. defalcate (a) to withhold permission or sanction (b) to make the first attack (c) to cut off or take away, as a part of something (d) to assign as a quality or attribute

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v. eject (a) to expel (b) to deny oneself (c) to bring out more clearly the facts concerning (d) to direct or send for information or other purpose

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v. corrode (a) to ruin or destroy little by little (b) to predict (c) to correspond (d) to cut, shave or remove (the outside) from anything

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n. habitant (a) the art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy (b) dweller (c) one given to self-mention or who is constantly telling of his own views and experiences (d) a pale, milky, or iridescent light reflected to the Earth at night

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n. abomination (a) a vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded (b) a very detestable act or practice (c) the condition of existing in three identical copies (d) ascendancy

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v. rectify (a) to correct (b) to mislead by or as by falsehood (c) to make less complex or difficult (d) to force in by means of a syringe or other device; to infuse

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v. meander (a) to like the taste or savor of (b) to walk for amusement or exercise (c) to wind and turn while proceeding in a course (d) to imitate

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v. redress (a) to keep close watch (b) to continue steadfast against opposition (c) to meditate or reflect upon (d) to set right, as a wrong by compensation or the punishment of the wrong-doer

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v. renovate (a) to soothe (b) to go with or be associated with, as a companion (c) to refresh after labor (d) to restore after deterioration, as a building

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n. exigency (a) a young girl; sweetheart (b) undue expenditure of money (c) a critical period or condition (d) a feeling of extreme repugnance or of dislike and disgust

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v. decamp (a) to weary by tediousness or dullness

(b) to contend angrily or zealously in words

(c) to leave suddenly or unexpectedly

(d) to slander

n. profile (a) an instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot (b) the entire number, sum, mass or quantity of something (c) an outline or contour (d) gross wrong or injustice

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n. denomination (a) a body possessing that peculiar form of polarity found in nature in the lodestone (b) the support on or against which a lever rests or the point about which it turns (c) uninterrupted connection in space, time, operation or development (d) a body of Christians united by a common faith and form of worship and discipline

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n. essence (a) knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world (b) dweller (c) that which makes a thing to be what it is (d) a band of six singers or players

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v. donate (a) to make change in (b) to bring forward or name for consideration (c) to expurgate in editing (a literary composition) by omitting words or passages (d) to bestow as a gift, especially for a worthy cause

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v. detract (a) to make amends for (b) to take away in such manner as to lessen value or estimation (c) to rouse to a particular action (d) to express agreement with a statement or matter of opinion

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adj. supplementary (a) being an addition to (c) hating mankind

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(b) insufficient (d) harshly pungent or bitter

n. abrasion (a) government by a single person (b) area which is rubbed off; process of rubbing off (c) an open structure for temporary shelter (d) a formal conversation in which two or more take part

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adj. inconceivable (a) lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business (b) cheerful (c) tranquil (d) incomprehensible

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adj. peccant (a) sorrowful; anguished; remorseful (c) created or formed by the imagination

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adj. auriferous (a) taking notice (c) being the only one of its kind

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(b) not residing within a given jurisdiction (d) guilty

(b) of excellence and splendor (d) containing gold

adj. treasonable (a) of the nature of betrayal, treachery or breech of allegiance (b) not essential under the circumstances (c) of a material nature; physical (d) seeking the conversion of sinners

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adj. uncommon (a) joyous (c) not having made a valid will

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(b) resembling a hard shell (d) rare

adj. hydrous (a) assured (c) watery

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(b) of or pertaining to number (d) unseasonable

n. briticism (a) a light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine (b) something overdue and unpaid (c) a gaseous body of unorganized stellar substance (d) a word idiom or phrase characteristic of Great Britain or the British

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adj. spasmodic (a) convulsive (c) impotent

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(b) of undisputed origin (d) surreptitious

adj. adverse (a) perceptible by sight (c) opposing or opposed

(b) valueless (d) resonant

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n. corroboration (a) confirmation (b) lack of refinement in conduct or speech (c) a body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment (d) dependence on charity

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n. buoyancy (a) an uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding (b) power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas (c) reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed (d) dead and putrefying flesh

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n. writing (a) pregnancy (b) the act or art of tracing or inscribing on a surface letters or ideographs (c) beginning (d) a series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information

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n. polemics (a) capacity to know or understand (b) a choral composition (c) extravagant person; lavish spender; spendthrift; squanderer; one who wastes money (d) the art of controversy or disputation

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n. keepsake (a) something that is of the highest possible excellence or eminence (b) a souvenir; object kept as a reminder of an event (c) conservation (d) the son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection

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n. inkling (a) a hint (b) the language of one's country (c) a favorable or prosperous course or termination of anything attempted (d) sorcery

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n. moralist (a) a consecration to the ministry (b) a writer on ethics (c) a 20th-century revival of interest in the worship of nature, fertility, etc., as represented by various deities (d) a disagreeable, harsh or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones

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n. scribe (a) discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-vessel (b) a going forth or departure from a place or country, especially of many people (c) a very small amount, portion or particle (d) one who writes or is skilled in writing

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n. cataclysm (a) the place where one lives (b) any overwhelming flood of water (c) one who uses or engages the services of other persons for pay (d) an advocate of the doctrine that nothing either exists or can be known

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n. subterfuge (a) order; neatness (b) evasion (c) a sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted (d) an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule

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v. grapple (a) to fertilize; fill completely; saturate; imbue (b) to take hold of (c) to cause to explode (d) to utter taunts or reproaches

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v. entangle (a) to involve in difficulties, confusion or complications (b) to bring together again (c) to reproduce (d) to endanger

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v. tolerate (a) to give a signal to by nod or gesture (c) to obtain the friendship of

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(b) to passively permit or put up with (d) to stick fast or together

v. prate (a) to surpass (b) to make a preliminary examination of for military, surveying or geological purposes (c) to talk about vainly or foolishly (d) to extract or produce by vaporization and condensation

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v. deviate (a) to bar by judicial proceedings the equitable right of a mortgagor to redeem property (b) to swell or bulge beyond the surrounding surface (c) to take a different course (d) to cause to turn away

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v. dissever (a) to supply with light (b) to remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body (c) to be naughty and troublesome (d) to divide

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n. maize (a) that which is restored to, relied upon or made available for aid or support (b) Indian corn: usually in the United States called simply corn (c) an introductory or opening performance (d) insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling

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v. belie (a) to accomplish (c) to place or plunge under water

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(b) to purify by affliction (d) to misrepresent

v. allude (a) to hold back or in (c) to surpass

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(b) to refer incidentally or by suggestion (d) to conjecture

v. transcend (a) to cease to exist, either actually or for the time being (b) to make more sharp, severe or virulent (c) to surpass (d) to recall the identity of (a person or thing)

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n. stratagem (a) a woman's ornamental corset-shaped laced waist (b) any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage (c) the keeping of a thing within one's power or possession (d) a riddle

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n. delusion (a) the act or power of moving from one place to another (b) a metric unit of volume (c) any place of exit (d) mistaken conviction, especially when more or less enduring

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n. poetics (a) the act or art of reading or naming numbers (b) that side or direction toward which the wind blows (c) a book or collection of paper in which the sheets are so folded as to make eight leaves (d) the rules and principles of poetry

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n. scythe (a) a long curved blade for mowing, reaping, etc (b) cessation (c) the time of year when the sun is at its greatest declination (d) the act of proving to be true, exact or accurate

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n. bric-a-brac (a) the necessary means or resources (b) a person who supports a legal ban on the sale of alcoholic drinks (USA) (c) possession of eminently or unusually good qualities (d) objects of curiosity or for decoration

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n. burgess (a) accordance with law (b) in colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of Maryland or Virginia (c) a high or topmost point, as a mountain-peak (d) part on a foremast of a ship

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n. specie (a) unlimited or infinite knowledge (b) the act of artfully perplexing (c) a coin or coins of gold, silver, copper or other metal (d) infringement

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n. maniac (a) to accumulate; to accrue; to collect; to have a desired result or effect; to return; to come back (b) clanking or a ringing, as of arms, chains or bells; clamor (c) person who makes or deals in optical instruments or eye-glasses (d) a person raving with madness

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adj. frolicsome (a) counterfeit (c) pleasant smelling; aromatic

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(b) implanted by nature (d) frisky and full of fun

n. semblance (a) a cup or glass filled to the brim, especially one to be drunk as a toast or health (b) a place or region on the opposite side of the earth (c) that which is made as a likeness or copy (d) outward appearance

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adj. tantamount (a) having equal or equivalent value, effect or import (b) founded on the number 10 (c) conclusive (d) coming or acquired from some origin

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adj. festive (a) that can not be restrained or kept down (c) being present everywhere

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adj. futile (a) fearless (c) of no avail or effect

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(b) fearless (d) merry

(b) stiffly proper (d) hindering from action through fear

adj. festal (a) joyous (b) pertaining to the moon (c) pertaining to the recollection of matters of personal interest (d) showing submission to natural superiors

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adj. auburn (a) accidental (b) reddish-brown, said usually of the hair (c) clearly visible (d) lacking friendliness or warmth; inhuman; detached

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adj. divergent (a) exhibiting or indicating omission (c) tending in different directions

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(b) having power to open or loosen the bowels (d) wordy

adj. sublingual (a) pertaining to a period of 300 years (c) grossly offensive

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(b) affected or possessed with self-distrust (d) situated beneath the tongue

adj. inconvenient (a) containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory (b) low in character or purpose (c) having kindred character or tastes (d) interfering with comfort or progress

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adj. contrite (a) ready to be led (c) having lost sparkling quality and flavor

(b) broken in spirit because of a sense of sin (d) that gives warning or information

Q10 adj. circumspect (a) being in a middle place or degree or between extremes (b) farthest from the front (c) produced or displayed in overabundance (d) showing watchfulness, caution or careful consideration

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n. madonna (a) the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at once (b) temporary diminution of a disease (c) the quality showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things (d) a painted or sculptured representation of the Virgin, usually with the infant Jesus

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n. valedictorian (a) student who delivers an address at graduating exercises of an educational institution (b) a carrying away of a person against his will or illegally (c) a meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits (d) interval of rest

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n. tilth (a) attachment (b) an undue display of modesty or delicacy (c) cultivation (d) a movement or action of the hands or face, expressive of some idea or emotion

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n. misdeed (a) lack of confidence in the power, wisdom or good intent of any person (b) a judgment as a conclusion (c) a wrong or improper act (d) a water hole drilled through impermeable strata

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n. regiment (a) the act of furnishing with temporary quarters (b) inflammation of the bronchial tubes (c) a body of soldiers (d) a white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum

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n. mutiny (a) the number five (b) rebellion against lawful or constituted authority (c) anything granted, yielded or admitted in response to a demand, petition or claim (d) the climax

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n. synopsis (a) hillside (b) a syllabus or summary (c) an earnest request (d) person who is descended lineally from another, as a child, grandchild, etc

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n. matinee (a) an entertainment (especially theatrical) held in the daytime (b) provision against harm or need (c) a wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it (d) charlatanry

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n. granary (a) of a military unit; of a multitude; of a great number (b) person who is disabled by illness or injury (c) a storehouse for grain after it is thrashed or husked (d) the faintest ray

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n. minutia (a) control by the exercise of power or constituted authority (b) belief in God (c) a small or unimportant particular or detail (d) absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly administrated

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v. deform (a) to disfigure (b) to make more fluid or less concentrated by admixture with something (c) to release from bondage (d) to award or bestow by formal decision

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v. rue (a) to pass title to (c) to prevent or obstruct the operation of

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(b) to regret extremely (d) to twist into an unnatural or irregular form

v. decapitate (a) to excrete through the pores of the skin (b) to withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body (c) to overwhelm or attempt to do so, by stern, haughty or rude address or manner (d) to behead

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v. antipathize (a) to show or have a feeling of antagonism, aversion or dislike (b) to hate violently (c) to direct or send for information or other purpose (d) to slander

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v. modernize (a) to cast off, as hair, feathers, etc (b) to plunge or dip entirely under water or other fluid (c) to make characteristic of the present or of recent times (d) to foretell

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v. sequestrate (a) to foil or frustrate (c) to swing back and forth

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(b) to confiscate (d) to separate from others of its kind

v. qualify (a) to endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill or possessions (b) to confine within bounds (c) to overwhelm with a flood of water (d) to convey, remove or cause to pass from one person or place to another

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v. maintain (a) to become or cause to become withered or dry (b) to disparage (c) to present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong (d) to hold or preserve in any particular state or condition

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v. fluctuate (a) to produce a somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestions (b) to pass backward and forward irregularly from one state or degree to another (c) to execute by strangling (d) to go about with a small stock of goods to sell

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v. reciprocate (a) to move or incite to action (c) to sabase; defile; dirty; sully

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n. perception (a) knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world (b) a maker of plays for the stage (c) an instrument used to measure the curvature of a surface (d) foolish daring

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n. distention (a) expansion (b) belief (c) the state or quality of being unfit, unseemly or inappropriate (d) a person or thing that aids the principal agent

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v. evolve (b) to unfold or expand (d) to exist; live; stay alive

(a) to name in baptism (c) to mean; to signify Q4

adj. kind-hearted (a) of, pertaining to or living on a shore (c) without spirit or bravery

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(b) caring; good-natured; generous; considerate (d) laborious

adj. inventive (b) situated directly underneath (d) belligerent

(a) quick at contrivance (c) consecrated by a vow or promise Q6

adj. fugacious (a) fleeting (b) of or pertaining to the sea or matters connected with the sea (c) in working order; valid; influential; important; surgical; efficient (d) producing offspring or fruit

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n. gastritis (a) a wealthy class in a political community who control the government by means of their money (b) the state of being positively uncomfortable (c) a cowardly or faithless person (d) inflammation of the stomach

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n. defendant (a) members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association or the like (b) resort to or application for help in exigency or trouble (c) a person against whom a suit is brought (d) a souvenir

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adj. grisly (a) fear-inspiring (c) shameful

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(b) tending to cause delay (d) unimaginative

adj. aghast (a) able to discern and distinguish with wise perception (b) indicative of faith or trust (c) struck with terror and amazement (d) stimulating to thought or reflection

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adj. archaic (a) perceivable (b) pertaining to or designating bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium (c) antiquated (d) liable to a lawsuit

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adj. corporal (a) belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind (b) despotic (c) conspicuously prominent (d) uncompromising

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adj. provident (a) anticipating and making ready for future wants or emergencies (b) possessing a liquefying nature or power (c) acting vigorously (d) exceedingly precious

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adj. peripatetic (a) laborious (c) walking about

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(b) intelligible (d) ardent in spirit and speech

adj. nomic (a) sumptuously elegant (c) of, pertaining to or near the stomach

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(b) usual or customary (d) helping or serving to disconnect or separate

adj. centenary (a) having the spirit or sentiment of rural life (b) pertaining to the recollection of matters of personal interest (c) tending to produce sleep (d) pertaining to a hundred years or a period of a hundred years

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n. abscess (a) a collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body (b) a pausing to consider (c) something that is of the highest possible excellence or eminence (d) any strikingly great person or object

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adj. nominal (a) formidable (c) trivial

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(b) easily set on fire or excited (d) of or pertaining to the eye

adj. disinterested (a) contrary in tendency or direction (b) impartial (c) mature for one's age; unusually well-developed (d) having a light, pert, trifling disposition

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adj. decorous (a) having the character of a reproof (b) observant of ritual (c) having the ability to express emotion or feeling in lofty and impassioned speech (d) suitable for the occasion or circumstances

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 154

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n. hesitancy (a) measurement of force (b) a pausing to consider (c) a systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing and personal habits (d) a young boy; young man

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n. shriek (a) possibility of happening (b) a tribe (c) apparition (d) a sharp, shrill outcry or scream, caused by agony or terror

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n. plurality (a) a figure with ten sides and ten angles (b) a majority (c) compensation (d) the state or quality of being necessary to existence or continuance

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n. papacy (a) balance (b) fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing (c) the official head of the Roman Catholic Church (d) a protective covering made of a strong material

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n. tripod (a) a three-legged stand, usually hinged near the top, for supporting some instrument (b) omission of that which ought to be done (c) a vessel or casket, usually of precious metal, in which the host is preserved (d) verbal controversy

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n. perfumery (a) disloyalty (b) contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority (c) repetition of words or sounds as a means of learning them, with slight attention (d) a store that sells cosmetics

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n. renunciation (a) food (b) an explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege (c) ability to know (d) a force of men

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n. maidenhood (a) repeal (b) existence; being; something which supports or maintains life or existence (c) the study and collection of stamps (d) virginity

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adj. grandiose (a) appropriate (b) lucid (c) conspicuous in position, character or importance (d) having an imposing style or effect

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adj. orthodox (a) being no longer in existence (b) appalling (c) holding the commonly accepted faith (d) beyond the mountains, especially beyond the Alps (that is, on their Italian side)

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v. accumulate (a) to inflict, as a revenge or punishment (b) to assign a definite thing or part to a certain person (c) to cause to assume a leaning or recumbent attitude or position (d) to become greater in quantity or number

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v. disinherit (b) to set on fire (d) to deprive of an inheritance

(a) to give a wrong impression (c) to converse in Q3

v. arrogate (a) to take, demand or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds (b) to invent (c) to take or send away forcibly, as to a penal colony (d) to recall the knowledge of

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v. assassinate (a) to be full to overflowing (b) to restore after deterioration, as a building (c) to kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person (d) to prevent from being disclosed or punished

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v. bewilder (a) to confuse the perceptions or judgment of (b) to have the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement (c) to come between other things or persons (d) to be opposite in opinion

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v. altercate (a) to fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish or desire of (b) to extend opposite to (c) to begin to develop into an embryo or higher form (d) to contend angrily or zealously in words

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v. rotate (a) to cause to turn on or as on its axis, as a wheel (b) to change the purpose or alter the plans of by persuasion, counsel or pleading (c) to be full to overflowing (d) to eject

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v. countervail (a) to offset (b) to lose spirit, courage or hope (c) to make (a liquid) hot under pressure above its boiling point without vaporization (d) to put to confusion

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v. perforate (a) to find fault with (b) to fret at the edge so as to loosen or break the threads (c) to make a hole or holes through (d) to do business

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v. burnish (a) to obstruct (b) to make brilliant or shining (c) to throw down, push off or remove otherwise from a horse or the like (d) to cut off or take away, as a part of something

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 156

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n. pseudonymity (a) the state or character of using a fictitious name (b) a party to a lawsuit (c) a flock of quails or partridges (d) government administered by new or untried persons

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adj. illegitimate (b) qualified for selection (d) unlawfully begotten

(a) hateful (c) pertaining to marriage or matrimony Q3

n. misogyny (a) hatred of women (b) the state of possessing adequate skill or knowledge for the performance of a duty (c) a list of the words of an author or the literature bearing on a particular subject (d) the Pope

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adj. maleficent (a) spreading rapidly through the system and acting quickly (b) guilty (c) fragile (d) mischievous; harmful; evil

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adj. senile (a) peculiar to or proceeding from the weakness or infirmity of old age (b) akin (c) creating affliction (d) humble

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adj. penultimate (a) a syllable or member of a series that is last but one (b) concealed, especially for an evil purpose (c) noisy (d) belonging to or under control of neither of two contestants

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v. ache (a) to be in pain or distress (b) to keep a diary (c) to harass with persistent demands or entreaties (d) to make inquiry

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v. deflect (a) to expurgate in editing (a literary composition) by omitting words or passages (b) to cause to turn aside or downward (c) to put out; to quench; to totally destroy; to annihilate (d) to fertilize; fill completely; saturate; imbue

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v. aggrandize (a) to cause to appear greatly (b) to be chief in importance, quantity or degree (c) to absorb, as a gas by a metal (d) to bring out more clearly the facts concerning

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adj. foppish (a) characteristic of one who is unduly devoted to dress and the niceties of manners (b) on the point of dying (c) showing impatience or ill temper on little provocation (d) clumsy

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adj. hard-hearted (a) following in the order of time (c) lacking pity or sympathy

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(b) unyielding (d) smelling sweet and agreeable

adj. imaginary (a) having great speed (c) suitable for the occasion or circumstances

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adj. plenary (a) not feasible

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(b) representing articulate sounds or speech (d) fancied

(b) veracious

(c) negligent

(d) entire

adj. earnest (a) exceedingly small in extent or quantity (b) ardent in spirit and speech (c) observant of ritual (d) returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals

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adj. inconsistent (a) having the character of a reproof (c) showing increase of light

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(b) contradictory (d) concordant in sound

adj. symmetrical (a) disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods (b) well-balanced (c) spherical (d) following in time

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n. philosophy (a) one who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures (b) gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration (c) the general principles, laws or causes that furnish the rational explanation of anything (d) hades

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adj. fervent (a) ardent in feeling

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(b) excessively hot

(c) warlike

(d) spherical

adj. venereal (a) that can not be turned aside (b) pertaining to or proceeding from sexual intercourse (c) impervious to light (d) being no longer in existence

Q10 adj. sedentary (a) belonging to or under control of neither of two contestants (b) involving or requiring much sitting (c) suitable for the occasion or circumstances (d) occurring or existing before birth

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n. drainage (a) the act of laying hold of or grasping (b) a full set of armor (c) emptying of liquid; channeling; sewage; waste water (d) a profuse or abundant supply of riches

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n. octave (a) water saturated with salt (b) a central point or part about which matter is aggregated (c) an official examiner of manuscripts empowered to prohibit their publication (d) a note at this interval above or below any other, considered in relation to that other

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n. incisor (a) anything relating or belonging to the outside (b) exclusion from intercourse or favor, as in society or politics (c) an action or event considered as coming between others of greater length (d) a front or cutting tooth

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n. excrescence (a) a city of the dead (b) a musical composition (c) any unnatural addition, outgrowth or development (d) something added to a letter after the writer's signature

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n. kilometer (a) the faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct (b) the quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance (c) a measure of length (d) a captain of a company of one hundred infantry in the ancient Roman army

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n. monologue (a) a piece of lead for making soundings; adjusting walls to the vertical (b) a record or statement of receipts and expenditures or of business transactions (c) a story or drama told or performed by one person (d) bottomless gulf

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n. confidence (a) a short thick stick used as a club (b) massacre (c) a place in which ferns are grown (d) the state or feeling of trust in or reliance upon another

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n. authenticity (a) something that is bought and sold (b) the state or condition of being joined together (c) deceitfulness (d) the state or quality of being genuine or of the origin and authorship claimed

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adj. halcyon (a) calm (b) having the sanction of law or established custom (c) affording gratification (d) having the power to sway the will of another

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n. amalgam (a) the act of placing side by side, together or in contact (b) any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus of the oak family (c) a single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc. (d) an alloy or union of mercury with another metal

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 159

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v. guzzle (a) to swallow greedily or hastily; to gulp (b) to give unusual pleasure (c) to push down forcibly (d) to vanquish an established ruler or government

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v. immerse (a) to cause to disappear (b) to plunge or dip entirely under water or other fluid (c) to bring forward or name for consideration (d) to equip with less than the full complement of men

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v. retract (a) to recall or take back (something that one has said) (b) to pursue a policy of delay (c) to gain supremacy; to subdue; to take control of (d) to bubble up

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v. unsettle (a) to summon or cause to assemble (b) to endow with some quality, gift or grace, usually spiritual (c) to put into confusion (d) to hold in higher estimation

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v. inure (a) to introduce or strive to introduce new things (b) to keep under restraint or control (c) to harden or toughen by use, exercise or exposure (d) to bring together or give fixed shape to

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v. clarify (a) to be present in such numbers as to be a source of annoyance, trouble or danger (b) to endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill or possessions (c) to imitate with intent to equal or surpass (d) to render intelligible

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v. terrify (a) to hold back or in (b) to fill with extreme fear (c) to cut off (from an inheritance, family, etc.); repudiate; disavow; renounce (d) to cause to see clearly

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v. beget (b) to mislead the mind or judgment of (d) to to annex, as something extrinsic

(a) to produce by sexual generation (c) to drive from one's own country Q9

v. convene (a) to produce a somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestions (b) to utter with a loud and vehement voice (c) to teach or imbue with the doctrines of Calvinism (d) to summon or cause to assemble

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v. deprecate (a) to express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite (b) to keep clear of (c) to contend angrily or zealously in words (d) to impede with obstacles

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 160

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adj. supernatural (a) pertaining to teaching (b) at variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion (c) not to be approved, considered or allowed, as testimony (d) caused miraculously or by the immediate exercise of divine power

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adj. voluble (a) having great fluency in speaking (b) sticky (c) fearless and bold (d) caused miraculously or by the immediate exercise of divine power

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n. bureau (a) a store that sells cosmetics (b) knowledge shared with another or others regarding a private matter (c) the art of anointing as with oil (d) a chest of drawers for clothing, etc

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n. cosmology (a) person who owns, enjoys or controls anything, such as property (b) overthrow or violent disturbance of established order or condition (c) an indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it (d) the general science of the universe

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n. dermatology (a) rareness (b) the science of the nervous system (c) the branch of medical science which relates to the skin and its diseases (d) a statement of religious faith or duty formulated by a body claiming authority

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n. element (a) a component or essential part (b) prevention; rejection; leaving out; keeping out; shutting out (c) the calling down of a curse or curses (d) a small body of water leading into a larger

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v. underrate (a) to fill again, as something that has been emptied (b) to to judge the value, degree, or worth of somebody or something to be less than it really is (c) to attribute (d) to produce

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v. depreciate (a) to wind and turn while proceeding in a course (b) to request an inadequate price for something (c) to render ineffective or inoperative (d) to lessen the worth of

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adj. rudimentary (a) being in an initial, early or incomplete stage of development (b) implanted by nature (c) pleased or satisfied with oneself (d) ordinary

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adj. subliminal (a) being beneath the threshold of consciousness (c) discriminating

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 161

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adj. invalid (a) having no force, weight or cogency (b) beyond the mountains, especially beyond the Alps (that is, on their Italian side) (c) characterized by illiberal views or sentiments (d) capable of being inferred

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adj. timorous (a) innate (b) quick to notice (c) characteristic of one who is unduly devoted to dress and the niceties of manners (d) lacking courage

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adj. logical (a) capable of or characterized by clear reasoning (b) having a tendency to change (c) unwilling (d) corporeal

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adj. medieval (a) belonging or relating to or descriptive of the middle ages (b) of or pertaining to the night (c) loathsome (d) referring to reproduction without the combination of genetic material with another individua

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adj. scriptural (a) sensual (b) extreme (c) having or marking equality of temperature (d) Biblical; pertaining to the Bible; written; inscribed

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adj. probate (a) sharp-cornered (c) relating to making proof, as of a will

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(b) rude (d) possessing a liquefying nature or power

adj. illimitable (a) making no noise (c) exact

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(b) of no essential consequence (d) boundless

adj. heinous (b) initial (d) of similar nature or qualities

(a) relating to a region in northern France (c) odiously sinful Q9

adj. exhaustive (a) unadvisable (c) making no noise

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(b) thorough and complete in execution (d) characterized by rivalry

adj. pendulous (a) working ill by slow and stealthy means (b) capricious (c) not perceptible to the touch (d) hanging, especially so as to swing by an attached end or part

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 162

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n. locomotion (a) an arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life (b) distribution and administration of justice by trial and judgment (c) a written account of one's life, actions, and character (d) the act or power of moving from one place to another

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n. inroad (a) a young bird

(b) forcible encroachment or trespass

(c) any announcement made in a public manner

(d) sign-language

n. monotone (a) the entertainment of doubt concerning something (b) the assertion of the opposite of that which has been said (c) the philosophical study of society (d) the sameness or monotony of utterance

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n. integrity (a) any growth of leaves (b) in continental Europe, particularly in France, a uniformed and armed police officer (c) a receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept (d) uprightness of character and soundness of moral principle

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n. pseudapostle (a) the whole body of legends cherished by a race concerning gods and heroes (b) any starlike meteor or phenomenon (c) a statement so plainly true as hardly to require statement or proof (d) the quality of being upright in principles and conduct

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n. suffrage (a) the desecration of the holy (c) a place in which goods are stored

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(b) the right or privilege of voting (d) expression of blame

n. drought (a) the branch of zoology that treats of fishes (b) that branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms (c) dry weather, especially when so long continued as to cause vegetation to wither (d) a statement introductory to and explanatory of what follows

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n. armful (a) the climax (b) sudden invasion (c) a measure that defines the amount a person can hold (d) a sense of injury

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n. indigence (a) person who receives a candidacy (b) candy or pastry; pastry shop; bake shop (c) poverty (d) one of the wandering warrior who in the middle ages went forth in search of adventure

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n. cathode (a) the comparative number of any kind of occurrences within a given time or space (b) the negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery (c) violent contact (d) a filter

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 163

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v. regale (a) to fail to put strongly enough, as a case

(b) to ridicule

(c) to preserve from extinction or oblivion

(d) to give unusual pleasure

v. excel (a) to be superior or distinguished (b) to conduct or behave (oneself) (c) to be an omen or warning sign of, especially of evil (d) to restore brightness or beauty

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v. misrepresent (a) to live in a monotonous, passive way without exercise of the mental faculties (b) to talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity (c) to give a wrong impression (d) to give a lecture; make a speech; declaim

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v. fulminate (a) to cause to explode

(b) to make drunk

(c) to displace

(d) to supply with light

v. emerge (a) to cause to melt (b) to come into view or into existence (c) to adapt (d) to flow forth or proceed, as from some source

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v. overpower (a) to slander (b) to gain supremacy; to subdue; to take control of (c) to speak or write a laudation of a person's life or character (d) to drive or urge forward

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v. dramatize (a) adapt for theatrical presentation; exaggerate (b) to empower (c) to take away honors or position from (d) to give a salary that is too high

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v. forecast (a) to delight extravagantly or intensely (b) to put something, especially something less severe, in place of (c) to predict (d) to wash or bathe

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v. surmount (a) to make better or improve, as in quality or social or physical condition (b) to remove or pass from one country, region or habitat to another (c) to overcome by force of will (d) to talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity

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v. importune (a) to trespass upon (b) to agree (c) to accidentally place an object where it cannot be found; to arrange incorrectly (d) to harass with persistent demands or entreaties

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 164

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v. defray (a) to make payment for (c) to make quiet

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(b) to shut out purposely or forcibly (d) to signify

adj. noticeable (a) perceptible (b) characterized by extravagance and in general by want of good taste (c) pertaining to Mars, either the Roman god of war or the planet (d) very-learned

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n. panorama (a) contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority (b) hatred (c) a series of large pictures representing a continuous scene (d) the body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation

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n. ministry (a) mistaken conviction, especially when more or less enduring (b) a situation in which a choice between opposing modes of conduct is necessary (c) a low tract of land between hills, especially along a river (d) a service

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n. propeller (a) the art or practice of flying aircraft (b) long shaft with a revolving spiral blades that move a vehicle (c) the letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase (d) office of an official chosen by a government to represent its interests in a foreign country

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v. subsist (a) to exist; live; stay alive (b) to speak evil of, especially to do so falsely and severely (c) to deprive of an inheritance (d) to cut off or cut short

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n. excretion (a) the getting rid of waste matter (b) a square of linen, silk or other material, used as a covering for the head or neck (c) accordance with law (d) the act of repeating

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n. stallion (a) an uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding (b) a number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together (c) a measure of length; 6 feet (d) something peculiar to a particular art, trade or the like

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n. alternative (a) something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen or done instead of something else (b) a message in writing (c) the science that treats of the functions and diseases peculiar to women (d) an affection of the stomach producing dizziness and usually an impulse to vomit

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n. cacophony (a) the study of force exerted by the motion of liquids (b) a fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer (c) a disagreeable, harsh or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones (d) the unreasonable pursuit of one idea

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 165

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adj. immune (a) pertaining to the nature of sound (c) recently hatched

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(b) exempt, as from disease (d) matchless

adj. omnipotent (a) very bright (b) possessed of unlimited and universal power (c) existing, done or operating beneath the surface of the sea (d) foolishly headless of danger

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adj. fusible (a) capable of being melted by heat (c) abominable

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(b) calm (d) prevailing among animals

adj. unbridled (a) hard-hearted (c) being without restraint

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(b) understood (d) hating mankind

adj. pertinent (a) opposing or opposed (c) rapid and superficial

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(b) effective (d) relevant

adj. efficacious (a) effective (b) retired from active service but retained to an honorary position (c) difficult to accomplish (d) morally irresponsible

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adj. encyclical (a) inexplicable (c) intended for general circulation

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(b) having a propensity for falling in love (d) without experience of the world

adj. refractory (a) capable of erring (c) supreme in authority

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(b) without determinate shape (d) not amenable to control

adj. volatile (a) changeable (c) pertaining to an island

(b) definite (d) fish-like

Q10 adj. verdant (a) milky (b) a person of between eighty and ninety years (c) pertaining to the poles of a sphere, especially of the earth (d) green with vegetation

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n. metamorphosis (a) a passing from one form or shape into another (b) something overdue and unpaid (c) a fleet of war-vessels (d) chivalry

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n. trestle (a) the department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs (b) a cloak (c) an open braced framework for supporting the horizontal stringers of a railway-bridge (d) a title of Jesus

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n. conduit (a) a means for conducting something, particularly a tube, pipe or passageway for a fluid (b) an English monetary unit (c) an image-breaker (d) a right or immunity not enjoyed by all or that may be enjoyed only under special conditions

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n. chateau (a) person who is rejected and despised, especially socially (b) a castle or manor-house (c) vigor; liveliness; newness; recentness (d) the quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations

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n. plumb (a) the state or feeling of trust in or reliance upon another (b) a weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something (c) anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc (d) the sameness or monotony of utterance

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n. electrotype (a) general lack of capacity or fitness (b) a mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of evil-doing (c) a concealed manner of acting (d) a metallic copy of any surface, as a coin

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n. periodicity (a) conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state (b) smelling sweet and agreeable (c) a threat (d) the habit or characteristic of recurrence at regular intervals

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n. overlord (a) the emblems of royalty (b) acting in accordance with prevailing norms or standards; correspondence in character; agreement; compliance (c) superior ruler (especially in feudal system); one with great influence (d) a formal summary of fundamental points of religious belief

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n. vogue (a) an employment limited to one particular line of work (b) the prevalent way or fashion (c) the beginning of that which becomes or is made to be (d) pastime

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n. solecism (a) any violation of established rules or customs (b) one who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests (c) the act of disencumbering; the act of freeing from something undesirable (d) the poisonous fluid that certain animals secrete

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v. usurp (a) to take possession of by force (b) to provide with a fixed allowance or portion, especially of food (c) to bring into a peaceful state (d) to maintain by noisy argument or dispute

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v. nettle (a) to rule; control; govern; predominate; prevail; be widespread (b) to excite sensations of uneasiness or displeasure in (c) to render bad, especially morally bad (d) to twist the body, face or limbs or as in pain or distress

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v. emit (a) to forerun; to come or go before; to live in a previous life (b) to cause or constitute the beginning or first stage of the existence of (c) to send or give out (d) to free from deception, as by apprising of the real state of affairs

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v. explode (a) to maltreat (b) to cause to burst in pieces by force from within (c) to extract or produce by vaporization and condensation (d) to show or have a feeling of antagonism, aversion or dislike

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v. reseat (a) to state as belonging to something (b) to place in position of office again (c) to make characteristic of the present or of recent times (d) to leave suddenly or unexpectedly

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v. botanize (a) to recover (b) to settle firmly; strongly establish; establish a strong defensive position (c) to renounce upon oath (d) to study plant-life

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v. degrade (a) to make bright or clear (c) to take away honors or position from

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(b) to handle tenderly and lovingly (d) to make heavier, worse or more burdensome

v. reprehend (a) to deprive of simplicity of mind or manner (b) to find fault with (c) to write over again (something already written) (d) to cause to burst in pieces by force from within

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v. disclaim (a) to set on fire (b) to draw into entanglement, literally or figuratively (c) to predetermine (d) to repudiate; disavow; renounce; deny connection with

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v. apprehend (a) to contaminate (b) to make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law (c) to consider thoughtfully (d) to make smaller using pressure; condense

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n. plutocracy (a) one of a class of deities of the woods and herds represented as half human, with goats feet (b) a word having the same or almost the same meaning as some other (c) a wealthy class in a political community who control the government by means of their money (d) the buttocks

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n. geology (a) fitness for some desirable practical purpose (b) an elementary reading-book for children (c) the department of natural science that treats of the constitution and structure of the earth (d) an instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind

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adj. systematic (a) pertaining to education or schools

(b) methodical

(c) unusual

(d) of or pertaining to number

v. extort (a) to render bad, especially morally bad (b) to deaden the sound of, as by wraps (c) to meet and strike violently; to crash into each other (d) to obtain by violence, threats, compulsion or the subjection of another to some necessity

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adj. vigilant (a) incapable of being concealed (b) being on the alert to discover and ward off danger or insure safety (c) unbiased (d) characterized by fairness

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n. butte (a) a conspicuous hill, low mountain or natural turret, generally isolated (b) an element that forms a base by combining with oxygen, is usually hard, heavy, and lustrous (c) a group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem (d) obedience

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n. perpetrator (a) a sudden and violent outbreak (b) person who receives a candidacy (c) the doer of a wrong or a criminal act (d) the throwing off or back of light, heat, sound or any form of energy that travels in waves

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n. procedure (a) the faculty by the exercise of which a deliberate conclusion is reached (b) a protecting force accompanying property in course of transportation (c) an atheist (d) a manner or method of acting

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n. apparition (a) ghost (b) the business of making sales and purchases for a commission (c) great cruelty; reckless wickedness (d) that branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms

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n. frivolity (a) ability to produce the desired result (c) intellectuality

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adj. preponderant (a) capable of being pressed into smaller compass (b) prevalent (c) incomprehensible (d) very hateful

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adj. delirious (a) transmitting disease (c) moved to anger

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(b) pertaining to stars or constellations (d) raving

adj. mischievous (a) having two parts (c) characterized by quivering or unsteadiness

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adj. apposite (a) appropriate (c) toilsome

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(b) having a tendency to go back (d) fond of tricks

(b) lacking pity or sympathy (d) frolicsome

adj. frowzy (a) directed toward knowledge for its own sake without respect to applications (b) slovenly in appearance (c) awkward or slow (d) illegal

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adj. irreverent (a) serving or tending to force (b) showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things (c) practical; useful (d) odiously sinful

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n. arrear (a) any act of kindness or well-doing (b) an utterly trivial distinction or objection (c) something overdue and unpaid (d) a word that contains of only one segment of speech

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adj. comely (a) adverse (b) of or pertaining to the sense of smell (c) handsome (d) indirect; oblique; not direct or straightforward

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adj. virtual (a) being in essence or effect but not in form or appearance (b) lying or directed perpendicularly to the horizon (c) having many shapes or appearances (d) wicked in the extreme

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adj. perverse (a) poor; indigent (b) operative on, affecting or having reference to past events, transactions or responsibilities (c) black-and-blue, as contused flesh (d) unreasonable

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n. optimism (a) a formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act (b) the act of pouring from one vessel to another (c) any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character (d) the view that everything in nature and the history of mankind is ordered for the best

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n. preservation (a) sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone (b) conservation (c) person who is chosen or appointed, by mutual consent of parties in dispute, to decide matters (d) a violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow

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n. defamation (a) a court or tribunal for examination and punishment of heretics (b) malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another (c) an open situation or position in relation to the sun, elements or points of the compass (d) a very lascivious person

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n. virtu (a) a weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something (b) rare, curious or beautiful quality (c) chemical agent that destroys a harmful organism (d) a souvenir; object kept as a reminder of an event

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n. bristle (a) friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof (b) person who works with or controls some machine or scientific apparatus (c) word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in 'Father Aeneas' (d) one of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: used in brush-making, etc

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n. cynicism (a) an inscription on a tomb or monument in honor or in memory of the dead (b) contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value (c) any form of greeting, hailing or welcome, whether by word or act (d) the state or quality of being in accord with

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n. refringency (a) that which may be used to produce light (b) the beginning (c) a body of troops consisting of two or more regiments (d) power to refract

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n. quietus (a) purifier; person or company that makes alcoholic beverages (b) historian (c) the doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms (d) a silencing, suppressing or ending

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v. educe (a) assist; aid; stand by (b) to cast or drive out by religious or magical means (c) to separate the parts of by violence (d) to draw out

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n. hesitation (a) ghost (b) power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas (c) vacillation (d) a presentation; proposition; offer

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v. deduce (a) to filter (b) to disseminate (c) to abridge; to shorten (d) to derive or draw as a conclusion by reasoning from given premises or principles

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v. dissipate (a) to engage in a tilt with lances on horseback (b) to disperse or disappear (c) to slowly weaken or injure; sabotage; subvert (d) to infuse

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v. persevere (a) to continue striving in spite of discouragements (b) to take possession of by force (c) to diminish and come to a stop; give out; expire; fade; die out (d) to name one by one

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v. muffle (a) to estimate the money value of (b) discharge from military service; disband an army (c) to deaden the sound of, as by wraps (d) to renew motion or action, as after rest or interruption

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v. rehabilitate (a) to restore to a former status, capacity, right rank or privilege (b) to make beautiful or elegant by adding attractive or ornamental features (c) to express, formulate or exemplify in a concrete, compact or visible form (d) to relieve, as from pain or hardship

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v. osculate (a) to risk money or other possession on an event, chance or contingency (b) to do business (c) to kiss (d) to misunderstand

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v. congest (a) to ruin or destroy little by little (b) to move backward; repeat; reiterate; recapitulate; worsen (c) to collect into a mass (d) to make a copy of

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v. forswear (b) to impose on or dupe by flattering speech (d) to renounce upon oath

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v. descry (a) to charge with wrong doing, misconduct or error (b) to fill the mind of a person to the exclusion of other subjects (c) to burst or break asunder (d) to discern

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v. relegate (a) to unite or blend as by melting together (b) to put out of proper place or order (c) to send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destination (d) to bend or turn from a direct course

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n. skirmish (a) any person who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence (b) the art of correct intonation, inflection and gesture in public speaking or reading (c) desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies (d) evil conduct; small crime

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n. adherence (a) the consequences that follow the transgression of natural or divine law (b) comfort in grief, trouble or calamity (c) an open situation or position in relation to the sun, elements or points of the compass (d) attachment

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v. avert (a) to happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals (b) to regard with inordinate love or admiration (c) to assign as a quality or attribute (d) to turn away or aside

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n. culvert (a) satisfaction with one's acts or surroundings (b) person who asks humbly and earnestly (c) an association of individuals united for the prosecution of some enterprise (d) any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road

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n. riddance (a) the science and art of teaching (b) a measure of length; one-eighth of a mile (c) royalty (d) the act of disencumbering; the act of freeing from something undesirable

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n. memento (a) the exhibition of greatness of action, character, intellect, wealth or power (b) person who makes exploration, search or examination, especially for minerals (c) a souvenir (d) a court or tribunal for examination and punishment of heretics

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v. refract (a) to make explanatory or critical notes on or upon (b) to recall or take back (something that one has said) (c) to absorb, as a gas by a metal (d) to bend or turn from a direct course

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n. debut (a) anything that indicates what is to happen (b) a first appearance in society or on the stage (c) the common people (d) the horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity

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v. expedite (a) to hasten the movement or progress of (c) to overtax the strength of

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(b) to make inefficient or worthless; to muddle (d) to assign as a quality or attribute

n. inflammation (a) one who uses or engages the services of other persons for pay (b) the substance that forms the principal portion of an animal or vegetable cell (c) the calling down of a curse or curses (d) a morbid process in some part of the body characterized by heat, swelling and pain

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adj. canine (a) even-tempered (c) characteristic of a dog

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(b) assumed by law to exist (d) first in rank or position

adj. significant (a) tending to one point (b) praiseworthy (c) important, especially as pointing something out (d) showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of feeling

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adj. receivable (a) wandering (b) pertaining to or proceeding from sexual intercourse (c) capable of being or fit to be accepted — often money (d) pertaining to ships, seamen or navigation

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adj. querulous (a) habitually complaining (b) that can not be successfully withstood or opposed (c) feeding on herbs or other vegetable matter, as animals (d) deepest within

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adj. nondescript (a) of sound and vigorous health (b) having a dark hue, especially a dark or sunburned complexion (c) indescribable (d) severely simple; unadorned

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adj. sanguineous (a) occurring outside of an individual's awareness (b) needlessly free or lavish in expenditure (c) consisting of blood (d) changeable

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n. synod (a) dispersion (b) change or modification (c) the act of disencumbering; the act of freeing from something undesirable (d) an ecclesiastical council

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adj. notorious (a) working ill by slow and stealthy means (c) savage

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(b) fatherly (d) unfavorably known to the general public

adj. ligneous (a) extraordinarily generous (c) having the texture of appearance of wood

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(b) having or resembling human form (d) disposed to peevishness

adj. arid (a) proceeding or marked by caution (b) very dry (c) pertaining to St. Augustine, his doctrines or the religious orders called after him (d) separable; divisible; severable; cleavable

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n. sleight (a) greediness (b) the art of painting on a surface of plaster, particularly on walls and ceilings (c) a trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observation (d) the act or ceremony of naming a man or woman for office

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n. parable (a) the state of being white or glowing with heat (b) a sense of injury (c) a brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral (d) a companion or associate

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n. fallacy (a) the laying out or expending or money or other resources, as time or strength (b) counterfeiting (c) any unsound or delusive mode of reasoning; anything based on such reasoning (d) a philosopher who investigates the essence of the world and of reality

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n. unison (a) a condition of perfect agreement and accord (b) part on a foremast of a ship (c) an opinion or doctrine subversive of settled beliefs or accepted principles (d) displacement by authority from an office or an employment

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n. creak (a) the junction of two bodies at an equally divided angle (b) a sharp, harsh, squeaking sound (c) stubborn adherence to opinion, arising from conceit or the desire to have one's own way (d) the act of sinking until covered completely with water

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n. mockery (a) ridicule (c) an ecclesiastical council

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(b) unyielding adherence (d) trickery

n. linguistics (a) a change (b) the science of languages or of the origin, history, and significance of words (c) engagement to marry (d) the act of sending through or across

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n. synonym (a) regularity (b) a word having the same or almost the same meaning as some other (c) the study of force exerted by the motion of liquids (d) loyalty

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adj. ghastly (a) delivering bad news; foreboding; threatening (c) contradictory

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(b) verbose (d) hideous

adj. gossamer (a) pertaining to an island (b) belonging to, situated in or derived from another country (c) pertaining to streams (d) flimsy

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v. confiscate (a) to give a crinkled, fluffy appearance to (b) to appropriate (private property) as forfeited to the public use or treasury (c) to expel (d) to disfigure

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v. convalesce (a) to force (b) to cause to be one (c) to recover after a sickness (d) to postpone; lengthen; continue; maintain; preserve

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v. loathe (a) to abominate

(b) to indulge in profane oaths

(c) to confuse

(d) to withhold permission or sanction

v. evict (a) to breathe forth (b) to drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner (c) to make or enact a law or laws (d) to dispossess pursuant to judicial decree

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v. juggle (a) to keep oneself back (from doing or using something) (b) to play tricks of sleight of hand (c) to move like a wave or in waves (d) to risk money or other possession on an event, chance or contingency

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v. infest (a) to divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts (b) to be in collusion (c) to be present in such numbers as to be a source of annoyance, trouble or danger (d) to flow forth or proceed, as from some source

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v. enact (a) to satisfy fully the appetite or desire of (c) to misrepresent

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(b) to legislate; ordain; decree; perform (d) to palm off

v. forebode (a) to force (b) to be an omen or warning sign of, especially of evil (c) to draw or be drawn into wrinkles (d) to cause to melt

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v. compress (a) to call or summon forth (b) to harass with persistent demands or entreaties (c) to eradicate (d) to make smaller using pressure; condense

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v. infringe (a) to assail with any missile or with abusive speech (b) to subject to punitive measures (c) to trespass upon (d) to calculate arithmetically

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 176

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n. inversion (a) any ointment or lubricant for local application (b) the structure of the body; form; build (c) change of order so that the first shall become last and the last first (d) Irish word for lake; long inlet of the sea; bay

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adj. vindicatory (a) suitable to be eaten (b) made commonplace by frequent repetition (c) passable; can be crossed; can be steered through (d) punitive

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adj. equitable (a) coming or acquired from some origin (b) having equal or equivalent value, effect or import (c) characterized by fairness (d) plenteous

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n. proficiency (a) an inscription on a tomb or monument in honor or in memory of the dead (b) the habit of pairing or having but one mate (c) an advanced state of acquirement, as in some knowledge, art or science (d) the cultivation of trees or shrubs

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n. pretext (a) any article of personal property (b) delusive speech (c) a fictitious reason or motive (d) reciprocal change, different ordering of same items

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n. animosity (a) hatred (b) the system, doctrine and practice of the Roman Church (c) the property of emitting light (d) an instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio or ballet

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n. biped (a) an animal having two feet (b) a homeless, neglected wanderer (c) a metric unit of volume (d) a vertical bar or a pair of bars, used to confine cattle in a stall

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adj. amenable (b) of or related to the art of printing (d) easily understood

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adj. blithe (a) composed of heterogeneous or inharmonious elements (b) within the smallest unit of life (c) effective (d) joyous

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adj. perennial (a) continuing though the year or through many years (b) untenable (c) cheap, unwilling to spend money (d) proceeding or marked by caution

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adj. privy (a) manifesting a warlike spirit (b) proceeding downward (c) quick at contrivance (d) participating with another or others in the knowledge of a secret transaction

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adj. staid (a) that can not be passed through or over

(b) unimaginative

(c) of a steady and sober character

(d) frisky and full of fun

adj. bountiful (a) recovering health after sickness (b) incredible (c) showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things (d) showing abundance

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adj. indispensable (a) partly cultured (c) nourishing; healthy; of high food value

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(b) necessary or requisite for the purpose (d) rich and costly

adj. precipitant (a) of, pertaining to or like the air (b) moving onward quickly and heedlessly (c) having reached a high degree of worldly prosperity (d) capable of being held back or kept down

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adj. debatable (a) subject to contention or dispute (c) capable of being maintained or justified

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adj. lithesome (a) nimble

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(b) having womanish traits or qualities (d) having the character of a beginner

(b) openly scandalous

(c) thoroughly informed

(d) inanimate

adj. inflexible (a) capable of being held back or kept down (b) that can not be altered or varied (c) having no force, weight or cogency (d) distressed in mind respecting some uncertain matter

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adj. comestible (a) fit to be eaten (c) pertaining to horses or horsemanship

(b) pertaining to the breast or thorax (d) very hateful

Q10 adj. squalid (a) destitute of or lacking in power, physical, moral or intellectual (b) speedy (c) capable of being maintained or justified (d) having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance

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n. incentive (a) germ; microscopic organism (b) that which moves the mind or inflames the passions (c) the period of time during which anything lasts (d) a written account of one's life, actions, and character

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n. employer (a) an absolute and irresponsible monarch (b) idiosyncrasy (c) one who uses or engages the services of other persons for pay (d) insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling

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n. magnitude (a) the mixed worship of polytheism (c) clothing or covering

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(b) recklessness (d) importance

n. gaiety (a) absence of harmoniousness (b) the neglect or omission of a legal requirement (c) a beleaguerment (d) festivity

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n. hussar (a) source of sustenance and nourishment (b) the science and art of teaching (c) one abandoned to depravity and sin (d) a light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine

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n. lunacy (a) mental unsoundness (b) ridicule (c) consistency (d) the book containing the service for the celebration of mass

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n. usage (a) treatment (b) lawless control of public affairs by the populace (c) an image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy (d) object or device which is near or bordering upon

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n. suspense (a) digression (b) a picture having a background or that is shaded off gradually (c) a metric unit of volume (d) uncertainty

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adj. eugenic (a) plentiful (b) enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity (c) relating to the development and improvement of race (d) engrossed; absorbed; fascinated; charmed; enchanted

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n. atrocity (a) person who works for wages or a salary (b) refined or elegant courtesy (c) great cruelty; reckless wickedness (d) of a military unit; of a multitude; of a great number

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v. protuberate (a) to accidentally place an object where it cannot be found; to arrange incorrectly (b) to express, formulate or exemplify in a concrete, compact or visible form (c) to regard with worshipful veneration (d) to swell or bulge beyond the surrounding surface

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v. overreach (a) to stretch out too far (c) to provoke

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(b) to warn of a fault (d) to displease

v. overstride (a) to step beyond (b) to wave, shake or flourish triumphantly or defiantly, as a sword or spear (c) to renounce (a right or privilege) (d) to declare; publicize; advertise widely; publish; distribute widely

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v. facilitate (a) to expose to peril (c) to make more easy

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(b) to strip the covering from (d) to regard with suspicion or jealousy

v. dilate (a) to enlarge in all directions (b) to obtain by violence, threats, compulsion or the subjection of another to some necessity (c) to reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation (d) to attack on all sides

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v. recognize (a) to recall the identity of (a person or thing) (b) to render unsusceptible to a disease by inoculating (c) to treat as a baby or an invalid (d) to issue or be party to the issue of a policy of insurance

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v. augur (a) to predict (b) to come in without leave or license (c) to furnish something as a kindness or favor (d) to accept as true on the testimony or authority of others

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v. abominate (a) to be opposite in opinion (c) to look forward to as certain or probable

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(b) to hate violently (d) to speak to

v. originate (a) to wash or bathe (b) to show or prove to be involved in or concerned (c) to cause or constitute the beginning or first stage of the existence of (d) to destroy a measurable or large proportion of

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v. refute (a) to hurry (b) to prove to be wrong (c) to come into a country or region from a former habitat (d) to inspire with ardent love

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n. tranquility (a) a vaulted passageway or street; a roofed passageway having shops etc., opening from it (b) clanking or a ringing, as of arms, chains or bells; clamor (c) a means for conducting something, particularly a tube, pipe or passageway for a fluid (d) calmness

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adj. equestrian (a) able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations (b) making no noise (c) pertaining to horses or horsemanship (d) from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the United States

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v. percolate (a) to transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment (b) to swing back and forth (c) to form into grains or small particles (d) to filter

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n. fathom (a) a measure of length; 6 feet (c) a charge of crime, misdemeanor or error

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(b) a journey (d) a trinket

n. advertiser (a) an earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach (b) an unreal image presented to the senses (c) a list of persons who have died in a certain place or time (d) one who advertises, especially in newspapers

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v. preengage (a) to regard with grief or sorrow (c) to implore

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(b) to form into grains or small particles (d) to preoccupy

adj. declarative (a) pertaining to fireworks or their manufacture (b) pertaining to a British King (c) delicate; ethereal (d) containing a formal, positive or explicit statement or affirmation

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adj. antenatal (a) surly (b) lasting for a short time only (c) occurring or existing before birth (d) being on the alert to discover and ward off danger or insure safety

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adj. irascible (a) having sufficient funds to pay all debts (b) that can not be burned (c) prone to anger (d) arising from inherent qualities or tendencies without external efficient cause

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n. eulogy (a) a performer of moral and social duties (b) a noxious or troublesome animal (c) a spoken or written laudation of a person's life or character (d) a decree or an order forbidding something

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adj. inviolable (a) of wide extent or frequent occurrence (b) candid, frank or open in character or quality (c) offensive from excess of praise or commendation (d) incapable of being injured or disturbed

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adj. sequacious (a) fond of tricks (c) green with vegetation

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(b) anthropoid; having masculine qualities (d) ready to be led

adj. abdominal (a) alluring by false or gaudy show (c) of, pertaining to or situated on the abdomen

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adj. well-bred (a) of good ancestry (c) inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires

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(b) joyous (d) not suitable to be selected or chosen

(b) consisting of blood (d) occurring or existing before birth

adj. spinous (a) cautious in action for fear of doing wrong (b) resembling a thorn; having pointed projections (c) capable of being grasped (d) low in tone or compass

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adj. antemeridian (a) before noon (c) clinging or sticking fast

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(b) gigantic (d) poor

adj. pleasant (a) agreeable (b) having kindred character or tastes (c) pertaining to the treasury or public finances of a government (d) not easily roused to feeling or action

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adj. winsome (a) raving (b) pertaining to the having, holding or detention of property in one's power or command (c) extraordinary (d) attractive

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adj. placid (a) serene (c) mercenary, corrupt

(b) pertaining to horses or horsemanship (d) insufficient

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(b) involving or requiring much sitting (d) going beyond usual and proper limits

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n. chasm (a) a yawning hollow, as in the earth's surface (b) possibility of happening (c) an elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts (d) the head-harness of a horse consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and the reins

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n. plasticity (a) keen enjoyment (b) the property of some substances through which the form of the mass can readily be changed (c) a small light boat propelled by oars (d) a related group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought

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n. heterogeneity (a) an expert reasoner (b) a piece of land completely surrounded by water (c) one who seeks earnestly, as for advancement, honors, place (d) unlikeness of constituent parts

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n. privateer (a) treatment (b) sailor or officer of a warship; warship; ship commissioned by a government to fight enemies (c) a special school, as of theology or pedagogics (d) one of a party in Great Britain in favor of spirited and demonstrative foreign policy

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n. sergeant-at-arms (a) person who is remarkable for tact and shrewd management (b) an executive officer in legislative bodies who enforces the orders of the presiding officer (c) a mass of rotating or whirling fluid, especially when sucked spirally toward the center (d) excessive or superfluous growth or quantity

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n. louse (a) a small insect parasitic on and sucking the blood of mammals (b) the structure of the body; form; build (c) largeness; stateliness, magnificence; importance; nobility (d) the story of one's life written by himself

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n. vista (a) the act or state of looking forward to as certain or probable (b) a view or prospect (c) the act of plunging or dipping entirely under water or another fluid (d) attachment

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n. priory (a) forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical (b) a monastic house (c) that which moves the mind or inflames the passions (d) land along the edge of a body of water

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n. pathos (a) the passion for collecting books (b) the quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy (c) the attainment of superior skill (d) the act of bringing into a state of submission

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n. vertex (a) measurement of force (b) the intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch (c) peak; highest point; top; summit (d) the external appearance merely

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 183

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v. transgress (a) to break a law (c) to diminish in size and brilliancy

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(b) to send or give out (d) to manage badly; to govern in an evil manner

v. vitalize (a) to happen first (c) to burn or sear as with a heated iron

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(b) to endow with life or energy (d) to preoccupy

v. legislate (a) to make or enact a law or laws (b) to remove or destroy the poison of infectious or contagious diseases (c) to take; seize; cause to stop; delay; hinder; obstruct (d) to displace

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v. effervesce (a) to remind oneself (b) to bubble up (c) to diminish or become less (d) to gather and store away for the sake of accumulation

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v. forego (a) to exercise an arrogant condescension toward (b) to drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner (c) to derive or draw as a conclusion by reasoning from given premises or principles (d) to deny oneself the pleasure or profit of

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v. decorate (a) to cut down or reduce in extent or quantity (b) to enter or force a way into the interior parts of (c) to cease to resist (d) to embellish

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n. tangency (a) the state of touching (b) hades (c) rashness (d) friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof

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v. annihilate (b) to destroy absolutely and completely (d) to treat as a baby or an invalid

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v. enervate (a) to make familiar by use (c) to render ineffective or inoperative

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(b) to cause to see clearly (d) to utter with complaining tone

v. broach (a) to make familiar or conversant (b) to mention for the first time (c) to reunite after separation (d) to estimate something less than the true worth

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v. reconstruct (a) to give a wrong impression

(b) to abolish; to repeal

(c) to put an end or stop to

(d) to rebuild

n. tactics (a) an assemblage or review of troops for parade or inspection or for numbering off (b) any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object (c) a deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier (d) one who makes in imitation

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int. voala (a) good-by; farewell

(b) I have found it; I got it

(c) here we go; here you are; there you go

(d) well done

n. betrothal (a) a ditch on the outside of a fortress wall (b) one who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions (c) self-distrust (d) engagement to marry

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n. outbreak (a) the horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity (b) hatred (c) eruption; explosion (usually of an unpleasant thing) (d) the hinder part

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n. foreshore (a) an alcoholic liquor made of fermented honey and water; any of various nonalcoholic drinks (b) land along the edge of a body of water (c) a chief city, either the capital or the largest or most important city of a state (d) that part of the digestive tube below or behind the stomach, extending to the anus

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v. convulse (a) to make an effort to vomit (b) to relapse into a state of repose and tranquillity (c) to cause spasms in (d) to disparage

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n. subtrahend (a) that which oppresses, injures or causes grief and at the same time a sense of wrong (b) number that is deducted from an amount (c) the art or practice of flying aircraft (d) a room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests

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n. batten (a) a narrow strip of wood (b) any structure or sculpture in stone formed of a single piece (c) an emergency legislation authorizing a government suspend some action temporarily (d) a passing from one form or shape into another

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n. ordination (a) a consecration to the ministry (b) an assemblage or review of troops for parade or inspection or for numbering off (c) cessation (d) escape

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adj. unaffected (a) sincere (b) pedantic; cautious concerning minute details; scrupulous (c) curving like the segment of the globe or of the surface of a circle (d) cannot be expressed in words; beyond description; indefinite

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adj. desultory (a) like a tree (c) not connected with what precedes

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(b) easily set on fire or excited (d) made up of similar parts or elements

adj. edible (a) fit to be compared (b) suitable to be eaten (c) radically different or contrary in action or movement (d) lacking foresight or thrift

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adj. venal (a) not general or public (b) suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another (c) mercenary, corrupt (d) meriting or commanding high esteem

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adj. indiscreet (a) indivisible; close; devoted (c) lustful

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(b) fit to be dwelt in (d) lacking wise judgment

adj. refragable (a) relaxed (c) inanimate

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(b) capable of being refuted (d) of a bright but delicate yellow

adj. light-hearted (a) that can be imagined or conceived in the mind (b) free from care (c) entire (d) having a malign influence or effect

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adj. feudal (a) pertaining to the relation of lord and vassal (b) relative; corresponding (c) directed toward the side (d) pertaining to the use of the tongue in utterance

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adj. virile (a) masculine (c) having the nature or form of a question

(b) irascible (d) having the power to sway the will of another

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(b) genuine (d) having the nature of a tree

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n. aspirant (a) number that is deducted from an amount (b) distribution and administration of justice by trial and judgment (c) a narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water (d) one who seeks earnestly, as for advancement, honors, place

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n. anthracite (a) a woman who makes a business of assisting at childbirth (b) hard coal (c) a mechanical, chemical or pathological agent of inflammation, pain or tension (d) an abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling

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n. plenipotentiary (a) pregnancy (b) heir; inheritor; one who or that which follows or takes the place of another (c) a light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints (d) a person fully empowered to transact any business

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n. cajolery (a) that side or direction toward which the wind blows (b) delusive speech (c) a title of Jesus (d) use of many words without necessity

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n. pinnacle (a) tendency towards a former or opposite state of things, as after reform, revolution or inflation (b) a high or topmost point, as a mountain-peak (c) irreverence toward God (d) family origin; genealogy; line of descent

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n. vortex (a) a series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information (b) the body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation (c) a mass of rotating or whirling fluid, especially when sucked spirally toward the center (d) in engraving, an etched stone surface for printing

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n. atonement (a) keen enjoyment (b) line of motion or direction (c) a statement of religious faith or duty formulated by a body claiming authority (d) amends, reparation or expiation made from wrong or injury

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n. episode (a) a studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt (b) a small fissure, as between two contiguous surfaces (c) the act of selling (d) an incident or story in a literary work, separable from yet growing out of it

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n. exodus (a) a going forth or departure from a place or country, especially of many people (b) artistry; skillfulness; manner of execution (c) fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing (d) one chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other

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n. docket (a) the registry of judgments of a court (b) a grass cultivated for forage and cereal (c) a figure having seven sides and seven angles (d) a word idiom or phrase characteristic of Great Britain or the British

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v. precede (a) to passively permit or put up with (b) to instill, introduce or inculcate, as principles or qualities (c) to make amends for (d) to happen first

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v. savor (a) to enlarge in all directions (b) to take when offered (c) to perceive by taste or smell (d) to manage or carry through by some device or scheme

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v. wrest (a) to take apart (b) to refer incidentally or by suggestion (c) to pull or force away by or as by violent twisting or wringing (d) to mesmerize; to fascinate; to rivet; to spellbind

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v. illumine (a) to make or enact a law or laws (c) to imitate the speech or actions of

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(b) to sow or scatter abroad, as seed is sown (d) to make bright or clear

v. eschew (a) to give an appearance of foolishness to (c) to remunerate

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v. perambulate (a) to walk about (c) to set free from bondage

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(b) to keep clear of (d) to mumble something over and over

(b) to make less burdensome or less hard to bear (d) to pester; to annoy

v. undersell (a) to cut off (b) to promote or advertise in an understated manner (c) to make heavier, worse or more burdensome (d) to make inquiry

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v. impel (a) to drive or urge forward (b) to pick or sort out from the rest (c) to go before as introducing or ushering in (d) to fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish or desire of

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v. extricate (a) to puncture slightly with fine, sharp points (c) to put an end or stop to

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(b) to disentangle (d) to behead

v. alter (a) to call into court, as a person indicted for crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not (b) to make change in (c) to smother (d) to overwhelm with a flood of water

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n. reflection (a) a non-commissioned military officer ranking next above a corporal (b) the throwing off or back of light, heat, sound or any form of energy that travels in waves (c) the fact of not being present or available (d) any overwhelming flood of water

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n. probity (a) desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies (b) mode of speech (c) virtue or integrity tested and confirmed (d) a sudden irregular shake or a push causing such a shake

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adj. faulty (a) superior in power, influence, effectiveness, number or degree (b) incongruously composed or ill-proportioned (c) imperfect (d) open to ridicule

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n. rhapsody (a) a scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning (b) rapt or rapturous utterance (c) the denial of the existence of God (d) the chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and Anglican church

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v. stagnate (a) to make warm by genial heat (b) to relapse into a state of repose and tranquillity (c) to become dull or inert (d) to give a crinkled, fluffy appearance to

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n. affectation (a) the art or work of constructing, as buildings, walls, etc., with regularly arranged stones (b) a studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt (c) digression (d) the science of human vocal sounds

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adj. aerial (a) cowardly (c) of degraded character or nature

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(b) of, pertaining to or like the air (d) empty

adj. evidential (a) able to be turned from the accustomed course or a line of action already established (b) of, pertaining to or living on a shore (c) indicative (d) having a light, pert, trifling disposition

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adj. erroneous (a) accidental (c) exact

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(b) incorrect (d) farther or more distant

adj. swarthy (a) having a dark hue, especially a dark or sunburned complexion (b) characterized by special tact in negotiations (c) not habitually solitary or living alone (d) pertaining to education or schools

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adj. principal (a) tending to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence (b) of or pertaining to the middle (c) making a loud outcry (d) most important

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adj. hibernian (a) resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity or corruption is held up to ridicule (b) pertaining to or consisting of air or gas (c) financial (d) pertaining to Ireland or its people

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adj. impervious (a) easily provoked to anger (b) unsusceptible to outside ideas or influences; unfathomable; inscrutable (c) pertaining to St. Augustine, his doctrines or the religious orders called after him (d) of unequaled excellence or worth

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adj. formidable (a) relating to a region in northern France (b) large in scope or content (c) difficult to accomplish (d) having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally

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adj. gaseous (a) light and unsubstantial (b) unadvisable (c) pertaining to Ireland or its people (d) expressive of positive command, as distinguished from merely directory

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adj. influential (a) able to be kept under restraint or control (b) conformed to a just claim according to established laws or usage (c) having the power to sway the will of another (d) chewing the cud

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n. aerostat (a) the attainment of superior skill (b) high position; elevated rank; title of honor; excellence; height; hill (c) likeness; resemblance; counterpart (d) a balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air

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adj. slothful (a) lazy (b) of or pertaining to an academy, college or university (c) foolish (d) opposite

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adj. scurrilous (a) adhering to the existing order of things (c) unmoved by or not exhibiting feeling

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(b) grossly indecent or vulgar (d) good and kind of heart

adj. exuberant (a) having the texture of appearance of wood (b) evil in nature or tending to do great harm or mischief (c) contrary in tendency or direction (d) marked by great plentifulness

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 190

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n. trepidation (a) nervous uncertainty of feeling (b) kindness of feeling, disposition or manner (c) a person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris (d) wrath

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n. sycophant (a) a public teacher of the highest grade in a university or college (b) a servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence (c) an inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father (d) the countries lying west of Asia and the Turkish dominions

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n. soldier (a) object or device which is near or bordering upon (b) the son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection (c) a person engaged in military service (d) a collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body

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n. personnel (a) staff; work force; team; crew (b) an officer whose duty it is to estimate and determine taxes (c) the support on or against which a lever rests or the point about which it turns (d) the act planning, devising, inventing or adapting something to or for a special purpose

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n. contusion (a) a measure of volume (b) a bruise (c) caution (d) a wise and faithful teacher, guide and friend

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n. acquiescence (a) a mark that mars beauty (b) anything that constricts or serves for binding or tying (c) passive consent (d) a contraction of any material into less bulk or dimension

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n. opalescence (a) order; neatness (b) a forerunner or herald (c) the property of combined refraction and reflection of light, resulting in smoky tints (d) philanthropist; person who is very unselfish

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n. christ (a) a disposition to give liberally or to bestow favors heartily (b) a dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid element with a suffocating odor (c) a rustic (d) a title of Jesus

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n. access (a) incentive (b) a way of approach or entrance; passage (c) doubt or uncertainty regarding a question of moral right or duty (d) an entertainment (especially theatrical) held in the daytime

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n. ingredient (a) language used by a certain group or class of people (b) component (c) bottomless gulf (d) reproof

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v. resonate (a) to play tricks of sleight of hand (c) to have or produce resonance

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(b) to become worse or inferior (d) to give courage to

v. negotiate (a) to place or plunge under water (b) to destroy absolutely and completely (c) to sabase; defile; dirty; sully (d) to bargain with others for an agreement, as for a treaty or transfer of property

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v. coincide (a) to misrepresent (b) to make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles (c) to consist of (d) to correspond

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v. commingle (a) to make dull by satiety (b) to blend (c) to fill with impediments so as to prevent passage, either wholly or in part (d) to render of no further effect

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v. evince (a) to present in an orderly manner (c) to spend

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(b) to give unusual pleasure (d) to demonstrate; to reveal; to display

v. garrote (a) to debilitate (c) to beg

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(b) to mention for the first time (d) to execute by strangling

n. cabalism (a) the registry of judgments of a court (b) superstitious devotion to one's religion (c) one who earns his bread by physical labor (d) extravagant person; lavish spender; spendthrift; squanderer; one who wastes money

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v. enfranchise (a) to reduce to ashes (b) to force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally (c) to leave (d) to endow with a privilege, especially with the right to vote

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v. extol (a) to be violently excited or agitated (c) to praise in the highest terms

(b) to execute by strangling (d) to turn inside out

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(b) to mediate between persons (d) to burn or sear as with a heated iron

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 192

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n. polygamy (a) means of subsistence (b) the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at once (c) a morbid condition, due to obstructed excretion of bile or characterized by yellowing of the skin (d) an instrument for assisting the eye in the vision of minute objects or features of objects

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n. propriety (a) accordance with recognized usage, custom or principles (b) in the British army, a cavalryman (c) unlimited or infinite knowledge (d) a certain time of year (in July)

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n. opportunist (a) a fatal or serious accident or disaster (b) a measure that defines the amount a person can hold (c) person who takes advantage of circumstances to gain his ends (d) a list, in the order of succession, of ancestors and their descendants

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adj. rapid (a) proposable

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(b) necessary

(d) having great speed

adj. impious (a) raving (c) situated on the other side of the Alps

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(c) trivial

(b) characterized by irreverence or irreligion (d) pertaining to streams

n. compression (a) constraint, as by force or authority (b) an instrumental composition (c) a length of ten meters (d) the place in or near which a person or thing is

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adj. polytechnic (a) that can not be restrained or kept down (b) at variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion (c) being no longer in existence (d) pertaining to, embracing or practicing many arts

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n. leisure (b) spare time (d) regularity

(a) deep wisdom or knowledge (c) a hereditary nobility Q9

adj. verbose (b) deepest within (d) characterized by irreverence or irreligion

(a) wordy (c) capable of being conceived Q10

adj. irreparable (a) in a state of preparedness for any given purpose or occasion (b) that can not be rectified or made amends for (c) abundant or superabundant in growth (d) tending to reconcile

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adj. tangent (a) attractive

(b) indifferent or opposed to religion

(c) conceited

(d) touching

adj. subservient (a) poor (b) possessing ample and ready knowledge or of skill in any art, science or industry (c) worn and gaunt in appearance (d) servilely following another's behests

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adj. paternal (a) icy; icily cold (b) that can not be altered or varied (c) having a fellow-feeling for or like feelings with another or others (d) fatherly

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adj. reckless (a) foolishly headless of danger

(b) characterized by rivalry

(c) capable of being thrust out

(d) stingy (no longer acceptable to use)

adj. inexpensive (a) having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor (b) thorough and complete in execution (c) low-priced; cheap (d) tending to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence

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adj. appellate (a) consumable; depletable; capable of being ejected (b) capable of being appealed to (c) tasteless (d) tending to cause delay

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adj. extensive (a) wretched (b) evincing skill, originality or cleverness, as in contrivance or arrangement (c) extended widely in space, time or scope (d) calm

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adj. clumsy (a) pertaining to the poles of a sphere, especially of the earth (b) having no power or force (c) awkward of movement (d) saintly

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adj. resilient (a) transferable by assignment, endorsement or delivery (b) curving like the segment of the globe or of the surface of a circle (c) having the quality of springing back to a former position (d) working vigorously

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adj. malleable (a) pliant (b) false (c) characterized by unlimited or infinite knowledge (d) concise

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 194

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n. truism (a) a logician (b) a statement so plainly true as hardly to require statement or proof (c) a person who is habitually lazy or idle (d) a salt of acetic acid

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n. earthenware (a) the natural history of trees (b) a sea-nymph, described by Homer as dwelling between the island of Circe and Scylla (c) inadequacy (d) anything made of clay and baked in a kiln or dried in the sun

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n. requiem (a) a musical instrument somewhat larger than a violin (b) predestination (c) a solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead (d) the offspring of a white person and a black person

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n. conflagration (a) demeanor (b) something binds objects together (c) a great fire, as of many buildings, a forest or the like (d) student who delivers an address at graduating exercises of an educational institution

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n. dialect (a) a loose gown worn by women (b) an agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties (c) forms of speech collectively that are peculiar to the people of a particular district (d) an instrument for determining the density of solids and liquids by flotation

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n. repertory (a) a storyteller (b) a bitter or malicious criticism (c) a place where things are stored or gathered together (d) a piece of lead for making soundings; adjusting walls to the vertical

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n. infinity (a) a remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases (b) a word, especially one regarded in relation merely to its qualities of sound (c) discernment (d) boundless or immeasurable extension or duration

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n. mane (a) the long hair growing upon and about the neck of certain animals, as the horse and the lion (b) an association of individuals united for the prosecution of some enterprise (c) a traditional form or customary act (d) the buttocks

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adj. ultimate (a) derived from authoritative direction (b) like a circle (c) beyond which there is nothing else (d) spreading rapidly through the system and acting quickly

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n. pyre (a) the principle and practice of depicting persons and scenes as they are believed really to exist (b) one who works in a coal-mine (c) a heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body (d) anything intended or calculated to deceive or mislead

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v. militate (a) to explain or understand incorrectly (b) to have weight or influence (in determining a question) (c) to accomplish (d) to put to shame

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v. maroon (a) to provide with a fixed allowance or portion, especially of food (b) to examine for the correction of errors or for the purpose of making changes (c) to cover or fill the surface of (d) to put ashore and abandon (a person) on a desolate coast or island

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v. surfeit (a) to give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect (b) to feed to fullness or to satiety (c) to discern (d) to study plant-life

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v. ought (a) to come into view or into existence (b) to discern (c) to assail with any missile or with abusive speech (d) to be under moral obligation to be or do

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v. designate (a) to make satisfaction or amends for (b) to misunderstand (c) to select or appoint, as by authority (d) to repudiate; disavow; renounce; deny connection with

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v. trisect (a) to own (b) to treat as a baby or an invalid (c) to divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts (d) to provide with defensive works

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n. operator (a) person who works with or controls some machine or scientific apparatus (b) the seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by Hercules (c) an arbitrary assemblage or group of stars (d) courage

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v. collaborate (a) to recover (b) to cooperate with another or others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits (c) to diminish the gravity or importance of (d) to delay a punishment (esp. death sentence); provide temporary relief

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v. gratify (a) to move like a wave or in waves (b) to please, as by satisfying a physical or mental desire or need (c) to separate (d) to win confidence or good graces for oneself

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v. garnish (a) to debar (b) to show or have a feeling of antagonism, aversion or dislike (c) in cookery, to surround with additions for embellishment (d) to sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom

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n. superfluity (a) any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road (b) a loose robe, fastening with a sash, the principal outer garment in Japan (c) a small cavern (d) that part of anything that is in excess of what is needed

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n. outpost (a) a detachment of troops stationed at a distance from the main body to guard against surprise (b) forbearance in judging of the acts or opinions of others (c) unmerited contemptuous conduct or treatment (d) any unnatural addition, outgrowth or development

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n. metropolis (a) the practical unit of electric-current strength (b) one who writes or is skilled in writing (c) a chief city, either the capital or the largest or most important city of a state (d) foreboding

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v. acidify (a) to change into a sour tasting solution that dissolves metals and other materials (b) to water, as land, by ditches or other artificial means (c) to indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding (d) to cut or carve in or upon some surface

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n. armory (a) a philosopher who investigates the essence of the world and of reality (b) a gathered multitude of human beings (c) a small flag (d) an arsenal

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v. vacate (a) to sail around the world (c) to place in a detached state or situation

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(b) to put to shame (d) to leave

adj. repulsive (a) of a steady and sober character (c) grossly offensive

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(b) poverty-stricken (d) unwilling

v. condense (a) to abridge; to shorten (b) to place in the earth, as a dead body (c) to bring in (d) to assign a definite thing or part to a certain person

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v. seethe (a) to be violently excited or agitated (b) to point out or publicly accuse as deserving of punishment, censure or odium (c) to cause to loathe (d) to engage to marry

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n. ligament (a) something binds objects together (b) a formal summary of fundamental points of religious belief (c) an argument to obtain some desired action (d) an inscription on a tomb or monument in honor or in memory of the dead

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adj. isothermal (a) expressing no power of feeling or perceiving (c) methodical

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(b) childish (d) having or marking equality of temperature

adj. outrageous (a) needlessly free or lavish in expenditure (b) sharing the same views or sentiments (c) lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business (d) shocking in conduct

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adj. confident (a) unsuitable for the time, place or occasion (c) pushing; thrusting; driving; moving forward

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adj. oral (a) uttered through the mouth (c) half-hearted

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(b) unadvisable (d) living both on land and in water

adj. momentary (a) severely simple; unadorned (c) lasting but a short time

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(b) of a bright but delicate yellow (d) assured

(b) small and fat (d) sickening or insipid

adj. raptorial (a) joined together in pairs (b) seizing and devouring living prey (c) characterized by propriety of conduct, speech, manners or dress (d) habitually complaining

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adj. microscopic (a) adapted to or characterized by minute observation (b) clearly visible (c) done in a friendly spirit (d) habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance

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adj. hypodermic (a) gloomy (c) oily

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(b) pertaining to the area under the skin (d) hard to please

adj. noisome (a) very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell (b) having six feet (c) forbidding; disallowing; enjoining; preventing; hindering; preclusive (d) not to be approved, considered or allowed, as testimony

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n. duckling (a) one who lives by robbery and plunder (c) sorrow for another's misery

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(b) apathy (d) a young bird

n. plenitude (a) flow (b) abundance (c) quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land (d) pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons

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n. presentiment (a) the female of the deer (b) foreboding (c) a word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another (d) person who subjects another person to distress

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n. overtone (a) a harmonic (b) one of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins (c) the office or dignity of a minor judicial officer who has limited jurisdiction in criminal cases (d) a dictionary

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n. translucence (a) the property or state of allowing the passage of light (b) a protective covering made of a strong material (c) a luminous phenomenon in the upper regions of the atmosphere (d) a list, in the order of succession, of ancestors and their descendants

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n. vale (a) a member of a degraded class; a social outcast (b) the term during which a thing is held (c) level or low land between hills (d) commerce unrestricted by tariff or customs

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n. brazier (a) a subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy (b) a land-measurer (c) an open pan or basin for holding live coals (d) the form of lyric poetry anciently intended to be sung

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n. facet (a) one of the small triangular plane surfaces of a diamond or other gem (b) the state of being in active resistance to authority (c) a body of troops consisting of two or more regiments (d) the beginning

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n. complaisance (a) politeness (b) a superficial amateur (c) person who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose (d) a lever for the foot usually applied only to musical instruments, cycles and other machines

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n. anemia (a) a work, original in character, afterward imitated in form or spirit (b) the making of dictionaries (c) deficiency of blood or red corpuscles (d) reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed

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v. gesticulate (a) to bring together into a crowd (b) to make movements of the body, as in speaking or in place of speech (c) to place close together (d) to pass title to

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v. mutilate (a) to recognize; to admit the genuineness or validity of (b) to plunder (c) to subject to the action of smoke or fumes, especially for disinfection (d) to disfigure

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v. discountenance (a) to strip, specifically of clothes, ornaments or accouterments or disinvestment (b) to take in a wrong sense; to interpret incorrectly (c) to utter with a shout (d) to look upon with disfavor

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v. confide (a) to set or implant deeply and firmly (b) to drink in or suck up (c) to reveal in trust (d) to expurgate in editing (a literary composition) by omitting words or passages

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v. hypnotize (a) to produce a somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestions (b) to render virtuous (c) to drive or urge forward (d) to confine within bounds

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v. awaken (a) in cookery, to surround with additions for embellishment (b) to ascertain by mathematical calculation (c) to disfigure (d) to arouse, as emotion, interest or the like

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v. irritate (a) to walk about (c) to certify as accurate, genuine or true

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(b) to excite ill temper or impatience in (d) to be the ground or support of

v. tempt (a) to yield (b) to offer to (somebody) an inducement to do wrong (c) to involve in dissension or strife (d) to foreordain

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v. preclude (a) to produce a somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestions (b) to hasten the movement or progress of (c) to prevent; to eliminate; to remove; to make impossible (d) to lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring or other destructive methods

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v. reproduce (a) to move with a circling or winding motion (c) to hold in higher estimation

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v. belittle (a) to disparage (b) to cause to become the subject-matter of a suit at law (c) to make desolate with loneliness and grief (d) to make amends for

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n. quackery (a) charlatanry (b) the act of bending (c) the quality of frankness or outspokenness (d) the art or science of extracting any solid mineral element (such as gold, silver, copper, etc.) l from ores, as by smelting

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n. gravity (a) a thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting (b) the beginning of that which becomes or is made to be (c) a piece of clothing worn beneath outer clothes (d) seriousness

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n. guinea (a) an English monetary unit (c) person who makes a contribution or present

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(b) one who works in a coal-mine (d) a ripple

adj. tolerable (a) mentioned previously (b) moderately good (c) not disposed to entertain strangers gratuitously (d) apt to induce terror or alarm

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n. futurist (a) an ox (c) slavery

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(b) a person of expectant temperament (d) thorough dislike

adj. orthopedic (a) having the color of blood (b) relating to the correcting or preventing of deformity (c) caring; good-natured; generous; considerate (d) not appropriate, suitable or becoming

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n. hypnotism (a) a record or statement of receipts and expenditures or of business transactions (b) any proceeding designed to ascertain or test character, qualification or the like (c) human skull or representation of a man's skull (d) an artificially induced somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestion

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n. severance (a) denial (b) separation (c) the period of time during which anything lasts (d) opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness

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n. vagabond (a) one who or that which points out (c) a wanderer

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adj. inexpressible (a) can be fixed; mendable; can be corrected (b) unutterable (c) despondent (d) marked by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds

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adj. vincible (a) fallen into decay or partial ruin

(b) incorrect

(c) conquerable

(d) intelligible

adj. finite (a) limited (b) relating to the development and improvement of race (c) having the capacity, quality or ability of receiving, as truths or impressions (d) that can be imagined or conceived in the mind

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adj. ominous (a) pleasant smelling; aromatic

(b) pertaining to the beginning or early times

(c) delivering bad news; foreboding; threatening

(d) effected by divine guidance

adj. implausible (a) ingenuous (b) possessed of unlimited and universal power (c) unconquerable (d) hard to believe; not credible; lacking the appearance of truth

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adj. atrocious (a) outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile or cruel (b) wordy (c) pertaining to or appearing like fat (d) absolute

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n. orthodoxy (a) a grass cultivated for forage and cereal (b) that side or direction toward which the wind blows (c) acceptance of the common faith (d) a foot-covering made of soft leather or buckskin

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adj. clamorous (a) evincing skill, originality or cleverness, as in contrivance or arrangement (b) competent for physical service (c) important, especially as pointing something out (d) urgent in complaint or demand

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adj. relevant (a) pertaining to the breast or thorax (b) bearing upon the matter in hand (c) situated beyond or on the other side of the ocean (d) tending to one point

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adj. trite (a) made commonplace by frequent repetition (b) extra; additional; being more than the usual amount (c) that may be pardoned or forgiven; a forgivable sin (d) something that isn't there

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n. medley (a) a composition of different songs or parts of songs arranged to run as a continuous whole (b) person who possesses great power or sway; person with great authority (c) person who attacks (d) one who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight

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n. lexicography (a) the making of dictionaries

(b) the prevalent way or fashion

(c) cultivation

(d) reduction

n. simile (a) one who or that which conveys from one person or place to another (b) a storyteller (c) a comparison which directs the mind to the representative object itself (d) one who entrusts

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n. sarcophagus (a) a written account of one's life, actions, and character (b) the murder of a parent (c) a natural or artificial layer, bed or thickness of any substance or material (d) a stone coffin or a chest-like tomb

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n. obelisk (a) deification (b) intellectuality (c) a square shaft with pyramidal top, usually monumental or commemorative (d) slight sickness

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n. fishmonger (a) human skull or representation of a man's skull (b) the state of being permanently existing in something (c) person who has a share (d) a certain profession

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n. peddler (a) person who travels from house to house with an assortment of goods for retail (b) evasion (c) a disclosing, discovering or making known of what was before secret, private or unknown (d) concluding performance

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n. longevity (a) person, or organization that produces finished goods from raw materials, especially on a large industrial scale (b) unusually prolonged life (c) vindication (d) a temporary absence of a soldier or sailor by permission of the commanding officer

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n. veneer (a) a fossil reptile (c) flood

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(b) outside show or elegance (d) level or low land between hills

n. levity (a) a lack of seriousness; frivolity; flightiness; silliness (b) a mediator (c) knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world (d) an additional amount added to the usual price

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v. bustle (a) to hurry (c) to precede

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(b) to endow with life or energy (d) to disenchant

v. enrage (a) to bring together or give fixed shape to (c) to infuriate

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(b) to reproach as deserving blame (d) to utter with a loud and vehement voice

v. implicate (a) to communicate or work together (b) to share the sentiments or mental states of another (c) to show or prove to be involved in or concerned (d) to emit or send forth sparks or little flashes of light

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v. degenerate (a) to become worse or inferior (b) to vary in tone, inflection, pitch or other quality of sound (c) to slowly weaken or injure; sabotage; subvert (d) to be an obstacle or to place obstacles in the way of

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v. dissect (a) to cut apart or to pieces (c) to call or summon forth

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(b) to influence controllingly (d) to invent fancifully or falsely

v. disregard (a) to serve as a characteristic example of (c) to take no notice of

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v. understate (a) to hide by pretending something different (c) to treat with sarcasm or derisive wit

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(b) to fail to put strongly enough, as a case (d) to weary by tediousness or dullness

v. imperil (a) to repeat again the principal points of (c) to endanger

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(b) to move or excite (the feelings or thoughts) (d) to cherish reverentially

(b) to deprive attractive properties (d) to shrink, fall in or fail

v. supplicate (a) to beg (c) to come to pass

(b) to deprive of an inheritance (d) to dislike or hate with intensity

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v. repine (a) to reject (c) to indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding

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(b) to give courage to (d) to give a lecture; make a speech; declaim

adj. antediluvian (a) able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations (b) of excellence and splendor (c) of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah (d) being in an initial, early or incomplete stage of development

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n. inundation (a) a state of mind with reference to confidence, courage, zeal and the like (b) the state of being positively uncomfortable (c) the control of a thing, as a commodity, to enable a person to raise its price (d) flood

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n. treachery (a) a person who has little understanding (b) the recovery of what is mortgaged or pledged, by paying the debt (c) violation of allegiance, confidence or plighted faith (d) somebody or something of unequaled excellence

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n. balsam (a) a weight hung on a rod, serving by its oscillation to regulate the rate of a clock (b) a medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing (c) model; pattern (d) a vast indefinite number

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v. theorize (a) to speculate (c) to render flustered or agitated

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(b) to drive out or away (d) to separate

n. lifetime (a) a collection of extracts from the writings of various authors (b) measurement of force (c) sudden invasion (d) period during which something functions or exists

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adj. cohesive (a) of, pertaining to or situated on the abdomen (c) basal

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(b) smaller than usual (d) having the property of consistency

v. ramify (a) to relieve or vindicate from accusation, imputation or blame (b) to divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions (c) to offer to (somebody) an inducement to do wrong (d) to cause to disappear

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adj. incessant (b) religious (d) well-performed; skillful

(a) unceasing (c) uncompromising

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adj. fluential (a) chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree (b) pertaining to streams (c) worthy of respect (d) permissive; tolerant; indulgent; not strict

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adj. non-existent (a) having a tendency to change

(b) characterized by rivalry

(c) having resemblance of sound

(d) something that isn't there

adj. ubiquitous (a) biting or giving to biting

(b) being present everywhere

(c) assured

(d) that which points out

adj. heathenish (a) irreligious

(b) ingenuous

(c) odiously sinful

(d) affecting the sense of smell

adj. providential (a) consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass or sum (b) unsuited to the wearer, place or surroundings (c) fond of drinking (d) effected by divine guidance

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adj. lovable (a) mature for one's age; unusually well-developed (b) characteristic of dwelling in the country (c) intended for general circulation (d) amiable; endearing; sweet

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adv. athwart (a) from side to side (c) blindly

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adj. odious (a) hateful

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(b) into notice or view (d) in the present time or age

(b) joyous

(c) inexplicable

(d) unconstrained

adj. ingenuous (a) having fullness of beautiful form, as a woman, with or without sensuous or sensual quality (b) of or pertaining to an academy, college or university (c) candid, frank or open in character or quality (d) belonging to, situated in or derived from another country

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n. enormity (a) an explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege (b) immensity (c) treachery (d) one who serves on a jury or is sworn in for jury duty in a court of justice

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n. callosity (a) inadequacy (c) the branch of zoology that treats of insects

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(b) the state of being hard and insensible (d) a small or unimportant particular or detail

n. audition (a) determination of the distinctive nature of a disease (b) a projection; act of causing to bulge outward; something that sticks out (c) the recovery of what is mortgaged or pledged, by paying the debt (d) the act or sensation of hearing

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n. opponent (a) measurement of the powers of vision (b) person who supports the other side in a debate, discussion, struggle or sport (c) a non-coherent mixture of sand and clay (d) historian

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n. pedigree (a) prevention; rejection; leaving out; keeping out; shutting out (b) a person's line of ancestors (c) the demanding for the use of money as a loan, a rate of interest beyond what is allowed by law (d) the sun

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n. urgency (a) an interpreter (c) the pressure of necessity

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(b) helpful result (d) ferocity

n. hemorrhoids (a) an officer whose duty it is to estimate and determine taxes (b) tumors composed of enlarged and thickened blood-vessels, at the lower end of the rectum (c) a beggar (d) a physical, mental or moral weakness or flaw

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n. consignee (a) the state of being icy (b) a person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted (c) a place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified (d) the right or privilege of voting

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n. formula (a) set way of saying or doing something (c) sophistication; worldliness

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(b) land along the edge of a body of water (d) a base coward

n. advocate (a) the obstruction of a heavenly body by its entering into the shadow of another body (b) one who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court (c) a salt of acetic acid (d) savageness

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v. adhere (a) to misappropriate secretly (c) to communicate or work together

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(b) to pollute (d) to stick fast or together

v. humiliate (a) to weary by tediousness or dullness (b) to put to shame (c) to change into a sour tasting solution that dissolves metals and other materials (d) to compose or issue short books

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v. annex (a) to enter in a book or on a list, roll or document by writing (b) to behead (c) to cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts (d) to add or affix at the end

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v. demolish (a) to introduce or strive to introduce new things (b) to annihilate; to destroy; to ruin; to tear down (c) to go about with a small stock of goods to sell (d) to diminish the gravity or importance of

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v. upheave (a) to raise or lift with effort (c) to heap approach or abuse upon

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(b) to debilitate (d) to happen to or befall

v. overdo (a) to overtax the strength of (b) to smear over, as with something oily or sticky (c) to reject (d) to destroy thoroughly

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n. socialism (a) person who is lawfully deputized to administer the government for the time being in the name of the ruler (b) a privilege or possession into which one is born (c) a theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society (d) separation of relations or interests

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v. acclaim (b) to survive longer (d) to cut off

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v. augment (a) to examine minutely or critically (c) to make bigger

(b) to foil or frustrate (d) to pour forth

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n. platitude (a) the act or practice of bringing from one country into another (b) the poisonous fluid that certain animals secrete (c) a loose robe, fastening with a sash, the principal outer garment in Japan (d) a written or spoken statement that is flat, dull or commonplace

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n. alluvion (a) a token of remembrance

(b) flood

(c) the prevalent way or fashion

(d) the state of being attached or joined

n. qualification (a) a requisite for an employment, position, right or privilege (b) the assertion of the opposite of that which has been said (c) the part of a nation's territory that abuts upon another country (d) an imaginary belt encircling the heavens within which are the larger planets

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v. dismount (a) to fail to put strongly enough, as a case (b) to throw down, push off or remove otherwise from a horse or the like (c) to write over again (something already written) (d) to diminish the gravity or importance of

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n. mongrel (a) the dead body of an animal (b) a young swan (c) estrangement (d) the progeny resulting from the crossing of different breeds or varieties

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v. enkindle (a) to make a demand or repeated demands on for payment (b) to relapse into a state of repose and tranquillity (c) to convert into a substance of stony hardness and character (d) to set on fire

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adj. preferable (a) having the nature or quality of soap (c) worn and gaunt in appearance

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(b) more desirable than others (d) harsh

adj. appropriate (a) suitable for the purpose and circumstances (b) passing naturally from parent to child (c) inherent (d) outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile or cruel

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v. hoard (a) to divide (b) to rule with insolence or unnecessary annoyance (c) to gather and store away for the sake of accumulation (d) to make milder or more endurable

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adj. rapacious (a) needlessly free or lavish in expenditure (b) disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods (c) loud enough to be heard (d) worthy of respect

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adj. memorable (a) easy to manage (b) fitted to serve as a model or example worthy of imitation (c) able to be improved; able to be refined (d) noteworthy

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adj. munificent (a) extraordinarily generous (b) anticipating and making ready for future wants or emergencies (c) deserving of censure (d) admitting the entrance or passage of another substance

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adj. exemplary (a) deceptive (b) tending to produce sleep (c) fitted to serve as a model or example worthy of imitation (d) illegal

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adj. insufficient (a) inadequate for some need, purpose or use (b) of undisputed origin (c) caused by or denoting a diseased or unsound condition of body or mind (d) disdainful

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adj. fanciless (a) unimaginative (b) ridiculously or unjustly excessive (c) daily (d) hard to believe; not credible; lacking the appearance of truth

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adj. herbaceous (a) unusually weighty or forcible (b) representing articulate sounds or speech (c) describes plants or plant parts that are fleshy and wither after each growing season (d) beyond the mountains, especially beyond the Alps (that is, on their Italian side)

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n. pentagram (a) security for payment or performance (b) one who exerts oneself in opposition or rivalry (c) a full set of armor (d) a figure having five points or lobes

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adj. listless (a) occurring or acting together (c) inattentive

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(b) cruel (d) plentiful

adj. thermal (a) open to bribery (c) of or pertaining to heat

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(b) initial (d) designed for gradual destruction

adj. inimical (a) adverse (c) evil

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n. modernity (a) newness (b) the act planning, devising, inventing or adapting something to or for a special purpose (c) the violation of official duty, lawful right or a legal obligation (d) a 20th-century revival of interest in the worship of nature, fertility, etc., as represented by various deities

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n. ailment (a) slight sickness (b) that which makes a thing to be what it is (c) Indian corn: usually in the United States called simply corn (d) the registry of judgments of a court

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n. arrangement (a) interval of rest (b) a horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave (c) the act of putting in proper order or the state of being put in order (d) self-government

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n. extensor (a) a vest (c) a muscle that causes extension

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(b) unyielding adherence (d) a great Hindu prince

n. photometer (a) intensity of passion or affection (b) a book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists (c) anything that severely tests courage, strength, patience, conscience, etc (d) any instrument for measuring the intensity of light or comparing the intensity of two lights

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n. preeminence (a) an agreeable odor (b) importance; significance; superiority; supremacy; distinctiveness (c) the presiding officer of a meeting (d) readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work

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n. botany (a) one who practices the art of foretelling the future by means of communication with the dead (b) person who makes dictionaries (c) sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone (d) the science that treats of plants

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n. qualm (a) a fit of nausea (b) poetry (c) any physical disease or disorder, especially a chronic or deep-seated one (d) roundness

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n. malefactor (a) government administered by new or untried persons (b) a seceder (c) avarice (d) one who injures another

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n. nucleus (a) the whole range or sequence (b) the art or practice of flying aircraft (c) a central point or part about which matter is aggregated (d) an opposer

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v. predict (a) to pick or sort out from the rest (b) to foretell (c) to represent beforehand in outline or by emblem (d) to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence

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v. embezzle (a) to misappropriate secretly (b) to drink or take in (c) to make drunk (d) to happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals

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v. irradiate (a) to render clear and intelligible (b) to praise in the highest terms (c) to use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention (d) to bring or hold under any overmastering influence

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v. scuttle (a) to award or bestow by formal decision (b) to delay or put off to some other time (c) to conduct or behave (oneself) (d) to sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom

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v. reestablish (a) to trespass upon (b) to move faster (c) to abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned (d) to set up again; to found anew

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v. overthrow (a) to vanquish an established ruler or government (b) to go too far; skip (c) to dispossess pursuant to judicial decree (d) to smear over, as with something oily or sticky

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v. adumbrate (a) to give by will (b) to recall the knowledge of (c) to deem worthy of notice or account (d) to represent beforehand in outline or by emblem

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v. juxtapose (a) to place close together (b) to crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame (c) to free from sin or its penalties (d) to avoid by artifice

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v. aver (a) to spend sparingly

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(b) to make more easy

(c) to assert as a fact

(d) to produce

v. deign (a) to have knowledge of or receive impressions concerning, through the medium of the body senses (b) to deem worthy of notice or account (c) to bring out more clearly the facts concerning (d) to assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court

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n. bigamist (a) relative proportion and harmony (c) ability to sway the will of another

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(b) person who has two spouses at the same time (d) a schoolmaster

v. abase (a) to prove to be true, exact or accurate (b) to lower in position, estimation or the like; to degrade (c) to shut out purposely or forcibly (d) to discern

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v. countercharge (b) to turn away or aside (d) to make whole; to make perfect

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adj. indestructible (a) not easily roused to feeling or action (b) deceiving or tending to deceive, as by false appearance (c) taking notice (d) that can not be destroyed

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adj. hoarse (a) having the voice harsh or rough, as from a cold or fatigue (b) abandoned to vice (c) hard to please (d) animal

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v. accustom (a) to modify the details of (c) to put something in a wrong position

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(b) to make familiar by use (d) to designate as a candidate for any office

adj. reminiscent (a) hurtful, morally or physically (b) pertaining to the recollection of matters of personal interest (c) calm (d) ultimate

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adj. ill-natured (a) shameful (b) surly (c) marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner (d) unsusceptible to outside ideas or influences; unfathomable; inscrutable

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adj. anonymous (a) that can not be heard (c) primitive; unsophisticated

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(b) interfering with comfort or progress (d) of unknown authorship

n. quandary (a) a salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer (b) a puzzling predicament (c) a person of expectant temperament (d) a deep gorge or hollow, especially one worn by a stream or flow of water

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adj. tenacious (a) taxable (b) unyielding (c) mental; rational; brilliant; academic (d) of a warlike or combative disposition or tendency

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adj. curt (a) mutually interchangeable or convertible (b) smooth and pleasant in manner (c) concise, compressed and abrupt in act or expression (d) characterized by lust or lasciviousness

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adj. extinct (a) tremendous (c) characterized by outward form or ceremony

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(b) rebellious (d) being no longer in existence

adj. partible (a) having an exact signification or positive meaning (b) religious (c) separable; divisible; severable; cleavable (d) difficult to accomplish

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adj. hereditary (a) coming into view (c) characterized by quivering or unsteadiness

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(b) passing naturally from parent to child (d) perceptible by sight

adj. inhuman (a) characteristic of dwelling in the country (b) exhibiting changing rainbow-colors due to the interference of the light (c) reddish-brown, said usually of the hair (d) savage

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adj. rotund (a) round from fullness or plumpness (b) conspicuous in position, character or importance (c) clumsy (d) given to severe self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion

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adj. indiscriminate (a) promiscuous (b) pertaining to charity (c) having the character or the spirit of a savage (d) wandering

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adj. reactionary (a) resistant to progress; aspiring to return to a previous state or condition (b) outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile or cruel (c) having a tendency to conceal (d) edible

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adj. prerogative (a) loud enough to be heard (c) assuming too much

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n. paradox (a) any large body of water studded with islands or the islands collectively themselves (b) a statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief (c) sadness; low spirits (d) level or low land between hills

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n. queue (a) the process by which an animal or plant gives rise to another of its kind (b) a file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance (c) a state of suspension or temporary inaction (d) the place where Christ was crucified

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n. intension (a) the act of stringing or stretching or state of being strained (b) a legislator (c) an acute epidemic disease (d) confinement

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n. ingenuity (a) cleverness in contriving, combining or originating (b) political and social system of medieval Europe (c) one who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight (d) an impetus

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n. beneficiary (a) the killing of a king or sovereign (b) a member of a regiment composed of men of great stature (c) one who is lawfully entitled to the profits and proceeds of an estate or property (d) wanton and malicious mischief

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n. physics (a) the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy (b) one versed or skilled in treating diseases of the eye (c) the power of springing back to a former position (d) outline of a subject, course, lecture or treatise

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n. liner (a) a dead body (b) airplane or ship which is run by a transportation company; eye pencil (c) nonsense (d) sorrow for another's misery

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n. synchronism (a) a tracer of pedigrees (b) one having a taste for or interest in special objects (c) simultaneousness (d) contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value

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v. magnetize (a) to deny (b) to mesmerize; to fascinate; to rivet; to spellbind (c) to render intelligible (d) to make positive assertions without supporting them by argument or evidence

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n. protocol (a) a body of soldiers (b) extravagance or enormity (c) a declaration or memorandum of agreement less solemn and formal than a treaty (d) induction or elevation, as to dignity, office or government

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v. mislay (a) to continue striving in spite of discouragements (b) to accidentally place an object where it cannot be found; to arrange incorrectly (c) to spend sparingly (d) to exist; live; stay alive

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v. recant (a) to involve in dissension or strife (b) to train to obedience (c) to soothe by quieting anger or indignation (d) to withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained)

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v. fortify (a) to equip with less than the full complement of men (b) to provide with defensive works (c) to implore (d) to turn inside out, upside down or in opposite direction

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v. cite (a) to indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding (c) to play at courtship with a woman

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(b) to accomplish what is attempted or intended (d) to refer to specifically

v. maneuver (a) to regard with worshipful veneration (b) to provide with defensive works (c) to deny oneself (d) to make adroit or artful moves: manage affairs by strategy

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v. inhume (a) to rule with insolence or unnecessary annoyance (b) to place in the earth, as a dead body (c) to walk about (d) to misrepresent

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v. endanger (a) to collect into a mass (c) to vanish gradually

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(b) to expose to peril (d) to divide

v. quadruple (a) to gather and store away for the sake of accumulation (b) to waste away in flesh (c) to strip, specifically of clothes, ornaments or accouterments or disinvestment (d) to multiply by four

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v. remonstrate (a) to involve in difficulties, confusion or complications (b) to infuriate (c) to present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong (d) to hold to the fulfillment of duty

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v. relinquish (a) to cover or pave, as a path or roadway, with small broken stone (b) to give a signal to by nod or gesture (c) to come down voluntarily to equal terms with inferiors (d) to give up using or having

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n. overproduction (a) the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing (b) a situation where the supply of products exceeds demand (c) moral fitness (d) deepness

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n. sylph (a) person who is attached to the army or navy, but having duties other than that of fighting (b) an officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country (c) the obstruction of a heavenly body by its entering into the shadow of another body (d) a slender, graceful young woman or girl

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v. fabricate (a) to soothe (b) to invent fancifully or falsely (c) to free from deception, as by apprising of the real state of affairs (d) to set free from bondage

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adj. comical (a) funny (c) changeable

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(b) cheap, unwilling to spend money (d) pertaining to the heart

n. brogue (a) the act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination or product (b) any dialectic pronunciation of English, especially that of the Irish people (c) the act of sending through or across (d) a decree or an order forbidding something

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n. infirmary (a) a place for the reception or treatment of the sick (b) a model, pattern or original to be copied or imitated (c) inflexibility (d) the fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime, offense, misfortune, etc.

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n. streamlet (a) an associate in wrong-doing (b) a subordinate (c) an article presenting the opinion of the publishers (d) rivulet

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n. metronome (a) a castle or manor-house (b) a number of states or persons in compact or league with each other, as for mutual aid (c) person who loves books (d) an instrument for indicating and marking exact time in music

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adj. hybrid (a) lacking friendliness or warmth; inhuman; detached (b) chewing the cud (c) enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity (d) cross-bred

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n. version (a) a description or report of something as modified by one's character or opinion (b) a statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief (c) a boat-song of Venetian gondoliers (d) the act of observing and analyzing one's own thoughts and feelings

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adj. agrarian (a) burning with passion (b) indifferent or opposed to religion (c) eating or living upon food of all kinds indiscriminately (d) pertaining to farmers and farming

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adj. conjugal (a) habitually disposed to speak the truth (b) hurtful (c) compassionate (d) pertaining to marriage, marital rights or married persons

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adj. eloquent (a) having the ability to express emotion or feeling in lofty and impassioned speech (b) having equal or equivalent value, effect or import (c) of or pertaining to hearing or the organs or sense of hearing (d) displaying impatience

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adj. hexangular (a) having sufficient funds to pay all debts (c) affected or possessed with self-distrust

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(b) open to bribery (d) having six angles

adj. covert (a) concealed, especially for an evil purpose (b) heedless (c) blameless (d) conspicuous in position, character or importance

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adj. playful (a) half-hearted (b) having a ready or easy flow of words or ideas (c) that may be read with ease (d) frolicsome

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adj. importunate (a) peculiar to some specified country or people (b) having the sanction of law or established custom (c) urgent in character, request or demand (d) formidable

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adj. militant (a) relaxed (b) capable of being or fit to be accepted — often money (c) of a warlike or combative disposition or tendency (d) wishing evil to others

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adj. sacrilegious (a) that can not be lessened (b) supernatural (c) impious (d) belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind

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adj. peremptory (a) that desires or craves immoderately or unappeasably (b) returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals (c) precluding question or appeal (d) relative

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n. autarchy (a) unrestricted power

(b) papyrus

(c) an elementary reading-book for children

(d) a darting momentary local pain

n. expulsion (a) a condition of perfect agreement and accord (b) forcible ejection (c) anything that presents a system of cross lines (d) a man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high station

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n. havoc (a) nervous uncertainty of feeling (b) slight sickness (c) devastation (d) a work, original in character, afterward imitated in form or spirit

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n. planisphere (a) a response or alteration of responses, generally musical (b) a morbid condition, due to obstructed excretion of bile or characterized by yellowing of the skin (c) customary relation or association (d) a polar projection of the heavens on a chart

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n. domicile (a) a critical judge of art, especially one with thorough knowledge and sound judgment of art (b) entrance (c) the place where one lives (d) a companion or associate

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n. theorist (a) insanity (c) a greenhouse for grapes

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(b) person who tends to speculate (d) sourness, with bitterness and astringency

n. retention (a) a great fire, as of many buildings, a forest or the like (b) the keeping of a thing within one's power or possession (c) a person who makes garments using animal hair (d) the highest point, as of a mountain

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n. semicircle (a) a tirade (b) extensive knowledge of literature, history, language, etc (c) a studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt (d) a curved or crescent-shaped line of things or people

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v. prattle (a) to present in an orderly manner (b) to utter in simple or childish talk (c) to perform ceremony; perform duty; serve as officiator; referee (Sports) (d) to make less burdensome or less hard to bear

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n. animadversion (a) an exact copy or reproduction (b) the utterance of criticism or censure (c) the cultivation of trees or shrubs (d) any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages

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v. confront (a) to have weight or influence (in determining a question) (b) to confiscate (c) to encounter, as difficulties or obstacles (d) to regard or speak of slightingly

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v. wreak (a) to mumble something over and over (b) to calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; to mitigate (c) to sabase; defile; dirty; sully (d) to inflict, as a revenge or punishment

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v. specialize (a) to disentangle (b) to devote oneself to a particular profession or field of study (c) to break a law (d) to deprive of simplicity of mind or manner

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v. circumnavigate (a) to wear away the surface or some part of by friction (b) to kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person (c) to get as one's own (d) to sail around the world

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v. miscount (a) to become detached (b) to take a different course (c) to make a mathematical error (d) to cause to withdraw or retire, as from society or public life

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v. acquaint (a) to make familiar or conversant (c) to yield

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(b) to cut through or into so as to divide (d) to hold in general opinion

v. misuse (a) to maltreat

(b) to make bright or clear

(c) to mean; to signify

(d) to grow worse

v. dwindle (a) to diminish or become less (b) to be involved; join in (c) to smother (d) to issue or be party to the issue of a policy of insurance

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v. amputate (a) to remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body (b) to influence controllingly (c) to make supremely happy (d) to strike with or as with the head or horns

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v. regress (a) to regain (c) to return to a former place or condition

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n. desistance (a) careful and persevering effort to accomplish what is undertaken (b) cessation (c) a statement of religious faith or duty formulated by a body claiming authority (d) a three-legged stand, usually hinged near the top, for supporting some instrument

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n. grindstone (a) maintenance (b) rapturous excitement or exaltation (c) any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part (d) an abrasive wheel that sharpens or polishes something

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adj. acetic (a) expressing no power of feeling or perceiving (b) of, pertaining to or of the nature of vinegar (c) no longer practiced or accepted (d) sheltering

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v. congeal (a) to turn from the accustomed course or a line of action already established (b) to make sad; discourage (c) to coagulate (d) to attach at the beginning

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n. stature (a) the natural height of an animal body (c) one who makes in imitation

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(b) a measure of length; one-eighth of a mile (d) intensified emotion or action

v. occlude (a) to make indigent or poor (c) to absorb, as a gas by a metal

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(b) to give grief or sorrow to (d) to disfigure

adj. comprehensible (a) that gives warning or information (c) very bright

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(b) watery (d) intelligible

n. gordian knot (a) a remainder or surplus after a part has been separated or otherwise treated (b) person who has the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement (c) any difficulty the only issue out of which is by bold or unusual manners (d) person who works for wages or a salary

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n. dissonance (a) a plot or scheme, usually complicated and intended to accomplish something by secret ways (b) something that causes damage, depreciation or loss (c) the three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune (d) discord

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v. enhance (a) to intensify (b) to make complex, difficult or hard to deal with (c) to hold or preserve in any particular state or condition (d) to give a lecture; make a speech; declaim

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adj. nomad (a) of a material nature; physical (c) having no fixed abode

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(b) servilely following another's behests (d) generous in treating or judging others

adj. sidereal (a) threefold (b) easily affected by outside operations or influences (c) pertaining to stars or constellations (d) moving onward quickly and heedlessly

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adj. merciless (a) exercising the will (b) of or pertaining to the ear (c) cruel (d) having an exact signification or positive meaning

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adj. suggestive (a) stimulating to thought or reflection (b) easily under a specified power or influence (c) having excess decoration; showy; flamboyant; flowery or elaborate in literary style (d) pertaining to the throat

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adj. nestling (b) recently hatched (d) resonant

(a) identical in nature, make-up or relation (c) voluntarily Q6

adj. arthurian (a) credulous (b) pertaining to a British King (c) having kindred character or tastes (d) deviating from the normal form or standard type

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adj. enormous (b) inexpressible (d) composite; made up of interconnected parts

(a) indefinitely extensive (c) gigantic Q8

adj. decisive (b) exceedingly small in extent or quantity (d) pertaining to ships

(a) conclusive (c) above price Q9

n. effrontery (a) the enforced isolation of any person or place infected with contagious disease (b) an overthrow, as from the foundation (c) unblushing impudence (d) a person or thing of very remarkable gifts or qualities

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adj. precocious (a) having power to open or loosen the bowels (b) mature for one's age; unusually well-developed (c) fixed or done capriciously (d) recently hatched

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n. gynecology (a) the science that treats of the functions and diseases peculiar to women (b) unrestricted power (c) the presiding officer of a meeting (d) something that begins or expresses beginning

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n. prototype (a) a public declaration, making announcement, explanation or defense of intentions or motives (b) a work, original in character, afterward imitated in form or spirit (c) development or growth (d) a sheet of paper folded once

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n. pollen (a) holiness (b) a sharp, shrill outcry or scream, caused by agony or terror (c) extreme insincerity (d) the fine dust-like grains or powder formed within the anther of a flowering plant

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n. compulsion (a) coercion (b) an acute epidemic disease (c) person who directs affairs with skill and shrewdness (d) a collection of wild animals, especially when kept for exhibition

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n. critique (a) hatred of women (b) a criticism or critical review (c) comprehension; insight (d) loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles

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n. permutation (a) reciprocal change, different ordering of same items (b) an opposer (c) confused, unintelligible speech or highly technical speech (d) a balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air

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n. negligee (a) a noxious or ill-smelling exhalation from decaying or putrefying matter (b) an interval of time, memorable for extraordinary events (c) a loose gown worn by women (d) a front or cutting tooth

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n. populace (a) the place where Christ was crucified (b) one who believes in the theory that man's food should be exclusively vegetable (c) the common people (d) funeral rites

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v. enthuse (a) to yield to or display intense and rapturous feelings (b) to go beyond; to pass; to surpass; to outdo (c) to set or implant deeply and firmly (d) to move with a circling or winding motion

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adj. homogeneous (a) out of the common or regular track (c) lyrical

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(b) made up of similar parts or elements (d) awkward or slow

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v. ossify (a) to occupy completely (c) to bring into a peaceful state

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(b) to convert into bone (d) to extend

v. radiate (a) to extend in all directions, as from a source or focus (b) to compose or issue short books (c) to give up (royal power or the like) (d) to engage in a tilt with lances on horseback

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v. interact (a) to perform the first act or rite (b) to communicate or work together (c) to beat with something thick or bulky (d) to express agreement with a statement or matter of opinion

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v. disengage (a) to go too far; skip (b) to annihilate; to destroy; to ruin; to tear down (c) to become detached (d) to send trough or across

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v. enshrine (a) to keep sacred (c) to dishearten

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(b) to be indignant at, as an injury or insult (d) to reproach as deserving blame

v. disfigure (a) to inflict, as a revenge or punishment (b) to impair or injure the beauty, symmetry or appearance of (c) to be an omen or warning sign of, especially of evil (d) to cause to explode

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v. vivify (a) to endue with life (b) to ridicule (c) to keep oneself back (from doing or using something) (d) to describe, as a sentence, by separating it into its elements and describing each word

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v. emphasize (a) to soothe (b) to be indignant at, as an injury or insult (c) to give new confidence (d) to articulate or enunciate with special impressiveness upon a word or a group of words

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v. generate (a) to enlist men for military or naval service (c) to cause spasms in

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(b) to surpass (d) to produce or cause to be

v. wane (a) to serve as a remembrance of (b) to cause to appear greatly (c) to diminish in size and brilliancy (d) to make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority

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adj. secondary (a) intended for general circulation (b) adapted for grasping or holding (c) less important or effective than that which is primary (d) ashen; colorless; white; faint; weak; sickly

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adv. extempore (a) and so forth (c) ablaze; burning

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(b) immediately (d) without studied or special preparation

n. travesty (a) a grotesque imitation (b) anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning (c) a subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy (d) emancipation

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v. submerge (a) to remunerate (b) to displease (c) to place or plunge under water (d) to wave, shake or flourish triumphantly or defiantly, as a sword or spear

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n. verity (a) sophistication; worldliness (c) a secret agreement for a wrongful purpose

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n. bullock (a) a spiritual advisor (c) an ox

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(b) truth (d) a coming to stopping-place or destination

(b) any sham, pretense or deceptive movement (d) person who lives in retirement or seclusion

n. objector (a) the inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body (b) a small breach of propriety or principle (c) an opposer (d) a narrow street, garden path, walk or the like

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v. deplore (a) to emit or send forth sparks or little flashes of light (b) to make whole; to make perfect (c) to regard with grief or sorrow (d) to add or attach, as something accessory, subordinate or supplementary

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adj. meticulous (a) in working order; valid; influential; important; surgical; efficient (b) of or pertaining to the animal reproductive organs (c) pedantic; cautious concerning minute details; scrupulous (d) conquerable

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v. preponderate (a) to exceed in influence or power (b) to designate by word or mark (c) to cause to be loved (d) to deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate

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adj. mountainous (a) hilly (b) negligent (c) of or pertaining to the ear or the sense of hearing (d) pertaining to or producing loss of sensation

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adj. obnoxious (a) remote from the sea

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(b) conceited

(c) hideous

(d) detestable

adj. able-bodied (a) competent for physical service (b) agreeable (c) pertaining to the art of beautifying, especially the complexion (d) light and quick in motion or action

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adj. metaphysical (a) conspicuously prominent (b) alluring by false or gaudy show (c) philosophical (d) being in an initial, early or incomplete stage of development

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adj. discrepant (a) characterized by craft or cunning (b) unpremeditated (c) opposite (d) resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity or corruption is held up to ridicule

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adj. nude (a) loud enough to be heard (b) pertaining to the south pole or the regions near it (c) naked (d) pertaining to supernatural things or to another life

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n. adulterant (a) a corrupted substance (b) a measure of length; one-eighth of a mile (c) anything that presents a system of cross lines (d) a very wide-angled photographic lens

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adj. transcendent (a) benevolent in feeling, character or aspect (c) derived from authoritative direction

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adj. minute (b) unalterable; unchangeable; final (d) exceedingly small in extent or quantity

(a) becoming raw or sore again (c) monetary Q10

(b) having fine and penetrating discernment (d) surpassing

adj. execrable (a) appealing strongly to the reason or conscience (b) characterized by outward form or ceremony (c) abominable (d) pertaining to flowers

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n. forefather (a) anything unnaturally huge or distorted (b) a shudder; shock; shaking; vibration (c) an ancestor (d) a book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like

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n. omission (b) a recess (d) a crack or crack-like depression

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n. disunion (a) a first appearance in society or on the stage (b) one who attempts to obstruct legislation (c) the faculty of perception or thought (d) separation of relations or interests

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n. spherometer (a) a violent and abnormal muscular contraction of the body (b) risk (c) an instrument used to measure the curvature of a surface (d) a single occurrence or happening of a given kind

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n. iciness (a) the state of being icy (b) the coining or using of new words or new meanings of words (c) an apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights (d) an atmospheric condition of high central pressure with currents flowing outward

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n. species (a) calmness (b) offspring (c) a classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus (d) want of connection or agreement, as of parts or ideas in thought, speech, etc.

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n. academician (a) a public street or road (b) a measure of length; 6 feet (c) a detachment of troops stationed at a distance from the main body to guard against surprise (d) a member of an academy of literature, art or science

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n. vaporizer (a) an atomizer (b) hard coal (c) the habit or characteristic of recurrence at regular intervals (d) a provision made in advance for some possible emergency or danger

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adj. succulent (a) having no fame or reputation (b) operative on, affecting or having reference to past events, transactions or responsibilities (c) juicy (d) impervious to light

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n. fortitude (a) patient courage (b) the sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sounds (c) the act of reciting or repeating, especially in public and from memory (d) a note or designation of honor, officially recognizing superiority or success in studies

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v. replenish (a) to win the mind of by argument, eloquence, evidence or reflection (b) to represent beforehand in outline or by emblem (c) to burst or break asunder (d) to fill again, as something that has been emptied

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v. vitiate (a) to misappropriate secretly

(b) to dignify

(c) to make joyous

(d) to contaminate

v. brandish (a) to cough up and spit forth (b) to move like a wave or in waves (c) to bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin (d) to wave, shake or flourish triumphantly or defiantly, as a sword or spear

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v. embark (a) to make a beginning in some occupation or scheme (b) to force into military service (c) to modify the details of (d) to stick together

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v. disarm (a) to keep a diary (b) to suffer a return of a disease after partial recovery (c) to mislead by or as by falsehood (d) to deprive of weapons

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v. orate (a) to modify the details of (c) to kiss

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(b) to give grief or sorrow to (d) to give a lecture; make a speech; declaim

v. recur (a) to foretell (b) to push out or thrust forth (c) to happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals (d) to spread abroad or from person to person

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v. distrain (a) to postpone; lengthen; continue; maintain; preserve (b) to subject a person to distress (c) to sprinkle or cover with things strewn (d) to accidentally place an object where it cannot be found; to arrange incorrectly

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v. propagate (a) to spread abroad or from person to person (b) to make indigent or poor (c) to to judge the value, degree, or worth of somebody or something to be less than it really is (d) to transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment

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v. check (a) to restore after deterioration, as a building (b) to regain (c) to make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority (d) to hold back

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n. aristocrat (a) a hereditary noble or one nearly connected with nobility (b) a graphic character symbolizing an articulate sound (c) the state of being in active resistance to authority (d) a connoisseur in the delicacies of the table

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adj. incomparable (a) extended widely in space, time or scope (c) that may be allowed

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(b) taking place at the same time (d) matchless

n. philanthropy (a) calmness (b) a gambler (c) that department of government which administers the law (d) active humanitarianism

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adj. hesitant (a) watery (b) ancient; pure; immaculate; unrefined; unpolluted (c) vacillating (d) that can not be altered or varied

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n. syllabus (a) a thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together, to be used in cookery (b) affluence (c) hatred of marriage (d) outline of a subject, course, lecture or treatise

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adj. neolithic (a) tainted (c) of, pertaining to or containing water

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(b) forced (d) pertaining to the later stone age

n. orgies (a) accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowels (b) person who cultivates a delicate taste for eating and drinking (c) wild or wanton revelry (d) power

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n. repugnance (a) something taken with another for the completion of either (b) hasty, careless writing (c) a square shaft with pyramidal top, usually monumental or commemorative (d) thorough dislike

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adj. hale (a) opposing or opposed (c) showing inexperience

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(b) full to the uttermost (d) of sound and vigorous health

adj. prosaic (b) containing only two atoms (d) attractively tall, graceful, and dignified

(a) unimaginative (c) daily

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adj. unconscionable (a) clandestine (c) relative

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(b) ridiculously or unjustly excessive (d) resembling a corpse

adj. bulbous (a) lawful (b) being in essence or effect but not in form or appearance (c) swollen (d) capable of exciting laughter

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adj. natal (a) extended widely in space, time or scope (b) pertaining to one's birth (c) of or pertaining to marriage, especially to the marriage ceremony (d) shameful

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adj. beneficent (a) flushed with red (b) characterized by charity and kindness (c) pleasant smelling; aromatic (d) exempt from error of judgment, as in opinion or statement

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adj. prima (a) well-performed; skillful (c) small in quantity or importance

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(b) first (d) offering or offered as an atonement for sin

adj. unnecessary (a) rich, sweet, and delicious (c) belonging, relating to or abounding in color

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adj. accurate (a) tending to cause delay (c) conforming exactly to truth or to a standard

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(b) characteristic of the devil (d) vacillating

adj. interminable (a) causing annoyance or hindrance (c) fragile

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(b) not essential under the circumstances (d) doubtful

(b) having no limit or end (d) that may or can collapse

adj. gullible (a) unusual (b) credulous (c) veracious (d) engrossed; absorbed; fascinated; charmed; enchanted

Q10 adj. brusque (a) expressing or causing sorrow or pain (c) limited

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(b) somewhat rough or rude in manner or speech (d) pertaining to the act or sense of hearing

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n. polyarchy (a) the egg of a louse or some other insect (b) counterfeiting (c) that which is outside (d) government by several or many persons of whatever class

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n. theocrasy (a) a trifling act, thought, saying or practice (b) a member of an ancient secret fraternity originally confined to skilled artisans (c) the mixed worship of polytheism (d) the meaning conveyed by language, actions or signs

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n. pentathlon (a) playful leaping or frisking (b) something that is of short duration (c) a copy made directly from an original (d) the contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants

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n. importation (a) a title of honor or respectful address, equivalent to sir (b) brilliant or sparkling luster (c) the act or practice of bringing from one country into another (d) an assault, especially of troops, upon an enemy or fortification

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n. illusion (a) an unreal image presented to the senses (b) inflammation of the stomach (c) the culminating-point of prosperity, influence or greatness (d) development or growth

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n. donator (a) a volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste (b) a young deer (c) person who makes a contribution or present (d) one who professes direct divine illumination or relies upon meditation to acquire truth

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v. christen (a) to extend opposite to (b) to name in baptism (c) to wind and turn while proceeding in a course (d) to confiscate

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n. mettle (a) sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper (b) something that has actual and undeniable existence or reality (c) courage (d) something that passes the ordinary, proper or required limit, measure or experience

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n. latency (a) person who manages large amounts of money (privately or corporately) (b) abundance (c) a vehement appeal (d) the state of being dormant

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n. turpitude (a) something that begins or expresses beginning (c) person without regard for law or life

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(b) hades (d) depravity

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 231

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v. invigorate (a) to inspire with ardent love (c) to turn inside out

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(b) to animate (d) to engage to marry

v. cipher (a) to calculate arithmetically (c) to place in the earth, as a dead body

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(b) to seek ultimate causes and principles (d) to give the authority of law to

v. immortalize (a) to be imminent (b) to withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body (c) to lower in character or virtue (d) to cause to last or to be known or remembered throughout a great or indefinite length of time

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v. henpeck (a) to vanish gradually (b) to relinquish, especially temporarily, as a right or claim (c) to worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances (d) to represent by sketch or diagram

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v. vie (a) to contend (c) to sow or scatter abroad, as seed is sown

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(b) to reveal in trust (d) to show by example

v. innovate (a) to dislike or hate with intensity (b) to adjust cozily in snug quarters (c) to rescind (d) to introduce or strive to introduce new things

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v. overpass (a) to bridge (b) to cause to loathe (c) to appear or act in the character of (d) to tell or make known, as something previously private or secret

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v. sequester (a) to agree (b) to take no notice of (c) to praise in the highest terms (d) to cause to withdraw or retire, as from society or public life

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v. begrudge (a) to strip, specifically of clothes, ornaments or accouterments or disinvestment (b) to cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison (c) to envy one of the possession of (d) to bestow

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v. discriminate (a) to accord in sound, especially vowel sound (b) to obstruct (c) to enlist men for military or naval service (d) to separate, to distinguish; to treat differently; to show partiality

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n. prehension (a) something that annoys, vexes or irritates (b) ill will; spitefulness (c) the act of laying hold of or grasping (d) the branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man

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n. elegy (a) a lyric poem lamenting the dead

(b) truthfulness

(c) plant-life in the aggregate

(d) a grain or seed

n. violoncello (a) the branch of medical science that relates to improving health (b) a woman's or boy's voice of high range (c) a stringed instrument held between the player's knees (d) information spread in order to promote a particular goal

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n. inefficiency (a) a premise, starting-point or given fact (b) something that does not accomplish an intended purpose; incompetency; incapability (c) the act of laying hold of or grasping (d) an acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act

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n. donor (a) the sharp striking of one body against another (b) person who makes a contribution or present (c) a narrow strip of wood (d) power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas

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n. vulgarity (a) person who is chosen or appointed, by mutual consent of parties in dispute, to decide matters (b) lack of refinement in conduct or speech (c) a servile favorite (d) a complete thing

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adj. hexapod (a) moving or advancing by steps (b) connected, extended or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence (c) having six feet (d) pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone

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n. ambush (a) the act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy (b) the chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and Anglican church (c) the quality of producing vexation (d) person who travels from house to house with an assortment of goods for retail

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n. gauge (a) shortness of duration (b) the constitutional right in a chief executive of refusing to approve an enactment (c) an instrument for measuring (d) the surrender by a government of a person accused of crime to the justice of another government

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n. demeanor (a) absence or utter disregard of government (c) ability to produce the desired result

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adj. incandescent (a) urgent in complaint or demand (c) verbose

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(b) not genuine (d) white or glowing with heat

adj. foreign (a) melancholy (b) belonging to, situated in or derived from another country (c) capable of being adjusted or harmonized (d) powerless

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adj. reflexible (b) a temporary discontinuance (d) helping or serving to disconnect or separate

(a) fond of drinking (c) capable of being reflected Q4

adj. profuse (a) pertaining to punishment (b) grand; splendid; majestic; superb; glorious; impressive (c) self-governing (d) produced or displayed in overabundance

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adj. effective (b) fit for a destined purpose (d) surreptitious

(a) basal (c) difficult to follow or understand Q6

adj. consanguineous (a) unfavorably known to the general public (b) easily affected by outside operations or influences (c) such as can not be made plain (d) descended from the same parent or ancestor

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adj. toilsome (a) laborious (c) speaking several tongues

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(b) foolishly and tearfully affectionate (d) wealthy

adj. stingy (a) composed of or pertaining to three related things or parts (b) urgent in character, request or demand (c) moving or advancing by steps (d) cheap, unwilling to spend money

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adj. ulterior (a) not to be justified (b) pertaining to the act or sense of hearing (c) eating or living on flesh (d) not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of

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adj. nuptial (a) affecting the sense of taste (b) affected or possessed with self-distrust (c) cone-bearing trees (d) of or pertaining to marriage, especially to the marriage ceremony

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n. regicide (a) the character &; the logical conjunction 'AND' (b) consistency (c) a composition for two voices or instruments (d) the killing of a king or sovereign

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n. antipodes (a) a place or region on the opposite side of the earth (b) silence; noiselessness; stillness; tranquility; muteness; speechlessness; peacefulness; calmness (c) chivalry (d) the act of persuading

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n. abbess (a) the lady superior of a nunnery (c) diversion

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(b) a prophet (d) insolent disrespect

n. perigee (a) uncertainty (b) a ruler acting with royal authority in place of the sovereign in a colony or province (c) the point in the orbit of the moon when it is nearest the earth (d) well-being

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n. acknowledgment (a) any state of great happiness (c) rivulet

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(b) a constituent element or part (d) recognition

n. poise (a) the condition resulting from one's dying not having made a valid will (b) a humorous play in dialog and music that consists of more than one act (c) amends, reparation or expiation made from wrong or injury (d) equilibrium

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n. assessor (a) an officer whose duty it is to estimate and determine taxes (b) the branch of medical science concerned with the treatment and care of women during pregnancy (c) examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness (d) a round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton

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n. inlet (a) a small body of water leading into a larger (c) looks or acts expressing amused contempt

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(b) temporary diminution of a disease (d) absolute government

v. bask (a) to talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity (b) to recover (c) to turn aside from the main subject and for a time dwell on some incidental matter (d) to make warm by genial heat

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n. psychiatry (a) the branch of medicine that relates to mental disease (b) the unreasonable pursuit of one idea (c) somebody or something that is substituted for or appointed to act in place of another (d) the killing, especially the murdering, of one's mother

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v. disquiet (a) to deprive of peace or tranquillity (b) to move or incite to action (c) to appropriate (private property) as forfeited to the public use or treasury (d) to cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison

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v. counteract (a) to contaminate

(b) to work against; cancel out; negate

(c) to force forward prematurely

(d) to imitate with intent to equal or surpass

v. gnash (a) to be astonished and perplexed because of (something) (b) to grind or strike the teeth together, as from rage (c) to relieve, as from pain or hardship (d) to bring to pass

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v. pall (a) to overcome by force of will (b) to clear away or provide for, as an objection or difficulty (c) to place the products or merchandise of under a ban (d) to make dull by satiety

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v. baffle (a) to foil or frustrate (b) to separate, to distinguish; to treat differently; to show partiality (c) to give a salary that is too high (d) to stick fast or together

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v. agglomerate (a) to find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible (b) to act or give judgment as umpire (c) to pile or heap together (d) to invent fancifully or falsely

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adj. sociable (a) pertaining to a chief city (c) inclined to seek company

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(b) magnificent (d) agreeable

v. perform (a) to accomplish (b) to lower in position, estimation or the like; to degrade (c) to hold or preserve in any particular state or condition (d) to speak evil of, especially to do so falsely and severely

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v. deride (a) to surrender (b) to give a signal to by nod or gesture (c) to mix and work into a homogeneous mass, especially with the hands (d) to ridicule

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v. reiterate (a) to place or plunge under water (b) to say or do again and again (c) to put in some relation of connection or correspondence (d) to soothe by quieting anger or indignation

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v. forejudge (a) determine beforehand before hearing evidence

(b) to make gentle or refined

(c) to imitate with intent to equal or surpass

(d) to render of no force or effect

n. exhaustion (a) royalty (b) the knowledge relating to industries and manufactures (c) the coining or using of new words or new meanings of words (d) deprivation of strength or energy

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n. panel (a) a rectangular piece set in or as in a frame (b) a very brief portion of time (c) ridicule (d) that by which a number or quantity is divided

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v. foresee (a) to twist into a misshapen form (b) to discern beforehand (c) to demand or to obtain the return or restoration of (d) to change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action or by a ferment

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adj. parisian (a) religious (b) of or pertaining to the capital of France (c) habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance (d) inclined to seek company

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adj. endurable (a) tolerable

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(b) ultimate

(c) incipient

adj. counterfeit (a) producing offspring or fruit (c) a full and formal style of utterance

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(d) cognizable

(b) made to resemble something else (d) marked by great plentifulness

n. hexagon (a) a figure with six angles (b) a place or structure dangerous to life; a mechanical device for catching trespassers and poachers (c) excessive fatness (d) an important event or celebration

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v. ruminate (a) to correct (b) to chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated (c) to satisfy fully the appetite or desire of (d) to leave suddenly or unexpectedly

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n. necessity (a) internal parts of an animal (b) that which is indispensably requisite to an end desired (c) an official examiner of manuscripts empowered to prohibit their publication (d) delight

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adj. vituperable (a) deserving of censure (c) sticky

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(b) done in a friendly spirit (d) irascible

adj. laudable (a) praiseworthy (b) annoying; worrying; difficult; full of distress (c) being in essence or effect but not in form or appearance (d) easily deceived

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adj. bibulous (a) gloomy (b) happening out of court (c) pertaining to the combined action of light and electricity (d) fond of drinking

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adj. separable (a) possessing strength (b) pertaining to or designating bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium (c) capable of being disjoined or divided (d) having a tendency to conceal

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adj. sequent (a) commonplace (c) pale

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(b) not allowed; forbidden (d) following in the order of time

adj. tipsy (a) being in essence or effect but not in form or appearance (b) perfidious (c) one who advocates reconstruction of society by collective ownership of land and capital (d) befuddled with drinks

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adj. reconcilable (a) accidental; by chance (c) capable of being adjusted or harmonized

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adj. dissentious (a) that can not be refuted or disproved (c) pertaining to horses or horsemanship

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(b) having the power of choice (d) interchangeable

(b) having confidence (d) contentious

adj. tortuous (a) befuddled with drinks (c) abounding in irregular bends or turns

(b) giving or radiating light (d) not fit or suitable

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n. monogamy (a) hard coal (b) the habit of pairing or having but one mate (c) a light romantic story, especially one that is considered trite or sentimental (d) person who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method

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n. reluctance (b) hot winds from Africa (d) unwillingness

(a) the face, countenance or look of a person (c) disagreement Q3

n. midwife (a) the science of organic functions (b) a woman who makes a business of assisting at childbirth (c) simultaneousness (d) interruption or intermission

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n. material (a) that of which anything is composed or may be constructed (b) possession of eminently or unusually good qualities (c) one who takes part in forcible opposition to the constituted authorities of a place (d) that which causes gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration

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n. triumvir (a) one of three men united coordinately in public office or authority (b) madhouse; uproar (c) largeness (d) a trawl for trapping fish or small game; method by which someone or something is found or caught

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n. epigram (a) remorseful feeling (b) an ornamental molding running round the walls of a room close to the ceiling (c) a dwelling-place occupied in common by persons under religious vows of seclusion (d) a pithy phrasing of a shrewd observation

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n. emporium (a) a large package prepared for transportation or storage (b) a bazaar or shop (c) the support on or against which a lever rests or the point about which it turns (d) an artificially induced somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestion

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n. working-man (a) one who earns his bread by physical labor (b) respectful submission or yielding, as to another's opinion, wishes or judgment (c) the sameness or monotony of utterance (d) the person to whom anything is pledged

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n. gourmand (a) person who delivers an elaborate or formal speech (b) a connoisseur in the delicacies of the table (c) a guilty person (d) the branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms

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n. coercion (a) forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical (b) one who calculates insurance risks and premiums according to statistical probabilities (c) the art of examining objects with the microscope (d) any position having emoluments with few or no duties

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v. emigrate (a) to go from one country, state or region for the purpose of settling or residing in another (b) to disenchant (c) to deprive of any right privilege or power (d) to work against; cancel out; negate

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v. reorganize (a) to rearrange

(b) to encircle

(c) to burn on the surface

(d) to cause to turn away

v. extinguish (a) to beat with something thick or bulky (b) to reduce to ashes (c) to put out; to quench; to totally destroy; to annihilate (d) to make a demand or repeated demands on for payment

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v. rescind (a) to involve; to necessitate (b) to place in a detached state or situation (c) to cause to whirl, as in an eddy (d) to make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority

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v. patronize (a) to combine into one body or system (c) to exercise an arrogant condescension toward

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(b) to set free or release from bondage (d) to refuse to have anything to do with

v. conduce (a) to bring about (b) to endow with life or energy (c) to become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service (d) to attribute

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v. abnegate (a) to imprison (b) to renounce (a right or privilege) (c) to involve in difficulties, confusion or complications (d) to interweave

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v. seduce (a) to belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession or natural relation (b) to oppose by argument or a sufficient answer (c) to swear falsely to (d) to entice to surrender chastity

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v. exhume (a) to dig out of the earth (what has been buried) (b) to make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law (c) to stop while in progress (d) to push out or thrust forth

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v. coagulate (a) to change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action or by a ferment (b) to send trough or across (c) to restore from apparent death (d) to reveal in trust

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adv. aye (a) in no place or state

(b) in or at whatever place

(c) an expression of assent

(d) gradually

adj. noxious (a) disheartened

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(b) hurtful

(c) exceedingly fat

(d) surly

n. prohibitionist (a) one who takes part in a conversation or oral discussion (b) the science of correct thinking (c) a person who supports a legal ban on the sale of alcoholic drinks (USA) (d) hatred of mankind

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adj. unlimited (a) unconstrained (b) of or pertaining to an academy, college or university (c) of the nature of betrayal, treachery or breech of allegiance (d) very dry

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n. dispensation (a) a person who is empowered by another to represent them in a given matter (b) something that is bestowed on or appointed to one from a higher power (c) power to refract (d) a violent issue, especially of passion in an individual

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n. catholicity (a) eruption; explosion (usually of an unpleasant thing) (b) the chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right (c) rare, curious or beautiful quality (d) universal prevalence or acceptance

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n. expediency (a) extreme misery or unhappiness (b) fitness to meet the requirements of a particular case (c) amends, reparation or expiation made from wrong or injury (d) an anthem or other composition sung responsively

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adj. aforesaid (a) animal (b) pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary (c) mentioned previously (d) merry

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v. outstrip (b) to go beyond (d) to look upon with disfavor

(a) to bring to ruin (c) to move or incite to action Q10

n. faction (a) the negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery (b) an alcoholic liquor made of fermented honey and water; any of various nonalcoholic drinks (c) a foreigner who enters a country to settle there (d) a number of persons combined for a common purpose

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adj. termagant (a) violently abusive and quarrelsome

(b) praiseworthy

(c) of or pertaining to the sense of smell

(d) serving or tending to force

adj. involuntary (a) unwilling (b) being not beyond the reach of power natural, moral or supernatural (c) pertaining to a brief explanation to the reader at the beginning of a book (d) cutting, especially into two parts

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adj. epicurean (a) given to constant trivial talking (b) indulging, ministering or pertaining to daintiness of appetite (c) taking notice (d) spherical

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adj. feminine (a) difficult to accomplish (b) characteristic of woman or womankind (c) above price (d) growing, climbing or running without check or restraint

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adj. meager (a) prone to pillaging

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(b) auxiliary

(c) scanty

(d) supernatural

adj. dominant (a) conspicuously prominent (b) admitting the entrance or passage of another substance (c) conquerable (d) not moving

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n. hysteria (a) a nervous affection occurring typically in paroxysms of laughing and crying (b) a receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept (c) the act of moving or going downward (d) dissimilarity in any respect

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adj. replete (b) sharp-cornered (d) implanted by nature

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adj. imperative (a) obligatory (b) according to usual practice (c) having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor (d) naked

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adj. introductory (a) common to all the world (c) lacking pity or sympathy

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n. corps (a) a right or immunity not enjoyed by all or that may be enjoyed only under special conditions (b) a disturbance or violent agitation (c) a number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together (d) one who asserts a right or title to something

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n. euphemism (a) a plot or scheme, usually complicated and intended to accomplish something by secret ways (b) a figure of speech by which a phrase less offensive is substituted (c) the having, holding or detention of property in one's power or command (d) a waiting area

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n. underling (a) a subordinate (c) calmness

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(b) showing increase (d) a ditch on the outside of a fortress wall

n. probation (a) the principles of philosophy as applied to explain the methods of any particular science (b) any proceeding designed to ascertain or test character, qualification or the like (c) an associate in wrong-doing (d) an officer whose duty it is to estimate and determine taxes

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n. submittal (a) a presentation; proposition; offer (b) a muscle that causes extension (c) the branch of zoology that treats of insects (d) the doctrine or belief that there are more gods than one

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n. adhesion (a) importance (b) the state of being attached or joined (c) something taken with another for the completion of either (d) any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught

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n. gosling (a) loyalty

(b) a young goose

(c) the lowest or deepest female voice or part

(d) a bazaar or shop

n. chastity (b) sexual or moral purity (d) temperance

(a) close or confidential friendship (c) any strong fortress Q9

adj. jocose (a) done or made in jest (c) monetary

(b) of or pertaining to the fall (d) having the texture of appearance of wood

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v. contrive (a) to manage or carry through by some device or scheme (b) to release from bondage (c) to plunge or dip entirely under water or other fluid (d) to make the first attack

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v. compensate (a) to remunerate (b) to be in pain or distress (c) to convert into a substance of stony hardness and character (d) to keep clear of

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v. perceive (a) to have knowledge of or receive impressions concerning, through the medium of the body senses (b) to combine into one body or system (c) to lessen the worth of (d) to handle tenderly and lovingly

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v. deceive (a) to mislead by or as by falsehood (c) to envy one of the possession of

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(b) to live sumptuously (d) to render of no further effect

v. superadd (a) to to annex, as something extrinsic (c) to precede

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(b) to ask information about (d) to dislike or hate with intensity

v. resent (a) to be indignant at, as an injury or insult (b) to cause or constitute the beginning or first stage of the existence of (c) to pass or spread through every part (d) to render uniform

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v. collapse (a) to shrink, fall in or fail (b) to disfigure (c) to suffer extremity of hunger or thirst (d) to renew motion or action, as after rest or interruption

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v. inundate (a) to certify; recognize; assign; license (b) to make change in (c) to draw into entanglement, literally or figuratively (d) to fill with an overflowing abundance

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v. revise (a) to make complex, difficult or hard to deal with (b) to demonstrate; to reveal; to display (c) to examine for the correction of errors or for the purpose of making changes (d) to pull or force away by or as by violent twisting or wringing

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v. discard (a) to become greater in quantity or number (c) to form an idea, mental image or thought of

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v. coddle (a) to form into grains or small particles (b) to tell or make known, as something previously private or secret (c) to treat as a baby or an invalid (d) to recognize; to admit the genuineness or validity of

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adj. cursive (a) writing in which the letters are joined together (b) inconsistent with itself (c) siding with a specific group or cause; devoted; zealously supportive; biased (d) free from care

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n. lithotype (a) a person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells (b) in engraving, an etched stone surface for printing (c) modification (d) a sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear

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adj. invariable (a) inexpressible (c) capable of feeling of suffering

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(b) well-balanced (d) unchangeable

v. superheat (a) to surpass in importance or excellence (b) to prove to be true, exact or accurate (c) to make (a liquid) hot under pressure above its boiling point without vaporization (d) to turn within

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v. upturn (a) to throw into confusion (b) to act or give judgment as umpire (c) to be chief in importance, quantity or degree (d) to exclude from public or private favor

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n. physiocracy (a) the doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth (b) the state of being permanently existing in something (c) revision (d) delay

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v. contort (a) to accuse in return (c) to implore

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(b) to twist into a misshapen form (d) to produce by sexual generation

n. modification (a) a change (b) an advocate of the doctrine that nothing either exists or can be known (c) sourness, with bitterness and astringency (d) person from another country; stranger

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adj. precarious (a) pertaining to or producing loss of sensation (c) having no money

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adj. eleemosynary (a) showing inexperience (b) pertaining to charity (c) having a warm appreciation of the beautiful or of the refinements of luxury (d) perceiving or feeling beforehand

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adj. fickle (a) composed of or pertaining to three related things or parts (b) going beyond usual and proper limits (c) unduly changeable in feeling, judgment or purpose (d) rich and costly

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adj. sedulous (a) persevering in effort or endeavor (b) difficult to follow or understand (c) beginning, ending or changing suddenly or with a break (d) relating to, or characteristic of the works of a philosopher an English philosopher and statesman

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adj. unbearable (a) fragrant; releasing a good smell (c) unendurable

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(b) fit to be eaten (d) fatherly

adj. inapprehensible (a) characterized by great strength or power of endurance (b) not to be understood (c) situated beyond or on the other side of the ocean (d) burdensome or oppressive

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adj. litigious (a) separable; divisible; severable; cleavable (b) from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the United States (c) abundant (d) quarrelsome

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adj. canary (a) devoted to feasting or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking (b) a temporary discontinuance (c) of a bright but delicate yellow (d) not separable into parts

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adj. ponderous (a) capable of being melted by heat (c) inconsistent with itself

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(b) averse (d) unusually weighty or forcible

adj. genteel (a) pertaining to the domain over which a sovereign state exercises jurisdiction (b) pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone (c) touching or joining at the edge or boundary (d) well-bred or refined

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adj. reverent (a) common to all the world (c) uttered through the mouth

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n. physique (a) stead (b) the structure of the body; form; build (c) the letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase (d) the act of reversing the order or changing the place of

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n. seance (a) a meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits (b) a personal weakness or failing (c) a mass of rotating or whirling fluid, especially when sucked spirally toward the center (d) space in front of building

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n. avidity (a) the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind (b) a part built or arranged to project beyond a natural outline for support (c) greediness (d) component

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n. conservatory (a) recollection (b) a yawning hollow, as in the earth's surface (c) an alloy or union of mercury with another metal (d) an institution for instruction and training in music and declamation

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n. aberration (a) possession or continuance of being (b) deviation from a right, customary or prescribed course (c) smelling sweet and agreeable (d) fatherhood

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n. frailty (a) a gambler (b) liability to be broken or destroyed (c) concluding performance (d) the writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians and later of the Romans

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n. up-keep (a) an instrumental composition (b) maintenance (c) a dealer in flowers (d) a wealthy class in a political community who control the government by means of their money

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n. submersion (a) the act of sinking until covered completely with water (b) a small shrill trumpet or bugle (c) a criminal or depraved person (d) a homeless, neglected wanderer

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n. protection (a) person who is descended lineally from another, as a child, grandchild, etc (b) preservation from harm, danger, annoyance or any other evil (c) capacity for sensation or sense-perception (d) a forcible putting or keeping down

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n. reaction (a) diligence; industriousness; stubbornness (b) tendency towards a former or opposite state of things, as after reform, revolution or inflation (c) a love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature (d) foreboding

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v. indict (a) to avoid by artifice (c) to excite ill temper or impatience in

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(b) to reconstruct; erect again (d) to find and declare chargeable with crime

v. philander (a) to play at courtship with a woman (b) to signify (c) to make more keen or eager (d) to aid, promote or encourage the commission of (an offense)

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v. moralize (a) to remove the inhabitants from (c) to be opposite in opinion

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(b) to render virtuous (d) to use words of double meaning

v. isolate (a) to separate from others of its kind (c) to soothe by quieting anger or indignation

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v. enjoin (a) to walk for amusement or exercise (c) to give and take mutually

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(b) to command (d) to hold in higher estimation

v. denominate (a) to own (c) to remove the inhabitants from

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(b) to render ineffective or inoperative (d) to make gentle or refined

(b) to give a name or epithet to (d) to play tricks of sleight of hand

v. aggrieve (a) to encircle (b) to give grief or sorrow to (c) to maltreat (d) to extract or produce by vaporization and condensation

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v. intermit (a) to make light by fermentation, as dough (c) to heap approach or abuse upon

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(b) to interfere for some end (d) to cause to cease temporarily

v. invoke (a) to injure the reputation of (b) to call on for assistance or protection (c) to remind oneself (d) to turn inside out, upside down or in opposite direction

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n. editorial (a) a vivid glowing flame (b) an expressive word or pithy sentence enunciating some guiding rule of life or faith (c) a person who is moved or directed (d) an article presenting the opinion of the publishers

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adj. quarterly (a) judging severely or harshly (b) occurring or made at intervals of three months (c) still existing and known (d) entire

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n. came (a) ghost (b) a leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows (c) means that nourish and support (d) a muscle that causes extension

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n. kinsfolk (a) relatives (b) a lack of seriousness; frivolity; flightiness; silliness (c) office of an official chosen by a government to represent its interests in a foreign country (d) one who or that which is expected to remain permanently in its position

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adj. irrigant (a) noting a genus or kind; opposed to specific (c) pertaining to stars or constellations

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(b) serving to water lands by artificial means (d) notoriously bad

v. interpose (a) to suffer a return of a disease after partial recovery (b) to determine the amount of (a tax or other sum to be paid) (c) to come between other things or persons (d) to address or gratify with expressions of delicate praise

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n. parentage (a) pastime (b) a large decorative metal disk worn on a chain around the neck (c) lineage; parenthood; state of being a father or mother (d) authoritative act of prohibition

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v. retch (a) to mediate between persons (c) to make an effort to vomit

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(b) to utter in simple or childish talk (d) to rescind

adj. culinary (a) of or pertaining to cooking or the kitchen (b) unreasonable (c) having a ready or easy flow of words or ideas (d) frenzied

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adj. devout (a) of the nature of an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule (b) something that isn't there (c) religious (d) given to excess in eating

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adj. gregarious (a) not habitually solitary or living alone (b) illegal (c) being present everywhere (d) belonging or relating to or descriptive of the middle ages

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adj. pestilent (a) having a malign influence or effect (c) first

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(b) seeking the conversion of sinners (d) unimaginative

adj. urban (b) of or pertaining to or like a city (d) anthropoid; having masculine qualities

(a) resembling waves (c) capable of reformation Q4

adj. manlike (a) anthropoid; having masculine qualities (b) swollen (c) fond of music (d) belonging to an inferior order in a classification

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adj. lifelike (a) falling off at maturity as petals after flowering, fruit when ripe, etc (b) promotive of conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state (c) deviating from the normal form or standard type (d) realistic

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adj. undersized (a) characterized by unlimited or infinite knowledge (b) adverse (c) mental; rational; brilliant; academic (d) smaller than usual

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adj. inextensible (a) of unchangeable length or area (b) cheerful (c) sated with pleasure (d) having fullness of beautiful form, as a woman, with or without sensuous or sensual quality

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adj. prostrate (a) capable of being conceived (c) sheltering

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(b) lying prone or with the head to the ground (d) pertaining to the sun

adj. negligible (a) pertaining to electricity developed water or steam (b) transferable by assignment, endorsement or delivery (c) of a material nature; physical (d) perceiving or feeling beforehand

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adj. destitute (a) belonging or relating to or descriptive of the middle ages (b) poverty-stricken (c) masculine (d) auxiliary

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n. lieu (a) person who is disabled by illness or injury (b) a casket, coffer or repository in which relics are kept (c) stead (d) premeditation

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n. symmetry (a) relative proportion and harmony (b) any calling or occupation involving special mental or other special disciplines (c) a bold or presumptuous assertion (d) a nervous affection occurring typically in paroxysms of laughing and crying

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n. bronchitis (a) the quality of frankness or outspokenness (b) an article presenting the opinion of the publishers (c) inflammation of the bronchial tubes (d) the act, fact or result of committing or the state of being

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n. presumption (a) a change (b) something may be logically assumed to be true until disproved; supposition (c) a great fire, as of many buildings, a forest or the like (d) a store that sells cosmetics

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n. repartee (a) creation (b) a ready, witty or apt reply (c) the science of languages or of the origin, history, and significance of words (d) deprivation of strength or energy

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n. similitude (a) any small engraved or carved work in relief (b) the ethical doctrine that actions are right because they are useful or of beneficial tendency (c) likeness; resemblance; counterpart (d) a poem celebrating in formal verse the mythical achievements of great personages, heroes, etc

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n. viscount (a) a meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits (b) a treatise discussing a single subject or branch of a subject (c) in England, a title of nobility, ranking fourth in the order of British peerage (d) openwork of metal or wood, formed by crossing or interlacing strips or bars

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n. dishabille (a) undress or negligent attire (b) one who injures another (c) mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces, principles or persons (d) a legal claim or hold on property, as security for a debt or charge

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n. coquette (a) a flirt (b) a heading, as of a chapter, section, document, etc (c) a number of persons combined for a common purpose (d) the act of sending through or across

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n. genealogy (a) an argument to obtain some desired action (b) a doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe (c) information spread in order to promote a particular goal (d) a list, in the order of succession, of ancestors and their descendants

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v. rearrange (a) to push down forcibly (b) to keep under restraint or control (c) to reorganize; put in order again (d) to repay either good or evil to, as to a person

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v. embody (a) to say or do again and again (b) to offer to (somebody) an inducement to do wrong (c) to make alive (d) to express, formulate or exemplify in a concrete, compact or visible form

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v. perspire (a) to disturb greatly (b) to make to conform to some mental or imaginary standard (c) to excrete through the pores of the skin (d) to traverse by ship

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v. misapprehend (a) to set right, as a wrong by compensation or the punishment of the wrong-doer (b) to restore from apparent death (c) to take no notice of (d) to misunderstand

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v. placate (a) to bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness (b) to refresh after labor (c) to deprive of peace or tranquillity (d) to conjecture

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v. aspire (a) to be astonished and perplexed because of (something) (b) to reconstruct; erect again (c) to have an earnest desire, wish or longing, as for something high and good, not yet attained (d) to become greater in quantity or number

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v. accommodate (a) to disperse or disappear (c) to furnish something as a kindness or favor

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(b) to pitch tents for a resting-place (d) to render of no force or effect

v. gladden (a) to alienate (b) to come down voluntarily to equal terms with inferiors (c) to make joyous (d) to build up or strengthen, especially in morals or religion

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v. abscond (a) to depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest (b) to rebuild (c) to speak to (d) to prove to be wrong

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v. oscillate (a) to restore to a former status, capacity, right rank or privilege (b) to swing back and forth (c) to give unusual pleasure (d) to evade the search or pursuit of by dexterity or artifice

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adj. territorial (a) shocking in conduct (b) pertaining to the domain over which a sovereign state exercises jurisdiction (c) speaking in or characterized by a pompous or bombastic style (d) tending to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence

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v. overshadow (a) to cause to turn on or as on its axis, as a wheel (b) to make a hole or holes through (c) to put to shame (d) to cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison

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v. abrogate (a) to abolish; to repeal (c) to interweave

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(b) to confuse (d) to superintend

adj. omniscient (a) characterized by unlimited or infinite knowledge (b) sincere (c) a published notice of a death (d) being beneath the threshold of consciousness

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adj. rotary (a) characterized by bold or insolent opposition (b) pertaining to the later stone age (c) turning around its axis, like a wheel or so constructed as to turn thus (d) exceedingly precious

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n. micrometer (a) a burial-place (b) the brain area that responds to stimuli (c) an instrument for measuring very small angles or dimensions (d) a minute particle of matter

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n. repulse (a) a tree (b) the act of beating or driving back, as an attacking or advancing enemy (c) one who has been won over from one religious belief to another (d) any rule or law

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n. malcontent (a) the place where streams meet (b) one who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs (c) a peace offering; a gesture of goodwill (d) a distinguishing feature or quality

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n. coalition (a) previous life; life before the present (b) person who owes allegiance to a foreign government (c) harshness or roughness of temper (d) combination in a body or mass

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adj. broadcast (a) habitual (b) rigid (c) disseminated far and wide (d) containing a formal, positive or explicit statement or affirmation

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adj. antislavery (a) opposed to human servitude (c) wandering

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(b) sufficient to convince or decide (d) in prosperous circumstances

adj. irate (a) foolish, indiscreet or silly (c) moved to anger

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(b) conforming exactly to truth or to a standard (d) neither masculine nor feminine

adj. accessible (a) characterized by agreeableness of sound (c) prevailing among animals

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(b) approachable (d) having a light, pert, trifling disposition

adj. ineffable (a) unutterable (b) capable of or characterized by clear reasoning (c) not separable into parts (d) writing in which the letters are joined together

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adj. baritone (a) marking a difference (b) impassive to feelings of humanity or pity (c) that can not be perfected (d) having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor

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adj. rebellious (a) insubordinate (b) speaking two languages (c) undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors (d) deserving of censure

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adj. drowsy (a) that may be pierced by physical, moral or intellectual force (b) heavy with sleepiness (c) smelling sweet and agreeable (d) pertaining to the stars

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adj. impulsive (a) unseasonable (b) unpremeditated (c) so large or furnishing so great a supply as not to be emptied, wasted or spent (d) pertaining to the lungs

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adj. lurid (a) of sound and vigorous health (c) harsh in disposition or character

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(b) capable of being put underwater (d) ghastly and sensational

adj. psychopathic (a) situated within the walls of a city (b) spherical (c) crowned with laurel, as a mark of distinction (d) morally irresponsible

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n. casualty (a) rapt or rapturous utterance (b) a fatal or serious accident or disaster (c) the science of organic forms (d) a person who supports a legal ban on the sale of alcoholic drinks (USA)

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n. flora (a) one who proves in a convincing and conclusive manner (b) the quality showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things (c) the aggregate of plants growing without cultivation in a district (d) a leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows

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n. assassination (a) murderer, as by secret assault or treachery (b) the science and art of teaching (c) an official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege (d) an unprincipled politician

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n. cohesion (a) any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds (b) a humorous play in dialog and music that consists of more than one act (c) consistency (d) a figure, especially, with five angles and five sides

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n. literacy (a) showing increase (b) a final statement or proposal, as concerning terms or conditions (c) the state of being adjacent (d) the state or condition of knowing how to read and write

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n. zeitgeist (a) the intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch (b) monovalency (c) an interconnected series of parts or processes that works like a mechanical system to produce a result (d) a lake

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n. descent (a) desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies (b) the skull of an animal, especially that part enclosing the brain (c) the path described by a projectile moving under given forces (d) the act of moving or going downward

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n. panoply (a) a full set of armor (b) equality, as of condition or rank (c) a state of mind with reference to confidence, courage, zeal and the like (d) a vest

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adj. jovial (a) merry (c) contributing to an end

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(b) easy to see through or understand (d) full to the uttermost

n. instant (a) a brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral (b) an umpire (c) a very brief portion of time (d) person who joins or supports others

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v. confer (a) to be involved; join in (c) to pester; to annoy

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(b) to bestow (d) to become dull or inert

v. seize (a) to catch or take hold of suddenly and forcibly (b) to prevent from being disclosed or punished (c) to take the place of (d) to be an obstacle or to place obstacles in the way of

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v. relent (b) to yield (d) to convert into bone

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v. demonstrate (a) to mark with different shades or colors (b) to prove indubitably (c) to separate, to distinguish; to treat differently; to show partiality (d) to go with or be associated with, as a companion

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v. connote (a) to mean; to signify (b) to cause to disappear (c) to mix and work into a homogeneous mass, especially with the hands (d) to put ashore and abandon (a person) on a desolate coast or island

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v. denote (a) to drive out or away (c) to predict

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(b) to combine into one body or system (d) to designate by word or mark

v. sympathize (a) to imperil (b) to turn the front or principal side of (a thing) toward any person or object (c) to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence (d) to share the sentiments or mental states of another

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v. besmear (a) to go too far; skip (b) to sabase; defile; dirty; sully (c) to fill again, as something that has been emptied (d) to make payment for

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v. evade (a) to accept as true on the testimony or authority of others (b) to avoid by artifice (c) to set or implant deeply and firmly (d) to deaden the sound of, as by wraps

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v. scintillate (a) to shrink, fall in or fail (b) to emit or send forth sparks or little flashes of light (c) to encircle (d) to put out; to quench; to totally destroy; to annihilate

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adj. despicable (a) destitute of animal life (c) capable of being put underwater

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(b) appalling (d) contemptible

n. tincture (a) rashness (b) a slight deviation from what is right, proper or just (c) a priest; clergyman; parson; spiritual leader; spiritual guide (d) a solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine

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adj. solvent (a) characterized by a sweet succession of sounds (b) inclined to seek company (c) having sufficient funds to pay all debts (d) yielding in abundance

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v. fondle (a) to take perceptible or substantial form (b) to indicate as being about to happen, especially by previous signs (c) to delegate authority to (d) to handle tenderly and lovingly

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n. theologian (a) a tribe (b) a certain profession (c) a non-commissioned military officer ranking next above a corporal (d) a professor of divinity

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n. caret (a) a sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted (b) one versed or skilled in treating diseases of the eye (c) preponderance (d) sorrow

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n. neocracy (a) government administered by new or untried persons (b) a body of sisters united by some bond of sympathy or by a religious vow (c) prolonged sluggishness of body or mind (d) a member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the Promised Land or western Palestine

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n. leniency (a) a modern and an ancient Greek coin (b) an instrument for measuring very small angles or dimensions (c) the act of placing side by side, together or in contact (d) forbearance

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n. facility (a) ease (b) long shaft with a revolving spiral blades that move a vehicle (c) any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned (d) the science of organic functions

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n. evasion (a) an inhabitant; city resident (b) escape (c) anything gained or made one's own, usually by effort or labor (d) the art or business of compounding and dispensing medicines

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adj. exorbitant (a) plausible; reasonable; probable; possible; appropriate; promising (b) going beyond usual and proper limits (c) round from fullness or plumpness (d) gloomy

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adj. akin (a) of prodigious size, bulk or degree (b) unconstrained (c) showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things (d) of similar nature or qualities

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adj. heterodox (a) coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine (b) at variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion (c) low in character or purpose (d) coming too soon

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adj. comparable (a) apt to induce terror or alarm (c) characterized by irreverence or irreligion

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(b) fit to be compared (d) done without perceptible lapse of time

adj. incongruous (a) pertaining to the universe (b) unsuitable for the time, place or occasion (c) serving to water lands by artificial means (d) having such anger and scorn as is aroused by meanness or wickedness

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adj. recessive (a) awe-inspiring (b) intense (c) having a tendency to go back (d) publicly branded or notorious, as for vice or crime

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adj. immiscible (a) containing only two atoms

(b) allowing the passage of light (d) of no avail or effect

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adj. ebullient (a) wandering (b) showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of feeling (c) before noon (d) fear-inspiring

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adj. inscrutable (a) impenetrably mysterious or profound (c) daily

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(b) straightforward (d) extreme; fanatical

adj. sonorous (b) resonant (d) harmonious

(a) laughable and contemptible (c) of, pertaining to or like the air

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n. liqueur (a) an imaginary belt encircling the heavens within which are the larger planets (b) an alcoholic cordial sweetened and flavored with aromatic substances (c) belief (d) either of the two subdivisions of the trachea conveying air into the lungs

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n. archbishop (a) a body of troops consisting of two or more regiments (b) a young animal past its first 12 months of age (c) the chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and Anglican church (d) the branch of physics that treats the phenomena caused by the action of forces

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n. insurgence (a) misfortune (c) an instrument for measuring

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(b) uprising (d) a mixing or changing the order of things

n. doublet (a) the practical unit of electric-current strength (b) one who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss but also a chance of profit (c) one of a pair of like things (d) mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces, principles or persons

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n. menagerie (a) conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state (b) person who is chosen or appointed, by mutual consent of parties in dispute, to decide matters (c) the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at once (d) a collection of wild animals, especially when kept for exhibition

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n. knickknack (a) a small article, more for ornament that use (b) sailor or officer of a warship; warship; ship commissioned by a government to fight enemies (c) a person to whom a donation is made (d) a lever for the foot usually applied only to musical instruments, cycles and other machines

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n. secretary (a) a number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose (b) person who attends to correspondence, keeps records or does other writing for others (c) a privilege or possession into which one is born (d) either of the two subdivisions of the trachea conveying air into the lungs

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n. appellation (a) a downward movement of the body by bending the knees (b) royal state (c) the name or title by which a particular person, class or thing is called (d) the revival of letters, and then of art, which marks the transition from medieval to modern time

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n. arboretum (a) hatred (b) a state of mind indicating lack of interest (c) a botanical garden or place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs (d) a going or moving backward or in a reverse direction

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n. prosody (a) the science of poetical forms (b) the art of examining objects with the microscope (c) the property of emitting light (d) the science that treats of light and vision, and all that is connected with sight

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v. temporize (a) to summon or cause to assemble (b) to pursue a policy of delay (c) to relieve or vindicate from accusation, imputation or blame (d) to aid, promote or encourage the commission of (an offense)

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v. postdate (a) to inscribe with a future point of time

(b) to make indigent or poor

(c) to place close together

(d) to exceed; to go beyond

v. enthrall (a) to deceive (b) to bring or hold under any overmastering influence (c) to predict (d) to restore from apparent death

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v. exhilarate (a) to obliterate (b) to lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring or other destructive methods (c) to deprive of something dishonestly (d) to fill with high or cheerful spirits

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v. endear (a) to protect (b) to cause to be loved (c) to effect by negotiating as an agent between parties (d) to change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action or by a ferment

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v. retrench (a) to abolish; to repeal (c) to dress

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(b) to cut down or reduce in extent or quantity (d) to inscribe with a future point of time

v. discipline (a) to revolve (b) to make of or ornament with brass (c) to make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority (d) to train to obedience

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v. foretell (a) to take when offered (b) to enter in a book or on a list, roll or document by writing (c) to predict (d) to stretch out too far

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n. archetype (a) person who makes an investigation (b) the principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure (c) anything that hangs from something else, either for ornament or for use (d) model; pattern

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v. mitigate (a) to enter voluntarily the military service by formal enrollment (b) to reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation (c) to bring in (d) to make milder or more endurable

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n. witling (a) the body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance (b) a person who has little understanding (c) any place of exit (d) the science of correct thinking

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n. mannerism (a) a sudden outburst of any kind of activity (b) an accursed thing (c) mode of behavior; particular way of acting; affectation; pretension (d) a curved or crescent-shaped line of things or people

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n. batter (a) statesmanship; art of governing (b) a thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together, to be used in cookery (c) separation (d) a tenant in possession of property, as distinguished from the actual owner

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n. speculator (a) citizenship (b) a Greek epic poem describing scenes from the siege of Troy (c) one who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss but also a chance of profit (d) a statement introductory to and explanatory of what follows

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adv. proximately (b) in no place or state (d) once more

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n. deist (a) person who believes in God but denies supernatural revelation (b) a salt of acetic acid (c) the act or process of making compact or more compact (d) in colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of Maryland or Virginia

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adj. second-rate (a) being in a state of repose or inaction (b) being an addition to (c) alternate; other; additional; subordinate (d) conformed to a just claim according to established laws or usage

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n. monstrosity (a) the roof of the mouth (b) a small stream or brook (c) any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object (d) anything unnaturally huge or distorted

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n. acumen (a) a stringed instrument held between the player's knees (b) the act of persuading (c) a flirt (d) quickness of intellectual insight or discernment; keenness of discrimination

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adj. dutiful (a) unduly changeable in feeling, judgment or purpose (b) obedient (c) can be fixed; mendable; can be corrected (d) not residing within a given jurisdiction

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adj. anesthetic (a) pertaining to or producing loss of sensation (c) habitually inactive or idle

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(b) sated with pleasure (d) pertaining to the process of plant-life

adj. indelible (a) that can not be blotted out, effaced, destroyed or removed (b) not having the abilities desired or necessary for any purpose (c) working vigorously (d) remote from the sea

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adj. tremulous (a) produced or displayed in overabundance (c) looking old an shriveled

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adj. mordant (a) having the character of a beginner (c) biting

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(b) characterized by quivering or unsteadiness (d) not amenable to control

(b) showing submission to natural superiors (d) having strong sexual desires

adj. unbecoming (a) permissive; tolerant; indulgent; not strict (b) contributing to an end (c) able to discern and distinguish with wise perception (d) unsuited to the wearer, place or surroundings

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adj. corruptible (a) relating to, or characteristic of the works of a philosopher an English philosopher and statesman (b) difficult or impossible to break down and absorb (food) (c) capable of various forms (d) open to bribery

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adj. workmanlike (a) changeable in appearance (b) full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit (c) well-performed; skillful (d) unusually weighty or forcible

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adj. saline (a) constituting or consisting of salt (c) afraid to express facts or opinions plainly

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(b) characterized by craft or cunning (d) obese

adj. ambiguous (a) recently hatched (c) having a double meaning

(b) passing from one subject to another (d) fallen into decay or partial ruin

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n. campaign (a) a complete series of connected military operations (b) the unnecessary and indiscriminate killing of human beings (c) forgiveness or passing over of offenses (d) impending evil or danger

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n. miter (a) the breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman (b) calmness (c) the junction of two bodies at an equally divided angle (d) keen vexation, annoyance or mortification, as at one's failures or errors

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n. mythology (a) a condition of mind resulting from spiritual or inherent feeling (b) reasoning sound in appearance only, especially when designedly deceptive (c) the whole body of legends cherished by a race concerning gods and heroes (d) a concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness

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n. bight (a) historian (b) a slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coast-line (c) a young deer (d) power to perceive or feel

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n. diagnosis (a) a social party composed of persons masked and costumed so as to be disguised (b) a butter-making establishment (c) a person or thing of little or no account (d) determination of the distinctive nature of a disease

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n. kingling (a) a race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner (b) a petty male monarch (c) a name wrongly or mistakenly applied (d) person who has two spouses at the same time

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n. redundance (a) the United Kingdom of Great Britain (c) evil conduct; small crime

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(b) excess (d) a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds

n. perusal (a) congruity of the members or elements or parts (b) forgiveness or passing over of offenses (c) the act of reading carefully or thoughtfully (d) insanity

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n. demise (a) the whole range or sequence (b) a slight degree of difference in anything perceptible to the sense of the mind (c) the point in the orbit of the moon when it is nearest the earth (d) death

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n. prescience (a) power to perceive or feel (b) knowledge of events before they take place (c) repeal (d) largeness; stateliness, magnificence; importance; nobility

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v. accompany (a) to add or attach, as something accessory, subordinate or supplementary (b) to predict (c) to go with or be associated with, as a companion (d) to depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest

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v. browbeat (a) to overwhelm or attempt to do so, by stern, haughty or rude address or manner (b) to mark with different shades or colors (c) to bar by judicial proceedings the equitable right of a mortgagor to redeem property (d) to study plant-life

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v. liquidate (a) to feed to fullness or to satiety (b) to deliver the amount or value of (c) to prove to be true, exact or accurate (d) to make movements of the body, as in speaking or in place of speech

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v. fumigate (a) to like the taste or savor of (b) to subject to the action of smoke or fumes, especially for disinfection (c) to pervade (d) to dishearten

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v. diagnose (a) to make supremely happy (b) to encounter, as difficulties or obstacles (c) to stain (d) to distinguish, as a disease, by its characteristic phenomena

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v. query (a) to exercise a directing, restraining or governing influence over (b) to select or appoint, as by authority (c) to make inquiry (d) to make familiar or conversant

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v. bethink (a) to remind oneself (b) to offset (c) to bridge (d) to vanquish an established ruler or government

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v. lacerate (a) to tear rudely or raggedly (b) to imperil (c) to settle firmly; strongly establish; establish a strong defensive position (d) to crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame

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v. pique (a) to excite a slight degree of anger in (c) to involve; to necessitate

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(b) to revolve (d) to rescind

v. procrastinate (a) to make a beginning in some occupation or scheme (b) to move back or away (c) to heap approach or abuse upon (d) to put off till tomorrow or till a future time

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 264

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v. antiquate (a) to contaminate (b) to have an earnest desire, wish or longing, as for something high and good, not yet attained (c) to make old or out of date (d) to relieve or vindicate from accusation, imputation or blame

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n. chronometer (a) the egg of a louse or some other insect (b) a document or brochure providing a brief description of a project or enterprise (c) a portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision (d) an umpire

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n. lapse (a) a slight deviation from what is right, proper or just (b) a wild and uncivilized human being (c) dissimilitude (d) flood

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adj. inevitable (a) unavoidable; inescapable; certain; sure to happen (b) pertaining to the combined action of light and electricity (c) not predictable (d) not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of

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n. maze (a) an unlucky accident (b) a labyrinth (c) a burial-place (d) any object, especially a weapon, thrown or intended to be thrown

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n. antiquary (a) a step, degree, rank or relative position in an order or series (b) an incumbent of a given office previous to another (c) one who collects and examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc (d) a scream; shout; protest

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n. investor (a) an instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind (b) something that annoys, vexes or irritates (c) person who puts money into a particular project or fund with the intention of gaining a profit (d) the facing, sometimes richly ornamented, about a fireplace, including the usual shelf above it

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adj. underexposed (a) given too little light to a piece of photographic film when taking a photograph (b) primitive; unsophisticated (c) very eager or urgent (d) longer than broad: applied most commonly to rectangular objects considerably elongated

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n. sustenance (a) food (b) entrance or the right or permission to enter (c) the state or condition of knowing how to read and write (d) insensibility to kindness

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v. betroth (a) to engage to marry (b) to turn the front or principal side of (a thing) toward any person or object (c) to tell a story (d) to fill with high or cheerful spirits

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adj. amatory (a) remotely situated (c) not appropriate, suitable or becoming

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adj. illicit (a) unlawful (c) being without restraint

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(b) justly or legally responsible (d) designed to excite love

(b) pertaining to the area under the skin (d) having the power to refract

adj. punctilious (a) strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom (b) characterized by extravagance and in general by want of good taste (c) definitely limited or fixed (d) indulging, ministering or pertaining to daintiness of appetite

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adj. furtive (a) worthy of respect (c) created or formed by the imagination

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adj. sterling (a) walking about

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(b) efficient

(c) genuine

(d) unresponsive

adj. inborn (a) hard-hearted (c) prudent

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(b) light and quick in motion or action (d) stealthy or sly, like the actions of a thief

(b) causing annoyance or hindrance (d) implanted by nature

n. commissariat (a) overthrow or violent disturbance of established order or condition (b) the department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs (c) emancipation (d) insolent disrespect

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adj. incontrovertible (a) a syllable or member of a series that is last but one (b) magnificent (c) indisputable (d) that can not be refuted or disproved

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adj. truculent (a) having gentle or courteous bearing or manner (b) having the character or the spirit of a savage (c) before noon (d) fallacious

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n. thermoelectricity (a) that of which anything is composed or may be constructed (b) surrender, as of possessions or rights (c) the act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence (d) the Seebeck effect

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n. ingratitude (a) want of connection or agreement, as of parts or ideas in thought, speech, etc. (b) a group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem (c) insensibility to kindness (d) a continuance in the same state or without any change that destroys the essential form or nature

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n. rivulet (a) an outpouring (b) one who or that which aids or helps, especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory (c) a small stream or brook (d) a non-coherent mixture of sand and clay

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n. gestation (a) the doer of a wrong or a criminal act (b) pregnancy (c) the property of emitting light (d) that department of government which administers the law

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n. salience (a) remorseful feeling (b) that property of matter by which a body tends to return to a former shape after being changed (c) an action or mode of conduct that excites resentment (d) the condition of standing out distinctly

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n. solder (a) a spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept (b) a fusible alloy used for joining metallic surfaces or margins (c) a lyric poem lamenting the dead (d) citizenship

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n. milky way (a) a person or thing is united in a relationship with another (b) the art or work of constructing, as buildings, walls, etc., with regularly arranged stones (c) the galaxy (d) a young animal past its first 12 months of age

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n. ode (a) the form of lyric poetry anciently intended to be sung (b) any physical disease or disorder, especially a chronic or deep-seated one (c) the act of rising (d) the opening oration at the commencement in American colleges

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n. jargon (a) playful leaping or frisking (b) confused, unintelligible speech or highly technical speech (c) supremacy; superiority; prevailing influence; state of being widespread (d) artistry; skillfulness; manner of execution

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n. poignancy (a) inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas (b) epitome; perfect embodiment of (c) severity or acuteness, especially of pain or grief (d) the knowledge relating to industries and manufactures

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v. secede (a) to hold to the fulfillment of duty (b) to withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body (c) to examine for the correction of errors or for the purpose of making changes (d) to unite

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v. parse (a) to pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended (b) to describe, as a sentence, by separating it into its elements and describing each word (c) to make an effort (d) to force into military service

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v. counterbalance (a) to cause to cease temporarily (b) to oppose with an equal force (c) to call into court, as a person indicted for crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not (d) to surrender the custody of

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v. estrange (a) to occupy completely (c) to train to obedience

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(b) to give a crinkled, fluffy appearance to (d) to alienate

v. cant (a) to express, formulate or exemplify in a concrete, compact or visible form (b) to league together (c) to talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity (d) to speak to

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v. affect (a) to act upon (b) to spend sparingly (c) to please, as by satisfying a physical or mental desire or need (d) to deny oneself the pleasure or profit of

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n. transience (a) something that is of short duration (b) a representative of one sovereign state at the capital or court of another (c) a wide lower part of a tidal river (d) a geometrical figure

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v. surmise (a) to conjecture (c) to discuss

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(b) to attack on all sides (d) to increase in range or scope

v. proceed (a) to dress (b) to disseminate (c) to renew motion or action, as after rest or interruption (d) to annihilate; to destroy; to ruin; to tear down

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v. prevaricate (a) to use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention (b) to express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite (c) to demonstrate; to reveal; to display (d) to put in some relation of connection or correspondence

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n. biology (a) dandyism (b) the science of life or living organisms (c) a work containing information on subjects or exhaustive of one subject (d) something taken with another for the completion of either

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n. percipience (a) the emblems of royalty (b) a court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court (c) a thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together, to be used in cookery (d) comprehension; insight

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adj. evanescent (a) fit for a destined purpose (b) pertaining to time before the world's creation (c) fleeting (d) characterized by lust or lasciviousness

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n. testator (a) the act of changing the purpose of or altering the plans of through persuasion or pleading (b) the maker of a will (c) the killing, especially the murdering, of one's mother (d) unlimited and universal power

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n. sequence (a) one who is lawfully entitled to the profits and proceeds of an estate or property (b) person who is slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession; amateur (c) the view that everything in nature and the history of mankind is ordered for the best (d) the order in which a number or persons, things or events follow one another in space or time

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adj. impracticable (a) opposing or opposed (c) not feasible

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(b) tainted (d) exempt, as from disease

v. eradicate (a) to destroy thoroughly (b) to make an effort (c) to catch or take hold of suddenly and forcibly (d) to fill with dismay or horror

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v. muddle (a) to encounter, as difficulties or obstacles (c) to give new confidence

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(b) to accord in sound, especially vowel sound (d) to confuse or becloud

v. contaminate (a) to cut, shave or remove (the outside) from anything (b) to withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained) (c) to pollute (d) to dishearten

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v. obtrude (a) to coagulate (b) to annihilate; to destroy; to ruin; to tear down (c) to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence (d) to utter with a shout

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adj. literal (a) malignant (b) following the exact words (c) relating to, or characteristic of the works of a philosopher an English philosopher and statesman (d) merry

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adj. intolerant (a) situated beneath the tongue

(b) noisy

(c) thinly diffused

(d) bigoted

adj. dissolute (a) hanging, especially so as to swing by an attached end or part (b) lewd (c) precluding question or appeal (d) economical

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adj. indigent (a) very eager or urgent

(b) touching

(c) poor

(d) permissive; tolerant; indulgent; not strict

adj. puissant (a) annoying; worrying; difficult; full of distress (b) possessing strength (c) capable of feeling of suffering (d) clumsy

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adj. eatable (a) loving others and actively desirous of their well-being (b) edible (c) offering or tending to produce resistance (d) having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor

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adj. symphonic (a) characterized by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds (b) having the character of a beginner (c) situated within the walls of a city (d) having or determined by right angles

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adj. fungible (a) that may be measured, counted or weighed (b) vague (c) that can not be heard (d) lying or being across or in a crosswise direction

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v. relapse (a) to suffer a return of a disease after partial recovery (b) to surpass (c) to rouse to activity or to quickened action (d) to act upon

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adj. parsimonious (a) pertaining to the face (b) not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of (c) unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money (d) pertaining to the nerves or nervous system

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n. prudery (a) an undue display of modesty or delicacy (b) a chief city, either the capital or the largest or most important city of a state (c) any difficulty the only issue out of which is by bold or unusual manners (d) a note at this interval above or below any other, considered in relation to that other

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n. barcarole (a) reserve army of citizens that are called upon during emergencies (b) fitness, as of time or place (c) a boat-song of Venetian gondoliers (d) a grotesque, ludicrous or fantastic action

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n. radix (a) that from or on which something is developed (b) a place for the reception or treatment of the sick (c) the quality of being noticeable or distinguished (d) acridity, as to the taste

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n. execration (a) one who doubts any statements (b) the act or process of making compact or more compact (c) an accursed thing (d) receiver of a degree; one who is granted something

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n. proctor (a) an expressive word or pithy sentence enunciating some guiding rule of life or faith (b) an agent acting for another (c) an escort or lover (d) any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees

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n. outrigger (a) an image-breaker (b) government by a single, sovereign ruler (c) a part built or arranged to project beyond a natural outline for support (d) the form of lyric poetry anciently intended to be sung

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n. perversity (a) dependence (b) wickedness (c) a rural view, especially one of picturesque effect, as seen from a distance or an elevation (d) a condensed form as of a book or play

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n. requital (a) the act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition (b) accuracy of limitation, definition or adjustment (c) the property which a wife brings to her husband in marriage (d) adequate return for good or ill

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n. mentor (a) the act of persuading (b) inability or unwillingness to bear or endure (c) a hissing sound (d) a wise and faithful teacher, guide and friend

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n. caption (a) a fatal or serious accident or disaster (b) carriage of the body in going (c) a heading, as of a chapter, section, document, etc (d) a bold or presumptuous assertion

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v. empower (a) to delegate authority to (b) to passively permit or put up with (c) to live in a monotonous, passive way without exercise of the mental faculties (d) to cease to resist

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v. concur (a) to set on fire (b) to change the purpose or alter the plans of by persuasion, counsel or pleading (c) to agree (d) to work against; cancel out; negate

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v. bolster (a) to name in baptism

(b) to diminish or become less

(c) to cause to be loved

(d) to support, as something wrong

v. rebuild (a) to pervade (b) to reconstruct; erect again (c) to render of no force or effect (d) to have an earnest desire, wish or longing, as for something high and good, not yet attained

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v. misplace (a) to put something in a wrong position (b) to put to confusion (c) to endanger (d) to give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect

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v. frizzle (a) to make adroit or artful moves: manage affairs by strategy (b) to deprive of the power to act (c) to cause to crinkle or curl, as the hair (d) to happen to or befall

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v. purl (a) to cause to incline and approach nearer together (b) to strengthen, as proof or conviction (c) to cause to whirl, as in an eddy (d) to breathe forth

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v. intrude (a) to convey, remove or cause to pass from one person or place to another (b) to come in without leave or license (c) to demand or to obtain the return or restoration of (d) to embellish

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v. acquiesce (a) to comply; to submit (c) to take possession of by force

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(b) to render of no further effect (d) to make bright or clear

v. abstain (a) to keep oneself back (from doing or using something) (b) to cover with ornament (c) to remove by digging or scooping out (d) to predict

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adj. advisory (a) having a tendency to go back (b) pertaining to a hundred years or a period of a hundred years (c) translucent (d) not mandatory

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adj. vocative (a) of or pertaining to the act of calling (b) outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile or cruel (c) habitually disposed to speak the truth (d) carried on in resistance to aggression

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n. moat (a) a distinctive feature (c) a defender

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(b) a ditch on the outside of a fortress wall (d) an act or a means of cunning deception

adv. perhaps (a) without studied or special preparation (c) merrily

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(b) ordinarily (d) possibly

n. rationalism (a) the formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority (b) murderer, as by secret assault or treachery (c) a print made by printing from stone (d) an official

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v. tranquilize (a) to perceive by taste or smell (c) to walk for amusement or exercise

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(b) to soothe (d) determine beforehand before hearing evidence

n. archaism (a) a body of sisters united by some bond of sympathy or by a religious vow (b) obsolescence (c) person who is acquainted with several languages (d) exultation

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n. onus (a) an interconnected series of parts or processes that works like a mechanical system to produce a result (b) a thorny shrub much used in England for hedges (c) a burden or responsibility (d) the business of making sales and purchases for a commission

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v. elicit (a) to own (b) to educe or extract gradually or without violence (c) to burn or sear as with a heated iron (d) to come in without leave or license

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n. pedagogue (a) any combination or union for some common purpose (b) a specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy (c) a schoolmaster (d) one who holds opinions contrary to the recognized standards or tenets of any philosophy

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adj. coagulant (a) functional; useful; practical; durable; sturdy; long-lasting (b) pertaining to ships, seamen or navigation (c) convulsive (d) producing coagulation

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adj. pellucid (a) translucent (b) enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity (c) reluctant (d) irreligious

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adj. theological (a) based on or growing out of divine revelation (c) shocking in conduct

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(b) on the point of dying (d) exhausted, as having performed its functions

adj. inconstant (a) pertaining to a religious body that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity (b) changeable (c) delightful to the taste or to the senses (d) made up of similar parts or elements

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adj. foggy (b) nimble (d) constituting an excess

(a) insane (c) obscure Q6

n. foppery (a) dandyism (b) the process of decomposing a chemical compound by the passage of an electric current (c) alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger (d) lack; shortage

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v. remodel (a) to delay past the proper hour (b) to reconstruct (c) to reduce to ashes (d) adapt for theatrical presentation; exaggerate

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adj. pristine (a) multiplied by six (b) pertaining to the sun (c) ancient; pure; immaculate; unrefined; unpolluted (d) capable of being stretched out or expanded in every direction

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adj. tractable (a) easily led or controlled (c) prone to pillaging

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(b) clearly visible (d) fit to be eaten

adj. excellent (b) clamorous (d) full of meaning

(a) partly cultured (c) possessing distinguished merit

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n. paternity (a) a young cow (b) a preconceived liking (c) fatherhood (d) an officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment

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n. bomb (a) a fit of nausea (b) a line of ten syllables (c) something that is of the highest possible excellence or eminence (d) a hollow projectile containing an explosive material

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n. flue (a) a smoke-duct in a chimney (b) an intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner (c) ill or poor conduct (d) outward appearance

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n. archipelago (a) the science of the nervous system (b) the rule of many (c) any large body of water studded with islands or the islands collectively themselves (d) one who trains horses, dogs, etc

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n. masterpiece (a) person who puts money into a particular project or fund with the intention of gaining a profit (b) a single occurrence or happening of a given kind (c) a superior production (d) person who is among the first to explore a country

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n. accuracy (a) a trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observation (b) a beleaguerment (c) exactness; preciseness (d) a complete series of connected military operations

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n. estuary (a) unwillingness to brook delays or wait the natural course of things (b) the science of poetical forms (c) loyalty (d) a wide lower part of a tidal river

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n. gastronomy (a) the enforced isolation of any person or place infected with contagious disease (b) a scream; shout; protest (c) the art of preparing and serving appetizing food (d) change from one state or position to another or from one form to another

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n. forte (a) an idea that comes later than its appropriate or expected time (b) a strong point (c) a situation in which a choice between opposing modes of conduct is necessary (d) a subordinate

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n. stratum (a) a field or stream of ice (b) untruthfulness (c) government by several or many persons of whatever class (d) a natural or artificial layer, bed or thickness of any substance or material

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adj. gastric (a) of, pertaining to or near the stomach (b) acting vigorously (c) consumable; depletable; capable of being ejected (d) burning with passion

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n. dogma (a) a statement of religious faith or duty formulated by a body claiming authority (b) that by which a number or quantity is divided (c) casual occurrence (d) the coalescence of two vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever

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adj. unwise (a) indulging in or manifesting coarse indecency or obscenity (b) foolish (c) pertaining to or consisting of air or gas (d) lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business

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n. temerity (a) largeness (b) a violent and abnormal muscular contraction of the body (c) recklessness (d) a souvenir; object kept as a reminder of an event

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adj. seditious (a) excessively hot (b) suitable to be eaten (c) promotive of conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state (d) that may be allowed

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adj. autumnal (a) inclined to seek company (c) not appropriate, suitable or becoming

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(b) well-performed; skillful (d) of or pertaining to the fall

adj. antarctic (a) having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally (b) illogical (c) pertaining to the south pole or the regions near it (d) mutually involving or implying one another

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adj. legitimate (a) having the sanction of law or established custom (b) laughable (c) having or resembling human form (d) indefinitely extensive

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n. fledgling (a) that part of the world where Christianity is generally professed (b) an ornamental molding running round the walls of a room close to the ceiling (c) a young bird (d) the state or quality of being genuine or of the origin and authorship claimed

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adj. cosmopolitan (a) of or pertaining to the eye (b) not possessed of reasoning powers or understanding (c) common to all the world (d) vacillating

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adj. guileless (a) frank (c) situated beneath the tongue

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(b) lacking the power of feeling or perceiving (d) transmitting disease

adj. pious (a) done or made without much or any preparation (c) very hateful

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adj. carnal (a) harmonious (c) conceited

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(b) thoroughly penetrating or permeating (d) sensual

adj. obdurate (a) pertaining to a sudden and violent outbreak (c) impartial, as judgment

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(b) common (d) religious

(b) impassive to feelings of humanity or pity (d) pertaining to a British King

adj. incomplete (a) that makes or enacts laws (b) brave (c) lacking some element, part or adjunct necessary or required (d) connected with the study or cultivation of plants

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adj. indivertible (a) containing or consisting of more than one (c) that can not be turned aside

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(b) bearing upon the matter in hand (d) tolerable

adj. ocular (a) inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires (b) well-bred or refined (c) of or pertaining to the eye (d) capable of being pressed into smaller compass

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adj. nocturnal (a) of or pertaining to the night (c) inert

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(b) easily broken; capable of being broken (d) belonging to a corporation

adj. objective (a) grasping and representing facts as they are (c) changeable

(b) on the point of dying (d) intermeddling with what is not one's concern

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(b) characteristic (d) passing from one subject to another

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n. felon (a) a rule or ordinance adopted by an association, a corporation or the like (b) a criminal or depraved person (c) a coin or coins of gold, silver, copper or other metal (d) a critical period or condition

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n. distinction (a) conjecture (b) a note or designation of honor, officially recognizing superiority or success in studies (c) one who advocates or practices egoism (d) an imaginary belt encircling the heavens within which are the larger planets

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n. blaze (a) the highest point, as of a mountain (b) surmise (c) a high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea (d) a vivid glowing flame

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n. dialogue (a) a microbe (b) that which follows in consequence of what has previously happened (c) the nobility (d) a formal conversation in which two or more take part

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n. accomplice (a) one who holds high rank (b) an associate in wrong-doing (c) the act of giving for a common purpose (d) preservation from harm, danger, annoyance or any other evil

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n. pharmacy (a) process of breaking up of a union of persons (b) the art or business of compounding and dispensing medicines (c) a placing opposite (d) that which may be used to produce light

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n. contradiction (a) a single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc. (b) the assertion of the opposite of that which has been said (c) an apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc. (d) a maker of plays for the stage

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n. nonchalance (a) a state of mind indicating lack of interest (b) openwork of metal or wood, formed by crossing or interlacing strips or bars (c) the communication of disease from person to person (d) the utmost point, side or border; something that is the farthest removed from a mean position

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n. fancier (a) the quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch (b) the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy (c) one having a taste for or interest in special objects (d) the practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness

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n. amity (a) friendship (b) cleverness in contriving, combining or originating (c) banter (d) the sharp striking of one body against another

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n. patrimony (a) a false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive (b) the calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience (c) an inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father (d) a species of lyric poems

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n. self-respect (a) belief in your own worth and dignity (b) dissimilitude (c) one who collects and examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc (d) favoring, protecting or propitious influence or guidance

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n. embolism (a) a coarse, heavy shoe (b) shameless viciousness (c) an obstruction or plugging up of an artery or other blood-vessel (d) the state or quality of being genuine or of the origin and authorship claimed

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adj. dutiable (a) not assured of safety (c) akin

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(b) taxable (d) taking place at the same time

v. hackney (a) to make stale or trite by repetition (b) to fascinate, as by excellence, eloquence or beauty (c) to declare; publicize; advertise widely; publish; distribute widely (d) to destroy a measurable or large proportion of

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v. nauseate (a) to cause to loathe (c) to walk about

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(b) to keep clear of (d) to lower in character or virtue

n. depositor (a) person who places in trust (b) the facing, sometimes richly ornamented, about a fireplace, including the usual shelf above it (c) a disclosing, discovering or making known of what was before secret, private or unknown (d) a place where crows congregate to breed

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v. underman (a) to hypnotize (b) to make old or out of date (c) to equip with less than the full complement of men (d) to make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law

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n. aggression (a) an unprovoked attack (b) any form of greeting, hailing or welcome, whether by word or act (c) a happening in general, especially one of little importance (d) any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy

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v. commission (a) to empower (b) to drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner (c) to move backward; repeat; reiterate; recapitulate; worsen (d) to bring to completion

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adj. penurious (a) excessively sparing in the use of money (b) thoroughly penetrating or permeating (c) connected with the study or cultivation of plants (d) relating to measurement

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adj. volitive (a) neglecting or refusing to obey (b) easy to see through or understand (c) exercising the will (d) unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money

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adj. imperceptible (a) unutterable (c) having great fluency in speaking

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(b) being the only one of its kind (d) indiscernible

adj. tyrannical (a) despotic (b) promotive of conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state (c) having the sanction of law or established custom (d) annoying; worrying; difficult; full of distress

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adj. positive (a) acting vigorously (c) free from doubt or hesitation

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(b) capable of being conducted or transmitted (d) fond of music

adj. felonious (a) showing criminal or evil purpose (c) having no fame or reputation

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(b) incomprehensible (d) easily bent

v. betide (a) to turn inside out, upside down or in opposite direction (b) to happen to or befall (c) to confuse or becloud (d) to refer incidentally

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adj. nautical (a) qualified for selection (c) pertaining to ships, seamen or navigation

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(b) insisting on obedience (d) pertaining to the heart

adj. opulent (a) composed of small grains or particles (c) more than sufficient

(b) lying prone or with the head to the ground (d) wealthy

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(b) opposite (d) recurring at intervals of six months

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n. righteousness (a) an ill turn (b) that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse (c) any support or prop (d) rectitude

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n. diplomacy (a) a person who makes intelligible the speech of a foreigner by oral translation (b) a gaseous body of unorganized stellar substance (c) a Greek epic poem describing scenes from the siege of Troy (d) tact, shrewdness or skill in conducting any kind of negotiations or in social matters

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n. guy (a) complication (b) a storehouse for grain after it is thrashed or husked (c) one given to self-mention or who is constantly telling of his own views and experiences (d) stay-rope

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n. harbinger (a) manner of performance (b) a placing opposite (c) an act or a means of cunning deception (d) person who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing

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n. sensorium (a) a composition of different songs or parts of songs arranged to run as a continuous whole (b) person who makes a contribution or present (c) one who seeks earnestly, as for advancement, honors, place (d) the brain area that responds to stimuli

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n. crevasse (a) person who is slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession; amateur (b) the natural history of trees (c) the act or operation of cutting in pieces, specifically of a plant or an animal (d) a deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier

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n. monarchy (a) government by a single, sovereign ruler (c) a disease or malady

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(b) person who steers a small boat (d) a cowardly or faithless person

n. commentary (a) a series of illustrative or explanatory notes on any important work (b) hemp-fiber obtained by untwisting and picking out loosely the yarns of old hemp rope (c) a misunderstanding attended by ill feeling, perplexity or strife (d) a vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded

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n. panic (a) a sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear (b) a deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier (c) any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree or law (d) one who represents a client in court of justice; an attorney

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n. nationality (a) the structure of the body; form; build (b) the science of human vocal sounds (c) citizenship (d) a rule or ordinance adopted by an association, a corporation or the like

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n. brokerage (a) period during which something functions or exists (b) a group of three persons of things (c) the state of possessing adequate skill or knowledge for the performance of a duty (d) the business of making sales and purchases for a commission

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n. folio (a) a sip; a bite

(b) the general science of the universe

(c) a sheet of paper folded once

(d) internal parts of an animal

adj. respondent (a) compassionate

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(b) answering

(c) calm

(d) disheartened

adj. acoustic (a) having no limit or end

(b) easy to see through or understand

(c) capable of being inferred

(d) pertaining to the act or sense of hearing

n. parricide (a) that property of matter by which a body tends to return to a former shape after being changed (b) the murder of a parent (c) a servile assistant and subordinate (d) general lack of capacity or fitness

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n. horde (a) a three-legged stand, usually hinged near the top, for supporting some instrument (b) a peace offering; a gesture of goodwill (c) a gathered multitude of human beings (d) enmity

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n. grief (b) a landed estate held under feudal tenure (d) sorrow

(a) slavery (c) a sudden and violent outbreak Q8

adj. statuesque (a) nervously high-strung (b) incapable of being forced, constrained or compelled (c) careless of or unable to meet responsibilities (d) attractively tall, graceful, and dignified

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n. vigilance (a) a view or prospect (b) a way of approach or entrance; passage (c) the whole range or sequence (d) alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger

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n. percussion (a) a formal token of regard, often presented in public (b) an interval of time, memorable for extraordinary events (c) the sharp striking of one body against another (d) reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed

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adj. colloquial (a) faultfinding (b) designed to excite love (c) pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary (d) being the only one of its kind

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adj. undue (a) more than sufficient (c) approachable

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(b) tolerable (d) of or pertaining to the act of calling

adj. legislative (b) that makes or enacts laws (d) done as an experiment

(a) brave (c) appropriate Q4

adj. plebeian (a) good and kind of heart (b) common (c) pertaining to supernatural things or to another life (d) of no avail or effect

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adj. unaccountable (b) inexplicable (d) based on or growing out of divine revelation

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adj. bass (a) ambiguous (b) showing impatience or ill temper on little provocation (c) low in tone or compass (d) eating with greediness or in very large quantities

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n. man-eater (a) a cannibal; femme fatale (b) the act or process of change (c) belief in God (d) that to which general interest or attention is directed

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adj. austere (a) severely simple; unadorned (b) relating to the correcting or preventing of deformity (c) straight up and down (d) pertaining to or appearing like fat

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adj. preposterous (a) utterly ridiculous or absurd (c) capable of being disjoined or divided

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(b) smooth and pleasant in manner (d) flushed with red

adj. oblique (a) cross-bred (b) irreligious (c) slanting; said of lines (d) concise, compressed and abrupt in act or expression

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n. phosphorescence (a) a microbe (c) the act of ending or concluding

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(b) the property of emitting light (d) a secret agreement for a wrongful purpose

n. pentameter (a) in prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet (b) relatives (c) the state of being white or glowing with heat (d) acuteness or discernment

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n. hanger-on (a) a vaulted passageway or street; a roofed passageway having shops etc., opening from it (b) a conclusion or judgment held with confidence but falling short of positive knowledge (c) a parasite (d) a city of the dead

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n. verification (a) admonition or warning (b) a rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge (c) the act of plunging or dipping entirely under water or another fluid (d) the act of proving to be true, exact or accurate

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n. lingo (a) a rival (b) that form of the numeral that shows the order of anything in a series, as first, second, third (c) language used by a certain group or class of people (d) the earliest victim in any cause

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n. gourd (a) inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects (b) a fleshy fruit; trailing or climbing plant which bears this fruit (c) the meaning conveyed by language, actions or signs (d) a full set of armor

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n. calorie (a) amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree centigrade (b) person who supplies (c) a word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another (d) a fictitious reason or motive

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n. buffoonery (a) a figure of speech in which one object is likened to another by speaking as if the other (b) low drollery, coarse jokes, etc (c) a non-coherent mixture of sand and clay (d) a remainder or surplus after a part has been separated or otherwise treated

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n. connoisseur (a) a slender, graceful young woman or girl (b) an expert in linguistics (c) a lack of seriousness; frivolity; flightiness; silliness (d) a critical judge of art, especially one with thorough knowledge and sound judgment of art

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n. encomium (a) the science of languages or of the origin, history, and significance of words (b) a formal or discriminating expression of praise (c) virtue (d) an assault, especially of troops, upon an enemy or fortification

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n. dentifrice (a) a consequence

(b) a quack

(c) deck of a ship located near the bow

(d) any preparation used for cleaning the teeth

adj. luscious (a) not general or public

(b) rich, sweet, and delicious

(c) having the nature or quality of soap

(d) disheartened

n. clan (a) person who practices the correcting or preventing of deformity (b) untruthfulness (c) deep wisdom or knowledge (d) a tribe

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n. henchman (a) a person who is empowered by another to represent them in a given matter (b) person who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books or the like (c) one who manages affairs of any kind (d) a servile assistant and subordinate

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adj. operative (a) inclined to strong exhibition or expression of feeling or thoughts (b) of or pertaining to a town or city or to its corporate or local government (c) referring to reproduction without the combination of genetic material with another individua (d) in working order; valid; influential; important; surgical; efficient

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adj. visual (a) of, pertaining to or containing water (b) perceptible by sight (c) more desirable than others (d) of, pertaining to or of the nature of vinegar

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n. overweight (a) belief in your own worth and dignity (b) a large package prepared for transportation or storage (c) sleeplessness (d) preponderance

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n. solicitude (a) a return to or toward some former state or condition (b) uneasiness of mind occasioned by desire, anxiety or fear (c) an image or likeness (d) the department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs

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n. testimonial (a) a formal token of regard, often presented in public (b) anything that will counteract or remove the effects of poison, disease or the like (c) a file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance (d) liveliness

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adj. iridescent (a) exhibiting changing rainbow-colors due to the interference of the light (b) conveying knowledge (c) that may be pardoned or forgiven; a forgivable sin (d) observant and exact in points of time

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adj. deleterious (a) having no power or force (c) more than sufficient

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(b) having a double meaning (d) hurtful, morally or physically

adj. massive (a) of considerable bulk and weight (b) that can not be broken or violated (c) wanting in resource, energy or executive ability (d) contradictory

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adj. neuter (a) having the sails set for sailing as near to the wind as possible (b) of a small importance or significance (c) neither masculine nor feminine (d) capable of being put underwater

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adj. auricular (a) noisily or offensively loud or clamorous (b) of or pertaining to the ear or the sense of hearing (c) contributing to personal advantage (d) prevalent

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adj. impotent (a) giving off bubbles of gas (b) destitute of or lacking in power, physical, moral or intellectual (c) easily deceived (d) belonging to a people not Jewish

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adj. immovable (a) protective (c) lying prone or with the head to the ground

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adj. out-of-the-way (a) made up of similar parts or elements (c) observant of ritual

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(b) taking place every third year (d) remotely situated

adj. prehensible (b) grief-stricken (d) capable of being grasped

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(b) steadfast (d) conspicuously prominent

adj. neophyte (a) pertaining to a piece of land almost surrounded by water (b) being, formed or operating under water (c) having the character of a beginner (d) immense

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adj. benign (a) lacking some element, part or adjunct necessary or required (b) lacking wise judgment (c) good and kind of heart (d) bigoted

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n. virtuoso (a) the state of being hard and insensible (b) a master in the technique of some particular fine art (c) utter hopelessness and despondency (d) spiritual or social fellowship or solidarity

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n. resumption (a) an utterly trivial distinction or objection (b) person who owes allegiance to a foreign government (c) the act of taking back or taking again (d) the state or quality of being genuine or of the origin and authorship claimed

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n. excerpt (a) one who advertises, especially in newspapers (b) oppressive drowsiness (c) an extract or selection from written or printed matter (d) in the British army, a cavalryman

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n. pantheon (a) that which moves the mind or inflames the passions (b) any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority (c) a circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof (d) lineage; parenthood; state of being a father or mother

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n. drudgery (a) a weight of 10 grams (b) the signification conveyed by some word, phrase or action (c) hard and constant work in any menial or dull occupation (d) a composition for two voices or instruments

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n. duet (a) a composition for two voices or instruments (b) increase of amount, size, scope or the like (c) anything that may be possible (d) a figure of speech by which a phrase less offensive is substituted

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n. bridle (a) freedom from punishment (b) the head-harness of a horse consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and the reins (c) a definite amount paid at stated periods in compensation for services or as an allowance (d) a body possessing that peculiar form of polarity found in nature in the lodestone

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n. macrocosm (a) pregnancy (b) the state of being scornfully reproached or accused of evil (c) the whole of any sphere or department of nature or knowledge to which man is related (d) a favorable or prosperous course or termination of anything attempted

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adj. adherent (a) frisky and full of fun (b) boisterously merry (c) fitted to serve as a model or example worthy of imitation (d) clinging or sticking fast

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n. inference (a) a lack of seriousness; frivolity; flightiness; silliness (b) the derivation of a judgment from any given material of knowledge on the ground of law (c) laziness (d) want of power to apprehend, understand, and manage

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n. fervor (a) a criticism or critical review (b) ardor or intensity of feeling (c) flow (d) a narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water

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v. retrieve (a) to cast off, as hair, feathers, etc

(b) to quietly terminate

(c) to recover something by searching

(d) to make widely or generally known

n. anemometer (a) possession of eminently or unusually good qualities (b) any religious ceremonial (c) an instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind (d) hatred of marriage

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n. philanthropist (a) that part of the stage between the curtain and the orchestra (b) inequality (c) person who endeavors to help his fellow men (d) an agent acting for another

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n. avalanche (a) biblical exposition or interpretation (b) a council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon the affairs of government (c) the rules and principles of poetry (d) the fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock

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adj. ruminant (a) having no limit or end (c) chewing the cud

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(b) having two parts (d) smooth and pleasant in manner

n. boatswain (a) an accursed thing (b) an opposer (c) a wooden hammer (d) a subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc

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adj. predominant (a) touching or joining at the edge or boundary (b) employing harsh words or ill treatment (c) superior in power, influence, effectiveness, number or degree (d) existing but not immediately perceptible

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v. accost (a) to cease from action (b) to bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness (c) to stick fast or together (d) to speak to

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adj. bilateral (a) having several syllables, especially more than three syllables (b) awkward or slow (c) two-sided (d) transferable by assignment, endorsement or delivery

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adj. tortious (a) wrongful (b) without resolute purpose or energy (c) characteristic of dwelling in the country (d) able to move or act quickly, physically or mentally

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adj. lax (a) unsuitable for the time, place or occasion (b) showing impatience or ill temper on little provocation (c) naked (d) not stringent or energetic

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adj. analogous (a) branch-like (b) corresponding (to some other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion or relations (c) that can not be passed through or over (d) unutterable

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adj. effectual (a) answering (b) efficient (c) of little importance or value (d) expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action

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adj. quarrelsome (a) high in station, merit or esteem (b) having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority (c) amiable; endearing; sweet (d) irascible

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adj. translucent (a) allowing the passage of light (b) indicating place or the place where or wherein an action occurs (c) contemptible (d) resorted to in a last extremity or as if prompted by utter despair

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adj. irresponsible (a) characteristic of one who is unduly devoted to dress and the niceties of manners (b) careless of or unable to meet responsibilities (c) made out of wood (d) having superior rank or precedence

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adj. melodious (a) peculiar (b) characterized by a sweet succession of sounds (c) white or glowing with heat (d) of three colors

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adj. niggardly (a) stingy (no longer acceptable to use) (c) employing harsh words or ill treatment

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(b) perceptible (d) clandestinely carried on

adj. casual (a) accidental; by chance (b) offensive from excess of praise or commendation (c) despotic (d) silly

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n. resemblance (a) a ritual

(b) the condition of being joined

(c) a mediator

(d) similarity in quality or form

n. aide-de-camp (a) any calling or occupation involving special mental or other special disciplines (b) the science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events (c) an officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general (d) a foot-covering made of soft leather or buckskin

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n. forecastle (a) is a post-medieval version of an ancient Indo-European language (b) deck of a ship located near the bow (c) outward appearance (d) one of four equal parts into which anything is or may be divided

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n. mead (a) any religious ceremonial (b) an alcoholic liquor made of fermented honey and water; any of various nonalcoholic drinks (c) clothing or covering (d) superstitious devotion to one's religion

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n. exterior (a) that which is outside (b) a priest; clergyman; parson; spiritual leader; spiritual guide (c) change or modification (d) the fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime, offense, misfortune, etc.

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n. archdeacon (a) a sour substance (b) any dialectic pronunciation of English, especially that of the Irish people (c) musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments (d) a high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese

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n. extremity (a) excessive, pretentious and demonstrative vanity (b) a person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris (c) in cricket, the player who delivers the ball (d) the utmost point, side or border; something that is the farthest removed from a mean position

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n. coronet (a) the trunk or body of a tree (b) change of order so that the first shall become last and the last first (c) inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereign (d) member of an ancient Germanic people who invaded and settled parts of Britain

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adj. averse (a) being an addition to (c) no longer practiced or accepted

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(b) sovereign (d) reluctant

n. veracity (a) a general name for all kinds of weapons and their appliances used in war (b) unlikeness of constituent parts (c) any object, especially a weapon, thrown or intended to be thrown (d) truthfulness

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n. alley (a) a small breach of propriety or principle (b) a narrow street, garden path, walk or the like (c) the maker of a will (d) satisfaction

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n. spheroid (a) deceitfulness (b) a geometrical figure (c) any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical (d) any instrument for measuring the intensity of light or comparing the intensity of two lights

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n. distrust (a) washerwoman (b) a tribe (c) lack of confidence in the power, wisdom or good intent of any person (d) the fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime, offense, misfortune, etc.

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adj. collapsible (a) that may or can collapse (b) frank (c) having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance (d) pertaining to flowers

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n. incipience (a) any condition of which the elements or parts are in utter disorder and confusion (b) a disturbance or violent agitation (c) beginning (d) a going or moving backward or in a reverse direction

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n. brigadier (a) the attributes, taken collectively, that make up the character and nature of an individual (b) condition in which a body part cannot be moved (caused by nerve or brain damage, etc.) (c) difficulty or failure in the alimentary canal in changing food into absorptive nutriment (d) general officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general

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adj. intramural (a) pertaining to ships (b) impious (c) participating with another or others in the knowledge of a secret transaction (d) situated within the walls of a city

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v. dissemble (a) to yield to or display intense and rapturous feelings (b) to preoccupy (c) to hide by pretending something different (d) to give pictorial vividness to a mental representation

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adj. competent (a) pertaining to one's birth (b) unsuited to the wearer, place or surroundings (c) that may be read with ease (d) qualified

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adj. conscientious (a) indisputable (c) childish

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adj. conducive (a) contributing to an end (b) being in an initial, early or incomplete stage of development (c) wicked in the extreme (d) lacking warmth

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adj. deplorable (a) religious (b) sharp-cornered (c) contemptible (d) unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money

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adj. oblong (a) identical in nature, make-up or relation (b) conclusive (c) longer than broad: applied most commonly to rectangular objects considerably elongated (d) toilsome

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adj. antemundane (a) pertaining to time before the world's creation (b) extraordinary or marvelous (c) insisting on obedience (d) inherent

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adj. bleak (a) capable of various forms (b) desolate (c) morally irresponsible (d) pertaining to the relation of lord and vassal

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adj. misty (a) of barbarous, uncouth and unfamiliar aspect or action (b) bloody (c) interchangeable (d) hazy; foggy; vague; obscure

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adj. insignificant (a) foreign (b) without importance, force or influence (c) adverse (d) expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action

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adj. lateral (a) benevolent (c) identical in nature, make-up or relation

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(b) separable; divisible; severable; cleavable (d) directed toward the side

adj. substantive (a) solid (c) disposed to pity and forgive

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(b) possessing a brave or chivalrous spirit (d) clamorous

adj. apostate (a) being in a state of repose or inaction (b) false (c) pertaining to a religious body that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity (d) fragrant; releasing a good smell

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n. lingua (a) absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly administrated (b) the official head of the Roman Catholic Church (c) a covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room (d) the tongue

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n. ally (a) a person or thing is united in a relationship with another (b) a spiritual advisor (c) the final point or goal (d) lawful power or right to exercise official authority

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n. day-man (a) a laborer who changes jobs frequently

(b) strictness

(c) an atheist

(d) food

n. grotto (a) person who makes exploration, search or examination, especially for minerals (b) a court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court (c) a small cavern (d) a low tract of land between hills, especially along a river

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n. intestacy (a) forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical (b) relatives (c) a systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing and personal habits (d) the condition resulting from one's dying not having made a valid will

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n. matter of fact (a) that which makes a thing to be what it is (b) something that has actual and undeniable existence or reality (c) the death of part of the body (d) anything that allures or is intended to allures into danger or temptation

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n. preferment (a) a condition of perfect agreement and accord (b) a raise in rank; promotion; appointment; fondness; affinity (c) extravagance or enormity (d) an act or exercise of will

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n. transferee (a) separation of the more volatile parts of a substance from those less volatile (b) an assault; mighty attack; overwhelming quantity appearing all at once (as of people) (c) that which is made as a likeness or copy (d) a person who is moved or directed

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v. exclude (a) to tease (c) to shut out purposely or forcibly

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(b) to give up (royal power or the like) (d) to come to pass

adj. cardiac (a) flimsy (b) straight; one dimensional; pertaining to length; narrow and elongated (c) pertaining to the heart (d) without spot or blemish

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v. undermine (a) to touch at the end or boundary line (b) to breathe forth (c) to slowly weaken or injure; sabotage; subvert (d) to charge with wrong doing, misconduct or error

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n. supposition (a) a pale, milky, or iridescent light reflected to the Earth at night (b) conjecture (c) luster (d) a medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing

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adj. hydraulic (a) half-hearted (b) joyous (c) adverse (d) involving the moving of water, of the force exerted by water in motion

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adj. tireless (a) capable of or characterized by clear reasoning (b) accidental; by chance (c) shining (d) untiring

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v. reconnoiter (a) to make a preliminary examination of for military, surveying or geological purposes (b) to agree (c) to cause to crinkle or curl, as the hair (d) to insert

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adj. metric (a) relating to measurement (c) lacking honor; having a bad reputation

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(b) resembling a hard shell (d) founded on the number 10

n. disfavor (a) a sharp, shrill outcry or scream, caused by agony or terror (b) the character or condition of being impatient, capricious or petulant (c) disregard (d) part of a fraction which expresses the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided

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n. quay (a) an instrument for measuring (b) a wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it (c) person who is fond of women (d) a right or immunity not enjoyed by all or that may be enjoyed only under special conditions

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n. infamy (a) one who exerts oneself in opposition or rivalry (b) total loss or destitution of honor or reputation (c) that which is restored to, relied upon or made available for aid or support (d) a luminous phenomenon in the upper regions of the atmosphere

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adj. assiduous (a) situated on or near the sea (c) pertaining to the mind or soul

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adj. likely (a) averse (b) rather late (c) given too little light to a piece of photographic film when taking a photograph (d) plausible; reasonable; probable; possible; appropriate; promising

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adj. tremendous (a) situated on the other side of the Alps

(b) awe-inspiring

(c) laying down

(d) contemptible

adj. inverse (a) designed for gradual destruction (b) contrary in tendency or direction (c) notoriously bad (d) of the nature of betrayal, treachery or breech of allegiance

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adj. studious (a) insubordinate (b) having or showing devotion to the acquisition of knowledge (c) interfering (d) corporeal

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adj. locative (a) stealthy or sly, like the actions of a thief (b) indicating place or the place where or wherein an action occurs (c) having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers (d) meriting or commanding high esteem

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adj. inopportune (a) boundless (b) unsuitable or inconvenient, especially as to time (c) liable to a lawsuit (d) rare

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n. trimness (a) a square shaft with pyramidal top, usually monumental or commemorative (b) order; neatness (c) person who cuts and fits panes of glass, as for windows (d) an acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act

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adj. veracious (a) wishing evil to others (b) full of bitterness (c) habitually disposed to speak the truth (d) falling off at maturity as petals after flowering, fruit when ripe, etc

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adj. redoubtable (a) formidable (b) unsuitable or inconvenient, especially as to time (c) able to be kept under restraint or control (d) indescribable

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adj. puerile (a) possessing strength (c) childish

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n. polyhedron (a) a solid bounded by plane faces, especially by more than four (b) a church office endowed with funds or property for the maintenance of divine service (c) the state or quality of being necessary to existence or continuance (d) a private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates

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n. peccadillo (a) a small breach of propriety or principle (b) person who tends to speculate (c) a member of a regiment composed of men of great stature (d) obsolescence

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n. onrush (a) a sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear (b) a stream that unites with another (c) something that is given without demand or claim; bonus; tip (d) flow

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n. transferrer (a) one who or that which conveys from one person or place to another (b) a wooden hammer (c) reference or comment at the bottom of a page or end of a chapter (d) the act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy

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n. amplitude (a) student who delivers an address at graduating exercises of an educational institution (b) a young bird (c) a general truth or proposition (d) largeness

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n. wampum (a) separation of relations or interests (b) beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency (c) rectitude (d) a greenhouse for grapes

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n. ministration (a) any religious ceremonial (b) miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment (c) a threat (d) a medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing

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n. acquisition (a) an insane person (b) that to which general interest or attention is directed (c) anything gained or made one's own, usually by effort or labor (d) a covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room

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n. clearance (a) the upper part of the face, between the eyes and the hair (b) greediness (c) an elaborate or formal public speech (d) a certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail

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n. cranium (a) the skull of an animal, especially that part enclosing the brain (b) a violent issue, especially of passion in an individual (c) one who espouses a cause or pursues an object in an immoderately partisan manner (d) a real estate owner

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adj. superfluous (a) free, clear or released, as from some liability or restriction affecting others (b) poverty-stricken (c) being more than is needed (d) belligerent

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n. quarter (a) a covenant (b) one of four equal parts into which anything is or may be divided (c) sweat (d) a collection of tabular masses of floating polar ice

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v. encourage (a) to take perceptible or substantial form (b) to support; to inspire; to give hope (c) to make somewhat different (d) to water, as land, by ditches or other artificial means

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n. emblem (a) a winding motion (b) the highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment (c) a symbol (d) the greatest possible extent

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v. rejoin (a) to reunite after separation (b) to set apart as sacred (c) to have weight or influence (in determining a question) (d) to behave cruelly or unkindly toward a person or animal

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adj. compressible (a) compassionate (b) capable of being pressed into smaller compass (c) abundant (d) separating, as oil and water

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adj. martian (a) pertaining to Mars, either the Roman god of war or the planet (b) belonging to a people not Jewish (c) according to usual practice (d) consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds

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n. thesis (a) person who supports the other side in a debate, discussion, struggle or sport (b) a demon or monster that was supposed to devour human beings (c) modification (d) an essay or treatise on a particular subject

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adj. crustacean (a) pertaining to a division of arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc (b) having the voice harsh or rough, as from a cold or fatigue (c) obscure (d) very small

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n. oblivion (a) a religious zealot (b) gentle reproof (c) the state of having passed out of the memory or of being utterly forgotten (d) a word, especially one regarded in relation merely to its qualities of sound

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adj. intelligible (a) comprehensible (b) indiscernible (c) having the voice harsh or rough, as from a cold or fatigue (d) highly profitable

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adj. fundamental (a) artificial

(b) amiable; endearing; sweet

(c) basal

(d) looking back on the past

adj. heedless (a) that which points out

(b) that can not be burned

(c) unmindful; oblivious; rash

(d) cone-bearing trees

adj. adjutant (a) that can not be rectified or made amends for

(b) frolicsome

(c) exceptionally brave; rigorously severe

(d) auxiliary

adj. bodily (a) of or pertaining to or like a city (b) corporeal (c) of or pertaining to hearing or the organs or sense of hearing (d) qualified

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adj. complaisant (a) opening in flower

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(b) agreeable

(d) interchangeable

adj. unnatural (a) free from care (c) artificial

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(c) prior

(b) believable (d) flying or able to fly

adj. mendacious (a) not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard (b) occurring outside of an individual's awareness (c) having a dark hue, especially a dark or sunburned complexion (d) untrue

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adj. compliant (a) serving or designed to make ready; serving to put into the proper condition (b) ardent in feeling (c) yielding (d) knowing and understanding only the ordinary and the obvious

Q10 adj. illusory (a) pertaining to a division of arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc (b) deceiving or tending to deceive, as by false appearance (c) superior in power, influence, effectiveness, number or degree (d) containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory

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n. introgression (a) a captain of a company of one hundred infantry in the ancient Roman army (b) entrance (c) deprivation of strength or energy (d) a story or drama told or performed by one person

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n. proletarian (b) a person of the lowest or poorest class (d) the natural height of an animal body

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n. lunatic (a) tumors composed of enlarged and thickened blood-vessels, at the lower end of the rectum (b) a corrupted substance (c) the formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority (d) an insane person

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n. aspiration (a) an act or proceeding designed to bring about some event (b) festivity (c) an earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach (d) something added or to be added

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n. instigator (a) person who incites to evil (b) an abrasive wheel that sharpens or polishes something (c) a piece of land completely surrounded by water (d) anything granted, yielded or admitted in response to a demand, petition or claim

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n. photometry (a) one who kills or tries to kill, treacherously or secretly (b) the military force stationed in a fort, town or other place for its defense (c) the art of measuring the intensity of light (d) change from one state or position to another or from one form to another

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n. crevice (a) a flowering shrub (b) a small fissure, as between two contiguous surfaces (c) a measure of volume (d) an associate in professional employment

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n. gendarme (a) the demanding for the use of money as a loan, a rate of interest beyond what is allowed by law (b) a member of a municipal legislative body who usually exercises also certain judicial functions (c) in continental Europe, particularly in France, a uniformed and armed police officer (d) an instrument for illustrating the laws of rotation

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n. unanimity (a) the state or quality of being of one mind (b) a distinguishing feature or quality (c) an idle wanderer (d) the coining or using of new words or new meanings of words

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n. palette (a) a musical composition (b) airplane or ship which is run by a transportation company; eye pencil (c) harshness or roughness of temper (d) a thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting

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n. levee (a) passage from one place, condition or action to another (b) person who has the right to vote at an election (c) an embankment beside a river or stream or an arm of the sea, to prevent overflow (d) a spiritual advisor

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adj. fluent (a) quinqeuvalent (b) having a ready or easy flow of words or ideas (c) passable; can be crossed; can be steered through (d) having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers

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n. petulance (a) the act of imbuing or pouring in (b) the character or condition of being impatient, capricious or petulant (c) constraint, as by force or authority (d) the habit or characteristic of recurrence at regular intervals

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adj. despondent (a) deserving of censure (c) falling behind

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(b) indefinitely extensive (d) disheartened

n. vacuum (a) the having, holding or detention of property in one's power or command (b) a woman's or boy's voice of high range (c) a space entirely devoid of matter (d) the quality of producing vexation

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v. enfeeble (a) to debilitate (b) to cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison (c) to signify (d) to furnish something as a kindness or favor

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v. visualize (a) to beg (b) to do business (c) to give pictorial vividness to a mental representation (d) to regard with blame

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adj. spartan (a) exceptionally brave; rigorously severe (c) adding emphasis or force

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(b) lacking courage (d) succulent

v. permeate (a) to cut, shave or remove (the outside) from anything (b) to place in a detached state or situation (c) to select or appoint, as by authority (d) to pervade

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v. supplant (a) to take the place of (b) to prevent; to eliminate; to remove; to make impossible (c) to bring to pass (d) to fill with an overflowing abundance

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adj. observant (a) belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind (b) quick to notice (c) saintly (d) having a propensity for falling in love

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adj. rightful (a) not cognizant of objects, actions, etc (b) conformed to a just claim according to established laws or usage (c) pertaining to a period of 300 years (d) moderately good

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adj. illiberal (a) controlling or preventing spasms (b) consumable; depletable; capable of being ejected (c) stingy (d) lacking the power of feeling or perceiving

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adj. inadvertent (a) thinly diffused (c) accidental

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(b) indicating or expressing a cause (d) having lost sparkling quality and flavor

adj. itinerant (a) recurring every seven years (b) indirect; oblique; not direct or straightforward (c) capable of being sold or confiscated (d) wandering

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adj. intermediate (a) being in a middle place or degree or between extremes (b) partially awake (c) having or marking equality of temperature (d) having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease

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n. metaphysician (a) amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree centigrade (b) a philosopher who investigates the essence of the world and of reality (c) inflammation of the bronchial tubes (d) an articulation, joint or seam

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adj. cynical (a) not possessed of reasoning powers or understanding (b) capable of being turned back (c) not predictable (d) exhibiting moral skepticism

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adj. explicit (a) definite (b) easy to manage (c) including or pertaining to a certain continent (d) suitable for the purpose and circumstances

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adj. diverse (a) pertaining to a division of arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc (b) can be decreased; diminishable; can be expressed in a simpler form (c) beginning, ending or changing suddenly or with a break (d) capable of various forms

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n. garrison (a) anything that allures or is intended to allures into danger or temptation (b) a sorcerer (c) a legislator (d) the military force stationed in a fort, town or other place for its defense

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n. vitality (a) forcible encroachment or trespass (b) indigence (c) the state or quality of being necessary to existence or continuance (d) something that does not accomplish an intended purpose; incompetency; incapability

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n. munificence (a) charlatanry (b) a reaching or stretching out, as in space, time or scope (c) any essential characteristic of a species by reason of which it differs from other species (d) a giving characterized by generous motives and extraordinary liberality

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n. artesian well (a) one of the highest class of offenses, and punishable with death or imprisonment (b) a word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another (c) a water hole drilled through impermeable strata (d) rapturous excitement or exaltation

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n. opportunity (a) favorable or advantageous chance or opening (b) the world or universe considered as a system, perfect in order and arrangement (c) person who benefits (d) lineage; parenthood; state of being a father or mother

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n. landlord (a) a proposition taken for granted as a premise from which to reach a conclusion (b) any work done for the benefit of another (c) a man who owns and lets a tenement or tenements (d) one who writes or is skilled in writing

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n. nebula (a) a gaseous body of unorganized stellar substance (b) the roof of the mouth (c) any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability (d) utter hopelessness and despondency

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n. literature (a) the written or printed productions of the human mind collectively (b) a slight deviation from what is right, proper or just (c) person who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose (d) loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles

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n. innuendo (a) relative disposition of parts (b) a very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc (c) insinuation (d) a trifling act, thought, saying or practice

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n. metaphor (a) a trinket (b) the doctrine or belief that there are more gods than one (c) a very detestable act or practice (d) a figure of speech in which one object is likened to another by speaking as if the other

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n. coalescence (a) one who proves in a convincing and conclusive manner (b) a thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together, to be used in cookery (c) a piece of land completely surrounded by water (d) the act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination or product

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n. hernia (a) one of the divisions of an extended poem (b) protrusion of any internal organ in whole or in part from its normal position (c) a hissing sound (d) word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in 'Father Aeneas'

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adj. effervescent (a) concealed, especially for an evil purpose (b) giving off bubbles of gas (c) very repugnant; hateful (d) that can be imagined or conceived in the mind

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v. impersonate (a) to appear or act in the character of (c) to cover with ornament

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(b) to take away honors or position from (d) to subject a person to distress

n. quintet (a) a storyteller (b) penmanship (c) induction or elevation, as to dignity, office or government (d) musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments

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n. phonogram (a) a graphic character symbolizing an articulate sound (b) a practitioner of midwifery (c) an agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties (d) a complete thing

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n. canaanite (a) a prophet (b) a fiendish or riotous uproar (c) a member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the Promised Land or western Palestine (d) a figurine

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n. irony (a) an interpreter (b) censure or ridicule under cover of praise or compliment (c) a word, especially one regarded in relation merely to its qualities of sound (d) a roguish, mischievous boy

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adj. inept (a) can be decreased; diminishable; can be expressed in a simpler form (b) funny (c) not fit or suitable (d) sleepy

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n. homage (a) any proceeding designed to ascertain or test character, qualification or the like (b) reverential regard or worship (c) a violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow (d) subtle contrivance used to gain a point

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adj. declamatory (a) of prodigious size, bulk or degree (c) a full and formal style of utterance

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(b) relevant (d) scanty

adj. recurrent (a) having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority (b) ten-footed or ten-armed (c) able to move or act quickly, physically or mentally (d) returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals

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adj. lacteal (a) recurring at intervals of six months (c) yielding in abundance

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(b) governed by moral standard (d) milky

adj. temporary (a) habitually engaged in licentious or lewd practices (b) grossly offensive (c) lasting for a short time only (d) not easily roused to feeling or action

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adj. affirmative (a) answering yes; to a question at issue (c) serene

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(b) not copied nor produced by imitation (d) capable of exciting laughter

adj. marine (a) serving or tending to force (b) possessing a brave or chivalrous spirit (c) of or pertaining to the sea or matters connected with the sea (d) silent

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adj. abundant (a) of unknown authorship (c) ardent in spirit and speech

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(b) destitute of animal life (d) plentiful

adj. juvenile (a) prior (b) unlawfully begotten (c) of or pertaining to particular English philosopher (d) characteristic of youth

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adj. primitive (a) becoming raw or sore again (c) pertaining to the beginning or early times

(b) having the power to refract (d) conforming exactly to truth or to a standard

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n. epicure (a) a clever or sarcastic remark (b) the doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth (c) person who cultivates a delicate taste for eating and drinking (d) a symbol

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n. introversion (a) a word of two syllables (b) the act of turning or directing inward, physically or mentally (c) truthfulness (d) any special impressiveness added to an utterance or act or stress laid upon some word

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n. rigmarole (a) purifier; person or company that makes alcoholic beverages (b) nonsense (c) a sudden and violent outbreak (d) wrath

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n. retrospect (a) a furtherer, forwarder or encourager (b) a lowering in value or an underrating in worth (c) a view or contemplation of something past (d) a vehement desire

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n. submission (a) the horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity (b) an act or exercise of will (c) an ample or adequate supply (d) a yielding to the power or authority of another

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n. incapacity (a) somebody or something of unequaled excellence (b) a person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted (c) the arrangement of composed type or the appearance of printed matter (d) want of power to apprehend, understand, and manage

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n. protomartyr (a) a use of words peculiar to a particular language (b) absence of harmoniousness (c) the earliest victim in any cause (d) one who entrusts

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n. tenure (a) a solid bounded by plane faces, especially by more than four (b) the term during which a thing is held (c) a seceder (d) the derivation of a judgment from any given material of knowledge on the ground of law

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n. satire (a) a book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like (b) malicious mischief (c) area which is rubbed off; process of rubbing off (d) the employment of sarcasm, irony or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices

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n. beatitude (a) any state of great happiness (c) witchcraft

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adj. lactic (a) making a loud outcry (b) marked by extreme suffering (c) pertaining to milk (d) spreading rapidly through the system and acting quickly

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v. bemoan (a) to insert (b) to take, demand or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds (c) to call on for assistance or protection (d) to lament

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n. oddity (a) an eccentricity (b) loyalty (c) one who is lawfully entitled to the profits and proceeds of an estate or property (d) the philosophical study of society

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adj. peninsular (a) pertaining to a piece of land almost surrounded by water (b) large in scope or content (c) cognizable (d) lacking wise judgment

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adj. derelict (a) pertaining to edible grain or farinaceous seeds (b) dormant (c) neglectful of obligation (d) caring; good-natured; generous; considerate

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n. observatory (a) an astronomical viewing place (b) inflammation of the stomach (c) excessive, pretentious and demonstrative vanity (d) process of breaking up of a union of persons

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adj. supercilious (a) amusing (b) exhibiting haughty and careless contempt (c) pertaining to or creative of a boundary or limit (d) silent

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v. misinterpret (a) to explain or understand incorrectly (b) to give an exalted meaning or glorified appearance to (c) to cut off (d) to bring about

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adj. corporeal (a) revengeful (b) of a material nature; physical (c) indulging in or manifesting coarse indecency or obscenity (d) occurring or existing before birth

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v. appraise (a) to start back as in dismay, loathing or dread (b) to estimate the money value of (c) to make stale or trite by repetition (d) to form an idea, mental image or thought of

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adj. conclusive (a) sufficient to convince or decide (b) including or pertaining to a certain continent (c) taking place at the same time (d) unyielding

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adj. egregious (b) extreme (d) of or pertaining to the fall

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adj. disciplinary (a) having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority (b) rich, sweet, and delicious (c) ridiculously or unjustly excessive (d) concise, compressed and abrupt in act or expression

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adj. spontaneous (a) from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the United States (b) hateful (c) arising from inherent qualities or tendencies without external efficient cause (d) speechless

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adj. picayune (a) coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine (b) worthless; cheap; low in value; trivial (c) functional; useful; practical; durable; sturdy; long-lasting (d) contemptible

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adj. anhydrous (a) withered (b) fond of tricks (c) edible (d) that may be done, performed or effected; practicable

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adj. shiftless (a) abominable (b) wanting in resource, energy or executive ability (c) harsh in disposition or character (d) rude

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adj. antique (a) obscure (b) pertaining to, embracing or practicing many arts (c) pertaining to ancient times (d) lustful

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adj. stagnant (a) low in character or purpose (b) not flowing: said of water, as in a pool (c) open to ridicule (d) not having an adequate or proper supply or amount

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adj. sinister (a) not mandatory (b) consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds (c) unbiased (d) evil

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n. brotherhood (a) a nervous affection occurring typically in paroxysms of laughing and crying (b) spiritual or social fellowship or solidarity (c) the theory that places man's chief good in the completeness of self (d) the state of being dispersed or scattered

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n. finesse (a) person who attends to correspondence, keeps records or does other writing for others (b) subtle contrivance used to gain a point (c) to accumulate; to accrue; to collect; to have a desired result or effect; to return; to come back (d) laziness

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n. homogeneity (a) panic (b) the moon (c) a writer of light verse, usually of low quality (d) congruity of the members or elements or parts

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n. frigidarium (a) mandate (b) a room kept at a low temperature for preserving fruits, meat, etc (c) the faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct (d) malicious mischief

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n. invasion (a) a bias in favor of something (b) any opponent or enemy of Jesus, whether a person or a power (c) rapt or rapturous utterance (d) encroachment, as by an act of intrusion or trespass

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n. precipice (a) folly (b) a high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese (c) a high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff (d) upkeep; process of supporting and sustaining

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n. exclamation (a) refined or elegant courtesy (b) a salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer (c) an abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling (d) a manner or method of acting

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n. distiller (a) delight (b) a burden or responsibility (c) person who places in trust (d) purifier; person or company that makes alcoholic beverages

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n. clangor (a) a silencing, suppressing or ending (b) clanking or a ringing, as of arms, chains or bells; clamor (c) the act of pouring from one vessel to another (d) one who is lawfully entitled to the profits and proceeds of an estate or property

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n. epiphany (a) a religious holiday celebrated on January 6 to commemorate the visit of the wise men to Bethlehem (Christianity) (b) the process of coming between (c) a council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon the affairs of government (d) person without means of support

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n. constellation (a) playful leaping or frisking (b) a familiar object in the landscape serving as a guide to an area otherwise easily lost track of (c) an arbitrary assemblage or group of stars (d) a place where things are stored or gathered together

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adj. ardent (a) violent (c) having many shapes or appearances

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(b) burning with passion (d) like a circle

n. conferee (a) an artificial trance-sleep (b) keen vexation, annoyance or mortification, as at one's failures or errors (c) a hollow projectile containing an explosive material (d) receiver of a degree; one who is granted something

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n. lyre (a) a modern and an ancient Greek coin (b) a series of illustrative or explanatory notes on any important work (c) one of the most ancient of stringed instruments of the harp class (d) maintenance

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adj. deponent (a) laying down (b) characteristic of youth (c) without spot or blemish (d) of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah

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n. clemency (a) a parting address (b) expression of sympathy with a person in pain, sorrow or misfortune (c) a rectangular piece set in or as in a frame (d) mercy

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n. pauperism (a) an excessive amount (b) dependence on charity (c) reverential regard or worship (d) person who is remarkable for tact and shrewd management

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n. imitator (a) person who retails small wares (c) one who makes in imitation

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(b) the state of becoming raw or sore again (d) gentle reproof

adj. facile (a) characterized by fairness (c) not difficult to do

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(b) lacking foresight or thrift (d) gloomy

adj. fatuous (a) idiotic (b) servilely following another's behests (c) of unknown authorship (d) occurring or made at intervals of three months

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adj. non-resident (a) not residing within a given jurisdiction (b) causing nothing displeasing or disturbing (c) formed after one's father's name (d) forbidding; disallowing; enjoining; preventing; hindering; preclusive

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adj. comparative (a) cutting deeply and quickly

(b) relative

(c) contributing to personal advantage

(d) even-tempered

adj. paly (a) resembling a hard shell

(b) fish-like

(c) lacking color or brilliancy

(d) capable of being separated into parts

adj. juicy (a) relevant

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(b) very bright

(c) swollen

(d) succulent

adj. triplicate (a) unsuitable for the time, place or occasion (b) of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah (c) composed of or pertaining to three related things or parts (d) abominable

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adj. unfavorable (a) boisterous (b) functional; useful; practical; durable; sturdy; long-lasting (c) abounding in irregular bends or turns (d) adverse

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adj. poetic (a) exercising the will (b) deviating from the normal form or standard type (c) lyrical (d) unutterable

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adj. inquisitive (a) having a warm appreciation of the beautiful or of the refinements of luxury (b) having the character or the spirit of a savage (c) given to questioning, especially out of curiosity (d) unmoved by or not exhibiting feeling

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adj. lithe (a) supple (c) saintly

(b) without determinate shape (d) not to be conquered, subdued or overcome

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n. vivisection (a) any large animal, as a whale (b) a subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy (c) a social party composed of persons masked and costumed so as to be disguised (d) the dissection of a living animal

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n. alcoholism (a) a connoisseur in the delicacies of the table (b) a condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages (c) a discharge from accusation by judicial action (d) a religious zealot

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n. judiciary (a) a remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases (b) that department of government which administers the law (c) a prearranged place of meeting (d) the Pope

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n. accessory (a) the long hair growing upon and about the neck of certain animals, as the horse and the lion (b) forgiveness or passing over of offenses (c) a person or thing that aids the principal agent (d) one who practices the art of foretelling the future by means of communication with the dead

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n. mountaineer (a) an uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding (b) customary relation or association (c) self-restraint with respect to desires, appetites and passion (d) somebody who climbs for sport

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n. glimpse (a) an unprincipled politician (b) a momentary look (c) a disclaimer of intentional error or offense (d) an official numbering of the people of a country or district

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n. chronology (a) thesis (b) one who asserts a right or title to something (c) a harmonic (d) the science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events

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n. altar (a) the branch of medical science concerned with the treatment and care of women during pregnancy (b) a sour substance (c) any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned (d) a guess

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n. fixture (a) one of four equal parts into which anything is or may be divided (b) the entertainment of doubt concerning something (c) one who or that which is expected to remain permanently in its position (d) wide-spread occurrence of a disease in a certain region

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n. intention (a) language used by a certain group or class of people (b) something that is bestowed on or appointed to one from a higher power (c) something upon which the mind is set; goal; plan; purpose (d) an advanced state of acquirement, as in some knowledge, art or science

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adj. ultramundane (a) that can not be taken by assault (b) disseminated far and wide (c) pertaining to supernatural things or to another life (d) relating to the development and improvement of race

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n. utmost (a) thought-transference (b) the greatest possible extent (c) an excessive amount of a medicine which is toxic (d) a brimless felt cap in the shape of a truncated cone, usually red with a black tassel

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v. contemplate (a) to consider thoughtfully (b) precede in time (c) to dissolve gradually and become liquid by absorption of moisture from the air (d) to discuss

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v. vegetate (a) to make a mathematical error (b) to force forward prematurely (c) to live in a monotonous, passive way without exercise of the mental faculties (d) to make dull by satiety

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v. assent (a) to cause to assume a leaning or recumbent attitude or position (b) to remove the inhabitants from (c) to coagulate (d) to express agreement with a statement or matter of opinion

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v. singe (a) to cause to become less or worse (b) to burn slightly or superficially (c) to promote or advertise in an understated manner (d) to deny oneself the pleasure or profit of

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adj. subterranean (a) of or pertaining to the capital of France (b) situated or occurring below the surface of the earth (c) easily under a specified power or influence (d) consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds

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n. microscope (a) a French title of respect, equivalent to Mr. and sir (b) an instrument for assisting the eye in the vision of minute objects or features of objects (c) the passion for collecting books (d) set way of saying or doing something

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n. potentate (a) person who possesses great power or sway; person with great authority (b) a gathered multitude of human beings (c) banter (d) sailor or officer of a warship; warship; ship commissioned by a government to fight enemies

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n. foliage (a) the right or privilege of voting (b) a field (c) a person who drives animals that are hybrids of horses and donkeys (d) any growth of leaves

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adj. correlative (a) capricious (b) unresponsive (c) being not beyond the reach of power natural, moral or supernatural (d) mutually involving or implying one another

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adj. desperate (a) capable of being remedied or corrected (b) resorted to in a last extremity or as if prompted by utter despair (c) affecting the sense of smell (d) burdensome or oppressive

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adj. irritable (a) having little or no book-learning (b) showing a servile readiness to fall in with the wishes or will of another (c) promiscuous (d) showing impatience or ill temper on little provocation

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adj. malevolent (a) wishing evil to others (c) resembling waves

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(b) lacking honor; having a bad reputation (d) having no fixed abode

adj. imperious (a) pertaining to decisions made by courts of law (b) unadvisable (c) insisting on obedience (d) frank

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adj. pitiless (a) benevolent in feeling, character or aspect (b) pertaining to edible grain or farinaceous seeds (c) hard-hearted (d) exceedingly small in extent or quantity

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adj. sextuple (a) unchangeable

(b) peculiar to some specified country or people (d) cautious in action for fear of doing wrong

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adj. sacrificial (a) offering or offered as an atonement for sin (c) causing nothing displeasing or disturbing

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adj. inert (a) of little importance or value (c) listless

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(b) convulsive (d) without experience of the world

(b) not feasible (d) inanimate

adj. partisan (a) pertaining to decisions made by courts of law (b) affecting the sense of taste (c) siding with a specific group or cause; devoted; zealously supportive; biased (d) having two parts

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n. litigant (a) a ditch on the outside of a fortress wall (b) a requisite for an employment, position, right or privilege (c) a party to a lawsuit (d) mental unsoundness

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n. dyne (a) a water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance (b) measurement of force (c) a mark that mars beauty (d) a covenant

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n. dominance (a) person who supplies (b) a place where bees are kept (c) ascendancy (d) benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest

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n. variant (a) a tree (b) the Seebeck effect (c) a thing that differs from another in form only, being the same in essence or substance (d) the arrangements or combination of the parts of which anything is composed

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n. honorarium (a) a three-legged stand, usually hinged near the top, for supporting some instrument (b) a token fee or payment to a professional man for services (c) a disclaimer of intentional error or offense (d) the quality of being marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner

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n. resistance (a) an absolute and irresponsible monarch (b) a spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept (c) an alcoholic cordial sweetened and flavored with aromatic substances (d) the exertion of opposite effort or effect

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n. termination (a) a going forth or departure from a place or country, especially of many people (b) a bulwark or construction to oppose assault or hostile entry (c) an apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc. (d) the act of ending or concluding

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n. skeptic (a) a small insect parasitic on and sucking the blood of mammals (b) dead and putrefying flesh (c) one who doubts any statements (d) part of a fraction which expresses the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided

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n. protuberance (a) the division of society on artificial grounds (b) witchcraft (c) something that swells out from a surrounding surface (d) a state of suspension or temporary inaction

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n. impromptu (a) greediness (b) a raise in rank; promotion; appointment; fondness; affinity (c) anything done or said on the impulse of the moment (d) the practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness

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n. granule (a) a solemn assertion of a falsity (b) the denial of the existence of God (c) a pavement or floor or any supporting surface on which one may walk (d) a small grain or particle

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adj. expeditious (a) indifferent or opposed to religion (c) not genuine

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(b) speedy (d) laying down

v. participate (a) to be involved; join in (c) to make less complex or difficult

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(b) to obstruct (d) to destroy thoroughly

v. proscribe (a) to give a name or epithet to (b) to reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation (c) to hold in general opinion (d) to traverse by ship

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n. oratory (a) confirmation (b) a series of illustrative or explanatory notes on any important work (c) the art of public speaking (d) a sip; a bite

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n. loam (a) harangue (b) a non-coherent mixture of sand and clay (c) gentle reproof (d) an interconnected series of parts or processes that works like a mechanical system to produce a result

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v. elude (a) to lower in position, estimation or the like; to degrade (b) to hate violently (c) to follow backward or toward the place of beginning, as a track or marking (d) to evade the search or pursuit of by dexterity or artifice

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adv. incidentally (b) sufficiently (d) without intention

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adj. capacious (a) following the exact words (c) compassionate

(b) roomy (d) round from fullness or plumpness

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adj. precise (a) moved to anger

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(c) smooth

(b) exact

(d) astute

adj. peevish (a) opposed to human servitude

(b) that can not be wounded or hurt

(c) petulant (irritable)

(d) gigantic

adj. perfectible (a) full of meaning

(b) able to be improved; able to be refined

(c) capable of being refuted

(d) two-sided

adj. submersible (a) capable of being put underwater (b) a place for cremating dead bodies (c) not disposed to entertain strangers gratuitously (d) that may or can collapse

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adj. treacherous (a) that can not be lessened (c) a place for cremating dead bodies

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(b) small and fat (d) perfidious

adj. protective (a) akin to or befitting hell or its occupants (b) distressed in mind respecting some uncertain matter (c) recovering health after sickness (d) sheltering

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adj. regretful (a) expressive of positive command, as distinguished from merely directory (b) handsome (c) difficult of approach (d) sorrowful; anguished; remorseful

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adj. sordid (a) foolishly and tearfully affectionate (b) a full and formal style of utterance (c) having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat (d) of degraded character or nature

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adj. germane (a) turning around its axis, like a wheel or so constructed as to turn thus (b) changeable in appearance (c) relevant (d) foreknowing

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adj. dolorous (a) indicating place or the place where or wherein an action occurs (b) expressing or causing sorrow or pain (c) noteworthy (d) consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass or sum

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n. glimmer (a) gradual destruction, as by burning, eating, etc. or by using up, wearing out, etc. (b) the territory of a reigning prince (c) sparkle; flicker; faint light; gleam (d) hard or agonizing labor

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n. millet (a) a grass cultivated for forage and cereal (b) luster (c) a written or spoken statement that is flat, dull or commonplace (d) person who lives in retirement or seclusion

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n. reprobate (a) one abandoned to depravity and sin (b) anything that constricts or serves for binding or tying (c) person who leads another person to a source of information (d) attachment

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n. proviso (a) a foot-covering made of soft leather or buckskin (b) a clause in a contract, will, etc., by which its operation is rendered conditional (c) fitness for some desirable practical purpose (d) toleration

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n. egotist (a) a conclusion or judgment held with confidence but falling short of positive knowledge (b) one of a class of persons or things regarded as representative of the class (c) separation (d) one given to self-mention or who is constantly telling of his own views and experiences

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n. foot-note (a) reference or comment at the bottom of a page or end of a chapter (b) exclusion (c) person, or organization that produces finished goods from raw materials, especially on a large industrial scale (d) a worshiper of false gods

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n. posterior (a) the act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment (b) the hinder part (c) hatred or dread of England or of what is English (d) extreme insincerity

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n. pedal (a) a strong point (b) birthright (c) one who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures (d) a lever for the foot usually applied only to musical instruments, cycles and other machines

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n. dissection (a) dispersion (b) the act or operation of cutting in pieces, specifically of a plant or an animal (c) perceptible by feeling or touch (d) charlatanry

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n. dissertation (a) person who believes the teaching of another or who adopts and follows some doctrine (b) equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed (c) thesis (d) the study of religions and religious teachings

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v. peddle (a) to send trough or across (b) to cause to last or to be known or remembered throughout a great or indefinite length of time (c) to go about with a small stock of goods to sell (d) to take in a wrong sense; to interpret incorrectly

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n. epode (a) the character &; the logical conjunction 'AND' (b) a species of lyric poems (c) a familiar object in the landscape serving as a guide to an area otherwise easily lost track of (d) somebody who climbs for sport

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adj. fragile (a) unceasing (c) easily broken; capable of being broken

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(b) of prime or special importance (d) multiplied by three

n. theocracy (a) thought-transference (b) a definite amount paid at stated periods in compensation for services or as an allowance (c) revision (d) a government administered by ecclesiastics

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n. recognizance (a) respectful submission or yielding, as to another's opinion, wishes or judgment (b) the point in the orbit of the moon when it is nearest the earth (c) the galaxy (d) an acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act

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n. dragnet (a) a trawl for trapping fish or small game; method by which someone or something is found or caught (b) earthenware made from baked clay (c) unblushing impudence (d) a bulwark or construction to oppose assault or hostile entry

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n. divinity (a) absence or utter disregard of government

(b) the quality or character of being godlike

(c) an unprovoked attack

(d) the state of being adjacent

adj. neutral (a) having the power to sway the will of another (b) marking a difference (c) Biblical; pertaining to the Bible; written; inscribed (d) belonging to or under control of neither of two contestants

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adj. errant (a) done or made without much or any preparation (b) roving or wandering, as in search of adventure or opportunity for gallant deeds (c) characterized by skill at understanding and profiting by circumstances (d) lacking warmth

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adj. intellectual (a) mental; rational; brilliant; academic (c) unalterable; unchangeable; final

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adj. prehensile (a) situated directly underneath (c) sarcastic and severe

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(b) dominant (d) adapted for grasping or holding

adj. apprehensible (a) not having an adequate or proper supply or amount (b) capable of being conceived (c) designed to excite love (d) not perceptible

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adj. sophistical (a) that can not be broken or violated (b) showing a servile readiness to fall in with the wishes or will of another (c) lying or directed perpendicularly to the horizon (d) fallacious

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adj. weak-kneed (a) without resolute purpose or energy (c) contributing to personal advantage

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(b) more distant or advanced (d) attractively tall, graceful, and dignified

adj. lingual (a) benevolent (b) irregular (c) incipient (d) pertaining to the use of the tongue in utterance

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adj. choral (a) spasmodic (b) grossly offensive (c) stealthy or sly, like the actions of a thief (d) pertaining to, intended for or performed by a chorus or choir

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adj. rapt (a) especially fit as occurring, said or done at the right moment (b) engrossed; absorbed; fascinated; charmed; enchanted (c) pushing; thrusting; driving; moving forward (d) sarcastic and severe

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adj. prurient (a) having reached a high degree of worldly prosperity (b) manifesting a warlike spirit (c) inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires (d) being in a condition of perfect agreement and accord

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adj. magnanimous (a) desolate (c) generous in treating or judging others

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(b) characterized by irreverence or irreligion (d) handsome

adj. adroit (a) having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers (b) relating to making proof, as of a will (c) hilly (d) before noon

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n. vocable (a) strength, skill and intrepidity in battle (b) a word, especially one regarded in relation merely to its qualities of sound (c) a hint (d) something may be logically assumed to be true until disproved; supposition

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n. donee (a) anything that indicates what is to happen (c) a small light boat propelled by oars

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(b) a prominence (d) a person to whom a donation is made

n. sensation (a) a condition of mind resulting from spiritual or inherent feeling (b) in the British army, a cavalryman (c) a very small amount, portion or particle (d) the science that treats of light and vision, and all that is connected with sight

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n. lethargy (a) something that causes damage, depreciation or loss (b) good-humored satire (c) prolonged sluggishness of body or mind (d) a bidding farewell

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n. domesticity (a) life in or fondness for one's home and family (b) stead (c) a shudder; shock; shaking; vibration (d) a member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the Promised Land or western Palestine

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n. tutelage (a) person who belongs to a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy (b) the act of training or the state of being under instruction (c) entreaty in behalf of others (d) a thorny shrub much used in England for hedges

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n. rondo (a) an instrument for measuring (b) a musical composition during which the first part or subject is repeated several times (c) the branch of mechanics that treats of the relations that subsist among forces in order (d) the point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like

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n. excursion (a) formal presentation (b) a journey (c) a luxurious person (d) the state or condition of knowing how to read and write

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adj. infinite (a) calm (c) of or pertaining to the sense of smell

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(b) expressing no power of feeling or perceiving (d) measureless

n. caprice (a) biblical exposition or interpretation (c) a condensed form as of a book or play

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(b) a whim (d) the cultivation of trees or shrubs

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v. regenerate (a) to reproduce

(b) to bring in

(c) to confuse or becloud

(d) to move faster

n. foolery (a) person who mortgages; person who gives property as security to the bank in order to receive a credit (b) a short thick stick used as a club (c) treachery (d) folly

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n. accompanist (a) person who joins or supports others

(b) any starlike meteor or phenomenon

(c) priority in place, time or rank

(d) change

n. discomfort (a) a consecration to the ministry (b) the state of being positively uncomfortable (c) peak; highest point; top; summit (d) an earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach

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n. evangelist (a) a place where animal skin is converted into leather (b) a situation in which a choice between opposing modes of conduct is necessary (c) a preacher who goes from place to place holding services (d) restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs

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n. involution (a) intellectual discernment (b) state of being unfamiliar with something; lack of knowledge or ability (c) complication (d) an embankment beside a river or stream or an arm of the sea, to prevent overflow

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n. excellence (a) a minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells (b) possession of eminently or unusually good qualities (c) a condition of mind resulting from spiritual or inherent feeling (d) a spirit of charitable leniency

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n. proscription (a) a person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells (b) a word that contains of only one segment of speech (c) any act of condemnation and rejection from favor and privilege (d) insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands

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adj. giddy (a) thin, but tough and sinewy (b) affected with a whirling or swimming sensation in the head (c) caused miraculously or by the immediate exercise of divine power (d) belonging to an inferior order in a classification

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n. azure (a) an abstract (b) a fusible alloy used for joining metallic surfaces or margins (c) the color of the sky (d) a polar projection of the heavens on a chart

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adj. somber (a) dangerous and close at hand (b) capable of being held back or kept down (c) gloomy (d) taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned

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adj. wizen-faced (a) low-priced; cheap (c) lyrical

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(b) looking old an shriveled (d) frenzied

adj. amorphous (a) habitually engaged in licentious or lewd practices (b) sorrowful; anguished; remorseful (c) having the property of consistency (d) without determinate shape

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adj. baconian (a) flying or able to fly (b) relating to, or characteristic of the works of a philosopher an English philosopher and statesman (c) common to all the world (d) valueless

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adj. promissory (a) expressing an engagement to pay (c) abounding in irregular bends or turns

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(b) not mandatory (d) flying or able to fly

adj. passive (a) involving the moving of water, of the force exerted by water in motion (b) pertaining to milk (c) hurtful (d) unresponsive

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adj. contemptuous (a) pertaining or relating to electricity produced by chemical action (b) constituting or consisting of salt (c) disdainful (d) displaying impatience

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adj. inaccessible (a) unseasonable (b) in working order; valid; influential; important; surgical; efficient (c) difficult of approach (d) employing harsh words or ill treatment

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adj. insolent (a) clandestine (b) characterized by propriety of conduct, speech, manners or dress (c) impudent (d) writing in which the letters are joined together

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adj. indolent (a) habitually inactive or idle (c) pertaining to the moon

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(b) indivisible; close; devoted (d) rather late

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n. commitment (a) a distance in miles (b) the act or process of entrusting or consigning for safe-keeping (c) the captain of a special ship (d) the killing of a king or sovereign

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n. introspection (a) members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association or the like (b) person who steers a small boat (c) the act of observing and analyzing one's own thoughts and feelings (d) artifice

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n. feudalism (a) political and social system of medieval Europe (b) ability to sway the will of another (c) a sorcerer (d) an instrument used to measure the curvature of a surface

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n. entreaty (a) anything relating or belonging to the outside (b) any popular narrative poem, often with epic subject and usually in lyric form (c) an earnest request (d) a souvenir; object kept as a reminder of an event

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n. comparison (a) examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness (b) a presentation; proposition; offer (c) any difficulty the only issue out of which is by bold or unusual manners (d) the science of human vocal sounds

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n. lexicon (a) papyrus (b) a dictionary (c) outside show or elegance (d) divider; act of dividing; segment; section; division of the storage area of a hard disk

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n. liturgy (a) a name wrongly or mistakenly applied (b) one who kills or tries to kill, treacherously or secretly (c) a ritual (d) vacillation

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n. magnate (a) sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong (b) a figure with six angles (c) a person of rank or importance (d) line of motion or direction

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n. vagrant (a) an idle wanderer (b) similarity in quality or form (c) an ancestor (d) a fictitious narrative presented as historical but without any basis of fact

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n. auxiliary (a) a fictitious narrative presented as historical but without any basis of fact (b) an animal having two feet (c) irreverence toward God (d) one who or that which aids or helps, especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory

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n. anecdote (a) any violation of established rules or customs (b) a brief account of some interesting event or incident (c) a very boastful and talkative person; a vain boaster (d) an official appointed to examine or oversee any matter of public interest or importance

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n. tirade (a) the state or condition of knowing how to read and write (b) festivity (c) anything that rouses to activity or to quickened action (d) harangue

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adj. conversant (a) abandoned to vice (b) lying or directed perpendicularly to the horizon (c) thoroughly informed (d) marked by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds

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n. triplicity (a) masculinity (b) division of words into that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse (c) the condition of existing in three identical copies (d) heir; inheritor; one who or that which follows or takes the place of another

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n. nunnery (a) family origin; genealogy; line of descent (c) conversation

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(b) a trying and purifying test or agency (d) a convent

v. embarrass (a) to prevent from being disclosed or punished (b) to render flustered or agitated (c) to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence (d) to pay or pay for

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adj. inglorious (a) indisputable (b) ghastly and sensational (c) affected by a condition caused by a lack of red blood cells (d) shameful

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adj. palatial (a) talkative (b) comprehensible (c) characterized by special tact in negotiations (d) magnificent

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v. beset (a) to attack on all sides (b) to bind (c) to endue with life (d) to make characteristic of the present or of recent times

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adj. variable (a) burning with passion (c) worthless; cheap; low in value; trivial

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adj. tiresome (a) having a fellow-feeling for or like feelings with another or others (b) annoying; boring; wearisome (c) in prosperous circumstances (d) consecrated by a vow or promise

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adj. ornate (a) flimsy (b) tending to one point (c) having excess decoration; showy; flamboyant; flowery or elaborate in literary style (d) aware that one lives, feels and thinks

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adj. acute (a) prior (b) directed toward knowledge for its own sake without respect to applications (c) philosophical (d) having fine and penetrating discernment

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adj. sidelong (a) of, pertaining to or situated on the abdomen (b) extreme; fanatical (c) indirect; oblique; not direct or straightforward (d) impervious to light

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adj. philharmonic (a) fond of music (b) expressive of positive command, as distinguished from merely directory (c) very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell (d) censurable

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adj. boorish (a) straight; one dimensional; pertaining to length; narrow and elongated (b) rude (c) withered (d) lacking friendliness or warmth; inhuman; detached

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adj. continuous (a) capable of being poured from one vessel to another (b) fallen into decay or partial ruin (c) connected, extended or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence (d) connected with the study or cultivation of plants

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adj. insentient (a) founded on truth (b) brought together without order, distinction or design (for sex) (c) very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell (d) lacking the power of feeling or perceiving

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adj. fallacious (a) illogical (b) pertaining to the art of beautifying, especially the complexion (c) recurring every seven years (d) discriminating

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adj. maternal (a) pertaining or peculiar to a mother or to motherhood (b) pertaining to the mind or soul (c) lasting for a short time only (d) untiring

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n. luxuriance (a) transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases, etc., from parent to offspring (b) one of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: used in brush-making, etc (c) excessive or superfluous growth or quantity (d) any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object

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n. detriment (a) that of which anything is composed or may be constructed (b) something that causes damage, depreciation or loss (c) the condition of not flowing or not changing (d) an official

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n. stanza (a) a group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem (b) intensity of passion or affection (c) newness (d) person who absorbs and comprehends something

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n. intrigue (a) one who doubts any statements (b) lack of refinement in conduct or speech (c) bottomless gulf (d) a plot or scheme, usually complicated and intended to accomplish something by secret ways

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n. sophism (a) the nobility (b) a majority (c) a mark for failure or bad conduct (d) a false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive

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n. mania (a) a variety of the peach (b) a mere youth (c) a religious holiday celebrated on January 6 to commemorate the visit of the wise men to Bethlehem (Christianity) (d) insanity

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n. humanitarian (a) an outline or contour (b) a philanthropist (c) the study and collection of stamps (d) that which causes gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration

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n. jurisprudence (a) liability to be broken or destroyed (b) vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea (c) spare time (d) the science of rights in accordance with positive law

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n. anatomy (a) that branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms (b) staff; work force; team; crew (c) open robbery, as in war (d) a clever or sarcastic remark

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n. approbation (a) a tree (b) an idea that comes later than its appropriate or expected time (c) malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another (d) sanction

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v. conjoin (a) to contend

(b) to unite

(c) to return to a former place or condition

(d) to imply

adj. mellifluous (a) definite (b) sweetly or smoothly flowing (c) unavoidable; inescapable; certain; sure to happen (d) having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers

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n. nausea (a) a small shrill trumpet or bugle (b) the outer skin (c) an affection of the stomach producing dizziness and usually an impulse to vomit (d) a writer on ethics

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n. torpor (a) transition of the soul of a human being at death into another body, whether human or beast (b) apathy (c) the act of turning or directing inward, physically or mentally (d) uneasiness of mind occasioned by desire, anxiety or fear

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n. maxim (a) discord (b) a list of persons who have died in a certain place or time (c) a principle accepted as true and acted on as a rule or guide (d) a sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear

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adj. omnivorous (a) eating or living upon food of all kinds indiscriminately (b) very-learned (c) imperfect (d) heedless

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n. rookery (a) the art of anointing as with oil (b) the quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations (c) a place where crows congregate to breed (d) obsession; fixation; thought that is constantly on one's mind; prior tenure or possession

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v. beck (a) to point out or publicly accuse as deserving of punishment, censure or odium (b) to have weight or influence (in determining a question) (c) to purify by affliction (d) to give a signal to by nod or gesture

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v. discomfit (a) to twist into a misshapen form (c) to put to confusion

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(b) to take a different course (d) to bind

adj. necessary (a) giving off bubbles of gas (b) indispensably requisite or absolutely needed to accomplish a desired result (c) pertaining to the having, holding or detention of property in one's power or command (d) helpful

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adj. intrepid (a) touching (b) urgent (c) hanging, especially so as to swing by an attached end or part (d) fearless and bold

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adj. suspicious (a) clinging or sticking fast

(b) proceeding or marked by caution

(c) inconsistent with reason or common sense

(d) inclined to doubt or mistrust

adj. ashen (a) pale (b) voluntarily (c) belonging to, situated in or derived from another country (d) having confidence

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adj. anxious (a) common (b) distressed in mind respecting some uncertain matter (c) unceasing (d) noisily or offensively loud or clamorous

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adj. cycloid (a) like a circle (c) tranquil

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(b) done or made in jest (d) of unchangeable length or area

adj. crematory (a) a place for cremating dead bodies (b) possessing the power of sense or sense-perception (c) foreign (d) neither masculine nor feminine

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adj. hydroelectric (a) pertaining to electricity developed water or steam (b) relating to the correcting or preventing of deformity (c) having courage or spirit (d) not accomplishing an intended purpose

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adj. aboriginal (a) free, clear or released, as from some liability or restriction affecting others (b) having an exact signification or positive meaning (c) primitive; unsophisticated (d) neglecting or refusing to obey

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v. exonerate (a) to behead (b) to grind or strike the teeth together, as from rage (c) to perform the first act or rite (d) to relieve or vindicate from accusation, imputation or blame

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adj. infamous (a) easily led or controlled (b) characterized by special tact in negotiations (c) native (d) publicly branded or notorious, as for vice or crime

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n. suspension (a) person who takes advantage of circumstances to gain his ends (b) the treatment of mental disease (c) a hanging from a support (d) a series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information

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n. hygiene (a) person who is rejected and despised, especially socially (b) one who holds opinions contrary to the recognized standards or tenets of any philosophy (c) the branch of medical science that relates to improving health (d) a weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something

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n. pontiff (a) the poisonous fluid that certain animals secrete (b) the Pope (c) a figure of speech that consists in the naming of a thing by one of its attributes (d) an instrument for measuring very small angles or dimensions

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n. kiln (a) an oven or furnace for baking, burning or drying industrial products (b) the landed estate of a lord or nobleman (c) a small article, more for ornament that use (d) the sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon

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n. reproof (a) a small flute (b) any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages (c) an expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured (d) thesis

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n. alabaster (a) a white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum (b) lassitude of body or depression (c) newness (d) the writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians and later of the Romans

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n. percolator (a) the quality of being noticeable or distinguished (b) foreboding (c) a filter (d) an apparatus for magnifying faint sounds

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n. interposition (a) a specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy (b) the process of coming between (c) one of the heavenly bodies as a source of light (d) the scientific description or study of human arts and industries in their historic development

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n. urchin (a) self-restraint with respect to desires, appetites and passion (b) a roguish, mischievous boy (c) person who retails small wares (d) unlimited and universal power

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n. incompetence (a) general lack of capacity or fitness (b) preponderance (c) a person fully empowered to transact any business (d) the exertion of opposite effort or effect

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n. convolution (a) urgency (b) the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing (c) something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen or done instead of something else (d) a winding motion

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adj. tense (b) having no fixed abode (d) strained to stiffness

(a) having or exercising the power of resistance (c) without importance, force or influence Q3

adj. promiscuous (a) brought together without order, distinction or design (for sex) (b) rigid (c) bigoted (d) answering yes; to a question at issue

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n. mendicant (a) a place for the reception or treatment of the sick (b) a beggar (c) person who travels from house to house with an assortment of goods for retail (d) a long curved blade for mowing, reaping, etc

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n. archaeology (a) the smaller in number of two portions into which a number or a group is divided (b) reverential regard or worship (c) a mirror, as of metal, for sending back light, heat or sound in a particular direction (d) the branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man

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v. animadvert (a) to tease (b) to enter or force a way into the interior parts of (c) to pass criticism or censure (d) to drive away by or as by scattering in different directions

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n. convoy (a) a protecting force accompanying property in course of transportation (b) lack; shortage (c) one who journeys on foot (d) royalty

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n. man-trap (a) one who exerts oneself in opposition or rivalry (b) unrestricted power (c) a luxurious person (d) a place or structure dangerous to life; a mechanical device for catching trespassers and poachers

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n. precursor (a) an artificially induced somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestion (b) keen vexation, annoyance or mortification, as at one's failures or errors (c) a forerunner or herald (d) beginning

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n. paroxysm (a) person who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose (b) the constitutional right in a chief executive of refusing to approve an enactment (c) a sudden outburst of any kind of activity (d) rareness

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adj. susceptible (a) contemptible (b) easily under a specified power or influence (c) having no essential relation to a subject (d) grand; splendid; majestic; superb; glorious; impressive

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adj. intolerable (a) insufferable (b) physically powerful (c) having the ability to express emotion or feeling in lofty and impassioned speech (d) amusing; funny

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adj. anterior (a) evil in nature or tending to do great harm or mischief (b) given too little light to a piece of photographic film when taking a photograph (c) prior (d) pertaining to punishment

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adj. subjacent (a) untiring (b) situated directly underneath (c) able to be turned from the accustomed course or a line of action already established (d) of the nature of betrayal, treachery or breech of allegiance

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adj. perspicuous (a) awkward of movement (b) kindly disposed (c) possessing, giving or constituting preference or priority (d) lucid

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n. legitimacy (a) accordance with law (b) an open situation or position in relation to the sun, elements or points of the compass (c) frequent irregular change back and forth from one state or degree to another (d) any impulse or incentive

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n. contiguity (a) a sheet of paper on which information has been printed; flyer (b) the written or printed productions of the human mind collectively (c) a place in which goods are stored (d) proximity

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adj. fallible (a) of a warlike or combative disposition or tendency (b) capable of erring (c) having several syllables, especially more than three syllables (d) violent

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adj. phlegmatic (a) not easily roused to feeling or action (b) capable of being sold or confiscated (c) eagerly desirous and aspiring (d) peculiar to or proceeding from the weakness or infirmity of old age

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adj. rife (a) impulsive (b) abundant (c) contentious (d) suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another

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n. hydrostatics (a) power (b) time between acts or periods (c) the branch of science that treats of the pressure and equilibrium of fluids (d) the act of observing and analyzing one's own thoughts and feelings

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n. consensus (a) a collective unanimous opinion of a number of persons (b) malice (c) an executive officer in legislative bodies who enforces the orders of the presiding officer (d) a worshiper of false gods

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n. moccasin (a) the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at once (b) the dissection of a living animal (c) in engraving, an etched stone surface for printing (d) a foot-covering made of soft leather or buckskin

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n. signification (a) the common people (b) the meaning conveyed by language, actions or signs (c) a model, pattern or original to be copied or imitated (d) an annual allowance, payment or income

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n. zephyr (a) a gross infringement of morality or decency (b) the science that describes the universe, including astronomy, geography and geology (c) the act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence (d) any soft, gentle wind

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n. muster (a) an arbitrary assemblage or group of stars (b) a portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision (c) person who is disabled by illness or injury (d) an assemblage or review of troops for parade or inspection or for numbering off

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n. pandemonium (a) general officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general (b) state of being unfamiliar with something; lack of knowledge or ability (c) a field (d) a fiendish or riotous uproar

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n. evolution (a) a representative of one sovereign state at the capital or court of another (b) a spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept (c) displacement by authority from an office or an employment (d) development or growth

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adj. baleful (a) not logically coordinated, as to parts, elements or details (b) perceivable (c) having the nature or form of a question (d) malignant

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n. mishap (a) an unlucky accident (b) the common people (c) one who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions (d) a break

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n. misbehavior (a) ill or poor conduct (b) exclusion from intercourse or favor, as in society or politics (c) three things grouped or associated together (d) anything that severely tests courage, strength, patience, conscience, etc

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adj. chameleon (a) relative; corresponding (c) habitually complaining

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(b) changeable in appearance (d) lawful

adj. gradient (b) lazy (d) moving or advancing by steps

(a) holding the commonly accepted faith (c) beginning Q4

n. scoundrel (a) debate (b) a logician (c) the science of rights in accordance with positive law (d) a man without principle

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adj. contemptible (a) not suitable to be selected or chosen (c) punitive

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(b) plausible (d) worthy of scorn or disdain

n. suppression (a) a grain or seed (b) well-being (c) a forcible putting or keeping down (d) the quality of being marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner

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n. orator (a) person who delivers an elaborate or formal speech (b) a critical judge of art, especially one with thorough knowledge and sound judgment of art (c) life in or fondness for one's home and family (d) savageness

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n. mechanics (a) a policy of maintaining great standing armies (b) the act of rising (c) wild or wanton revelry (d) the branch of physics that treats the phenomena caused by the action of forces

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v. encumber (a) to impede with obstacles (b) to spend (c) to enter voluntarily the military service by formal enrollment (d) to infest or ravage

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n. waif (a) a pithy phrasing of a shrewd observation (b) one who settles on land without permission or right (c) a homeless, neglected wanderer (d) a superior production

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adj. prescriptible (a) pertaining to a brief explanation to the reader at the beginning of a book (b) petulant (irritable) (c) derived from authoritative direction (d) capable of being dissolved, as in a fluid

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adj. sibilant (a) made with a hissing sound (b) possessed of unlimited and universal power (c) seeming likely to be true, though open to doubt (d) characterized by craft or cunning

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adj. ineligible (a) not suitable to be selected or chosen (b) of, pertaining to or of the nature of vinegar (c) surpassing (d) lying on the back

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adj. auditory (a) not flowing: said of water, as in a pool (b) of or pertaining to hearing or the organs or sense of hearing (c) lacking warmth of manner (d) tending to produce sleep

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adj. lewd (b) characterized by lust or lasciviousness (d) exempt, as from disease

(a) that can not be turned aside (c) small in quantity or importance Q6

adj. conductible (a) capable of being conducted or transmitted (b) extraordinary (c) not residing within a given jurisdiction (d) showing watchfulness, caution or careful consideration

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adj. mordacious (a) fashionable

(b) containing or consisting of more than one (d) capable of being maintained or justified

(c) biting or giving to biting Q8

adj. benignant (a) pertaining to the lungs (c) benevolent in feeling, character or aspect

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(b) bewildered (d) inclined to doubt or mistrust

adj. abstruse (a) prevalent (b) agreeable (c) roomy (d) dealing with matters difficult to be understood

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adj. original (b) disposed to pity and forgive (d) not copied nor produced by imitation

(a) guilty (c) frolicsome

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n. tableau (a) an unlucky accident (b) the act of artfully perplexing (c) a sudden irregular shake or a push causing such a shake (d) an arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life

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n. beau (a) one who has been won over from one religious belief to another (b) an escort or lover (c) anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms (d) an officer whose duty is to maintain the peace

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n. dramatist (a) the act or sensation of hearing (b) anything that rouses to activity or to quickened action (c) person who writes plays (d) a prophet

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n. magistracy (a) a proposition taken for granted as a premise from which to reach a conclusion (b) an assault; mighty attack; overwhelming quantity appearing all at once (as of people) (c) the office or dignity of a minor judicial officer who has limited jurisdiction in criminal cases (d) the study of language in connection with history and literature

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n. coxswain (a) friendship (b) the book containing the service for the celebration of mass (c) person who steers a small boat (d) conjecture

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n. concordance (a) rareness

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(b) a will

(c) balance

(d) abundance

n. distrainor (a) person who subjects another person to distress (b) common sense (c) the quality of making a clamor (d) direction and management

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n. subjection (a) the act of bringing into a state of submission (b) a government administered by ecclesiastics (c) a prearranged place of meeting (d) indirect or roundabout expression

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adj. stellar (a) tending to blame (b) pertaining to the stars (c) capable of positive proof (d) capable of influencing to action by entreaty, statement or anything that moves the feelings

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n. allusion (a) a complete or humiliating failure (b) an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule (c) an indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it (d) a square of linen, silk or other material, used as a covering for the head or neck

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adj. augustinian (a) pertaining to St. Augustine, his doctrines or the religious orders called after him (b) that can not be successfully withstood or opposed (c) brotherly (d) necessary or requisite for the purpose

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adj. wearisome (a) urgent (b) of or pertaining to the ear or the sense of hearing (c) fatiguing (d) destitute of or lacking in power, physical, moral or intellectual

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n. percipient (a) obsession; fixation; thought that is constantly on one's mind; prior tenure or possession (b) the treatment of mental disease (c) a parting address (d) person who absorbs and comprehends something

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adv. wholly (a) once more (c) word for word

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(b) precipitately, as in diving (d) completely

n. altruism (a) benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest (b) a fusible alloy used for joining metallic surfaces or margins (c) a part of the study of liquids (d) fewness

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n. gesture (a) a general truth or proposition (b) the faculty by the exercise of which a deliberate conclusion is reached (c) a movement or action of the hands or face, expressive of some idea or emotion (d) an outpouring

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n. profligacy (a) the boundary-line of a circle (b) shameless viciousness (c) a small grain or particle (d) a display dictated by vanity and intended to invite applause or flattery

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adv. whereupon (a) after which (c) at last

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(b) in twofold degree or extent (d) from side to side

adj. obituary (a) inert (c) annoying; boring; wearisome

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(b) a published notice of a death (d) genuine

n. chagrin (a) the group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns (b) the state of being scornfully reproached or accused of evil (c) acceptance of the common faith (d) keen vexation, annoyance or mortification, as at one's failures or errors

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adj. pusillanimous (a) without spirit or bravery (c) feasible

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(b) justifiable (d) merry

adj. inactive (a) subject to contention or dispute (c) inert

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(b) undecipherable (d) foreign

adj. captious (a) hypercritical (b) publicly branded or notorious, as for vice or crime (c) characteristic of youth (d) pertaining to ancient times

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adj. abject (a) existing, done or operating beneath the surface of the sea (b) being present everywhere (c) without determinate shape (d) sunk to a low condition

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adj. plural (a) containing or consisting of more than one (b) pertaining to, intended for or performed by a chorus or choir (c) innate (d) habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance

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adj. divertible (a) having the spirit or sentiment of rural life (b) producing offspring or fruit (c) able to be turned from the accustomed course or a line of action already established (d) translucent

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adj. pneumatic (b) disdainful (d) capable of feeling of suffering

(a) out of the common or regular track (c) pertaining to or consisting of air or gas Q8

adj. annual (b) constituting an excess (d) like a lion

(a) showing inexperience (c) occurring every year Q9

adj. polyglot (a) eating or living on flesh (b) beyond which there is nothing else (c) in a state of preparedness for any given purpose or occasion (d) speaking several tongues

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adj. reciprocal (a) pertaining to flowers (b) relating to physical or, especially, sexual pleasure (c) mutually interchangeable or convertible (d) possessing wisdom

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n. magician (a) opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness (b) coercion (c) a sorcerer (d) double-dealing

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n. premise (a) a judgment as a conclusion (b) any great and sudden misfortune or calamity (c) separation of the more volatile parts of a substance from those less volatile (d) shortness of duration

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n. accusation (a) sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper (b) a number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose (c) a charge of crime, misdemeanor or error (d) a distinctive feature

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n. disbeliever (a) a circumstance so agreeing with another: often implying accident (b) the art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy (c) an atheist (d) a heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body

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n. testament (a) a driving onward or forward (b) an alcoholic cordial sweetened and flavored with aromatic substances (c) a very brief portion of time (d) a will

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n. gradation (a) the side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle (b) a Christian who denies the authority of the Pope and holds the right of special judgment (c) unwillingness to brook delays or wait the natural course of things (d) a step, degree, rank or relative position in an order or series

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n. arbor (a) a tree (b) that department of government which administers the law (c) the view that everything in nature and the history of mankind is ordered for the best (d) boundless or immeasurable extension or duration

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n. suasion (a) the act of persuading (b) an elementary reading-book for children (c) person who takes advantage of circumstances to gain his ends (d) separation of relations or interests

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v. galvanize (a) to worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances (b) to fasten (c) to imbue with life or animation (d) to send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destination

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n. cupidity (a) avarice (c) unlikeness of constituent parts

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n. matrimony (a) one of three men united coordinately in public office or authority (b) that which is used to decorate the person or dress (c) self denial (d) the union of a man and a woman in marriage

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v. predominate (a) to be chief in importance, quantity or degree (b) to lower in character or virtue (c) to cut apart or to pieces (d) to fill with extreme fear

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v. outreach (a) to wish joy or happiness to somebody, especially in view of a coming event (b) to refuse to have anything to do with (c) to exceed; to go beyond (d) to return or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like

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n. eclipse (a) a member of an academy of literature, art or science (b) the obstruction of a heavenly body by its entering into the shadow of another body (c) an intermediate state where souls are made fit for paradise or heaven by expiatory suffering (d) a piece of bric-a-brac

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adj. disjunctive (a) not suitable to be selected or chosen (b) helping or serving to disconnect or separate (c) passing out of use, as a word (d) that may be pierced by physical, moral or intellectual force

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n. landholder (a) a real estate owner (b) in England, a title of nobility, ranking fourth in the order of British peerage (c) a fiendish or riotous uproar (d) chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold

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adj. financial (a) unmindful; oblivious; rash (c) monetary

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(b) farther or more distant (d) marketable

adj. licentious (a) distinctive (b) having a double meaning (c) unduly or excessively proud, as of wealth, station, learning, etc (d) wanton

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adj. neural (a) candid, frank or open in character or quality (b) pertaining to the nerves or nervous system (c) convulsive (d) trivial

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v. accomplish (a) to assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court (b) to bring to ruin (c) to predict (d) to bring to pass

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adj. effete (a) distressed in mind respecting some uncertain matter (b) exhausted, as having performed its functions (c) tending to kill or hurt (d) poverty-stricken

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adj. tercentenary (a) fond of drinking (c) pertaining to a period of 300 years

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(b) based on or growing out of divine revelation (d) doubtful

adj. luminescent (a) distinctive (c) showing increase of light

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(b) of senatorial or noble rank (d) approachable

adj. comprehensive (a) large in scope or content (c) icy; icily cold

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(b) persevering in effort or endeavor (d) poor; indigent

adj. dilatory (a) malignant (b) kindly disposed (c) tending to cause delay (d) relating to or denoting equal intervals of time

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adj. socialist (a) rich and costly (b) making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety (c) one who advocates reconstruction of society by collective ownership of land and capital (d) pertaining to the stars

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adj. undulous (a) subject to contention or dispute (c) apt to omit what ought to be done

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(b) low in tone or compass (d) resembling waves

adj. athirst (a) wanting water

(b) that makes or enacts laws

(c) extreme

(d) pertaining to or producing loss of sensation

adj. grievous (a) can be decreased; diminishable; can be expressed in a simpler form (b) creating affliction (c) having reached a high degree of worldly prosperity (d) qualified

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n. prowess (a) strength, skill and intrepidity in battle (b) a title of honor or respectful address, equivalent to sir (c) disclosure; act of exposing (d) the act of entering without warrant or invitation; encroachment

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n. controller (a) something that is bought and sold (b) person who or that which regulates or directs (c) one who doubts any statements (d) a fleet and spirited horse

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n. immersion (a) a loose robe, fastening with a sash, the principal outer garment in Japan (b) the coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state or personage (c) the act of plunging or dipping entirely under water or another fluid (d) a tomb of more than ordinary size or architectural pretensions

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n. vestment (a) the department of natural science that treats of the constitution and structure of the earth (b) clothing or covering (c) an instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure (d) Irish word for lake; long inlet of the sea; bay

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n. polygon (a) flood (b) a figure having many angles (c) the condition of being manifold or very various (d) expression of sympathy with a person in pain, sorrow or misfortune

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n. superintendence (a) a servile assistant and subordinate (b) direction and management (c) that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse (d) a number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose

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n. reciprocity (a) equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed (b) the communication of disease from person to person (c) recollection (d) absence or utter disregard of government

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n. foreground (a) a vehement appeal (b) that part of a landscape or picture situated or represented as nearest the spectator (c) a collective unanimous opinion of a number of persons (d) the act of going forward

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adj. devious (a) pertaining to the throat (c) not predictable

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(b) out of the common or regular track (d) deadly; fatal; contagious; infectious

n. baton (a) a chest of drawers for clothing, etc (b) person who has a share (c) a mediator (d) an official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege

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n. monosyllable (a) a religious zealot (b) the sharp striking of one body against another (c) a word that contains of only one segment of speech (d) an edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena

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n. decagram (a) access; act of accessing (b) a court or tribunal for examination and punishment of heretics (c) urgency (d) a weight of 10 grams

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adj. emphatic (a) of or pertaining to the fall (b) taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned (c) spoken with any special impressiveness laid upon an act, word or set of words (d) conquerable

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adj. secretive (a) caused by or denoting a diseased or unsound condition of body or mind (b) ten-footed or ten-armed (c) mischievous; harmful; evil (d) having a tendency to conceal

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n. stealth (a) the act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation (b) a journey (c) a concealed manner of acting (d) a vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded

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n. monomania (a) the unreasonable pursuit of one idea (b) the act of selling (c) a speech recited or intended for recitation from memory in public (d) a graphic character symbolizing an articulate sound

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v. embroil (a) to share the sentiments or mental states of another (b) to involve in dissension or strife (c) to render unsusceptible to a disease by inoculating (d) to palm off

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v. mete (a) to continue steadfast against opposition (b) in cookery, to surround with additions for embellishment (c) to apportion (d) to cause to become the subject-matter of a suit at law

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n. regimen (a) possession or continuance of being (b) proverb (c) a systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing and personal habits (d) the dead body of an animal

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adj. connubial (a) effective (c) without spot or blemish

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adj. deterrent (a) not difficult to do (c) methodical

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(b) rare (d) hindering from action through fear

adj. scrupulous (a) first (c) sharing the same views or sentiments

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(b) cautious in action for fear of doing wrong (d) easily led or controlled

adj. ludicrous (a) laughable (b) passing from one subject to another (c) undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors (d) dangerous and close at hand

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adj. wee (a) wealthy (b) very small (c) diligent (d) having or showing devotion to the acquisition of knowledge

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adj. artful (a) brotherly (c) characterized by craft or cunning

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(b) abounding in irregular bends or turns (d) not exactly according to the facts

adj. convalescent (a) beneficial (c) recovering health after sickness

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(b) raving (d) untrue

adj. expressive (a) loathsome (c) exact

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(b) of wide extent or frequent occurrence (d) full of meaning

adj. invaluable (a) exceedingly precious (b) of or pertaining to the ear or the sense of hearing (c) lasting but a short time (d) made out of wood

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adj. vulnerable (a) not logically coordinated, as to parts, elements or details (b) mental; rational; brilliant; academic (c) capable of receiving injuries (d) lasting for a short time only

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n. junction (a) a natural or artificial layer, bed or thickness of any substance or material (b) anything unnaturally huge or distorted (c) rivulet (d) the condition of being joined

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n. vertigo (a) diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose (b) a geometrical figure (c) dizziness (d) an allurer or enticer to evil

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n. octavo (a) the branch of physics that treats the phenomena caused by the action of forces (b) the science of languages or of the origin, history, and significance of words (c) a book or collection of paper in which the sheets are so folded as to make eight leaves (d) repetition of words or sounds as a means of learning them, with slight attention

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n. sonata (a) person who beholds or looks on (c) an instrumental composition

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(b) the sameness or monotony of utterance (d) a secret agreement for a wrongful purpose

n. utilitarianism (a) a syllabus or summary (b) an instrument for measuring very small angles or dimensions (c) the ethical doctrine that actions are right because they are useful or of beneficial tendency (d) person who takes advantage of circumstances to gain his ends

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n. recidivist (a) vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea (b) an assemblage or review of troops for parade or inspection or for numbering off (c) a confirmed criminal (d) hatred of women

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n. admittance (a) ardor or intensity of feeling (c) a group of three persons of things

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(b) entrance or the right or permission to enter (d) the final point or goal

n. idiom (a) a use of words peculiar to a particular language (b) unlikeness of constituent parts (c) benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest (d) the contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants

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n. heresy (a) an opinion or doctrine subversive of settled beliefs or accepted principles (b) a supervisor (c) a mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual (d) a trinket

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n. prodigal (a) a word idiom or phrase characteristic of Great Britain or the British (b) extravagant person; lavish spender; spendthrift; squanderer; one who wastes money (c) set way of saying or doing something (d) level or low land between hills

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v. enthrone (a) to empty by draining off the contents (b) to recall or take back (something that one has said) (c) to invest with sovereign power (d) to cut off or take away, as a part of something

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adj. noisy (a) worthy of scorn or disdain (b) clamorous (c) incomprehensible (d) that can not be blotted out, effaced, destroyed or removed

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v. dogmatize (a) to feed to fullness or to satiety (b) to surrender (c) to make positive assertions without supporting them by argument or evidence (d) to free from deception, as by apprising of the real state of affairs

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v. castigate (a) to utter vehement censure or invective (c) to look forward to as certain or probable

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(b) to punish (d) to predict

v. recoil (a) to palm off (b) to bring together or give fixed shape to (c) to start back as in dismay, loathing or dread (d) to search through and through

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adj. indefensible (a) of or pertaining to the night (c) grief-stricken

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(b) untenable (d) fraudulent

adj. inadmissible (a) joyous (b) unsuitable or inconvenient, especially as to time (c) not moved or affected by feeling (d) not to be approved, considered or allowed, as testimony

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n. martyrdom (a) an action or event considered as coming between others of greater length (b) the offspring of a white person and a black person (c) submission to death or persecution for the sake of faith or principle (d) an official examiner of manuscripts empowered to prohibit their publication

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adj. pestilential (a) deadly; fatal; contagious; infectious (b) being on the alert to discover and ward off danger or insure safety (c) disposed to pity and forgive (d) exercising royal authority in one's own right

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n. unction (a) anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc (b) moral fitness (c) a hissing sound (d) the art of anointing as with oil

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adj. repugnant (a) pertaining to an island

(b) urgent in character, request or demand

(c) made with a hissing sound

(d) offensive to taste and feeling

adj. incompetent (a) of barbarous, uncouth and unfamiliar aspect or action (b) not having the abilities desired or necessary for any purpose (c) moving onward quickly and heedlessly (d) uncultured in thought and manner

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adj. harmonious (a) that may e sent through or across

(b) enraptured

(c) concordant in sound

(d) of or pertaining to heat

adj. phonic (a) relating to or denoting equal intervals of time (b) changeable (c) pertaining to the nature of sound (d) indicative

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adj. jocular (a) amusing; funny (b) intelligible (c) pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone (d) implied

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adj. secant (a) cutting, especially into two parts (b) not allowed; forbidden (c) living, occurring or existing at the same time (d) fitted to serve as a model or example worthy of imitation

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adj. illiterate (a) unalterable; unchangeable; final (b) having little or no book-learning (c) green with vegetation (d) capable of influencing to action by entreaty, statement or anything that moves the feelings

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adj. ultramontane (a) pertaining to a piece of land almost surrounded by water (b) fleeting (c) eating with greediness or in very large quantities (d) beyond the mountains, especially beyond the Alps (that is, on their Italian side)

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adj. pertinacious (a) solid (b) cone-bearing trees (c) admitting the entrance or passage of another substance (d) stubborn; steadfast; tenacious; obstinate

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adj. convex (a) religious (b) dealing with matters difficult to be understood (c) sleepy (d) curving like the segment of the globe or of the surface of a circle

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n. abduction (a) a carrying away of a person against his will or illegally (b) a portable case for holding writing-materials, drawings, etc (c) an idea that comes later than its appropriate or expected time (d) a circumstance so agreeing with another: often implying accident

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n. hypocrisy (a) the boundary-line of a circle (b) a conspicuous hill, low mountain or natural turret, generally isolated (c) extreme insincerity (d) the ethical doctrine that actions are right because they are useful or of beneficial tendency

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n. juncture (a) massacre (b) an articulation, joint or seam (c) the female of the deer (d) person who subjects another person to distress

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n. folk-lore (a) a command (b) internal parts of an animal (c) the traditions, beliefs, and customs of the common people (d) the treatment of mental disease

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n. foresight (a) anything occurring or existing out of its proper time (b) lamentation (c) provision against harm or need (d) the United Kingdom of Great Britain

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n. oculist (a) a title of Jesus (b) one versed or skilled in treating diseases of the eye (c) a subordinate part or parts, enriching or supporting the leading part (d) a strong point

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n. kingship (a) royal state (b) difficulty or failure in the alimentary canal in changing food into absorptive nutriment (c) rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops (d) the dignity, condition, office or term of office of government official

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n. well-doer (a) a performer of moral and social duties (b) something that is bought and sold (c) censure or ridicule under cover of praise or compliment (d) one who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court

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adj. unwieldy (a) lacking wise judgment (b) moved or managed with difficulty, as from great size or awkward shape (c) abundant (d) that can not be destroyed

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n. bombast (a) kindness of feeling, disposition or manner (b) inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects (c) alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger (d) the secretion of milk

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adj. sanctimonious (a) containing a formal, positive or explicit statement or affirmation (b) making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety (c) fallacious (d) fond of music

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adj. equivalent (a) unduly or excessively proud, as of wealth, station, learning, etc (b) capable of being appealed to (c) equal in value, force, meaning or the like (d) ten-footed or ten-armed

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adj. glorious (a) assuming too much

(b) punitive

(c) unyielding

(d) of excellence and splendor

n. urbanity (a) refined or elegant courtesy (b) undress or negligent attire (c) the facing, sometimes richly ornamented, about a fireplace, including the usual shelf above it (d) anything forbidden, as by social usage

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adj. warlike (a) remote from the sea

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(b) untrue

(c) abundant

(d) belligerent

v. exaggerate (a) to lessen or destroy the luster of in any way (b) to overstate (c) to endue with life (d) to repeat again the principal points of

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n. reflector (a) somebody who climbs for sport (b) the three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune (c) the offspring of a white person and a black person (d) a mirror, as of metal, for sending back light, heat or sound in a particular direction

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n. influence (a) land along the edge of a body of water (b) ability to sway the will of another (c) the state of being flowery or a flowery appearance (d) a plant that produces leaves and roots the first year and flowers and fruit the second

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adj. equivocal (a) pertaining to beauty, taste or the fine arts (c) pliant

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adj. glacial (a) sensual (c) icy; icily cold

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(b) ambiguous (d) stretched tight

(b) such as can not be made plain (d) fixed beforehand; set in advance; settled

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adj. juridical (a) assumed by law to exist

(b) swollen

(c) broken in spirit because of a sense of sin

(d) capable of being disjoined or divided

adj. sinuous (a) curving in and out

(b) composite; made up of interconnected parts

(c) not accomplishing an intended purpose

(d) plenteous

adj. tranquil (a) calm

(b) keen in discernment

(c) disinclined to conversation

(d) capable of being sold or confiscated

adj. ridiculous (a) not logically coordinated, as to parts, elements or details (b) divinely sweet, fragrant or delicious (c) answering (d) laughable and contemptible

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adj. amicable (a) showing criminal or evil purpose (b) having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally (c) possessing distinguished merit (d) done in a friendly spirit

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adj. resistless (a) powerless (b) veracious (c) smaller than usual (d) referring to reproduction without the combination of genetic material with another individua

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adj. semicivilized (a) derived from authoritative direction (c) ardent in feeling

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(b) partly cultured (d) ashen; colorless; white; faint; weak; sickly

adj. prim (a) capable of being refuted (b) stiffly proper (c) retired from active service but retained to an honorary position (d) possessing a liquefying nature or power

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adj. prodigious (a) speechless

(b) unpremeditated

(c) immense

(d) gigantic

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n. anagram (a) the exhibition of greatness of action, character, intellect, wealth or power (b) unrestricted power (c) agreement (d) the letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase

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n. pentad (a) a fusible alloy used for joining metallic surfaces or margins (b) one who lives by robbery and plunder (c) an open pan or basin for holding live coals (d) the number five

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n. rhetorician (a) a showy writer or speaker (b) the act of beating or driving back, as an attacking or advancing enemy (c) a series of large pictures representing a continuous scene (d) a minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells

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n. fidelity (a) one who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests (b) loyalty (c) a poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases (d) scarcity, as of something customary, essential or desirable

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n. pageant (a) person who transgresses (b) a dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one (c) harsh or malignant oppression (d) any person who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence

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n. philately (a) the study and collection of stamps (b) expansion (c) one who serves on a jury or is sworn in for jury duty in a court of justice (d) a pausing to consider

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n. messieurs (a) gentlemen (c) newness

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(b) the highest point; summit (d) a settled course or manner of progress

n. inquisitor (a) a young animal past its first 12 months of age (b) the fine dust-like grains or powder formed within the anther of a flowering plant (c) the general science of the universe (d) person who makes an investigation

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n. solstice (a) the time of year when the sun is at its greatest declination (b) the sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon (c) a composition for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, generally taken from the Scriptures (d) any great and sudden misfortune or calamity

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n. gratuity (a) something that is given without demand or claim; bonus; tip (b) surrender, as of possessions or rights (c) one who or that which points out (d) the state or quality of being in accord with

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v. addle (a) to give an appearance of foolishness to (b) to change into a sour tasting solution that dissolves metals and other materials (c) to accord in sound, especially vowel sound (d) to make inefficient or worthless; to muddle

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v. dun (a) to burn slightly or superficially (b) to alienate (c) to make a demand or repeated demands on for payment (d) to issue or be party to the issue of a policy of insurance

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n. composure (a) equilibrium (b) calmness (c) ability to know (d) careful and persevering effort to accomplish what is undertaken

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adj. sapid (a) milky (c) marked by great plentifulness

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(b) affecting the sense of taste (d) uncommon

v. subtend (a) to wear away the surface or some part of by friction (b) to divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions (c) to extend opposite to (d) to cause to crinkle or curl, as the hair

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n. brae (a) the passion for collecting books (b) hillside (c) a person of expectant temperament (d) a fabric to which a pattern is applied with a needle, designed for ornamental hangings

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n. limitation (a) favorable or advantageous chance or opening (b) a restriction (c) a member of a municipal legislative body who usually exercises also certain judicial functions (d) an ecclesiastical council

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adj. assonant (a) having resemblance of sound (b) able to be improved; able to be refined (c) pale (d) devoted to feasting or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking

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adj. ribald (a) having fullness of beautiful form, as a woman, with or without sensuous or sensual quality (b) tolerable (c) mutually interchangeable or convertible (d) indulging in or manifesting coarse indecency or obscenity

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v. insinuate (a) to imply (b) to enter in a book or on a list, roll or document by writing (c) to refer to specifically (d) to displace

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adj. resplendent (a) inclined to doubt or mistrust (b) melancholy (c) consisting of that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse (d) very bright

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adj. extraneous (a) having no essential relation to a subject

(b) sensual

(c) delightful to the taste or to the senses

(d) not connected with what precedes

adj. latent (a) not disposed to entertain strangers gratuitously (b) lazy (c) showing abundance (d) dormant

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adj. telltale (a) that gives warning or information (c) noting a genus or kind; opposed to specific

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adj. unavoidable (a) inevitable (c) uncultured in thought and manner

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(b) wanton (d) implied

(b) guilty (d) ascribable

adj. troublesome (a) having a theatrical manner (b) annoying; worrying; difficult; full of distress (c) stiffly proper (d) divinely sweet, fragrant or delicious

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n. fraudulence (a) deceitfulness (b) a person who makes intelligible the speech of a foreigner by oral translation (c) the quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy (d) person who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books or the like

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adj. ignominious (a) characterized by bold or insolent opposition (c) of wide extent or frequent occurrence

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(b) indicating or expressing a cause (d) shameful

adj. opaque (a) limited

(b) fit to be dwelt in

(c) harsh

(d) impervious to light

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n. perturbation (a) mental excitement or confusion (b) immensity (c) a confirmed criminal (d) any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught

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n. lode (a) active humanitarianism (b) permanence (c) the progeny resulting from the crossing of different breeds or varieties (d) a somewhat continuous unstratified metal- bearing vein

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n. interlocutor (a) one who takes part in a conversation or oral discussion (b) any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus of the oak family (c) truth (d) a noxious or ill-smelling exhalation from decaying or putrefying matter

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n. pledgee (a) an incident or story in a literary work, separable from yet growing out of it (b) person who cuts and fits panes of glass, as for windows (c) preconceived opinion; bias; sentence passed before proper examination of the circumstances (d) the person to whom anything is pledged

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n. actuality (a) the setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness (b) any reality (c) a microbe (d) a tirade

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n. ogre (a) the general principles, laws or causes that furnish the rational explanation of anything (b) outside show or elegance (c) a musical instrument somewhat larger than a violin (d) a demon or monster that was supposed to devour human beings

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n. accompaniment (a) the manner in which a thing is placed (b) the desecration of the holy (c) something that swells out from a surrounding surface (d) a subordinate part or parts, enriching or supporting the leading part

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n. contraband (a) trade forbidden by law or treaty (b) an eight-page newspaper of any size (c) a non-commissioned military officer ranking next above a corporal (d) a manner or method of acting

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n. seminary (a) the calling down of a curse or curses (b) a special school, as of theology or pedagogics (c) person who lives in retirement or seclusion (d) the act of bringing into a state of submission

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n. solace (a) a white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum (b) a provision made in advance for some possible emergency or danger (c) one who injures another (d) comfort in grief, trouble or calamity

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adj. incomprehensible (a) of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah (b) having a tendency to conceal (c) not understandable (d) characterized by charity and kindness

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v. instill (a) to distinguish, as a disease, by its characteristic phenomena (b) to imitate (c) to represent beforehand in outline or by emblem (d) to infuse

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adj. inhospitable (a) not disposed to entertain strangers gratuitously (b) opposite (c) nimble (d) indicative of faith or trust

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adj. transverse (a) lying or being across or in a crosswise direction (b) pertaining to marriage or matrimony (c) pertaining to the south pole or the regions near it (d) fatiguing

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n. epicycle (a) the lady superior of a nunnery (b) deification (c) the chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and Anglican church (d) a circle that rolls upon the external or internal circumference of another circle

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adj. superb (a) sumptuously elegant (b) pertaining to or proceeding from sexual intercourse (c) not having made a valid will (d) characteristic of an erudite person

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v. foreclose (a) to bar by judicial proceedings the equitable right of a mortgagor to redeem property (b) to refer incidentally (c) to produce irritation or festering (d) to step beyond

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v. madden (a) to legislate; ordain; decree; perform (b) to empty by draining off the contents (c) to inflame with passion (d) to subject to the action of smoke or fumes, especially for disinfection

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adj. sardonic (a) translucent (c) impudent

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(b) scornfully or bitterly sarcastic (d) inapplicable

adj. callow (a) unavoidable; inescapable; certain; sure to happen (b) idiotic (c) physically powerful (d) without experience of the world

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adj. polysyllable (a) having several syllables, especially more than three syllables (b) of excellence and splendor (c) understood (d) exhibiting changing rainbow-colors due to the interference of the light

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adj. actionable (a) pleased or satisfied with oneself (c) that can not be restrained or kept down

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(b) liable to a lawsuit (d) mutually interchangeable or convertible

adj. superficial (a) representing articulate sounds or speech (b) knowing and understanding only the ordinary and the obvious (c) compassionate (d) cruel

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adj. untoward (a) brought together without order, distinction or design (for sex) (b) surging back or again (c) causing annoyance or hindrance (d) full of bitterness

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adj. prudential (b) sunk to a low condition (d) impenetrably mysterious or profound

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adj. ready (a) in a state of preparedness for any given purpose or occasion (b) discordant (c) being more than is needed (d) plausible; reasonable; probable; possible; appropriate; promising

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adj. scholarly (a) pertaining to the nose (b) resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity or corruption is held up to ridicule (c) characteristic of an erudite person (d) impartial

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adj. fretful (b) branch-like (d) being an addition to

(a) disposed to peevishness (c) having no power or force Q9

adj. opposite (a) radically different or contrary in action or movement (b) humble (c) native (d) that may be allowed

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adj. factious (b) of unequaled excellence or worth (d) exciting or exhilarating to the mind

(a) turbulent (c) perilous

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n. novellette (a) a gambler (b) a light romantic story, especially one that is considered trite or sentimental (c) any work done for the benefit of another (d) person who moves from one place to settle in another

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n. conjunction (a) testimony legally taken on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in court (b) any overwhelming flood of water (c) the state of being joined together or the things so joined (d) a command

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n. antecedent (a) gross wrong or injustice (b) person who or that which precedes or goes before, as in time, place, rank, order or causality (c) perplexity (d) wickedness

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n. financier (a) a driving onward or forward (b) person who manages large amounts of money (privately or corporately) (c) any work done for the benefit of another (d) balance

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n. outskirt (a) a definite amount paid at stated periods in compensation for services or as an allowance (b) a charge for a firearm or for blasting (c) a border region (d) the system, doctrine and practice of the Roman Church

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n. alder (a) any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus of the oak family (b) a musical composition during which the first part or subject is repeated several times (c) a slave or bondman (d) an important event or celebration

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n. efflorescence (a) native; indigenous person; member of a people considered to be the earliest known inhabitants of a country or region (b) person who makes a contribution or present (c) any large animal, as a whale (d) the state of being flowery or a flowery appearance

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n. cartridge (a) a charge for a firearm or for blasting (b) an incumbent of a given office previous to another (c) high praise (d) friendship

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n. ravine (a) wild or wanton revelry (b) a festival or feast (c) a very boastful and talkative person; a vain boaster (d) a deep gorge or hollow, especially one worn by a stream or flow of water

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n. quiescence (a) person who or that which precedes or goes before, as in time, place, rank, order or causality (b) silence; noiselessness; stillness; tranquility; muteness; speechlessness; peacefulness; calmness (c) person from another country; stranger (d) an agent acting for another

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adj. insistent (a) transmitting disease (c) urgent

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(b) first in order of precedence (d) according to usual practice

adj. audacious (a) done in a friendly spirit (b) quarrelsome (c) fearless (d) unduly or excessively proud, as of wealth, station, learning, etc

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adj. reparable (a) can be fixed; mendable; can be corrected (b) inattentive (c) of or pertaining to hearing or the organs or sense of hearing (d) ascribable

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v. prefer (a) to hold in higher estimation (b) to make (a liquid) hot under pressure above its boiling point without vaporization (c) to do anything extemporaneously or offhand (d) to add or attach, as something accessory, subordinate or supplementary

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n. ruth (a) anything intended or calculated to deceive or mislead (b) deficiency of blood or red corpuscles (c) a heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body (d) sorrow for another's misery

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adj. unutterable (a) definitely limited or fixed (b) inexpressible (c) easily affected by outside operations or influences (d) having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat

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v. commute (a) to praise in the highest terms (b) to declare openly (c) to bar by judicial proceedings the equitable right of a mortgagor to redeem property (d) to put something, especially something less severe, in place of

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adj. populous (a) not understandable (b) containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory (c) imperceptible (d) pertaining to the use of the tongue in utterance

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v. dilute (a) to coagulate (b) in the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt (c) to prove true, right or real (d) to make more fluid or less concentrated by admixture with something

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n. epic (a) a poem celebrating in formal verse the mythical achievements of great personages, heroes, etc (b) a guilty person (c) disagreement (d) the act of making amends, as for an injury, loss or wrong

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adj. torturous (a) supple (c) happening out of court

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(b) marked by extreme suffering (d) tranquil

adj. artless (a) exceedingly precious (c) not flowing: said of water, as in a pool

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(b) tending to reconcile (d) ingenuous

adj. syllabic (a) well-balanced (b) having the character or the spirit of a savage (c) anticipating and making ready for future wants or emergencies (d) consisting of that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse

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adj. invidious (a) having the quality of springing back to a former position (b) showing or feeling envy (c) that can not be successfully withstood or opposed (d) enraptured

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adj. specious (a) of vast size or strength (c) of degraded character or nature

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(b) plausible (d) courageous

adj. merciful (a) of or pertaining to the capital of France (c) relevant

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(b) disposed to pity and forgive (d) alternate; other; additional; subordinate

adj. typographical (a) of or related to the art of printing (b) very great in degree, extent, size or quantity (c) threefold (d) having or showing devotion to the acquisition of knowledge

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adj. permanent (a) characterized by extravagance and in general by want of good taste (b) feeding on herbs or other vegetable matter, as animals (c) durable (d) consisting of a single loculus

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adj. feasible (a) very repugnant; hateful (b) that may be done, performed or effected; practicable (c) pertaining to the lungs (d) inert

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n. penalty (a) an impetus (b) the consequences that follow the transgression of natural or divine law (c) a state of balance (d) a momentary look

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n. demerit (a) adequate qualification or capacity (b) a familiar object in the landscape serving as a guide to an area otherwise easily lost track of (c) a mark for failure or bad conduct (d) an expression of applause

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n. hiatus (a) an additional amount added to the usual price (b) hatred of women (c) a break or vacancy where something necessary to supply the connection is wanting (d) truth

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n. ordnance (a) a general name for all kinds of weapons and their appliances used in war (b) a lawgiver (c) the act of detesting extremely (d) the three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune

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n. papyrus (a) nervous uncertainty of feeling (b) universal prevalence or acceptance (c) the writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians and later of the Romans (d) a member of an ancient secret fraternity originally confined to skilled artisans

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n. inquisition (a) incentive (b) acridity, as to the taste (c) a court or tribunal for examination and punishment of heretics (d) the body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation

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n. concord (a) solitude (c) surmise

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(b) a roguish, mischievous boy (d) harmony

n. referee (a) lack of confidence in the power, wisdom or good intent of any person (b) an umpire (c) confirmation (d) a charge for a firearm or for blasting

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n. antagonism (a) a conspicuous hill, low mountain or natural turret, generally isolated (b) a place where bees are kept (c) the throwing off or back of light, heat, sound or any form of energy that travels in waves (d) mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces, principles or persons

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n. perquisite (a) any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages (b) a token of remembrance (c) the act of putting in proper order or the state of being put in order (d) prolongation

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n. durance (a) flood

(b) a state of permanence

(c) exactness; preciseness

(d) confinement

n. counter-claim (a) the state or period of being a student (b) the quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations (c) a cross-demand alleged by a defendant in his favor against the plaintiff (d) a traditional form or customary act

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adj. petulant (a) amusing; funny (b) resistant to progress; aspiring to return to a previous state or condition (c) foolishly and tearfully affectionate (d) displaying impatience

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n. surveyor (a) a land-measurer (b) a conspicuous hill, low mountain or natural turret, generally isolated (c) intent (d) the condition of not flowing or not changing

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n. seclusion (a) any reality (b) structure; adaptation; adjustment (c) solitude (d) the voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause

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n. laddie (a) a young boy; young man (b) quickness of intellectual insight or discernment; keenness of discrimination (c) a series of large pictures representing a continuous scene (d) the system of doctrine taught by a French theologian and reformer

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n. philologist (a) an expert in linguistics (b) that which is outside (c) largeness (d) the relative importance of facts or matters from any special point of view

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n. hostility (a) enmity (b) an incident or story in a literary work, separable from yet growing out of it (c) amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree centigrade (d) a settled course or manner of progress

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n. effluvium (a) strictness (b) the enforced isolation of any person or place infected with contagious disease (c) solitude (d) a noxious or ill-smelling exhalation from decaying or putrefying matter

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adj. redolent (a) smelling sweet and agreeable (c) worthy of scorn or disdain

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(b) necessary or requisite for the purpose (d) separating, as oil and water

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adj. dendroid (a) proceeding downward (c) perceptible by sight

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(b) like a tree (d) annoying; irritating; frustrating

adj. enthusiastic (a) obscure (c) disseminated far and wide

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(b) full of zeal and fervor (d) desolate

adj. profligate (a) annoying; irritating; frustrating (b) abandoned to vice (c) lacking some element, part or adjunct necessary or required (d) longer than broad: applied most commonly to rectangular objects considerably elongated

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adj. resistant (a) exceedingly noxious or deleterious (b) obese (c) suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another (d) offering or tending to produce resistance

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adj. defensible (a) capable of being maintained or justified (b) difficult to follow or understand (c) crowned with laurel, as a mark of distinction (d) obligatory

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adj. votive (a) unusual (c) dedicated by a vow

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(b) not perceptible to the touch (d) producing coagulation

adj. refringent (a) giving or radiating light (b) fit to be compared (c) having the power to refract (d) characterized by propriety of conduct, speech, manners or dress

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adj. hibernal (a) pertaining to winter (b) capable of being drawn out, as into wire or a thread (c) relevant (d) caring; good-natured; generous; considerate

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adj. spurious (a) not genuine (b) deviating from that which is proper or right (c) habitually engaged in licentious or lewd practices (d) empty

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adj. meretricious (b) being in agreement or harmony with (d) grasping and representing facts as they are

(a) alluring by false or gaudy show (c) capable of receiving injuries

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n. chiffon (a) a very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc (b) the murder of a parent (c) a musical composition during which the first part or subject is repeated several times (d) nothing

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n. crag (a) a rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge (b) member of an ancient Germanic people who invaded and settled parts of Britain (c) ascendancy (d) an officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country

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n. prelate (a) a giving characterized by generous motives and extraordinary liberality (b) a person raving with madness (c) helpful result (d) person who belongs to a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy

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n. cryptogram (a) an annual allowance, payment or income (b) something added or to be added (c) anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning (d) a grass cultivated for forage and cereal

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n. meditation (a) the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind (b) land broken up and left to become mellow or to rest (c) capacity for sensation or sense-perception (d) one who proves in a convincing and conclusive manner

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n. depth (a) exultation (b) angry or violent difference of opinion (c) the progeny resulting from the crossing of different breeds or varieties (d) deepness

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n. conservatism (a) a musical composition during which the first part or subject is repeated several times (b) artifice (c) a symbol (d) tendency to adhere to the existing order of things

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n. forethought (a) a concealed manner of acting (b) premeditation (c) a solemn invocation of the divine blessing (d) reserve army of citizens that are called upon during emergencies

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n. covenant (a) the voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause (b) an agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties (c) a figure having five points or lobes (d) the doer of a wrong or a criminal act

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n. abeyance (a) a provision made in advance for some possible emergency or danger (b) a bulwark or construction to oppose assault or hostile entry (c) a state of suspension or temporary inaction (d) one who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss but also a chance of profit

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n. stupor (a) a model of excellence (b) profound lethargy (c) person who consumes time idly (d) congruity of the members or elements or parts

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adj. frugal (a) economical

(b) pertaining to winter

(c) of three colors

(d) noting a genus or kind; opposed to specific

n. pedagogics (a) a coming to stopping-place or destination (b) a lowering in value or an underrating in worth (c) anything that hangs from something else, either for ornament or for use (d) the science and art of teaching

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n. plaudit (a) any unsound or delusive mode of reasoning; anything based on such reasoning (b) an additional amount added to the usual price (c) an expression of applause (d) portion

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v. calvinize (a) to cease to resist (b) to teach or imbue with the doctrines of Calvinism (c) to pour or cause to pass, as a fluid, from one vessel to another (d) to break a law

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n. imbroglio (a) the necessary means or resources (b) a misunderstanding attended by ill feeling, perplexity or strife (c) unnecessary activity or ceremony (d) unblushing impudence

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n. protrusion (a) person who is descended lineally from another, as a child, grandchild, etc (b) total loss or destitution of honor or reputation (c) the yielding to inclination, passion, desire or propensity in oneself or another (d) a projection; act of causing to bulge outward; something that sticks out

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n. impudence (a) a hint (b) object or device which is near or bordering upon (c) the quality or character of being godlike (d) insolent disrespect

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adj. legible (a) that may be read with ease (c) lacking in bodily or mental strength

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(b) having an air of authority (d) having six feet

n. sense (a) beginning (b) a very small amount, portion or particle (c) the signification conveyed by some word, phrase or action (d) information spread in order to promote a particular goal

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adj. heartrending (a) very depressing (c) incongruously composed or ill-proportioned

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adj. lascivious (a) spongy (c) lustful

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(b) of, pertaining to or situated on the abdomen (d) capable of being reflected

adj. irksome (a) obedient (c) changeable in appearance

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(b) annoying; irritating; frustrating (d) being in agreement or harmony with

adj. sprightly (a) sumptuously elegant (c) vivacious

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(b) not allowed; forbidden (d) fatiguing

adj. flexible (a) pliable (c) lacking warmth of manner

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(b) pertaining to the area under the skin (d) not connected with what precedes

adj. banal (a) rigid

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(b) shining (d) prevalent

(b) commonplace

(c) extreme

(d) rebellious

adj. appreciable (a) fashionable (b) capable of being discerned by the senses or intellect (c) justifiable (d) marked by lightness and softness

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adj. benevolent (a) writing in which the letters are joined together (b) wealthy (c) loving others and actively desirous of their well-being (d) marked by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds

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adj. indulgent (a) equal in value, force, meaning or the like (b) yielding to the desires or humor of oneself or those under one's care (c) composed of or pertaining to three related things or parts (d) judging severely or harshly

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(b) destitute of animal life (d) mischievous; harmful; evil

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n. cosmogony (a) monovalency (b) a doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe (c) a subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc (d) the quality of being upright in principles and conduct

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n. seminar (a) sailor or officer of a warship; warship; ship commissioned by a government to fight enemies (b) any assemblage of pupils for real research in some specific study under a teacher (c) the act or state or conforming (d) the ability to suffer pain, distress, hardship or stress of any kind without succumbing

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n. privity (a) native; indigenous person; member of a people considered to be the earliest known inhabitants of a country or region (b) murderer, as by secret assault or treachery (c) knowledge shared with another or others regarding a private matter (d) a whim

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n. interpolation (a) a chest of drawers for clothing, etc (b) verbal interference (c) an instrument for illustrating the laws of rotation (d) provision against harm or need

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n. participant (a) person who has a share (b) a formal token of regard, often presented in public (c) diversion (d) a central point or part about which matter is aggregated

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n. brethren (a) an oven or furnace for baking, burning or drying industrial products (b) the meaning conveyed by language, actions or signs (c) the contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants (d) members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association or the like

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n. salvo (a) a salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer (b) the branch of zoology that treats of insects (c) part of a fraction which expresses the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided (d) a morbid process in some part of the body characterized by heat, swelling and pain

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n. quartet (a) a composition for four voices or four instruments (b) a concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness (c) the neglect or omission of a legal requirement (d) person who is attached to the army or navy, but having duties other than that of fighting

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n. quintessence (a) the act of stringing or stretching or state of being strained (b) epitome; perfect embodiment of (c) doubt; lack of faith; skepticism (d) person who owes allegiance to a foreign government

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n. egoism (a) a rising, soaring or climbing (b) the theory that places man's chief good in the completeness of self (c) access; act of accessing (d) confirmation

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n. norm (a) an expert reasoner

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(b) a model

(c) a small flag

(d) a land-measurer

adj. motley (a) created or formed by the imagination (b) high in station, merit or esteem (c) having the power of choice (d) composed of heterogeneous or inharmonious elements

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n. vendition (a) the act of selling (b) a declaration or memorandum of agreement less solemn and formal than a treaty (c) one who attempts to obstruct legislation (d) a work containing information on subjects or exhaustive of one subject

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n. virulence (a) the character or condition of being impatient, capricious or petulant (b) extreme poisonousness (c) a title of dignity, office or courtesy (d) harsh or malignant oppression

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n. ordinal (a) that form of the numeral that shows the order of anything in a series, as first, second, third (b) anything that may be possible (c) the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind (d) an arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life

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adv. icily (a) in a vague or uncertain way (c) without studied or special preparation

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(b) from side to side (d) frigidly

n. intricacy (a) a formal or discriminating expression of praise (b) perplexity (c) an official appointed to examine or oversee any matter of public interest or importance (d) a bidding farewell

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adj. abusive (a) indescribable (c) employing harsh words or ill treatment

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adj. impassive (b) artificial (d) thin and weak

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(b) characteristic of the devil (d) supple

adj. derivative (a) making statements without argument or evidence (b) coming or acquired from some origin (c) belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind (d) thoroughly informed

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adj. grandiloquent (a) grief-stricken (b) speaking in or characterized by a pompous or bombastic style (c) indicative of faith or trust (d) pertaining or peculiar to a mother or to motherhood

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adj. cosmic (a) pliant (c) foolish

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(b) of good ancestry (d) pertaining to the universe

adj. numerical (a) cannot be expressed in words; beyond description; indefinite (b) of or pertaining to number (c) able to move or act quickly, physically or mentally (d) despondent

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adj. pudgy (a) unsusceptible to outside ideas or influences; unfathomable; inscrutable (b) that may e sent through or across (c) immense (d) small and fat

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adj. pyrotechnic (a) pertaining to teaching (c) pertaining to fireworks or their manufacture

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adj. dishonest (a) untrustworthy (c) unlawfully begotten

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(b) improvident (d) unwilling

(b) surly (d) white or glowing with heat

adj. amateur (a) untrue (b) characterized by great strength or power of endurance (c) awkward of movement (d) practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession

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adj. temporal (a) pertaining to or concerned with the affairs of the present life (b) conducted or acting on business principles; commercial (c) not good for food (d) given to severe self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion

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adj. flamboyant (a) light and unsubstantial (b) unconquerable (c) easily deceived (d) characterized by extravagance and in general by want of good taste

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adj. demented (a) urgent (b) impulsive (c) insane (d) yielding to the desires or humor of oneself or those under one's care

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n. negligence (a) omission of that which ought to be done (b) the art or practice of sleight of hand (c) the branch of mechanics that treats of the relations that subsist among forces in order (d) knowledge of events before they take place

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n. apology (a) moral fitness (b) mandate (c) a classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus (d) a disclaimer of intentional error or offense

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n. hawthorn (a) source of sustenance and nourishment (b) a thorny shrub much used in England for hedges (c) a minute particle of matter (d) the story of one's life written by himself

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n. playwright (a) the fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock (b) hillside (c) a maker of plays for the stage (d) the branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure and mechanical properties

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n. calvinism (a) a placing opposite (b) a man without principle (c) person who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing (d) the system of doctrine taught by a French theologian and reformer

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n. thoroughfare (a) any guard or watch stationed for protection (b) a return to or toward some former state or condition (c) a public street or road (d) an idle wanderer

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n. provocation (a) a romantic story or plot and sensational situation and incidents (b) an action or mode of conduct that excites resentment (c) a positive utterance (d) the examination of a dead body by dissection to ascertain the cause of death

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n. outlaw (a) something that has actual and undeniable existence or reality (b) an elaborate or formal public speech (c) a criminal; fugitive (d) a small grain or particle

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v. domineer (a) to rule with insolence or unnecessary annoyance (b) to divide into quarters (c) to become worse or inferior (d) to place close together

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n. gamut (a) one who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose (b) the whole range or sequence (c) an orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event (d) a filter

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n. intolerance (a) inability or unwillingness to bear or endure (b) an apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc. (c) an element that forms a base by combining with oxygen, is usually hard, heavy, and lustrous (d) dissimilitude

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n. occupant (a) control by the exercise of power or constituted authority (b) a bazaar or shop (c) a tenant in possession of property, as distinguished from the actual owner (d) advancement

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v. furbish (a) to pay out or expend, as money from a fund (b) to quietly terminate (c) to restore brightness or beauty (d) to invade partially or insidiously and appropriate the possessions of another

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v. wield (a) to declare; publicize; advertise widely; publish; distribute widely (b) to use, control or manage, as a weapon or instrument, especially with full command (c) to cause to appear less guilty (d) to be chief in importance, quantity or degree

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n. prologue (a) immoderate action or indulgence, as of the appetites (b) an abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling (c) a prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse or performance (d) the general science of the universe

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n. dissuasion (a) the act of changing the purpose of or altering the plans of through persuasion or pleading (b) one who calculates insurance risks and premiums according to statistical probabilities (c) one of a pair of like things (d) poetry

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n. reproduction (a) in colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of Maryland or Virginia (b) the process by which an animal or plant gives rise to another of its kind (c) the act or art of tracing or inscribing on a surface letters or ideographs (d) a slender, graceful young woman or girl

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n. frontier (a) the language of one's country (b) superior ruler (especially in feudal system); one with great influence (c) the part of a nation's territory that abuts upon another country (d) diversion

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v. wean (a) to make better or improve, as in quality or social or physical condition (b) to appropriate (private property) as forfeited to the public use or treasury (c) to transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment (d) to call into court, as a person indicted for crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not

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n. portent (a) one having a taste for or interest in special objects (b) anything that indicates what is to happen (c) the doer of a wrong or a criminal act (d) statesmanship; art of governing

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adj. pernicious (a) pertaining to supernatural things or to another life (b) cross-bred (c) pertaining to the mind or soul (d) tending to kill or hurt

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adj. abstemious (a) possessing distinguished merit (b) characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink or food (c) keen in discernment (d) persevering in effort or endeavor

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adj. incoercible (a) animal (b) incapable of being forced, constrained or compelled (c) relating to the correcting or preventing of deformity (d) following the exact words

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adj. velvety (a) of little importance or value (c) pertaining to the face

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(b) lying on the back (d) marked by lightness and softness

adj. somniferous (a) imperceptible (c) displaying impatience

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(b) tending to produce sleep (d) lasting or continuous until a person's death

adj. serviceable (a) that can not be broken or violated (b) functional; useful; practical; durable; sturdy; long-lasting (c) showing increase of light (d) unmoved by or not exhibiting feeling

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adj. arrant (a) pertaining to the process of plant-life (c) surging back or again

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(b) notoriously bad (d) of similar nature or qualities

adj. eventual (a) continuing though the year or through many years (b) ultimate (c) of, pertaining to or contained or carried in a vein or veins (d) that can not be wounded or hurt

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adj. fiscal (a) counterfeit (b) precluding question or appeal (c) taxable (d) pertaining to the treasury or public finances of a government

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adj. diurnal (a) daily (b) serving or designed to make ready; serving to put into the proper condition (c) fixed beforehand; set in advance; settled (d) proceeding downward

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n. perversion (a) splendor (b) funeral rites (c) diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose (d) forcible ejection

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n. inchoative (a) displacement by authority from an office or an employment (b) the state of being positively uncomfortable (c) something that begins or expresses beginning (d) any announcement made in a public manner

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n. deity (a) the act of proving to be true, exact or accurate (b) person who puts money into a particular project or fund with the intention of gaining a profit (c) an assumed name (d) a god, goddess or divine person

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n. cartilage (a) a retaliatory speech (b) an elastic animal tissue of firm consistence (c) slander (d) a body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment

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n. foible (a) a personal weakness or failing (b) any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees (c) a small sharp-pointed nail (d) word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in 'Father Aeneas'

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n. panacea (a) the office or dignity of a minor judicial officer who has limited jurisdiction in criminal cases (b) person who directs affairs with skill and shrewdness (c) a remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases (d) one who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court

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n. elocution (a) frequent irregular change back and forth from one state or degree to another (b) the art of correct intonation, inflection and gesture in public speaking or reading (c) the habit of pairing or having but one mate (d) the official head of the Roman Catholic Church

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n. neopaganism (a) a 20th-century revival of interest in the worship of nature, fertility, etc., as represented by various deities (b) person who believes the teaching of another or who adopts and follows some doctrine (c) the science of life or living organisms (d) a darting momentary local pain

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n. diversity (a) offspring (b) dissimilitude (c) an officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general (d) a sheet of paper folded once

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n. vernacular (a) person who supports the other side in a debate, discussion, struggle or sport (b) one of the most ancient of stringed instruments of the harp class (c) a brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience (d) the language of one's country

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n. sonnet (a) a personal weakness or failing (b) the signification conveyed by some word, phrase or action (c) solitude (d) a poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases

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adj. quiescent (a) having a tendency to change (b) being in a state of repose or inaction (c) irascible (d) moved or managed with difficulty, as from great size or awkward shape

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v. repute (a) to supply with light

(b) to hold in general opinion

(c) to bring to completion

(d) to confuse the perceptions or judgment of

adv. doubly (a) besides

(b) without concealment, fraud or trickery

(c) in twofold degree or extent

(d) without intention

n. animalcule (a) that part of a play or story in which the mystery is cleared up (b) a demon or monster that was supposed to devour human beings (c) germ; microscopic organism (d) the state of being in active resistance to authority

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v. irrigate (a) to go from one country, state or region for the purpose of settling or residing in another (b) to remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body (c) to build up or strengthen, especially in morals or religion (d) to water, as land, by ditches or other artificial means

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v. meliorate (a) to wish joy or happiness to somebody, especially in view of a coming event (b) to unclothe (c) to drive out or away (d) to make better or improve, as in quality or social or physical condition

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adj. indiscernible (a) unchangeable (b) not perceptible (c) knowing and understanding only the ordinary and the obvious (d) capable of being or fit to be accepted — often money

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n. sophistry (a) a faint trace of color (b) reasoning sound in appearance only, especially when designedly deceptive (c) a servile favorite (d) high praise

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n. malediction (a) the calling down of a curse or curses (b) any act of condemnation and rejection from favor and privilege (c) an agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties (d) a humorous play in dialog and music that consists of more than one act

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adj. anthropomorphous (a) having or resembling human form (c) curving in and out

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(b) heavy with sleepiness (d) fearless

adj. punctual (a) toilsome (c) brotherly

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(b) observant and exact in points of time (d) somewhat rough or rude in manner or speech

adj. diacritical (a) possessing the power of sense or sense-perception (b) comprehensible (c) impartial (d) marking a difference

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adj. naval (a) pertaining to ships (c) most important

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(b) of sound and vigorous health (d) unimaginative

adj. immoral (a) having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance (b) fish-like (c) oily (d) habitually engaged in licentious or lewd practices

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adj. possessive (a) foolishly headless of danger (b) somewhat rough or rude in manner or speech (c) unchecked merriment or animal spirits (d) pertaining to the having, holding or detention of property in one's power or command

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adj. reprehensible (a) indicating or expressing a cause (b) passing naturally from parent to child (c) censurable (d) having the ability to express emotion or feeling in lofty and impassioned speech

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adj. efflorescent (a) pertaining to a hundred years or a period of a hundred years (b) perfidious (c) relative; corresponding (d) opening in flower

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adj. stolid (a) expressing no power of feeling or perceiving (c) ordinary

(b) having a theatrical manner (d) like a tree

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n. finery (a) a botanical garden or place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs (b) that which is used to decorate the person or dress (c) a portable case for holding writing-materials, drawings, etc (d) common sense

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n. extension (a) a reaching or stretching out, as in space, time or scope (b) the act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war (c) a worshiper of false gods (d) the art or practice of sleight of hand

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n. medicine (a) a person who is empowered by another to represent them in a given matter (b) any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds (c) person who makes a contribution or present (d) a substance possessing or reputed to possess curative or remedial properties

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n. contender (a) one who exerts oneself in opposition or rivalry (b) anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms (c) insinuation (d) the place in or near which a person or thing is

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n. naphtha (a) a religious holiday celebrated on January 6 to commemorate the visit of the wise men to Bethlehem (Christianity) (b) a landed estate held under feudal tenure (c) disloyalty (d) a light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints

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n. euphony (a) agreeableness of sound (b) condition in which a body part cannot be moved (caused by nerve or brain damage, etc.) (c) a ripple (d) a prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse or performance

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n. barograph (a) profound lethargy (b) relative disposition of parts (c) an instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure (d) the person to whom property is transferred by deed

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n. lying (b) a portable free-reed musical instrument (d) a unit of electrical energy

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v. desist (a) to cease from action (b) to fasten (c) to feed to fullness or to satiety (d) to win the mind of by argument, eloquence, evidence or reflection

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n. rampart (a) a bulwark or construction to oppose assault or hostile entry (b) the department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood (c) an instrument for indicating and marking exact time in music (d) a fixed adherence to a resolve, course of conduct or the like

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n. conveyance (a) an outline or contour (b) a disagreeable, harsh or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones (c) that by which anything is transported (d) mistaken conviction, especially when more or less enduring

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adj. mercantile (a) impassive to feelings of humanity or pity (b) conducted or acting on business principles; commercial (c) worldly, as opposed to spiritual or celestial (d) cowardly

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adj. supramundane (a) adhering to the existing order of things

(b) calm

(c) somewhat sharp or biting

(d) supernatural

n. vendor (a) land broken up and left to become mellow or to rest (b) one who holds opinions contrary to the recognized standards or tenets of any philosophy (c) a seller (d) a periodical allowance to an individual on account of past service done by them

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v. cower (a) to cause to become less or worse (b) to crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame (c) to separate and cast aside (d) to fascinate, as by excellence, eloquence or beauty

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n. contumacy (a) contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority (b) process by which a word is traced from its original root or primitive form and meaning (c) a liquid and dry measure of 10 liters (d) the chemical analysis or testing of an alloy ore

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n. leeward (a) a person against whom a suit is brought (b) the office of a guardian (c) that side or direction toward which the wind blows (d) the order in which a number or persons, things or events follow one another in space or time

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adj. ceremonious (a) spoken with any special impressiveness laid upon an act, word or set of words (b) observant of ritual (c) marked by great plentifulness (d) characterized by charity and kindness

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adj. mettlesome (a) promiscuous (c) having courage or spirit

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(b) corporeal (d) derived from the same root or primitive word

v. expatriate (a) to drive from one's own country (b) to lessen or destroy the luster of in any way (c) to quarrel (d) to take hold of

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adj. clement (a) having great fluency in speaking (b) prone to anger (c) compassionate (d) destitute of or lacking in power, physical, moral or intellectual

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adj. eligible (a) characterized by skill at understanding and profiting by circumstances (b) pertaining to or proceeding from sexual intercourse (c) qualified for selection (d) being on the alert to discover and ward off danger or insure safety

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adj. immeasurable (a) slovenly in appearance (c) not difficult to do

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(b) indefinitely extensive (d) capable of exciting laughter

adj. decrepit (a) enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity (b) unconstrained (c) durable (d) apt to induce terror or alarm

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adj. soluble (a) capable of being dissolved, as in a fluid (b) commonplace (c) frenzied (d) having a warm appreciation of the beautiful or of the refinements of luxury

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adj. gentile (a) unchangeable (c) grossly indecent or vulgar

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(b) lacking courage (d) belonging to a people not Jewish

adj. mealy-mouthed (a) involving the moving of water, of the force exerted by water in motion (b) Biblical; pertaining to the Bible; written; inscribed (c) afraid to express facts or opinions plainly (d) pertaining to the use of the tongue in utterance

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adj. differential (a) shameful (c) that gives warning or information

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(b) distinctive (d) having no essential relation to a subject

adj. ambitious (a) turbulent (b) eagerly desirous and aspiring (c) harsh in disposition or character (d) having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease

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adj. similar (a) having the color of blood (b) struck with terror and amazement (c) bearing resemblance to one another or to something else (d) consisting of a single loculus

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n. courtesy (a) a metallic copy of any surface, as a coin (b) politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually (c) a mechanical, chemical or pathological agent of inflammation, pain or tension (d) somebody or something of unequaled excellence

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n. candor (a) the quality of frankness or outspokenness (b) a break or vacancy where something necessary to supply the connection is wanting (c) anything made of clay and baked in a kiln or dried in the sun (d) quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land

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n. assignee (a) an expert in linguistics (b) one who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests (c) provision against harm or need (d) a proposition following so obviously from another that it requires little demonstration

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n. derivation (a) process by which a word is traced from its original root or primitive form and meaning (b) holiness (c) a darting momentary local pain (d) a small wave

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n. ambulance (a) self-conceit (b) the chief law-officer of a government (c) a vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded (d) restriction within limits or boundaries

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n. apotheosis (a) a token fee or payment to a professional man for services (b) a many-colored appearance (c) the lowest or deepest female voice or part (d) deification

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n. wherewith (a) any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability (b) the character &; the logical conjunction 'AND' (c) the necessary means or resources (d) slavery

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n. seismograph (a) any support or prop (b) an instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes (c) passion for getting and keeping riches (d) security for payment or performance

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n. exit (a) a measure that defines the amount a person can hold (b) a thing that differs from another in form only, being the same in essence or substance (c) a way or passage out (d) a person against whom a suit is brought

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n. condolence (a) something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen or done instead of something else (b) a small or insignificant mark or part (c) capacity to know or understand (d) expression of sympathy with a person in pain, sorrow or misfortune

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adj. ecstatic (a) ridiculously or unjustly excessive (b) having the capacity, quality or ability of receiving, as truths or impressions (c) justly or legally responsible (d) enraptured

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v. antecede (a) to precede (b) to traverse by ship (c) to cause to burst in pieces by force from within (d) to secure the right of preference in the purchase of public land

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v. connive (a) to take possession of by force (c) to impose on or dupe by flattering speech

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(b) to agree (d) to be in collusion

v. malign (a) to execute clumsily (b) to reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion or waste (c) to make dull by satiety (d) to speak evil of, especially to do so falsely and severely

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adj. obsolescent (a) passing out of use, as a word (c) unfavorably known to the general public

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(b) extraordinary (d) impenetrably mysterious or profound

n. terminus (a) objects of curiosity or for decoration (b) the final point or goal (c) an instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure (d) government by a single person

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adj. interrogative (a) having the nature or form of a question (c) formed after one's father's name

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(b) quarrelsome (d) funny

n. sociology (a) the philosophical study of society (b) neglect or refusal to comply with an authoritative injunction (c) a volume consisting of ten parts or books (d) importance

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v. impair (a) to keep a diary (c) to provide with defensive works

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(b) to burn on the surface (d) to cause to become less or worse

adj. heterogeneous (a) consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds (b) comprehensible (c) sweetly or smoothly flowing (d) rapid and superficial

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adj. contemporary (a) financial (c) delicate; ethereal

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(b) tending to reconcile (d) living or existing at the same time

adj. morbid (a) unchangeable (b) low in tone or compass (c) caused by or denoting a diseased or unsound condition of body or mind (d) capable of being inferred

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adj. unitarian (a) pertaining to a religious body that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity (b) affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease (c) solid (d) containing only two atoms

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adj. pervious (a) irreligious (b) physically powerful (c) sincere (d) admitting the entrance or passage of another substance

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adj. leonine (b) rapid and superficial (d) done or made without much or any preparation

(a) like a lion (c) clandestinely carried on Q6

adj. pretentious (a) impersonating; putting on a false appearance; feigning; arrogant; haughty (b) important, especially as pointing something out (c) wanting water (d) abundant or superabundant in growth

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adj. dissimilar (a) benevolent in feeling, character or aspect (b) pertaining to a division of arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc (c) annoying; irritating; frustrating (d) different

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adj. sapiential (a) possessing wisdom (b) easily understood (c) not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard (d) impotent

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adj. erudite (a) having a malign influence or effect (c) not accomplishing an intended purpose

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adj. candid (a) inadequate for some need, purpose or use (c) greedy

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n. divagation (a) digression (b) a figure having five points or lobes (c) a rival (d) government by several or many persons of whatever class

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n. specimen (a) a mere youth (b) one of a class of persons or things regarded as representative of the class (c) a dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid element with a suffocating odor (d) high position; elevated rank; title of honor; excellence; height; hill

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n. soothsayer (a) a periodical allowance to an individual on account of past service done by them (b) the act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence (c) one who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight (d) passion for getting and keeping riches

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n. decasyllable (a) a horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave (b) the branch of science that treats of the pressure and equilibrium of fluids (c) the department of natural science that treats of the constitution and structure of the earth (d) a line of ten syllables

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n. isle (a) a love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature (b) an instrument used to measure the curvature of a surface (c) a piece of land completely surrounded by water (d) self-flattering opinion

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n. omniscience (a) a high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff (b) unlimited or infinite knowledge (c) possession or continuance of being (d) one who is united with others in a league, compact or agreement

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n. demonstrator (a) the act of disencumbering; the act of freeing from something undesirable (b) an exact copy or reproduction (c) a tomb of more than ordinary size or architectural pretensions (d) one who proves in a convincing and conclusive manner

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n. outrage (a) a gross infringement of morality or decency (c) malice

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n. fetus (a) a tracer of pedigrees (c) keen enjoyment

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(b) a three-wheeled vehicle (d) a continuous area or stretch

(b) an opening or cavity (d) the young in the womb or in the egg

n. frequency (a) hard and constant work in any menial or dull occupation (b) the comparative number of any kind of occurrences within a given time or space (c) a written or spoken statement that is flat, dull or commonplace (d) perplexity

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n. chaos (a) a party to a lawsuit (b) emptying of liquid; channeling; sewage; waste water (c) any condition of which the elements or parts are in utter disorder and confusion (d) defamation

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adj. deficient (a) judging severely or harshly (b) not having an adequate or proper supply or amount (c) in prosperous circumstances (d) being in a state of or resembling sleep

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v. sophisticate (b) to deprive of simplicity of mind or manner (d) to be violently excited or agitated

(a) to vandalize (c) to delight extravagantly or intensely Q4

v. laud (a) to praise in words or song (c) to make familiar by use

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(b) to tease (d) to fill with extreme fear

n. sergeant-major (a) duplicity (b) one of a pair of like things (c) an obstruction or plugging up of an artery or other blood-vessel (d) the highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment

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n. benignity (a) kindness of feeling, disposition or manner (b) an edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena (c) an atmospheric condition of high central pressure with currents flowing outward (d) the practice of obtaining by violence or compulsion

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adj. ambrosial (a) divinely sweet, fragrant or delicious (b) invincible (c) pertaining to the south pole or the regions near it (d) fraudulent

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adj. coercive (b) having resemblance of sound (d) more distant or advanced

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n. decoy (a) a slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coast-line (b) doubt; lack of faith; skepticism (c) person who is specially cared for and favored by another usually older person (d) anything that allures or is intended to allures into danger or temptation

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v. engender (b) to produce (d) to leave suddenly or unexpectedly

(a) to become detached (c) to make the first attack

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n. conformity (a) dissimilarity in any respect (b) the substance that forms the principal portion of an animal or vegetable cell (c) acting in accordance with prevailing norms or standards; correspondence in character; agreement; compliance (d) the external appearance or manner of a person

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n. tremor (a) a shudder; shock; shaking; vibration (b) an instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot (c) carriage of the body in going (d) delay

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n. dialectician (a) a logician

(b) one of the divisions of an extended poem

(c) the condition of being joined

(d) the science and art of teaching

n. free trade (a) commerce unrestricted by tariff or customs (b) passive consent (c) something binds objects together (d) person who makes or deals in optical instruments or eye-glasses

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n. trinity (a) a gross infringement of morality or decency (b) unlimited and universal power (c) a threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance (d) a riddle

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n. despair (a) unlimited or infinite knowledge (b) an opinion or doctrine subversive of settled beliefs or accepted principles (c) utter hopelessness and despondency (d) the act or practice of bringing from one country into another

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n. wavelet (a) a system of principles and formulas designed to assist the recollection in certain instances (b) one who earns his bread by physical labor (c) the aggregate of plants growing without cultivation in a district (d) a ripple

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n. desperado (a) person without regard for law or life (b) a specific capability of feeling or emotion (c) voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies (d) one who or that which conveys from one person or place to another

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n. harangue (a) person who has a share (c) excessive fatness

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(b) a very lascivious person (d) a tirade

n. cataract (a) the branch of zoology that treats of fishes (b) omission of that which ought to be done (c) a legislative body (d) opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness

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n. aversion (a) an unprovoked attack (b) a mental condition of fixed opposition to or dislike of some particular thing (c) sorrow for another's misery (d) the right, power or liberty of choosing

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adj. suave (a) showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things (b) smooth and pleasant in manner (c) passing out of use, as a word (d) perceiving or feeling beforehand

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adj. uproarious (a) noisy (b) uncompromising (c) less important or effective than that which is primary (d) that can not be rectified or made amends for

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adj. truthful (a) candid, frank or open in character or quality (b) made commonplace by frequent repetition (c) veracious (d) pedantic; cautious concerning minute details; scrupulous

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n. declamation (a) a speech recited or intended for recitation from memory in public (b) any structure or sculpture in stone formed of a single piece (c) person without regard for law or life (d) instinctive knowledge or feeling

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adj. fictitious (a) proposable (c) created or formed by the imagination

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adj. caitiff (a) courageous

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(b) pertaining to beauty, taste or the fine arts (d) laying down

(b) turbulent

(c) obedient

(d) cowardly

n. misdemeanor (a) person who owns, enjoys or controls anything, such as property (b) any popular narrative poem, often with epic subject and usually in lyric form (c) a word directly opposed to another in meaning (d) evil conduct; small crime

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v. concede (a) to surrender (b) to deprive of water (c) to start back as in dismay, loathing or dread (d) to pile or heap together

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adj. infernal (a) fitted for expression in song (b) akin to or befitting hell or its occupants (c) corresponding (to some other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion or relations (d) steadfast

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n. benevolence (a) any act of kindness or well-doing (b) reference or comment at the bottom of a page or end of a chapter (c) that which follows in consequence of what has previously happened (d) washerwoman

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n. vermin (a) the study of language in connection with history and literature (b) one who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose (c) any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy (d) a noxious or troublesome animal

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n. recreant (a) inflexibility (b) the part of a nation's territory that abuts upon another country (c) the act of proving to be true, exact or accurate (d) a cowardly or faithless person

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n. ointment (a) prescience (b) the state of being hard and insensible (c) a fatty preparation with a butter-like consistency in which a medicinal substance exists (d) the name or title by which a particular person, class or thing is called

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n. continuity (a) lack; shortage (b) uninterrupted connection in space, time, operation or development (c) debate (d) a collection of dried plants scientifically arranged for study

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n. prelude (a) a downward movement of the body by bending the knees (b) an introductory or opening performance (c) the rules and principles of poetry (d) a pale, milky, or iridescent light reflected to the Earth at night

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n. skiff (a) one who entrusts (c) a small light boat propelled by oars

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(b) the act of ending or concluding (d) the world or universe on a small scale

n. philogynist (a) person who is fond of women (b) virginity (c) the utterance of criticism or censure (d) direction or inclination, as toward some objector end

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n. domain (a) an officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment (b) a criminal; fugitive (c) a sphere or field of action or interest (d) a space entirely devoid of matter

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n. admonition (a) universal prevalence or acceptance (b) an officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general (c) gentle reproof (d) open robbery, as in war

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n. recourse (a) an orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event (b) resort to or application for help in exigency or trouble (c) falsehood (d) the process of coming between

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n. technicality (a) evasion (b) something peculiar to a particular art, trade or the like (c) ardor or intensity of feeling (d) a liquid preparation for rubbing on the skin in cases of bruises, inflammation, etc

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v. incite (a) to keep sacred (b) to rouse to a particular action (c) to impose and collect by force or threat of force (d) to recant, renounce or repudiate under oath

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adv. darkling (a) without concealment, fraud or trickery (c) with directness

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(b) piecemeal (d) blindly

v. carouse (a) to give new confidence (b) to support; to inspire; to give hope (c) to drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner (d) to satisfy fully the appetite or desire of

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n. metallurgy (a) the art or science of extracting any solid mineral element (such as gold, silver, copper, etc.) l from ores, as by smelting (b) an inhabitant; city resident (c) a salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer (d) a place where things are stored or gathered together

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adj. judicial (a) pertaining to decisions made by courts of law (b) unreasonable (c) pertaining to farmers and farming (d) free from doubt or hesitation

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n. surrogate (a) politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually (b) a person engaged in military service (c) somebody or something that is substituted for or appointed to act in place of another (d) a violent and abnormal muscular contraction of the body

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n. radical (a) the principal portion (b) doubt or uncertainty regarding a question of moral right or duty (c) one who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures (d) a government administered by ecclesiastics

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n. emphasis (a) any special impressiveness added to an utterance or act or stress laid upon some word (b) one who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures (c) a cannibal; femme fatale (d) exactness; preciseness

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n. viceroy (a) a ruler acting with royal authority in place of the sovereign in a colony or province (b) concealment (c) a public street or road (d) equilibrium

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n. postscript (a) something added to a letter after the writer's signature (b) any unnatural addition, outgrowth or development (c) person who writes plays (d) forbearance in judging of the acts or opinions of others

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n. sphericity (a) government by departments of men transacting particular branches of public business (b) roundness (c) one of a class of persons or things regarded as representative of the class (d) a force of men

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n. absolution (a) a poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases (b) forgiveness or passing over of offenses (c) one of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: used in brush-making, etc (d) person who transgresses

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n. militia (a) one who is united with others in a league, compact or agreement (b) a fever characterized by alternating chills, fever and sweating (c) profound devotion (d) reserve army of citizens that are called upon during emergencies

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n. proselyte (a) a sip; a bite (b) one who has been won over from one religious belief to another (c) the whole of any sphere or department of nature or knowledge to which man is related (d) an articulation, joint or seam

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n. referrer (a) an open structure for temporary shelter (b) the entire number, sum, mass or quantity of something (c) person who leads another person to a source of information (d) the utterance of criticism or censure

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n. script (a) prolonged sluggishness of body or mind (b) a person nominated by the will of another to execute the will (c) writing or handwriting of the ordinary cursive form (d) an accursed thing

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v. embellish (a) to give a salary that is too high (b) to impair or injure the beauty, symmetry or appearance of (c) to spend (d) to make beautiful or elegant by adding attractive or ornamental features

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n. buttress (a) a view or prospect (b) any support or prop (c) an ecclesiastical council (d) a system of principles and formulas designed to assist the recollection in certain instances

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n. freemason (a) a coming to stopping-place or destination (b) the act or art of tracing or inscribing on a surface letters or ideographs (c) a member of an ancient secret fraternity originally confined to skilled artisans (d) a bunk or bed in a vessel, sleeping-car, etc

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adj. fulsome (a) offensive from excess of praise or commendation (b) of a bright but delicate yellow (c) invincible (d) withered

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n. resurrection (a) a break or vacancy where something necessary to supply the connection is wanting (b) a return from death to life (c) a measure of length (d) revision

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n. denominator (a) the unreasonable pursuit of one idea (b) part of a fraction which expresses the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided (c) a liquid and dry measure of 10 liters (d) one who serves on a jury or is sworn in for jury duty in a court of justice

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v. introvert (a) to show by example (c) to change in nature, substance or form

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(b) to certify; recognize; assign; license (d) to turn within

n. disrepute (a) a sudden irregular shake or a push causing such a shake (b) a bad name or character (c) the act planning, devising, inventing or adapting something to or for a special purpose (d) semblance

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n. tyro (a) person who is slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession; amateur (b) evenness of mind or temper (c) undress or negligent attire (d) the formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority

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adj. lunar (a) intermeddling with what is not one's concern (c) not exactly according to the facts

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(b) impotent (d) pertaining to the moon

adj. perfunctory (a) opening in flower (b) showing watchfulness, caution or careful consideration (c) half-hearted (d) being, formed or operating under water

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adj. surreptitious (a) having the power to refract (b) fatherly (c) clandestine (d) capable of being stretched out or expanded in every direction

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n. piccolo (a) the attributes, taken collectively, that make up the character and nature of an individual (b) a small flute (c) a physical, mental or moral weakness or flaw (d) scarcity, as of something customary, essential or desirable

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n. liniment (a) temperance (b) the lowest or deepest female voice or part (c) a small insect parasitic on and sucking the blood of mammals (d) a liquid preparation for rubbing on the skin in cases of bruises, inflammation, etc

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n. hypocrite (a) gradual destruction, as by burning, eating, etc. or by using up, wearing out, etc. (b) an abstract (c) person who makes false professions of their views or beliefs (d) leader; supervisor

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n. myth (a) a fictitious narrative presented as historical but without any basis of fact (b) wickedness (c) earthenware made from baked clay (d) a bruise

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n. infidelity (a) the act or process of entrusting or consigning for safe-keeping (b) love and devotion to one's country (c) disloyalty (d) a coarse, heavy shoe

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n. underworld (a) a land-measurer (b) politeness (c) hades (d) a brimless felt cap in the shape of a truncated cone, usually red with a black tassel

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n. mantle (a) the branch of medical science that relates to improving health (b) one of three men united coordinately in public office or authority (c) person who belongs to a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy (d) a cloak

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n. consignor (a) a requisite for an employment, position, right or privilege (b) uneasiness of mind occasioned by desire, anxiety or fear (c) wild or wanton revelry (d) one who entrusts

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n. ado (a) the surrender by a government of a person accused of crime to the justice of another government (b) unnecessary activity or ceremony (c) one abandoned to depravity and sin (d) royal state

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n. consistency (a) opposition to conservatism (b) extensive knowledge of literature, history, language, etc (c) a wide lower part of a tidal river (d) a state of permanence

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n. physiology (a) an incorporated village or town (b) a curved or crescent-shaped line of things or people (c) the science of organic functions (d) sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper

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adj. inconsiderable (a) small in quantity or importance (b) of the nature of an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule (c) unchanging and tedious (d) pertaining to the poles of a sphere, especially of the earth

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n. abbey (a) the breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman (b) evasion (c) the culminating-point of prosperity, influence or greatness (d) the group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns

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n. craving (a) a fever characterized by alternating chills, fever and sweating (b) a maze (c) a vehement desire (d) the making of dictionaries

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n. strait (a) a protecting force accompanying property in course of transportation (b) a narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water (c) a piece of clothing worn beneath outer clothes (d) the employment of sarcasm, irony or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices

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v. impend (a) to recall the identity of (a person or thing) (b) to be imminent (c) to make more easy (d) to burst or break asunder

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adj. emeritus (a) indulgent (b) light and quick in motion or action (c) akin (d) retired from active service but retained to an honorary position

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adj. torrid (a) possessing wisdom (b) continuing though the year or through many years (c) having a theatrical manner (d) excessively hot

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n. cantata (a) a vaulted passageway or street; a roofed passageway having shops etc., opening from it (b) a recess (c) a monastic house (d) a choral composition

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n. privilege (a) a specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy (b) the language of one's country (c) a bequest (d) a right or immunity not enjoyed by all or that may be enjoyed only under special conditions

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n. upcast (a) a throwing upward (b) fewness (c) a little island (d) obsession; fixation; thought that is constantly on one's mind; prior tenure or possession

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n. luminosity (a) the quality of giving or radiating light (b) the Pope (c) means of subsistence (d) a violent issue, especially of passion in an individual

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n. exemplar (a) a model, pattern or original to be copied or imitated (b) the writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians and later of the Romans (c) a portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision (d) an undue display of modesty or delicacy

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n. overseer (a) one who settles on land without permission or right (b) a person or thing is united in a relationship with another (c) person who makes a contribution or present (d) a supervisor

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n. transfusion (a) importance; significance; superiority; supremacy; distinctiveness (b) the act of pouring from one vessel to another (c) a waiting area (d) a heading, as of a chapter, section, document, etc

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n. projection (a) a vertical bar or a pair of bars, used to confine cattle in a stall (b) a goddess; divinity of chastisement and vengeance (c) a bunk or bed in a vessel, sleeping-car, etc (d) a prominence

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n. lien (a) an elastic animal tissue of firm consistence (b) pertaining to the eye or vision (c) a legal claim or hold on property, as security for a debt or charge (d) desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies

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n. descendant (a) the scientific description or study of human arts and industries in their historic development (b) one of the divisions of an extended poem (c) a college student (d) person who is descended lineally from another, as a child, grandchild, etc

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n. capillary (a) portion (b) a prominence (c) a minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells (d) person who makes a contribution or present

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n. indignity (a) person who endeavors to help his fellow men (b) unmerited contemptuous conduct or treatment (c) an utterance intended to cast censure or reproach (d) a small or insignificant mark or part

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adj. estimable (a) harmless (b) worthy of respect (c) pertaining to charity (d) roving or wandering, as in search of adventure or opportunity for gallant deeds

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n. dilemma (a) a situation in which a choice between opposing modes of conduct is necessary (b) roundness (c) consistency (d) a picture having a background or that is shaded off gradually

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n. accession (a) a lack of variety (b) induction or elevation, as to dignity, office or government (c) a subordinate part or parts, enriching or supporting the leading part (d) deepness

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n. statistician (a) an unlucky accident (b) one who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts (c) a rising, soaring or climbing (d) patient courage

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n. purveyor (a) a philosopher who investigates the essence of the world and of reality (b) forms of speech collectively that are peculiar to the people of a particular district (c) the crime of marrying any other person while having a legal spouse living (d) person who supplies

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adj. ceremonial (a) characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink or food (b) not assured of safety (c) characterized by outward form or ceremony (d) obedient

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n. vainglory (a) excessive, pretentious and demonstrative vanity (b) the throwing off or back of light, heat, sound or any form of energy that travels in waves (c) an official (d) diversion

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adj. mercenary (a) greedy (b) incorrect (c) impersonating; putting on a false appearance; feigning; arrogant; haughty (d) unchanging and tedious

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v. pervade (a) to ridicule (c) to make less complex or difficult

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(b) to bring together into a crowd (d) to pass or spread through every part

n. proxy (a) the act of rising (b) demeanor (c) a person who is empowered by another to represent them in a given matter (d) a retaliatory speech

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n. pupilage (a) the pretended forecast of future events or discovery of what is lost or hidden (b) the state or period of being a student (c) sudden invasion (d) person who possesses great power or sway; person with great authority

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n. diplomat (a) fitness to meet the requirements of a particular case (b) doubt or uncertainty regarding a question of moral right or duty (c) regularity (d) a representative of one sovereign state at the capital or court of another

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n. antiseptic (a) a distortion of the features, occasioned by some feeling of pain, disgust, etc (b) anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms (c) undue expenditure of money (d) the pressure of necessity

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n. odium (a) a feeling of extreme repugnance or of dislike and disgust (b) a word directly opposed to another in meaning (c) evil conduct; small crime (d) a person who drives animals that are hybrids of horses and donkeys

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n. fete (a) acting in accordance with prevailing norms or standards; correspondence in character; agreement; compliance (b) a festival or feast (c) a moving forward; advancement (d) that from or on which something is developed

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n. expansion (a) increase of amount, size, scope or the like (b) one who supports extreme measures or holds extreme views (c) time between acts or periods (d) the greatest possible extent

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n. stiletto (a) an arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life (b) a small dagger (c) a villain (d) one who asserts a right or title to something

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n. bibliophile (a) a fatty preparation with a butter-like consistency in which a medicinal substance exists (b) a guess (c) a small wave (d) person who loves books

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n. artifice (a) trickery (b) a hermitage (c) benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest (d) form of speech used only or chiefly in conversation

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n. account (a) a record or statement of receipts and expenditures or of business transactions (b) an act or proceeding designed to bring about some event (c) a pithy phrasing of a shrewd observation (d) a charge of crime, misdemeanor or error

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n. apogee (a) peak; highest point; top; summit (b) the principles of philosophy as applied to explain the methods of any particular science (c) the climax (d) a puzzling predicament

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v. append (a) to change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action or by a ferment (b) to add or attach, as something accessory, subordinate or supplementary (c) to intensify (d) to disturb greatly

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n. treatise (a) citizenship (b) demeanor (c) an elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts (d) inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects

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n. stagnation (a) person who has the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement (b) an atomizer (c) the act of entering without warrant or invitation; encroachment (d) the condition of not flowing or not changing

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v. corroborate (a) to refer incidentally (b) to attack on all sides (c) to restore after deterioration, as a building (d) to strengthen, as proof or conviction

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n. consonance (a) refined or elegant courtesy (b) a body of sisters united by some bond of sympathy or by a religious vow (c) a book or collection of paper in which the sheets are so folded as to make eight leaves (d) the state or quality of being in accord with

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adv. abed (a) in truth (c) precipitately, as in diving

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(b) not able to get up (d) once more, after rest or interval

adj. judicious (a) prudent (b) having and exercising the power to produce effects or results (c) censurable (d) pertaining to a period of 300 years

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n. corruption (a) anything that indicates what is to happen (b) an abrasive wheel that sharpens or polishes something (c) a step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal (d) loss of purity or integrity

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adj. exotic (a) returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals (b) characteristic of a dog (c) foreign (d) unresponsive

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n. despotism (a) a very lascivious person (b) a foreigner who enters a country to settle there (c) the property which a wife brings to her husband in marriage (d) any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part

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n. payee (a) person who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing (b) a person who receives money (c) a curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls upon another circle (d) person who asks humbly and earnestly

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n. electrolysis (a) the process of decomposing a chemical compound by the passage of an electric current (b) a clown (c) amends, reparation or expiation made from wrong or injury (d) an affection of the stomach producing dizziness and usually an impulse to vomit

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n. peerage (a) the nobility (b) a servile favorite (c) a lyric poem lamenting the dead (d) a carrying away of a person against his will or illegally

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n. missive (b) a message in writing (d) process of becoming worse

(a) lamentation (c) a retaliatory speech Q6

n. stoicism (a) a legislator (b) person who or that which precedes or goes before, as in time, place, rank, order or causality (c) the principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure (d) the whole body of legends cherished by a race concerning gods and heroes

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n. christendom (a) the condition of standing out distinctly (b) that part of the world where Christianity is generally professed (c) intellectual discernment (d) a writer of light verse, usually of low quality

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n. whereabouts (a) flood (b) the whole of any sphere or department of nature or knowledge to which man is related (c) risk (d) the place in or near which a person or thing is

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n. iota (a) a polar projection of the heavens on a chart (b) a small flute (c) a small or insignificant mark or part (d) person who is slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession; amateur

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n. concession (a) infusion (b) one who uses or engages the services of other persons for pay (c) insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling (d) anything granted, yielded or admitted in response to a demand, petition or claim

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v. edify (a) to build up or strengthen, especially in morals or religion (b) to regard or worship as a god (c) to repeat again the principal points of (d) to alienate

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v. divulge (a) to contaminate (b) to make a beginning in some occupation or scheme (c) to tell or make known, as something previously private or secret (d) to bring about

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adj. requisite (a) capable of being pressed into smaller compass (b) concealed, especially for an evil purpose (c) necessary (d) believable

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n. taxidermy (a) any overwhelming flood of water (b) the art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them (c) splendor (d) a complete thing

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adj. subaquatic (b) frisky and full of fun (d) being, formed or operating under water

(a) savage (c) fear-inspiring Q6

n. mastery (a) the pressure of necessity (b) a Christian who denies the authority of the Pope and holds the right of special judgment (c) one who advocates or practices egoism (d) the attainment of superior skill

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v. impregnate (a) to take; seize; cause to stop; delay; hinder; obstruct (b) to confuse the perceptions or judgment of (c) to indicate as being about to happen, especially by previous signs (d) to fertilize; fill completely; saturate; imbue

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adj. credible (a) having or exercising the power of resistance (b) believable (c) capable of being discerned by the senses or intellect (d) possessing, giving or constituting preference or priority

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adj. innocuous (a) belonging to the first ages (b) disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness (c) harmless (d) generous in treating or judging others

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adj. effeminate (a) resorted to in a last extremity or as if prompted by utter despair (b) insufferable (c) tending to produce sleep (d) having womanish traits or qualities

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n. melodrama (a) authoritative stoppage of foreign commerce or of any special trade (b) liveliness (c) a romantic story or plot and sensational situation and incidents (d) one of a class of deities of the woods and herds represented as half human, with goats feet

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n. rapine (a) chemical or person who starts a fire-literally or figuratively (b) a somewhat continuous unstratified metal- bearing vein (c) the act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war (d) opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness

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n. narcissus (a) accordance with recognized usage, custom or principles (b) the son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection (c) person who incites to evil (d) the close of a narrative or dramatic poem

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n. sedition (a) the relative importance of facts or matters from any special point of view (b) conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state (c) a dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one (d) a person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted

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n. oakum (a) the state of being dispersed or scattered (b) a step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal (c) the art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them (d) hemp-fiber obtained by untwisting and picking out loosely the yarns of old hemp rope

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n. pretension (a) a state of mind indicating lack of interest (b) a bold or presumptuous assertion (c) treachery (d) sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong

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n. circumference (a) the boundary-line of a circle (b) an arsenal (c) anything done or said on the impulse of the moment (d) discord

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n. disyllable (a) submission to death or persecution for the sake of faith or principle (b) a word of two syllables (c) a policy of maintaining great standing armies (d) an extract or selection from written or printed matter

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n. compunction (a) a certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail (b) any strong fortress (c) a circle that rolls upon the external or internal circumference of another circle (d) remorseful feeling

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n. affiliate (a) an eccentricity (b) the system of doctrine taught by a French theologian and reformer (c) some auxiliary person or thing; partner (d) exclusion

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adj. newtonian (a) of or pertaining to particular English philosopher (b) trivial (c) not having an adequate or proper supply or amount (d) pertaining to charity

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n. imitation (a) ill will; spitefulness (b) that which is made as a likeness or copy (c) inhabitant (d) a duplicate executed by the artist himself and regarded, equally with the first, as an original

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n. lordling (a) the habit of pairing or having but one mate (b) a little aristocrat (c) rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops (d) a step, degree, rank or relative position in an order or series

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v. induct (a) to make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat (b) to meditate or reflect upon (c) to stretch out or expand in every direction (d) to bring in

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n. transposition (a) a narrow street, garden path, walk or the like (b) a clever or sarcastic remark (c) the act of reversing the order or changing the place of (d) modification

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adv. verily (a) entirely (c) in truth

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(b) without intention (d) according to the usual order of things

n. revelation (a) a description or report of something as modified by one's character or opinion (b) a disclosing, discovering or making known of what was before secret, private or unknown (c) person who places in trust (d) the sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sounds

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adj. diatomic (a) following in uninterrupted succession (c) not to be understood

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(b) low-priced; cheap (d) containing only two atoms

adj. disconsolate (a) capable of being turned back (b) grief-stricken (c) pertaining to the relation of lord and vassal (d) usual or customary

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adj. pervasive (a) thoroughly penetrating or permeating (b) durable (c) pertaining to the treasury or public finances of a government (d) given to constant trivial talking

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 397

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n. nuance (a) proximity (b) an interpreter (c) a slight degree of difference in anything perceptible to the sense of the mind (d) the condition of existing in three identical copies

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n. adamant (a) a poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases (b) release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation or responsibility (c) any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability (d) detective

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n. crusade (a) any position having emoluments with few or no duties (b) a feeling of extreme repugnance or of dislike and disgust (c) dry weather, especially when so long continued as to cause vegetation to wither (d) any concerted movement, vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an idea or principle

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n. bowler (a) in cricket, the player who delivers the ball (b) counterfeiting (c) loss of purity or integrity (d) the world or universe considered as a system, perfect in order and arrangement

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n. operetta (a) a humorous play in dialog and music that consists of more than one act (b) a dictionary (c) the act of moving or going downward (d) an official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege

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n. cosmopolitanism (a) sophistication; worldliness (c) the getting rid of waste matter

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(b) that by which anything is transported (d) upkeep; process of supporting and sustaining

n. berth (a) the philosophical study of society (b) dry weather, especially when so long continued as to cause vegetation to wither (c) the galaxy (d) a bunk or bed in a vessel, sleeping-car, etc

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n. infirmity (a) a physical, mental or moral weakness or flaw (b) an insane person (c) a member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the Promised Land or western Palestine (d) preconceived opinion; bias; sentence passed before proper examination of the circumstances

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n. tendency (a) the assertion of the opposite of that which has been said (b) direction or inclination, as toward some objector end (c) a critical period or condition (d) the state of being dormant

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adj. conspicuous (a) indicating source, origin, possession or the like (b) being without restraint (c) clearly visible (d) greedy

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 398

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n. remonstrance (a) the act or operation of cutting in pieces, specifically of a plant or an animal (b) the process of coming between (c) evenness of mind or temper (d) reproof

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adj. coincident (b) carried on in resistance to aggression (d) taking place at the same time

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n. burgher (a) the dissection of a living animal (b) an inhabitant; city resident (c) a romantic story or plot and sensational situation and incidents (d) any assemblage of pupils for real research in some specific study under a teacher

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n. monsieur (a) government by a supreme deity (b) a French title of respect, equivalent to Mr. and sir (c) entrance (d) tact, shrewdness or skill in conducting any kind of negotiations or in social matters

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v. inject (a) to give by will (b) to invest with sovereign power (c) to break a law (d) to force in by means of a syringe or other device; to infuse

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v. reclaim (a) to make inefficient or worthless; to muddle (b) to cause to incline and approach nearer together (c) to rearrange (d) to demand or to obtain the return or restoration of

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n. yearling (a) the act of making amends, as for an injury, loss or wrong (b) political and social system of medieval Europe (c) pride or haughtiness exhibited in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others (d) a young animal past its first 12 months of age

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adj. implicit (a) moved or managed with difficulty, as from great size or awkward shape (b) impersonating; putting on a false appearance; feigning; arrogant; haughty (c) being in agreement or harmony with (d) implied

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n. restitution (a) restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs (b) a flirt (c) a lack of variety (d) a three-wheeled vehicle

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v. reimburse (a) to exceed; to go beyond (b) to make explanatory or critical notes on or upon (c) to pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended (d) to demand or to obtain the return or restoration of

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 399

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n. heptagon (a) a figure having seven sides and seven angles (b) something overdue and unpaid (c) any alcoholic or intoxicating drink (d) a small fissure, as between two contiguous surfaces

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n. hospitality (a) the practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness (b) something upon which the mind is set; goal; plan; purpose (c) a coarse, heavy shoe (d) a brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience

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n. affront (a) the act of putting in proper order or the state of being put in order (b) an open insult or indignity (c) a final statement or proposal, as concerning terms or conditions (d) a theory of evolution that includes findings of modern genetics

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n. unbelief (a) self-flattering opinion (c) doubt; lack of faith; skepticism

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(b) undue expenditure of money (d) the study and collection of stamps

n. monogram (a) a character consisting of two or more letters interwoven into one, usually initials of a name (b) a mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual (c) an occupant (d) a goddess; divinity of chastisement and vengeance

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n. technography (a) a lack of variety (b) festivity (c) the scientific description or study of human arts and industries in their historic development (d) duplicity

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n. kilowatt (a) a unit of electrical energy

(b) a break

(c) a smoke-duct in a chimney

(d) a confirmed criminal

n. catholicism (a) any assemblage of pupils for real research in some specific study under a teacher (b) wanton and malicious mischief (c) the system, doctrine and practice of the Roman Church (d) intent

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n. indicator (a) one who or that which points out (c) an open pan or basin for holding live coals

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(b) the right or act of purchasing before others (d) a young cow

n. facsimile (a) an exact copy or reproduction (b) the outer skin (c) a person of the lowest or poorest class (d) a peremptory or unexpected rejection of advances or approaches

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n. intelligence (a) the property or state of allowing the passage of light (b) capacity to know or understand (c) a small cavern (d) something may be logically assumed to be true until disproved; supposition

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n. monotony (a) something that passes the ordinary, proper or required limit, measure or experience (b) an arsenal (c) a lack of variety (d) a furtherer, forwarder or encourager

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n. venison (a) examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness (b) that which oppresses, injures or causes grief and at the same time a sense of wrong (c) a positive utterance (d) the flesh of deer

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n. neo-latin (a) a wooden framework in which an offender is fastened to boards and is exposed to public scorn (b) is a post-medieval version of an ancient Indo-European language (c) model; pattern (d) urgency

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n. complicity (a) acceptance of the common faith (b) a bundle, as of letters (c) participation or partnership, as in wrong-doing or with a wrong-doer (d) an instrumental composition

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adj. fiducial (a) ambiguous (c) of three colors

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(b) indicative of faith or trust (d) of or pertaining to the middle

n. pact (a) a covenant (b) the act of changing the purpose of or altering the plans of through persuasion or pleading (c) a morbid process in some part of the body characterized by heat, swelling and pain (d) a volume consisting of ten parts or books

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adj. noiseless (a) silent (b) straight; one dimensional; pertaining to length; narrow and elongated (c) unduly changeable in feeling, judgment or purpose (d) intended for general circulation

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adj. lucid (a) efficient

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(b) mentally sound

(c) exceedingly fat

(d) masculine

n. apex (a) a traditional form or customary act (b) dweller (c) the highest point, as of a mountain (d) a collective unanimous opinion of a number of persons

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 401

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n. personage (a) the property of some substances through which the form of the mass can readily be changed (b) an undue display of modesty or delicacy (c) a man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high station (d) an explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege

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n. cadenza (a) wickedness (b) an instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface (c) an embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument (d) process of breaking up of a union of persons

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n. counting-house (a) a six-stringed instrument from the 16th and 17th centuries (b) recklessness (c) the principles of philosophy as applied to explain the methods of any particular science (d) an office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc.

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n. soprano (a) a piece of lead for making soundings; adjusting walls to the vertical (b) inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereign (c) a woman's or boy's voice of high range (d) open robbery, as in war

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n. cygnet (a) rebellion against lawful or constituted authority (b) a young swan (c) commerce unrestricted by tariff or customs (d) the division of society on artificial grounds

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n. mulatto (a) hard and constant work in any menial or dull occupation (b) conservation (c) gross wrong or injustice (d) the offspring of a white person and a black person

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n. livelihood (a) a heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body (b) pastime (c) means of subsistence (d) extreme misery or unhappiness

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n. insufficiency (a) inadequacy (b) person who endeavors to help his fellow men (c) the act of turning or directing inward, physically or mentally (d) excessive fatness

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n. pseudonym (a) person who is among the first to explore a country (b) a fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer (c) line of motion or direction (d) a person who makes intelligible the speech of a foreigner by oral translation

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n. duplicity (a) double-dealing (b) the whole of any sphere or department of nature or knowledge to which man is related (c) person who joins or supports others (d) the state of being dormant

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 402

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n. moratorium (a) a person who is moved or directed (b) an emergency legislation authorizing a government suspend some action temporarily (c) the letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase (d) wanton and malicious mischief

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v. becalm (a) to correct

(b) to make quiet

(c) make sweeping statements

(d) to use words of double meaning

adj. photoelectric (a) thin and weak (b) that which points out (c) chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree (d) pertaining to the combined action of light and electricity

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adj. salient (a) standing out prominently (b) situated or occurring below the surface of the earth (c) contributing to an end (d) harmless

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adj. genital (a) lacking warmth of manner (b) of or pertaining to the animal reproductive organs (c) alluring by false or gaudy show (d) assumed by law to exist

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adj. theoretical (a) astute (b) not flowing: said of water, as in a pool (c) directed toward knowledge for its own sake without respect to applications (d) not having the abilities desired or necessary for any purpose

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n. disinfectant (a) any soft, gentle wind (b) chemical agent that destroys a harmful organism (c) the female of the deer (d) any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds

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adj. phonetic (a) pertaining to studies that are pursued after receiving a degree (b) representing articulate sounds or speech (c) speaking several tongues (d) having a hairy covering

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v. wrangle (a) to restore brightness or beauty (c) to maintain by noisy argument or dispute

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(b) to produce or cause to be (d) to spread abroad or from person to person

n. scruple (a) a prophecy (b) the lady superior of a nunnery (c) anything relating or belonging to the outside (d) doubt or uncertainty regarding a question of moral right or duty

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 403

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n. redemption (a) an action or mode of conduct that excites resentment (b) the recovery of what is mortgaged or pledged, by paying the debt (c) a group of seven governments (d) a bitter or malicious criticism

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n. automaton (a) a small wave (b) perplexity (c) any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical (d) a profuse or abundant supply of riches

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n. obsequies (a) rashness (b) person who belongs to a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy (c) funeral rites (d) an acute epidemic disease

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n. antonym (a) a standard by which to determine the correctness of a judgment or conclusion (b) a lever for the foot usually applied only to musical instruments, cycles and other machines (c) forms of speech collectively that are peculiar to the people of a particular district (d) a word directly opposed to another in meaning

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n. reservoir (a) a flowering shrub (b) equilibrium (c) a receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept (d) something that swells out from a surrounding surface

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n. stigma (a) a mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of evil-doing (b) any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road (c) the act of repeating (d) one who trains horses, dogs, etc

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n. esquire (a) the branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure and mechanical properties (b) anything made of clay and baked in a kiln or dried in the sun (c) a place or region on the opposite side of the earth (d) a title of dignity, office or courtesy

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n. liquor (a) a mixing or changing the order of things (c) a store that sells cosmetics

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(b) a fleet and spirited horse (d) any alcoholic or intoxicating drink

n. lactation (a) the secretion of milk (c) rapturous excitement or exaltation

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(b) a line of ten syllables (d) any alcoholic or intoxicating drink

n. biennial (a) a spoken or written laudation of a person's life or character (b) a plant that produces leaves and roots the first year and flowers and fruit the second (c) epitome; perfect embodiment of (d) the science of man in general

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 404

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v. hinder (a) to obstruct (b) to drive away by or as by scattering in different directions (c) to make widely or generally known (d) to win confidence or good graces for oneself

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adj. daring (a) distinctive (b) rather late (c) crowned with laurel, as a mark of distinction (d) brave

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v. variegate (a) to mark with different shades or colors (b) to translate freely (c) to take away in such manner as to lessen value or estimation (d) to drink or take in

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n. legionary (a) an acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act (b) constraint, as by force or authority (c) the young in the womb or in the egg (d) of a military unit; of a multitude; of a great number

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adj. onerous (b) like a lion (d) perceptible by touch

(a) burdensome or oppressive (c) keen in discernment Q6

n. precision (a) utter hopelessness and despondency (b) a number of states or persons in compact or league with each other, as for mutual aid (c) accuracy of limitation, definition or adjustment (d) a vehement desire

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n. disputation (a) the flesh of deer (b) a brief account of some interesting event or incident (c) verbal controversy (d) lack of import or of importance

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adj. persuadable (a) discordant (b) contemptible (c) characteristic (d) capable of influencing to action by entreaty, statement or anything that moves the feelings

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n. amphitheater (a) a figure with eight sides and eight angles (b) doubt; lack of faith; skepticism (c) an edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena (d) relative proportion and harmony

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n. matrix (a) that which contains and gives shape or form to anything (b) the landed estate of a lord or nobleman (c) recognition (d) something added to a letter after the writer's signature

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 405

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n. continuation (a) any support or prop (b) prolongation (c) a low tract of land between hills, especially along a river (d) the power of springing back to a former position

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n. pervert (a) rich supply (b) an ancestor (c) person who has forsaken a doctrine regarded as true for one esteemed false (d) the ten commandments

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n. acerbity (a) a symbol (c) sourness, with bitterness and astringency

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(b) loss of purity or integrity (d) a legislator

n. dejection (a) melancholy (b) a union of two characters representing a single sound (c) confinement (d) any article of personal property

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n. irritant (a) the branch of medical science that relates to improving health (b) a principle accepted as true and acted on as a rule or guide (c) the laying out or expending or money or other resources, as time or strength (d) a mechanical, chemical or pathological agent of inflammation, pain or tension

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n. encore (a) diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose (b) government by departments of men transacting particular branches of public business (c) any unnatural addition, outgrowth or development (d) the call for a repetition, as of some part of a play or performance

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n. summary (a) extreme poisonousness

(b) an abstract

(c) the act of giving for a common purpose

(d) the sun

n. monograph (a) the change of endings in nouns and adjectives to express their different relations of gender (b) any concerted movement, vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an idea or principle (c) sorcery (d) a treatise discussing a single subject or branch of a subject

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n. ecstasy (a) an arsenal (c) rapturous excitement or exaltation

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(b) the act of pleading a cause (d) government by a supreme deity

n. egress (a) universal prevalence or acceptance (b) a bunk or bed in a vessel, sleeping-car, etc (c) any place of exit (d) a man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high station

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 406

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n. philology (a) anything that may be possible (b) the study of language in connection with history and literature (c) a morbid condition, due to obstructed excretion of bile or characterized by yellowing of the skin (d) hasty, careless writing

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v. recapitulate (a) to instill, introduce or inculcate, as principles or qualities (b) to risk money or other possession on an event, chance or contingency (c) to repeat again the principal points of (d) to render virtuous

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n. benefit (a) helpful result (b) a happening (c) a Spanish dance, illustrative of the passion of love, accompanied by caste nets and singing (d) violent contact

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adj. diffusible (a) relating to one of the English queens (b) abundant (c) capable of or characterized by clear reasoning (d) spreading rapidly through the system and acting quickly

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v. imbrue (a) to surrender or stipulate terms (c) to foretell

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(b) to recall the knowledge of (d) to wet or moisten

adj. inapt (a) following in time (c) awkward or slow

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(b) subject to contention or dispute (d) childish

n. centiliter (a) a sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted (b) a metric unit of volume (c) one who has been won over from one religious belief to another (d) a person or thing that aids the principal agent

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adj. personal (a) formed after one's father's name (c) not habitually solitary or living alone

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(b) disdainful (d) not general or public

n. rendition (a) a solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead (b) the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy (c) an abstract (d) interpretation

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n. labyrinth (a) one who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court (b) a maze (c) witchcraft (d) a happening in general, especially one of little importance

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 407

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n. nutriment (a) an elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts (b) source of sustenance and nourishment (c) calmness (d) a fossil reptile

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n. tapestry (a) an instrument having two jaws working on a pivot (b) a fabric to which a pattern is applied with a needle, designed for ornamental hangings (c) a flirt (d) a master in the technique of some particular fine art

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n. exclusion (a) prevention; rejection; leaving out; keeping out; shutting out (b) an earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach (c) the act or process of sucking up (d) one who holds high rank

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n. freethinker (a) loyalty (b) royal state (c) one who rejects authority or inspiration in religion (d) a peremptory or unexpected rejection of advances or approaches

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n. missile (a) the act, fact or result of committing or the state of being (b) a writer of light verse, usually of low quality (c) area which is rubbed off; process of rubbing off (d) any object, especially a weapon, thrown or intended to be thrown

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n. conjugation (a) permanence (b) the state or condition of being joined together (c) the buttocks (d) the act or state of looking forward to as certain or probable

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n. mentality (a) a formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act (b) a hollow projectile containing an explosive material (c) any large body of water studded with islands or the islands collectively themselves (d) intellectuality

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n. pediatrics (a) detective (b) the department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood (c) the art of discourse (d) politeness

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n. analogy (a) reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed (b) prescience (c) an astronomical viewing place (d) a scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning

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n. diligence (a) a misunderstanding attended by ill feeling, perplexity or strife (b) members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association or the like (c) a criminal; fugitive (d) careful and persevering effort to accomplish what is undertaken

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 408

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v. ambulate (a) to return or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like (b) to infuriate (c) to certify; recognize; assign; license (d) to walk about

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n. chancery (a) a court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court (b) poetry (c) exclusion from intercourse or favor, as in society or politics (d) any unusual occurrence

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v. expectorate (a) to hate violently

(b) to prevent or obstruct the operation of

(c) to cough up and spit forth

(d) to misunderstand

n. triad (a) a group of three persons of things (b) the principal portion (c) Indian corn: usually in the United States called simply corn (d) a sheet of paper on which information has been printed; flyer

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n. palsy (a) the trunk or body of a tree (b) an instrument for determining the density of solids and liquids by flotation (c) condition in which a body part cannot be moved (caused by nerve or brain damage, etc.) (d) a high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese

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n. foreman (a) person who has two spouses at the same time (b) rebellion against lawful or constituted authority (c) leader; supervisor (d) malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another

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adj. vociferous (a) making a loud outcry (c) relating to measurement

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(b) habitual (d) having six angles

n. colleague (a) a philanthropist (b) a woman's ornamental corset-shaped laced waist (c) an associate in professional employment (d) solitude

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adj. imperturbable (a) pliant

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(b) dormant

(c) calm

(d) inexpressible

adj. mundane (a) worldly, as opposed to spiritual or celestial (b) pertaining to marriage, marital rights or married persons (c) that can not be destroyed (d) of considerable bulk and weight

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 409

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n. aristocracy (a) an unlucky accident (c) a way of approach or entrance; passage

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(b) a waiting room for those who seek audience (d) a hereditary nobility

n. bibliomania (a) the passion for collecting books (c) the state of spreading through every part

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(b) the act of imbuing or pouring in (d) a system of church government

n. lodgment (a) a preacher who goes from place to place holding services (b) the act of furnishing with temporary quarters (c) the quality of producing vexation (d) a minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells

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n. conspirator (a) one abandoned to depravity and sin (b) a word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another (c) person who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose (d) irreverence toward God

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n. loch (a) a lake (c) a yawning hollow, as in the earth's surface

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(b) an authoritative direction (d) obsolescence

n. mileage (a) an astronomical viewing place (b) anything intended or calculated to deceive or mislead (c) absence of harmoniousness (d) a distance in miles

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n. twinge (a) the right or act of purchasing before others (b) a darting momentary local pain (c) a round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton (d) the state of being attached or joined

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n. polycracy (a) the rule of many (b) a base or support as for a column, statue or vase (c) a small shrill trumpet or bugle (d) a classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus

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n. liberalism (a) writing or handwriting of the ordinary cursive form (b) the extreme forward part of a ship's hold, under the lowest deck (c) that which is indispensably requisite to an end desired (d) opposition to conservatism

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n. heretic (a) one who takes part in a conversation or oral discussion (b) a hanging from a support (c) one who holds opinions contrary to the recognized standards or tenets of any philosophy (d) supremacy; superiority; prevailing influence; state of being widespread

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 410

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n. domination (a) accordance with recognized usage, custom or principles (b) a fictitious reason or motive (c) misfortune (d) control by the exercise of power or constituted authority

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n. jugglery (a) a fit of nausea (b) the art or practice of sleight of hand (c) an extract or selection from written or printed matter (d) the faintest ray

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adj. contingent (a) of unknown authorship (b) ungracious (c) of or pertaining to a town or city or to its corporate or local government (d) not predictable

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n. contrivance (a) poverty (b) person who incites to evil (c) the act planning, devising, inventing or adapting something to or for a special purpose (d) the art or business of compounding and dispensing medicines

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adj. courageous (a) brave (b) contrary to the rules of sound thought (c) of the nature of an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule (d) possessing the power of sense or sense-perception

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v. rebut (a) to oppose by argument or a sufficient answer (c) to endow with life or energy

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(b) to step beyond (d) to move faster

v. beseech (a) to entrap (b) to cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking (c) to happen first (d) to implore

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n. rhetoric (a) fondness (b) a cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, intended for dipping up and pouring liquids (c) a person who receives money (d) the art of discourse

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v. dissolve (a) to exclude from public or private favor (c) to take the place of

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(b) to liquefy or soften, as by heat or moisture (d) to be naughty and troublesome

adj. culpable (a) pertaining to winter (b) guilty (c) serene (d) ancient; pure; immaculate; unrefined; unpolluted

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n. acme (a) a happening (b) the highest point; summit (c) a cross-demand alleged by a defendant in his favor against the plaintiff (d) a list of the words of an author or the literature bearing on a particular subject

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n. loneliness (a) an associate in professional employment (b) a washing or cleansing, especially of the body (c) solitude (d) any instrument for measuring the intensity of light or comparing the intensity of two lights

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n. perfidy (a) the obstruction of a heavenly body by its entering into the shadow of another body (b) any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical (c) treachery (d) entrance or the right or permission to enter

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n. lough (a) person who makes false professions of their views or beliefs (b) a physical, mental or moral weakness or flaw (c) Irish word for lake; long inlet of the sea; bay (d) the act of furnishing with temporary quarters

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n. effeminacy (a) the official head of the Roman Catholic Church (b) lack of manly qualities; femininity (c) any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability (d) upkeep; process of supporting and sustaining

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n. wantonness (a) recklessness (b) that part of a landscape or picture situated or represented as nearest the spectator (c) a prominence (d) a light romantic story, especially one that is considered trite or sentimental

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n. competence (a) one who or that which is expected to remain permanently in its position (b) disregard (c) instinctive knowledge or feeling (d) adequate qualification or capacity

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n. mirage (a) a luminous phenomenon in the upper regions of the atmosphere (b) an optical effect looking like a sheet of water in the desert (c) a public teacher of the highest grade in a university or college (d) any act of condemnation and rejection from favor and privilege

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n. anachronism (a) an escort or lover (b) anything occurring or existing out of its proper time (c) a narrow street, garden path, walk or the like (d) a round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton

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n. forbearance (a) patient endurance or toleration of offenses (b) infusion (c) the quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy (d) one who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss but also a chance of profit

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adj. rigorous (a) marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner (b) sleepy (c) capable of receiving injuries (d) uncompromising

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adj. ascetic (a) given to severe self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion (b) seizing and devouring living prey (c) beginning (d) capable of being separated into parts

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v. desert (a) to involve in dissension or strife (b) to worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances (c) to abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned (d) to continue to exist after

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v. initiate (a) to confuse the perceptions or judgment of (c) to inspire with ardent love

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(b) to handle tenderly and lovingly (d) to perform the first act or rite

n. assassin (a) the inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body (b) an obstacle (c) the general principles, laws or causes that furnish the rational explanation of anything (d) one who kills or tries to kill, treacherously or secretly

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n. waistcoat (a) a subordinate (b) a vest (c) a fleet of war-vessels (d) Indian corn: usually in the United States called simply corn

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n. necromancer (a) a model (b) the external appearance merely (c) one who practices the art of foretelling the future by means of communication with the dead (d) an assault, especially of troops, upon an enemy or fortification

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adj. astute (a) initial (c) concise

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(b) keen in discernment (d) showing submission to natural superiors

adj. authentic (a) primitive; unsophisticated (c) of undisputed origin

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(b) alternate; other; additional; subordinate (d) affording gratification

adj. impregnable (a) that can not be taken by assault (b) foolish, indiscreet or silly (c) connected, extended or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence (d) fraudulent

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n. immigrant (a) the art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them (b) a woman who has never been married (c) a foreigner who enters a country to settle there (d) a petty male monarch

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n. guise (a) anything that constricts or serves for binding or tying (b) one of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia (c) the external appearance as produced by garb or costume (d) a rising, soaring or climbing

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n. sufferance (a) absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly administrated (b) an open structure for temporary shelter (c) any unsound or delusive mode of reasoning; anything based on such reasoning (d) toleration

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n. aerostatics (a) the branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure and mechanical properties (b) the boundary-line of a circle (c) the highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment (d) the art of preparing and serving appetizing food

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n. machinist (a) the greatest possible extent (b) a theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society (c) person who makes or repairs metal-working tools (d) rebellion against lawful or constituted authority

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n. refinery (a) spare time (b) the faintest ray (c) a place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified (d) a place or region on the opposite side of the earth

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n. demulcent (a) a studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt (b) person who places in trust (c) any application soothing to an irritable surface (d) verbal interference

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n. penance (a) a bold, impudent, turbulent woman (b) self-imposed punishment; self-mortification; affliction (c) something that causes damage, depreciation or loss (d) escape

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n. deficiency (a) lack; shortage (b) testimony legally taken on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in court (c) conclusiveness; something which cannot be revoked (d) person who consumes time idly

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n. perspective (a) the relative importance of facts or matters from any special point of view (b) a raging epidemic (c) the worship of nature for itself or its beauty (d) a social party composed of persons masked and costumed so as to be disguised

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n. convalescence (a) low drollery, coarse jokes, etc (b) a component or essential part (c) a painted or sculptured representation of the Virgin, usually with the infant Jesus (d) the state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease

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v. deport (a) to take or send away forcibly, as to a penal colony (b) to waste away in flesh (c) to set free or release from bondage (d) to refer to specifically

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n. habitude (a) a condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages (b) a private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates (c) that which is uttered or proclaimed by authority as a rule of action (d) customary relation or association

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n. fanatic (a) a hanging from a support (c) the act of deciding

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(b) a religious zealot (d) flood; inundate; engulf

n. insurgent (a) one who takes part in forcible opposition to the constituted authorities of a place (b) melancholy (c) proverb (d) an open braced framework for supporting the horizontal stringers of a railway-bridge

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n. cession (a) something that moves to action or serves as an incentive or stimulus (b) surrender, as of possessions or rights (c) a choral composition (d) the state or quality of being unfit, unseemly or inappropriate

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n. proclamation (a) a performer of moral and social duties (b) any announcement made in a public manner (c) one of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins (d) to accumulate; to accrue; to collect; to have a desired result or effect; to return; to come back

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adj. defiant (a) characteristic of one who is unduly devoted to dress and the niceties of manners (b) fleeting (c) characterized by bold or insolent opposition (d) straightforward

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adj. ignoble (a) that can not be turned aside (b) showing criminal or evil purpose (c) grand; splendid; majestic; superb; glorious; impressive (d) low in character or purpose

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v. mediate (a) to set forth publicly or in glowing terms (b) to cause to loathe (c) to effect by negotiating as an agent between parties (d) to bring together into a crowd

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n. satyr (a) anything that rouses to activity or to quickened action (b) foreboding (c) a very lascivious person (d) an employment limited to one particular line of work

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n. manufacturer (a) one who believes in the theory that man's food should be exclusively vegetable (b) person, or organization that produces finished goods from raw materials, especially on a large industrial scale (c) a person who drives animals that are hybrids of horses and donkeys (d) the branch of medical science which relates to the skin and its diseases

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n. squatter (a) sexual or moral purity (b) the denial of the existence of God (c) a figure of speech that consists in the naming of a thing by one of its attributes (d) one who settles on land without permission or right

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n. lune (a) a person's line of ancestors (b) the property of combined refraction and reflection of light, resulting in smoky tints (c) fatherhood (d) the moon

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n. carrion (a) resemblance or correspondence in sound (b) a title of dignity, office or courtesy (c) the laying out or expending or money or other resources, as time or strength (d) dead and putrefying flesh

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n. nuisance (a) any rule or law (b) something that annoys, vexes or irritates (c) quickness of intellectual insight or discernment; keenness of discrimination (d) a bad name or character

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n. differentia (a) any essential characteristic of a species by reason of which it differs from other species (b) gradual destruction, as by burning, eating, etc. or by using up, wearing out, etc. (c) an obstruction or plugging up of an artery or other blood-vessel (d) a little island

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n. spinster (a) a woman who has never been married (b) want of power to apprehend, understand, and manage (c) a coming into view (d) a writer on ethics

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n. competitor (a) a small dagger (b) essential likeness (c) the branch of medicine that relates to mental disease (d) a rival

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n. epidemic (a) death (b) one controlled by an appetite or a passion (c) one who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs (d) wide-spread occurrence of a disease in a certain region

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n. nurture (a) an excessive amount (b) the process of fostering or promoting growth (c) a city or district with its own government; city council; governing body of the local area (d) a sudden outburst of any kind of activity

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adv. et cetera (a) and so forth (c) extremely

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(b) for that or this (d) precipitately, as in diving

n. militarism (a) the place where Christ was crucified (b) any assemblage of pupils for real research in some specific study under a teacher (c) an utterly trivial distinction or objection (d) a policy of maintaining great standing armies

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adj. inexcusable (a) done as an experiment (b) of barbarous, uncouth and unfamiliar aspect or action (c) not to be justified (d) speedy

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n. secrecy (a) chemical agent that destroys a harmful organism (b) concealment (c) seriousness (d) a figure having many angles

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adj. prescient (a) transferable by assignment, endorsement or delivery (b) rare (c) allowing the passage of light (d) foreknowing

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n. souvenir (a) beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency (b) a private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates (c) person who believes the teaching of another or who adopts and follows some doctrine (d) a token of remembrance

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v. extenuate (a) to diminish the gravity or importance of (c) to change in nature, substance or form

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(b) to trespass upon (d) to confiscate

v. admonish (a) to give a name or epithet to (c) to play at courtship with a woman

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(b) to bridge (d) to warn of a fault

n. sepulcher (a) diligence; industriousness; stubbornness (b) a burial-place (c) a public teacher of the highest grade in a university or college (d) a curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls upon another circle

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n. constable (a) an officer whose duty is to maintain the peace (b) a return from death to life (c) a thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting (d) anything occurring or existing out of its proper time

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n. theology (a) any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage (b) the doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth (c) the study of religions and religious teachings (d) the rule of many

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n. omnipotence (a) the consequences that follow the transgression of natural or divine law (b) the union of a man and a woman in marriage (c) unlimited and universal power (d) unmerited contemptuous conduct or treatment

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n. gusto (a) keen enjoyment (b) discord (c) a wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it (d) a figure, especially, with five angles and five sides

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n. analyst (a) a slave or bondman (b) a cross-demand alleged by a defendant in his favor against the plaintiff (c) person who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method (d) a plant destitute of chlorophyll, as a mushroom

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n. repetition (a) the act of repeating (b) somebody or something that is only of temporary existence (c) a small article, more for ornament that use (d) a body of Christians united by a common faith and form of worship and discipline

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n. exuberance (a) a many-colored appearance (b) harmony (c) a six-stringed instrument from the 16th and 17th centuries (d) rich supply

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n. elasticity (a) that property of matter by which a body tends to return to a former shape after being changed (b) a component or essential part (c) one who advertises, especially in newspapers (d) change for the better

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n. landscape (a) the call for a repetition, as of some part of a play or performance (b) a rural view, especially one of picturesque effect, as seen from a distance or an elevation (c) the trunk or body of a tree (d) proximity

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n. paralysis (a) person who cuts and fits panes of glass, as for windows (b) loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles (c) an unlucky accident (d) land broken up and left to become mellow or to rest

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v. ponder (a) to meditate or reflect upon (c) to pass or spread through every part

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(b) to empty by draining off the contents (d) to manage badly; to govern in an evil manner

adj. recrudescent (a) becoming raw or sore again (c) black-and-blue, as contused flesh

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(b) lacking in bodily or mental strength (d) silly

n. cholera (a) an acute epidemic disease (c) inflammation of the stomach

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(b) a crack or crack-like depression (d) the science of organic forms

v. obstruct (a) to abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned (b) to bestow as a gift, especially for a worthy cause (c) to agree (d) to fill with impediments so as to prevent passage, either wholly or in part

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v. disallow (a) to pour or cause to pass, as a fluid, from one vessel to another (b) to impair or injure the beauty, symmetry or appearance of (c) to withhold permission or sanction (d) to render virtuous

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v. accouter (a) to make quiet (b) to swell or bulge beyond the surrounding surface (c) to make widely or generally known (d) to dress

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n. contingency (a) the story of one's life written by himself (c) a space entirely devoid of matter

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(b) possibility of happening (d) ascendancy

n. recluse (a) person who lives in retirement or seclusion (b) importance; significance; superiority; supremacy; distinctiveness (c) the exertion of opposite effort or effect (d) a composition of different songs or parts of songs arranged to run as a continuous whole

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adj. discursive (a) denoting electricity produced by heat (b) passing from one subject to another (c) being more than is needed (d) given to questioning, especially out of curiosity

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n. advocacy (a) the necessary means or resources (b) a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted (c) the act of pleading a cause (d) outline of a subject, course, lecture or treatise

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n. wile (a) a grotesque, ludicrous or fantastic action (b) the aggregate of plants growing without cultivation in a district (c) an act or a means of cunning deception (d) a composition for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, generally taken from the Scriptures

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n. complacence (a) intuitive sagacity or perception (b) satisfaction with one's acts or surroundings (c) something that passes the ordinary, proper or required limit, measure or experience (d) warmth and kindliness of disposition

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n. sacrilege (a) cultivation (c) a harmonic

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(b) a supervisor (d) the desecration of the holy

n. exposure (a) the theory that places man's chief good in the completeness of self (b) an open situation or position in relation to the sun, elements or points of the compass (c) a parasite (d) current electricity, especially that arising from chemical action

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n. stanchion (a) fitness, as of time or place (b) a temporary absence of a soldier or sailor by permission of the commanding officer (c) a vertical bar or a pair of bars, used to confine cattle in a stall (d) the act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment

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n. comprehension (a) a fit of nausea (c) ability to know

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(b) a gross infringement of morality or decency (d) the union of a man and a woman in marriage

n. florist (a) ridicule (b) a convent (c) the department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs (d) a dealer in flowers

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n. catastrophe (a) the study of religions and religious teachings (b) any great and sudden misfortune or calamity (c) that which may be used to produce light (d) biblical exposition or interpretation

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n. parlance (a) one of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: used in brush-making, etc (b) person who retails small wares (c) mode of speech (d) a length of ten meters

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n. impetus (a) any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road (b) any impulse or incentive (c) the habit or characteristic of recurrence at regular intervals (d) component

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n. necropolis (a) a figure of speech by which a phrase less offensive is substituted (b) loyalty (c) a city of the dead (d) entreaty in behalf of others

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n. trident (a) the three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune (b) tumors composed of enlarged and thickened blood-vessels, at the lower end of the rectum (c) anything that unduly exhilarates or excites (d) a way or passage out

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v. depress (a) to make sad; discourage (c) to drink or take in

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(b) to liquefy or soften, as by heat or moisture (d) to render uniform

v. rupture (a) to separate the parts of by violence (b) to set apart as sacred (c) to serve as a remembrance of (d) to express agreement with a statement or matter of opinion

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adj. saponaceous (a) relating to making proof, as of a will (c) edible

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(b) having the nature or quality of soap (d) divinely sweet, fragrant or delicious

n. sextet (a) the process by which an animal or plant gives rise to another of its kind (b) the faculty of perception or thought (c) a band of six singers or players (d) forbearance in judging of the acts or opinions of others

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n. epilogue (a) determination of the distinctive nature of a disease (b) a yielding to the power or authority of another (c) the close of a narrative or dramatic poem (d) any condition of which the elements or parts are in utter disorder and confusion

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n. duration (a) any impulse or incentive (b) the period of time during which anything lasts (c) a preacher who goes from place to place holding services (d) the act or art of tracing or inscribing on a surface letters or ideographs

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n. preface (a) a brief explanation or address to the reader, at the beginning of a book (b) a castle or manor-house (c) a false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive (d) artifice

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n. secession (a) a disclosing, discovering or making known of what was before secret, private or unknown (b) recklessness (c) voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies (d) simultaneousness

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n. ampersand (a) the quality of affecting the sense of smell (b) the character &; the logical conjunction 'AND' (c) a young cow (d) a stone coffin or a chest-like tomb

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n. emergence (a) quickness of intellectual insight or discernment; keenness of discrimination (b) liability to be broken or destroyed (c) a place where anything is kept in safety (d) a coming into view

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n. nonpareil (a) one who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts (b) a visible trace, mark or impression, of something absent, lost or gone (c) a disturbance or violent agitation (d) somebody or something of unequaled excellence

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n. incoherence (a) a superficial amateur (b) person who navigates the air; a balloonist (c) want of connection or agreement, as of parts or ideas in thought, speech, etc. (d) the process of fostering or promoting growth

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n. juror (a) a place for the reception or treatment of the sick (b) person who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress (c) one who serves on a jury or is sworn in for jury duty in a court of justice (d) a thing that differs from another in form only, being the same in essence or substance

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n. logician (a) denial of what is asked (b) uninterrupted connection in space, time, operation or development (c) a woman who has never been married (d) an expert reasoner

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n. accordion (a) a portable free-reed musical instrument (b) one who supports extreme measures or holds extreme views (c) an act or proceeding designed to bring about some event (d) a seller

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n. tenet (a) a related group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought (b) a collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body (c) any person who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence (d) any opinion, principle, dogma or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as true

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n. sinecure (a) neglect or refusal to comply with an authoritative injunction (b) a room kept at a low temperature for preserving fruits, meat, etc (c) malicious mischief (d) any position having emoluments with few or no duties

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n. utility (a) a border region (b) fitness for some desirable practical purpose (c) a fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer (d) a showy writer or speaker

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v. revile (a) to offset

(b) to compose or issue short books

(c) to heap approach or abuse upon

(d) to render ineffective or inoperative

n. recrudescence (a) the art or science of extracting any solid mineral element (such as gold, silver, copper, etc.) l from ores, as by smelting (b) the state of becoming raw or sore again (c) inability or unwillingness to bear or endure (d) the mixed worship of polytheism

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n. protestant (a) a Christian who denies the authority of the Pope and holds the right of special judgment (b) area which is rubbed off; process of rubbing off (c) a servile assistant and subordinate (d) holiness

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v. entrench (a) to set up again; to found anew (b) to free from sin or its penalties (c) to settle firmly; strongly establish; establish a strong defensive position (d) to pass or spread through every part

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adj. pentavalent (a) quinqeuvalent (c) doomed to evil, misery or misfortune

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(b) sweetly or smoothly flowing (d) illogical

n. pentahedron (a) the act of observing and analyzing one's own thoughts and feelings (b) a solid bounded by five plane faces (c) family origin; genealogy; line of descent (d) accuracy of limitation, definition or adjustment

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n. adversity (a) the upper part of the face, between the eyes and the hair (b) a figure with six angles (c) misfortune (d) shameless viciousness

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adj. mandatory (a) lacking pity or sympathy (b) that desires or craves immoderately or unappeasably (c) expressive of positive command, as distinguished from merely directory (d) possessing, giving or constituting preference or priority

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n. effect (a) the inversion of terms in successive classes as in 'the home of joy and the joy of home' (b) the book containing the service for the celebration of mass (c) a consequence (d) a musical instrument somewhat larger than a violin

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n. sentence (a) a figure of speech that consists in the naming of a thing by one of its attributes (b) respectful submission or yielding, as to another's opinion, wishes or judgment (c) any champion of the rights and liberties of the people: often used as the name for a newspaper (d) a related group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought

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n. autonomy (a) any calling or occupation involving special mental or other special disciplines (b) preponderance (c) self-government (d) a certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail

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n. geniality (a) looks or acts expressing amused contempt (c) measurement of the powers of vision

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(b) warmth and kindliness of disposition (d) a complete or humiliating failure

n. nectar (a) any especially sweet and delicious drink (b) a curved or crescent-shaped line of things or people (c) folly (d) an overthrow, as from the foundation

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n. erudition (a) extensive knowledge of literature, history, language, etc (b) dizziness (c) want of connection or agreement, as of parts or ideas in thought, speech, etc. (d) a burden or responsibility

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n. concussion (a) virginity (b) exactness; preciseness (c) something that is bestowed on or appointed to one from a higher power (d) a violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow

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n. dissension (a) a public declaration, making announcement, explanation or defense of intentions or motives (b) angry or violent difference of opinion (c) a composition for four voices or four instruments (d) the negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery

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n. necrology (a) a young girl; sweetheart (b) seriousness (c) a list of persons who have died in a certain place or time (d) gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration

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adj. robust (a) pertaining to the having, holding or detention of property in one's power or command (b) characterized by great strength or power of endurance (c) capable of being thrust out (d) following in uninterrupted succession

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n. bravado (a) direction and management (b) the art of controversy or disputation (c) forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical (d) an aggressive display of boldness

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adj. sapient (a) brave (c) passing naturally from parent to child

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(b) possessing wisdom (d) offering or offered as an atonement for sin

adj. remiss (a) negligent (b) of, pertaining to or living on a shore (c) mentally sound (d) pertaining to studies that are pursued after receiving a degree

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n. statute (a) person who makes or repairs metal-working tools (b) ability to produce the desired result (c) any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree or law (d) priority in place, time or rank

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v. venerate (a) to oppose with an equal force (b) to deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate (c) to cherish reverentially (d) to frighten away

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adj. irreligious (a) very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell (b) yielding (c) utterly ridiculous or absurd (d) indifferent or opposed to religion

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adj. arborescent (a) involving the moving of water, of the force exerted by water in motion (b) adhering to the existing order of things (c) pertaining to marriage, marital rights or married persons (d) having the nature of a tree

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adj. underhanded (a) clandestinely carried on (b) laughable and contemptible (c) caused miraculously or by the immediate exercise of divine power (d) following in the order of time

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adj. flagrant (a) agreeable (c) giving off bubbles of gas

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(b) pertaining to the breast or thorax (d) openly scandalous

adj. brittle (a) fragile (b) serving or designed to make ready; serving to put into the proper condition (c) intrinsic (d) countless

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adj. diffident (a) possessing distinguished merit (c) suitable for the occasion or circumstances

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n. intuition (a) one who collects and examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc (b) a legislator (c) plant-life in the aggregate (d) instinctive knowledge or feeling

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n. sediment (a) the science of correct thinking (b) matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid (c) the fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock (d) testimony legally taken on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in court

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n. predominance (a) supremacy; superiority; prevailing influence; state of being widespread (b) change from one state or position to another or from one form to another (c) a message in writing (d) the keeping of a thing within one's power or possession

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n. gamester (a) a gambler (b) a hermitage (c) a small stream or brook (d) a brief account of some interesting event or incident

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n. jingo (a) self-imposed punishment; self-mortification; affliction (b) the tongue (c) one of a party in Great Britain in favor of spirited and demonstrative foreign policy (d) satisfaction with one's acts or surroundings

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n. precedent (a) a requisite for an employment, position, right or privilege (b) mental unsoundness (c) an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule (d) an alcoholic liquor made of fermented honey and water; any of various nonalcoholic drinks

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n. machinery (a) miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment (b) an interconnected series of parts or processes that works like a mechanical system to produce a result (c) the depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached (d) sweat

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n. viol (a) the state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease (b) recollection (c) ease (d) a six-stringed instrument from the 16th and 17th centuries

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n. collusion (a) a measure of length (b) the state or character of using a fictitious name (c) the quality of being upright in principles and conduct (d) a secret agreement for a wrongful purpose

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adj. indomitable (a) taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned (b) unconquerable (c) full of zeal and fervor (d) unsuitable or inconvenient, especially as to time

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adj. obstreperous (a) joined together in pairs

(b) savage

(c) unyielding

(d) boisterous

v. ennoble (a) to fertilize; fill completely; saturate; imbue (b) to provoke (c) to dignify (d) to examine formally by questioning

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adj. globular (a) capable of being separated into parts (b) pertaining to, intended for or performed by a chorus or choir (c) apt to omit what ought to be done (d) spherical

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n. antistrophe (a) somebody or something that is substituted for or appointed to act in place of another (b) adequate return for good or ill (c) the inversion of terms in successive classes as in 'the home of joy and the joy of home' (d) infringement

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adj. evangelical (a) seeking the conversion of sinners (c) amusing

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(b) situated on or near the sea (d) insufferable

v. demobilize (a) discharge from military service; disband an army (b) to give up using or having (c) to reject (d) to make (a liquid) hot under pressure above its boiling point without vaporization

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n. exorbitance (a) period during which something functions or exists (b) a list of the words of an author or the literature bearing on a particular subject (c) extravagance or enormity (d) repetition of words or sounds as a means of learning them, with slight attention

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n. crucible (a) a trying and purifying test or agency (b) person who makes an investigation (c) an unlucky accident (d) frequent irregular change back and forth from one state or degree to another

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n. centurion (a) self-government (b) an optical effect looking like a sheet of water in the desert (c) a captain of a company of one hundred infantry in the ancient Roman army (d) any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character

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n. usury (a) a man who owns and lets a tenement or tenements (b) a small insect parasitic on and sucking the blood of mammals (c) diminution, as of strength or magnitude (d) the demanding for the use of money as a loan, a rate of interest beyond what is allowed by law

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n. decalogue (a) a restriction (b) the quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch (c) the ten commandments (d) the depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached

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n. lawmaker (a) a legislator (b) a disfigurement (c) a thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting (d) something binds objects together

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n. sibilance (a) comprehension; insight (b) panic (c) a wooden framework in which an offender is fastened to boards and is exposed to public scorn (d) a hissing sound

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n. effusion (a) an outpouring (b) a word having the same or almost the same meaning as some other (c) delight (d) the state of being dispersed or scattered

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n. gambol (a) the skull of an animal, especially that part enclosing the brain (b) a bitter or malicious criticism (c) playful leaping or frisking (d) a mirror, as of metal, for sending back light, heat or sound in a particular direction

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n. prelacy (a) an instrument consisting of cords, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy (b) censure or ridicule under cover of praise or compliment (c) patient endurance or toleration of offenses (d) a system of church government

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n. pedestal (a) something that is bestowed on or appointed to one from a higher power (b) the place where one lives (c) a base or support as for a column, statue or vase (d) a god, goddess or divine person

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n. preparation (a) something that does not accomplish an intended purpose; incompetency; incapability (b) a trawl for trapping fish or small game; method by which someone or something is found or caught (c) an act or proceeding designed to bring about some event (d) objects of curiosity or for decoration

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adj. frivolous (a) trivial (b) moved or managed with difficulty, as from great size or awkward shape (c) evil (d) derived from the same root or primitive word

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n. zealot (a) engagement to marry (b) one who espouses a cause or pursues an object in an immoderately partisan manner (c) the doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms (d) a rival

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n. psychotherapy (a) hatred (b) the science of rights in accordance with positive law (c) great cruelty; reckless wickedness (d) the treatment of mental disease

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v. simplify (a) to destroy absolutely and completely (b) to make less complex or difficult (c) to extend (d) to vary in tone, inflection, pitch or other quality of sound

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n. primer (a) an elementary reading-book for children (b) the art of public speaking (c) confused, unintelligible speech or highly technical speech (d) separation of the more volatile parts of a substance from those less volatile

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n. depression (a) a line joining points at which the barometric pressure is the same at a specified moment (b) one of a party in Great Britain in favor of spirited and demonstrative foreign policy (c) current electricity, especially that arising from chemical action (d) sadness; low spirits

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n. personality (a) the attributes, taken collectively, that make up the character and nature of an individual (b) a disposition to give liberally or to bestow favors heartily (c) one controlled by an appetite or a passion (d) a sharp, harsh, squeaking sound

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n. weal (a) encroachment, as by an act of intrusion or trespass (b) a field or stream of ice (c) liveliness (d) well-being

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n. cosmography (a) person who moves from one place to settle in another (b) the science that describes the universe, including astronomy, geography and geology (c) the secretion of milk (d) a luxurious person

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v. levy (a) to wind and turn while proceeding in a course (b) to render clear and intelligible (c) to impose and collect by force or threat of force (d) to cause to become frightened

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adj. prevalent (a) of wide extent or frequent occurrence (b) that makes or enacts laws (c) of or pertaining to the sea or matters connected with the sea (d) expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action

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v. suppress (a) to exceed in influence or power (b) to return to a previous condition or position (c) to prevent from being disclosed or punished (d) to make old or out of date

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n. fief (a) the crime of marrying any other person while having a legal spouse living (b) water saturated with salt (c) the act of stringing or stretching or state of being strained (d) a landed estate held under feudal tenure

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n. antic (a) a grotesque, ludicrous or fantastic action (b) an occupant (c) a person having charge as of a library or museum (d) one of the small triangular plane surfaces of a diamond or other gem

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n. prevalence (a) frequency (b) a slight deviation from what is right, proper or just (c) hemp-fiber obtained by untwisting and picking out loosely the yarns of old hemp rope (d) immensity

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n. partition (a) a wide lower part of a tidal river (b) a young boy; young man (c) protrusion of any internal organ in whole or in part from its normal position (d) divider; act of dividing; segment; section; division of the storage area of a hard disk

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n. isobar (a) a remainder or surplus after a part has been separated or otherwise treated (b) a copy made directly from an original (c) the substance that forms the principal portion of an animal or vegetable cell (d) a line joining points at which the barometric pressure is the same at a specified moment

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n. physicist (a) one who collects and examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc (b) a specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy (c) person who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method (d) excess

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n. proscenium (a) that part of the stage between the curtain and the orchestra (b) the unnecessary and indiscriminate killing of human beings (c) passage from one place, condition or action to another (d) a long curved blade for mowing, reaping, etc

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n. syllable (a) obedience (b) the art or work of constructing, as buildings, walls, etc., with regularly arranged stones (c) the fine dust-like grains or powder formed within the anther of a flowering plant (d) that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse

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n. pillage (a) open robbery, as in war (b) a reaching or stretching out, as in space, time or scope (c) eruption; explosion (usually of an unpleasant thing) (d) the act or process of change

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n. constituent (a) one who one who makes positive changes; improver (b) forcible encroachment or trespass (c) loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles (d) person who has the right to vote at an election

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n. propaganda (a) a dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one (b) a showy writer or speaker (c) information spread in order to promote a particular goal (d) an image or likeness

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n. vegetarian (a) vigor; liveliness; newness; recentness (b) one who injures another (c) one who believes in the theory that man's food should be exclusively vegetable (d) insanity

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n. cameo (a) one to whom secrets are entrusted (b) any small engraved or carved work in relief (c) that which is outside (d) the act of reversing the order or changing the place of

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int. eureka (a) I have found it; I got it (c) here we go; here you are; there you go

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(b) well done (d) good-by; farewell

v. adjudge (a) to make less burdensome or less hard to bear (b) to endow with some quality, gift or grace, usually spiritual (c) to award or bestow by formal decision (d) to declare openly

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n. monolith (a) an extent of projection (b) beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency (c) any structure or sculpture in stone formed of a single piece (d) nervous uncertainty of feeling

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adj. pitiful (a) wretched (b) that can not be burned (c) disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods (d) done without perceptible lapse of time

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adj. odoriferous (a) of undisputed origin (b) pleasant smelling; aromatic (c) not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of (d) pertaining to the nature of sound

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n. fluctuation (a) frequent irregular change back and forth from one state or degree to another (b) calmness (c) the Seebeck effect (d) a lake

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adj. instantaneous (a) given to questioning, especially out of curiosity (b) strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom (c) plausible (d) done without perceptible lapse of time

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n. narrative (a) any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority (b) an artificial trance-sleep (c) a stone coffin or a chest-like tomb (d) an orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event

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n. bosom (a) the quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance (b) lassitude of body or depression (c) the breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman (d) person who works with or controls some machine or scientific apparatus

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n. mantel (a) a circle that rolls upon the external or internal circumference of another circle (b) model; pattern (c) the facing, sometimes richly ornamented, about a fireplace, including the usual shelf above it (d) a quack

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n. laundress (a) a substance possessing or reputed to possess curative or remedial properties (b) comfort in grief, trouble or calamity (c) washerwoman (d) slight sickness

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n. purport (a) the science that describes the universe, including astronomy, geography and geology (b) any soft, gentle wind (c) a laborer who changes jobs frequently (d) intent

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n. collision (a) violent contact (b) rapid motion (c) a gum or resin which on burning yields aromatic fumes (d) a solid bounded by five plane faces

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n. bailiff (a) formal presentation (b) the principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure (c) an officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment (d) a work containing information on subjects or exhaustive of one subject

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n. tutorship (b) a place where anything is kept in safety (d) the office of a guardian

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adj. caustic (a) strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom (b) out of the common or regular track (c) sarcastic and severe (d) having lost sparkling quality and flavor

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n. reprisal (a) a number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together (b) any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy (c) a subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc (d) a waiting room for those who seek audience

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n. apposition (a) importance (b) the act of placing side by side, together or in contact (c) that part of the stage between the curtain and the orchestra (d) participation or partnership, as in wrong-doing or with a wrong-doer

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v. involve (a) to destroy thoroughly (b) to make characteristic of the present or of recent times (c) to anger; to infuriate; to annoy; to irritate (d) to draw into entanglement, literally or figuratively

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v. acquire (a) to surrender the custody of (b) to infuse (c) to get as one's own (d) to calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; to mitigate

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v. requite (a) to cooperate with another or others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits (b) to get first sight or knowledge of, as something previously unknown or unperceived (c) to repay either good or evil to, as to a person (d) to contaminate

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n. belle (a) divider; act of dividing; segment; section; division of the storage area of a hard disk (b) a woman who is a center of attraction because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc. (c) a visible trace, mark or impression, of something absent, lost or gone (d) an instrument consisting of cords, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy

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n. anode (a) passive consent (b) a boat-song of Venetian gondoliers (c) the point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like (d) a record of events in their chronological order, year by year

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adv. piecemeal (a) in progress (b) gradually (c) not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others (d) ordinarily

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int. bravo (a) here we go; here you are; there you go (c) I have found it; I got it

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(b) good-by; farewell (d) well done

n. fracture (a) a levy, by government, of a fixed contribution (b) a break (c) an annual allowance, payment or income (d) one who is united with others in a league, compact or agreement

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adj. sanguinary (a) capable of being reflected (c) bloody

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n. transition (a) passage from one place, condition or action to another (b) a foreigner who enters a country to settle there (c) a formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act (d) openwork of metal or wood, formed by crossing or interlacing strips or bars

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n. expectancy (a) madhouse; uproar (b) disclosure; act of exposing (c) the act or state of looking forward to as certain or probable (d) the act of detesting extremely

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n. bodice (a) a forcible putting or keeping down (b) a system of church government (c) a woman's ornamental corset-shaped laced waist (d) a peremptory or unexpected rejection of advances or approaches

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n. alkali (a) a band of six singers or players (b) the state of being joined together or the things so joined (c) anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc (d) the fine dust-like grains or powder formed within the anther of a flowering plant

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n. revisal (a) rich supply (b) the body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance (c) revision (d) a very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc

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n. reclusory (a) one who represents a client in court of justice; an attorney (b) a hermitage (c) a base coward (d) a document or brochure providing a brief description of a project or enterprise

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n. prominence (a) the quality of being noticeable or distinguished (b) denial of what is asked (c) a figure with ten sides and ten angles (d) change or modification

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n. forgery (b) the highest point; summit (d) the ten commandments

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n. advent (a) the coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state or personage (b) a romantic story or plot and sensational situation and incidents (c) sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong (d) a person who supports a legal ban on the sale of alcoholic drinks (USA)

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n. confidant (a) person who tends to speculate (b) one to whom secrets are entrusted (c) a projection; act of causing to bulge outward; something that sticks out (d) reciprocal change, different ordering of same items

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n. irradiance (a) luster (b) the group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns (c) person who attends to correspondence, keeps records or does other writing for others (d) uprising

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v. defame (a) determine beforehand before hearing evidence (b) make sweeping statements (c) to fret at the edge so as to loosen or break the threads (d) to slander

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n. acid (a) the superior of a community of monks (b) a sour substance (c) a note at this interval above or below any other, considered in relation to that other (d) a principle accepted as true and acted on as a rule or guide

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adj. transparent (a) having an aptitude for applying oneself to new and varied tasks or to various subjects (b) having the property of consistency (c) easy to see through or understand (d) yielding

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n. cornucopia (a) the horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity (b) magnitude (c) the art of anointing as with oil (d) the murder of a parent

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v. effuse (a) to hasten the movement or progress of (b) to sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom (c) to pour forth (d) to excrete through the pores of the skin

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n. britannia (a) the act or process of entrusting or consigning for safe-keeping (b) omission of that which ought to be done (c) person who makes or repairs metal-working tools (d) the United Kingdom of Great Britain

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adj. simultaneous (a) effected by divine guidance (b) unendurable (c) occurring, done or existing at the same time (d) deceiving or tending to deceive, as by false appearance

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v. instigate (a) to provoke (b) to retake; to repossess (c) to make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat (d) to cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts

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adj. contagious (a) having an air of authority (c) transmitting disease

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n. affluence (a) a profuse or abundant supply of riches (c) a chest of drawers for clothing, etc

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(b) a figure having many angles (d) masculinity

n. inception (a) a book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like (b) the beginning (c) an unprovoked attack (d) a model

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n. profession (a) any reality (b) a wrong or improper act (c) recklessness (d) any calling or occupation involving special mental or other special disciplines

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n. abscission (a) abundance (b) the entire number, sum, mass or quantity of something (c) the act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation (d) contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value

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n. actuary (a) one who calculates insurance risks and premiums according to statistical probabilities (b) severity or acuteness, especially of pain or grief (c) self denial (d) anything done or said on the impulse of the moment

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n. intimacy (a) the state of being icy (b) a light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine (c) something that is of short duration (d) close or confidential friendship

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n. dignitary (a) a subordinate part or parts, enriching or supporting the leading part (b) verbal interference (c) one who holds high rank (d) anything gained or made one's own, usually by effort or labor

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n. curio (a) one who professes direct divine illumination or relies upon meditation to acquire truth (b) a piece of bric-a-brac (c) any act of kindness or well-doing (d) the act or power of moving from one place to another

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n. travail (a) any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned (b) hard or agonizing labor (c) a musical composition (d) trade forbidden by law or treaty

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n. portfolio (a) opposition to conservatism (b) a portable case for holding writing-materials, drawings, etc (c) intuitive sagacity or perception (d) a fatty preparation with a butter-like consistency in which a medicinal substance exists

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n. pedagogy (a) the science and art of teaching (b) a polar projection of the heavens on a chart (c) a policy of maintaining great standing armies (d) person who subjects another person to distress

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adj. olfactory (a) of or pertaining to the sense of smell (b) coming into view (c) that may be done, performed or effected; practicable (d) assuming too much

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v. predicate (a) to contaminate (b) to state as belonging to something (c) to cut off or take away, as a part of something (d) to trouble with importunities, cares or annoyances

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adj. dolesome (a) plenteous (c) a temporary discontinuance

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(b) melancholy (d) credulous

v. dissatisfy (a) to withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained) (b) to displease (c) to look into (d) to send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destination

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n. loiterer (a) an essay or treatise on a particular subject (b) person who consumes time idly (c) person who makes false professions of their views or beliefs (d) the beginning of that which becomes or is made to be

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adj. competitive (a) showing watchfulness, caution or careful consideration (b) characterized by rivalry (c) invulnerable (d) tranquil

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v. tantalize (a) to invest with sovereign power (c) to tease

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(b) to destroy absolutely and completely (d) to represent by sketch or diagram

v. accelerate (a) to have a care or thought for (c) to treat with sarcasm or derisive wit

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(b) to move faster (d) to chide or rebuke for a fault

v. enlist (a) to regard or speak of slightingly (b) to enter voluntarily the military service by formal enrollment (c) to set right, as a wrong by compensation or the punishment of the wrong-doer (d) to deprive of weapons

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n. retrogression (a) a going or moving backward or in a reverse direction (b) immensity (c) a bold, impudent, turbulent woman (d) any opinion, principle, dogma or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as true

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n. incidence (a) one of the wandering warrior who in the middle ages went forth in search of adventure (b) a chief spirit servant of God (c) self-distrust (d) casual occurrence

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n. jubilation (a) patient courage (b) the tongue (c) exultation (d) the chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right

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n. penetration (a) the act, fact or result of committing or the state of being (b) a light romantic story, especially one that is considered trite or sentimental (c) the act of stringing or stretching or state of being strained (d) discernment

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n. legging (a) a silencing, suppressing or ending (b) one having a taste for or interest in special objects (c) a protective covering made of a strong material (d) a spoken or written laudation of a person's life or character

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n. dastard (a) a means for conducting something, particularly a tube, pipe or passageway for a fluid (b) a base coward (c) the art of measuring the intensity of light (d) hole

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n. chattel (a) any article of personal property (b) the condition or process of gradually falling into disuse (c) a collection of dried plants scientifically arranged for study (d) the calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience

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n. occurrence (a) exclusion (b) a happening (c) any violation of established rules or customs (d) staff; work force; team; crew

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v. detest (a) to be naughty and troublesome (c) to set up again; to found anew

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(b) to refer incidentally or by suggestion (d) to dislike or hate with intensity

n. opulence (a) person who is specially cared for and favored by another usually older person (b) life in or fondness for one's home and family (c) person who loves books (d) affluence

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n. origin (a) a number of states or persons in compact or league with each other, as for mutual aid (b) one of the heavenly bodies as a source of light (c) the beginning of that which becomes or is made to be (d) the military force stationed in a fort, town or other place for its defense

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n. ichthyology (a) a certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail (b) the property which a wife brings to her husband in marriage (c) the branch of zoology that treats of fishes (d) determination of the distinctive nature of a disease

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n. digraph (a) a union of two characters representing a single sound (b) a person engaged in military service (c) a storehouse for grain after it is thrashed or husked (d) a border region

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adj. homologous (a) identical in nature, make-up or relation (b) made with a hissing sound (c) connected, extended or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence (d) capable of being grasped

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adj. angelic (a) of a wild, fierce, and savage nature (c) containing gold

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(b) saintly (d) sumptuously elegant

adj. corrigible (a) capable of reformation (c) abundant or superabundant in growth

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(b) transparent (d) unimaginative

adj. unanimous (a) sharing the same views or sentiments (b) practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession (c) done without perceptible lapse of time (d) directed toward the side

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adj. determinate (a) incorrect (b) existing for a short time only (c) occurring or made at intervals of three months (d) definitely limited or fixed

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adj. laudatory (a) pertaining to, expressing or containing praise (b) resembling a thorn; having pointed projections (c) evincing skill, originality or cleverness, as in contrivance or arrangement (d) holding the commonly accepted faith

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v. emanate (a) to shut out purposely or forcibly (b) to flow forth or proceed, as from some source (c) to bestow as a gift, especially for a worthy cause (d) to endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill or possessions

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n. regent (a) person who is lawfully deputized to administer the government for the time being in the name of the ruler (b) a way or passage out (c) a question or inquiry (d) self-flattering opinion

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n. academy (a) a sharp, harsh, squeaking sound (b) any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught (c) close or confidential friendship (d) a portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision

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n. convenience (a) fitness, as of time or place (b) an advanced state of acquirement, as in some knowledge, art or science (c) verbal controversy (d) person who supports the other side in a debate, discussion, struggle or sport

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n. justification (a) vindication (b) one who professes direct divine illumination or relies upon meditation to acquire truth (c) a collection of tabular masses of floating polar ice (d) a guess

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n. pioneer (a) fewness (b) the place in or near which a person or thing is (c) person who is among the first to explore a country (d) an open insult or indignity

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n. remission (a) any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught (b) the condition or process of gradually falling into disuse (c) temporary diminution of a disease (d) property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts; anything of material value or usefulness

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n. dissolution (a) process of breaking up of a union of persons (b) an entertainment (especially theatrical) held in the daytime (c) the state of having passed out of the memory or of being utterly forgotten (d) a difficult, trying situation or plight

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n. wretchedness (a) government by several or many persons of whatever class (b) a space entirely devoid of matter (c) extreme misery or unhappiness (d) the manner in which a thing is placed

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n. altitude (a) one who manages affairs of any kind (b) vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea (c) a great fire, as of many buildings, a forest or the like (d) a systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing and personal habits

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n. albino (a) ridicule (b) that form of the numeral that shows the order of anything in a series, as first, second, third (c) donor; donator (d) a person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris

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adj. debonair (a) difficult or impossible to break down and absorb (food) (b) having gentle or courteous bearing or manner (c) having no fame or reputation (d) abundant

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v. digress (a) to cut down or reduce in extent or quantity (b) to endow with some quality, gift or grace, usually spiritual (c) to throw down, push off or remove otherwise from a horse or the like (d) to turn aside from the main subject and for a time dwell on some incidental matter

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n. heredity (a) transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases, etc., from parent to offspring (b) person who makes an investigation (c) a stocking (d) the exhibition of greatness of action, character, intellect, wealth or power

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adj. academic (a) incongruously composed or ill-proportioned (b) extraordinary or marvelous (c) possessing wisdom (d) of or pertaining to an academy, college or university

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adj. impetuous (a) resisting all attempts to reduce volume by pressure (b) impulsive (c) threefold (d) lacking in bodily or mental strength

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n. anthropology (a) the science of man in general (b) a mental condition of fixed opposition to or dislike of some particular thing (c) matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid (d) fondness

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n. decameter (a) a length of ten meters (b) a change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune (c) the act or process of sucking up (d) the utmost point, side or border; something that is the farthest removed from a mean position

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n. translator (a) a branch; a derivative (b) lack of refinement in conduct or speech (c) an interpreter (d) the state of being flowery or a flowery appearance

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adj. corpulent (a) indicative (c) made commonplace by frequent repetition

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(b) that can not be taken by assault (d) obese

n. vassal (a) a title of honor bestowed upon various high officials (b) any violation of established rules or customs (c) thorough dislike (d) a slave or bondman

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n. surcharge (a) the quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance (b) the Seebeck effect (c) an official appointed to examine or oversee any matter of public interest or importance (d) an additional amount added to the usual price

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n. generosity (a) a public declaration, making announcement, explanation or defense of intentions or motives (b) a disposition to give liberally or to bestow favors heartily (c) confinement (d) a preacher who goes from place to place holding services

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n. infrequence (a) strictness (b) the act of training or the state of being under instruction (c) airplane or ship which is run by a transportation company; eye pencil (d) rareness

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n. barometer (a) an instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface (b) neglect or refusal to comply with an authoritative injunction (c) a member of an ancient secret fraternity originally confined to skilled artisans (d) increase of amount, size, scope or the like

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n. discontinuance (a) an associate in professional employment (b) contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value (c) interruption or intermission (d) the color of the sky

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n. cynosure (a) hard coal (b) an argument to obtain some desired action (c) that to which general interest or attention is directed (d) a burial-place

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n. hydra (a) an insane propensity to set things on fire (b) instinctive knowledge or feeling (c) the seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by Hercules (d) laziness

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n. fealty (a) a profuse or abundant supply of riches (b) one who trains horses, dogs, etc (c) a final statement or proposal, as concerning terms or conditions (d) loyalty

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n. alacrity (a) that which is uttered or proclaimed by authority as a rule of action (b) a grotesque imitation (c) cheerful willingness (d) ferocity

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n. annuity (a) the practice of obtaining by violence or compulsion (b) an instrument for indicating and marking exact time in music (c) an annual allowance, payment or income (d) deck of a ship located near the bow

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n. observance (a) an atomizer (b) fairness or impartiality (c) a traditional form or customary act (d) a brief explanation or address to the reader, at the beginning of a book

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n. misadventure (a) a brief explanation or address to the reader, at the beginning of a book (b) the act or power of moving from one place to another (c) process by which a word is traced from its original root or primitive form and meaning (d) an unlucky accident

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n. absence (a) the fact of not being present or available (b) the person to whom anything is pledged (c) the branch of medical science which relates to the skin and its diseases (d) the art of correct intonation, inflection and gesture in public speaking or reading

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adj. galvanic (a) befuddled with drinks (b) pertaining or relating to electricity produced by chemical action (c) capable of positive proof (d) strained to stiffness

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n. frankincense (a) the faculty of perception or thought (b) a gum or resin which on burning yields aromatic fumes (c) one of four equal parts into which anything is or may be divided (d) expansion

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n. apostasy (a) a word idiom or phrase characteristic of Great Britain or the British (b) condition in which a body part cannot be moved (caused by nerve or brain damage, etc.) (c) recognition (d) a total departure from one's faith or religion

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v. bore (a) to cause to be one (b) to weary by tediousness or dullness (c) to renounce (a right or privilege) (d) to repay either good or evil to, as to a person

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n. penchant (a) affluence (c) a choral composition

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(b) outside show or elegance (d) a bias in favor of something

adj. cognate (a) being, formed or operating under water (c) realistic

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(b) akin (d) of considerable bulk and weight

n. enmity (a) hatred (b) a high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea (c) any essential characteristic of a species by reason of which it differs from other species (d) a protecting force accompanying property in course of transportation

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n. infusion (a) maintenance (b) a doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe (c) a book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists (d) the act of imbuing or pouring in

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n. external (a) a bequest (b) any instrument for measuring the intensity of light or comparing the intensity of two lights (c) favorable or advantageous chance or opening (d) anything relating or belonging to the outside

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n. misogamy (a) pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons (b) the death of part of the body (c) hatred of marriage (d) knowledge of events before they take place

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n. cantonment (a) a composition for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, generally taken from the Scriptures (b) any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage (c) the part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered (d) pertaining to the eye or vision

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n. dexterity (a) a figure of speech in which one object is likened to another by speaking as if the other (b) a driving onward or forward (c) a return from death to life (d) readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work

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n. pincers (a) an instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot (b) the quality of being marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner (c) a will (d) mental excitement or confusion

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n. skepticism (a) the entertainment of doubt concerning something (b) the office of a guardian (c) an embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument (d) a silencing, suppressing or ending

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n. repentance (a) a ready, witty or apt reply (b) a coming into view (c) sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong (d) an official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege

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n. mite (a) a very small amount, portion or particle (b) a light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints (c) an instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface (d) semblance

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n. finale (a) concluding performance (c) a quack

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adj. abominable (a) adapted for grasping or holding (c) well-bred or refined

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(b) very hateful (d) characterized by fairness

v. beatify (a) to make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients (b) to make supremely happy (c) to delegate authority to (d) to deliver the amount or value of

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v. engrave (a) to renew motion or action, as after rest or interruption (b) to make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar (c) to cut or carve in or upon some surface (d) discharge from military service; disband an army

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adj. ascendant (a) unreasonable (c) dominant

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(b) equal in value, force, meaning or the like (d) adding emphasis or force

adj. endemic (a) pertaining to fireworks or their manufacture (b) necessary or requisite for the purpose (c) peculiar to some specified country or people (d) relating to the development and improvement of race

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n. covey (a) a flock of quails or partridges (c) surrender, as of possessions or rights

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(b) a very brief portion of time (d) profound devotion

n. minion (a) thwarting (b) forcible encroachment or trespass (c) a wise and faithful teacher, guide and friend (d) a servile favorite

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n. insight (a) an indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it (b) a circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof (c) intellectual discernment (d) a sphere or field of action or interest

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n. prospectus (a) any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character (b) the act of making amends, as for an injury, loss or wrong (c) sparkle; flicker; faint light; gleam (d) a document or brochure providing a brief description of a project or enterprise

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adj. inchoate (a) given to questioning, especially out of curiosity (b) pertaining or relating to electricity produced by chemical action (c) incipient (d) greedy

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n. nemesis (a) the state or period of being a student (b) a man without principle (c) any form of greeting, hailing or welcome, whether by word or act (d) a goddess; divinity of chastisement and vengeance

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n. outcast (a) person who is rejected and despised, especially socially (b) that part of a landscape or picture situated or represented as nearest the spectator (c) the department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood (d) philanthropist; person who is very unselfish

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n. equilibrium (a) a Christian who denies the authority of the Pope and holds the right of special judgment (b) protrusion of any internal organ in whole or in part from its normal position (c) an act or a means of cunning deception (d) a state of balance

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n. manumission (a) one who advertises, especially in newspapers (b) emancipation (c) change of order so that the first shall become last and the last first (d) the person to whom property is transferred by deed

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n. tempter (a) accordance with law (b) an expressive word or pithy sentence enunciating some guiding rule of life or faith (c) one of three men united coordinately in public office or authority (d) an allurer or enticer to evil

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n. baize (a) a great Hindu prince (b) a single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc. (c) the quality of giving or radiating light (d) passive consent

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n. optometry (a) measurement of the powers of vision (b) a furtherer, forwarder or encourager (c) silence; noiselessness; stillness; tranquility; muteness; speechlessness; peacefulness; calmness (d) the state of being flowery or a flowery appearance

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n. tolerance (a) formal presentation (b) the chemical analysis or testing of an alloy ore (c) a distance in miles (d) forbearance in judging of the acts or opinions of others

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n. manifesto (a) any unsound or delusive mode of reasoning; anything based on such reasoning (b) the stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one's own (c) a public declaration, making announcement, explanation or defense of intentions or motives (d) the calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience

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n. curator (a) a first appearance in society or on the stage (b) a solid bounded by five plane faces (c) a person having charge as of a library or museum (d) a flowering shrub

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adj. sparse (a) thinly diffused (c) merry

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(b) easily provoked to anger (d) like a circle

v. undeceive (a) to take too much food in (b) to free from deception, as by apprising of the real state of affairs (c) to overcome by force (d) to calculate arithmetically

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n. embargo (a) treatment (b) death (c) the act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition (d) authoritative stoppage of foreign commerce or of any special trade

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n. incident (a) a happening in general, especially one of little importance (b) a vessel or casket, usually of precious metal, in which the host is preserved (c) evenness of mind or temper (d) the scientific description or study of human arts and industries in their historic development

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n. physiognomy (a) the external appearance merely (b) a will (c) uprightness of character and soundness of moral principle (d) a young swan

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adj. shrewd (a) characterized by skill at understanding and profiting by circumstances (b) juicy (c) limited (d) living or existing at the same time

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n. forehead (a) unwillingness (b) a bruise (c) an instrument for assisting the eye in the vision of minute objects or features of objects (d) the upper part of the face, between the eyes and the hair

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adj. garrulous (a) tending in different directions (c) given to constant trivial talking

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(b) not to be understood (d) pertaining to Ireland or its people

v. germinate (a) to come in without leave or license (b) to infest or ravage (c) to stop while in progress (d) to begin to develop into an embryo or higher form

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adj. boisterous (a) peculiar (c) not moving

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n. impetuosity (a) inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas (b) rashness (c) a beginner in any business or occupation (d) a small flute

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n. lever (a) something that exerts or through through which one may exert great power (b) one of the highest class of offenses, and punishable with death or imprisonment (c) one of a party in Great Britain in favor of spirited and demonstrative foreign policy (d) one who denies the existence of God

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n. presentment (a) the dissection of a living animal (b) a person who is habitually lazy or idle (c) a pavement or floor or any supporting surface on which one may walk (d) semblance

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n. soliloquy (a) a cloak (c) a monologue

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(b) a person who has little understanding (d) the face, countenance or look of a person

n. reliance (a) a supervisor (b) a botanical garden or place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs (c) dependence (d) relative proportion and harmony

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n. contribution (a) an escort or lover (b) restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs (c) the act of giving for a common purpose (d) a wrong or improper act

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n. allotment (a) a general name for all kinds of weapons and their appliances used in war (b) an absolute and irresponsible monarch (c) obedience (d) portion

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n. velocity (a) magnitude (b) rapid motion (c) musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments (d) shameless viciousness

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n. abdomen (a) a title of honor bestowed upon various high officials (b) the branch of medicine that relates to mental disease (c) either of the two subdivisions of the trachea conveying air into the lungs (d) in mammals, the visceral cavity between the diaphragm and the pelvic floor; the belly

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n. insomnia (a) a brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest (b) sleeplessness (c) the science of rights in accordance with positive law (d) the violation of official duty, lawful right or a legal obligation

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adj. gluttonous (a) given to excess in eating (c) quick to notice

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(b) wishing evil to others (d) annoying; boring; wearisome

v. contuse (a) to make more fluid or less concentrated by admixture with something (b) to cooperate with another or others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits (c) to train to obedience (d) to bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin

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adj. outlandish (a) of barbarous, uncouth and unfamiliar aspect or action (b) easily understood (c) willing and ready to submit (d) prone to pillaging

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adj. expository (a) pertaining to a formal presentation (b) coming or acquired from some origin (c) adapted to or characterized by minute observation (d) of good ancestry

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v. arrange (a) to put in definite or proper order (b) to cast or drive out by religious or magical means (c) to cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking (d) to free or clear, as from accusation

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adj. preferential (a) disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness (b) native (c) not possessed of reasoning powers or understanding (d) possessing, giving or constituting preference or priority

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adj. inceptive (a) beginning

(b) lucid

(c) generous in treating or judging others

(d) excessively hot

adj. sensual (a) severely painful or acute to the spirit (b) having six angles (c) yielding in abundance (d) relating to physical or, especially, sexual pleasure

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n. grimace (a) thwarting (b) tact, shrewdness or skill in conducting any kind of negotiations or in social matters (c) a distortion of the features, occasioned by some feeling of pain, disgust, etc (d) one who or that which conveys from one person or place to another

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adj. indigenous (a) native (c) not understandable

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n. blemish (a) a mark that mars beauty (b) a disfigurement (c) any object, especially a weapon, thrown or intended to be thrown (d) a master in the technique of some particular fine art

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n. tenant (a) any sham, pretense or deceptive movement (b) person who is acquainted with several languages (c) a medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing (d) an occupant

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n. purgatory (a) a bruise (b) an intermediate state where souls are made fit for paradise or heaven by expiatory suffering (c) that which follows in consequence of what has previously happened (d) a restriction

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n. corrosion (a) gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration (b) the long hair growing upon and about the neck of certain animals, as the horse and the lion (c) satisfaction (d) excessive, pretentious and demonstrative vanity

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n. resilience (a) any application soothing to an irritable surface (b) the power of springing back to a former position (c) anything that allures or is intended to allures into danger or temptation (d) a natural or artificial layer, bed or thickness of any substance or material

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n. complication (a) the act of putting in proper order or the state of being put in order (b) a very wide-angled photographic lens (c) an intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner (d) a brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral

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n. alto (a) wrath (b) a periodical allowance to an individual on account of past service done by them (c) the lowest or deepest female voice or part (d) a parting address

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n. autopsy (a) a word directly opposed to another in meaning (b) an instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface (c) a member of a degraded class; a social outcast (d) the examination of a dead body by dissection to ascertain the cause of death

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n. colloquy (a) a duplicate executed by the artist himself and regarded, equally with the first, as an original (b) entrance (c) a member of a regiment composed of men of great stature (d) conversation

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n. miser (a) a person given to saving and hoarding unduly (b) wide-spread occurrence of a disease in a certain region (c) a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted (d) the stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one's own

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n. conjecture (a) a tracer of pedigrees

(b) a guess

(c) evasion

(d) proclamation

n. preemption (a) an employment limited to one particular line of work (b) the science that treats of plants (c) the quality of giving or radiating light (d) the right or act of purchasing before others

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adj. obese (a) exempt from error of judgment, as in opinion or statement (b) calm (c) measureless (d) exceedingly fat

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n. tinge (a) anything forbidden, as by social usage (b) the state of becoming raw or sore again (c) transition of the soul of a human being at death into another body, whether human or beast (d) a faint trace of color

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n. remembrance (a) a question or inquiry (b) recollection (c) person who moves from one place to settle in another (d) any combination or union for some common purpose

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n. diphthong (a) the act of changing the purpose of or altering the plans of through persuasion or pleading (b) the sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sounds (c) person who endeavors to help his fellow men (d) a loose gown worn by women

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adj. insuppressible (a) perilous (c) disposed to peevishness

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(b) incapable of being concealed (d) pertaining to farmers and farming

n. poetaster (a) a rectangular piece set in or as in a frame (b) general lack of capacity or fitness (c) a writer of light verse, usually of low quality (d) cutting and reproachful language

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v. conceive (a) to form an idea, mental image or thought of (b) to overcome by force (c) to articulate or enunciate with special impressiveness upon a word or a group of words (d) to give a name or epithet to

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adj. pallid (a) one who advocates reconstruction of society by collective ownership of land and capital (b) affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease (c) roomy (d) ashen; colorless; white; faint; weak; sickly

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n. aborigine (a) a small grain or particle (b) native; indigenous person; member of a people considered to be the earliest known inhabitants of a country or region (c) hatred (d) a heading, as of a chapter, section, document, etc

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n. hypotenuse (a) a place in which ferns are grown (b) the side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle (c) a dose of liquid medicine (d) a state of well-founded happiness

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n. avarice (a) a complete or humiliating failure (b) quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land (c) forbearance (d) passion for getting and keeping riches

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n. octagon (a) a festival or feast (b) a figure with eight sides and eight angles (c) a woman who is a center of attraction because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc. (d) the act of laying hold of or grasping

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n. manor (a) the landed estate of a lord or nobleman (c) a person given to saving and hoarding unduly

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(b) a figurine (d) a person of the lowest or poorest class

n. syneresis (a) inability or unwillingness to bear or endure (b) release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation or responsibility (c) a note or designation of honor, officially recognizing superiority or success in studies (d) the coalescence of two vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever

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n. afterthought (a) a criminal; fugitive (b) any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree or law (c) one who rejects authority or inspiration in religion (d) an idea that comes later than its appropriate or expected time

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n. susceptibility (a) a water hole drilled through impermeable strata (b) a person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells (c) a gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said (d) a specific capability of feeling or emotion

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n. derision (a) a member of a municipal legislative body who usually exercises also certain judicial functions (b) a somewhat continuous unstratified metal- bearing vein (c) a measure of length (d) ridicule

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n. parity (a) any position having emoluments with few or no duties (b) equality, as of condition or rank (c) gentlemen (d) a dose of liquid medicine

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n. inexperience (a) participation or partnership, as in wrong-doing or with a wrong-doer (b) government by a single, sovereign ruler (c) state of being unfamiliar with something; lack of knowledge or ability (d) a way or passage out

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adj. docile (a) easy to manage (c) bearing upon the matter in hand

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(b) existing but not immediately perceptible (d) light and unsubstantial

n. illuminant (a) permanence (c) a confirmed criminal

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(b) any large animal, as a whale (d) that which may be used to produce light

adj. latish (a) made out of wood (b) seizing and devouring living prey (c) of, pertaining to or contained or carried in a vein or veins (d) rather late

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n. pittance (a) the control of a thing, as a commodity, to enable a person to raise its price (b) any small portion or meager allowance (c) interruption or intermission (d) a single occurrence or happening of a given kind

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adj. inexorable (a) unrelenting (b) shining (c) powerless (d) feeding on herbs or other vegetable matter, as animals

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adj. piteous (a) smaller than usual (c) containing or consisting of more than one

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adj. inestimable (a) a published notice of a death (c) answering yes; to a question at issue

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(b) contemptible (d) compassionate

(b) above price (d) inattentive

adj. grotesque (a) approachable (c) different

(b) having the right or privilege of entry (d) incongruously composed or ill-proportioned

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n. superintendent (a) the state of being joined together or the things so joined (b) person who has the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement (c) a state of permanence (d) an earnest request

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n. stimulus (a) in mammals, the visceral cavity between the diaphragm and the pelvic floor; the belly (b) clanking or a ringing, as of arms, chains or bells; clamor (c) person who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress (d) incentive

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n. joggle (a) a showy writer or speaker (b) number that is deducted from an amount (c) monovalency (d) a sudden irregular shake or a push causing such a shake

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n. cadence (a) anything that gives security or defense (b) rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops (c) the stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one's own (d) the death of part of the body

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n. makeup (a) the arrangements or combination of the parts of which anything is composed (b) the worship of nature for itself or its beauty (c) a threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance (d) the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy

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n. moonbeam (a) a person of rank or importance (b) the condition or process of gradually falling into disuse (c) a title of dignity, office or courtesy (d) a pale, milky, or iridescent light reflected to the Earth at night

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n. anglophobia (a) hatred or dread of England or of what is English (b) a lawgiver (c) a seceder (d) a practitioner of midwifery

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n. continence (a) a stone coffin or a chest-like tomb (b) self-restraint with respect to desires, appetites and passion (c) reference or comment at the bottom of a page or end of a chapter (d) anything that will counteract or remove the effects of poison, disease or the like

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n. pedestrian (a) a loose or separated part, as distinguished from the whole or the mass (b) authoritative stoppage of foreign commerce or of any special trade (c) the place where one lives (d) one who journeys on foot

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n. variation (a) modification (b) a volume consisting of ten parts or books (c) any small engraved or carved work in relief (d) the property of combined refraction and reflection of light, resulting in smoky tints

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n. heifer (a) unwillingness to brook delays or wait the natural course of things (b) a washing or cleansing, especially of the body (c) that from or on which something is developed (d) a young cow

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n. promoter (a) a distance in miles (c) thorough dislike

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(b) excess (d) a furtherer, forwarder or encourager

v. antedate (a) to unfold or expand (c) to render intelligible

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(b) precede in time (d) to misappropriate secretly

n. linguist (a) person who is acquainted with several languages (b) ability to know (c) a word of two syllables (d) fitness to meet the requirements of a particular case

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v. entwine (a) to regard with worshipful veneration (b) to interweave (c) to invade partially or insidiously and appropriate the possessions of another (d) to reproach as deserving blame

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v. expect (a) to occupy completely (b) to look forward to as certain or probable (c) to vary in tone, inflection, pitch or other quality of sound (d) to bring to completion

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adv. later (a) in or at whatever place (c) with knowledge and by design

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(b) at a subsequent time (d) in no place or state

int. adieu (a) good-by; farewell (c) here we go; here you are; there you go

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(b) well done (d) I have found it; I got it

adj. irrelevant (a) walking about (c) offensive to taste and feeling

(b) inapplicable (d) spongy

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n. obstruction (a) immoderate action or indulgence, as of the appetites (b) hindrance (c) one who denies the existence of God (d) a doer of kindly and charitable acts

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n. course (a) a threat (b) the state of being adjacent (c) a document or brochure providing a brief description of a project or enterprise (d) line of motion or direction

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n. pantomime (a) the quality of being noticeable or distinguished (b) sign-language (c) the ability to suffer pain, distress, hardship or stress of any kind without succumbing (d) a deep gorge or hollow, especially one worn by a stream or flow of water

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n. abstinence (a) an assumed name (b) the sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sounds (c) matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid (d) self denial

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n. monition (a) friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof (b) the quality of curving in and out (c) the state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease (d) the final point or goal

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n. outcry (a) concealment (c) a scream; shout; protest

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(b) a parasite (d) fulfillment

n. mallet (a) a wooden hammer (b) person who travels from house to house with an assortment of goods for retail (c) an insane propensity to set things on fire (d) any prediction or foretelling

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n. hydromechanics (a) rapid motion (b) a part of the study of liquids (c) a circle that rolls upon the external or internal circumference of another circle (d) person who makes or deals in optical instruments or eye-glasses

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adj. bestial (a) contentious (c) belonging to a corporation

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(b) animal (d) entire

n. optician (a) person who makes or deals in optical instruments or eye-glasses (b) difficulty or failure in the alimentary canal in changing food into absorptive nutriment (c) the view that everything in nature and the history of mankind is ordered for the best (d) slander

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adj. nugatory (a) having no power or force (b) dedicated by a vow (c) given to constant trivial talking (d) radically different or contrary in action or movement

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n. credence (a) the state or quality of being of one mind (b) predestination (c) the revival of letters, and then of art, which marks the transition from medieval to modern time (d) belief

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adj. protuberant (a) solid (c) not cognizant of objects, actions, etc

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(b) bulging (d) supreme in authority

adj. nameless (a) very small (c) having no fame or reputation

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(b) habitually inactive or idle (d) of or pertaining to heat

n. degeneracy (a) process of becoming worse (b) a place where bees are kept (c) the rules and principles of poetry (d) a series of large pictures representing a continuous scene

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adj. cosmetic (a) dangerous and close at hand (b) characterized by bold or insolent opposition (c) indulging in or manifesting coarse indecency or obscenity (d) pertaining to the art of beautifying, especially the complexion

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n. monocracy (a) government by a single person (c) an exact copy or reproduction

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(b) hatred of marriage (d) an ox

adj. precedential (a) of the nature of an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule (b) doubtful (c) unlawfully begotten (d) showing or feeling envy

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n. luminary (a) an ample or adequate supply (b) one of the heavenly bodies as a source of light (c) an oven or furnace for baking, burning or drying industrial products (d) the quality, character or condition of being servilely following another's behests

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v. probe (a) to apportion (b) to search through and through (c) to call on for assistance or protection (d) to make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles

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n. nominee (a) the part of a nation's territory that abuts upon another country (b) boundless or immeasurable extension or duration (c) a person nominated by the will of another to execute the will (d) person who receives a candidacy

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n. indulgence (a) person who or that which regulates or directs (b) a model of excellence (c) the yielding to inclination, passion, desire or propensity in oneself or another (d) order; neatness

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n. constituency (a) a contraction of any material into less bulk or dimension (b) the inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body (c) a slight degree of difference in anything perceptible to the sense of the mind (d) immoderate action or indulgence, as of the appetites

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n. furlong (a) a measure of length; one-eighth of a mile (b) the state or quality of being necessary to existence or continuance (c) a beleaguerment (d) fitness, as of time or place

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n. nonentity (a) a difficult, trying situation or plight (b) a person or thing of little or no account (c) the state of being permanently existing in something (d) one chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other

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n. pyx (a) a vessel or casket, usually of precious metal, in which the host is preserved (b) airplane or ship which is run by a transportation company; eye pencil (c) a premise, starting-point or given fact (d) a variety show

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n. ridicule (a) the outer skin (b) looks or acts expressing amused contempt (c) ferocity (d) the change of endings in nouns and adjectives to express their different relations of gender

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n. successor (a) great cruelty; reckless wickedness (b) the close of a narrative or dramatic poem (c) a giving characterized by generous motives and extraordinary liberality (d) heir; inheritor; one who or that which follows or takes the place of another

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v. generalize (a) make sweeping statements (b) to put something in a wrong position (c) to make desolate with loneliness and grief (d) to emit or send forth sparks or little flashes of light

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n. corpse (a) a dead body (b) current electricity, especially that arising from chemical action (c) a fleshy fruit; trailing or climbing plant which bears this fruit (d) the intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch

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n. atheism (a) the fact of not being present or available (b) a series of illustrative or explanatory notes on any important work (c) epitome; perfect embodiment of (d) the denial of the existence of God

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adj. pitiable (a) censurable (b) contemptible (c) practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession (d) like a tree

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adj. monetary (a) financial (c) annoying; boring; wearisome

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(b) heavy with sleepiness (d) quick to notice

n. distemper (a) an eccentricity (b) a disease or malady (c) duplicity (d) a comparison which directs the mind to the representative object itself

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adj. tricolor (a) suitable to be eaten (c) pertaining to education or schools

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(b) of three colors (d) marked by lightness and softness

adj. hypnotic (a) farther or more distant (c) tending to produce sleep

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(b) slanting; said of lines (d) clamorous

v. idealize (a) to place, keep or withdraw from the companionship of others (b) to make to conform to some mental or imaginary standard (c) to liquefy or soften, as by heat or moisture (d) to regard with inordinate love or admiration

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n. benefice (a) a church office endowed with funds or property for the maintenance of divine service (b) the control of a thing, as a commodity, to enable a person to raise its price (c) is a post-medieval version of an ancient Indo-European language (d) an expression of applause

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n. volition (a) a dwelling-place occupied in common by persons under religious vows of seclusion (b) a temporary absence of a soldier or sailor by permission of the commanding officer (c) an act or exercise of will (d) the act of beating or driving back, as an attacking or advancing enemy

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n. default (a) a composition for four voices or four instruments (b) a French title of respect, equivalent to Mr. and sir (c) an institution for instruction and training in music and declamation (d) the neglect or omission of a legal requirement

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n. pantheism (a) one who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests (b) a front or cutting tooth (c) the worship of nature for itself or its beauty (d) any special impressiveness added to an utterance or act or stress laid upon some word

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n. aggregate (a) possibility of happening (b) the entire number, sum, mass or quantity of something (c) perceptible by feeling or touch (d) a souvenir

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n. fernery (a) any popular narrative poem, often with epic subject and usually in lyric form (b) the captain of a special ship (c) a place in which ferns are grown (d) vindication

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n. antiphon (a) a fleshy fruit; trailing or climbing plant which bears this fruit (b) a response or alteration of responses, generally musical (c) an ancestor (d) the act of conveying from one person or place to another

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n. humbug (a) a convent (b) anything intended or calculated to deceive or mislead (c) want of power to apprehend, understand, and manage (d) hatred

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n. pavilion (a) trickery (b) an open structure for temporary shelter (c) a record of events in their chronological order, year by year (d) a range of action or view

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n. foreordination (a) the quality of giving or radiating light (b) a figure of speech in which one object is likened to another by speaking as if the other (c) predestination (d) the property or state of allowing the passage of light

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n. poesy (b) the hinder part (d) impending evil or danger

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n. negation (a) the act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition (b) a throwing upward (c) one who settles on land without permission or right (d) an officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment

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n. influx (a) a casket, coffer or repository in which relics are kept (b) infusion (c) low drollery, coarse jokes, etc (d) a central point or part about which matter is aggregated

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n. intrusion (a) accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowels (b) an outpouring (c) the act of entering without warrant or invitation; encroachment (d) the seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by Hercules

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adj. forcible (b) fashionable (d) violent

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n. penury (a) change of order so that the first shall become last and the last first (b) the person to whom property is transferred by deed (c) the state of being white or glowing with heat (d) indigence

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adj. reliant (a) having confidence (b) characteristic of a dog (c) able to discern and distinguish with wise perception (d) lasting but a short time

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n. interpreter (a) a person who makes intelligible the speech of a foreigner by oral translation (b) dead and putrefying flesh (c) a yielding to the power or authority of another (d) the art of controversy or disputation

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n. predicament (a) the smaller in number of two portions into which a number or a group is divided (b) the sun (c) a difficult, trying situation or plight (d) the science of organic functions

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n. prophecy (a) an article presenting the opinion of the publishers (b) any prediction or foretelling (c) the branch of medical science which relates to the skin and its diseases (d) a wealthy class in a political community who control the government by means of their money

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adj. floral (a) silly (b) having the sails set for sailing as near to the wind as possible (c) pertaining to flowers (d) habitual

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n. microcosm (a) the world or universe on a small scale (b) a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds (c) indigence (d) person who is rejected and despised, especially socially

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n. repository (a) a place in which goods are stored (b) the knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices (c) pride or haughtiness exhibited in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others (d) a balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air

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n. atomizer (a) ease (b) an apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc. (c) an incumbent of a given office previous to another (d) constraint, as by force or authority

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n. indolence (a) a momentary look (b) laziness (c) a statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief (d) a way of approach or entrance; passage

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n. effulgence (a) a description or report of something as modified by one's character or opinion (b) something that exerts or through through which one may exert great power (c) a stocking (d) splendor

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n. precaution (a) the inversion of terms in successive classes as in 'the home of joy and the joy of home' (b) some auxiliary person or thing; partner (c) a provision made in advance for some possible emergency or danger (d) uneasiness of mind occasioned by desire, anxiety or fear

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n. conformance (a) the act or state or conforming (b) the culminating-point of prosperity, influence or greatness (c) a judgment as a conclusion (d) the branch of science that treats of the pressure and equilibrium of fluids

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n. creed (a) virtue or integrity tested and confirmed (b) a formal summary of fundamental points of religious belief (c) deceitfulness (d) a decree or an order forbidding something

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n. invalid (a) person who is disabled by illness or injury (b) belief in God (c) ridicule (d) a fabric to which a pattern is applied with a needle, designed for ornamental hangings

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n. somnolence (a) a sharp, shrill outcry or scream, caused by agony or terror (b) a circumstance so agreeing with another: often implying accident (c) oppressive drowsiness (d) a state of constant movement, change or renewal

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adj. moribund (a) malignant (c) characteristic of an erudite person

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(b) belonging, relating to or abounding in color (d) on the point of dying

n. anticlimax (a) an edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena (b) a gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said (c) in engraving, an etched stone surface for printing (d) one who practices the art of foretelling the future by means of communication with the dead

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adj. illegible (a) exceedingly noxious or deleterious (c) undecipherable

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(b) discriminating (d) having a double meaning

v. propel (a) to begin to develop into an embryo or higher form (b) to drive or urge forward (c) to displease (d) to run, organize, or deal with something incompetently

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adj. epizootic (a) inadequate for some need, purpose or use (b) wandering (c) pertaining to a brief explanation to the reader at the beginning of a book (d) prevailing among animals

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v. embolden (a) to pitch tents for a resting-place (c) to make sad; discourage

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(b) to give courage to (d) to request an inadequate price for something

n. trait (a) a room kept at a low temperature for preserving fruits, meat, etc (b) a distinguishing feature or quality (c) accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowels (d) a metallic copy of any surface, as a coin

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adj. aqueous (a) impudent (b) of, pertaining to or containing water (c) opposed to human servitude (d) roving or wandering, as in search of adventure or opportunity for gallant deeds

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n. neurology (a) a circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof (b) person who has forsaken a doctrine regarded as true for one esteemed false (c) use of many words without necessity (d) the science of the nervous system

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n. grenadier (a) the theory that places man's chief good in the completeness of self (b) a disfigurement (c) a member of a regiment composed of men of great stature (d) idiosyncrasy

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n. characteristic (a) a bold or presumptuous assertion (b) a distinctive feature (c) a measure that defines the amount a person can hold (d) a faint trace of color

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adj. cursory (a) indiscernible (c) rapid and superficial

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n. perspicacity (a) importance (c) acuteness or discernment

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(b) dependence (d) virginity

n. bevel (a) any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees (b) a somewhat continuous unstratified metal- bearing vein (c) a practitioner of midwifery (d) profound devotion

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n. biograph (a) person who writes plays (b) a bibliographical sketch or notice (c) the order in which a number or persons, things or events follow one another in space or time (d) an obstruction or plugging up of an artery or other blood-vessel

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n. dragoon (a) a small fissure, as between two contiguous surfaces (b) in the British army, a cavalryman (c) the natural history of trees (d) inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas

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n. dolor (a) lamentation (b) frequency (c) examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness (d) a solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead

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n. pension (a) a periodical allowance to an individual on account of past service done by them (b) the arrangements or combination of the parts of which anything is composed (c) unusually prolonged life (d) a preconceived liking

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n. syndicate (a) superior ruler (especially in feudal system); one with great influence (b) avarice (c) an association of individuals united for the prosecution of some enterprise (d) the maker of a deed

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n. telephony (a) process of becoming worse (b) a false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive (c) space in front of building (d) the general use of equipment to provide voice communication over distances

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n. panegyric (a) a field (b) person who is lawfully deputized to administer the government for the time being in the name of the ruler (c) a formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act (d) the act or state of looking forward to as certain or probable

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n. incendiary (a) a hereditary noble or one nearly connected with nobility (b) chemical or person who starts a fire-literally or figuratively (c) a rural view, especially one of picturesque effect, as seen from a distance or an elevation (d) a young bird

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v. incinerate (a) to wave, shake or flourish triumphantly or defiantly, as a sword or spear (b) to mix and work into a homogeneous mass, especially with the hands (c) to reduce to ashes (d) to command

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v. displace (a) to stretch out or expand in every direction

(b) to walk about

(c) to interfere for some end

(d) to remove from office; oust

n. breech (a) the buttocks (b) a roguish, mischievous boy (c) the faculty by the exercise of which a deliberate conclusion is reached (d) unnecessary activity or ceremony

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adj. municipal (a) having the nature or form of a question (b) ready to be led (c) of or pertaining to plants (d) of or pertaining to a town or city or to its corporate or local government

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adj. thoroughbred (a) hard to believe; not credible; lacking the appearance of truth (b) characterized by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds (c) pedigreed; cultured (d) monetary

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adj. fitful (a) indispensably requisite or absolutely needed to accomplish a desired result (b) spasmodic (c) resembling a thorn; having pointed projections (d) talkative

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n. pestilence (a) a raging epidemic (b) vindication (c) the state or condition of being joined together (d) sparkle; flicker; faint light; gleam

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v. unyoke (a) to separate (c) to recover something by searching

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(b) to add or affix at the end (d) to blend

v. deter (a) to frighten away (b) to win the mind of by argument, eloquence, evidence or reflection (c) to unite (d) to bargain with others for an agreement, as for a treaty or transfer of property

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n. occident (a) the countries lying west of Asia and the Turkish dominions (b) that part of a play or story in which the mystery is cleared up (c) the science of life or living organisms (d) the doctrine or belief that there are more gods than one

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n. allegory (a) a young swan (b) the principle and practice of depicting persons and scenes as they are believed really to exist (c) the setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness (d) a small mound

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n. gynecocracy (a) a border region (b) female supremacy (c) a vessel or casket, usually of precious metal, in which the host is preserved (d) a vast indefinite number

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n. non-combatant (a) a record or statement of receipts and expenditures or of business transactions (b) a large decorative metal disk worn on a chain around the neck (c) delusive speech (d) person who is attached to the army or navy, but having duties other than that of fighting

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n. jurisdiction (a) an open insult or indignity (b) the act of entering without warrant or invitation; encroachment (c) proclamation (d) lawful power or right to exercise official authority

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n. ampere (a) the practical unit of electric-current strength (b) a record of events in their chronological order, year by year (c) government by a supreme deity (d) denial of what is asked

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n. cudgel (a) mode of behavior; particular way of acting; affectation; pretension (b) adequate qualification or capacity (c) a short thick stick used as a club (d) nonsense

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n. subversion (a) any preparation used for cleaning the teeth (b) a love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature (c) an overthrow, as from the foundation (d) the act of taking back or taking again

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n. deformity (a) person who disagrees (b) denial (c) a disfigurement (d) the act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy

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n. timbre (a) an elastic animal tissue of firm consistence (b) a place where crows congregate to breed (c) the quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch (d) the property of combined refraction and reflection of light, resulting in smoky tints

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n. valedictory (a) any strikingly great person or object (b) a horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave (c) violation of allegiance, confidence or plighted faith (d) a parting address

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adj. asexual (a) poor (b) referring to reproduction without the combination of genetic material with another individua (c) perceivable (d) farthest from the front

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adj. hilarious (a) exhibiting haughty and careless contempt

(b) boisterously merry

(c) round from fullness or plumpness

(d) adverse

n. oratorio (a) anything that presents a system of cross lines (b) a solid bounded by plane faces, especially by more than four (c) a composition for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, generally taken from the Scriptures (d) person who disagrees

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adj. peaceful (a) swollen

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(b) tranquil

(c) colorless

(d) hypercritical

adj. resistive (a) affected by a condition caused by a lack of red blood cells (b) having or exercising the power of resistance (c) somewhat sharp or biting (d) lewd

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v. distort (a) to twist into an unnatural or irregular form (b) to preoccupy (c) to move back or away (d) to take away in such manner as to lessen value or estimation

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adj. isochronous (a) disinclined to conversation (b) relating to or denoting equal intervals of time (c) burdensome or oppressive (d) adapted for grasping or holding

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n. acquittance (a) release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation or responsibility (b) politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually (c) the part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered (d) a state of well-founded happiness

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n. pagan (a) one who supports extreme measures or holds extreme views (b) a figure having seven sides and seven angles (c) a worshiper of false gods (d) human skull or representation of a man's skull

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n. genesis (a) any opinion, principle, dogma or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as true (b) a bequest (c) creation (d) forcible ejection

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n. statics (a) impetus (b) the branch of mechanics that treats of the relations that subsist among forces in order (c) a young deer (d) a proposition taken for granted as a premise from which to reach a conclusion

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n. dilettante (a) a superficial amateur (b) a figure of speech by which a phrase less offensive is substituted (c) process of becoming worse (d) the power of springing back to a former position

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n. dissent (a) likeness; resemblance; counterpart (c) a raging epidemic

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(b) disagreement (d) a small light boat propelled by oars

n. abbot (a) the superior of a community of monks (b) an apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights (c) a meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits (d) a man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high station

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n. paucity (a) fewness (b) the color of the sky (c) the act of plunging or dipping entirely under water or another fluid (d) an atheist

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n. lithograph (a) sanction (b) the branch of mechanics that treats of the relations that subsist among forces in order (c) an agent acting for another (d) a print made by printing from stone

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n. expanse (a) one who makes or sells fabrics (b) a continuous area or stretch (c) a room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests (d) the department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood

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n. deposition (a) testimony legally taken on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in court (b) truthfulness (c) a short thick stick used as a club (d) a base coward

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n. entomology (a) a puzzling predicament (b) the branch of zoology that treats of insects (c) the landed estate of a lord or nobleman (d) that which is restored to, relied upon or made available for aid or support

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n. quarantine (a) the chief law-officer of a government (b) showing increase (c) a professor of divinity (d) the enforced isolation of any person or place infected with contagious disease

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v. protract (a) to postpone; lengthen; continue; maintain; preserve (b) to divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts (c) to mislead the mind or judgment of (d) to endow with a privilege, especially with the right to vote

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n. by-law (a) a union of two characters representing a single sound (b) anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning (c) the office of a guardian (d) a rule or ordinance adopted by an association, a corporation or the like

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n. overture (a) a spoken or written laudation of a person's life or character (b) an instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio or ballet (c) an oven or furnace for baking, burning or drying industrial products (d) a contraction of any material into less bulk or dimension

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v. delineate (a) to represent by sketch or diagram (b) to make milder or more endurable (c) to go with or be associated with, as a companion (d) to place in position of office again

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adj. inseparable (a) trivial (c) indivisible; close; devoted

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(b) spasmodic (d) stiffly proper

adj. derisible (a) violently abusive and quarrelsome (c) unchecked merriment or animal spirits

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v. distend (a) to cut apart or to pieces (c) to reconstruct

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(b) open to ridicule (d) benevolent

(b) to stretch out or expand in every direction (d) to grow worse

v. foreordain (a) to go beyond; to pass; to surpass; to outdo (b) to point out or publicly accuse as deserving of punishment, censure or odium (c) to describe by distinctive marks or peculiarities (d) to predetermine

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adj. liable (a) ambiguous (c) concise

(b) justly or legally responsible (d) naked

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n. death's-head (a) a cross-demand alleged by a defendant in his favor against the plaintiff (b) human skull or representation of a man's skull (c) sorrow (d) person who makes dictionaries

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n. kernel (b) the desecration of the holy (d) a grain or seed

(a) virtue (c) any strikingly great person or object Q3

n. transient (a) somebody or something that is only of temporary existence (b) the act of selling (c) candy or pastry; pastry shop; bake shop (d) readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work

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n. municipality (a) brilliant or sparkling luster (b) a first appearance in society or on the stage (c) a city or district with its own government; city council; governing body of the local area (d) submission to death or persecution for the sake of faith or principle

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n. hemorrhage (a) kindness of feeling, disposition or manner (b) any preparation used for cleaning the teeth (c) discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-vessel (d) person who has the right to vote at an election

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n. difference (a) the act of pleading a cause (b) the branch of physics that treats the phenomena caused by the action of forces (c) uprightness of character and soundness of moral principle (d) dissimilarity in any respect

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n. guess (a) the right or privilege of voting (b) an instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes (c) surmise (d) lawless control of public affairs by the populace

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n. impropriety (a) the countries lying west of Asia and the Turkish dominions (b) female supremacy (c) the state or quality of being unfit, unseemly or inappropriate (d) total loss or destitution of honor or reputation

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n. caste (a) the division of society on artificial grounds (b) the science that treats of plants (c) any ointment or lubricant for local application (d) a group of seven governments

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n. itinerary (a) any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages (b) a detailed account or diary of a journey (c) lack of import or of importance (d) a person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted

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adj. repellent (a) being beneath the threshold of consciousness (b) of degraded character or nature (c) having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally (d) empty

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n. assailant (a) mandate (b) person who attacks (c) that which is indispensably requisite to an end desired (d) the coalescence of two vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever

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adj. excitable (b) stubborn; steadfast; tenacious; obstinate (d) perilous

(a) nervously high-strung (c) resonant Q4

n. salutatory (a) the quality or character of being godlike (b) the opening oration at the commencement in American colleges (c) reciprocal change, different ordering of same items (d) that part of the stage between the curtain and the orchestra

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n. bronchus (a) conversation (b) comfort in grief, trouble or calamity (c) interpretation (d) either of the two subdivisions of the trachea conveying air into the lungs

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n. disservice (a) verbal interference (b) the state of having passed out of the memory or of being utterly forgotten (c) an ill turn (d) germ; microscopic organism

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n. persecution (a) solitude (b) person who is fond of women (c) rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops (d) harsh or malignant oppression

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adj. redundant (b) having sufficient funds to pay all debts (d) working ill by slow and stealthy means

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n. refusal (a) a state of mind indicating lack of interest (c) a hint

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adj. medial (b) perceptible (d) intense

(a) of or pertaining to the middle (c) unadvisable

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n. vicissitude (a) a writer on ethics (b) person who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress (c) a change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune (d) a service

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n. pyromania (a) a beggar (b) a superior production (c) an insane propensity to set things on fire (d) the art or science of extracting any solid mineral element (such as gold, silver, copper, etc.) l from ores, as by smelting

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n. submergence (a) a water hole drilled through impermeable strata (b) flood; inundate; engulf (c) the state or period of being a student (d) falsehood

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n. alienation (a) estrangement (b) a doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe (c) time between acts or periods (d) a constituent element or part

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n. protagonist (a) an open braced framework for supporting the horizontal stringers of a railway-bridge (b) a leader in any enterprise or contest (c) a young bird (d) discernment

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n. stringency (a) diminution, as of strength or magnitude (b) an instrument for indicating and marking exact time in music (c) the external appearance as produced by garb or costume (d) strictness

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n. lea (a) any preparation used for cleaning the teeth (b) a field (c) an embankment beside a river or stream or an arm of the sea, to prevent overflow (d) a narrow strip of wood

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n. fallow (a) land broken up and left to become mellow or to rest (b) a volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste (c) the act of beating or driving back, as an attacking or advancing enemy (d) indirect or roundabout expression

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n. corollary (a) the knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices (b) the art of examining objects with the microscope (c) the head-harness of a horse consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and the reins (d) a proposition following so obviously from another that it requires little demonstration

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n. cornice (a) ease (b) an ornamental molding running round the walls of a room close to the ceiling (c) a person or thing of very remarkable gifts or qualities (d) pride or haughtiness exhibited in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others

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n. impunity (a) infusion (b) freedom from punishment (c) an officer whose duty is to maintain the peace (d) the exertion of opposite effort or effect

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n. misanthropy (a) reduction (c) spiritual or social fellowship or solidarity

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(b) disregard (d) hatred of mankind

adj. titanic (a) tasteless (b) participating with another or others in the knowledge of a secret transaction (c) having the capacity, quality or ability of receiving, as truths or impressions (d) of vast size or strength

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v. congregate (a) to address or gratify with expressions of delicate praise (b) to bring together into a crowd (c) make sweeping statements (d) to give the authority of law to

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adj. fungous (b) bigoted (d) characterized by quivering or unsteadiness

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n. deviltry (a) vacillation (b) recognition (c) wanton and malicious mischief (d) an artificially induced somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestion

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adj. licit (b) speaking two languages (d) lawful

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adj. laureate (a) pertaining to Mars, either the Roman god of war or the planet (b) that can not be passed through or over (c) crowned with laurel, as a mark of distinction (d) bewildered

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adj. imprudent (a) heedless (c) carried on in resistance to aggression

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(b) faultfinding (d) characterized by agreeableness of sound

n. consumption (a) the natural height of an animal body (b) a stocking (c) an instrument having two jaws working on a pivot (d) gradual destruction, as by burning, eating, etc. or by using up, wearing out, etc.

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n. divisor (a) deportment (b) period during which something functions or exists (c) that by which a number or quantity is divided (d) separation

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n. brogan (a) a coarse, heavy shoe (c) portion

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(b) equality, as of condition or rank (d) a small or unimportant particular or detail

n. equity (a) a weight hung on a rod, serving by its oscillation to regulate the rate of a clock (b) a storehouse for grain after it is thrashed or husked (c) a person of rank or importance (d) fairness or impartiality

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n. hypnosis (a) a winding motion (b) the sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon (c) an artificial trance-sleep (d) a legislative body

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n. inherence (a) person, or organization that produces finished goods from raw materials, especially on a large industrial scale (b) member of an ancient Germanic people who invaded and settled parts of Britain (c) a collection of dried plants scientifically arranged for study (d) the state of being permanently existing in something

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n. crockery (a) the pretended forecast of future events or discovery of what is lost or hidden (b) the branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms (c) a continuance in the same state or without any change that destroys the essential form or nature (d) earthenware made from baked clay

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n. aeronautics (a) the art or practice of flying aircraft (b) a person who makes garments using animal hair (c) oppressive drowsiness (d) intensified emotion or action

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n. prevention (a) a villain (c) thwarting

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(b) diligence; industriousness; stubbornness (d) a person or thing of little or no account

adj. belligerent (a) of or pertaining to number (c) manifesting a warlike spirit

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(b) sovereign (d) dedicated by a vow

n. charlatan (a) the place where streams meet (b) any especially sweet and delicious drink (c) a quack (d) the general use of equipment to provide voice communication over distances

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n. packet (a) a bundle, as of letters (b) inequality (c) a light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine (d) person who has forsaken a doctrine regarded as true for one esteemed false

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v. succeed (a) to go beyond (b) to change the purpose or alter the plans of by persuasion, counsel or pleading (c) to accomplish what is attempted or intended (d) to equip with less than the full complement of men

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v. intersect (a) to derive or draw as a conclusion by reasoning from given premises or principles (b) to cut through or into so as to divide (c) to make gentle or refined (d) to execute clumsily

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v. succumb (a) to have an earnest desire, wish or longing, as for something high and good, not yet attained (b) to cease to resist (c) to endow with a privilege, especially with the right to vote (d) to stain

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n. diplomatist (a) a syllabus or summary (b) person who is remarkable for tact and shrewd management (c) loss of purity or integrity (d) a little aristocrat

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n. antichrist (a) person who is remarkable for tact and shrewd management (b) one of a class of deities of the woods and herds represented as half human, with goats feet (c) extravagant person; lavish spender; spendthrift; squanderer; one who wastes money (d) any opponent or enemy of Jesus, whether a person or a power

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n. toleration (a) that by which anything is transported (b) the maker of a will (c) a spirit of charitable leniency (d) one who espouses a cause or pursues an object in an immoderately partisan manner

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adj. vertical (a) hindering from action through fear (b) lying or directed perpendicularly to the horizon (c) contemptible (d) stubborn; steadfast; tenacious; obstinate

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n. apathy (a) apparition (b) an incorporated village or town (c) insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling (d) one who espouses a cause or pursues an object in an immoderately partisan manner

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v. vindicate (a) to abolish; to repeal (c) to prove true, right or real

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(b) to inflame with passion (d) to bring together again

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n. shrinkage (a) a contraction of any material into less bulk or dimension (b) a wooden hammer (c) person who benefits (d) matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid

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n. iridescence (a) the examination of a dead body by dissection to ascertain the cause of death (b) a many-colored appearance (c) expansion (d) uprising

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n. epicycloid (a) a painted or sculptured representation of the Virgin, usually with the infant Jesus (b) a curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls upon another circle (c) the act or ceremony of naming a man or woman for office (d) preservation from harm, danger, annoyance or any other evil

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n. antechamber (a) freedom from punishment (b) the act of bringing into a state of submission (c) a waiting room for those who seek audience (d) one who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight

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n. azalea (b) brilliant or sparkling luster (d) a smoke-duct in a chimney

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n. laudation (a) an uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding (b) property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts; anything of material value or usefulness (c) a boat-song of Venetian gondoliers (d) high praise

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n. breaker (a) a European unit of length (b) a title of honor bestowed upon various high officials (c) one who trains horses, dogs, etc (d) a defender

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n. intestine (a) common sense (b) a large package prepared for transportation or storage (c) that part of the digestive tube below or behind the stomach, extending to the anus (d) a butter-making establishment

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n. autocrat (a) a woman who makes a business of assisting at childbirth (b) any person who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence (c) the brain area that responds to stimuli (d) a lowering in value or an underrating in worth

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n. necrosis (a) the extreme forward part of a ship's hold, under the lowest deck (b) the art or practice of sleight of hand (c) the death of part of the body (d) low drollery, coarse jokes, etc

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n. pertinacity (a) person who puts money into a particular project or fund with the intention of gaining a profit (b) a preconceived liking (c) unyielding adherence (d) an extent of projection

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adj. consumptive (a) measureless (c) capable of being adjusted or harmonized

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(b) lazy (d) designed for gradual destruction

n. optics (a) a deep gorge or hollow, especially one worn by a stream or flow of water (b) the science that treats of light and vision, and all that is connected with sight (c) the comparative number of any kind of occurrences within a given time or space (d) deprivation of strength or energy

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adj. indigestible (a) creating affliction (b) working vigorously (c) difficult or impossible to break down and absorb (food) (d) pertaining to the nerves or nervous system

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v. reck (a) to have a care or thought for (b) to move with haste and promptness (c) to express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite (d) to begin to develop into an embryo or higher form

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n. abridgment (a) the act or sensation of hearing (c) staff; work force; team; crew

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(b) a condensed form as of a book or play (d) the state of being icy

n. magnet (a) an articulation, joint or seam (b) a body possessing that peculiar form of polarity found in nature in the lodestone (c) a fleet of war-vessels (d) any opponent or enemy of Jesus, whether a person or a power

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n. colossus (a) the flesh of deer (b) any strikingly great person or object (c) a concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness (d) a vast indefinite number

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adj. fervid (a) intense (c) kindly disposed

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(b) capable of being adjusted or harmonized (d) slovenly in appearance

n. avocation (a) person who benefits (b) diversion (c) belief in your own worth and dignity (d) the act of reversing the order or changing the place of

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n. pendant (a) something that swells out from a surrounding surface (b) an agreeable odor (c) power to refract (d) anything that hangs from something else, either for ornament or for use

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n. epoch (a) an interval of time, memorable for extraordinary events (b) the state of being attached or joined (c) rare, curious or beautiful quality (d) a noxious or troublesome animal

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n. possessor (a) a throwing upward (b) cleverness in contriving, combining or originating (c) person who owns, enjoys or controls anything, such as property (d) an article of jewelry fastened by a hinged pin and hook on the underside

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n. eccentricity (a) a professor of divinity (b) the act of going forward (c) a room kept at a low temperature for preserving fruits, meat, etc (d) idiosyncrasy

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n. battalion (a) an ill turn (b) a body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment (c) a narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water (d) an inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father

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n. vociferance (a) the path described by a projectile moving under given forces (b) a disclaimer of intentional error or offense (c) the quality of making a clamor (d) a small cavern

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n. dismissal (a) a total departure from one's faith or religion (b) the act of pouring from one vessel to another (c) the act of artfully perplexing (d) displacement by authority from an office or an employment

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n. forecourt (a) the act of training or the state of being under instruction (b) an officer whose duty is to maintain the peace (c) something that is given without demand or claim; bonus; tip (d) space in front of building

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v. pacify (a) to bring into a peaceful state (c) to bend or turn from a direct course

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(b) to invent fancifully or falsely (d) to bring to ruin

n. metal (a) an expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured (b) an element that forms a base by combining with oxygen, is usually hard, heavy, and lustrous (c) a model (d) a use of words peculiar to a particular language

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v. revert (a) to imbue with life or animation (b) to rouse to a particular action (c) to return or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like (d) to prove indubitably

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v. marvel (a) to give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s (b) to soothe (c) to be astonished and perplexed because of (something) (d) to swell or bulge beyond the surrounding surface

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n. raillery (a) female supremacy (c) a loose gown worn by women

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(b) devastation (d) good-humored satire

n. reprehension (a) a momentary look (c) sourness, with bitterness and astringency

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(b) apathy (d) expression of blame

adj. preternatural (a) mutually involving or implying one another (b) extraordinary (c) belonging to an inferior order in a classification (d) able to be kept under restraint or control

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adj. arboreal (a) very significant (b) of or pertaining to a tree or trees (c) shameful (d) arising from inherent qualities or tendencies without external efficient cause

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n. moderation (a) the right or act of purchasing before others (b) three things grouped or associated together (c) mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces, principles or persons (d) temperance

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v. deforest (a) to suggest; to propose (c) to entice to surrender chastity

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(b) to make smaller using pressure; condense (d) to clear of woods

n. preamble (a) an alcoholic cordial sweetened and flavored with aromatic substances (b) a statement so plainly true as hardly to require statement or proof (c) a statement introductory to and explanatory of what follows (d) one of a pair of like things

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n. aphorism (a) a noxious or troublesome animal (b) proverb (c) the act of taking back or taking again (d) a mass of rotating or whirling fluid, especially when sucked spirally toward the center

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n. insignificance (a) that part of the world where Christianity is generally professed (b) the science of organic forms (c) lack of import or of importance (d) a place in which goods are stored

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n. motto (a) a member of a degraded class; a social outcast (b) an expressive word or pithy sentence enunciating some guiding rule of life or faith (c) a wanderer (d) embroidery

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n. hillock (a) the quality, character or condition of being servilely following another's behests (b) a sheet of paper on which information has been printed; flyer (c) a small mound (d) a piece of bric-a-brac

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n. freshness (a) one who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs (b) vigor; liveliness; newness; recentness (c) the general use of equipment to provide voice communication over distances (d) the son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection

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n. narrator (a) the act of sinking until covered completely with water (b) a storyteller (c) inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereign (d) the practice of obtaining by violence or compulsion

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n. guile (a) a critical period or condition (b) a picture having a background or that is shaded off gradually (c) duplicity (d) one controlled by an appetite or a passion

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n. americanism (a) donor; donator (b) a gum or resin which on burning yields aromatic fumes (c) a peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States (d) a curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls upon another circle

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n. islet (a) the art of measuring the intensity of light (b) a little island (c) tumors composed of enlarged and thickened blood-vessels, at the lower end of the rectum (d) the art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them

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n. zenith (a) the act or ceremony of crowning a monarch (b) the culminating-point of prosperity, influence or greatness (c) any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part (d) any combination or union for some common purpose

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n. technology (a) vacillation (b) a piece of clothing worn beneath outer clothes (c) the dead body of an animal (d) the knowledge relating to industries and manufactures

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n. injunction (a) mandate (b) hatred or dread of England or of what is English (c) a figure with ten sides and ten angles (d) absolute government

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v. gibe (a) to behave cruelly or unkindly toward a person or animal (b) to increase in range or scope (c) to regard or speak of slightingly (d) to utter taunts or reproaches

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n. interim (a) time between acts or periods (b) the point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like (c) a token of remembrance (d) an official numbering of the people of a country or district

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adj. pungent (a) remotely situated (c) capable of being melted by heat

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(b) involving or requiring much sitting (d) affecting the sense of smell

adj. abnormal (a) inexpedient (b) changeable (c) composed of small grains or particles (d) not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard

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v. assuage (a) to cause to be less harsh, violent or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain or disease (b) to conjecture (c) to dispossess pursuant to judicial decree (d) to withhold permission or sanction

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n. variance (a) change (b) acting in accordance with prevailing norms or standards; correspondence in character; agreement; compliance (c) anything made of clay and baked in a kiln or dried in the sun (d) any dialectic pronunciation of English, especially that of the Irish people

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n. prescription (a) the highest point; summit (b) a representative of one sovereign state at the capital or court of another (c) a schoolmaster (d) an authoritative direction

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adj. insuperable (a) that can not be taken by assault (c) invincible

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(b) urgent (d) capable of being melted by heat

v. analyze (a) to give grief or sorrow to (b) to accomplish what is attempted or intended (c) to extend in all directions, as from a source or focus (d) to examine minutely or critically

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n. collegian (a) the natural height of an animal body (b) a college student (c) fitness to meet the requirements of a particular case (d) a token fee or payment to a professional man for services

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n. fulcrum (a) admonition or warning (b) manner of performance (c) inhabitant (d) the support on or against which a lever rests or the point about which it turns

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n. ripplet (a) a small wave (b) an advocate of the doctrine that nothing either exists or can be known (c) an aggressive display of boldness (d) any small portion or meager allowance

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n. doe (a) one who holds high rank (b) a statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief (c) a monastic house (d) the female of the deer

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n. transference (a) the act of conveying from one person or place to another (b) the science and art of teaching (c) one chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other (d) a group of three persons of things

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n. pennant (a) sulfur (b) a reaching or stretching out, as in space, time or scope (c) excessive or superfluous growth or quantity (d) a small flag

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adj. subconscious (a) occurring outside of an individual's awareness (b) seeking the conversion of sinners (c) spherical (d) fixed or done capriciously

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n. pungency (a) an institution for instruction and training in music and declamation (b) sexual or moral purity (c) the quality of affecting the sense of smell (d) a high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese

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n. assay (a) the right, power or liberty of choosing (b) the chemical analysis or testing of an alloy ore (c) reproof (d) a brief explanation or address to the reader, at the beginning of a book

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n. sinus (a) the arrangements or combination of the parts of which anything is composed (b) an opening or cavity (c) the yielding to inclination, passion, desire or propensity in oneself or another (d) person without means of support

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v. oust (a) to explain or understand incorrectly (c) to divide into quarters

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(b) to eject (d) to stain

adj. fraternal (a) sunk to a low condition (c) pertaining to the nerves or nervous system

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(b) brotherly (d) having power to open or loosen the bowels

adj. misanthropic (a) careless of or unable to meet responsibilities (b) changeable (c) hating mankind (d) extended widely in space, time or scope

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adv. forth (a) not able to get up (c) without concealment, fraud or trickery

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(b) at last (d) into notice or view

v. disappear (a) to mention for the first time (b) to cease to exist, either actually or for the time being (c) to make a hole or holes through (d) to excite ill temper or impatience in

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adj. happy-go-lucky (a) difficult or impossible to break down and absorb (food) (b) improvident (c) contrary to the rules of sound thought (d) important, especially as pointing something out

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n. residue (a) foolish daring (b) stay-rope (c) a remainder or surplus after a part has been separated or otherwise treated (d) a 20th-century revival of interest in the worship of nature, fertility, etc., as represented by various deities

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n. excitation (a) intensified emotion or action (b) a collection of extracts from the writings of various authors (c) the art of painting on a surface of plaster, particularly on walls and ceilings (d) a vest

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adj. conservative (a) of prime or special importance (c) wrongful

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(b) passing out of use, as a word (d) adhering to the existing order of things

v. accredit (a) to make somewhat different (b) to certify; recognize; assign; license (c) to kiss (d) to cause to be less harsh, violent or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain or disease

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n. reticence (a) the quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance (b) an idle wanderer (c) that branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms (d) person who directs affairs with skill and shrewdness

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n. telepathy (a) manner of performance (b) cheerful willingness (c) one who rejects authority or inspiration in religion (d) thought-transference

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n. calvary (a) resemblance or correspondence in sound (b) the place where Christ was crucified (c) person who cultivates a delicate taste for eating and drinking (d) a file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance

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n. mien (a) the aggregate of plants growing without cultivation in a district (b) female supremacy (c) the external appearance or manner of a person (d) an inhabitant; city resident

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n. infidel (a) one who denies the existence of God (b) a person or thing of little or no account (c) mode of behavior; particular way of acting; affectation; pretension (d) a comparison which directs the mind to the representative object itself

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n. colloquialism (a) a water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance (b) a seller (c) form of speech used only or chiefly in conversation (d) a band of six singers or players

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n. calculus (a) casual occurrence (b) the group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns (c) an unreal image presented to the senses (d) a concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness

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n. deceit (a) falsehood (b) a corrupted substance (c) life in or fondness for one's home and family (d) a break or vacancy where something necessary to supply the connection is wanting

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n. stipend (a) a brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience (b) a definite amount paid at stated periods in compensation for services or as an allowance (c) direction or inclination, as toward some objector end (d) thwarting

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n. truculence (a) ferocity (b) the breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman (c) a portable free-reed musical instrument (d) conclusiveness; something which cannot be revoked

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adj. modish (a) fashionable (c) coming too soon

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(b) pertaining to a sudden and violent outbreak (d) consisting of a single loculus

adj. convertible (a) interchangeable (b) resisting all attempts to reduce volume by pressure (c) showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things (d) bearing upon the matter in hand

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n. verbiage (a) a state of well-founded happiness (b) a person fully empowered to transact any business (c) use of many words without necessity (d) purifier; person or company that makes alcoholic beverages

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adv. wittingly (a) extremely (c) with knowledge and by design

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(b) at a subsequent time (d) completely

n. maharaja (b) a great Hindu prince (d) a prophecy

(a) a hermitage (c) a forerunner or herald Q6

n. libel (a) one who or that which is expected to remain permanently in its position (b) intellectuality (c) defamation (d) the dignity, condition, office or term of office of government official

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n. concurrence (a) discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-vessel (b) a fiendish or riotous uproar (c) agreement (d) a cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, intended for dipping up and pouring liquids

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n. iniquity (a) an impediment (b) gross wrong or injustice (c) a raise in rank; promotion; appointment; fondness; affinity (d) a many-colored appearance

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v. abridge (a) to make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles (b) to overwhelm with a flood of water (c) to infest or ravage (d) to be violently excited or agitated

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v. prolong (b) to arouse, as emotion, interest or the like (d) to entrust

(a) to extend in time or duration (c) to settle or arrange beforehand

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n. pinchers (a) the extreme forward part of a ship's hold, under the lowest deck (b) the act of going forward (c) a person fully empowered to transact any business (d) an instrument having two jaws working on a pivot

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n. collier (a) an embankment beside a river or stream or an arm of the sea, to prevent overflow (b) lawless control of public affairs by the populace (c) dandyism (d) one who works in a coal-mine

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n. stimulant (a) anything that rouses to activity or to quickened action (b) source of sustenance and nourishment (c) the external appearance as produced by garb or costume (d) the condition of standing out distinctly

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n. aroma (a) a recess (b) inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereign (c) an agreeable odor (d) the act of deciding

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n. iliad (a) a supplement adding to, revoking or explaining in the body of a will (b) the call for a repetition, as of some part of a play or performance (c) the art of preparing and serving appetizing food (d) a Greek epic poem describing scenes from the siege of Troy

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n. alliance (a) preservation from harm, danger, annoyance or any other evil (b) the process of fostering or promoting growth (c) a levy, by government, of a fixed contribution (d) any combination or union for some common purpose

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n. prospector (a) a field or stream of ice (b) patient courage (c) person who makes exploration, search or examination, especially for minerals (d) any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree or law

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n. annalist (a) a piece of bric-a-brac (b) the recovery of what is mortgaged or pledged, by paying the debt (c) historian (d) a covenant

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n. addendum (a) a mere youth (b) outline of a subject, course, lecture or treatise (c) something added or to be added (d) a peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States

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adj. versatile (a) in a state of preparedness for any given purpose or occasion (b) pertaining to war or military operations (c) having an aptitude for applying oneself to new and varied tasks or to various subjects (d) deviating from that which is proper or right

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n. prejudice (a) preconceived opinion; bias; sentence passed before proper examination of the circumstances (b) one who lives by robbery and plunder (c) an aggressive display of boldness (d) advancement

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n. bibliography (a) that which is used to decorate the person or dress (b) a list of the words of an author or the literature bearing on a particular subject (c) a souvenir (d) an officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general

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adj. sagacious (a) founded on the number 10 (b) of a steady and sober character (c) practical; useful (d) able to discern and distinguish with wise perception

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n. ladle (a) a cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, intended for dipping up and pouring liquids (b) a feeling of extreme repugnance or of dislike and disgust (c) a brimless felt cap in the shape of a truncated cone, usually red with a black tassel (d) person who manages large amounts of money (privately or corporately)

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v. disburden (a) to be astonished and perplexed because of (something) (b) to disencumber (c) to filter (d) to render indispensable

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v. immigrate (a) to pull or force away by or as by violent twisting or wringing (b) to recognize; to admit the genuineness or validity of (c) to make change in (d) to come into a country or region from a former habitat

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n. explosion (a) a variety show (b) sexual or moral purity (c) the long hair growing upon and about the neck of certain animals, as the horse and the lion (d) a sudden and violent outbreak

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v. convolve (a) to furnish something as a kindness or favor (b) to deprive attractive properties (c) in the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt (d) to move with a circling or winding motion

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n. tyranny (a) embroidery (b) a sphere or field of action or interest (c) absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly administrated (d) that which is uttered or proclaimed by authority as a rule of action

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adj. retrospective (a) having such anger and scorn as is aroused by meanness or wickedness (b) eagerly desirous and aspiring (c) brave (d) looking back on the past

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n. offshoot (a) a branch; a derivative (b) hard and constant work in any menial or dull occupation (c) musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments (d) person who is specially cared for and favored by another usually older person

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n. precedence (a) a mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of evil-doing (b) a disposition to give liberally or to bestow favors heartily (c) priority in place, time or rank (d) a principle accepted as true and acted on as a rule or guide

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n. sentience (a) the division of society on artificial grounds (b) capacity for sensation or sense-perception (c) coercion (d) the world or universe considered as a system, perfect in order and arrangement

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n. ordeal (a) anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning (b) anything that severely tests courage, strength, patience, conscience, etc (c) one of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia (d) sleeplessness

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n. profiteer (a) candy or pastry; pastry shop; bake shop (b) person who benefits (c) the inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body (d) a movement or action of the hands or face, expressive of some idea or emotion

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n. microscopy (a) the art of examining objects with the microscope (b) unblushing impudence (c) the act of reading carefully or thoughtfully (d) severity or acuteness, especially of pain or grief

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n. darwinism (a) the doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms (b) the attainment of superior skill (c) something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen or done instead of something else (d) an office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc.

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n. trammel (b) authoritative act of prohibition (d) an impediment

(a) a unit of electrical energy (c) a wrong or improper act Q9

v. ravage (a) to reproduce (b) to acquire a distinct and separate character (c) to lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring or other destructive methods (d) to move faster than

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n. bureaucracy (a) access; act of accessing (b) government by departments of men transacting particular branches of public business (c) excess (d) a fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer

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v. disapprove (a) to regard with blame

(b) to work against; cancel out; negate

(c) to regard with suspicion or jealousy

(d) assist; aid; stand by

n. hazard (a) dweller (b) risk (c) a portable case for holding writing-materials, drawings, etc (d) the killing, especially the murdering, of one's mother

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v. abjure (a) to recant, renounce or repudiate under oath (b) to make whole; to make perfect (c) to pursue a policy of delay (d) to delay a punishment (esp. death sentence); provide temporary relief

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n. reliquary (a) a rule or ordinance adopted by an association, a corporation or the like (b) a casket, coffer or repository in which relics are kept (c) lineage; parenthood; state of being a father or mother (d) a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted

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adj. voracious (a) accidental; by chance (b) eating with greediness or in very large quantities (c) of vast size or strength (d) common

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v. disenfranchise (a) to deprive of any right privilege or power (b) to bestow (c) to indulge in profane oaths (d) to bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin

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n. irritancy (a) combination in a body or mass (b) anything granted, yielded or admitted in response to a demand, petition or claim (c) the quality of producing vexation (d) the state or character of using a fictitious name

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n. preference (a) a line joining points at which the barometric pressure is the same at a specified moment (b) the act of pleading a cause (c) complication (d) an object of favor or choice

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n. anthology (a) a guilty person (b) trade forbidden by law or treaty (c) a collection of extracts from the writings of various authors (d) the opening oration at the commencement in American colleges

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v. exert (a) to examine formally by questioning (c) to oppose by argument or a sufficient answer

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(b) to make an effort (d) to eject

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n. option (a) the right, power or liberty of choosing (b) a clause in a contract, will, etc., by which its operation is rendered conditional (c) state of being unfamiliar with something; lack of knowledge or ability (d) a response or alteration of responses, generally musical

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n. flag-officer (a) the captain of a special ship (b) a very detestable act or practice (c) a view or prospect (d) hemp-fiber obtained by untwisting and picking out loosely the yarns of old hemp rope

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n. flux (a) a state of constant movement, change or renewal (b) anything gained or made one's own, usually by effort or labor (c) a body of soldiers (d) a group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem

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n. incandescence (a) the demanding for the use of money as a loan, a rate of interest beyond what is allowed by law (b) one who seeks earnestly, as for advancement, honors, place (c) the state of being white or glowing with heat (d) a graphic character symbolizing an articulate sound

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n. contributor (a) the utmost point, side or border; something that is the farthest removed from a mean position (b) one of a class of persons or things regarded as representative of the class (c) a copy made directly from an original (d) one who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose

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n. handwriting (a) anything occurring or existing out of its proper time (b) poverty (c) a master in the technique of some particular fine art (d) penmanship

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n. antilogy (a) the art of discourse (b) similarity in quality or form (c) inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas (d) a high or topmost point, as a mountain-peak

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n. gyroscope (a) an essay or treatise on a particular subject (b) an instrument for illustrating the laws of rotation (c) chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold (d) the traditions, beliefs, and customs of the common people

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n. anarchy (a) the chief law-officer of a government (b) absence or utter disregard of government (c) a passing from one form or shape into another (d) reasoning sound in appearance only, especially when designedly deceptive

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n. icon (a) a villain (c) an introductory or opening performance

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(b) a burden or responsibility (d) an image or likeness

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n. fissure (a) a crack or crack-like depression (b) a city of the dead (c) a dealer in flowers (d) a wooden framework in which an offender is fastened to boards and is exposed to public scorn

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n. venom (a) a trawl for trapping fish or small game; method by which someone or something is found or caught (b) the principle and practice of depicting persons and scenes as they are believed really to exist (c) the poisonous fluid that certain animals secrete (d) a downward movement of the body by bending the knees

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adv. out-and-out (a) genuinely (b) near that number, quantity, degree, place or time; approximately (c) in truth (d) fully

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v. bestrew (a) to mention for the first time (b) to sprinkle or cover with things strewn (c) to cause to become the subject-matter of a suit at law (d) to pass title to

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adj. semiannual (a) lacking warmth (b) recurring at intervals of six months (c) petulant (irritable) (d) dealing with matters difficult to be understood

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v. cohere (a) to stick together (b) to eradicate (c) to belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession or natural relation (d) to designate as a candidate for any office

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n. concerto (a) the act of turning or directing inward, physically or mentally (b) an optical effect looking like a sheet of water in the desert (c) a figure with six angles (d) a musical composition

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n. depository (b) a riddle (d) a bundle, as of letters

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n. counterpart (a) fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing (b) something taken with another for the completion of either (c) ill will; spitefulness (d) one who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts

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v. divert (a) to turn from the accustomed course or a line of action already established (b) to come into view or into existence (c) to cause to whirl, as in an eddy (d) to say or do again and again

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n. altruist (a) mistaken conviction, especially when more or less enduring (b) rapid motion (c) philanthropist; person who is very unselfish (d) a small breach of propriety or principle

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n. retort (a) a retaliatory speech (c) hatred of mankind

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(b) a strong point (d) a moving forward; advancement

n. knighthood (a) chivalry (b) person who has the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement (c) courage (d) the shutting up of a town, a frontier or a line of coast by hostile forces

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n. consul (a) an officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country (b) any proceeding designed to ascertain or test character, qualification or the like (c) germ; microscopic organism (d) a peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States

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n. ancestry (a) a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds (b) courage (c) an element that forms a base by combining with oxygen, is usually hard, heavy, and lustrous (d) family origin; genealogy; line of descent

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n. extremist (a) an arbitrary assemblage or group of stars (b) a shudder; shock; shaking; vibration (c) strength, skill and intrepidity in battle (d) one who supports extreme measures or holds extreme views

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v. underlie (a) to cause to turn aside or downward

(b) to pick or sort out from the rest

(c) to be the ground or support of

(d) to separate the parts of by violence

n. equanimity (a) evenness of mind or temper (b) the knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices (c) a leader in any enterprise or contest (d) that which causes gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration

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n. sybarite (a) an instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio or ballet (b) a luxurious person (c) a situation where the supply of products exceeds demand (d) one who believes in the theory that man's food should be exclusively vegetable

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n. calumny (a) slander (c) apathy

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(b) obsolescence (d) any especially sweet and delicious drink

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n. progeny (a) offspring (b) the state or character of using a fictitious name (c) an entertainment (especially theatrical) held in the daytime (d) chivalry

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adj. irrefrangible (b) having or resembling human form (d) clumsy

(a) that can not be broken or violated (c) of, pertaining to or containing water Q3

n. census (a) deification (b) person who is among the first to explore a country (c) an official numbering of the people of a country or district (d) any opponent or enemy of Jesus, whether a person or a power

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v. mistrust (a) to restore to a former status, capacity, right rank or privilege (b) to overwhelm or attempt to do so, by stern, haughty or rude address or manner (c) to regard with suspicion or jealousy (d) to put in action and supervise the working of

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n. administrator (a) a young boy; young man (b) one who manages affairs of any kind (c) an atmospheric condition of high central pressure with currents flowing outward (d) the coalescence of two vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever

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n. olive-branch (a) any essential characteristic of a species by reason of which it differs from other species (b) a variety of the peach (c) a peace offering; a gesture of goodwill (d) a discharge from accusation by judicial action

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n. interlude (a) anything that severely tests courage, strength, patience, conscience, etc (b) the brain area that responds to stimuli (c) an action or event considered as coming between others of greater length (d) the employment of sarcasm, irony or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices

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adj. salutary (a) not assured of safety (b) having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat (c) beneficial (d) stingy (no longer acceptable to use)

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n. demagogue (a) an unprincipled politician (b) tendency towards a former or opposite state of things, as after reform, revolution or inflation (c) a specific capability of feeling or emotion (d) insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands

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v. portend (a) to repay evil with a similar evil (b) to indicate as being about to happen, especially by previous signs (c) to infuse (d) to abridge; to shorten

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n. masquerade (a) a social party composed of persons masked and costumed so as to be disguised (b) the quality, character or condition of being servilely following another's behests (c) mental unsoundness (d) a fever characterized by alternating chills, fever and sweating

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n. distillation (a) separation of the more volatile parts of a substance from those less volatile (b) an expression of applause (c) somebody or something that is only of temporary existence (d) a treatise discussing a single subject or branch of a subject

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n. palate (a) a slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coast-line (b) the act of furnishing with temporary quarters (c) the doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms (d) the roof of the mouth

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n. pillory (a) a bias in favor of something (b) a wooden framework in which an offender is fastened to boards and is exposed to public scorn (c) a distortion of the features, occasioned by some feeling of pain, disgust, etc (d) a statement introductory to and explanatory of what follows

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n. legislator (a) an essay or treatise on a particular subject (c) coercion

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(b) the person to whom anything is pledged (d) a lawgiver

n. aggravation (a) a plant that produces leaves and roots the first year and flowers and fruit the second (b) the fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime, offense, misfortune, etc. (c) disloyalty (d) a small or insignificant mark or part

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n. seer (a) something that exerts or through through which one may exert great power (b) mental excitement or confusion (c) a prophet (d) savageness

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n. stripling (a) a sheet of paper folded once (c) a mere youth

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(b) any act of kindness or well-doing (d) delusive speech

n. patriarch (a) the lady superior of a nunnery (b) a monologue (c) person who cultivates a delicate taste for eating and drinking (d) the chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right

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n. commodity (a) something that is bought and sold (b) a substance possessing or reputed to possess curative or remedial properties (c) lack of import or of importance (d) person who has two spouses at the same time

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adj. autonomous (a) self-governing

(b) pertaining to a formal presentation

(c) not feasible

(d) that can not be rectified or made amends for

n. idiosyncrasy (a) a mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual (b) a religious holiday celebrated on January 6 to commemorate the visit of the wise men to Bethlehem (Christianity) (c) sadness; low spirits (d) an English monetary unit

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adj. inane (a) coming into view

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(b) tending to blame

(c) matchless

(d) silly

n. adoration (a) any especially sweet and delicious drink (b) profound devotion (c) a happening in general, especially one of little importance (d) person who believes in God but denies supernatural revelation

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v. disseminate (a) to predict or foretell, especially under divine inspiration and guidance (b) to make a demand or repeated demands on for payment (c) to plot (d) to sow or scatter abroad, as seed is sown

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n. viola (a) a high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea (b) a musical instrument somewhat larger than a violin (c) total loss or destitution of honor or reputation (d) good-humored satire

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n. intermission (a) a recess (c) an elaborate or formal public speech

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(b) a little aristocrat (d) a retraction

adj. pastoral (a) having the spirit or sentiment of rural life (b) pertaining to, embracing or practicing many arts (c) wanting in resource, energy or executive ability (d) showing increase of light

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v. unify (a) to cause to be one (b) to imprison (c) to get as one's own (d) to use, control or manage, as a weapon or instrument, especially with full command

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n. mandate (a) a branch; a derivative (b) a composition for four voices or four instruments (c) profound lethargy (d) a command

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v. allot (a) to happen to or befall (b) to hold back or in (c) to evade the search or pursuit of by dexterity or artifice (d) to assign a definite thing or part to a certain person

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v. expostulate (b) to burn on the surface (d) to discuss

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adj. low-spirited (a) scanty (b) imperfect (c) despondent (d) capable of being drawn out, as into wire or a thread

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n. lassie (a) dependence on charity (b) one who takes part in forcible opposition to the constituted authorities of a place (c) a young girl; sweetheart (d) the term during which a thing is held

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adj. contemporaneous (a) hideous (b) living, occurring or existing at the same time (c) of a small importance or significance (d) occurring every year

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v. divest (a) to preserve from extinction or oblivion (b) to be an omen or warning sign of, especially of evil (c) to strip, specifically of clothes, ornaments or accouterments or disinvestment (d) to estimate something less than the true worth

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n. precession (a) the act of going forward (b) agreeableness of sound (c) anything that hangs from something else, either for ornament or for use (d) a coin or coins of gold, silver, copper or other metal

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n. confluence (a) a person or thing of very remarkable gifts or qualities (b) the place where streams meet (c) an eccentricity (d) a name wrongly or mistakenly applied

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n. position (a) the manner in which a thing is placed (b) an orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event (c) complication (d) office of an official chosen by a government to represent its interests in a foreign country

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adj. inveterate (a) most important (b) slovenly in appearance (c) consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass or sum (d) habitual

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n. mnemonics (a) the young in the womb or in the egg (b) that part of a landscape or picture situated or represented as nearest the spectator (c) a system of principles and formulas designed to assist the recollection in certain instances (d) change

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n. alternate (a) high position; elevated rank; title of honor; excellence; height; hill (b) one chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other (c) the art of controversy or disputation (d) an image-breaker

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n. proverb (a) a brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience (b) a sphere or field of action or interest (c) a tenant in possession of property, as distinguished from the actual owner (d) a rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge

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adj. sebaceous (a) deceiving or tending to deceive, as by false appearance (b) pertaining to or appearing like fat (c) urgent (d) low-priced; cheap

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adj. scholastic (a) pertaining to education or schools (b) having the sails set for sailing as near to the wind as possible (c) that can not be perfected (d) reluctant

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adj. censorious (a) of prodigious size, bulk or degree (b) resistant to progress; aspiring to return to a previous state or condition (c) judging severely or harshly (d) contrary in tendency or direction

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n. disobedience (a) the state of spreading through every part (b) neglect or refusal to comply with an authoritative injunction (c) love and devotion to one's country (d) inhabitant

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n. mutation (a) the highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment (b) the act or art of reading or naming numbers (c) the act or process of change (d) that part of the digestive tube below or behind the stomach, extending to the anus

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n. arrival (a) person who works for wages or a salary (b) a coming to stopping-place or destination (c) something peculiar to a particular art, trade or the like (d) the registry of judgments of a court

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n. trajectory (a) the science of the nervous system (b) rich supply (c) the path described by a projectile moving under given forces (d) the point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like

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n. siren (a) a sea-nymph, described by Homer as dwelling between the island of Circe and Scylla (b) lack of confidence in the power, wisdom or good intent of any person (c) clothing or covering (d) virtue or integrity tested and confirmed

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n. rote (a) measurement of the powers of vision (b) concealment (c) sorcery (d) repetition of words or sounds as a means of learning them, with slight attention

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n. genealogist (a) belief in your own worth and dignity (b) a body of Christians united by a common faith and form of worship and discipline (c) any unusual occurrence (d) a tracer of pedigrees

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adj. magisterial (a) blameless (c) consisting of blood

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(b) having an air of authority (d) touching

adj. left-handed (a) having and exercising the power to produce effects or results (b) clumsy (c) swollen (d) unchecked merriment or animal spirits

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n. surety (a) a young bird (b) objects of curiosity or for decoration (c) security for payment or performance (d) person who or that which regulates or directs

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n. declension (a) the science that describes the universe, including astronomy, geography and geology (b) a peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States (c) description of nature (d) the change of endings in nouns and adjectives to express their different relations of gender

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adj. improvident (a) full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit (b) recovering health after sickness (c) utterly ridiculous or absurd (d) lacking foresight or thrift

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n. resonance (a) any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage (b) a figure, especially, with five angles and five sides (c) one of the highest class of offenses, and punishable with death or imprisonment (d) the quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations

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adj. imminent (a) dangerous and close at hand (b) pertaining to electricity developed water or steam (c) observant and exact in points of time (d) fancied

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v. waive (a) to pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended (b) to change into a sour tasting solution that dissolves metals and other materials (c) to relinquish, especially temporarily, as a right or claim (d) to vanish gradually

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adj. vehement (a) very eager or urgent (b) having the power of choice (c) brought together without order, distinction or design (for sex) (d) able to be improved; able to be refined

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n. reform (a) insinuation (b) person who transgresses (c) change for the better (d) an instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes

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n. rectitude (a) the quality of being upright in principles and conduct (b) a real estate owner (c) angry or violent difference of opinion (d) part on a foremast of a ship

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n. bulwark (a) one who works in a coal-mine (b) a step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal (c) anything that gives security or defense (d) an intermediate state where souls are made fit for paradise or heaven by expiatory suffering

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n. foresail (a) part on a foremast of a ship (b) freedom from punishment (c) a figure having five points or lobes (d) the property of some substances through which the form of the mass can readily be changed

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n. claimant (a) emancipation (b) blessing (c) a mixing or changing the order of things (d) one who asserts a right or title to something

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n. arboriculture (a) in continental Europe, particularly in France, a uniformed and armed police officer (b) the period of time during which anything lasts (c) the cultivation of trees or shrubs (d) overthrow or violent disturbance of established order or condition

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n. paramour (a) diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose (b) something joined to or connected with another thing but holding a subordinate place (c) any state of great happiness (d) person who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress

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adj. vicarious (a) founded on truth (b) nimble (c) suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another (d) feasible

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n. alias (a) a sorcerer (b) a dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid element with a suffocating odor (c) an assumed name (d) the act or ceremony of crowning a monarch

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v. reassure (a) to look upon with disfavor (b) to give new confidence (c) to bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness (d) to follow backward or toward the place of beginning, as a track or marking

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n. bale (a) a cowardly or faithless person (b) severity or acuteness, especially of pain or grief (c) something that has actual and undeniable existence or reality (d) a large package prepared for transportation or storage

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n. convulsion (a) of a military unit; of a multitude; of a great number (b) the getting rid of waste matter (c) uprightness of character and soundness of moral principle (d) a violent and abnormal muscular contraction of the body

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adj. illegal (b) two-sided (d) not according to law

(a) judicious (c) not having made a valid will Q6

n. paraphernalia (a) a formal or discriminating expression of praise (b) a coming into view (c) the act of bending (d) miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment

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v. prophesy (a) to mix or blend together in a homogeneous body (b) to abominate (c) to insert (d) to predict or foretell, especially under divine inspiration and guidance

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n. brigand (a) the act of conveying from one person or place to another (b) one who lives by robbery and plunder (c) an optical effect looking like a sheet of water in the desert (d) cutting and reproachful language

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adj. irrepressible (a) capable of positive proof (b) conforming exactly to truth or to a standard (c) that can not be restrained or kept down (d) having the quality of springing back to a former position

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n. fiasco (a) the mixed worship of polytheism (b) a complete or humiliating failure (c) one who one who makes positive changes; improver (d) a wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 500

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n. ligature (a) anything that constricts or serves for binding or tying (b) a certain profession (c) dry weather, especially when so long continued as to cause vegetation to wither (d) a wanderer

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adj. perspicacious (a) astute (b) harmless (c) pertaining or relating to electricity produced by chemical action (d) incapable of being concealed

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n. annals (a) the derivation of a judgment from any given material of knowledge on the ground of law (b) panic (c) a small dagger (d) a record of events in their chronological order, year by year

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adj. sanguine (a) looking old an shriveled (b) having the color of blood (c) being in a state of or resembling sleep (d) growing, climbing or running without check or restraint

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n. ascent (a) one of the most ancient of stringed instruments of the harp class (b) a painted or sculptured representation of the Virgin, usually with the infant Jesus (c) a raging epidemic (d) a rising, soaring or climbing

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adj. somnolent (a) having great speed (b) sleepy (c) unavoidable; inescapable; certain; sure to happen (d) struck with terror and amazement

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adj. habitual (a) remotely situated (c) very dry

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(b) according to usual practice (d) harsh or disagreeable in sound

adj. rampant (a) growing, climbing or running without check or restraint (b) of or pertaining to a town or city or to its corporate or local government (c) supple (d) impenetrably mysterious or profound

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n. significance (a) a theory of evolution that includes findings of modern genetics (b) importance (c) a three-wheeled vehicle (d) a service

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v. promulgate (a) to cover with ornament (b) to go from one country, state or region for the purpose of settling or residing in another (c) to rule with insolence or unnecessary annoyance (d) to declare; publicize; advertise widely; publish; distribute widely

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 501

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n. acridness (a) sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper (b) the employment of sarcasm, irony or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices (c) the revival of letters, and then of art, which marks the transition from medieval to modern time (d) an expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured

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adj. perpendicular (a) fallacious (c) pertaining to punishment

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(b) apt to omit what ought to be done (d) straight up and down

adj. prohibitory (a) of, pertaining to or near the stomach (b) disseminated far and wide (c) forbidding; disallowing; enjoining; preventing; hindering; preclusive (d) made to resemble something else

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adj. stagy (a) diligent (c) causing nothing displeasing or disturbing

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n. benison (a) a convent (c) blessing

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(b) having a theatrical manner (d) calm

(b) a charge of crime, misdemeanor or error (d) a view or contemplation of something past

n. collector (a) a vehement appeal (b) a mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual (c) person who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books or the like (d) toleration

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adj. inbred (a) sickening or insipid (c) unbiased

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(b) talkative (d) innate

adj. dubious (a) publicly branded or notorious, as for vice or crime (b) doubtful (c) melancholy (d) durable

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adj. facetious (a) insisting on obedience (c) derived from the same root or primitive word

(b) amusing (d) tending to blame

Q10 adj. arrogant (a) rude (b) deceptive (c) incapable of being injured or disturbed (d) unduly or excessively proud, as of wealth, station, learning, etc

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 1 (Answer Keys)

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v. enlighten definition (a) to cause to see clearly

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v. enamor definition (c) to inspire with ardent love

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v. advert definition (b) to refer incidentally

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adj. maritime definition (b) situated on or near the sea

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adj. genitive definition (d) indicating source, origin, possession or the like

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n. creamery definition (a) a butter-making establishment

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n. judicature definition (d) distribution and administration of justice by trial and judgment

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v. recollect definition (b) to recall the knowledge of

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n. exegesis definition (d) biblical exposition or interpretation

A10 v. transfer definition (c) to convey, remove or cause to pass from one person or place to another

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adj. inmost definition (c) deepest within

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adj. raucous definition (d) harsh

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adj. reflectible definition (b) capable of being turned back

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adj. lenient definition (c) permissive; tolerant; indulgent; not strict

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adj. immaculate definition (d) without spot or blemish

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adj. littoral definition (d) of, pertaining to or living on a shore

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adj. flimsy definition (c) thin and weak

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adj. extravagant definition (b) needlessly free or lavish in expenditure

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v. affix definition (c) to fasten

A10 adj. migrant definition (c) wandering

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 3 (Answer Keys)

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n. preoccupation definition (d) obsession; fixation; thought that is constantly on one's mind; prior tenure or possession

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n. obesity definition (c) excessive fatness

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n. pomposity definition (b) the quality of being marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner

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n. excellency definition (d) a title of honor bestowed upon various high officials

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n. sarcasm definition (a) cutting and reproachful language

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n. reminiscence definition (c) the calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience

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n. caucus definition (c) a private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates

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n. kiloliter definition (a) a measure of volume

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n. vestige definition (c) a visible trace, mark or impression, of something absent, lost or gone

A10 n. leaflet definition (b) a sheet of paper on which information has been printed; flyer

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v. recapture definition (b) to retake; to repossess

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v. bereave definition (b) to make desolate with loneliness and grief

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v. legalize definition (a) to give the authority of law to

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v. sacrifice definition (a) to make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar

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v. manumit definition (a) to set free from bondage

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v. superintend definition (c) to have the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement

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v. baste definition (c) to cover with melted fat, gravy, while cooking

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v. gyrate definition (b) to revolve

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v. litigate definition (b) to cause to become the subject-matter of a suit at law

A10 v. revere definition (b) to regard with worshipful veneration

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 5 (Answer Keys)

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adv. head foremost definition (a) precipitately, as in diving

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adv. nowadays definition (d) in the present time or age

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adv. secondly definition (c) next after the first

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adv. naturally definition (a) according to the usual order of things

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adv. finally definition (c) at last

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adv. afire definition (b) ablaze; burning

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adv. afresh definition (c) once more, after rest or interval

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adv. trebly definition (b) threefold; triply

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adv. offhand definition (a) without preparation

A10 adv. aloof definition (a) not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 6 (Answer Keys)

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v. impute definition (a) to attribute

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n. paragon definition (a) a model of excellence

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adj. plenteous definition (c) abundant

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adj. nauseous definition (b) loathsome

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adj. irreducible definition (a) that can not be lessened

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n. intercession definition (d) entreaty in behalf of others

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n. ferocity definition (b) savageness

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n. professor definition (d) a public teacher of the highest grade in a university or college

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n. diffidence definition (a) self-distrust

A10 adj. ingenious definition (c) evincing skill, originality or cleverness, as in contrivance or arrangement

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 7 (Answer Keys)

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adj. incompressible definition (c) resisting all attempts to reduce volume by pressure

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adj. loath definition (c) averse

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adj. premier definition (a) first in rank or position

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adj. prolix definition (d) verbose

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adj. thermoelectric definition (a) denoting electricity produced by heat

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adj. abhorrent definition (a) very repugnant; hateful

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adj. botanical definition (d) connected with the study or cultivation of plants

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adj. absurd definition (c) inconsistent with reason or common sense

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adj. inherent definition (b) intrinsic

A10 adj. officious definition (b) intermeddling with what is not one's concern

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 8 (Answer Keys)

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n. foreigner definition (a) person from another country; stranger

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n. amour definition (c) a love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature

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n. sergeant definition (b) a non-commissioned military officer ranking next above a corporal

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n. antiphony definition (c) an anthem or other composition sung responsively

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n. disavowal definition (d) denial

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n. specter definition (c) apparition

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n. realism definition (a) the principle and practice of depicting persons and scenes as they are believed really to exist

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n. autobiography definition (a) the story of one's life written by himself

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n. contagion definition (b) the communication of disease from person to person

A10 n. condensation definition (c) the act or process of making compact or more compact

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 9 (Answer Keys)

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v. extradite definition (b) to surrender the custody of

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v. encroach definition (a) to invade partially or insidiously and appropriate the possessions of another

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v. engross definition (b) to occupy completely

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v. overpay definition (b) to give a salary that is too high

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v. elapse definition (d) to quietly terminate

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v. recuperate definition (b) to recover

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v. defer definition (d) to delay or put off to some other time

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v. outride definition (b) to move faster than

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n. anathema definition (c) anything forbidden, as by social usage

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 10 (Answer Keys)

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adv. verbatim definition (d) word for word

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adv. severely definition (a) extremely

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adv. forthright definition (a) with directness

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adv. forby definition (d) besides

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adv. inchmeal definition (c) piecemeal

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adv. afoot definition (b) in progress

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adv. gaily definition (c) merrily

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adv. nowhere definition (b) in no place or state

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v. operate definition (c) to put in action and supervise the working of

A10 adv. outright definition (d) entirely

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 11 (Answer Keys)

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n. impiety definition (c) irreverence toward God

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n. knavery definition (d) deceitfulness in dealing

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n. predecessor definition (c) an incumbent of a given office previous to another

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n. cat-o-nine-tails definition (b) an instrument consisting of cords, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy

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adj. compulsory definition (b) forced

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v. disappoint definition (b) to fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish or desire of

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v. forfeit definition (c) to lose possession of through failure to fulfill some obligation

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n. protector definition (a) a defender

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v. discover definition (c) to get first sight or knowledge of, as something previously unknown or unperceived

A10 n. canto definition (c) one of the divisions of an extended poem

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adj. narrow-minded definition (b) characterized by illiberal views or sentiments

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adj. nasal definition (d) pertaining to the nose

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adj. sympathetic definition (a) having a fellow-feeling for or like feelings with another or others

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adj. usurious definition (d) taking unlawful or exorbitant interest on money loaned

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adj. neglectful definition (a) exhibiting or indicating omission

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adj. deceitful definition (c) fraudulent

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adj. distraught definition (b) bewildered

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n. pamphlet definition (b) a brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest

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adj. cogent definition (a) appealing strongly to the reason or conscience

A10 adj. humane definition (c) compassionate

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n. momentum definition (b) an impetus

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n. discord definition (a) absence of harmoniousness

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n. impertinence definition (c) rudeness

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n. ultimatum definition (b) a final statement or proposal, as concerning terms or conditions

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n. auricle definition (b) one of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins

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n. entrails definition (d) internal parts of an animal

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n. pentagon definition (d) a figure, especially, with five angles and five sides

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n. degradation definition (a) diminution, as of strength or magnitude

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n. opprobrium definition (d) the state of being scornfully reproached or accused of evil

A10 n. corpuscle definition (a) a minute particle of matter

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v. atone definition (c) to make amends for

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v. ameliorate definition (a) to relieve, as from pain or hardship

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v. prefix definition (b) to attach at the beginning

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v. promenade definition (d) to walk for amusement or exercise

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v. efface definition (c) to obliterate

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v. bedeck definition (b) to cover with ornament

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v. underwrite definition (b) to issue or be party to the issue of a policy of insurance

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v. braze definition (c) to make of or ornament with brass

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v. consign definition (a) to entrust

A10 v. contravene definition (d) to prevent or obstruct the operation of

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 15 (Answer Keys)

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adv. inwardly definition (d) with no outward manifestation

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adv. readily definition (c) without objection or reluctance

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adv. therefor definition (a) for that or this

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adv. head first definition (b) precipitately, as in diving

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adv. dimly definition (c) obscurely

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adv. anew definition (b) once more

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adv. indefinitely definition (b) in a vague or uncertain way

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adv. lowly definition (d) rudely; meekly, modestly; humbly

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adv. askance definition (c) with a side or indirect glance or meaning

A10 adv. awry definition (c) out of the proper form, direction or position

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v. liquefy definition (d) to cause to melt

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v. inebriate definition (c) to intoxicate

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n. hosiery definition (c) a stocking

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v. philosophize definition (d) to seek ultimate causes and principles

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n. instance definition (a) a single occurrence or happening of a given kind

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n. aurora definition (d) a luminous phenomenon in the upper regions of the atmosphere

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n. valediction definition (d) a bidding farewell

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v. bawl definition (c) to proclaim by outcry

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n. umbrage definition (b) a sense of injury

A10 v. transact definition (c) to do business

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adj. vernal definition (b) belonging to or suggestive of the spring

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adj. alienable definition (a) capable of being sold or confiscated

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adj. pugnacious definition (c) quarrelsome

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adj. resurgent definition (b) surging back or again

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adj. agile definition (b) able to move or act quickly, physically or mentally

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adj. facial definition (b) pertaining to the face

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adj. vegetative definition (c) pertaining to the process of plant-life

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adj. prescript definition (b) fixed beforehand; set in advance; settled

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v. absorb definition (b) to drink in or suck up

A10 adj. inconsequential definition (a) valueless

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 18 (Answer Keys)

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n. typography definition (a) the arrangement of composed type or the appearance of printed matter

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n. huckster definition (b) person who retails small wares

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n. persistence definition (d) a fixed adherence to a resolve, course of conduct or the like

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n. impatience definition (c) unwillingness to brook delays or wait the natural course of things

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n. separatist definition (a) a seceder

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n. desiccant definition (d) any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds

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n. thearchy definition (c) government by a supreme deity

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n. parish definition (a) a priest; clergyman; parson; spiritual leader; spiritual guide

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v. invalidate definition (b) to render of no force or effect

A10 adj. illusive definition (c) deceptive

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 19 (Answer Keys)

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v. imbibe definition (b) to drink or take in

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v. reign definition (c) to rule; control; govern; predominate; prevail; be widespread

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v. capitulate definition (a) to surrender or stipulate terms

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v. jeopardize definition (a) to imperil

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v. incarcerate definition (a) to imprison

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v. preordain definition (b) to foreordain

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v. wizen definition (d) to become or cause to become withered or dry

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n. impulsion definition (c) impetus

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v. sear definition (c) to burn on the surface

A10 v. impugn definition (a) to assail with arguments, insinuations or accusations

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 20 (Answer Keys)

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adj. consecutive definition (a) following in uninterrupted succession

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n. transcript definition (c) a copy made directly from an original

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adj. wiry definition (a) thin, but tough and sinewy

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n. solicitor definition (c) one who represents a client in court of justice; an attorney

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n. bombardier definition (d) a person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells

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v. tarnish definition (b) to lessen or destroy the luster of in any way

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adj. semiconscious definition (c) partially awake

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adv. amply definition (b) sufficiently

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n. interdict definition (b) authoritative act of prohibition

A10 adj. mediocre definition (d) ordinary

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 21 (Answer Keys)

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adj. pandemic definition (b) affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease

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adj. insular definition (b) pertaining to an island

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adj. decapod definition (b) ten-footed or ten-armed

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adj. reducible definition (d) can be decreased; diminishable; can be expressed in a simpler form

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adj. infrequent definition (a) uncommon

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adj. supernumerary definition (a) extra; additional; being more than the usual amount

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adj. granular definition (b) composed of small grains or particles

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adj. pluperfect definition (c) expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action

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adj. incoherent definition (b) not logically coordinated, as to parts, elements or details

A10 adj. terminal definition (d) pertaining to or creative of a boundary or limit

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 22 (Answer Keys)

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n. premonition definition (a) foreboding

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n. oration definition (c) an elaborate or formal public speech

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n. piece definition (a) a loose or separated part, as distinguished from the whole or the mass

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n. benediction definition (c) a solemn invocation of the divine blessing

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n. furtherance definition (d) advancement

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n. blockade definition (d) the shutting up of a town, a frontier or a line of coast by hostile forces

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n. potion definition (c) a dose of liquid medicine

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n. hardihood definition (d) foolish daring

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n. employee definition (a) person who works for wages or a salary

A10 n. exposition definition (a) formal presentation

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v. quadrate definition (c) to divide into quarters

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v. abrade definition (d) to wear away the surface or some part of by friction

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v. crystallize definition (c) to bring together or give fixed shape to

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v. bombard definition (b) to assail with any missile or with abusive speech

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v. sibilate definition (b) to give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s

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v. undercharge definition (a) to request an inadequate price for something

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n. narration definition (b) the act of recounting the particulars of an event in the order of time or occurrence

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adj. esthetic definition (b) pertaining to beauty, taste or the fine arts

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v. eliminate definition (a) to separate and cast aside

A10 v. intercede definition (c) to mediate between persons

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v. proffer definition (c) to suggest; to propose

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v. repress definition (c) to keep under restraint or control

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n. hydrodynamics definition (a) the study of force exerted by the motion of liquids

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v. equalize definition (d) to render uniform

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n. phonology definition (c) the science of human vocal sounds

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n. entree definition (a) access; act of accessing

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adj. risible definition (a) capable of exciting laughter

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n. trio definition (a) three things grouped or associated together

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v. hoodwink definition (c) to deceive

A10 n. topography definition (b) the art of representing on a map the physical features of any locality or region with accuracy

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adj. frantic definition (d) frenzied

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adj. tentative definition (b) done as an experiment

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adj. insatiable definition (b) that desires or craves immoderately or unappeasably

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adj. inland definition (a) remote from the sea

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adj. conjugate definition (c) joined together in pairs

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adj. septennial definition (c) recurring every seven years

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adj. suggestible definition (d) proposable

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adj. indicant definition (d) that which points out

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v. alienate definition (d) to cause to turn away

A10 adj. extraordinary definition (b) unusual

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 26 (Answer Keys)

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n. virago definition (c) a bold, impudent, turbulent woman

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n. homophone definition (c) a word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another

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n. diversion definition (c) pastime

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n. regalia definition (a) the emblems of royalty

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n. efficacy definition (c) ability to produce the desired result

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n. spectator definition (d) person who beholds or looks on

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n. dissentient definition (c) person who disagrees

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n. intoxicant definition (b) anything that unduly exhilarates or excites

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n. rancor definition (a) malice

A10 n. superlative definition (a) something that is of the highest possible excellence or eminence

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v. devise definition (a) to invent

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v. rejuvenate definition (c) to restore to youth

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v. consummate definition (c) to bring to completion

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v. cull definition (c) to pick or sort out from the rest

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v. extrude definition (c) to drive out or away

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v. recure definition (d) to recover; to regain; to repossess

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adj. heteromorphic definition (c) deviating from the normal form or standard type

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n. dowry definition (c) the property which a wife brings to her husband in marriage

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v. deliquesce definition (b) to dissolve gradually and become liquid by absorption of moisture from the air

A10 v. emancipate definition (c) to release from bondage

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adj. crustaceous definition (a) resembling a hard shell

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adj. prominent definition (a) conspicuous in position, character or importance

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v. pare definition (d) to cut, shave or remove (the outside) from anything

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n. pauper definition (b) person without means of support

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n. bray definition (a) a loud harsh sound, as the cry of an ass or the blast of a horn

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n. contraposition definition (b) a placing opposite

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v. boycott definition (d) to place the products or merchandise of under a ban

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v. commemorate definition (c) to serve as a remembrance of

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adj. insidious definition (b) working ill by slow and stealthy means

A10 v. preempt definition (a) to secure the right of preference in the purchase of public land

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adj. diaphanous definition (a) transparent

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adj. unique definition (a) being the only one of its kind

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adj. succinct definition (b) concise

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adj. accursed definition (c) doomed to evil, misery or misfortune

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adj. repressible definition (c) able to be kept under restraint or control

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adj. octogenarian definition (d) a person of between eighty and ninety years

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adj. cereal definition (b) pertaining to edible grain or farinaceous seeds

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n. almanac definition (c) a series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information

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adj. ambidextrous definition (a) having the ability of using both hands with equal skill or ease

A10 adj. premature definition (d) coming too soon

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 30 (Answer Keys)

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n. preexistence definition (a) previous life; life before the present

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n. decaliter definition (b) a liquid and dry measure of 10 liters

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n. judgment definition (d) the faculty by the exercise of which a deliberate conclusion is reached

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n. bumper definition (b) a cup or glass filled to the brim, especially one to be drunk as a toast or health

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n. symphony definition (a) a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds

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n. insistence definition (c) urgency

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n. irreverence definition (b) the quality showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things

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n. deportment definition (c) demeanor

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n. codicil definition (d) a supplement adding to, revoking or explaining in the body of a will

A10 n. novice definition (a) a beginner in any business or occupation

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v. obviate definition (b) to clear away or provide for, as an objection or difficulty

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v. transfuse definition (a) to pour or cause to pass, as a fluid, from one vessel to another

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v. overleap definition (a) to go too far; skip

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v. retrace definition (d) to follow backward or toward the place of beginning, as a track or marking

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v. purloin definition (c) to steal

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v. retouch definition (a) to modify the details of

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adv. thereabout definition (b) near that number, quantity, degree, place or time; approximately

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adj. irrefragable definition (b) that can not be refuted or disproved

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v. disrupt definition (d) to burst or break asunder

A10 v. repudiate definition (a) to refuse to have anything to do with

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n. workmanship definition (d) artistry; skillfulness; manner of execution

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n. pervasion definition (c) the state of spreading through every part

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adj. inarticulate definition (a) speechless

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adj. incipient definition (b) initial

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n. prudence definition (b) caution

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n. galvanism definition (a) current electricity, especially that arising from chemical action

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n. needlework definition (b) embroidery

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adv. wherever definition (a) in or at whatever place

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n. diminution definition (c) reduction

A10 adj. wry definition (b) deviating from that which is proper or right

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 33 (Answer Keys)

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adj. impartial definition (d) unbiased

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adj. unicellular definition (c) consisting of a single loculus

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adj. perceptible definition (a) cognizable

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adj. complex definition (c) composite; made up of interconnected parts

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adj. ichthyic definition (c) fish-like

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adj. uppermost definition (d) first in order of precedence

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adj. airy definition (b) delicate; ethereal

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adj. oaken definition (d) made out of wood

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adj. glutinous definition (b) sticky

A10 adj. odorous definition (d) fragrant; releasing a good smell

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n. expense definition (a) the laying out or expending or money or other resources, as time or strength

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n. breach definition (d) the violation of official duty, lawful right or a legal obligation

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n. demurrage definition (a) the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing

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n. conscience definition (a) the faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct

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n. efficiency definition (d) the state of possessing adequate skill or knowledge for the performance of a duty

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n. attorney-general definition (a) the chief law-officer of a government

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n. felony definition (a) one of the highest class of offenses, and punishable with death or imprisonment

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adj. sentient definition (d) possessing the power of sense or sense-perception

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n. deference definition (b) respectful submission or yielding, as to another's opinion, wishes or judgment

A10 n. pedant definition (c) a scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning

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v. writhe definition (c) to twist the body, face or limbs or as in pain or distress

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v. aggravate definition (a) to make heavier, worse or more burdensome

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v. transmit definition (b) to send trough or across

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v. evanesce definition (d) to vanish gradually

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v. refer definition (a) to direct or send for information or other purpose

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v. disown definition (a) to cut off (from an inheritance, family, etc.); repudiate; disavow; renounce

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v. animate definition (c) to make alive

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v. felicitate definition (b) to wish joy or happiness to somebody, especially in view of a coming event

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v. forgo definition (b) to deny oneself

A10 v. insulate definition (c) to place in a detached state or situation

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 36 (Answer Keys)

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n. network definition (d) anything that presents a system of cross lines

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n. opinion definition (a) a conclusion or judgment held with confidence but falling short of positive knowledge

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adj. monotonous definition (c) unchanging and tedious

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adj. transcontinental definition (b) from the Atlantic to the Pacific in the United States

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adj. passible definition (d) capable of feeling of suffering

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v. deteriorate definition (d) to grow worse

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v. emblazon definition (b) to set forth publicly or in glowing terms

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v. macadamize definition (b) to cover or pave, as a path or roadway, with small broken stone

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adj. frigid definition (b) lacking warmth

A10 n. paleontology definition (c) the branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 37 (Answer Keys)

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adj. impersonal definition (a) lacking friendliness or warmth; inhuman; detached

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adj. immaterial definition (b) of no essential consequence

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adj. didactic definition (c) pertaining to teaching

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adj. gallant definition (b) possessing a brave or chivalrous spirit

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adj. convergent definition (b) tending to one point

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adj. disobedient definition (a) neglecting or refusing to obey

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adj. extensible definition (b) capable of being thrust out

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n. aqueduct definition (d) a water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance

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adj. extant definition (a) still existing and known

A10 adj. potent definition (c) physically powerful

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 38 (Answer Keys)

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n. metaphysics definition (a) the principles of philosophy as applied to explain the methods of any particular science

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n. pledger definition (a) person who mortgages; person who gives property as security to the bank in order to receive a credit

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n. decency definition (c) moral fitness

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n. reversion definition (b) a return to or toward some former state or condition

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n. antitoxin definition (a) a substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms

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n. arcade definition (b) a vaulted passageway or street; a roofed passageway having shops etc., opening from it

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n. hindrance definition (d) an obstacle

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n. alteration definition (d) change or modification

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adj. virulent definition (c) exceedingly noxious or deleterious

A10 n. component definition (a) a constituent element or part

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v. pollute definition (d) to contaminate

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v. enrapture definition (b) to delight extravagantly or intensely

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v. repel definition (a) to force or keep back in a manner, physically or mentally

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v. attest definition (d) to certify as accurate, genuine or true

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v. stifle definition (d) to smother

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v. ingraft definition (b) to set or implant deeply and firmly

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adj. demonstrable definition (d) capable of positive proof

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n. regality definition (d) royalty

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v. petrify definition (b) to convert into a substance of stony hardness and character

A10 v. parody definition (a) to render ludicrous by imitating the language of

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 40 (Answer Keys)

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v. parley definition (b) to converse in

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n. felicity definition (c) a state of well-founded happiness

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n. buffoon definition (a) a clown

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n. numeration definition (d) the act or art of reading or naming numbers

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adj. chromatic definition (d) belonging, relating to or abounding in color

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v. outweigh definition (b) to surpass in importance or excellence

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adj. habitable definition (d) fit to be dwelt in

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n. tenor definition (b) a settled course or manner of progress

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n. discussion definition (c) debate

A10 n. abhorrence definition (a) the act of detesting extremely

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 41 (Answer Keys)

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adj. permissible definition (d) that may be allowed

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adj. vindicative definition (d) revengeful

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adj. pectoral definition (a) pertaining to the breast or thorax

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adj. impure definition (c) tainted

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adj. galore definition (d) abundant

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adj. powerless definition (a) impotent

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adj. decent definition (c) characterized by propriety of conduct, speech, manners or dress

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n. propulsion definition (c) a driving onward or forward

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adj. subordinate definition (c) belonging to an inferior order in a classification

A10 adj. plausible definition (c) seeming likely to be true, though open to doubt

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 42 (Answer Keys)

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n. confinement definition (c) restriction within limits or boundaries

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n. subsistence definition (c) existence; being; something which supports or maintains life or existence

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n. vinery definition (c) a greenhouse for grapes

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n. mausoleum definition (a) a tomb of more than ordinary size or architectural pretensions

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n. continuance definition (c) permanence

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n. trickery definition (b) artifice

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n. interrogatory definition (d) a question or inquiry

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n. countryman definition (b) a rustic

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n. epidermis definition (b) the outer skin

A10 n. ire definition (d) wrath

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v. reunite definition (c) to bring together again

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v. consolidate definition (a) to combine into one body or system

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v. avow definition (a) to declare openly

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v. forfend definition (d) to ward off

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v. luxuriate definition (c) to live sumptuously

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v. shrivel definition (d) to draw or be drawn into wrinkles

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v. disparage definition (a) to regard or speak of slightingly

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adv. aboveboard definition (b) without concealment, fraud or trickery

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v. cede definition (c) to pass title to

A10 v. granulate definition (b) to form into grains or small particles

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adj. inadequate definition (d) insufficient

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n. radiance definition (d) brilliant or sparkling luster

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n. nit definition (d) the egg of a louse or some other insect

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n. neology definition (d) the coining or using of new words or new meanings of words

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n. alcohol definition (c) a volatile, inflammable, colorless liquid of a penetrating odor and burning taste

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n. univalence definition (a) monovalency

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n. heptarchy definition (d) a group of seven governments

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n. canon definition (b) any rule or law

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v. harass definition (a) to trouble with importunities, cares or annoyances

A10 v. ingratiate definition (c) to win confidence or good graces for oneself

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adj. audible definition (a) loud enough to be heard

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adj. sumptuous definition (c) rich and costly

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adj. impassible definition (a) not moved or affected by feeling

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adj. lifelong definition (d) lasting or continuous until a person's death

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adj. creamy definition (a) smooth

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adj. demonstrative definition (a) inclined to strong exhibition or expression of feeling or thoughts

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adj. irreverential definition (c) showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things

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adj. lyric definition (d) fitted for expression in song

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adj. reticent definition (a) habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance

A10 adj. clandestine definition (c) surreptitious

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n. seignior definition (c) a title of honor or respectful address, equivalent to sir

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n. penitence definition (c) sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone

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n. abyss definition (d) bottomless gulf

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n. moderator definition (b) the presiding officer of a meeting

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n. cosmos definition (a) the world or universe considered as a system, perfect in order and arrangement

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n. theism definition (d) belief in God

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n. malevolence definition (a) ill will; spitefulness

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n. egoist definition (a) one who advocates or practices egoism

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n. consort definition (c) a companion or associate

A10 n. diatribe definition (d) a bitter or malicious criticism

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 47 (Answer Keys)

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v. mimic definition (b) to imitate the speech or actions of

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v. exhaust definition (c) to empty by draining off the contents

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v. assimilate definition (c) to adapt

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v. uproot definition (a) to eradicate

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v. exhale definition (d) to breathe forth

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v. comprise definition (b) to consist of

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n. revocation definition (b) repeal

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n. imminence definition (a) impending evil or danger

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v. disagree definition (b) to be opposite in opinion

A10 v. interrupt definition (b) to stop while in progress

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 48 (Answer Keys)

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adj. energetic definition (a) working vigorously

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adj. erratic definition (d) irregular

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n. redolence definition (d) smelling sweet and agreeable

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adj. blase definition (d) sated with pleasure

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adj. beneficial definition (b) helpful

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adj. symphonious definition (b) marked by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds

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v. itinerate definition (c) to wander from place to place

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n. herbarium definition (c) a collection of dried plants scientifically arranged for study

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adj. linear definition (d) straight; one dimensional; pertaining to length; narrow and elongated

A10 adj. paramount definition (c) supreme in authority

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 49 (Answer Keys)

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adj. inflammable definition (b) easily set on fire or excited

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adj. paronymous definition (d) derived from the same root or primitive word

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adj. transfusible definition (a) capable of being poured from one vessel to another

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adj. miniature definition (a) much smaller than reality or that the normal size

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adj. anemic definition (b) affected by a condition caused by a lack of red blood cells

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adj. selective definition (a) having the power of choice

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adj. imaginable definition (d) that can be imagined or conceived in the mind

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adj. unisonant definition (c) being in a condition of perfect agreement and accord

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adj. eminent definition (d) high in station, merit or esteem

A10 adj. terse definition (b) pithy

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 50 (Answer Keys)

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n. confessor definition (d) a spiritual advisor

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n. emigrant definition (c) person who moves from one place to settle in another

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n. monopoly definition (a) the control of a thing, as a commodity, to enable a person to raise its price

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n. plagiarism definition (d) the stealing of passages from the writings of another and publishing them as one's own

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n. vegetation definition (c) plant-life in the aggregate

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n. glacier definition (c) a field or stream of ice

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n. patriotism definition (a) love and devotion to one's country

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v. abut definition (d) to touch at the end or boundary line

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n. diffusion definition (a) dispersion

A10 n. iconoclast definition (d) an image-breaker

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 51 (Answer Keys)

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v. necessitate definition (a) to render indispensable

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v. exasperate definition (c) to anger; to infuriate; to annoy; to irritate

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v. squabble definition (d) to quarrel

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v. despond definition (c) to lose spirit, courage or hope

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v. readjust definition (b) to put in order after disarrangement

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v. whine definition (b) to utter with complaining tone

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adj. priggish definition (d) conceited

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v. surround definition (b) to encircle

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v. famish definition (d) to suffer extremity of hunger or thirst

A10 v. reprieve definition (a) to delay a punishment (esp. death sentence); provide temporary relief

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 52 (Answer Keys)

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n. liking definition (d) fondness

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n. pantoscope definition (c) a very wide-angled photographic lens

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n. egotism definition (c) self-conceit

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v. invert definition (b) to turn inside out, upside down or in opposite direction

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n. mystification definition (a) the act of artfully perplexing

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n. confederacy definition (b) a number of states or persons in compact or league with each other, as for mutual aid

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v. stimulate definition (d) to rouse to activity or to quickened action

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n. parallelism definition (b) essential likeness

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v. dispel definition (b) to drive away by or as by scattering in different directions

A10 v. exceed definition (d) to go beyond; to pass; to surpass; to outdo

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 53 (Answer Keys)

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adj. coniferous definition (a) cone-bearing trees

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adj. phenomenal definition (c) extraordinary or marvelous

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adj. explosive definition (d) pertaining to a sudden and violent outbreak

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adj. sheer definition (c) absolute

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adj. curable definition (d) capable of being remedied or corrected

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v. disillusion definition (a) to disenchant

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n. sapience definition (d) deep wisdom or knowledge

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n. apiary definition (b) a place where bees are kept

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adj. exigent definition (a) urgent

A10 adj. obligatory definition (b) binding in law or conscience

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 54 (Answer Keys)

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n. magnificence definition (c) the exhibition of greatness of action, character, intellect, wealth or power

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n. denouement definition (b) that part of a play or story in which the mystery is cleared up

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n. prohibition definition (b) a decree or an order forbidding something

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n. monitory definition (a) admonition or warning

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n. morphology definition (b) the science of organic forms

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adj. inadvisable definition (a) unadvisable

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n. bigamy definition (d) the crime of marrying any other person while having a legal spouse living

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n. salvage definition (a) any act of saving property

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n. rigor definition (c) inflexibility

A10 n. autocracy definition (d) absolute government

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 55 (Answer Keys)

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v. misrule definition (b) to manage badly; to govern in an evil manner

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v. interrogate definition (d) to examine formally by questioning

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v. maltreat definition (b) to behave cruelly or unkindly toward a person or animal

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v. exorcise definition (c) to cast or drive out by religious or magical means

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v. infuse definition (c) to instill, introduce or inculcate, as principles or qualities

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v. introspect definition (c) to look into

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v. seclude definition (c) to place, keep or withdraw from the companionship of others

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v. adulterate definition (c) to make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients

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v. dissuade definition (d) to change the purpose or alter the plans of by persuasion, counsel or pleading

A10 v. imply definition (d) to signify

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 56 (Answer Keys)

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n. drachma definition (b) a modern and an ancient Greek coin

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v. intoxicate definition (d) to make drunk

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n. success definition (d) a favorable or prosperous course or termination of anything attempted

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adj. reluctant definition (c) unwilling

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n. principality definition (d) the territory of a reigning prince

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v. conciliate definition (c) to obtain the friendship of

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n. orthopedist definition (c) person who practices the correcting or preventing of deformity

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n. bole definition (b) the trunk or body of a tree

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v. illuminate definition (b) to supply with light

A10 n. enigma definition (b) a riddle

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 57 (Answer Keys)

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adj. negligent definition (c) apt to omit what ought to be done

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adj. blatant definition (a) noisily or offensively loud or clamorous

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adj. exhaustible definition (d) consumable; depletable; capable of being ejected

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adj. laborious definition (b) toilsome

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adj. inedible definition (c) not good for food

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adj. hospitable definition (b) disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness

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adj. divisible definition (d) capable of being separated into parts

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adj. inoffensive definition (d) causing nothing displeasing or disturbing

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adj. indignant definition (c) having such anger and scorn as is aroused by meanness or wickedness

A10 adj. florid definition (a) flushed with red

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 58 (Answer Keys)

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n. logic definition (c) the science of correct thinking

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n. formation definition (a) relative disposition of parts

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n. sufficiency definition (b) an ample or adequate supply

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n. assonance definition (d) resemblance or correspondence in sound

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n. transmission definition (d) the act of sending through or across

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n. commotion definition (a) a disturbance or violent agitation

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n. auspice definition (b) favoring, protecting or propitious influence or guidance

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n. extortion definition (d) the practice of obtaining by violence or compulsion

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adj. impeccable definition (a) blameless

A10 n. onset definition (c) an assault, especially of troops, upon an enemy or fortification

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 59 (Answer Keys)

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v. butt definition (d) to strike with or as with the head or horns

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v. explicate definition (b) to clear from involvement

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v. satirize definition (d) to treat with sarcasm or derisive wit

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v. ascribe definition (c) to assign as a quality or attribute

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v. inveigh definition (c) to utter vehement censure or invective

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v. appertain definition (a) to belong, as by right, fitness, association, classification, possession or natural relation

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v. coerce definition (a) to force

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v. denude definition (a) to strip the covering from

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v. verify definition (a) to prove to be true, exact or accurate

A10 v. paraphrase definition (a) to translate freely

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 60 (Answer Keys)

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n. insolence definition (d) pride or haughtiness exhibited in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others

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adj. intangible definition (c) not perceptible to the touch

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n. scribble definition (a) hasty, careless writing

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n. disciple definition (b) person who believes the teaching of another or who adopts and follows some doctrine

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n. curtsy definition (c) a downward movement of the body by bending the knees

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n. excess definition (d) something that passes the ordinary, proper or required limit, measure or experience

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adj. transmissible definition (b) that may e sent through or across

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v. elucidate definition (c) to bring out more clearly the facts concerning

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adj. cadaverous definition (b) resembling a corpse

A10 n. brine definition (b) water saturated with salt

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 61 (Answer Keys)

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adj. racy definition (a) exciting or exhilarating to the mind

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adj. transalpine definition (b) situated on the other side of the Alps

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adj. descendent definition (b) proceeding downward

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adj. norman definition (d) relating to a region in northern France

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adj. impermissible definition (c) not allowed; forbidden

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adj. vegetal definition (c) of or pertaining to plants

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adj. conformable definition (d) harmonious

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adj. bellicose definition (d) warlike

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adj. invincible definition (c) not to be conquered, subdued or overcome

A10 adj. dormant definition (d) being in a state of or resembling sleep

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 62 (Answer Keys)

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n. devilry definition (b) malicious mischief

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n. alchemy definition (d) chemistry of the middle ages, characterized by the pursuit of changing base metals to gold

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n. nectarine definition (d) a variety of the peach

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n. finality definition (c) conclusiveness; something which cannot be revoked

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n. despot definition (b) an absolute and irresponsible monarch

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n. dissipation definition (a) the state of being dispersed or scattered

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n. decameron definition (b) a volume consisting of ten parts or books

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n. alderman definition (a) a member of a municipal legislative body who usually exercises also certain judicial functions

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n. eminence definition (c) high position; elevated rank; title of honor; excellence; height; hill

A10 n. adjunct definition (d) something joined to or connected with another thing but holding a subordinate place

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 63 (Answer Keys)

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v. deplete definition (c) to reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion or waste

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v. bestride definition (b) to get or sit upon astride, as a horse

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v. prickle definition (b) to puncture slightly with fine, sharp points

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v. emaciate definition (b) to waste away in flesh

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v. vociferate definition (a) to utter with a loud and vehement voice

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v. idolize definition (d) to regard with inordinate love or admiration

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n. taxation definition (d) a levy, by government, of a fixed contribution

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v. allay definition (c) to calm the violence or reduce the intensity of; to mitigate

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v. deify definition (d) to regard or worship as a god

A10 v. exacerbate definition (c) to make more sharp, severe or virulent

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 64 (Answer Keys)

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n. sinuosity definition (b) the quality of curving in and out

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v. transplant definition (c) to remove from one place and introduce into another (organ, person, etc.); transfer; relocate

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n. divulgence definition (c) disclosure; act of exposing

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v. disavow definition (d) to disclaim responsibility for

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v. negate definition (a) to deny

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n. aldermanship definition (c) the dignity, condition, office or term of office of government official

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v. ration definition (a) to provide with a fixed allowance or portion, especially of food

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adj. trenchant definition (a) cutting deeply and quickly

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v. control definition (a) to exercise a directing, restraining or governing influence over

A10 n. myriad definition (b) a vast indefinite number

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 65 (Answer Keys)

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adj. indescribable definition (d) cannot be expressed in words; beyond description; indefinite

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adj. referable definition (b) ascribable

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adj. obsequious definition (a) showing a servile readiness to fall in with the wishes or will of another

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adj. proficient definition (d) possessing ample and ready knowledge or of skill in any art, science or industry

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adj. gratuitous definition (d) voluntarily

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adj. jugular definition (a) pertaining to the throat

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n. witchcraft definition (d) sorcery

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adj. prolific definition (a) producing offspring or fruit

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adj. livid definition (d) black-and-blue, as contused flesh

A10 adj. tacit definition (a) understood

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 66 (Answer Keys)

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n. executor definition (a) a person nominated by the will of another to execute the will

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n. dead-heat definition (b) a race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner

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n. aperture definition (a) hole

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n. undergarment definition (c) a piece of clothing worn beneath outer clothes

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n. attache definition (d) a subordinate member of a diplomatic embassy

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n. aeronaut definition (b) person who navigates the air; a balloonist

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n. giver definition (a) donor; donator

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n. insurrection definition (a) the state of being in active resistance to authority

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n. fungus definition (b) a plant destitute of chlorophyll, as a mushroom

A10 n. dearth definition (c) scarcity, as of something customary, essential or desirable

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 67 (Answer Keys)

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v. obvert definition (a) to turn the front or principal side of (a thing) toward any person or object

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v. resuscitate definition (a) to restore from apparent death

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v. navigate definition (c) to traverse by ship

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v. arbitrate definition (b) to act or give judgment as umpire

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v. preexist definition (d) to forerun; to come or go before; to live in a previous life

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v. lave definition (b) to wash or bathe

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n. pharmacopoeia definition (a) a book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists

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v. intervene definition (d) to interfere for some end

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v. evoke definition (c) to call or summon forth

A10 v. bequeath definition (b) to give by will

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n. endurance definition (c) the ability to suffer pain, distress, hardship or stress of any kind without succumbing

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n. flatulence definition (d) accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowels

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n. posse definition (a) a force of men

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adj. sensuous definition (c) having a warm appreciation of the beautiful or of the refinements of luxury

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n. subservience definition (b) the quality, character or condition of being servilely following another's behests

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adj. ferocious definition (d) of a wild, fierce, and savage nature

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adv. quite definition (a) fully

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adj. pan-american definition (b) including or pertaining to a certain continent

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adj. maudlin definition (d) foolishly and tearfully affectionate

A10 adj. patrician definition (d) of senatorial or noble rank

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 69 (Answer Keys)

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adj. volant definition (a) flying or able to fly

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adj. illogical definition (c) contrary to the rules of sound thought

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adj. resonance definition (b) able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations

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adj. vendible definition (c) marketable

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adj. pleasurable definition (a) affording gratification

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adj. dissonant definition (d) harsh or disagreeable in sound

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adj. well-to-do definition (a) in prosperous circumstances

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adj. remonstrant definition (a) having the character of a reproof

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adj. intensive definition (c) adding emphasis or force

A10 adj. hindmost definition (d) farthest from the front

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n. midsummer definition (c) a certain time of year (in July)

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n. retinue definition (b) the body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance

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n. edict definition (b) that which is uttered or proclaimed by authority as a rule of action

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n. regime definition (d) particular conduct or administration of affairs

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n. coronation definition (a) the act or ceremony of crowning a monarch

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n. sequel definition (b) that which follows in consequence of what has previously happened

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n. alien definition (d) person who owes allegiance to a foreign government

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n. brevity definition (d) shortness of duration

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n. jaundice definition (d) a morbid condition, due to obstructed excretion of bile or characterized by yellowing of the skin

A10 n. scope definition (c) a range of action or view

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 71 (Answer Keys)

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v. protrude definition (a) to push out or thrust forth

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v. absolve definition (c) to free from sin or its penalties

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v. frizz definition (b) to give a crinkled, fluffy appearance to

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v. molt definition (b) to cast off, as hair, feathers, etc

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v. expand definition (c) to increase in range or scope

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v. joust definition (b) to engage in a tilt with lances on horseback

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v. pamphleteer definition (d) to compose or issue short books

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v. actuate definition (c) to move or incite to action

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v. compute definition (d) to ascertain by mathematical calculation

A10 v. encompass definition (b) to encircle

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adj. triennial definition (a) taking place every third year

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adj. penitential definition (c) pertaining to sorrow for sin with desire to amend and to atone

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adj. nutritive definition (b) nourishing; healthy; of high food value

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adj. blithesome definition (b) cheerful

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adj. elizabethan definition (a) relating to one of the English queens

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n. birthright definition (d) a privilege or possession into which one is born

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n. acetate definition (b) a salt of acetic acid

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n. aliment definition (a) means that nourish and support

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n. generality definition (a) the principal portion

A10 n. nostrum definition (a) any scheme or recipe of a charlatan character

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adj. insecure definition (c) not assured of safety

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adj. primeval definition (d) belonging to the first ages

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adj. transatlantic definition (d) situated beyond or on the other side of the ocean

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adj. excusable definition (a) justifiable

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adj. tolerant definition (a) indulgent

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adj. successful definition (d) having reached a high degree of worldly prosperity

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adj. valorous definition (d) courageous

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adj. immature definition (d) not full-grown

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adj. languid definition (b) relaxed

A10 adj. taut definition (b) stretched tight

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n. metempsychosis definition (c) transition of the soul of a human being at death into another body, whether human or beast

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n. progression definition (b) a moving forward; advancement

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n. vivacity definition (a) liveliness

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n. siege definition (d) a beleaguerment

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n. protege definition (d) person who is specially cared for and favored by another usually older person

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n. existence definition (d) possession or continuance of being

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n. mouthful definition (b) a sip; a bite

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n. masonry definition (b) the art or work of constructing, as buildings, walls, etc., with regularly arranged stones

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n. aviary definition (c) a spacious cage or enclosure in which live birds are kept

A10 n. cessation definition (d) discontinuance, as of action or motion

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v. mismanage definition (a) to run, organize, or deal with something incompetently

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v. disqualify definition (c) to debar

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v. stultify definition (c) to give an appearance of foolishness to

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v. gamble definition (b) to risk money or other possession on an event, chance or contingency

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v. perjure definition (b) to swear falsely to

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v. fuse definition (a) to unite or blend as by melting together

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n. malady definition (b) any physical disease or disorder, especially a chronic or deep-seated one

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v. paralyze definition (b) to deprive of the power to act

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v. correlate definition (a) to put in some relation of connection or correspondence

A10 v. complicate definition (a) to make complex, difficult or hard to deal with

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v. subside definition (b) to relapse into a state of repose and tranquillity

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n. steppe definition (c) one of the extensive plains in Russia and Siberia

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n. ballad definition (b) any popular narrative poem, often with epic subject and usually in lyric form

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adj. ungainly definition (a) clumsy

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n. depreciation definition (a) a lowering in value or an underrating in worth

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n. bulrush definition (d) papyrus

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v. entail definition (a) to involve; to necessitate

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adj. suppressible definition (c) capable of being held back or kept down

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n. quibble definition (b) an utterly trivial distinction or objection

A10 n. potential definition (c) anything that may be possible

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adj. multiform definition (a) having many shapes or appearances

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adj. consonant definition (b) being in agreement or harmony with

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adj. euphonious definition (d) characterized by agreeableness of sound

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adj. cardinal definition (b) of prime or special importance

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adj. fabulous definition (a) incredible

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adj. vapid definition (a) having lost sparkling quality and flavor

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adj. collective definition (b) consisting of a number of persons or objects considered as gathered into a mass or sum

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adj. incombustible definition (a) that can not be burned

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adj. sedate definition (a) even-tempered

A10 adj. sensitive definition (c) easily affected by outside operations or influences

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n. witticism definition (d) a clever or sarcastic remark

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n. decagon definition (d) a figure with ten sides and ten angles

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n. resource definition (d) that which is restored to, relied upon or made available for aid or support

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n. clairvoyance definition (d) intuitive sagacity or perception

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n. pendulum definition (b) a weight hung on a rod, serving by its oscillation to regulate the rate of a clock

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n. antidote definition (b) anything that will counteract or remove the effects of poison, disease or the like

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n. syllabication definition (c) division of words into that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse

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n. datum definition (b) a premise, starting-point or given fact

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n. occasion definition (c) an important event or celebration

A10 n. nomination definition (b) the act or ceremony of naming a man or woman for office

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v. deface definition (d) to vandalize

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v. amalgamate definition (c) to mix or blend together in a homogeneous body

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v. aggress definition (d) to make the first attack

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v. telescope definition (a) to drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass

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v. disinfect definition (c) to remove or destroy the poison of infectious or contagious diseases

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v. vacillate definition (c) to waver

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v. upbraid definition (b) to reproach as deserving blame

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v. precipitate definition (b) to force forward prematurely

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v. distill definition (d) to extract or produce by vaporization and condensation

A10 v. repeal definition (c) to render of no further effect

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adv. betimes definition (b) soon; early

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adj. hideous definition (a) appalling

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adj. emergent definition (d) coming into view

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n. palpable definition (d) perceptible by feeling or touch

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n. mystic definition (d) one who professes direct divine illumination or relies upon meditation to acquire truth

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n. tribune definition (a) any champion of the rights and liberties of the people: often used as the name for a newspaper

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adj. inexhaustible definition (a) so large or furnishing so great a supply as not to be emptied, wasted or spent

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v. outlast definition (a) to survive longer

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v. whet definition (b) to make more keen or eager

A10 n. confederate definition (b) one who is united with others in a league, compact or agreement

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adj. defensive definition (d) carried on in resistance to aggression

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adj. inefficient definition (c) not accomplishing an intended purpose

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adj. buoyant definition (d) having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat

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adj. intracellular definition (b) within the smallest unit of life

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adj. accusatory definition (a) tending to blame

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adj. subacid definition (a) somewhat sharp or biting

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adj. irresistible definition (a) that can not be successfully withstood or opposed

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adj. valid definition (d) founded on truth

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adj. static definition (b) pertaining to or designating bodies at rest or forces in equilibrium

A10 adj. choleric definition (d) easily provoked to anger

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n. inspector definition (c) an official appointed to examine or oversee any matter of public interest or importance

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n. flection definition (a) the act of bending

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n. statecraft definition (b) statesmanship; art of governing

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n. kerchief definition (b) a square of linen, silk or other material, used as a covering for the head or neck

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n. veto definition (c) the constitutional right in a chief executive of refusing to approve an enactment

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n. indigestion definition (d) difficulty or failure in the alimentary canal in changing food into absorptive nutriment

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n. remuneration definition (d) compensation

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n. minority definition (c) the smaller in number of two portions into which a number or a group is divided

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n. denunciation definition (d) the act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment

A10 n. obstetrician definition (d) a practitioner of midwifery

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v. speculate definition (a) to pursue inquiries and form conjectures

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v. disrobe definition (b) to unclothe

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v. collide definition (b) to meet and strike violently; to crash into each other

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v. overrun definition (c) to infest or ravage

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v. adduce definition (b) to bring forward or name for consideration

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v. preoccupy definition (d) to fill the mind of a person to the exclusion of other subjects

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v. belate definition (c) to delay past the proper hour

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v. supersede definition (a) to displace

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v. consecrate definition (c) to set apart as sacred

A10 v. nominate definition (d) to designate as a candidate for any office

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adj. tutelar definition (b) protective

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adj. calculable definition (d) that may be estimated by reckoning

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adj. unlawful definition (d) illegal

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n. outburst definition (d) a violent issue, especially of passion in an individual

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n. parlor definition (c) a room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests

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n. nihilist definition (d) an advocate of the doctrine that nothing either exists or can be known

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n. maintenance definition (c) upkeep; process of supporting and sustaining

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v. bungle definition (d) to execute clumsily

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n. rendezvous definition (a) a prearranged place of meeting

A10 adj. arbitrary definition (b) fixed or done capriciously

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adj. untimely definition (c) unseasonable

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adj. inaudible definition (d) that can not be heard

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adj. liquefacient definition (c) possessing a liquefying nature or power

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adj. productive definition (a) yielding in abundance

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adj. irreversible definition (c) unalterable; unchangeable; final

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adj. peaceable definition (a) tranquil

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adj. ductile definition (c) capable of being drawn out, as into wire or a thread

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adj. witless definition (c) foolish, indiscreet or silly

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adj. stationary definition (b) not moving

A10 adj. quiet definition (b) making no noise

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n. tact definition (c) fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing

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n. tactician definition (c) person who directs affairs with skill and shrewdness

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n. entirety definition (c) a complete thing

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n. ardor definition (d) intensity of passion or affection

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n. bitterness definition (c) acridity, as to the taste

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n. bursar definition (d) a treasurer

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n. obsolescence definition (c) the condition or process of gradually falling into disuse

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n. intervale definition (d) a low tract of land between hills, especially along a river

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n. bacterium definition (b) a microbe

A10 n. respite definition (b) interval of rest

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v. officiate definition (c) to perform ceremony; perform duty; serve as officiator; referee (Sports)

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v. deluge definition (b) to overwhelm with a flood of water

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v. oversee definition (a) to superintend

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v. expend definition (c) to spend

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v. vaccinate definition (b) to render unsusceptible to a disease by inoculating

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v. intercept definition (c) to take; seize; cause to stop; delay; hinder; obstruct

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v. acquit definition (c) to free or clear, as from accusation

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v. sanction definition (c) to approve authoritatively

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v. modify definition (b) to make somewhat different

A10 v. comport definition (d) to conduct or behave (oneself)

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n. sensibility definition (d) power to perceive or feel

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n. furlough definition (d) a temporary absence of a soldier or sailor by permission of the commanding officer

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n. dendrology definition (a) the natural history of trees

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n. clothier definition (c) one who makes or sells fabrics

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adj. unctuous definition (b) oily

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v. misbehave definition (c) to be naughty and troublesome

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n. brimstone definition (c) sulfur

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v. simulate definition (a) to imitate

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n. overdose definition (b) an excessive amount of a medicine which is toxic

A10 adj. conscious definition (c) aware that one lives, feels and thinks

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adj. achillean definition (c) invulnerable

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adj. prefatory definition (c) pertaining to a brief explanation to the reader at the beginning of a book

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adj. salacious definition (a) having strong sexual desires

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adj. duteous definition (d) showing submission to natural superiors

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adj. conciliatory definition (d) tending to reconcile

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adj. duplex definition (b) having two parts

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adj. preparatory definition (b) serving or designed to make ready; serving to put into the proper condition

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adj. frightful definition (b) apt to induce terror or alarm

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adj. incompatible definition (b) discordant

A10 adj. supple definition (a) easily bent

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n. homonym definition (a) a word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another

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n. anglo-saxon definition (d) member of an ancient Germanic people who invaded and settled parts of Britain

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n. culprit definition (d) a guilty person

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n. renaissance definition (b) the revival of letters, and then of art, which marks the transition from medieval to modern time

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n. salutation definition (c) any form of greeting, hailing or welcome, whether by word or act

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n. plea definition (d) an argument to obtain some desired action

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n. album definition (a) a book whose leaves are so made to form paper frames for holding photographs or the like

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n. confectionery definition (b) candy or pastry; pastry shop; bake shop

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v. ostracize definition (b) to exclude from public or private favor

A10 n. bromine definition (a) a dark reddish-brown, non-metallic liquid element with a suffocating odor

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v. minimize definition (b) to reduce to the smallest possible amount or degree

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v. ensnare definition (d) to entrap

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v. dominate definition (c) to influence controllingly

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v. translate definition (c) to give the sense or equivalent of in another language or dialect

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v. palliate definition (b) to cause to appear less guilty

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v. outstretch definition (a) to extend

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v. evert definition (d) to turn inside out

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v. transmute definition (d) to change in nature, substance or form

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v. transpire definition (b) to come to pass

A10 v. modulate definition (c) to vary in tone, inflection, pitch or other quality of sound

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 92 (Answer Keys)

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adj. mawkish definition (a) sickening or insipid

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v. teem definition (a) to be full to overflowing

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n. intemperance definition (b) immoderate action or indulgence, as of the appetites

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n. visage definition (c) the face, countenance or look of a person

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n. menace definition (b) a threat

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n. navel definition (c) the depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached

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n. prediction definition (d) a prophecy

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n. promontory definition (d) a high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea

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v. cajole definition (a) to impose on or dupe by flattering speech

A10 adj. magnificent definition (c) grand; splendid; majestic; superb; glorious; impressive

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adj. nefarious definition (b) wicked in the extreme

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adj. putrescent definition (c) undergoing decomposition of animal or vegetable matter accompanied by fetid odors

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adj. immense definition (d) very great in degree, extent, size or quantity

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adj. solar definition (d) pertaining to the sun

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adj. intestate definition (b) not having made a valid will

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n. morale definition (d) a state of mind with reference to confidence, courage, zeal and the like

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v. conspire definition (a) to plot

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adj. infallible definition (d) exempt from error of judgment, as in opinion or statement

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adj. intricate definition (c) difficult to follow or understand

A10 adj. complacent definition (a) pleased or satisfied with oneself

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n. carcass definition (a) the dead body of an animal

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n. quantity definition (b) magnitude

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n. tack definition (a) a small sharp-pointed nail

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n. palinode definition (a) a retraction

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n. armada definition (d) a fleet of war-vessels

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n. luminescence definition (d) showing increase

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n. borough definition (d) an incorporated village or town

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n. rejuvenescence definition (d) a renewal of youth

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v. dehydrate definition (d) to deprive of water

A10 n. feint definition (c) any sham, pretense or deceptive movement

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v. relish definition (b) to like the taste or savor of

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v. defraud definition (a) to deprive of something dishonestly

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v. impoverish definition (d) to make indigent or poor

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v. fray definition (a) to fret at the edge so as to loosen or break the threads

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v. badger definition (c) to pester; to annoy

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v. satiate definition (a) to satisfy fully the appetite or desire of

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v. parallel definition (a) to cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts

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v. separate definition (d) to take apart

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v. knead definition (c) to mix and work into a homogeneous mass, especially with the hands

A10 v. retrograde definition (a) to move backward; repeat; reiterate; recapitulate; worsen

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n. consulate definition (b) office of an official chosen by a government to represent its interests in a foreign country

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v. outdo definition (c) to surpass

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v. expiate definition (b) to make satisfaction or amends for

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adj. imperfectible definition (b) that can not be perfected

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adj. regnant definition (c) exercising royal authority in one's own right

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n. incitement definition (c) something that moves to action or serves as an incentive or stimulus

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n. fawn definition (d) a young deer

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n. extradition definition (c) the surrender by a government of a person accused of crime to the justice of another government

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adj. opportune definition (a) especially fit as occurring, said or done at the right moment

A10 n. epitaph definition (d) an inscription on a tomb or monument in honor or in memory of the dead

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adj. ramose definition (b) branch-like

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adj. nimble definition (a) light and quick in motion or action

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adj. subtle definition (d) discriminating

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adj. doleful definition (a) melancholy

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adj. discreet definition (a) judicious

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adj. insensible definition (c) imperceptible

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adj. transitory definition (c) existing for a short time only

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adj. convivial definition (a) devoted to feasting or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking

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adj. retroactive definition (c) operative on, affecting or having reference to past events, transactions or responsibilities

A10 adj. practicable definition (d) feasible

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n. heritage definition (c) birthright

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n. ground definition (d) a pavement or floor or any supporting surface on which one may walk

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n. miscreant definition (a) a villain

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n. ablution definition (a) a washing or cleansing, especially of the body

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n. specialty definition (c) an employment limited to one particular line of work

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n. tricycle definition (b) a three-wheeled vehicle

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n. recitation definition (a) the act of reciting or repeating, especially in public and from memory

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n. benefactor definition (a) a doer of kindly and charitable acts

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n. onslaught definition (d) an assault; mighty attack; overwhelming quantity appearing all at once (as of people)

A10 n. bauble definition (a) a trinket

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v. recreate definition (c) to refresh after labor

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v. misunderstand definition (d) to take in a wrong sense; to interpret incorrectly

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v. inquire definition (c) to ask information about

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v. impede definition (c) to be an obstacle or to place obstacles in the way of

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v. detrude definition (b) to push down forcibly

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v. decipher definition (b) to find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible

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v. disconnect definition (c) to cut off

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v. acknowledge definition (d) to recognize; to admit the genuineness or validity of

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adj. momentous definition (b) very significant

A10 v. delude definition (d) to mislead the mind or judgment of

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adj. credulous definition (a) easily deceived

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n. zodiac definition (d) an imaginary belt encircling the heavens within which are the larger planets

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n. fruition definition (b) fulfillment

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n. brooch definition (b) an article of jewelry fastened by a hinged pin and hook on the underside

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n. intercessor definition (d) a mediator

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n. ichthyosaurs definition (d) a fossil reptile

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n. assets definition (a) property in general, regarded as applicable to the payment of debts; anything of material value or usefulness

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v. reprimand definition (a) to chide or rebuke for a fault

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n. grievance definition (a) that which oppresses, injures or causes grief and at the same time a sense of wrong

A10 n. braggart definition (a) a very boastful and talkative person; a vain boaster

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adj. impalpable definition (a) imperceptible to the touch

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adj. corporate definition (b) belonging to a corporation

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adj. proportionate definition (d) relative; corresponding

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adj. submarine definition (c) existing, done or operating beneath the surface of the sea

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adj. peccable definition (a) capable of sinning

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adj. exempt definition (c) free, clear or released, as from some liability or restriction affecting others

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adj. foursome definition (a) consisting of two pairs

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adj. votary definition (b) consecrated by a vow or promise

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adj. deciduous definition (b) falling off at maturity as petals after flowering, fruit when ripe, etc

A10 adj. possible definition (c) being not beyond the reach of power natural, moral or supernatural

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n. scintilla definition (d) the faintest ray

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n. sirocco definition (d) hot winds from Africa

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n. principle definition (a) a general truth or proposition

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n. elusion definition (a) evasion

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n. rein definition (c) a step attached to the bit for controlling a horse or other draft-animal

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n. sol definition (c) the sun

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n. statuette definition (c) a figurine

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n. annunciation definition (d) proclamation

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n. filibuster definition (d) one who attempts to obstruct legislation

A10 n. citadel definition (d) any strong fortress

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v. reinstate definition (b) to return to a previous condition or position

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v. differentiate definition (b) to acquire a distinct and separate character

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v. befriend definition (d) assist; aid; stand by

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v. pommel definition (d) to beat with something thick or bulky

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v. nestle definition (b) to adjust cozily in snug quarters

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v. espy definition (a) to keep close watch

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n. overhang definition (d) an extent of projection

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v. allege definition (b) to assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court

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v. discredit definition (c) to injure the reputation of

A10 v. foist definition (a) to palm off

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adj. inaccurate definition (d) not exactly according to the facts

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n. conversion definition (a) change from one state or position to another or from one form to another

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n. gait definition (d) carriage of the body in going

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n. sisterhood definition (a) a body of sisters united by some bond of sympathy or by a religious vow

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adj. unconscious definition (d) not cognizant of objects, actions, etc

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adj. achromatic definition (b) colorless

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adj. admissible definition (b) having the right or privilege of entry

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adj. concurrent definition (c) occurring or acting together

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adj. irrational definition (a) not possessed of reasoning powers or understanding

A10 adj. haggard definition (b) worn and gaunt in appearance

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adj. innumerable definition (d) countless

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adj. meddlesome definition (d) interfering

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adj. gigantic definition (a) tremendous

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adj. lustrous definition (b) shining

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adj. dauntless definition (a) fearless

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n. knight errant definition (b) one of the wandering warrior who in the middle ages went forth in search of adventure

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n. acquittal definition (b) a discharge from accusation by judicial action

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adj. fastidious definition (b) hard to please

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adj. insipid definition (d) tasteless

A10 adj. delectable definition (d) delightful to the taste or to the senses

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n. upheaval definition (c) overthrow or violent disturbance of established order or condition

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n. irruption definition (a) sudden invasion

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n. forepeak definition (b) the extreme forward part of a ship's hold, under the lowest deck

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n. committal definition (d) the act, fact or result of committing or the state of being

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n. replica definition (c) a duplicate executed by the artist himself and regarded, equally with the first, as an original

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n. kimono definition (c) a loose robe, fastening with a sash, the principal outer garment in Japan

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n. archangel definition (c) a chief spirit servant of God

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n. permanence definition (a) a continuance in the same state or without any change that destroys the essential form or nature

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n. conformation definition (c) structure; adaptation; adjustment

A10 n. legacy definition (d) a bequest

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v. emulate definition (b) to imitate with intent to equal or surpass

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v. recover definition (c) to regain

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v. constrict definition (d) to bind

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v. safeguard definition (b) to protect

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v. circulate definition (c) to disseminate

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v. persuade definition (a) to win the mind of by argument, eloquence, evidence or reflection

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v. humanize definition (c) to make gentle or refined

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v. abdicate definition (b) to give up (royal power or the like)

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v. console definition (c) to comfort

A10 v. transcribe definition (b) to write over again (something already written)

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n. neo-darwinism definition (a) a theory of evolution that includes findings of modern genetics

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n. savage definition (b) a wild and uncivilized human being

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n. multiplicity definition (d) the condition of being manifold or very various

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n. glazier definition (a) person who cuts and fits panes of glass, as for windows

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adv. generally definition (c) ordinarily

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v. deprave definition (b) to render bad, especially morally bad

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v. leaven definition (b) to make light by fermentation, as dough

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n. perjury definition (d) a solemn assertion of a falsity

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v. exemplify definition (d) to show by example

A10 n. floe definition (d) a collection of tabular masses of floating polar ice

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adj. orthogonal definition (b) having or determined by right angles

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adj. slight definition (c) of a small importance or significance

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adj. migratory definition (d) wandering

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adj. inexplicable definition (a) such as can not be made plain

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adj. discernible definition (b) perceivable

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adj. propitious definition (d) kindly disposed

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adj. instructive definition (d) conveying knowledge

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adj. liege definition (c) sovereign

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adj. presumptuous definition (b) assuming too much

A10 adj. aural definition (d) of or pertaining to the ear

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n. dedication definition (a) the voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause

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n. ostracism definition (a) exclusion from intercourse or favor, as in society or politics

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n. sanctity definition (b) holiness

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n. aura definition (d) pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons

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n. likelihood definition (d) a probability

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n. amusement definition (c) diversion

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n. adjacent definition (a) object or device which is near or bordering upon

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n. matricide definition (b) the killing, especially the murdering, of one's mother

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v. arraign definition (c) to call into court, as a person indicted for crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not

A10 n. asperity definition (d) harshness or roughness of temper

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v. recline definition (c) to cause to assume a leaning or recumbent attitude or position

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v. revoke definition (b) to rescind

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v. recruit definition (b) to enlist men for military or naval service

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v. disarrange definition (c) to throw out of order

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v. accept definition (c) to take when offered

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v. dispossess definition (d) to deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate

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v. appall definition (c) to fill with dismay or horror

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v. remunerate definition (b) to pay or pay for

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v. debase definition (c) to lower in character or virtue

A10 v. improvise definition (a) to do anything extemporaneously or offhand

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n. coincidence definition (b) a circumstance so agreeing with another: often implying accident

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v. reconsider definition (a) to review with care, especially with a view to a reversal of previous action

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n. lattice definition (b) openwork of metal or wood, formed by crossing or interlacing strips or bars

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v. peter definition (c) to diminish and come to a stop; give out; expire; fade; die out

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adj. further definition (b) more distant or advanced

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v. rankle definition (b) to produce irritation or festering

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n. missal definition (c) the book containing the service for the celebration of mass

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n. violator definition (d) person who transgresses

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n. consternation definition (a) panic

A10 adj. congenial definition (d) having kindred character or tastes

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adj. pompous definition (a) marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner

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adj. disreputable definition (b) lacking honor; having a bad reputation

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adj. quixotic definition (d) chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree

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adj. transferable definition (a) capable of being conveyed from one person or place to another

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adj. venous definition (d) of, pertaining to or contained or carried in a vein or veins

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adj. polar definition (a) pertaining to the poles of a sphere, especially of the earth

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adj. impliable definition (c) capable of being inferred

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adj. invulnerable definition (d) that can not be wounded or hurt

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adj. contumacious definition (d) rebellious

A10 adj. acrid definition (d) harshly pungent or bitter

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n. thrall definition (c) one controlled by an appetite or a passion

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n. adjuration definition (c) a vehement appeal

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n. tannery definition (a) a place where animal skin is converted into leather

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n. biography definition (c) a written account of one's life, actions, and character

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n. determination definition (b) the act of deciding

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n. obstinacy definition (d) stubborn adherence to opinion, arising from conceit or the desire to have one's own way

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n. redound definition (b) to accumulate; to accrue; to collect; to have a desired result or effect; to return; to come back

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n. centimeter definition (b) a European unit of length

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n. intellect definition (d) the faculty of perception or thought

A10 n. servitude definition (c) slavery

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v. inscribe definition (d) to enter in a book or on a list, roll or document by writing

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v. undulate definition (b) to move like a wave or in waves

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v. narrate definition (a) to tell a story

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v. recede definition (c) to move back or away

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v. bide definition (b) to await

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v. annotate definition (a) to make explanatory or critical notes on or upon

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v. befog definition (c) to confuse

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v. intromit definition (c) to insert

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v. chastise definition (c) to subject to punitive measures

A10 v. presage definition (c) to foretell

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adj. intermittent definition (b) a temporary discontinuance

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n. dictum definition (b) a positive utterance

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n. boll definition (d) a round pod or seed-capsule, as a flax or cotton

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v. mesmerize definition (c) to hypnotize

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n. brigade definition (a) a body of troops consisting of two or more regiments

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n. reformer definition (d) one who one who makes positive changes; improver

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n. medallion definition (a) a large decorative metal disk worn on a chain around the neck

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n. delectation definition (a) delight

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v. perturb definition (c) to disturb greatly

A10 v. converge definition (b) to cause to incline and approach nearer together

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adj. generic definition (b) noting a genus or kind; opposed to specific

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adj. satiric definition (b) resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity or corruption is held up to ridicule

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adj. antispasmodic definition (c) controlling or preventing spasms

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adj. impassable definition (d) that can not be passed through or over

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n. divination definition (b) the pretended forecast of future events or discovery of what is lost or hidden

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adj. wintry definition (a) lacking warmth of manner

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n. sorcery definition (c) witchcraft

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adj. causal definition (d) indicating or expressing a cause

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adj. fraudulent definition (b) counterfeit

A10 adj. affable definition (d) easy to approach

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n. muleteer definition (b) a person who drives animals that are hybrids of horses and donkeys

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n. optic definition (c) pertaining to the eye or vision

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n. bolero definition (c) a Spanish dance, illustrative of the passion of love, accompanied by caste nets and singing

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n. grantor definition (c) the maker of a deed

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n. bedlam definition (b) madhouse; uproar

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n. anticyclone definition (a) an atmospheric condition of high central pressure with currents flowing outward

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n. scabbard definition (d) the sheath of a sword or similar bladed weapon

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n. investigator definition (b) detective

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adj. laggard definition (d) falling behind

A10 n. unguent definition (c) any ointment or lubricant for local application

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v. persist definition (a) to continue steadfast against opposition

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v. obliterate definition (c) to cause to disappear

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v. captivate definition (c) to fascinate, as by excellence, eloquence or beauty

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v. bedaub definition (c) to smear over, as with something oily or sticky

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v. patter definition (b) to mumble something over and over

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v. assonate definition (d) to accord in sound, especially vowel sound

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v. ante definition (c) in the game of poker, to put up a stake before the cards are dealt

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v. obligate definition (c) to hold to the fulfillment of duty

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v. condescend definition (c) to come down voluntarily to equal terms with inferiors

A10 v. decimate definition (c) to destroy a measurable or large proportion of

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n. sentinel definition (b) any guard or watch stationed for protection

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v. undervalue definition (a) to estimate something less than the true worth

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n. malaria definition (b) a fever characterized by alternating chills, fever and sweating

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adj. philanthropic definition (d) benevolent

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n. delicacy definition (d) that which is agreeable to a fine taste

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adj. postgraduate definition (b) pertaining to studies that are pursued after receiving a degree

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n. cabinet definition (a) the body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation

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n. prepossession definition (c) a preconceived liking

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v. appease definition (a) to soothe by quieting anger or indignation

A10 adj. supine definition (a) lying on the back

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adj. patronymic definition (a) formed after one's father's name

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adj. angular definition (b) sharp-cornered

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adj. amphibious definition (c) living both on land and in water

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adj. definite definition (d) having an exact signification or positive meaning

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adj. laxative definition (b) having power to open or loosen the bowels

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adj. presentient definition (b) perceiving or feeling beforehand

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adj. technic definition (c) practical; useful

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adj. off definition (a) farther or more distant

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adj. receptive definition (d) having the capacity, quality or ability of receiving, as truths or impressions

A10 adj. impecunious definition (d) having no money

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n. protoplasm definition (c) the substance that forms the principal portion of an animal or vegetable cell

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n. furrier definition (b) a person who makes garments using animal hair

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n. apothecary definition (c) one who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions

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n. denizen definition (c) inhabitant

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n. shuffle definition (b) a mixing or changing the order of things

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n. mobocracy definition (b) lawless control of public affairs by the populace

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n. hypothesis definition (c) a proposition taken for granted as a premise from which to reach a conclusion

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n. arbiter definition (c) person who is chosen or appointed, by mutual consent of parties in dispute, to decide matters

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n. censor definition (b) an official examiner of manuscripts empowered to prohibit their publication

A10 n. epithet definition (b) word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in 'Father Aeneas'

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v. derive definition (d) to deduce, as from a premise

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v. alleviate definition (d) to make less burdensome or less hard to bear

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v. penetrate definition (c) to enter or force a way into the interior parts of

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v. enumerate definition (b) to name one by one

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v. liberate definition (c) to set free or release from bondage

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v. accuse definition (b) to charge with wrong doing, misconduct or error

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v. eulogize definition (a) to speak or write a laudation of a person's life or character

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v. excavate definition (a) to remove by digging or scooping out

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v. denounce definition (c) to point out or publicly accuse as deserving of punishment, censure or odium

A10 v. characterize definition (b) to describe by distinctive marks or peculiarities

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adj. decimal definition (a) founded on the number 10

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n. physiography definition (b) description of nature

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n. gumption definition (b) common sense

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n. junta definition (c) a council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon the affairs of government

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adj. needy definition (a) poor; indigent

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adj. bilingual definition (b) speaking two languages

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n. ostentation definition (b) a display dictated by vanity and intended to invite applause or flattery

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adj. intrinsic definition (c) inherent

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n. potency definition (c) power

A10 n. circumlocution definition (d) indirect or roundabout expression

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adj. psychic definition (c) pertaining to the mind or soul

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adj. indivisible definition (c) not separable into parts

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adj. penetrable definition (d) that may be pierced by physical, moral or intellectual force

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adj. tangible definition (a) perceptible by touch

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adj. impersuadable definition (d) unyielding

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n. leviathan definition (b) any large animal, as a whale

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v. demagnetize definition (d) to deprive attractive properties

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adj. ravenous definition (c) furiously voracious or hungry

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adj. morose definition (d) gloomy

A10 adj. luxuriant definition (b) abundant or superabundant in growth

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n. abidance definition (b) obedience

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n. gratification definition (a) satisfaction

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n. acreage definition (b) quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land

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n. absorption definition (d) the act or process of sucking up

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n. fez definition (b) a brimless felt cap in the shape of a truncated cone, usually red with a black tassel

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n. spectrum definition (a) an image formed by rays of light or other radiant energy

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n. adjacency definition (d) the state of being adjacent

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n. technique definition (b) manner of performance

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n. rebuff definition (b) a peremptory or unexpected rejection of advances or approaches

A10 n. corrosive definition (b) that which causes gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration

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v. encamp definition (c) to pitch tents for a resting-place

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v. inhibit definition (a) to hold back or in

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v. believe definition (a) to accept as true on the testimony or authority of others

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v. retaliate definition (b) to repay evil with a similar evil

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v. outlive definition (b) to continue to exist after

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v. forerun definition (b) to go before as introducing or ushering in

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v. deject definition (a) to dishearten

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v. endue definition (c) to endow with some quality, gift or grace, usually spiritual

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v. possess definition (c) to own

A10 v. terminate definition (d) to put an end or stop to

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n. hydrometer definition (d) an instrument for determining the density of solids and liquids by flotation

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v. compliment definition (d) to address or gratify with expressions of delicate praise

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n. phenomenon definition (d) any unusual occurrence

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n. vaudeville definition (b) a variety show

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v. irk definition (a) to afflict with pain, vexation or fatigue

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adj. treble definition (d) multiplied by three

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n. metonymy definition (d) a figure of speech that consists in the naming of a thing by one of its attributes

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adj. indistinct definition (c) vague

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n. caricature definition (a) a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted

A10 v. mollify definition (d) to soothe

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adj. triple definition (c) threefold

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adj. herbivorous definition (d) feeding on herbs or other vegetable matter, as animals

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adj. extemporaneous definition (a) done or made without much or any preparation

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adj. pulmonary definition (b) pertaining to the lungs

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adj. luminous definition (c) giving or radiating light

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adj. drastic definition (a) acting vigorously

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n. parliament definition (a) a legislative body

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adj. obtrusive definition (b) tending to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence

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adj. trivial definition (a) of little importance or value

A10 adj. dogmatic definition (a) making statements without argument or evidence

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n. carnage definition (c) massacre

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n. conceit definition (b) self-flattering opinion

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n. criterion definition (b) a standard by which to determine the correctness of a judgment or conclusion

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n. procrastination definition (b) delay

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n. languor definition (b) lassitude of body or depression

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n. courser definition (a) a fleet and spirited horse

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n. prodigy definition (a) a person or thing of very remarkable gifts or qualities

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n. grantee definition (b) the person to whom property is transferred by deed

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adj. predatory definition (d) prone to pillaging

A10 n. disparity definition (b) inequality

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v. migrate definition (b) to remove or pass from one country, region or habitat to another

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v. equivocate definition (d) to use words of double meaning

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v. intimidate definition (c) to cause to become frightened

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v. overeat definition (b) to take too much food in

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v. blazon definition (a) to make widely or generally known

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v. excruciate definition (c) to inflict severe pain or agony upon

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v. hustle definition (b) to move with haste and promptness

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v. chasten definition (a) to purify by affliction

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v. perpetuate definition (a) to preserve from extinction or oblivion

A10 v. conscript definition (a) to force into military service

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n. normalcy definition (c) regularity

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adj. lackadaisical definition (d) listless

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adj. martial definition (b) pertaining to war or military operations

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n. possession definition (a) the having, holding or detention of property in one's power or command

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adj. distensible definition (b) capable of being stretched out or expanded in every direction

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n. cabal definition (b) a number of persons secretly united for effecting by intrigue some private purpose

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adj. extrajudicial definition (b) happening out of court

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n. clarion definition (c) a small shrill trumpet or bugle

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v. dislocate definition (b) to put out of proper place or order

A10 v. suffuse definition (c) to cover or fill the surface of

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adj. subsequent definition (b) following in time

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adj. diplomatic definition (c) characterized by special tact in negotiations

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adj. unspeakable definition (a) abominable

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adj. poignant definition (a) severely painful or acute to the spirit

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adj. improper definition (b) not appropriate, suitable or becoming

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adj. close-hauled definition (a) having the sails set for sailing as near to the wind as possible

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v. belay definition (d) to make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat

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adj. hirsute definition (b) having a hairy covering

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adj. crass definition (c) coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine

A10 adj. provincial definition (d) uncultured in thought and manner

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n. faun definition (b) one of a class of deities of the woods and herds represented as half human, with goats feet

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n. apostle definition (a) any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority

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n. anteroom definition (a) a waiting area

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n. derrick definition (a) an apparatus for hoisting and swinging great weights

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n. scarcity definition (d) insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands

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n. lawgiver definition (b) a legislator

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n. landmark definition (a) a familiar object in the landscape serving as a guide to an area otherwise easily lost track of

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n. perspiration definition (a) sweat

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n. fresco definition (c) the art of painting on a surface of plaster, particularly on walls and ceilings

A10 n. obstetrics definition (b) the branch of medical science concerned with the treatment and care of women during pregnancy

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v. posit definition (a) to present in an orderly manner

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v. discolor definition (c) to stain

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v. abet definition (d) to aid, promote or encourage the commission of (an offense)

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v. preestablish definition (b) to settle or arrange beforehand

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v. subjugate definition (d) to conquer

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v. depopulate definition (d) to remove the inhabitants from

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v. superannuate definition (b) to become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service

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v. conquer definition (d) to overcome by force

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adj. eccentric definition (a) peculiar

A10 v. bowdlerize definition (a) to expurgate in editing (a literary composition) by omitting words or passages

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adj. contiguous definition (d) touching or joining at the edge or boundary

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adj. expedient definition (a) contributing to personal advantage

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v. accede definition (c) to agree

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adj. diabolic definition (d) characteristic of the devil

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adj. loquacious definition (c) talkative

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n. polytheism definition (a) the doctrine or belief that there are more gods than one

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n. massacre definition (b) the unnecessary and indiscriminate killing of human beings

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n. functionary definition (c) an official

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v. curtail definition (a) to cut off or cut short

A10 n. plummet definition (a) a piece of lead for making soundings; adjusting walls to the vertical

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adj. cognizant definition (c) taking notice

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adj. absent-minded definition (a) lacking in attention to immediate surroundings or business

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adj. amorous definition (a) having a propensity for falling in love

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adj. infirm definition (c) lacking in bodily or mental strength

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adj. peerless definition (a) of unequaled excellence or worth

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adj. unsophisticated definition (d) showing inexperience

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n. morality definition (a) virtue

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adj. pecuniary definition (c) consisting of money

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adj. taciturn definition (c) disinclined to conversation

A10 adj. punitive definition (b) pertaining to punishment

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n. extravagance definition (a) undue expenditure of money

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n. epitome definition (d) a simplified representation

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n. ascension definition (c) the act of rising

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n. encyclopedia definition (c) a work containing information on subjects or exhaustive of one subject

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n. chivalry definition (c) the knightly system of feudal times with its code, usages and practices

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n. persiflage definition (d) banter

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n. manliness definition (b) masculinity

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n. bier definition (a) a horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave

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adj. turgid definition (d) swollen

A10 n. pariah definition (a) a member of a degraded class; a social outcast

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v. incapacitate definition (a) to deprive of power, capacity, competency or qualification

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v. subvert definition (c) to bring to ruin

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v. journalize definition (b) to keep a diary

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v. federate definition (d) to league together

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v. blaspheme definition (c) to indulge in profane oaths

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v. typify definition (b) to serve as a characteristic example of

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v. transfigure definition (d) to give an exalted meaning or glorified appearance to

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v. loot definition (a) to plunder

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adj. malignant definition (d) evil in nature or tending to do great harm or mischief

A10 v. classify definition (a) to group, sort, arrange systematically; make confidential

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n. violation definition (d) infringement

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n. vignette definition (c) a picture having a background or that is shaded off gradually

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n. alcove definition (d) a covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room

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v. circumscribe definition (a) to confine within bounds

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adj. unbiased definition (b) impartial, as judgment

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n. foreknowledge definition (b) prescience

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n. superabundance definition (a) an excessive amount

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n. service definition (a) any work done for the benefit of another

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adj. bumptious definition (a) full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit

A10 n. reparation definition (d) the act of making amends, as for an injury, loss or wrong

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adj. apparent definition (a) easily understood

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adj. graceless definition (a) ungracious

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adj. navigable definition (c) passable; can be crossed; can be steered through

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adj. typical definition (c) characteristic

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adj. contradictory definition (d) inconsistent with itself

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adj. inexpedient definition (b) unadvisable

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adj. efficient definition (c) having and exercising the power to produce effects or results

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adj. globose definition (b) spherical

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adj. rabid definition (d) extreme; fanatical

A10 adj. acrimonious definition (b) full of bitterness

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n. perseverance definition (d) diligence; industriousness; stubbornness

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n. nil definition (d) nothing

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n. misnomer definition (b) a name wrongly or mistakenly applied

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n. supplicant definition (b) person who asks humbly and earnestly

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n. quarto definition (c) an eight-page newspaper of any size

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n. confluent definition (d) a stream that unites with another

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n. microphone definition (d) an apparatus for magnifying faint sounds

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n. monastery definition (a) a dwelling-place occupied in common by persons under religious vows of seclusion

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n. sluggard definition (b) a person who is habitually lazy or idle

A10 n. invective definition (d) an utterance intended to cast censure or reproach

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v. agitate definition (c) to move or excite (the feelings or thoughts)

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v. materialize definition (c) to take perceptible or substantial form

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v. defalcate definition (c) to cut off or take away, as a part of something

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v. eject definition (a) to expel

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v. corrode definition (a) to ruin or destroy little by little

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n. habitant definition (b) dweller

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n. abomination definition (b) a very detestable act or practice

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v. rectify definition (a) to correct

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v. meander definition (c) to wind and turn while proceeding in a course

A10 v. redress definition (d) to set right, as a wrong by compensation or the punishment of the wrong-doer

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v. renovate definition (d) to restore after deterioration, as a building

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n. exigency definition (c) a critical period or condition

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v. decamp definition (c) to leave suddenly or unexpectedly

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n. profile definition (c) an outline or contour

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n. denomination definition (d) a body of Christians united by a common faith and form of worship and discipline

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n. essence definition (c) that which makes a thing to be what it is

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v. donate definition (d) to bestow as a gift, especially for a worthy cause

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v. detract definition (b) to take away in such manner as to lessen value or estimation

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adj. supplementary definition (a) being an addition to

A10 n. abrasion definition (b) area which is rubbed off; process of rubbing off

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adj. inconceivable definition (d) incomprehensible

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adj. peccant definition (d) guilty

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adj. auriferous definition (d) containing gold

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adj. treasonable definition (a) of the nature of betrayal, treachery or breech of allegiance

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adj. uncommon definition (d) rare

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adj. hydrous definition (c) watery

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n. briticism definition (d) a word idiom or phrase characteristic of Great Britain or the British

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adj. spasmodic definition (a) convulsive

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adj. adverse definition (c) opposing or opposed

A10 adj. dilapidated definition (a) fallen into decay or partial ruin

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n. corroboration definition (a) confirmation

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n. buoyancy definition (b) power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas

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n. writing definition (b) the act or art of tracing or inscribing on a surface letters or ideographs

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n. polemics definition (d) the art of controversy or disputation

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n. keepsake definition (b) a souvenir; object kept as a reminder of an event

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n. inkling definition (a) a hint

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n. moralist definition (b) a writer on ethics

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n. scribe definition (d) one who writes or is skilled in writing

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n. cataclysm definition (b) any overwhelming flood of water

A10 n. subterfuge definition (b) evasion

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v. grapple definition (b) to take hold of

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v. entangle definition (a) to involve in difficulties, confusion or complications

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v. tolerate definition (b) to passively permit or put up with

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v. prate definition (c) to talk about vainly or foolishly

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v. deviate definition (c) to take a different course

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v. dissever definition (d) to divide

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n. maize definition (b) Indian corn: usually in the United States called simply corn

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v. belie definition (d) to misrepresent

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v. allude definition (b) to refer incidentally or by suggestion

A10 v. transcend definition (c) to surpass

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n. stratagem definition (b) any clever trick or device for obtaining an advantage

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n. delusion definition (d) mistaken conviction, especially when more or less enduring

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n. poetics definition (d) the rules and principles of poetry

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n. scythe definition (a) a long curved blade for mowing, reaping, etc

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n. bric-a-brac definition (d) objects of curiosity or for decoration

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n. burgess definition (b) in colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of Maryland or Virginia

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n. specie definition (c) a coin or coins of gold, silver, copper or other metal

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n. maniac definition (d) a person raving with madness

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adj. frolicsome definition (d) frisky and full of fun

A10 n. semblance definition (d) outward appearance

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adj. tantamount definition (a) having equal or equivalent value, effect or import

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adj. festive definition (d) merry

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adj. futile definition (c) of no avail or effect

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adj. festal definition (a) joyous

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adj. auburn definition (b) reddish-brown, said usually of the hair

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adj. divergent definition (c) tending in different directions

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adj. sublingual definition (d) situated beneath the tongue

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adj. inconvenient definition (d) interfering with comfort or progress

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adj. contrite definition (b) broken in spirit because of a sense of sin

A10 adj. circumspect definition (d) showing watchfulness, caution or careful consideration

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n. madonna definition (d) a painted or sculptured representation of the Virgin, usually with the infant Jesus

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n. valedictorian definition (a) student who delivers an address at graduating exercises of an educational institution

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n. tilth definition (c) cultivation

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n. misdeed definition (c) a wrong or improper act

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n. regiment definition (c) a body of soldiers

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n. mutiny definition (b) rebellion against lawful or constituted authority

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n. synopsis definition (b) a syllabus or summary

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n. matinee definition (a) an entertainment (especially theatrical) held in the daytime

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n. granary definition (c) a storehouse for grain after it is thrashed or husked

A10 n. minutia definition (c) a small or unimportant particular or detail

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v. deform definition (a) to disfigure

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v. rue definition (b) to regret extremely

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v. decapitate definition (d) to behead

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v. antipathize definition (a) to show or have a feeling of antagonism, aversion or dislike

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v. modernize definition (c) to make characteristic of the present or of recent times

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v. sequestrate definition (b) to confiscate

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v. qualify definition (a) to endow or furnish with requisite ability, character, knowledge, skill or possessions

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v. maintain definition (d) to hold or preserve in any particular state or condition

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v. fluctuate definition (b) to pass backward and forward irregularly from one state or degree to another

A10 v. reciprocate definition (b) to give and take mutually

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n. perception definition (a) knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world

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n. distention definition (a) expansion

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v. evolve definition (b) to unfold or expand

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adj. kind-hearted definition (b) caring; good-natured; generous; considerate

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adj. inventive definition (a) quick at contrivance

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adj. fugacious definition (a) fleeting

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n. gastritis definition (d) inflammation of the stomach

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n. defendant definition (c) a person against whom a suit is brought

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adj. grisly definition (a) fear-inspiring

A10 adj. aghast definition (c) struck with terror and amazement

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adj. archaic definition (c) antiquated

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adj. corporal definition (a) belonging or relating to the body as opposed to the mind

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adj. provident definition (a) anticipating and making ready for future wants or emergencies

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adj. peripatetic definition (c) walking about

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adj. nomic definition (b) usual or customary

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adj. centenary definition (d) pertaining to a hundred years or a period of a hundred years

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n. abscess definition (a) a collection of pus in a cavity formed within some tissue of the body

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adj. nominal definition (c) trivial

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adj. disinterested definition (b) impartial

A10 adj. decorous definition (d) suitable for the occasion or circumstances

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n. hesitancy definition (b) a pausing to consider

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n. shriek definition (d) a sharp, shrill outcry or scream, caused by agony or terror

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n. plurality definition (b) a majority

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n. papacy definition (c) the official head of the Roman Catholic Church

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n. tripod definition (a) a three-legged stand, usually hinged near the top, for supporting some instrument

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n. perfumery definition (d) a store that sells cosmetics

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n. renunciation definition (b) an explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege

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n. maidenhood definition (d) virginity

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adj. grandiose definition (d) having an imposing style or effect

A10 adj. orthodox definition (c) holding the commonly accepted faith

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v. accumulate definition (d) to become greater in quantity or number

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v. disinherit definition (d) to deprive of an inheritance

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v. arrogate definition (a) to take, demand or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds

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v. assassinate definition (c) to kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person

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v. bewilder definition (a) to confuse the perceptions or judgment of

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v. altercate definition (d) to contend angrily or zealously in words

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v. rotate definition (a) to cause to turn on or as on its axis, as a wheel

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v. countervail definition (a) to offset

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v. perforate definition (c) to make a hole or holes through

A10 v. burnish definition (b) to make brilliant or shining

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n. pseudonymity definition (a) the state or character of using a fictitious name

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adj. illegitimate definition (d) unlawfully begotten

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n. misogyny definition (a) hatred of women

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adj. maleficent definition (d) mischievous; harmful; evil

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adj. senile definition (a) peculiar to or proceeding from the weakness or infirmity of old age

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adj. penultimate definition (a) a syllable or member of a series that is last but one

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v. ache definition (a) to be in pain or distress

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v. deflect definition (b) to cause to turn aside or downward

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v. aggrandize definition (a) to cause to appear greatly

A10 adj. foppish definition (a) characteristic of one who is unduly devoted to dress and the niceties of manners

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adj. hard-hearted definition (c) lacking pity or sympathy

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adj. imaginary definition (d) fancied

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adj. plenary definition (d) entire

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adj. earnest definition (b) ardent in spirit and speech

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adj. inconsistent definition (b) contradictory

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adj. symmetrical definition (b) well-balanced

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n. philosophy definition (c) the general principles, laws or causes that furnish the rational explanation of anything

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adj. fervent definition (a) ardent in feeling

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adj. venereal definition (b) pertaining to or proceeding from sexual intercourse

A10 adj. sedentary definition (b) involving or requiring much sitting

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n. drainage definition (c) emptying of liquid; channeling; sewage; waste water

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n. octave definition (d) a note at this interval above or below any other, considered in relation to that other

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n. incisor definition (d) a front or cutting tooth

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n. excrescence definition (c) any unnatural addition, outgrowth or development

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n. kilometer definition (c) a measure of length

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n. monologue definition (c) a story or drama told or performed by one person

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n. confidence definition (d) the state or feeling of trust in or reliance upon another

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n. authenticity definition (d) the state or quality of being genuine or of the origin and authorship claimed

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adj. halcyon definition (a) calm

A10 n. amalgam definition (d) an alloy or union of mercury with another metal

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v. guzzle definition (a) to swallow greedily or hastily; to gulp

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v. immerse definition (b) to plunge or dip entirely under water or other fluid

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v. retract definition (a) to recall or take back (something that one has said)

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v. unsettle definition (c) to put into confusion

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v. inure definition (c) to harden or toughen by use, exercise or exposure

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v. clarify definition (d) to render intelligible

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v. terrify definition (b) to fill with extreme fear

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v. beget definition (a) to produce by sexual generation

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v. convene definition (d) to summon or cause to assemble

A10 v. deprecate definition (a) to express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite

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adj. supernatural definition (d) caused miraculously or by the immediate exercise of divine power

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adj. voluble definition (a) having great fluency in speaking

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n. bureau definition (d) a chest of drawers for clothing, etc

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n. cosmology definition (d) the general science of the universe

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n. dermatology definition (c) the branch of medical science which relates to the skin and its diseases

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n. element definition (a) a component or essential part

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v. underrate definition (b) to to judge the value, degree, or worth of somebody or something to be less than it really is

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v. depreciate definition (d) to lessen the worth of

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adj. rudimentary definition (a) being in an initial, early or incomplete stage of development

A10 adj. subliminal definition (a) being beneath the threshold of consciousness

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adj. invalid definition (a) having no force, weight or cogency

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adj. timorous definition (d) lacking courage

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adj. logical definition (a) capable of or characterized by clear reasoning

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adj. medieval definition (a) belonging or relating to or descriptive of the middle ages

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adj. scriptural definition (d) Biblical; pertaining to the Bible; written; inscribed

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adj. probate definition (c) relating to making proof, as of a will

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adj. illimitable definition (d) boundless

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adj. heinous definition (c) odiously sinful

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adj. exhaustive definition (b) thorough and complete in execution

A10 adj. pendulous definition (d) hanging, especially so as to swing by an attached end or part

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n. locomotion definition (d) the act or power of moving from one place to another

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n. inroad definition (b) forcible encroachment or trespass

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n. monotone definition (d) the sameness or monotony of utterance

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n. integrity definition (d) uprightness of character and soundness of moral principle

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n. pseudapostle definition (b) any starlike meteor or phenomenon

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n. suffrage definition (b) the right or privilege of voting

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n. drought definition (c) dry weather, especially when so long continued as to cause vegetation to wither

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n. armful definition (c) a measure that defines the amount a person can hold

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n. indigence definition (c) poverty

A10 n. cathode definition (b) the negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery

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v. regale definition (d) to give unusual pleasure

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v. excel definition (a) to be superior or distinguished

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v. misrepresent definition (c) to give a wrong impression

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v. fulminate definition (a) to cause to explode

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v. emerge definition (b) to come into view or into existence

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v. overpower definition (b) to gain supremacy; to subdue; to take control of

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v. dramatize definition (a) adapt for theatrical presentation; exaggerate

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v. forecast definition (c) to predict

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v. surmount definition (c) to overcome by force of will

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v. defray definition (a) to make payment for

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adj. noticeable definition (a) perceptible

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n. panorama definition (c) a series of large pictures representing a continuous scene

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n. ministry definition (d) a service

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n. propeller definition (b) long shaft with a revolving spiral blades that move a vehicle

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v. subsist definition (a) to exist; live; stay alive

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n. excretion definition (a) the getting rid of waste matter

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n. stallion definition (a) an uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding

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n. alternative definition (a) something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen or done instead of something else

A10 n. cacophony definition (c) a disagreeable, harsh or discordant sound or combination of sounds or tones

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adj. immune definition (b) exempt, as from disease

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adj. omnipotent definition (b) possessed of unlimited and universal power

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adj. fusible definition (a) capable of being melted by heat

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adj. unbridled definition (c) being without restraint

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adj. pertinent definition (d) relevant

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adj. efficacious definition (a) effective

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adj. encyclical definition (c) intended for general circulation

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adj. refractory definition (d) not amenable to control

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adj. volatile definition (a) changeable

A10 adj. verdant definition (d) green with vegetation

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n. metamorphosis definition (a) a passing from one form or shape into another

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n. trestle definition (c) an open braced framework for supporting the horizontal stringers of a railway-bridge

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n. conduit definition (a) a means for conducting something, particularly a tube, pipe or passageway for a fluid

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n. chateau definition (b) a castle or manor-house

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n. plumb definition (b) a weight suspended by a line to test the verticality of something

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n. electrotype definition (d) a metallic copy of any surface, as a coin

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n. periodicity definition (d) the habit or characteristic of recurrence at regular intervals

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n. overlord definition (c) superior ruler (especially in feudal system); one with great influence

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n. vogue definition (b) the prevalent way or fashion

A10 n. solecism definition (a) any violation of established rules or customs

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v. usurp definition (a) to take possession of by force

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v. nettle definition (b) to excite sensations of uneasiness or displeasure in

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v. emit definition (c) to send or give out

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v. explode definition (b) to cause to burst in pieces by force from within

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v. reseat definition (b) to place in position of office again

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v. botanize definition (d) to study plant-life

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v. degrade definition (c) to take away honors or position from

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v. reprehend definition (b) to find fault with

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v. disclaim definition (d) to repudiate; disavow; renounce; deny connection with

A10 v. apprehend definition (b) to make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law

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n. plutocracy definition (c) a wealthy class in a political community who control the government by means of their money

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n. geology definition (c) the department of natural science that treats of the constitution and structure of the earth

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adj. systematic definition (b) methodical

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v. extort definition (d) to obtain by violence, threats, compulsion or the subjection of another to some necessity

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adj. vigilant definition (b) being on the alert to discover and ward off danger or insure safety

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n. butte definition (a) a conspicuous hill, low mountain or natural turret, generally isolated

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n. perpetrator definition (c) the doer of a wrong or a criminal act

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n. procedure definition (d) a manner or method of acting

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n. apparition definition (a) ghost

A10 n. frivolity definition (b) a trifling act, thought, saying or practice

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adj. preponderant definition (b) prevalent

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adj. delirious definition (d) raving

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adj. mischievous definition (d) fond of tricks

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adj. apposite definition (a) appropriate

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adj. frowzy definition (b) slovenly in appearance

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adj. irreverent definition (b) showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things

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n. arrear definition (c) something overdue and unpaid

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adj. comely definition (c) handsome

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adj. virtual definition (a) being in essence or effect but not in form or appearance

A10 adj. perverse definition (d) unreasonable

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n. optimism definition (d) the view that everything in nature and the history of mankind is ordered for the best

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n. preservation definition (b) conservation

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n. defamation definition (b) malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another

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n. virtu definition (b) rare, curious or beautiful quality

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n. bristle definition (d) one of the coarse, stiff hairs of swine: used in brush-making, etc

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n. cynicism definition (b) contempt for the opinions of others and of what others value

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n. refringency definition (d) power to refract

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n. quietus definition (d) a silencing, suppressing or ending

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v. educe definition (d) to draw out

A10 n. hesitation definition (c) vacillation

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v. deduce definition (d) to derive or draw as a conclusion by reasoning from given premises or principles

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v. dissipate definition (b) to disperse or disappear

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v. persevere definition (a) to continue striving in spite of discouragements

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v. muffle definition (c) to deaden the sound of, as by wraps

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v. rehabilitate definition (a) to restore to a former status, capacity, right rank or privilege

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v. osculate definition (c) to kiss

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v. congest definition (c) to collect into a mass

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v. forswear definition (d) to renounce upon oath

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v. descry definition (d) to discern

A10 v. relegate definition (c) to send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destination

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n. skirmish definition (c) desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies

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n. adherence definition (d) attachment

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v. avert definition (d) to turn away or aside

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n. culvert definition (d) any artificial covered channel for the passage of water through a bank or under a road

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n. riddance definition (d) the act of disencumbering; the act of freeing from something undesirable

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n. memento definition (c) a souvenir

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v. refract definition (d) to bend or turn from a direct course

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n. debut definition (b) a first appearance in society or on the stage

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v. expedite definition (a) to hasten the movement or progress of

A10 n. inflammation definition (d) a morbid process in some part of the body characterized by heat, swelling and pain

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adj. canine definition (c) characteristic of a dog

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adj. significant definition (c) important, especially as pointing something out

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adj. receivable definition (c) capable of being or fit to be accepted — often money

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adj. querulous definition (a) habitually complaining

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adj. nondescript definition (c) indescribable

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adj. sanguineous definition (c) consisting of blood

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n. synod definition (d) an ecclesiastical council

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adj. notorious definition (d) unfavorably known to the general public

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adj. ligneous definition (c) having the texture of appearance of wood

A10 adj. arid definition (b) very dry

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n. sleight definition (c) a trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observation

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n. parable definition (c) a brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral

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n. fallacy definition (c) any unsound or delusive mode of reasoning; anything based on such reasoning

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n. unison definition (a) a condition of perfect agreement and accord

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n. creak definition (b) a sharp, harsh, squeaking sound

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n. mockery definition (a) ridicule

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n. linguistics definition (b) the science of languages or of the origin, history, and significance of words

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n. synonym definition (b) a word having the same or almost the same meaning as some other

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adj. ghastly definition (d) hideous

A10 adj. gossamer definition (d) flimsy

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v. confiscate definition (b) to appropriate (private property) as forfeited to the public use or treasury

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v. convalesce definition (c) to recover after a sickness

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v. loathe definition (a) to abominate

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v. evict definition (d) to dispossess pursuant to judicial decree

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v. juggle definition (b) to play tricks of sleight of hand

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v. infest definition (c) to be present in such numbers as to be a source of annoyance, trouble or danger

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v. enact definition (b) to legislate; ordain; decree; perform

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v. forebode definition (b) to be an omen or warning sign of, especially of evil

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v. compress definition (d) to make smaller using pressure; condense

A10 v. infringe definition (c) to trespass upon

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n. inversion definition (c) change of order so that the first shall become last and the last first

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adj. vindicatory definition (d) punitive

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adj. equitable definition (c) characterized by fairness

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n. proficiency definition (c) an advanced state of acquirement, as in some knowledge, art or science

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n. pretext definition (c) a fictitious reason or motive

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n. animosity definition (a) hatred

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n. biped definition (a) an animal having two feet

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adj. amenable definition (c) willing and ready to submit

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adj. blithe definition (d) joyous

A10 adj. perennial definition (a) continuing though the year or through many years

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adj. privy definition (d) participating with another or others in the knowledge of a secret transaction

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adj. staid definition (c) of a steady and sober character

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adj. bountiful definition (d) showing abundance

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adj. indispensable definition (b) necessary or requisite for the purpose

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adj. precipitant definition (b) moving onward quickly and heedlessly

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adj. debatable definition (a) subject to contention or dispute

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adj. lithesome definition (a) nimble

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adj. inflexible definition (b) that can not be altered or varied

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adj. comestible definition (a) fit to be eaten

A10 adj. squalid definition (d) having a dirty, mean, poverty-stricken appearance

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n. incentive definition (b) that which moves the mind or inflames the passions

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n. employer definition (c) one who uses or engages the services of other persons for pay

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n. magnitude definition (d) importance

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n. gaiety definition (d) festivity

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n. hussar definition (d) a light-horse trooper armed with saber and carbine

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n. lunacy definition (a) mental unsoundness

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n. usage definition (a) treatment

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n. suspense definition (d) uncertainty

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adj. eugenic definition (c) relating to the development and improvement of race

A10 n. atrocity definition (c) great cruelty; reckless wickedness

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v. protuberate definition (d) to swell or bulge beyond the surrounding surface

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v. overreach definition (a) to stretch out too far

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v. overstride definition (a) to step beyond

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v. facilitate definition (c) to make more easy

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v. dilate definition (a) to enlarge in all directions

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v. recognize definition (a) to recall the identity of (a person or thing)

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v. augur definition (a) to predict

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v. abominate definition (b) to hate violently

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v. originate definition (c) to cause or constitute the beginning or first stage of the existence of

A10 v. refute definition (b) to prove to be wrong

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n. tranquility definition (d) calmness

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adj. equestrian definition (c) pertaining to horses or horsemanship

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v. percolate definition (d) to filter

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n. fathom definition (a) a measure of length; 6 feet

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n. advertiser definition (d) one who advertises, especially in newspapers

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v. preengage definition (d) to preoccupy

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adj. declarative definition (d) containing a formal, positive or explicit statement or affirmation

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adj. antenatal definition (c) occurring or existing before birth

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adj. irascible definition (c) prone to anger

A10 n. eulogy definition (c) a spoken or written laudation of a person's life or character

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adj. inviolable definition (d) incapable of being injured or disturbed

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adj. sequacious definition (d) ready to be led

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adj. abdominal definition (c) of, pertaining to or situated on the abdomen

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adj. well-bred definition (a) of good ancestry

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adj. spinous definition (b) resembling a thorn; having pointed projections

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adj. antemeridian definition (a) before noon

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adj. pleasant definition (a) agreeable

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adj. winsome definition (d) attractive

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adj. placid definition (a) serene

A10 adj. propellant definition (a) pushing; thrusting; driving; moving forward

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n. chasm definition (a) a yawning hollow, as in the earth's surface

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n. plasticity definition (b) the property of some substances through which the form of the mass can readily be changed

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n. heterogeneity definition (d) unlikeness of constituent parts

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n. privateer definition (b) sailor or officer of a warship; warship; ship commissioned by a government to fight enemies

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n. sergeant-at-arms definition (b) an executive officer in legislative bodies who enforces the orders of the presiding officer

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n. louse definition (a) a small insect parasitic on and sucking the blood of mammals

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n. vista definition (b) a view or prospect

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n. priory definition (b) a monastic house

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n. pathos definition (b) the quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy

A10 n. vertex definition (c) peak; highest point; top; summit

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v. transgress definition (a) to break a law

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v. vitalize definition (b) to endow with life or energy

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v. legislate definition (a) to make or enact a law or laws

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v. effervesce definition (b) to bubble up

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v. forego definition (d) to deny oneself the pleasure or profit of

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v. decorate definition (d) to embellish

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n. tangency definition (a) the state of touching

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v. annihilate definition (b) to destroy absolutely and completely

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v. enervate definition (c) to render ineffective or inoperative

A10 v. broach definition (b) to mention for the first time

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v. reconstruct definition (d) to rebuild

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n. tactics definition (b) any maneuvering or adroit management for effecting an object

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int. voala definition (c) here we go; here you are; there you go

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n. betrothal definition (d) engagement to marry

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n. outbreak definition (c) eruption; explosion (usually of an unpleasant thing)

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n. foreshore definition (b) land along the edge of a body of water

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v. convulse definition (c) to cause spasms in

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n. subtrahend definition (b) number that is deducted from an amount

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n. batten definition (a) a narrow strip of wood

A10 n. ordination definition (a) a consecration to the ministry

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 185 (Answer Keys)

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adj. unaffected definition (a) sincere

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adj. desultory definition (c) not connected with what precedes

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adj. edible definition (b) suitable to be eaten

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adj. venal definition (c) mercenary, corrupt

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adj. indiscreet definition (d) lacking wise judgment

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adj. refragable definition (b) capable of being refuted

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adj. light-hearted definition (b) free from care

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adj. feudal definition (a) pertaining to the relation of lord and vassal

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adj. virile definition (a) masculine

A10 adj. stringent definition (a) rigid

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n. aspirant definition (d) one who seeks earnestly, as for advancement, honors, place

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n. anthracite definition (b) hard coal

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n. plenipotentiary definition (d) a person fully empowered to transact any business

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n. cajolery definition (b) delusive speech

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n. pinnacle definition (b) a high or topmost point, as a mountain-peak

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n. vortex definition (c) a mass of rotating or whirling fluid, especially when sucked spirally toward the center

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n. atonement definition (d) amends, reparation or expiation made from wrong or injury

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n. episode definition (d) an incident or story in a literary work, separable from yet growing out of it

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n. exodus definition (a) a going forth or departure from a place or country, especially of many people

A10 n. docket definition (a) the registry of judgments of a court

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 187 (Answer Keys)

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v. precede definition (d) to happen first

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v. savor definition (c) to perceive by taste or smell

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v. wrest definition (c) to pull or force away by or as by violent twisting or wringing

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v. illumine definition (d) to make bright or clear

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v. eschew definition (b) to keep clear of

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v. perambulate definition (a) to walk about

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v. undersell definition (b) to promote or advertise in an understated manner

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v. impel definition (a) to drive or urge forward

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v. extricate definition (b) to disentangle

A10 v. alter definition (b) to make change in

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n. reflection definition (b) the throwing off or back of light, heat, sound or any form of energy that travels in waves

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n. probity definition (c) virtue or integrity tested and confirmed

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adj. faulty definition (c) imperfect

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n. rhapsody definition (b) rapt or rapturous utterance

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v. stagnate definition (c) to become dull or inert

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n. affectation definition (b) a studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt

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adj. aerial definition (b) of, pertaining to or like the air

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adj. evidential definition (c) indicative

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adj. erroneous definition (b) incorrect

A10 adj. swarthy definition (a) having a dark hue, especially a dark or sunburned complexion

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adj. principal definition (d) most important

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adj. hibernian definition (d) pertaining to Ireland or its people

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adj. impervious definition (b) unsusceptible to outside ideas or influences; unfathomable; inscrutable

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adj. formidable definition (c) difficult to accomplish

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adj. gaseous definition (a) light and unsubstantial

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adj. influential definition (c) having the power to sway the will of another

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n. aerostat definition (d) a balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air

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adj. slothful definition (a) lazy

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adj. scurrilous definition (b) grossly indecent or vulgar

A10 adj. exuberant definition (d) marked by great plentifulness

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 190 (Answer Keys)

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n. trepidation definition (a) nervous uncertainty of feeling

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n. sycophant definition (b) a servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence

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n. soldier definition (c) a person engaged in military service

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n. personnel definition (a) staff; work force; team; crew

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n. contusion definition (b) a bruise

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n. acquiescence definition (c) passive consent

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n. opalescence definition (c) the property of combined refraction and reflection of light, resulting in smoky tints

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n. christ definition (d) a title of Jesus

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n. access definition (b) a way of approach or entrance; passage

A10 n. ingredient definition (b) component

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v. resonate definition (c) to have or produce resonance

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v. negotiate definition (d) to bargain with others for an agreement, as for a treaty or transfer of property

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v. coincide definition (d) to correspond

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v. commingle definition (b) to blend

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v. evince definition (d) to demonstrate; to reveal; to display

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v. garrote definition (d) to execute by strangling

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n. cabalism definition (b) superstitious devotion to one's religion

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v. enfranchise definition (d) to endow with a privilege, especially with the right to vote

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v. extol definition (c) to praise in the highest terms

A10 v. cauterize definition (d) to burn or sear as with a heated iron

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n. polygamy definition (b) the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at once

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n. propriety definition (a) accordance with recognized usage, custom or principles

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n. opportunist definition (c) person who takes advantage of circumstances to gain his ends

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adj. rapid definition (d) having great speed

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adj. impious definition (b) characterized by irreverence or irreligion

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n. compression definition (a) constraint, as by force or authority

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adj. polytechnic definition (d) pertaining to, embracing or practicing many arts

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n. leisure definition (b) spare time

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adj. verbose definition (a) wordy

A10 adj. irreparable definition (b) that can not be rectified or made amends for

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adj. tangent definition (d) touching

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adj. subservient definition (d) servilely following another's behests

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adj. paternal definition (d) fatherly

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adj. reckless definition (a) foolishly headless of danger

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adj. inexpensive definition (c) low-priced; cheap

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adj. appellate definition (b) capable of being appealed to

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adj. extensive definition (c) extended widely in space, time or scope

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adj. clumsy definition (c) awkward of movement

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adj. resilient definition (c) having the quality of springing back to a former position

A10 adj. malleable definition (a) pliant

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n. truism definition (b) a statement so plainly true as hardly to require statement or proof

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n. earthenware definition (d) anything made of clay and baked in a kiln or dried in the sun

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n. requiem definition (c) a solemn mass sung for the repose of the souls of the dead

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n. conflagration definition (c) a great fire, as of many buildings, a forest or the like

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n. dialect definition (c) forms of speech collectively that are peculiar to the people of a particular district

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n. repertory definition (c) a place where things are stored or gathered together

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n. infinity definition (d) boundless or immeasurable extension or duration

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n. mane definition (a) the long hair growing upon and about the neck of certain animals, as the horse and the lion

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adj. ultimate definition (c) beyond which there is nothing else

A10 n. pyre definition (c) a heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body

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v. militate definition (b) to have weight or influence (in determining a question)

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v. maroon definition (d) to put ashore and abandon (a person) on a desolate coast or island

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v. surfeit definition (b) to feed to fullness or to satiety

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v. ought definition (d) to be under moral obligation to be or do

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v. designate definition (c) to select or appoint, as by authority

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v. trisect definition (c) to divide into three parts, especially into three equal parts

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n. operator definition (a) person who works with or controls some machine or scientific apparatus

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v. collaborate definition (b) to cooperate with another or others, especially in literary or scientific pursuits

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v. gratify definition (b) to please, as by satisfying a physical or mental desire or need

A10 v. garnish definition (c) in cookery, to surround with additions for embellishment

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n. superfluity definition (d) that part of anything that is in excess of what is needed

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n. outpost definition (a) a detachment of troops stationed at a distance from the main body to guard against surprise

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n. metropolis definition (c) a chief city, either the capital or the largest or most important city of a state

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v. acidify definition (a) to change into a sour tasting solution that dissolves metals and other materials

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n. armory definition (d) an arsenal

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v. vacate definition (d) to leave

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adj. repulsive definition (c) grossly offensive

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v. condense definition (a) to abridge; to shorten

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v. seethe definition (a) to be violently excited or agitated

A10 n. ligament definition (a) something binds objects together

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adj. isothermal definition (d) having or marking equality of temperature

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adj. outrageous definition (d) shocking in conduct

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adj. confident definition (d) assured

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adj. oral definition (a) uttered through the mouth

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adj. momentary definition (c) lasting but a short time

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adj. raptorial definition (b) seizing and devouring living prey

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adj. microscopic definition (a) adapted to or characterized by minute observation

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adj. hypodermic definition (b) pertaining to the area under the skin

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adj. noisome definition (a) very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell

A10 adj. flippant definition (a) having a light, pert, trifling disposition

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n. duckling definition (d) a young bird

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n. plenitude definition (b) abundance

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n. presentiment definition (b) foreboding

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n. overtone definition (a) a harmonic

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n. translucence definition (a) the property or state of allowing the passage of light

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n. vale definition (c) level or low land between hills

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n. brazier definition (c) an open pan or basin for holding live coals

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n. facet definition (a) one of the small triangular plane surfaces of a diamond or other gem

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n. complaisance definition (a) politeness

A10 n. anemia definition (c) deficiency of blood or red corpuscles

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v. gesticulate definition (b) to make movements of the body, as in speaking or in place of speech

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v. mutilate definition (d) to disfigure

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v. discountenance definition (d) to look upon with disfavor

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v. confide definition (c) to reveal in trust

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v. hypnotize definition (a) to produce a somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestions

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v. awaken definition (d) to arouse, as emotion, interest or the like

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v. irritate definition (b) to excite ill temper or impatience in

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v. tempt definition (b) to offer to (somebody) an inducement to do wrong

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v. preclude definition (c) to prevent; to eliminate; to remove; to make impossible

A10 v. reproduce definition (d) to make a copy of

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v. belittle definition (a) to disparage

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n. quackery definition (a) charlatanry

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n. gravity definition (d) seriousness

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n. guinea definition (a) an English monetary unit

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adj. tolerable definition (b) moderately good

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n. futurist definition (b) a person of expectant temperament

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adj. orthopedic definition (b) relating to the correcting or preventing of deformity

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n. hypnotism definition (d) an artificially induced somnambulistic state in which the mind readily acts on suggestion

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n. severance definition (b) separation

A10 n. vagabond definition (c) a wanderer

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adj. inexpressible definition (b) unutterable

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adj. vincible definition (c) conquerable

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adj. finite definition (a) limited

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adj. ominous definition (c) delivering bad news; foreboding; threatening

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adj. implausible definition (d) hard to believe; not credible; lacking the appearance of truth

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adj. atrocious definition (a) outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile or cruel

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n. orthodoxy definition (c) acceptance of the common faith

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adj. clamorous definition (d) urgent in complaint or demand

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adj. relevant definition (b) bearing upon the matter in hand

A10 adj. trite definition (a) made commonplace by frequent repetition

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n. medley definition (a) a composition of different songs or parts of songs arranged to run as a continuous whole

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n. lexicography definition (a) the making of dictionaries

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n. simile definition (c) a comparison which directs the mind to the representative object itself

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n. sarcophagus definition (d) a stone coffin or a chest-like tomb

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n. obelisk definition (c) a square shaft with pyramidal top, usually monumental or commemorative

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n. fishmonger definition (d) a certain profession

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n. peddler definition (a) person who travels from house to house with an assortment of goods for retail

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n. longevity definition (b) unusually prolonged life

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n. veneer definition (b) outside show or elegance

A10 n. levity definition (a) a lack of seriousness; frivolity; flightiness; silliness

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v. bustle definition (a) to hurry

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v. enrage definition (c) to infuriate

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v. implicate definition (c) to show or prove to be involved in or concerned

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v. degenerate definition (a) to become worse or inferior

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v. dissect definition (a) to cut apart or to pieces

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v. disregard definition (c) to take no notice of

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v. understate definition (b) to fail to put strongly enough, as a case

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v. imperil definition (c) to endanger

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v. supplicate definition (a) to beg

A10 v. disburse definition (c) to pay out or expend, as money from a fund

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v. repine definition (c) to indulge in fretfulness and faultfinding

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adj. antediluvian definition (c) of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah

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n. inundation definition (d) flood

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n. treachery definition (c) violation of allegiance, confidence or plighted faith

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n. balsam definition (b) a medical preparation, aromatic and oily, used for healing

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v. theorize definition (a) to speculate

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n. lifetime definition (d) period during which something functions or exists

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adj. cohesive definition (d) having the property of consistency

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v. ramify definition (b) to divide or subdivide into branches or subdivisions

A10 adj. incessant definition (a) unceasing

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adj. fluential definition (b) pertaining to streams

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adj. non-existent definition (d) something that isn't there

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adj. ubiquitous definition (b) being present everywhere

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adj. heathenish definition (a) irreligious

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adj. providential definition (d) effected by divine guidance

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adj. lovable definition (d) amiable; endearing; sweet

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adv. athwart definition (a) from side to side

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adj. odious definition (a) hateful

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adj. ingenuous definition (c) candid, frank or open in character or quality

A10 adj. voluptuous definition (c) having fullness of beautiful form, as a woman, with or without sensuous or sensual quality

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n. enormity definition (b) immensity

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n. callosity definition (b) the state of being hard and insensible

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n. audition definition (d) the act or sensation of hearing

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n. opponent definition (b) person who supports the other side in a debate, discussion, struggle or sport

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n. pedigree definition (b) a person's line of ancestors

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n. urgency definition (c) the pressure of necessity

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n. hemorrhoids definition (b) tumors composed of enlarged and thickened blood-vessels, at the lower end of the rectum

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n. consignee definition (b) a person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted

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n. formula definition (a) set way of saying or doing something

A10 n. advocate definition (b) one who pleads the cause of another, as in a legal or ecclesiastical court

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v. adhere definition (d) to stick fast or together

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v. humiliate definition (b) to put to shame

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v. annex definition (d) to add or affix at the end

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v. demolish definition (b) to annihilate; to destroy; to ruin; to tear down

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v. upheave definition (a) to raise or lift with effort

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v. overdo definition (a) to overtax the strength of

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n. socialism definition (c) a theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society

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v. acclaim definition (a) to utter with a shout

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v. augment definition (c) to make bigger

A10 v. economize definition (d) to spend sparingly

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n. platitude definition (d) a written or spoken statement that is flat, dull or commonplace

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n. alluvion definition (b) flood

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n. qualification definition (a) a requisite for an employment, position, right or privilege

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v. dismount definition (b) to throw down, push off or remove otherwise from a horse or the like

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n. mongrel definition (d) the progeny resulting from the crossing of different breeds or varieties

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v. enkindle definition (d) to set on fire

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adj. preferable definition (b) more desirable than others

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adj. appropriate definition (a) suitable for the purpose and circumstances

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v. hoard definition (c) to gather and store away for the sake of accumulation

A10 adj. rapacious definition (b) disposed to seize by violence or by unlawful or greedy methods

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adj. memorable definition (d) noteworthy

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adj. munificent definition (a) extraordinarily generous

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adj. exemplary definition (c) fitted to serve as a model or example worthy of imitation

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adj. insufficient definition (a) inadequate for some need, purpose or use

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adj. fanciless definition (a) unimaginative

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adj. herbaceous definition (c) describes plants or plant parts that are fleshy and wither after each growing season

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n. pentagram definition (d) a figure having five points or lobes

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adj. listless definition (c) inattentive

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adj. thermal definition (c) of or pertaining to heat

A10 adj. inimical definition (a) adverse

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n. modernity definition (a) newness

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n. ailment definition (a) slight sickness

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n. arrangement definition (c) the act of putting in proper order or the state of being put in order

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n. extensor definition (c) a muscle that causes extension

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n. photometer definition (d) any instrument for measuring the intensity of light or comparing the intensity of two lights

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n. preeminence definition (b) importance; significance; superiority; supremacy; distinctiveness

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n. botany definition (d) the science that treats of plants

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n. qualm definition (a) a fit of nausea

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n. malefactor definition (d) one who injures another

A10 n. nucleus definition (c) a central point or part about which matter is aggregated

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v. predict definition (b) to foretell

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v. embezzle definition (a) to misappropriate secretly

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v. irradiate definition (a) to render clear and intelligible

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v. scuttle definition (d) to sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom

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v. reestablish definition (d) to set up again; to found anew

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v. overthrow definition (a) to vanquish an established ruler or government

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v. adumbrate definition (d) to represent beforehand in outline or by emblem

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v. juxtapose definition (a) to place close together

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v. aver definition (c) to assert as a fact

A10 v. deign definition (b) to deem worthy of notice or account

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n. bigamist definition (b) person who has two spouses at the same time

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v. abase definition (b) to lower in position, estimation or the like; to degrade

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v. countercharge definition (c) to accuse in return

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adj. indestructible definition (d) that can not be destroyed

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adj. hoarse definition (a) having the voice harsh or rough, as from a cold or fatigue

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v. accustom definition (b) to make familiar by use

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adj. reminiscent definition (b) pertaining to the recollection of matters of personal interest

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adj. ill-natured definition (b) surly

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adj. anonymous definition (d) of unknown authorship

A10 n. quandary definition (b) a puzzling predicament

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adj. tenacious definition (b) unyielding

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adj. curt definition (c) concise, compressed and abrupt in act or expression

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adj. extinct definition (d) being no longer in existence

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adj. partible definition (c) separable; divisible; severable; cleavable

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adj. hereditary definition (b) passing naturally from parent to child

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adj. inhuman definition (d) savage

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adj. rotund definition (a) round from fullness or plumpness

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adj. indiscriminate definition (a) promiscuous

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adj. reactionary definition (a) resistant to progress; aspiring to return to a previous state or condition

A10 adj. prerogative definition (d) having superior rank or precedence

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n. paradox definition (b) a statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief

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n. queue definition (b) a file of persons waiting in order of their arrival, as for admittance

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n. intension definition (a) the act of stringing or stretching or state of being strained

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n. ingenuity definition (a) cleverness in contriving, combining or originating

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n. beneficiary definition (c) one who is lawfully entitled to the profits and proceeds of an estate or property

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n. physics definition (a) the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy

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n. liner definition (b) airplane or ship which is run by a transportation company; eye pencil

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n. synchronism definition (c) simultaneousness

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v. magnetize definition (b) to mesmerize; to fascinate; to rivet; to spellbind

A10 n. protocol definition (c) a declaration or memorandum of agreement less solemn and formal than a treaty

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v. mislay definition (b) to accidentally place an object where it cannot be found; to arrange incorrectly

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v. recant definition (d) to withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained)

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v. fortify definition (b) to provide with defensive works

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v. cite definition (d) to refer to specifically

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v. maneuver definition (d) to make adroit or artful moves: manage affairs by strategy

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v. inhume definition (b) to place in the earth, as a dead body

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v. endanger definition (b) to expose to peril

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v. quadruple definition (d) to multiply by four

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v. remonstrate definition (c) to present a verbal or written protest to those who have power to right or prevent a wrong

A10 v. relinquish definition (d) to give up using or having

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n. overproduction definition (b) a situation where the supply of products exceeds demand

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n. sylph definition (d) a slender, graceful young woman or girl

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v. fabricate definition (b) to invent fancifully or falsely

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adj. comical definition (a) funny

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n. brogue definition (b) any dialectic pronunciation of English, especially that of the Irish people

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n. infirmary definition (a) a place for the reception or treatment of the sick

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n. streamlet definition (d) rivulet

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n. metronome definition (d) an instrument for indicating and marking exact time in music

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adj. hybrid definition (d) cross-bred

A10 n. version definition (a) a description or report of something as modified by one's character or opinion

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adj. agrarian definition (d) pertaining to farmers and farming

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adj. conjugal definition (d) pertaining to marriage, marital rights or married persons

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adj. eloquent definition (a) having the ability to express emotion or feeling in lofty and impassioned speech

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adj. hexangular definition (d) having six angles

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adj. covert definition (a) concealed, especially for an evil purpose

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adj. playful definition (d) frolicsome

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adj. importunate definition (c) urgent in character, request or demand

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adj. militant definition (c) of a warlike or combative disposition or tendency

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adj. sacrilegious definition (c) impious

A10 adj. peremptory definition (c) precluding question or appeal

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n. autarchy definition (a) unrestricted power

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n. expulsion definition (b) forcible ejection

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n. havoc definition (c) devastation

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n. planisphere definition (d) a polar projection of the heavens on a chart

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n. domicile definition (c) the place where one lives

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n. theorist definition (b) person who tends to speculate

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n. retention definition (b) the keeping of a thing within one's power or possession

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n. semicircle definition (d) a curved or crescent-shaped line of things or people

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v. prattle definition (b) to utter in simple or childish talk

A10 n. animadversion definition (b) the utterance of criticism or censure

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v. confront definition (c) to encounter, as difficulties or obstacles

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v. wreak definition (d) to inflict, as a revenge or punishment

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v. specialize definition (b) to devote oneself to a particular profession or field of study

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v. circumnavigate definition (d) to sail around the world

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v. miscount definition (c) to make a mathematical error

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v. acquaint definition (a) to make familiar or conversant

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v. misuse definition (a) to maltreat

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v. dwindle definition (a) to diminish or become less

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v. amputate definition (a) to remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body

A10 v. regress definition (c) to return to a former place or condition

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n. desistance definition (b) cessation

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n. grindstone definition (d) an abrasive wheel that sharpens or polishes something

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adj. acetic definition (b) of, pertaining to or of the nature of vinegar

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v. congeal definition (c) to coagulate

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n. stature definition (a) the natural height of an animal body

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v. occlude definition (c) to absorb, as a gas by a metal

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adj. comprehensible definition (d) intelligible

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n. gordian knot definition (c) any difficulty the only issue out of which is by bold or unusual manners

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n. dissonance definition (d) discord

A10 v. enhance definition (a) to intensify

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adj. nomad definition (c) having no fixed abode

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adj. sidereal definition (c) pertaining to stars or constellations

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adj. merciless definition (c) cruel

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adj. suggestive definition (a) stimulating to thought or reflection

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adj. nestling definition (b) recently hatched

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adj. arthurian definition (b) pertaining to a British King

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adj. enormous definition (c) gigantic

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adj. decisive definition (a) conclusive

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n. effrontery definition (c) unblushing impudence

A10 adj. precocious definition (b) mature for one's age; unusually well-developed

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n. gynecology definition (a) the science that treats of the functions and diseases peculiar to women

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n. prototype definition (b) a work, original in character, afterward imitated in form or spirit

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n. pollen definition (d) the fine dust-like grains or powder formed within the anther of a flowering plant

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n. compulsion definition (a) coercion

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n. critique definition (b) a criticism or critical review

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n. permutation definition (a) reciprocal change, different ordering of same items

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n. negligee definition (c) a loose gown worn by women

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n. populace definition (c) the common people

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v. enthuse definition (a) to yield to or display intense and rapturous feelings

A10 adj. homogeneous definition (b) made up of similar parts or elements

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v. ossify definition (b) to convert into bone

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v. radiate definition (a) to extend in all directions, as from a source or focus

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v. interact definition (b) to communicate or work together

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v. disengage definition (c) to become detached

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v. enshrine definition (a) to keep sacred

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v. disfigure definition (b) to impair or injure the beauty, symmetry or appearance of

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v. vivify definition (a) to endue with life

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v. emphasize definition (d) to articulate or enunciate with special impressiveness upon a word or a group of words

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v. generate definition (d) to produce or cause to be

A10 v. wane definition (c) to diminish in size and brilliancy

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adj. secondary definition (c) less important or effective than that which is primary

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adv. extempore definition (d) without studied or special preparation

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n. travesty definition (a) a grotesque imitation

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v. submerge definition (c) to place or plunge under water

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n. verity definition (b) truth

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n. bullock definition (c) an ox

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n. objector definition (c) an opposer

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v. deplore definition (c) to regard with grief or sorrow

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adj. meticulous definition (c) pedantic; cautious concerning minute details; scrupulous

A10 v. preponderate definition (a) to exceed in influence or power

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adj. mountainous definition (a) hilly

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adj. obnoxious definition (d) detestable

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adj. able-bodied definition (a) competent for physical service

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adj. metaphysical definition (c) philosophical

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adj. discrepant definition (c) opposite

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adj. nude definition (c) naked

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n. adulterant definition (a) a corrupted substance

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adj. transcendent definition (d) surpassing

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adj. minute definition (d) exceedingly small in extent or quantity

A10 adj. execrable definition (c) abominable

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n. forefather definition (c) an ancestor

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n. omission definition (c) exclusion

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n. disunion definition (d) separation of relations or interests

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n. spherometer definition (c) an instrument used to measure the curvature of a surface

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n. iciness definition (a) the state of being icy

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n. species definition (c) a classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus

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n. academician definition (d) a member of an academy of literature, art or science

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n. vaporizer definition (a) an atomizer

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adj. succulent definition (c) juicy

A10 n. fortitude definition (a) patient courage

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v. replenish definition (d) to fill again, as something that has been emptied

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v. vitiate definition (d) to contaminate

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v. brandish definition (d) to wave, shake or flourish triumphantly or defiantly, as a sword or spear

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v. embark definition (a) to make a beginning in some occupation or scheme

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v. disarm definition (d) to deprive of weapons

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v. orate definition (d) to give a lecture; make a speech; declaim

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v. recur definition (c) to happen again or repeatedly, especially at regular intervals

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v. distrain definition (b) to subject a person to distress

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v. propagate definition (a) to spread abroad or from person to person

A10 v. check definition (d) to hold back

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n. aristocrat definition (a) a hereditary noble or one nearly connected with nobility

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adj. incomparable definition (d) matchless

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n. philanthropy definition (d) active humanitarianism

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adj. hesitant definition (c) vacillating

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n. syllabus definition (d) outline of a subject, course, lecture or treatise

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adj. neolithic definition (d) pertaining to the later stone age

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n. orgies definition (c) wild or wanton revelry

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n. repugnance definition (d) thorough dislike

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adj. hale definition (d) of sound and vigorous health

A10 adj. prosaic definition (a) unimaginative

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adj. unconscionable definition (b) ridiculously or unjustly excessive

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adj. bulbous definition (c) swollen

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adj. natal definition (b) pertaining to one's birth

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adj. beneficent definition (b) characterized by charity and kindness

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adj. prima definition (b) first

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adj. unnecessary definition (b) not essential under the circumstances

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adj. accurate definition (c) conforming exactly to truth or to a standard

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adj. interminable definition (b) having no limit or end

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adj. gullible definition (b) credulous

A10 adj. brusque definition (b) somewhat rough or rude in manner or speech

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n. polyarchy definition (d) government by several or many persons of whatever class

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n. theocrasy definition (c) the mixed worship of polytheism

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n. pentathlon definition (d) the contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants

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n. importation definition (c) the act or practice of bringing from one country into another

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n. illusion definition (a) an unreal image presented to the senses

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n. donator definition (c) person who makes a contribution or present

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v. christen definition (b) to name in baptism

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n. mettle definition (c) courage

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n. latency definition (d) the state of being dormant

A10 n. turpitude definition (d) depravity

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v. invigorate definition (b) to animate

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v. cipher definition (a) to calculate arithmetically

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v. immortalize definition (d) to cause to last or to be known or remembered throughout a great or indefinite length of time

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v. henpeck definition (c) to worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances

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v. vie definition (a) to contend

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v. innovate definition (d) to introduce or strive to introduce new things

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v. overpass definition (a) to bridge

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v. sequester definition (d) to cause to withdraw or retire, as from society or public life

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v. begrudge definition (c) to envy one of the possession of

A10 v. discriminate definition (d) to separate, to distinguish; to treat differently; to show partiality

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 232 (Answer Keys)

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n. prehension definition (c) the act of laying hold of or grasping

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n. elegy definition (a) a lyric poem lamenting the dead

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n. violoncello definition (c) a stringed instrument held between the player's knees

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n. inefficiency definition (b) something that does not accomplish an intended purpose; incompetency; incapability

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n. donor definition (b) person who makes a contribution or present

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n. vulgarity definition (b) lack of refinement in conduct or speech

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adj. hexapod definition (c) having six feet

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n. ambush definition (a) the act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy

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n. gauge definition (c) an instrument for measuring

A10 n. demeanor definition (b) deportment

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adj. incandescent definition (d) white or glowing with heat

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adj. foreign definition (b) belonging to, situated in or derived from another country

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adj. reflexible definition (c) capable of being reflected

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adj. profuse definition (d) produced or displayed in overabundance

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adj. effective definition (b) fit for a destined purpose

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adj. consanguineous definition (d) descended from the same parent or ancestor

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adj. toilsome definition (a) laborious

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adj. stingy definition (d) cheap, unwilling to spend money

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adj. ulterior definition (d) not so pertinent as something else to the matter spoken of

A10 adj. nuptial definition (d) of or pertaining to marriage, especially to the marriage ceremony

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 234 (Answer Keys)

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n. regicide definition (d) the killing of a king or sovereign

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n. antipodes definition (a) a place or region on the opposite side of the earth

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n. abbess definition (a) the lady superior of a nunnery

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n. perigee definition (c) the point in the orbit of the moon when it is nearest the earth

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n. acknowledgment definition (d) recognition

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n. poise definition (d) equilibrium

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n. assessor definition (a) an officer whose duty it is to estimate and determine taxes

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n. inlet definition (a) a small body of water leading into a larger

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v. bask definition (d) to make warm by genial heat

A10 n. psychiatry definition (a) the branch of medicine that relates to mental disease

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 235 (Answer Keys)

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v. disquiet definition (a) to deprive of peace or tranquillity

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v. counteract definition (b) to work against; cancel out; negate

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v. gnash definition (b) to grind or strike the teeth together, as from rage

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v. pall definition (d) to make dull by satiety

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v. baffle definition (a) to foil or frustrate

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v. agglomerate definition (c) to pile or heap together

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adj. sociable definition (c) inclined to seek company

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v. perform definition (a) to accomplish

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v. deride definition (d) to ridicule

A10 v. reiterate definition (b) to say or do again and again

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 236 (Answer Keys)

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v. forejudge definition (a) determine beforehand before hearing evidence

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n. exhaustion definition (d) deprivation of strength or energy

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n. panel definition (a) a rectangular piece set in or as in a frame

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v. foresee definition (b) to discern beforehand

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adj. parisian definition (b) of or pertaining to the capital of France

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adj. endurable definition (a) tolerable

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adj. counterfeit definition (b) made to resemble something else

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n. hexagon definition (a) a figure with six angles

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v. ruminate definition (b) to chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated

A10 n. necessity definition (b) that which is indispensably requisite to an end desired

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 237 (Answer Keys)

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adj. vituperable definition (a) deserving of censure

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adj. laudable definition (a) praiseworthy

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adj. bibulous definition (d) fond of drinking

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adj. separable definition (c) capable of being disjoined or divided

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adj. sequent definition (d) following in the order of time

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adj. tipsy definition (d) befuddled with drinks

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adj. reconcilable definition (c) capable of being adjusted or harmonized

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adj. dissentious definition (d) contentious

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adj. tortuous definition (c) abounding in irregular bends or turns

A10 adj. immutable definition (b) unchangeable

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 238 (Answer Keys)

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n. monogamy definition (b) the habit of pairing or having but one mate

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n. reluctance definition (d) unwillingness

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n. midwife definition (b) a woman who makes a business of assisting at childbirth

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n. material definition (a) that of which anything is composed or may be constructed

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n. triumvir definition (a) one of three men united coordinately in public office or authority

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n. epigram definition (d) a pithy phrasing of a shrewd observation

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n. emporium definition (b) a bazaar or shop

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n. working-man definition (a) one who earns his bread by physical labor

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n. gourmand definition (b) a connoisseur in the delicacies of the table

A10 n. coercion definition (a) forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 239 (Answer Keys)

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v. emigrate definition (a) to go from one country, state or region for the purpose of settling or residing in another

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v. reorganize definition (a) to rearrange

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v. extinguish definition (c) to put out; to quench; to totally destroy; to annihilate

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v. rescind definition (d) to make void, as an act, by the enacting authority or a superior authority

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v. patronize definition (c) to exercise an arrogant condescension toward

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v. conduce definition (a) to bring about

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v. abnegate definition (b) to renounce (a right or privilege)

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v. seduce definition (d) to entice to surrender chastity

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v. exhume definition (a) to dig out of the earth (what has been buried)

A10 v. coagulate definition (a) to change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action or by a ferment

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 240 (Answer Keys)

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adv. aye definition (c) an expression of assent

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adj. noxious definition (b) hurtful

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n. prohibitionist definition (c) a person who supports a legal ban on the sale of alcoholic drinks (USA)

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adj. unlimited definition (a) unconstrained

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n. dispensation definition (b) something that is bestowed on or appointed to one from a higher power

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n. catholicity definition (d) universal prevalence or acceptance

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n. expediency definition (b) fitness to meet the requirements of a particular case

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adj. aforesaid definition (c) mentioned previously

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v. outstrip definition (b) to go beyond

A10 n. faction definition (d) a number of persons combined for a common purpose

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 241 (Answer Keys)

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adj. termagant definition (a) violently abusive and quarrelsome

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adj. involuntary definition (a) unwilling

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adj. epicurean definition (b) indulging, ministering or pertaining to daintiness of appetite

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adj. feminine definition (b) characteristic of woman or womankind

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adj. meager definition (c) scanty

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adj. dominant definition (a) conspicuously prominent

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n. hysteria definition (a) a nervous affection occurring typically in paroxysms of laughing and crying

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adj. replete definition (a) full to the uttermost

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adj. imperative definition (a) obligatory

A10 adj. introductory definition (d) preliminary

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 242 (Answer Keys)

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n. corps definition (c) a number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together

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n. euphemism definition (b) a figure of speech by which a phrase less offensive is substituted

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n. underling definition (a) a subordinate

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n. probation definition (b) any proceeding designed to ascertain or test character, qualification or the like

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n. submittal definition (a) a presentation; proposition; offer

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n. adhesion definition (b) the state of being attached or joined

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n. gosling definition (b) a young goose

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n. chastity definition (b) sexual or moral purity

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adj. jocose definition (a) done or made in jest

A10 n. lexicographer definition (d) person who makes dictionaries

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 243 (Answer Keys)

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v. contrive definition (a) to manage or carry through by some device or scheme

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v. compensate definition (a) to remunerate

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v. perceive definition (a) to have knowledge of or receive impressions concerning, through the medium of the body senses

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v. deceive definition (a) to mislead by or as by falsehood

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v. superadd definition (a) to to annex, as something extrinsic

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v. resent definition (a) to be indignant at, as an injury or insult

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v. collapse definition (a) to shrink, fall in or fail

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v. inundate definition (d) to fill with an overflowing abundance

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v. revise definition (c) to examine for the correction of errors or for the purpose of making changes

A10 v. discard definition (d) to reject

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 244 (Answer Keys)

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v. coddle definition (c) to treat as a baby or an invalid

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adj. cursive definition (a) writing in which the letters are joined together

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n. lithotype definition (b) in engraving, an etched stone surface for printing

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adj. invariable definition (d) unchangeable

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v. superheat definition (c) to make (a liquid) hot under pressure above its boiling point without vaporization

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v. upturn definition (a) to throw into confusion

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n. physiocracy definition (a) the doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth

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v. contort definition (b) to twist into a misshapen form

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n. modification definition (a) a change

A10 adj. precarious definition (b) perilous

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 245 (Answer Keys)

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adj. eleemosynary definition (b) pertaining to charity

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adj. fickle definition (c) unduly changeable in feeling, judgment or purpose

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adj. sedulous definition (a) persevering in effort or endeavor

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adj. unbearable definition (c) unendurable

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adj. inapprehensible definition (b) not to be understood

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adj. litigious definition (d) quarrelsome

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adj. canary definition (c) of a bright but delicate yellow

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adj. ponderous definition (d) unusually weighty or forcible

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adj. genteel definition (d) well-bred or refined

A10 adj. reverent definition (d) humble

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 246 (Answer Keys)

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n. physique definition (b) the structure of the body; form; build

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n. seance definition (a) a meeting of spirituals for consulting spirits

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n. avidity definition (c) greediness

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n. conservatory definition (d) an institution for instruction and training in music and declamation

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n. aberration definition (b) deviation from a right, customary or prescribed course

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n. frailty definition (b) liability to be broken or destroyed

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n. up-keep definition (b) maintenance

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n. submersion definition (a) the act of sinking until covered completely with water

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n. protection definition (b) preservation from harm, danger, annoyance or any other evil

A10 n. reaction definition (b) tendency towards a former or opposite state of things, as after reform, revolution or inflation

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 247 (Answer Keys)

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v. indict definition (d) to find and declare chargeable with crime

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v. philander definition (a) to play at courtship with a woman

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v. moralize definition (b) to render virtuous

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v. isolate definition (a) to separate from others of its kind

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v. enjoin definition (b) to command

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v. denominate definition (b) to give a name or epithet to

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v. aggrieve definition (b) to give grief or sorrow to

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v. intermit definition (d) to cause to cease temporarily

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v. invoke definition (b) to call on for assistance or protection

A10 v. assess definition (b) to determine the amount of (a tax or other sum to be paid)

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 248 (Answer Keys)

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n. editorial definition (d) an article presenting the opinion of the publishers

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adj. quarterly definition (b) occurring or made at intervals of three months

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n. came definition (b) a leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows

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n. kinsfolk definition (a) relatives

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adj. irrigant definition (b) serving to water lands by artificial means

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v. interpose definition (c) to come between other things or persons

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n. parentage definition (c) lineage; parenthood; state of being a father or mother

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v. retch definition (c) to make an effort to vomit

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adj. culinary definition (a) of or pertaining to cooking or the kitchen

A10 adj. devout definition (c) religious

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adj. gregarious definition (a) not habitually solitary or living alone

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adj. pestilent definition (a) having a malign influence or effect

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adj. urban definition (b) of or pertaining to or like a city

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adj. manlike definition (a) anthropoid; having masculine qualities

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adj. lifelike definition (d) realistic

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adj. undersized definition (d) smaller than usual

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adj. inextensible definition (a) of unchangeable length or area

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adj. prostrate definition (b) lying prone or with the head to the ground

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adj. negligible definition (b) transferable by assignment, endorsement or delivery

A10 adj. destitute definition (b) poverty-stricken

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 250 (Answer Keys)

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n. lieu definition (c) stead

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n. symmetry definition (a) relative proportion and harmony

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n. bronchitis definition (c) inflammation of the bronchial tubes

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n. presumption definition (b) something may be logically assumed to be true until disproved; supposition

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n. repartee definition (b) a ready, witty or apt reply

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n. similitude definition (c) likeness; resemblance; counterpart

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n. viscount definition (c) in England, a title of nobility, ranking fourth in the order of British peerage

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n. dishabille definition (a) undress or negligent attire

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n. coquette definition (a) a flirt

A10 n. genealogy definition (d) a list, in the order of succession, of ancestors and their descendants

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 251 (Answer Keys)

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v. rearrange definition (c) to reorganize; put in order again

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v. embody definition (d) to express, formulate or exemplify in a concrete, compact or visible form

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v. perspire definition (c) to excrete through the pores of the skin

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v. misapprehend definition (d) to misunderstand

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v. placate definition (a) to bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness

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v. aspire definition (c) to have an earnest desire, wish or longing, as for something high and good, not yet attained

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v. accommodate definition (c) to furnish something as a kindness or favor

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v. gladden definition (c) to make joyous

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v. abscond definition (a) to depart suddenly and secretly, as for the purpose of escaping arrest

A10 v. oscillate definition (b) to swing back and forth

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 252 (Answer Keys)

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adj. territorial definition (b) pertaining to the domain over which a sovereign state exercises jurisdiction

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v. overshadow definition (d) to cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison

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v. abrogate definition (a) to abolish; to repeal

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adj. omniscient definition (a) characterized by unlimited or infinite knowledge

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adj. rotary definition (c) turning around its axis, like a wheel or so constructed as to turn thus

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n. micrometer definition (c) an instrument for measuring very small angles or dimensions

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n. repulse definition (b) the act of beating or driving back, as an attacking or advancing enemy

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n. malcontent definition (b) one who is dissatisfied with the existing state of affairs

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n. coalition definition (d) combination in a body or mass

A10 adj. broadcast definition (c) disseminated far and wide

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adj. antislavery definition (a) opposed to human servitude

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adj. irate definition (c) moved to anger

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adj. accessible definition (b) approachable

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adj. ineffable definition (a) unutterable

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adj. baritone definition (d) having a register higher than bass and lower than tenor

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adj. rebellious definition (a) insubordinate

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adj. drowsy definition (b) heavy with sleepiness

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adj. impulsive definition (b) unpremeditated

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adj. lurid definition (d) ghastly and sensational

A10 adj. psychopathic definition (d) morally irresponsible

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n. casualty definition (b) a fatal or serious accident or disaster

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n. flora definition (c) the aggregate of plants growing without cultivation in a district

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n. assassination definition (a) murderer, as by secret assault or treachery

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n. cohesion definition (c) consistency

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n. literacy definition (d) the state or condition of knowing how to read and write

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n. zeitgeist definition (a) the intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch

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n. descent definition (d) the act of moving or going downward

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n. panoply definition (a) a full set of armor

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adj. jovial definition (a) merry

A10 n. instant definition (c) a very brief portion of time

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v. confer definition (b) to bestow

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v. seize definition (a) to catch or take hold of suddenly and forcibly

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v. relent definition (b) to yield

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v. demonstrate definition (b) to prove indubitably

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v. connote definition (a) to mean; to signify

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v. denote definition (d) to designate by word or mark

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v. sympathize definition (d) to share the sentiments or mental states of another

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v. besmear definition (b) to sabase; defile; dirty; sully

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v. evade definition (b) to avoid by artifice

A10 v. scintillate definition (b) to emit or send forth sparks or little flashes of light

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adj. despicable definition (d) contemptible

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n. tincture definition (d) a solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine

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adj. solvent definition (c) having sufficient funds to pay all debts

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v. fondle definition (d) to handle tenderly and lovingly

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n. theologian definition (d) a professor of divinity

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n. caret definition (a) a sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted

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n. neocracy definition (a) government administered by new or untried persons

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n. leniency definition (d) forbearance

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n. facility definition (a) ease

A10 n. evasion definition (b) escape

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adj. exorbitant definition (b) going beyond usual and proper limits

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adj. akin definition (d) of similar nature or qualities

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adj. heterodox definition (b) at variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion

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adj. comparable definition (b) fit to be compared

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adj. incongruous definition (b) unsuitable for the time, place or occasion

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adj. recessive definition (c) having a tendency to go back

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adj. immiscible definition (c) separating, as oil and water

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adj. ebullient definition (b) showing enthusiasm or exhilaration of feeling

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adj. inscrutable definition (a) impenetrably mysterious or profound

A10 adj. sonorous definition (b) resonant

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n. liqueur definition (b) an alcoholic cordial sweetened and flavored with aromatic substances

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n. archbishop definition (c) the chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and Anglican church

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n. insurgence definition (b) uprising

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n. doublet definition (c) one of a pair of like things

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n. menagerie definition (d) a collection of wild animals, especially when kept for exhibition

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n. knickknack definition (a) a small article, more for ornament that use

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n. secretary definition (b) person who attends to correspondence, keeps records or does other writing for others

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n. appellation definition (c) the name or title by which a particular person, class or thing is called

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n. arboretum definition (c) a botanical garden or place devoted to the cultivation of trees or shrubs

A10 n. prosody definition (a) the science of poetical forms

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v. temporize definition (b) to pursue a policy of delay

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v. postdate definition (a) to inscribe with a future point of time

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v. enthrall definition (b) to bring or hold under any overmastering influence

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v. exhilarate definition (d) to fill with high or cheerful spirits

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v. endear definition (b) to cause to be loved

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v. retrench definition (b) to cut down or reduce in extent or quantity

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v. discipline definition (d) to train to obedience

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v. foretell definition (c) to predict

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n. archetype definition (d) model; pattern

A10 v. mitigate definition (d) to make milder or more endurable

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n. witling definition (b) a person who has little understanding

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n. mannerism definition (c) mode of behavior; particular way of acting; affectation; pretension

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n. batter definition (b) a thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together, to be used in cookery

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n. speculator definition (c) one who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss but also a chance of profit

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adv. proximately definition (c) immediately

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n. deist definition (a) person who believes in God but denies supernatural revelation

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adj. second-rate definition (c) alternate; other; additional; subordinate

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n. monstrosity definition (d) anything unnaturally huge or distorted

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n. acumen definition (d) quickness of intellectual insight or discernment; keenness of discrimination

A10 adj. dutiful definition (b) obedient

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adj. anesthetic definition (a) pertaining to or producing loss of sensation

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adj. indelible definition (a) that can not be blotted out, effaced, destroyed or removed

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adj. tremulous definition (b) characterized by quivering or unsteadiness

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adj. mordant definition (c) biting

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adj. unbecoming definition (d) unsuited to the wearer, place or surroundings

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adj. corruptible definition (d) open to bribery

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adj. workmanlike definition (c) well-performed; skillful

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adj. saline definition (a) constituting or consisting of salt

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adj. ambiguous definition (c) having a double meaning

A10 adj. rustic definition (d) characteristic of dwelling in the country

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n. campaign definition (a) a complete series of connected military operations

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n. miter definition (c) the junction of two bodies at an equally divided angle

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n. mythology definition (c) the whole body of legends cherished by a race concerning gods and heroes

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n. bight definition (b) a slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coast-line

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n. diagnosis definition (d) determination of the distinctive nature of a disease

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n. kingling definition (b) a petty male monarch

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n. redundance definition (b) excess

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n. perusal definition (c) the act of reading carefully or thoughtfully

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n. demise definition (d) death

A10 n. prescience definition (b) knowledge of events before they take place

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v. accompany definition (c) to go with or be associated with, as a companion

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v. browbeat definition (a) to overwhelm or attempt to do so, by stern, haughty or rude address or manner

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v. liquidate definition (b) to deliver the amount or value of

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v. fumigate definition (b) to subject to the action of smoke or fumes, especially for disinfection

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v. diagnose definition (d) to distinguish, as a disease, by its characteristic phenomena

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v. query definition (c) to make inquiry

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v. bethink definition (a) to remind oneself

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v. lacerate definition (a) to tear rudely or raggedly

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v. pique definition (a) to excite a slight degree of anger in

A10 v. procrastinate definition (d) to put off till tomorrow or till a future time

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v. antiquate definition (c) to make old or out of date

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n. chronometer definition (c) a portable timekeeper of the highest attainable precision

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n. lapse definition (a) a slight deviation from what is right, proper or just

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adj. inevitable definition (a) unavoidable; inescapable; certain; sure to happen

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n. maze definition (b) a labyrinth

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n. antiquary definition (c) one who collects and examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc

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n. investor definition (c) person who puts money into a particular project or fund with the intention of gaining a profit

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adj. underexposed definition (a) given too little light to a piece of photographic film when taking a photograph

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n. sustenance definition (a) food

A10 v. betroth definition (a) to engage to marry

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adj. amatory definition (d) designed to excite love

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adj. illicit definition (a) unlawful

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adj. punctilious definition (a) strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom

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adj. furtive definition (d) stealthy or sly, like the actions of a thief

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adj. sterling definition (c) genuine

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adj. inborn definition (d) implanted by nature

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n. commissariat definition (b) the department of an army charged with the provision of its food and water and daily needs

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adj. incontrovertible definition (c) indisputable

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adj. truculent definition (b) having the character or the spirit of a savage

A10 adj. lucrative definition (a) highly profitable

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n. thermoelectricity definition (d) the Seebeck effect

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n. ingratitude definition (c) insensibility to kindness

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n. rivulet definition (c) a small stream or brook

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n. gestation definition (b) pregnancy

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n. salience definition (d) the condition of standing out distinctly

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n. solder definition (b) a fusible alloy used for joining metallic surfaces or margins

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n. milky way definition (c) the galaxy

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n. ode definition (a) the form of lyric poetry anciently intended to be sung

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n. jargon definition (b) confused, unintelligible speech or highly technical speech

A10 n. poignancy definition (c) severity or acuteness, especially of pain or grief

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v. secede definition (b) to withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body

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v. parse definition (b) to describe, as a sentence, by separating it into its elements and describing each word

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v. counterbalance definition (b) to oppose with an equal force

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v. estrange definition (d) to alienate

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v. cant definition (c) to talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity

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v. affect definition (a) to act upon

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n. transience definition (a) something that is of short duration

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v. surmise definition (a) to conjecture

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v. proceed definition (c) to renew motion or action, as after rest or interruption

A10 v. prevaricate definition (a) to use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention

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n. biology definition (b) the science of life or living organisms

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n. percipience definition (d) comprehension; insight

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adj. evanescent definition (c) fleeting

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n. testator definition (b) the maker of a will

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n. sequence definition (d) the order in which a number or persons, things or events follow one another in space or time

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adj. impracticable definition (c) not feasible

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v. eradicate definition (a) to destroy thoroughly

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v. muddle definition (d) to confuse or becloud

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v. contaminate definition (c) to pollute

A10 v. obtrude definition (c) to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence

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adj. literal definition (b) following the exact words

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adj. intolerant definition (d) bigoted

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adj. dissolute definition (b) lewd

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adj. indigent definition (c) poor

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adj. puissant definition (b) possessing strength

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adj. eatable definition (b) edible

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adj. symphonic definition (a) characterized by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds

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adj. fungible definition (a) that may be measured, counted or weighed

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v. relapse definition (a) to suffer a return of a disease after partial recovery

A10 adj. parsimonious definition (c) unduly sparing in the use or expenditure of money

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n. prudery definition (a) an undue display of modesty or delicacy

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n. barcarole definition (c) a boat-song of Venetian gondoliers

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n. radix definition (a) that from or on which something is developed

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n. execration definition (c) an accursed thing

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n. proctor definition (b) an agent acting for another

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n. outrigger definition (c) a part built or arranged to project beyond a natural outline for support

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n. perversity definition (b) wickedness

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n. requital definition (d) adequate return for good or ill

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n. mentor definition (d) a wise and faithful teacher, guide and friend

A10 n. caption definition (c) a heading, as of a chapter, section, document, etc

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v. empower definition (a) to delegate authority to

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v. concur definition (c) to agree

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v. bolster definition (d) to support, as something wrong

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v. rebuild definition (b) to reconstruct; erect again

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v. misplace definition (a) to put something in a wrong position

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v. frizzle definition (c) to cause to crinkle or curl, as the hair

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v. purl definition (c) to cause to whirl, as in an eddy

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v. intrude definition (b) to come in without leave or license

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v. acquiesce definition (a) to comply; to submit

A10 v. abstain definition (a) to keep oneself back (from doing or using something)

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adj. advisory definition (d) not mandatory

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adj. vocative definition (a) of or pertaining to the act of calling

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n. moat definition (b) a ditch on the outside of a fortress wall

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adv. perhaps definition (d) possibly

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n. rationalism definition (a) the formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority

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v. tranquilize definition (b) to soothe

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n. archaism definition (b) obsolescence

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n. onus definition (c) a burden or responsibility

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v. elicit definition (b) to educe or extract gradually or without violence

A10 n. pedagogue definition (c) a schoolmaster

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adj. coagulant definition (d) producing coagulation

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adj. pellucid definition (a) translucent

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adj. theological definition (a) based on or growing out of divine revelation

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adj. inconstant definition (b) changeable

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adj. foggy definition (c) obscure

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n. foppery definition (a) dandyism

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v. remodel definition (b) to reconstruct

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adj. pristine definition (c) ancient; pure; immaculate; unrefined; unpolluted

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adj. tractable definition (a) easily led or controlled

A10 adj. excellent definition (c) possessing distinguished merit

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n. paternity definition (c) fatherhood

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n. bomb definition (d) a hollow projectile containing an explosive material

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n. flue definition (a) a smoke-duct in a chimney

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n. archipelago definition (c) any large body of water studded with islands or the islands collectively themselves

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n. masterpiece definition (c) a superior production

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n. accuracy definition (c) exactness; preciseness

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n. estuary definition (d) a wide lower part of a tidal river

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n. gastronomy definition (c) the art of preparing and serving appetizing food

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n. forte definition (b) a strong point

A10 n. stratum definition (d) a natural or artificial layer, bed or thickness of any substance or material

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adj. gastric definition (a) of, pertaining to or near the stomach

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n. dogma definition (a) a statement of religious faith or duty formulated by a body claiming authority

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adj. unwise definition (b) foolish

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n. temerity definition (c) recklessness

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adj. seditious definition (c) promotive of conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state

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adj. autumnal definition (d) of or pertaining to the fall

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adj. antarctic definition (c) pertaining to the south pole or the regions near it

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adj. legitimate definition (a) having the sanction of law or established custom

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n. fledgling definition (c) a young bird

A10 adj. cosmopolitan definition (c) common to all the world

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adj. guileless definition (a) frank

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adj. pious definition (d) religious

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adj. carnal definition (d) sensual

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adj. obdurate definition (b) impassive to feelings of humanity or pity

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adj. incomplete definition (c) lacking some element, part or adjunct necessary or required

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adj. indivertible definition (c) that can not be turned aside

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adj. ocular definition (c) of or pertaining to the eye

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adj. nocturnal definition (a) of or pertaining to the night

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adj. objective definition (a) grasping and representing facts as they are

A10 adj. obsolete definition (c) no longer practiced or accepted

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n. felon definition (b) a criminal or depraved person

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n. distinction definition (b) a note or designation of honor, officially recognizing superiority or success in studies

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n. blaze definition (d) a vivid glowing flame

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n. dialogue definition (d) a formal conversation in which two or more take part

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n. accomplice definition (b) an associate in wrong-doing

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n. pharmacy definition (b) the art or business of compounding and dispensing medicines

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n. contradiction definition (b) the assertion of the opposite of that which has been said

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n. nonchalance definition (a) a state of mind indicating lack of interest

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n. fancier definition (c) one having a taste for or interest in special objects

A10 n. amity definition (a) friendship

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n. patrimony definition (c) an inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father

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n. self-respect definition (a) belief in your own worth and dignity

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n. embolism definition (c) an obstruction or plugging up of an artery or other blood-vessel

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adj. dutiable definition (b) taxable

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v. hackney definition (a) to make stale or trite by repetition

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v. nauseate definition (a) to cause to loathe

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n. depositor definition (a) person who places in trust

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v. underman definition (c) to equip with less than the full complement of men

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n. aggression definition (a) an unprovoked attack

A10 v. commission definition (a) to empower

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adj. penurious definition (a) excessively sparing in the use of money

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adj. volitive definition (c) exercising the will

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adj. imperceptible definition (d) indiscernible

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adj. tyrannical definition (a) despotic

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adj. positive definition (c) free from doubt or hesitation

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adj. felonious definition (a) showing criminal or evil purpose

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v. betide definition (b) to happen to or befall

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adj. nautical definition (c) pertaining to ships, seamen or navigation

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adj. opulent definition (d) wealthy

A10 adj. astringent definition (c) harsh in disposition or character

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n. righteousness definition (d) rectitude

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n. diplomacy definition (d) tact, shrewdness or skill in conducting any kind of negotiations or in social matters

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n. guy definition (d) stay-rope

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n. harbinger definition (d) person who or that which foreruns and announces the coming of any person or thing

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n. sensorium definition (d) the brain area that responds to stimuli

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n. crevasse definition (d) a deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier

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n. monarchy definition (a) government by a single, sovereign ruler

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n. commentary definition (a) a series of illustrative or explanatory notes on any important work

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n. panic definition (a) a sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear

A10 n. nationality definition (c) citizenship

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n. brokerage definition (d) the business of making sales and purchases for a commission

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n. folio definition (c) a sheet of paper folded once

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adj. respondent definition (b) answering

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adj. acoustic definition (d) pertaining to the act or sense of hearing

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n. parricide definition (b) the murder of a parent

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n. horde definition (c) a gathered multitude of human beings

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n. grief definition (d) sorrow

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adj. statuesque definition (d) attractively tall, graceful, and dignified

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n. vigilance definition (d) alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger

A10 n. percussion definition (c) the sharp striking of one body against another

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adj. colloquial definition (c) pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary

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adj. undue definition (a) more than sufficient

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adj. legislative definition (b) that makes or enacts laws

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adj. plebeian definition (b) common

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adj. unaccountable definition (b) inexplicable

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adj. bass definition (c) low in tone or compass

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n. man-eater definition (a) a cannibal; femme fatale

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adj. austere definition (a) severely simple; unadorned

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adj. preposterous definition (a) utterly ridiculous or absurd

A10 adj. oblique definition (c) slanting; said of lines

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n. phosphorescence definition (b) the property of emitting light

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n. pentameter definition (a) in prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet

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n. hanger-on definition (c) a parasite

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n. verification definition (d) the act of proving to be true, exact or accurate

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n. lingo definition (c) language used by a certain group or class of people

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n. gourd definition (b) a fleshy fruit; trailing or climbing plant which bears this fruit

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n. calorie definition (a) amount of heat needed to raise the temperature of 1 kilogram of water 1 degree centigrade

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n. buffoonery definition (b) low drollery, coarse jokes, etc

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n. connoisseur definition (d) a critical judge of art, especially one with thorough knowledge and sound judgment of art

A10 n. encomium definition (b) a formal or discriminating expression of praise

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n. dentifrice definition (d) any preparation used for cleaning the teeth

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adj. luscious definition (b) rich, sweet, and delicious

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n. clan definition (d) a tribe

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n. henchman definition (d) a servile assistant and subordinate

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adj. operative definition (d) in working order; valid; influential; important; surgical; efficient

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adj. visual definition (b) perceptible by sight

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n. overweight definition (d) preponderance

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n. solicitude definition (b) uneasiness of mind occasioned by desire, anxiety or fear

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n. testimonial definition (a) a formal token of regard, often presented in public

A10 adj. iridescent definition (a) exhibiting changing rainbow-colors due to the interference of the light

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adj. deleterious definition (d) hurtful, morally or physically

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adj. massive definition (a) of considerable bulk and weight

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adj. neuter definition (c) neither masculine nor feminine

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adj. auricular definition (b) of or pertaining to the ear or the sense of hearing

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adj. impotent definition (b) destitute of or lacking in power, physical, moral or intellectual

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adj. immovable definition (b) steadfast

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adj. out-of-the-way definition (d) remotely situated

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adj. prehensible definition (d) capable of being grasped

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adj. neophyte definition (c) having the character of a beginner

A10 adj. benign definition (c) good and kind of heart

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n. virtuoso definition (b) a master in the technique of some particular fine art

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n. resumption definition (c) the act of taking back or taking again

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n. excerpt definition (c) an extract or selection from written or printed matter

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n. pantheon definition (c) a circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof

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n. drudgery definition (c) hard and constant work in any menial or dull occupation

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n. duet definition (a) a composition for two voices or instruments

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n. bridle definition (b) the head-harness of a horse consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and the reins

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n. macrocosm definition (c) the whole of any sphere or department of nature or knowledge to which man is related

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adj. adherent definition (d) clinging or sticking fast

A10 n. inference definition (b) the derivation of a judgment from any given material of knowledge on the ground of law

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n. fervor definition (b) ardor or intensity of feeling

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v. retrieve definition (c) to recover something by searching

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n. anemometer definition (c) an instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind

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n. philanthropist definition (c) person who endeavors to help his fellow men

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n. avalanche definition (d) the fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock

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adj. ruminant definition (c) chewing the cud

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n. boatswain definition (d) a subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc

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adj. predominant definition (c) superior in power, influence, effectiveness, number or degree

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v. accost definition (d) to speak to

A10 adj. bilateral definition (c) two-sided

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adj. tortious definition (a) wrongful

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adj. lax definition (d) not stringent or energetic

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adj. analogous definition (b) corresponding (to some other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion or relations

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adj. effectual definition (b) efficient

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adj. quarrelsome definition (d) irascible

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adj. translucent definition (a) allowing the passage of light

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adj. irresponsible definition (b) careless of or unable to meet responsibilities

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adj. melodious definition (b) characterized by a sweet succession of sounds

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adj. niggardly definition (a) stingy (no longer acceptable to use)

A10 adj. casual definition (a) accidental; by chance

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n. resemblance definition (d) similarity in quality or form

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n. aide-de-camp definition (c) an officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general

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n. forecastle definition (b) deck of a ship located near the bow

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n. mead definition (b) an alcoholic liquor made of fermented honey and water; any of various nonalcoholic drinks

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n. exterior definition (a) that which is outside

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n. archdeacon definition (d) a high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese

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n. extremity definition (d) the utmost point, side or border; something that is the farthest removed from a mean position

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n. coronet definition (c) inferior crown denoting, according to its form, various degrees of noble rank less than sovereign

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adj. averse definition (d) reluctant

A10 n. veracity definition (d) truthfulness

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n. alley definition (b) a narrow street, garden path, walk or the like

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n. spheroid definition (b) a geometrical figure

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n. distrust definition (c) lack of confidence in the power, wisdom or good intent of any person

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adj. collapsible definition (a) that may or can collapse

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n. incipience definition (c) beginning

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n. brigadier definition (d) general officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general

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adj. intramural definition (d) situated within the walls of a city

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v. dissemble definition (c) to hide by pretending something different

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adj. competent definition (d) qualified

A10 adj. conscientious definition (d) governed by moral standard

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adj. conducive definition (a) contributing to an end

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adj. deplorable definition (c) contemptible

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adj. oblong definition (c) longer than broad: applied most commonly to rectangular objects considerably elongated

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adj. antemundane definition (a) pertaining to time before the world's creation

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adj. bleak definition (b) desolate

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adj. misty definition (d) hazy; foggy; vague; obscure

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adj. insignificant definition (b) without importance, force or influence

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adj. lateral definition (d) directed toward the side

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adj. substantive definition (a) solid

A10 adj. apostate definition (b) false

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n. lingua definition (d) the tongue

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n. ally definition (a) a person or thing is united in a relationship with another

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n. day-man definition (a) a laborer who changes jobs frequently

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n. grotto definition (c) a small cavern

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n. intestacy definition (d) the condition resulting from one's dying not having made a valid will

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n. matter of fact definition (b) something that has actual and undeniable existence or reality

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n. preferment definition (b) a raise in rank; promotion; appointment; fondness; affinity

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n. transferee definition (d) a person who is moved or directed

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v. exclude definition (c) to shut out purposely or forcibly

A10 adj. cardiac definition (c) pertaining to the heart

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v. undermine definition (c) to slowly weaken or injure; sabotage; subvert

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n. supposition definition (b) conjecture

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adj. hydraulic definition (d) involving the moving of water, of the force exerted by water in motion

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adj. tireless definition (d) untiring

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v. reconnoiter definition (a) to make a preliminary examination of for military, surveying or geological purposes

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adj. metric definition (a) relating to measurement

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n. disfavor definition (c) disregard

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n. quay definition (b) a wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it

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n. infamy definition (b) total loss or destitution of honor or reputation

A10 adj. assiduous definition (d) diligent

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adj. likely definition (d) plausible; reasonable; probable; possible; appropriate; promising

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adj. tremendous definition (b) awe-inspiring

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adj. inverse definition (b) contrary in tendency or direction

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adj. studious definition (b) having or showing devotion to the acquisition of knowledge

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adj. locative definition (b) indicating place or the place where or wherein an action occurs

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adj. inopportune definition (b) unsuitable or inconvenient, especially as to time

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n. trimness definition (b) order; neatness

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adj. veracious definition (c) habitually disposed to speak the truth

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adj. redoubtable definition (a) formidable

A10 adj. puerile definition (c) childish

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n. polyhedron definition (a) a solid bounded by plane faces, especially by more than four

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n. peccadillo definition (a) a small breach of propriety or principle

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n. onrush definition (d) flow

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n. transferrer definition (a) one who or that which conveys from one person or place to another

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n. amplitude definition (d) largeness

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n. wampum definition (b) beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency

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n. ministration definition (a) any religious ceremonial

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n. acquisition definition (c) anything gained or made one's own, usually by effort or labor

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n. clearance definition (d) a certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail

A10 n. cranium definition (a) the skull of an animal, especially that part enclosing the brain

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adj. superfluous definition (c) being more than is needed

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n. quarter definition (b) one of four equal parts into which anything is or may be divided

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v. encourage definition (b) to support; to inspire; to give hope

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n. emblem definition (c) a symbol

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v. rejoin definition (a) to reunite after separation

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adj. compressible definition (b) capable of being pressed into smaller compass

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adj. martian definition (a) pertaining to Mars, either the Roman god of war or the planet

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n. thesis definition (d) an essay or treatise on a particular subject

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adj. crustacean definition (a) pertaining to a division of arthropods, containing lobsters, crabs, crawfish, etc

A10 n. oblivion definition (c) the state of having passed out of the memory or of being utterly forgotten

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 297 (Answer Keys)

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adj. intelligible definition (a) comprehensible

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adj. fundamental definition (c) basal

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adj. heedless definition (c) unmindful; oblivious; rash

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adj. adjutant definition (d) auxiliary

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adj. bodily definition (b) corporeal

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adj. complaisant definition (b) agreeable

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adj. unnatural definition (c) artificial

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adj. mendacious definition (d) untrue

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adj. compliant definition (c) yielding

A10 adj. illusory definition (b) deceiving or tending to deceive, as by false appearance

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n. introgression definition (b) entrance

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n. proletarian definition (b) a person of the lowest or poorest class

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n. lunatic definition (d) an insane person

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n. aspiration definition (c) an earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach

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n. instigator definition (a) person who incites to evil

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n. photometry definition (c) the art of measuring the intensity of light

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n. crevice definition (b) a small fissure, as between two contiguous surfaces

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n. gendarme definition (c) in continental Europe, particularly in France, a uniformed and armed police officer

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n. unanimity definition (a) the state or quality of being of one mind

A10 n. palette definition (d) a thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting

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n. levee definition (c) an embankment beside a river or stream or an arm of the sea, to prevent overflow

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adj. fluent definition (b) having a ready or easy flow of words or ideas

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n. petulance definition (b) the character or condition of being impatient, capricious or petulant

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adj. despondent definition (d) disheartened

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n. vacuum definition (c) a space entirely devoid of matter

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v. enfeeble definition (a) to debilitate

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v. visualize definition (c) to give pictorial vividness to a mental representation

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adj. spartan definition (a) exceptionally brave; rigorously severe

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v. permeate definition (d) to pervade

A10 v. supplant definition (a) to take the place of

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adj. observant definition (b) quick to notice

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adj. rightful definition (b) conformed to a just claim according to established laws or usage

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adj. illiberal definition (c) stingy

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adj. inadvertent definition (c) accidental

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adj. itinerant definition (d) wandering

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adj. intermediate definition (a) being in a middle place or degree or between extremes

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n. metaphysician definition (b) a philosopher who investigates the essence of the world and of reality

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adj. cynical definition (d) exhibiting moral skepticism

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adj. explicit definition (a) definite

A10 adj. diverse definition (d) capable of various forms

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n. garrison definition (d) the military force stationed in a fort, town or other place for its defense

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n. vitality definition (c) the state or quality of being necessary to existence or continuance

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n. munificence definition (d) a giving characterized by generous motives and extraordinary liberality

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n. artesian well definition (c) a water hole drilled through impermeable strata

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n. opportunity definition (a) favorable or advantageous chance or opening

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n. landlord definition (c) a man who owns and lets a tenement or tenements

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n. nebula definition (a) a gaseous body of unorganized stellar substance

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n. literature definition (a) the written or printed productions of the human mind collectively

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n. innuendo definition (c) insinuation

A10 n. metaphor definition (d) a figure of speech in which one object is likened to another by speaking as if the other

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n. coalescence definition (d) the act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination or product

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n. hernia definition (b) protrusion of any internal organ in whole or in part from its normal position

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adj. effervescent definition (b) giving off bubbles of gas

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v. impersonate definition (a) to appear or act in the character of

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n. quintet definition (d) musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments

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n. phonogram definition (a) a graphic character symbolizing an articulate sound

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n. canaanite definition (c) a member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the Promised Land or western Palestine

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n. irony definition (b) censure or ridicule under cover of praise or compliment

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adj. inept definition (c) not fit or suitable

A10 n. homage definition (b) reverential regard or worship

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adj. declamatory definition (c) a full and formal style of utterance

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adj. recurrent definition (d) returning from time to time, especially at regular or stated intervals

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adj. lacteal definition (d) milky

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adj. temporary definition (c) lasting for a short time only

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adj. affirmative definition (a) answering yes; to a question at issue

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adj. marine definition (c) of or pertaining to the sea or matters connected with the sea

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adj. abundant definition (d) plentiful

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adj. juvenile definition (d) characteristic of youth

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adj. primitive definition (c) pertaining to the beginning or early times

A10 adj. venial definition (d) that may be pardoned or forgiven; a forgivable sin

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n. epicure definition (c) person who cultivates a delicate taste for eating and drinking

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n. introversion definition (b) the act of turning or directing inward, physically or mentally

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n. rigmarole definition (b) nonsense

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n. retrospect definition (c) a view or contemplation of something past

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n. submission definition (d) a yielding to the power or authority of another

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n. incapacity definition (d) want of power to apprehend, understand, and manage

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n. protomartyr definition (c) the earliest victim in any cause

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n. tenure definition (b) the term during which a thing is held

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n. satire definition (d) the employment of sarcasm, irony or keenness of wit in ridiculing vices

A10 n. beatitude definition (a) any state of great happiness

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adj. lactic definition (c) pertaining to milk

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v. bemoan definition (d) to lament

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n. oddity definition (a) an eccentricity

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adj. peninsular definition (a) pertaining to a piece of land almost surrounded by water

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adj. derelict definition (c) neglectful of obligation

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n. observatory definition (a) an astronomical viewing place

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adj. supercilious definition (b) exhibiting haughty and careless contempt

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v. misinterpret definition (a) to explain or understand incorrectly

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adj. corporeal definition (b) of a material nature; physical

A10 v. appraise definition (b) to estimate the money value of

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 306 (Answer Keys)

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adj. conclusive definition (a) sufficient to convince or decide

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adj. egregious definition (b) extreme

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adj. disciplinary definition (a) having the nature of systematic training or subjection to authority

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adj. spontaneous definition (c) arising from inherent qualities or tendencies without external efficient cause

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adj. picayune definition (b) worthless; cheap; low in value; trivial

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adj. anhydrous definition (a) withered

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adj. shiftless definition (b) wanting in resource, energy or executive ability

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adj. antique definition (c) pertaining to ancient times

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adj. stagnant definition (b) not flowing: said of water, as in a pool

A10 adj. sinister definition (d) evil

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 307 (Answer Keys)

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n. brotherhood definition (b) spiritual or social fellowship or solidarity

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n. finesse definition (b) subtle contrivance used to gain a point

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n. homogeneity definition (d) congruity of the members or elements or parts

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n. frigidarium definition (b) a room kept at a low temperature for preserving fruits, meat, etc

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n. invasion definition (d) encroachment, as by an act of intrusion or trespass

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n. precipice definition (c) a high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff

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n. exclamation definition (c) an abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling

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n. distiller definition (d) purifier; person or company that makes alcoholic beverages

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n. clangor definition (b) clanking or a ringing, as of arms, chains or bells; clamor

A10 n. epiphany definition (a) a religious holiday celebrated on January 6 to commemorate the visit of the wise men to Bethlehem (Christianity)

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n. constellation definition (c) an arbitrary assemblage or group of stars

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adj. ardent definition (b) burning with passion

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n. conferee definition (d) receiver of a degree; one who is granted something

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n. lyre definition (c) one of the most ancient of stringed instruments of the harp class

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adj. deponent definition (a) laying down

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n. clemency definition (d) mercy

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n. pauperism definition (b) dependence on charity

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n. imitator definition (c) one who makes in imitation

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adj. facile definition (c) not difficult to do

A10 adj. fatuous definition (a) idiotic

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adj. non-resident definition (a) not residing within a given jurisdiction

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adj. comparative definition (b) relative

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adj. paly definition (c) lacking color or brilliancy

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adj. juicy definition (d) succulent

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adj. triplicate definition (c) composed of or pertaining to three related things or parts

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adj. unfavorable definition (d) adverse

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adj. poetic definition (c) lyrical

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adj. inquisitive definition (c) given to questioning, especially out of curiosity

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adj. lithe definition (a) supple

A10 adj. carnivorous definition (b) eating or living on flesh

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 310 (Answer Keys)

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n. vivisection definition (d) the dissection of a living animal

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n. alcoholism definition (b) a condition resulting from the inordinate or persistent use of alcoholic beverages

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n. judiciary definition (b) that department of government which administers the law

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n. accessory definition (c) a person or thing that aids the principal agent

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n. mountaineer definition (d) somebody who climbs for sport

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n. glimpse definition (b) a momentary look

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n. chronology definition (d) the science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events

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n. altar definition (c) any raised place or structure on which sacrifices may be offered or incense burned

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n. fixture definition (c) one who or that which is expected to remain permanently in its position

A10 n. intention definition (c) something upon which the mind is set; goal; plan; purpose

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adj. ultramundane definition (c) pertaining to supernatural things or to another life

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n. utmost definition (b) the greatest possible extent

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v. contemplate definition (a) to consider thoughtfully

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v. vegetate definition (c) to live in a monotonous, passive way without exercise of the mental faculties

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v. assent definition (d) to express agreement with a statement or matter of opinion

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v. singe definition (b) to burn slightly or superficially

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adj. subterranean definition (b) situated or occurring below the surface of the earth

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n. microscope definition (b) an instrument for assisting the eye in the vision of minute objects or features of objects

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n. potentate definition (a) person who possesses great power or sway; person with great authority

A10 n. foliage definition (d) any growth of leaves

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 312 (Answer Keys)

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adj. correlative definition (d) mutually involving or implying one another

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adj. desperate definition (b) resorted to in a last extremity or as if prompted by utter despair

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adj. irritable definition (d) showing impatience or ill temper on little provocation

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adj. malevolent definition (a) wishing evil to others

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adj. imperious definition (c) insisting on obedience

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adj. pitiless definition (c) hard-hearted

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adj. sextuple definition (c) multiplied by six

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adj. sacrificial definition (a) offering or offered as an atonement for sin

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adj. inert definition (d) inanimate

A10 adj. partisan definition (c) siding with a specific group or cause; devoted; zealously supportive; biased

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n. litigant definition (c) a party to a lawsuit

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n. dyne definition (b) measurement of force

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n. dominance definition (c) ascendancy

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n. variant definition (c) a thing that differs from another in form only, being the same in essence or substance

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n. honorarium definition (b) a token fee or payment to a professional man for services

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n. resistance definition (d) the exertion of opposite effort or effect

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n. termination definition (d) the act of ending or concluding

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n. skeptic definition (c) one who doubts any statements

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n. protuberance definition (c) something that swells out from a surrounding surface

A10 n. impromptu definition (c) anything done or said on the impulse of the moment

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n. granule definition (d) a small grain or particle

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adj. expeditious definition (b) speedy

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v. participate definition (a) to be involved; join in

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v. proscribe definition (b) to reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation

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n. oratory definition (c) the art of public speaking

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n. loam definition (b) a non-coherent mixture of sand and clay

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v. elude definition (d) to evade the search or pursuit of by dexterity or artifice

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adv. incidentally definition (d) without intention

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adj. capacious definition (b) roomy

A10 adj. metropolitan definition (d) pertaining to a chief city

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adj. precise definition (b) exact

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adj. peevish definition (c) petulant (irritable)

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adj. perfectible definition (b) able to be improved; able to be refined

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adj. submersible definition (a) capable of being put underwater

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adj. treacherous definition (d) perfidious

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adj. protective definition (d) sheltering

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adj. regretful definition (d) sorrowful; anguished; remorseful

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adj. sordid definition (d) of degraded character or nature

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adj. germane definition (c) relevant

A10 adj. dolorous definition (b) expressing or causing sorrow or pain

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n. glimmer definition (c) sparkle; flicker; faint light; gleam

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n. millet definition (a) a grass cultivated for forage and cereal

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n. reprobate definition (a) one abandoned to depravity and sin

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n. proviso definition (b) a clause in a contract, will, etc., by which its operation is rendered conditional

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n. egotist definition (d) one given to self-mention or who is constantly telling of his own views and experiences

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n. foot-note definition (a) reference or comment at the bottom of a page or end of a chapter

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n. posterior definition (b) the hinder part

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n. pedal definition (d) a lever for the foot usually applied only to musical instruments, cycles and other machines

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n. dissection definition (b) the act or operation of cutting in pieces, specifically of a plant or an animal

A10 n. dissertation definition (c) thesis

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v. peddle definition (c) to go about with a small stock of goods to sell

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n. epode definition (b) a species of lyric poems

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adj. fragile definition (c) easily broken; capable of being broken

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n. theocracy definition (d) a government administered by ecclesiastics

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n. recognizance definition (d) an acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act

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n. dragnet definition (a) a trawl for trapping fish or small game; method by which someone or something is found or caught

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n. divinity definition (b) the quality or character of being godlike

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adj. neutral definition (d) belonging to or under control of neither of two contestants

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adj. errant definition (b) roving or wandering, as in search of adventure or opportunity for gallant deeds

A10 adj. intellectual definition (a) mental; rational; brilliant; academic

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adj. prehensile definition (d) adapted for grasping or holding

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adj. apprehensible definition (b) capable of being conceived

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adj. sophistical definition (d) fallacious

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adj. weak-kneed definition (a) without resolute purpose or energy

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adj. lingual definition (d) pertaining to the use of the tongue in utterance

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adj. choral definition (d) pertaining to, intended for or performed by a chorus or choir

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adj. rapt definition (b) engrossed; absorbed; fascinated; charmed; enchanted

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adj. prurient definition (c) inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires

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adj. magnanimous definition (c) generous in treating or judging others

A10 adj. adroit definition (a) having skill in the use of the bodily or mental powers

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n. vocable definition (b) a word, especially one regarded in relation merely to its qualities of sound

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n. donee definition (d) a person to whom a donation is made

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n. sensation definition (a) a condition of mind resulting from spiritual or inherent feeling

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n. lethargy definition (c) prolonged sluggishness of body or mind

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n. domesticity definition (a) life in or fondness for one's home and family

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n. tutelage definition (b) the act of training or the state of being under instruction

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n. rondo definition (b) a musical composition during which the first part or subject is repeated several times

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n. excursion definition (b) a journey

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adj. infinite definition (d) measureless

A10 n. caprice definition (b) a whim

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v. regenerate definition (a) to reproduce

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n. foolery definition (d) folly

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n. accompanist definition (a) person who joins or supports others

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n. discomfort definition (b) the state of being positively uncomfortable

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n. evangelist definition (c) a preacher who goes from place to place holding services

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n. involution definition (c) complication

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n. excellence definition (b) possession of eminently or unusually good qualities

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n. proscription definition (c) any act of condemnation and rejection from favor and privilege

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adj. giddy definition (b) affected with a whirling or swimming sensation in the head

A10 n. azure definition (c) the color of the sky

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adj. somber definition (c) gloomy

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adj. wizen-faced definition (b) looking old an shriveled

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adj. amorphous definition (d) without determinate shape

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adj. baconian definition (b) relating to, or characteristic of the works of a philosopher an English philosopher and statesman

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adj. promissory definition (a) expressing an engagement to pay

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adj. passive definition (d) unresponsive

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adj. contemptuous definition (c) disdainful

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adj. inaccessible definition (c) difficult of approach

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adj. insolent definition (c) impudent

A10 adj. indolent definition (a) habitually inactive or idle

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n. commitment definition (b) the act or process of entrusting or consigning for safe-keeping

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n. introspection definition (c) the act of observing and analyzing one's own thoughts and feelings

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n. feudalism definition (a) political and social system of medieval Europe

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n. entreaty definition (c) an earnest request

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n. comparison definition (a) examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness

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n. lexicon definition (b) a dictionary

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n. liturgy definition (c) a ritual

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n. magnate definition (c) a person of rank or importance

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n. vagrant definition (a) an idle wanderer

A10 n. auxiliary definition (d) one who or that which aids or helps, especially when regarded as subsidiary or accessory

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n. anecdote definition (b) a brief account of some interesting event or incident

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n. tirade definition (d) harangue

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adj. conversant definition (c) thoroughly informed

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n. triplicity definition (c) the condition of existing in three identical copies

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n. nunnery definition (d) a convent

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v. embarrass definition (b) to render flustered or agitated

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adj. inglorious definition (d) shameful

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adj. palatial definition (d) magnificent

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v. beset definition (a) to attack on all sides

A10 adj. variable definition (b) having a tendency to change

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adj. tiresome definition (b) annoying; boring; wearisome

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adj. ornate definition (c) having excess decoration; showy; flamboyant; flowery or elaborate in literary style

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adj. acute definition (d) having fine and penetrating discernment

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adj. sidelong definition (c) indirect; oblique; not direct or straightforward

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adj. philharmonic definition (a) fond of music

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adj. boorish definition (b) rude

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adj. continuous definition (c) connected, extended or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence

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adj. insentient definition (d) lacking the power of feeling or perceiving

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adj. fallacious definition (a) illogical

A10 adj. maternal definition (a) pertaining or peculiar to a mother or to motherhood

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n. luxuriance definition (c) excessive or superfluous growth or quantity

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n. detriment definition (b) something that causes damage, depreciation or loss

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n. stanza definition (a) a group of rimed lines, usually forming one of a series of similar divisions in a poem

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n. intrigue definition (d) a plot or scheme, usually complicated and intended to accomplish something by secret ways

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n. sophism definition (d) a false argument understood to be such by the reasoner himself and intentionally used to deceive

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n. mania definition (d) insanity

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n. humanitarian definition (b) a philanthropist

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n. jurisprudence definition (d) the science of rights in accordance with positive law

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n. anatomy definition (a) that branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms

A10 n. approbation definition (d) sanction

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v. conjoin definition (b) to unite

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adj. mellifluous definition (b) sweetly or smoothly flowing

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n. nausea definition (c) an affection of the stomach producing dizziness and usually an impulse to vomit

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n. torpor definition (b) apathy

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n. maxim definition (c) a principle accepted as true and acted on as a rule or guide

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adj. omnivorous definition (a) eating or living upon food of all kinds indiscriminately

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n. rookery definition (c) a place where crows congregate to breed

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v. beck definition (d) to give a signal to by nod or gesture

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v. discomfit definition (c) to put to confusion

A10 adj. necessary definition (b) indispensably requisite or absolutely needed to accomplish a desired result

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adj. intrepid definition (d) fearless and bold

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adj. suspicious definition (d) inclined to doubt or mistrust

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adj. ashen definition (a) pale

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adj. anxious definition (b) distressed in mind respecting some uncertain matter

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adj. cycloid definition (a) like a circle

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adj. crematory definition (a) a place for cremating dead bodies

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adj. hydroelectric definition (a) pertaining to electricity developed water or steam

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adj. aboriginal definition (c) primitive; unsophisticated

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v. exonerate definition (d) to relieve or vindicate from accusation, imputation or blame

A10 adj. infamous definition (d) publicly branded or notorious, as for vice or crime

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n. suspension definition (c) a hanging from a support

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n. hygiene definition (c) the branch of medical science that relates to improving health

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n. pontiff definition (b) the Pope

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n. kiln definition (a) an oven or furnace for baking, burning or drying industrial products

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n. reproof definition (c) an expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured

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n. alabaster definition (a) a white or delicately tinted fine-grained gypsum

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n. percolator definition (c) a filter

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n. interposition definition (b) the process of coming between

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n. urchin definition (b) a roguish, mischievous boy

A10 n. incompetence definition (a) general lack of capacity or fitness

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n. convolution definition (d) a winding motion

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adj. tense definition (d) strained to stiffness

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adj. promiscuous definition (a) brought together without order, distinction or design (for sex)

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n. mendicant definition (b) a beggar

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n. archaeology definition (d) the branch of anthropology concerned with the systematic investigation of the relics of man

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v. animadvert definition (c) to pass criticism or censure

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n. convoy definition (a) a protecting force accompanying property in course of transportation

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n. man-trap definition (d) a place or structure dangerous to life; a mechanical device for catching trespassers and poachers

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n. precursor definition (c) a forerunner or herald

A10 n. paroxysm definition (c) a sudden outburst of any kind of activity

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adj. susceptible definition (b) easily under a specified power or influence

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adj. intolerable definition (a) insufferable

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adj. anterior definition (c) prior

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adj. subjacent definition (b) situated directly underneath

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adj. perspicuous definition (d) lucid

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n. legitimacy definition (a) accordance with law

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n. contiguity definition (d) proximity

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adj. fallible definition (b) capable of erring

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adj. phlegmatic definition (a) not easily roused to feeling or action

A10 adj. rife definition (b) abundant

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n. hydrostatics definition (c) the branch of science that treats of the pressure and equilibrium of fluids

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n. consensus definition (a) a collective unanimous opinion of a number of persons

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n. moccasin definition (d) a foot-covering made of soft leather or buckskin

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n. signification definition (b) the meaning conveyed by language, actions or signs

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n. zephyr definition (d) any soft, gentle wind

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n. muster definition (d) an assemblage or review of troops for parade or inspection or for numbering off

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n. pandemonium definition (d) a fiendish or riotous uproar

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n. evolution definition (d) development or growth

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adj. baleful definition (d) malignant

A10 n. mishap definition (a) an unlucky accident

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n. misbehavior definition (a) ill or poor conduct

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adj. chameleon definition (b) changeable in appearance

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adj. gradient definition (d) moving or advancing by steps

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n. scoundrel definition (d) a man without principle

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adj. contemptible definition (d) worthy of scorn or disdain

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n. suppression definition (c) a forcible putting or keeping down

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n. orator definition (a) person who delivers an elaborate or formal speech

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n. mechanics definition (d) the branch of physics that treats the phenomena caused by the action of forces

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v. encumber definition (a) to impede with obstacles

A10 n. waif definition (c) a homeless, neglected wanderer

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adj. prescriptible definition (c) derived from authoritative direction

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adj. sibilant definition (a) made with a hissing sound

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adj. ineligible definition (a) not suitable to be selected or chosen

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adj. auditory definition (b) of or pertaining to hearing or the organs or sense of hearing

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adj. lewd definition (b) characterized by lust or lasciviousness

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adj. conductible definition (a) capable of being conducted or transmitted

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adj. mordacious definition (c) biting or giving to biting

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adj. benignant definition (c) benevolent in feeling, character or aspect

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adj. abstruse definition (d) dealing with matters difficult to be understood

A10 adj. original definition (d) not copied nor produced by imitation

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n. tableau definition (d) an arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life

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n. beau definition (b) an escort or lover

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n. dramatist definition (c) person who writes plays

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n. magistracy definition (c) the office or dignity of a minor judicial officer who has limited jurisdiction in criminal cases

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n. coxswain definition (c) person who steers a small boat

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n. concordance definition (c) balance

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n. distrainor definition (a) person who subjects another person to distress

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n. subjection definition (a) the act of bringing into a state of submission

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adj. stellar definition (b) pertaining to the stars

A10 n. allusion definition (c) an indirect and incidental reference to something without definite mention of it

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adj. augustinian definition (a) pertaining to St. Augustine, his doctrines or the religious orders called after him

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adj. wearisome definition (c) fatiguing

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n. percipient definition (d) person who absorbs and comprehends something

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adv. wholly definition (d) completely

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n. altruism definition (a) benevolence to others on subordination to self-interest

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n. gesture definition (c) a movement or action of the hands or face, expressive of some idea or emotion

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n. profligacy definition (b) shameless viciousness

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adv. whereupon definition (a) after which

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adj. obituary definition (b) a published notice of a death

A10 n. chagrin definition (d) keen vexation, annoyance or mortification, as at one's failures or errors

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adj. pusillanimous definition (a) without spirit or bravery

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adj. inactive definition (c) inert

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adj. captious definition (a) hypercritical

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adj. abject definition (d) sunk to a low condition

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adj. plural definition (a) containing or consisting of more than one

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adj. divertible definition (c) able to be turned from the accustomed course or a line of action already established

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adj. pneumatic definition (c) pertaining to or consisting of air or gas

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adj. annual definition (c) occurring every year

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adj. polyglot definition (d) speaking several tongues

A10 adj. reciprocal definition (c) mutually interchangeable or convertible

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n. magician definition (c) a sorcerer

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n. premise definition (a) a judgment as a conclusion

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n. accusation definition (c) a charge of crime, misdemeanor or error

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n. disbeliever definition (c) an atheist

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n. testament definition (d) a will

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n. gradation definition (d) a step, degree, rank or relative position in an order or series

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n. arbor definition (a) a tree

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n. suasion definition (a) the act of persuading

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v. galvanize definition (c) to imbue with life or animation

A10 n. cupidity definition (a) avarice

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n. matrimony definition (d) the union of a man and a woman in marriage

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v. predominate definition (a) to be chief in importance, quantity or degree

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v. outreach definition (c) to exceed; to go beyond

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n. eclipse definition (b) the obstruction of a heavenly body by its entering into the shadow of another body

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adj. disjunctive definition (b) helping or serving to disconnect or separate

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n. landholder definition (a) a real estate owner

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adj. financial definition (c) monetary

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adj. licentious definition (d) wanton

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adj. neural definition (b) pertaining to the nerves or nervous system

A10 v. accomplish definition (d) to bring to pass

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adj. effete definition (b) exhausted, as having performed its functions

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adj. tercentenary definition (c) pertaining to a period of 300 years

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adj. luminescent definition (c) showing increase of light

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adj. comprehensive definition (a) large in scope or content

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adj. dilatory definition (c) tending to cause delay

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adj. socialist definition (c) one who advocates reconstruction of society by collective ownership of land and capital

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adj. undulous definition (d) resembling waves

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adj. athirst definition (a) wanting water

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adj. grievous definition (b) creating affliction

A10 adj. venerable definition (c) meriting or commanding high esteem

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n. prowess definition (a) strength, skill and intrepidity in battle

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n. controller definition (b) person who or that which regulates or directs

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n. immersion definition (c) the act of plunging or dipping entirely under water or another fluid

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n. vestment definition (b) clothing or covering

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n. polygon definition (b) a figure having many angles

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n. superintendence definition (b) direction and management

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n. reciprocity definition (a) equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed

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n. foreground definition (b) that part of a landscape or picture situated or represented as nearest the spectator

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adj. devious definition (b) out of the common or regular track

A10 n. baton definition (d) an official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege

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n. monosyllable definition (c) a word that contains of only one segment of speech

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n. decagram definition (d) a weight of 10 grams

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adj. emphatic definition (c) spoken with any special impressiveness laid upon an act, word or set of words

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adj. secretive definition (d) having a tendency to conceal

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n. stealth definition (c) a concealed manner of acting

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n. monomania definition (a) the unreasonable pursuit of one idea

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v. embroil definition (b) to involve in dissension or strife

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v. mete definition (c) to apportion

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n. regimen definition (c) a systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing and personal habits

A10 adj. connubial definition (b) pertaining to marriage or matrimony

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adj. deterrent definition (d) hindering from action through fear

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adj. scrupulous definition (b) cautious in action for fear of doing wrong

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adj. ludicrous definition (a) laughable

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adj. wee definition (b) very small

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adj. artful definition (c) characterized by craft or cunning

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adj. convalescent definition (c) recovering health after sickness

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adj. expressive definition (d) full of meaning

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adj. invaluable definition (a) exceedingly precious

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adj. vulnerable definition (c) capable of receiving injuries

A10 adj. stupendous definition (c) of prodigious size, bulk or degree

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n. junction definition (d) the condition of being joined

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n. vertigo definition (c) dizziness

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n. octavo definition (c) a book or collection of paper in which the sheets are so folded as to make eight leaves

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n. sonata definition (c) an instrumental composition

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n. utilitarianism definition (c) the ethical doctrine that actions are right because they are useful or of beneficial tendency

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n. recidivist definition (c) a confirmed criminal

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n. admittance definition (b) entrance or the right or permission to enter

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n. idiom definition (a) a use of words peculiar to a particular language

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n. heresy definition (a) an opinion or doctrine subversive of settled beliefs or accepted principles

A10 n. prodigal definition (b) extravagant person; lavish spender; spendthrift; squanderer; one who wastes money

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v. enthrone definition (c) to invest with sovereign power

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adj. noisy definition (b) clamorous

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v. dogmatize definition (c) to make positive assertions without supporting them by argument or evidence

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v. castigate definition (b) to punish

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v. recoil definition (c) to start back as in dismay, loathing or dread

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adj. indefensible definition (b) untenable

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adj. inadmissible definition (d) not to be approved, considered or allowed, as testimony

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n. martyrdom definition (c) submission to death or persecution for the sake of faith or principle

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adj. pestilential definition (a) deadly; fatal; contagious; infectious

A10 n. unction definition (d) the art of anointing as with oil

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adj. repugnant definition (d) offensive to taste and feeling

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adj. incompetent definition (b) not having the abilities desired or necessary for any purpose

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adj. harmonious definition (c) concordant in sound

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adj. phonic definition (c) pertaining to the nature of sound

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adj. jocular definition (a) amusing; funny

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adj. secant definition (a) cutting, especially into two parts

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adj. illiterate definition (b) having little or no book-learning

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adj. ultramontane definition (d) beyond the mountains, especially beyond the Alps (that is, on their Italian side)

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adj. pertinacious definition (d) stubborn; steadfast; tenacious; obstinate

A10 adj. convex definition (d) curving like the segment of the globe or of the surface of a circle

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n. abduction definition (a) a carrying away of a person against his will or illegally

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n. hypocrisy definition (c) extreme insincerity

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n. juncture definition (b) an articulation, joint or seam

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n. folk-lore definition (c) the traditions, beliefs, and customs of the common people

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n. foresight definition (c) provision against harm or need

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n. oculist definition (b) one versed or skilled in treating diseases of the eye

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n. kingship definition (a) royal state

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n. well-doer definition (a) a performer of moral and social duties

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adj. unwieldy definition (b) moved or managed with difficulty, as from great size or awkward shape

A10 n. bombast definition (b) inflated or extravagant language, especially on unimportant subjects

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adj. sanctimonious definition (b) making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety

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adj. equivalent definition (c) equal in value, force, meaning or the like

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adj. glorious definition (d) of excellence and splendor

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n. urbanity definition (a) refined or elegant courtesy

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adj. warlike definition (d) belligerent

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v. exaggerate definition (b) to overstate

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n. reflector definition (d) a mirror, as of metal, for sending back light, heat or sound in a particular direction

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n. influence definition (b) ability to sway the will of another

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adj. equivocal definition (b) ambiguous

A10 adj. glacial definition (c) icy; icily cold

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adj. juridical definition (a) assumed by law to exist

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adj. sinuous definition (a) curving in and out

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adj. tranquil definition (a) calm

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adj. ridiculous definition (d) laughable and contemptible

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adj. amicable definition (d) done in a friendly spirit

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adj. resistless definition (a) powerless

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adj. semicivilized definition (b) partly cultured

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adj. prim definition (b) stiffly proper

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adj. prodigious definition (c) immense

A10 adj. hypercritical definition (d) faultfinding

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n. anagram definition (d) the letters of a word or phrase so transposed as to make a different word or phrase

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n. pentad definition (d) the number five

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n. rhetorician definition (a) a showy writer or speaker

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n. fidelity definition (b) loyalty

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n. pageant definition (b) a dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one

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n. philately definition (a) the study and collection of stamps

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n. messieurs definition (a) gentlemen

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n. inquisitor definition (d) person who makes an investigation

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n. solstice definition (a) the time of year when the sun is at its greatest declination

A10 n. gratuity definition (a) something that is given without demand or claim; bonus; tip

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v. addle definition (d) to make inefficient or worthless; to muddle

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v. dun definition (c) to make a demand or repeated demands on for payment

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n. composure definition (b) calmness

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adj. sapid definition (b) affecting the sense of taste

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v. subtend definition (c) to extend opposite to

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n. brae definition (b) hillside

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n. limitation definition (b) a restriction

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adj. assonant definition (a) having resemblance of sound

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adj. ribald definition (d) indulging in or manifesting coarse indecency or obscenity

A10 v. insinuate definition (a) to imply

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adj. resplendent definition (d) very bright

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adj. extraneous definition (a) having no essential relation to a subject

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adj. latent definition (d) dormant

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adj. telltale definition (a) that gives warning or information

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adj. unavoidable definition (a) inevitable

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adj. troublesome definition (b) annoying; worrying; difficult; full of distress

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n. fraudulence definition (a) deceitfulness

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adj. ignominious definition (d) shameful

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adj. opaque definition (d) impervious to light

A10 adj. occult definition (b) existing but not immediately perceptible

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n. perturbation definition (a) mental excitement or confusion

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n. lode definition (d) a somewhat continuous unstratified metal- bearing vein

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n. interlocutor definition (a) one who takes part in a conversation or oral discussion

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n. pledgee definition (d) the person to whom anything is pledged

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n. actuality definition (b) any reality

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n. ogre definition (d) a demon or monster that was supposed to devour human beings

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n. accompaniment definition (d) a subordinate part or parts, enriching or supporting the leading part

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n. contraband definition (a) trade forbidden by law or treaty

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n. seminary definition (b) a special school, as of theology or pedagogics

A10 n. solace definition (d) comfort in grief, trouble or calamity

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adj. incomprehensible definition (c) not understandable

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v. instill definition (d) to infuse

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adj. inhospitable definition (a) not disposed to entertain strangers gratuitously

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adj. transverse definition (a) lying or being across or in a crosswise direction

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n. epicycle definition (d) a circle that rolls upon the external or internal circumference of another circle

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adj. superb definition (a) sumptuously elegant

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v. foreclose definition (a) to bar by judicial proceedings the equitable right of a mortgagor to redeem property

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v. madden definition (c) to inflame with passion

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adj. sardonic definition (b) scornfully or bitterly sarcastic

A10 adj. callow definition (d) without experience of the world

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adj. polysyllable definition (a) having several syllables, especially more than three syllables

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adj. actionable definition (b) liable to a lawsuit

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adj. superficial definition (b) knowing and understanding only the ordinary and the obvious

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adj. untoward definition (c) causing annoyance or hindrance

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adj. prudential definition (c) proceeding or marked by caution

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adj. ready definition (a) in a state of preparedness for any given purpose or occasion

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adj. scholarly definition (c) characteristic of an erudite person

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adj. fretful definition (a) disposed to peevishness

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adj. opposite definition (a) radically different or contrary in action or movement

A10 adj. factious definition (a) turbulent

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n. novellette definition (b) a light romantic story, especially one that is considered trite or sentimental

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n. conjunction definition (c) the state of being joined together or the things so joined

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n. antecedent definition (b) person who or that which precedes or goes before, as in time, place, rank, order or causality

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n. financier definition (b) person who manages large amounts of money (privately or corporately)

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n. outskirt definition (c) a border region

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n. alder definition (a) any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus of the oak family

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n. efflorescence definition (d) the state of being flowery or a flowery appearance

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n. cartridge definition (a) a charge for a firearm or for blasting

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n. ravine definition (d) a deep gorge or hollow, especially one worn by a stream or flow of water

A10 n. quiescence definition (b) silence; noiselessness; stillness; tranquility; muteness; speechlessness; peacefulness; calmness

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adj. insistent definition (c) urgent

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adj. audacious definition (c) fearless

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adj. reparable definition (a) can be fixed; mendable; can be corrected

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v. prefer definition (a) to hold in higher estimation

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n. ruth definition (d) sorrow for another's misery

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adj. unutterable definition (b) inexpressible

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v. commute definition (d) to put something, especially something less severe, in place of

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adj. populous definition (b) containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory

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v. dilute definition (d) to make more fluid or less concentrated by admixture with something

A10 n. epic definition (a) a poem celebrating in formal verse the mythical achievements of great personages, heroes, etc

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adj. torturous definition (b) marked by extreme suffering

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adj. artless definition (d) ingenuous

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adj. syllabic definition (d) consisting of that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse

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adj. invidious definition (b) showing or feeling envy

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adj. specious definition (b) plausible

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adj. merciful definition (b) disposed to pity and forgive

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adj. typographical definition (a) of or related to the art of printing

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adj. permanent definition (c) durable

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adj. feasible definition (b) that may be done, performed or effected; practicable

A10 adj. impolitic definition (b) inexpedient

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n. penalty definition (b) the consequences that follow the transgression of natural or divine law

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n. demerit definition (c) a mark for failure or bad conduct

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n. hiatus definition (c) a break or vacancy where something necessary to supply the connection is wanting

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n. ordnance definition (a) a general name for all kinds of weapons and their appliances used in war

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n. papyrus definition (c) the writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians and later of the Romans

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n. inquisition definition (c) a court or tribunal for examination and punishment of heretics

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n. concord definition (d) harmony

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n. referee definition (b) an umpire

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n. antagonism definition (d) mutual opposition or resistance of counteracting forces, principles or persons

A10 n. perquisite definition (a) any profit from service beyond the amount fixed as salary or wages

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n. durance definition (d) confinement

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n. counter-claim definition (c) a cross-demand alleged by a defendant in his favor against the plaintiff

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adj. petulant definition (d) displaying impatience

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n. surveyor definition (a) a land-measurer

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n. seclusion definition (c) solitude

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n. laddie definition (a) a young boy; young man

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n. philologist definition (a) an expert in linguistics

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n. hostility definition (a) enmity

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n. effluvium definition (d) a noxious or ill-smelling exhalation from decaying or putrefying matter

A10 adj. redolent definition (a) smelling sweet and agreeable

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adj. dendroid definition (b) like a tree

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adj. enthusiastic definition (b) full of zeal and fervor

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adj. profligate definition (b) abandoned to vice

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adj. resistant definition (d) offering or tending to produce resistance

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adj. defensible definition (a) capable of being maintained or justified

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adj. votive definition (c) dedicated by a vow

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adj. refringent definition (c) having the power to refract

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adj. hibernal definition (a) pertaining to winter

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adj. spurious definition (a) not genuine

A10 adj. meretricious definition (a) alluring by false or gaudy show

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n. chiffon definition (a) a very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc

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n. crag definition (a) a rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge

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n. prelate definition (d) person who belongs to a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy

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n. cryptogram definition (c) anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning

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n. meditation definition (a) the turning or revolving of a subject in the mind

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n. depth definition (d) deepness

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n. conservatism definition (d) tendency to adhere to the existing order of things

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n. forethought definition (b) premeditation

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n. covenant definition (b) an agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties

A10 n. abeyance definition (c) a state of suspension or temporary inaction

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n. stupor definition (b) profound lethargy

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adj. frugal definition (a) economical

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n. pedagogics definition (d) the science and art of teaching

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n. plaudit definition (c) an expression of applause

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v. calvinize definition (b) to teach or imbue with the doctrines of Calvinism

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n. imbroglio definition (b) a misunderstanding attended by ill feeling, perplexity or strife

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n. protrusion definition (d) a projection; act of causing to bulge outward; something that sticks out

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n. impudence definition (d) insolent disrespect

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adj. legible definition (a) that may be read with ease

A10 n. sense definition (c) the signification conveyed by some word, phrase or action

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adj. heartrending definition (a) very depressing

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adj. lascivious definition (c) lustful

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adj. irksome definition (b) annoying; irritating; frustrating

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adj. sprightly definition (c) vivacious

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adj. flexible definition (a) pliable

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adj. banal definition (b) commonplace

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adj. appreciable definition (b) capable of being discerned by the senses or intellect

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adj. benevolent definition (c) loving others and actively desirous of their well-being

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adj. indulgent definition (b) yielding to the desires or humor of oneself or those under one's care

A10 adj. inanimate definition (b) destitute of animal life

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n. cosmogony definition (b) a doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe

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n. seminar definition (b) any assemblage of pupils for real research in some specific study under a teacher

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n. privity definition (c) knowledge shared with another or others regarding a private matter

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n. interpolation definition (b) verbal interference

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n. participant definition (a) person who has a share

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n. brethren definition (d) members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association or the like

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n. salvo definition (a) a salute given by firing all the guns, as at the funeral of an officer

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n. quartet definition (a) a composition for four voices or four instruments

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n. quintessence definition (b) epitome; perfect embodiment of

A10 n. egoism definition (b) the theory that places man's chief good in the completeness of self

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n. norm definition (b) a model

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adj. motley definition (d) composed of heterogeneous or inharmonious elements

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n. vendition definition (a) the act of selling

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n. virulence definition (b) extreme poisonousness

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n. ordinal definition (a) that form of the numeral that shows the order of anything in a series, as first, second, third

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adv. icily definition (d) frigidly

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n. intricacy definition (b) perplexity

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adj. abusive definition (c) employing harsh words or ill treatment

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adj. impassive definition (a) unmoved by or not exhibiting feeling

A10 adj. derivative definition (b) coming or acquired from some origin

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adj. grandiloquent definition (b) speaking in or characterized by a pompous or bombastic style

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adj. cosmic definition (d) pertaining to the universe

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adj. numerical definition (b) of or pertaining to number

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adj. pudgy definition (d) small and fat

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adj. pyrotechnic definition (c) pertaining to fireworks or their manufacture

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adj. dishonest definition (a) untrustworthy

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adj. amateur definition (d) practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession

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adj. temporal definition (a) pertaining to or concerned with the affairs of the present life

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adj. flamboyant definition (d) characterized by extravagance and in general by want of good taste

A10 adj. demented definition (c) insane

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n. negligence definition (a) omission of that which ought to be done

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n. apology definition (d) a disclaimer of intentional error or offense

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n. hawthorn definition (b) a thorny shrub much used in England for hedges

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n. playwright definition (c) a maker of plays for the stage

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n. calvinism definition (d) the system of doctrine taught by a French theologian and reformer

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n. thoroughfare definition (c) a public street or road

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n. provocation definition (b) an action or mode of conduct that excites resentment

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n. outlaw definition (c) a criminal; fugitive

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v. domineer definition (a) to rule with insolence or unnecessary annoyance

A10 n. gamut definition (b) the whole range or sequence

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n. intolerance definition (a) inability or unwillingness to bear or endure

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n. occupant definition (c) a tenant in possession of property, as distinguished from the actual owner

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v. furbish definition (c) to restore brightness or beauty

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v. wield definition (b) to use, control or manage, as a weapon or instrument, especially with full command

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n. prologue definition (c) a prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse or performance

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n. dissuasion definition (a) the act of changing the purpose of or altering the plans of through persuasion or pleading

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n. reproduction definition (b) the process by which an animal or plant gives rise to another of its kind

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n. frontier definition (c) the part of a nation's territory that abuts upon another country

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v. wean definition (c) to transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment

A10 n. portent definition (b) anything that indicates what is to happen

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adj. pernicious definition (d) tending to kill or hurt

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adj. abstemious definition (b) characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink or food

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adj. incoercible definition (b) incapable of being forced, constrained or compelled

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adj. velvety definition (d) marked by lightness and softness

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adj. somniferous definition (b) tending to produce sleep

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adj. serviceable definition (b) functional; useful; practical; durable; sturdy; long-lasting

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adj. arrant definition (b) notoriously bad

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adj. eventual definition (b) ultimate

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adj. fiscal definition (d) pertaining to the treasury or public finances of a government

A10 adj. diurnal definition (a) daily

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n. perversion definition (c) diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose

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n. inchoative definition (c) something that begins or expresses beginning

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n. deity definition (d) a god, goddess or divine person

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n. cartilage definition (b) an elastic animal tissue of firm consistence

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n. foible definition (a) a personal weakness or failing

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n. panacea definition (c) a remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases

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n. elocution definition (b) the art of correct intonation, inflection and gesture in public speaking or reading

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n. neopaganism definition (a) a 20th-century revival of interest in the worship of nature, fertility, etc., as represented by various deities

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n. diversity definition (b) dissimilitude

A10 n. vernacular definition (d) the language of one's country

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n. sonnet definition (d) a poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases

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adj. quiescent definition (b) being in a state of repose or inaction

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v. repute definition (b) to hold in general opinion

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adv. doubly definition (c) in twofold degree or extent

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n. animalcule definition (c) germ; microscopic organism

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v. irrigate definition (d) to water, as land, by ditches or other artificial means

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v. meliorate definition (d) to make better or improve, as in quality or social or physical condition

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adj. indiscernible definition (b) not perceptible

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n. sophistry definition (b) reasoning sound in appearance only, especially when designedly deceptive

A10 n. malediction definition (a) the calling down of a curse or curses

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adj. anthropomorphous definition (a) having or resembling human form

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adj. punctual definition (b) observant and exact in points of time

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adj. diacritical definition (d) marking a difference

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adj. naval definition (a) pertaining to ships

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adj. immoral definition (d) habitually engaged in licentious or lewd practices

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adj. possessive definition (d) pertaining to the having, holding or detention of property in one's power or command

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adj. reprehensible definition (c) censurable

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adj. efflorescent definition (d) opening in flower

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adj. stolid definition (a) expressing no power of feeling or perceiving

A10 adj. vacuous definition (d) empty

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n. finery definition (b) that which is used to decorate the person or dress

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n. extension definition (a) a reaching or stretching out, as in space, time or scope

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n. medicine definition (d) a substance possessing or reputed to possess curative or remedial properties

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n. contender definition (a) one who exerts oneself in opposition or rivalry

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n. naphtha definition (d) a light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints

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n. euphony definition (a) agreeableness of sound

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n. barograph definition (c) an instrument that registers graphically and continuously the atmospheric pressure

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n. lying definition (c) untruthfulness

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v. desist definition (a) to cease from action

A10 n. rampart definition (a) a bulwark or construction to oppose assault or hostile entry

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n. conveyance definition (c) that by which anything is transported

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adj. mercantile definition (b) conducted or acting on business principles; commercial

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adj. supramundane definition (d) supernatural

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n. vendor definition (c) a seller

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v. cower definition (b) to crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame

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n. contumacy definition (a) contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority

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n. leeward definition (c) that side or direction toward which the wind blows

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adj. ceremonious definition (b) observant of ritual

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adj. mettlesome definition (c) having courage or spirit

A10 v. expatriate definition (a) to drive from one's own country

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adj. clement definition (c) compassionate

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adj. eligible definition (c) qualified for selection

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adj. immeasurable definition (b) indefinitely extensive

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adj. decrepit definition (a) enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity

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adj. soluble definition (a) capable of being dissolved, as in a fluid

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adj. gentile definition (d) belonging to a people not Jewish

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adj. mealy-mouthed definition (c) afraid to express facts or opinions plainly

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adj. differential definition (b) distinctive

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adj. ambitious definition (b) eagerly desirous and aspiring

A10 adj. similar definition (c) bearing resemblance to one another or to something else

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n. courtesy definition (b) politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually

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n. candor definition (a) the quality of frankness or outspokenness

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n. assignee definition (b) one who is appointed to act for another in the management of certain property and interests

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n. derivation definition (a) process by which a word is traced from its original root or primitive form and meaning

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n. ambulance definition (c) a vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded

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n. apotheosis definition (d) deification

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n. wherewith definition (c) the necessary means or resources

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n. seismograph definition (b) an instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes

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n. exit definition (c) a way or passage out

A10 n. condolence definition (d) expression of sympathy with a person in pain, sorrow or misfortune

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adj. ecstatic definition (d) enraptured

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v. antecede definition (a) to precede

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v. connive definition (d) to be in collusion

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v. malign definition (d) to speak evil of, especially to do so falsely and severely

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adj. obsolescent definition (a) passing out of use, as a word

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n. terminus definition (b) the final point or goal

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adj. interrogative definition (a) having the nature or form of a question

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n. sociology definition (a) the philosophical study of society

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v. impair definition (d) to cause to become less or worse

A10 adj. heterogeneous definition (a) consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds

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adj. contemporary definition (d) living or existing at the same time

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adj. morbid definition (c) caused by or denoting a diseased or unsound condition of body or mind

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adj. unitarian definition (a) pertaining to a religious body that rejects the doctrine of the Trinity

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adj. pervious definition (d) admitting the entrance or passage of another substance

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adj. leonine definition (a) like a lion

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adj. pretentious definition (a) impersonating; putting on a false appearance; feigning; arrogant; haughty

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adj. dissimilar definition (d) different

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adj. sapiential definition (a) possessing wisdom

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adj. erudite definition (d) very-learned

A10 adj. candid definition (b) straightforward

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n. divagation definition (a) digression

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n. specimen definition (b) one of a class of persons or things regarded as representative of the class

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n. soothsayer definition (c) one who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight

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n. decasyllable definition (d) a line of ten syllables

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n. isle definition (c) a piece of land completely surrounded by water

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n. omniscience definition (b) unlimited or infinite knowledge

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n. demonstrator definition (d) one who proves in a convincing and conclusive manner

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n. outrage definition (a) a gross infringement of morality or decency

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n. fetus definition (d) the young in the womb or in the egg

A10 n. frequency definition (b) the comparative number of any kind of occurrences within a given time or space

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n. chaos definition (c) any condition of which the elements or parts are in utter disorder and confusion

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adj. deficient definition (b) not having an adequate or proper supply or amount

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v. sophisticate definition (b) to deprive of simplicity of mind or manner

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v. laud definition (a) to praise in words or song

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n. sergeant-major definition (d) the highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment

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n. benignity definition (a) kindness of feeling, disposition or manner

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adj. ambrosial definition (a) divinely sweet, fragrant or delicious

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adj. coercive definition (c) serving or tending to force

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n. decoy definition (d) anything that allures or is intended to allures into danger or temptation

A10 v. engender definition (b) to produce

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n. conformity definition (c) acting in accordance with prevailing norms or standards; correspondence in character; agreement; compliance

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n. tremor definition (a) a shudder; shock; shaking; vibration

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n. dialectician definition (a) a logician

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n. free trade definition (a) commerce unrestricted by tariff or customs

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n. trinity definition (c) a threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance

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n. despair definition (c) utter hopelessness and despondency

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n. wavelet definition (d) a ripple

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n. desperado definition (a) person without regard for law or life

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n. harangue definition (d) a tirade

A10 n. cataract definition (d) opacity of the lens of the eye resulting in complete or partial blindness

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n. aversion definition (b) a mental condition of fixed opposition to or dislike of some particular thing

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adj. suave definition (b) smooth and pleasant in manner

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adj. uproarious definition (a) noisy

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adj. truthful definition (c) veracious

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n. declamation definition (a) a speech recited or intended for recitation from memory in public

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adj. fictitious definition (c) created or formed by the imagination

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adj. caitiff definition (d) cowardly

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n. misdemeanor definition (d) evil conduct; small crime

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v. concede definition (a) to surrender

A10 adj. infernal definition (b) akin to or befitting hell or its occupants

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n. benevolence definition (a) any act of kindness or well-doing

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n. vermin definition (d) a noxious or troublesome animal

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n. recreant definition (d) a cowardly or faithless person

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n. ointment definition (c) a fatty preparation with a butter-like consistency in which a medicinal substance exists

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n. continuity definition (b) uninterrupted connection in space, time, operation or development

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n. prelude definition (b) an introductory or opening performance

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n. skiff definition (c) a small light boat propelled by oars

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n. philogynist definition (a) person who is fond of women

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n. domain definition (c) a sphere or field of action or interest

A10 n. admonition definition (c) gentle reproof

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n. recourse definition (b) resort to or application for help in exigency or trouble

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n. technicality definition (b) something peculiar to a particular art, trade or the like

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v. incite definition (b) to rouse to a particular action

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adv. darkling definition (d) blindly

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v. carouse definition (c) to drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner

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n. metallurgy definition (a) the art or science of extracting any solid mineral element (such as gold, silver, copper, etc.) l from ores, as by smelting

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adj. judicial definition (a) pertaining to decisions made by courts of law

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n. surrogate definition (c) somebody or something that is substituted for or appointed to act in place of another

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n. radical definition (c) one who holds extreme views or advocates extreme measures

A10 n. emphasis definition (a) any special impressiveness added to an utterance or act or stress laid upon some word

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n. viceroy definition (a) a ruler acting with royal authority in place of the sovereign in a colony or province

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n. postscript definition (a) something added to a letter after the writer's signature

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n. sphericity definition (b) roundness

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n. absolution definition (b) forgiveness or passing over of offenses

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n. militia definition (d) reserve army of citizens that are called upon during emergencies

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n. proselyte definition (b) one who has been won over from one religious belief to another

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n. referrer definition (c) person who leads another person to a source of information

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n. script definition (c) writing or handwriting of the ordinary cursive form

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v. embellish definition (d) to make beautiful or elegant by adding attractive or ornamental features

A10 n. buttress definition (b) any support or prop

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n. freemason definition (c) a member of an ancient secret fraternity originally confined to skilled artisans

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adj. fulsome definition (a) offensive from excess of praise or commendation

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n. resurrection definition (b) a return from death to life

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n. denominator definition (b) part of a fraction which expresses the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided

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v. introvert definition (d) to turn within

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n. disrepute definition (b) a bad name or character

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n. tyro definition (a) person who is slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession; amateur

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adj. lunar definition (d) pertaining to the moon

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adj. perfunctory definition (c) half-hearted

A10 adj. surreptitious definition (c) clandestine

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 387 (Answer Keys)

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n. piccolo definition (b) a small flute

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n. liniment definition (d) a liquid preparation for rubbing on the skin in cases of bruises, inflammation, etc

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n. hypocrite definition (c) person who makes false professions of their views or beliefs

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n. myth definition (a) a fictitious narrative presented as historical but without any basis of fact

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n. infidelity definition (c) disloyalty

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n. underworld definition (c) hades

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n. mantle definition (d) a cloak

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n. consignor definition (d) one who entrusts

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n. ado definition (b) unnecessary activity or ceremony

A10 n. consistency definition (d) a state of permanence

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n. physiology definition (c) the science of organic functions

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adj. inconsiderable definition (a) small in quantity or importance

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n. abbey definition (d) the group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns

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n. craving definition (c) a vehement desire

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n. strait definition (b) a narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water

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v. impend definition (b) to be imminent

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adj. emeritus definition (d) retired from active service but retained to an honorary position

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adj. torrid definition (d) excessively hot

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n. cantata definition (d) a choral composition

A10 n. privilege definition (d) a right or immunity not enjoyed by all or that may be enjoyed only under special conditions

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 389 (Answer Keys)

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n. upcast definition (a) a throwing upward

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n. luminosity definition (a) the quality of giving or radiating light

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n. exemplar definition (a) a model, pattern or original to be copied or imitated

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n. overseer definition (d) a supervisor

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n. transfusion definition (b) the act of pouring from one vessel to another

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n. projection definition (d) a prominence

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n. lien definition (c) a legal claim or hold on property, as security for a debt or charge

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n. descendant definition (d) person who is descended lineally from another, as a child, grandchild, etc

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n. capillary definition (c) a minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells

A10 n. indignity definition (b) unmerited contemptuous conduct or treatment

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 390 (Answer Keys)

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adj. estimable definition (b) worthy of respect

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n. dilemma definition (a) a situation in which a choice between opposing modes of conduct is necessary

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n. accession definition (b) induction or elevation, as to dignity, office or government

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n. statistician definition (b) one who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts

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n. purveyor definition (d) person who supplies

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adj. ceremonial definition (c) characterized by outward form or ceremony

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n. vainglory definition (a) excessive, pretentious and demonstrative vanity

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adj. mercenary definition (a) greedy

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v. pervade definition (d) to pass or spread through every part

A10 n. proxy definition (c) a person who is empowered by another to represent them in a given matter

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 391 (Answer Keys)

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n. pupilage definition (b) the state or period of being a student

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n. diplomat definition (d) a representative of one sovereign state at the capital or court of another

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n. antiseptic definition (b) anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms

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n. odium definition (a) a feeling of extreme repugnance or of dislike and disgust

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n. fete definition (b) a festival or feast

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n. expansion definition (a) increase of amount, size, scope or the like

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n. stiletto definition (b) a small dagger

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n. bibliophile definition (d) person who loves books

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n. artifice definition (a) trickery

A10 n. account definition (a) a record or statement of receipts and expenditures or of business transactions

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 392 (Answer Keys)

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n. apogee definition (c) the climax

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v. append definition (b) to add or attach, as something accessory, subordinate or supplementary

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n. treatise definition (c) an elaborate literary composition presenting a subject in all its parts

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n. stagnation definition (d) the condition of not flowing or not changing

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v. corroborate definition (d) to strengthen, as proof or conviction

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n. consonance definition (d) the state or quality of being in accord with

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adv. abed definition (b) not able to get up

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adj. judicious definition (a) prudent

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n. corruption definition (d) loss of purity or integrity

A10 adj. exotic definition (c) foreign

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n. despotism definition (d) any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part

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n. payee definition (b) a person who receives money

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n. electrolysis definition (a) the process of decomposing a chemical compound by the passage of an electric current

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n. peerage definition (a) the nobility

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n. missive definition (b) a message in writing

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n. stoicism definition (c) the principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure

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n. christendom definition (b) that part of the world where Christianity is generally professed

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n. whereabouts definition (d) the place in or near which a person or thing is

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n. iota definition (c) a small or insignificant mark or part

A10 n. concession definition (d) anything granted, yielded or admitted in response to a demand, petition or claim

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v. edify definition (a) to build up or strengthen, especially in morals or religion

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v. divulge definition (c) to tell or make known, as something previously private or secret

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adj. requisite definition (c) necessary

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n. taxidermy definition (b) the art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them

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adj. subaquatic definition (d) being, formed or operating under water

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n. mastery definition (d) the attainment of superior skill

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v. impregnate definition (d) to fertilize; fill completely; saturate; imbue

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adj. credible definition (b) believable

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adj. innocuous definition (c) harmless

A10 adj. effeminate definition (d) having womanish traits or qualities

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n. melodrama definition (c) a romantic story or plot and sensational situation and incidents

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n. rapine definition (c) the act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war

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n. narcissus definition (b) the son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection

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n. sedition definition (b) conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state

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n. oakum definition (d) hemp-fiber obtained by untwisting and picking out loosely the yarns of old hemp rope

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n. pretension definition (b) a bold or presumptuous assertion

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n. circumference definition (a) the boundary-line of a circle

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n. disyllable definition (b) a word of two syllables

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n. compunction definition (d) remorseful feeling

A10 n. affiliate definition (c) some auxiliary person or thing; partner

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 396 (Answer Keys)

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adj. newtonian definition (a) of or pertaining to particular English philosopher

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n. imitation definition (b) that which is made as a likeness or copy

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n. lordling definition (b) a little aristocrat

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v. induct definition (d) to bring in

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n. transposition definition (c) the act of reversing the order or changing the place of

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adv. verily definition (c) in truth

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n. revelation definition (b) a disclosing, discovering or making known of what was before secret, private or unknown

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adj. diatomic definition (d) containing only two atoms

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adj. disconsolate definition (b) grief-stricken

A10 adj. pervasive definition (a) thoroughly penetrating or permeating

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 397 (Answer Keys)

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n. nuance definition (c) a slight degree of difference in anything perceptible to the sense of the mind

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n. adamant definition (c) any substance of exceeding hardness or impenetrability

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n. crusade definition (d) any concerted movement, vigorously prosecuted, in behalf of an idea or principle

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n. bowler definition (a) in cricket, the player who delivers the ball

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n. operetta definition (a) a humorous play in dialog and music that consists of more than one act

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n. cosmopolitanism definition (a) sophistication; worldliness

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n. berth definition (d) a bunk or bed in a vessel, sleeping-car, etc

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n. infirmity definition (a) a physical, mental or moral weakness or flaw

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n. tendency definition (b) direction or inclination, as toward some objector end

A10 adj. conspicuous definition (c) clearly visible

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 398 (Answer Keys)

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n. remonstrance definition (d) reproof

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adj. coincident definition (d) taking place at the same time

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n. burgher definition (b) an inhabitant; city resident

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n. monsieur definition (b) a French title of respect, equivalent to Mr. and sir

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v. inject definition (d) to force in by means of a syringe or other device; to infuse

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v. reclaim definition (d) to demand or to obtain the return or restoration of

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n. yearling definition (d) a young animal past its first 12 months of age

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adj. implicit definition (d) implied

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n. restitution definition (a) restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs

A10 v. reimburse definition (c) to pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 399 (Answer Keys)

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n. heptagon definition (a) a figure having seven sides and seven angles

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n. hospitality definition (a) the practice of receiving and entertaining strangers and guests with kindness

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n. affront definition (b) an open insult or indignity

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n. unbelief definition (c) doubt; lack of faith; skepticism

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n. monogram definition (a) a character consisting of two or more letters interwoven into one, usually initials of a name

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n. technography definition (c) the scientific description or study of human arts and industries in their historic development

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n. kilowatt definition (a) a unit of electrical energy

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n. catholicism definition (c) the system, doctrine and practice of the Roman Church

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n. indicator definition (a) one who or that which points out

A10 n. facsimile definition (a) an exact copy or reproduction

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 400 (Answer Keys)

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n. intelligence definition (b) capacity to know or understand

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n. monotony definition (c) a lack of variety

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n. venison definition (d) the flesh of deer

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n. neo-latin definition (b) is a post-medieval version of an ancient Indo-European language

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n. complicity definition (c) participation or partnership, as in wrong-doing or with a wrong-doer

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adj. fiducial definition (b) indicative of faith or trust

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n. pact definition (a) a covenant

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adj. noiseless definition (a) silent

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adj. lucid definition (b) mentally sound

A10 n. apex definition (c) the highest point, as of a mountain

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n. personage definition (c) a man or woman as an individual, especially one of rank or high station

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n. cadenza definition (c) an embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument

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n. counting-house definition (d) an office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc.

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n. soprano definition (c) a woman's or boy's voice of high range

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n. cygnet definition (b) a young swan

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n. mulatto definition (d) the offspring of a white person and a black person

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n. livelihood definition (c) means of subsistence

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n. insufficiency definition (a) inadequacy

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n. pseudonym definition (b) a fictitious name, especially when assumed by a writer

A10 n. duplicity definition (a) double-dealing

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 402 (Answer Keys)

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n. moratorium definition (b) an emergency legislation authorizing a government suspend some action temporarily

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v. becalm definition (b) to make quiet

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adj. photoelectric definition (d) pertaining to the combined action of light and electricity

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adj. salient definition (a) standing out prominently

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adj. genital definition (b) of or pertaining to the animal reproductive organs

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adj. theoretical definition (c) directed toward knowledge for its own sake without respect to applications

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n. disinfectant definition (b) chemical agent that destroys a harmful organism

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adj. phonetic definition (b) representing articulate sounds or speech

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v. wrangle definition (c) to maintain by noisy argument or dispute

A10 n. scruple definition (d) doubt or uncertainty regarding a question of moral right or duty

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 403 (Answer Keys)

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n. redemption definition (b) the recovery of what is mortgaged or pledged, by paying the debt

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n. automaton definition (c) any living being whose actions are or appear to be involuntary or mechanical

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n. obsequies definition (c) funeral rites

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n. antonym definition (d) a word directly opposed to another in meaning

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n. reservoir definition (c) a receptacle where a quantity of some material, especially of a liquid or gas, may be kept

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n. stigma definition (a) a mark of infamy or token of disgrace attaching to a person as the result of evil-doing

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n. esquire definition (d) a title of dignity, office or courtesy

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n. liquor definition (d) any alcoholic or intoxicating drink

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n. lactation definition (a) the secretion of milk

A10 n. biennial definition (b) a plant that produces leaves and roots the first year and flowers and fruit the second

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v. hinder definition (a) to obstruct

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adj. daring definition (d) brave

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v. variegate definition (a) to mark with different shades or colors

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n. legionary definition (d) of a military unit; of a multitude; of a great number

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adj. onerous definition (a) burdensome or oppressive

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n. precision definition (c) accuracy of limitation, definition or adjustment

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n. disputation definition (c) verbal controversy

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adj. persuadable definition (d) capable of influencing to action by entreaty, statement or anything that moves the feelings

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n. amphitheater definition (c) an edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena

A10 n. matrix definition (a) that which contains and gives shape or form to anything

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 405 (Answer Keys)

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n. continuation definition (b) prolongation

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n. pervert definition (c) person who has forsaken a doctrine regarded as true for one esteemed false

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n. acerbity definition (c) sourness, with bitterness and astringency

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n. dejection definition (a) melancholy

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n. irritant definition (d) a mechanical, chemical or pathological agent of inflammation, pain or tension

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n. encore definition (d) the call for a repetition, as of some part of a play or performance

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n. summary definition (b) an abstract

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n. monograph definition (d) a treatise discussing a single subject or branch of a subject

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n. ecstasy definition (c) rapturous excitement or exaltation

A10 n. egress definition (c) any place of exit

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n. philology definition (b) the study of language in connection with history and literature

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v. recapitulate definition (c) to repeat again the principal points of

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n. benefit definition (a) helpful result

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adj. diffusible definition (d) spreading rapidly through the system and acting quickly

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v. imbrue definition (d) to wet or moisten

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adj. inapt definition (c) awkward or slow

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n. centiliter definition (b) a metric unit of volume

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adj. personal definition (d) not general or public

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n. rendition definition (d) interpretation

A10 n. labyrinth definition (b) a maze

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n. nutriment definition (b) source of sustenance and nourishment

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n. tapestry definition (b) a fabric to which a pattern is applied with a needle, designed for ornamental hangings

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n. exclusion definition (a) prevention; rejection; leaving out; keeping out; shutting out

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n. freethinker definition (c) one who rejects authority or inspiration in religion

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n. missile definition (d) any object, especially a weapon, thrown or intended to be thrown

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n. conjugation definition (b) the state or condition of being joined together

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n. mentality definition (d) intellectuality

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n. pediatrics definition (b) the department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood

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n. analogy definition (a) reasoning in which from certain and known relations or resemblance others are formed

A10 n. diligence definition (d) careful and persevering effort to accomplish what is undertaken

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v. ambulate definition (d) to walk about

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n. chancery definition (a) a court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court

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v. expectorate definition (c) to cough up and spit forth

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n. triad definition (a) a group of three persons of things

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n. palsy definition (c) condition in which a body part cannot be moved (caused by nerve or brain damage, etc.)

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n. foreman definition (c) leader; supervisor

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adj. vociferous definition (a) making a loud outcry

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n. colleague definition (c) an associate in professional employment

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adj. imperturbable definition (c) calm

A10 adj. mundane definition (a) worldly, as opposed to spiritual or celestial

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n. aristocracy definition (d) a hereditary nobility

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n. bibliomania definition (a) the passion for collecting books

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n. lodgment definition (b) the act of furnishing with temporary quarters

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n. conspirator definition (c) person who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose

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n. loch definition (a) a lake

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n. mileage definition (d) a distance in miles

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n. twinge definition (b) a darting momentary local pain

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n. polycracy definition (a) the rule of many

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n. liberalism definition (d) opposition to conservatism

A10 n. heretic definition (c) one who holds opinions contrary to the recognized standards or tenets of any philosophy

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n. domination definition (d) control by the exercise of power or constituted authority

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n. jugglery definition (b) the art or practice of sleight of hand

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adj. contingent definition (d) not predictable

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n. contrivance definition (c) the act planning, devising, inventing or adapting something to or for a special purpose

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adj. courageous definition (a) brave

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v. rebut definition (a) to oppose by argument or a sufficient answer

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v. beseech definition (d) to implore

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n. rhetoric definition (d) the art of discourse

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v. dissolve definition (b) to liquefy or soften, as by heat or moisture

A10 adj. culpable definition (b) guilty

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 411 (Answer Keys)

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n. acme definition (b) the highest point; summit

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n. loneliness definition (c) solitude

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n. perfidy definition (c) treachery

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n. lough definition (c) Irish word for lake; long inlet of the sea; bay

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n. effeminacy definition (b) lack of manly qualities; femininity

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n. wantonness definition (a) recklessness

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n. competence definition (d) adequate qualification or capacity

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n. mirage definition (b) an optical effect looking like a sheet of water in the desert

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n. anachronism definition (b) anything occurring or existing out of its proper time

A10 n. forbearance definition (a) patient endurance or toleration of offenses

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adj. rigorous definition (d) uncompromising

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adj. ascetic definition (a) given to severe self-denial and practicing excessive abstinence and devotion

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v. desert definition (c) to abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned

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v. initiate definition (d) to perform the first act or rite

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n. assassin definition (d) one who kills or tries to kill, treacherously or secretly

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n. waistcoat definition (b) a vest

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n. necromancer definition (c) one who practices the art of foretelling the future by means of communication with the dead

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adj. astute definition (b) keen in discernment

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adj. authentic definition (c) of undisputed origin

A10 adj. impregnable definition (a) that can not be taken by assault

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n. immigrant definition (c) a foreigner who enters a country to settle there

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n. guise definition (c) the external appearance as produced by garb or costume

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n. sufferance definition (d) toleration

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n. aerostatics definition (a) the branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure and mechanical properties

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n. machinist definition (c) person who makes or repairs metal-working tools

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n. refinery definition (c) a place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified

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n. demulcent definition (c) any application soothing to an irritable surface

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n. penance definition (b) self-imposed punishment; self-mortification; affliction

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n. deficiency definition (a) lack; shortage

A10 n. perspective definition (a) the relative importance of facts or matters from any special point of view

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n. convalescence definition (d) the state of progressive restoration to health and strength after the cessation of disease

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v. deport definition (a) to take or send away forcibly, as to a penal colony

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n. habitude definition (d) customary relation or association

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n. fanatic definition (b) a religious zealot

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n. insurgent definition (a) one who takes part in forcible opposition to the constituted authorities of a place

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n. cession definition (b) surrender, as of possessions or rights

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n. proclamation definition (b) any announcement made in a public manner

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adj. defiant definition (c) characterized by bold or insolent opposition

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adj. ignoble definition (d) low in character or purpose

A10 v. mediate definition (c) to effect by negotiating as an agent between parties

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n. satyr definition (c) a very lascivious person

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n. manufacturer definition (b) person, or organization that produces finished goods from raw materials, especially on a large industrial scale

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n. squatter definition (d) one who settles on land without permission or right

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n. lune definition (d) the moon

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n. carrion definition (d) dead and putrefying flesh

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n. nuisance definition (b) something that annoys, vexes or irritates

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n. differentia definition (a) any essential characteristic of a species by reason of which it differs from other species

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n. spinster definition (a) a woman who has never been married

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n. competitor definition (d) a rival

A10 n. epidemic definition (d) wide-spread occurrence of a disease in a certain region

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n. nurture definition (b) the process of fostering or promoting growth

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adv. et cetera definition (a) and so forth

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n. militarism definition (d) a policy of maintaining great standing armies

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adj. inexcusable definition (c) not to be justified

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n. secrecy definition (b) concealment

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adj. prescient definition (d) foreknowing

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n. souvenir definition (d) a token of remembrance

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v. extenuate definition (a) to diminish the gravity or importance of

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v. admonish definition (d) to warn of a fault

A10 n. sepulcher definition (b) a burial-place

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n. constable definition (a) an officer whose duty is to maintain the peace

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n. theology definition (c) the study of religions and religious teachings

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n. omnipotence definition (c) unlimited and universal power

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n. gusto definition (a) keen enjoyment

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n. analyst definition (c) person who analyzes or makes use of the analytical method

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n. repetition definition (a) the act of repeating

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n. exuberance definition (d) rich supply

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n. elasticity definition (a) that property of matter by which a body tends to return to a former shape after being changed

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n. landscape definition (b) a rural view, especially one of picturesque effect, as seen from a distance or an elevation

A10 n. paralysis definition (b) loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles

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v. ponder definition (a) to meditate or reflect upon

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adj. recrudescent definition (a) becoming raw or sore again

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n. cholera definition (a) an acute epidemic disease

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v. obstruct definition (d) to fill with impediments so as to prevent passage, either wholly or in part

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v. disallow definition (c) to withhold permission or sanction

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v. accouter definition (d) to dress

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n. contingency definition (b) possibility of happening

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n. recluse definition (a) person who lives in retirement or seclusion

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adj. discursive definition (b) passing from one subject to another

A10 adj. whimsical definition (c) capricious

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n. advocacy definition (c) the act of pleading a cause

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n. wile definition (c) an act or a means of cunning deception

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n. complacence definition (b) satisfaction with one's acts or surroundings

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n. sacrilege definition (d) the desecration of the holy

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n. exposure definition (b) an open situation or position in relation to the sun, elements or points of the compass

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n. stanchion definition (c) a vertical bar or a pair of bars, used to confine cattle in a stall

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n. comprehension definition (c) ability to know

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n. florist definition (d) a dealer in flowers

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n. catastrophe definition (b) any great and sudden misfortune or calamity

A10 n. parlance definition (c) mode of speech

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n. impetus definition (b) any impulse or incentive

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n. necropolis definition (c) a city of the dead

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n. trident definition (a) the three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune

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v. depress definition (a) to make sad; discourage

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v. rupture definition (a) to separate the parts of by violence

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adj. saponaceous definition (b) having the nature or quality of soap

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n. sextet definition (c) a band of six singers or players

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n. epilogue definition (c) the close of a narrative or dramatic poem

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n. duration definition (b) the period of time during which anything lasts

A10 n. preface definition (a) a brief explanation or address to the reader, at the beginning of a book

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n. secession definition (c) voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies

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n. ampersand definition (b) the character &; the logical conjunction 'AND'

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n. emergence definition (d) a coming into view

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n. nonpareil definition (d) somebody or something of unequaled excellence

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n. incoherence definition (c) want of connection or agreement, as of parts or ideas in thought, speech, etc.

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n. juror definition (c) one who serves on a jury or is sworn in for jury duty in a court of justice

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n. logician definition (d) an expert reasoner

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n. accordion definition (a) a portable free-reed musical instrument

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n. tenet definition (d) any opinion, principle, dogma or doctrine that a person believes or maintains as true

A10 n. sinecure definition (d) any position having emoluments with few or no duties

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n. utility definition (b) fitness for some desirable practical purpose

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v. revile definition (c) to heap approach or abuse upon

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n. recrudescence definition (b) the state of becoming raw or sore again

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n. protestant definition (a) a Christian who denies the authority of the Pope and holds the right of special judgment

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v. entrench definition (c) to settle firmly; strongly establish; establish a strong defensive position

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adj. pentavalent definition (a) quinqeuvalent

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n. pentahedron definition (b) a solid bounded by five plane faces

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n. adversity definition (c) misfortune

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adj. mandatory definition (c) expressive of positive command, as distinguished from merely directory

A10 n. effect definition (c) a consequence

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n. sentence definition (d) a related group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought

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n. autonomy definition (c) self-government

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n. geniality definition (b) warmth and kindliness of disposition

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n. nectar definition (a) any especially sweet and delicious drink

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n. erudition definition (a) extensive knowledge of literature, history, language, etc

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n. concussion definition (d) a violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow

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n. dissension definition (b) angry or violent difference of opinion

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n. necrology definition (c) a list of persons who have died in a certain place or time

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adj. robust definition (b) characterized by great strength or power of endurance

A10 n. bravado definition (d) an aggressive display of boldness

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adj. sapient definition (b) possessing wisdom

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adj. remiss definition (a) negligent

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n. statute definition (c) any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree or law

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v. venerate definition (c) to cherish reverentially

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adj. irreligious definition (d) indifferent or opposed to religion

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adj. arborescent definition (d) having the nature of a tree

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adj. underhanded definition (a) clandestinely carried on

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adj. flagrant definition (d) openly scandalous

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adj. brittle definition (a) fragile

A10 adj. diffident definition (b) affected or possessed with self-distrust

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n. intuition definition (d) instinctive knowledge or feeling

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n. sediment definition (b) matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid

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n. predominance definition (a) supremacy; superiority; prevailing influence; state of being widespread

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n. gamester definition (a) a gambler

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n. jingo definition (c) one of a party in Great Britain in favor of spirited and demonstrative foreign policy

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n. precedent definition (c) an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule

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n. machinery definition (b) an interconnected series of parts or processes that works like a mechanical system to produce a result

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n. viol definition (d) a six-stringed instrument from the 16th and 17th centuries

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n. collusion definition (d) a secret agreement for a wrongful purpose

A10 adj. indomitable definition (b) unconquerable

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adj. obstreperous definition (d) boisterous

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v. ennoble definition (c) to dignify

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adj. globular definition (d) spherical

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n. antistrophe definition (c) the inversion of terms in successive classes as in 'the home of joy and the joy of home'

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adj. evangelical definition (a) seeking the conversion of sinners

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v. demobilize definition (a) discharge from military service; disband an army

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n. exorbitance definition (c) extravagance or enormity

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n. crucible definition (a) a trying and purifying test or agency

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n. centurion definition (c) a captain of a company of one hundred infantry in the ancient Roman army

A10 n. usury definition (d) the demanding for the use of money as a loan, a rate of interest beyond what is allowed by law

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n. decalogue definition (c) the ten commandments

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n. lawmaker definition (a) a legislator

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n. sibilance definition (d) a hissing sound

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n. effusion definition (a) an outpouring

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n. gambol definition (c) playful leaping or frisking

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n. prelacy definition (d) a system of church government

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n. pedestal definition (c) a base or support as for a column, statue or vase

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n. preparation definition (c) an act or proceeding designed to bring about some event

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adj. frivolous definition (a) trivial

A10 n. zealot definition (b) one who espouses a cause or pursues an object in an immoderately partisan manner

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n. psychotherapy definition (d) the treatment of mental disease

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v. simplify definition (b) to make less complex or difficult

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n. primer definition (a) an elementary reading-book for children

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n. depression definition (d) sadness; low spirits

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n. personality definition (a) the attributes, taken collectively, that make up the character and nature of an individual

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n. weal definition (d) well-being

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n. cosmography definition (b) the science that describes the universe, including astronomy, geography and geology

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v. levy definition (c) to impose and collect by force or threat of force

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adj. prevalent definition (a) of wide extent or frequent occurrence

A10 v. suppress definition (c) to prevent from being disclosed or punished

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n. fief definition (d) a landed estate held under feudal tenure

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n. antic definition (a) a grotesque, ludicrous or fantastic action

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n. prevalence definition (a) frequency

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n. partition definition (d) divider; act of dividing; segment; section; division of the storage area of a hard disk

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n. isobar definition (d) a line joining points at which the barometric pressure is the same at a specified moment

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n. physicist definition (b) a specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy

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n. proscenium definition (a) that part of the stage between the curtain and the orchestra

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n. syllable definition (d) that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse

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n. pillage definition (a) open robbery, as in war

A10 n. constituent definition (d) person who has the right to vote at an election

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n. propaganda definition (c) information spread in order to promote a particular goal

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n. vegetarian definition (c) one who believes in the theory that man's food should be exclusively vegetable

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n. cameo definition (b) any small engraved or carved work in relief

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int. eureka definition (a) I have found it; I got it

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v. adjudge definition (c) to award or bestow by formal decision

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n. monolith definition (c) any structure or sculpture in stone formed of a single piece

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adj. pitiful definition (a) wretched

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adj. odoriferous definition (b) pleasant smelling; aromatic

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n. fluctuation definition (a) frequent irregular change back and forth from one state or degree to another

A10 adj. instantaneous definition (d) done without perceptible lapse of time

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n. narrative definition (d) an orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event

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n. bosom definition (c) the breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman

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n. mantel definition (c) the facing, sometimes richly ornamented, about a fireplace, including the usual shelf above it

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n. laundress definition (c) washerwoman

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n. purport definition (d) intent

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n. collision definition (a) violent contact

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n. bailiff definition (c) an officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment

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n. tutorship definition (d) the office of a guardian

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adj. caustic definition (c) sarcastic and severe

A10 n. reprisal definition (b) any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy

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n. apposition definition (b) the act of placing side by side, together or in contact

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v. involve definition (d) to draw into entanglement, literally or figuratively

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v. acquire definition (c) to get as one's own

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v. requite definition (c) to repay either good or evil to, as to a person

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n. belle definition (b) a woman who is a center of attraction because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc.

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n. anode definition (c) the point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like

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adv. piecemeal definition (b) gradually

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int. bravo definition (d) well done

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n. fracture definition (b) a break

A10 adj. sanguinary definition (c) bloody

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n. transition definition (a) passage from one place, condition or action to another

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n. expectancy definition (c) the act or state of looking forward to as certain or probable

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n. bodice definition (c) a woman's ornamental corset-shaped laced waist

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n. alkali definition (c) anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc

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n. revisal definition (c) revision

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n. reclusory definition (b) a hermitage

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n. prominence definition (a) the quality of being noticeable or distinguished

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n. forgery definition (c) counterfeiting

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n. advent definition (a) the coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state or personage

A10 n. confidant definition (b) one to whom secrets are entrusted

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n. irradiance definition (a) luster

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v. defame definition (d) to slander

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n. acid definition (b) a sour substance

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adj. transparent definition (c) easy to see through or understand

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n. cornucopia definition (a) the horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity

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v. effuse definition (c) to pour forth

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n. britannia definition (d) the United Kingdom of Great Britain

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adj. simultaneous definition (c) occurring, done or existing at the same time

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v. instigate definition (a) to provoke

A10 adj. contagious definition (c) transmitting disease

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n. affluence definition (a) a profuse or abundant supply of riches

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n. inception definition (b) the beginning

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n. profession definition (d) any calling or occupation involving special mental or other special disciplines

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n. abscission definition (c) the act of cutting off, as in a surgical operation

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n. actuary definition (a) one who calculates insurance risks and premiums according to statistical probabilities

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n. intimacy definition (d) close or confidential friendship

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n. dignitary definition (c) one who holds high rank

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n. curio definition (b) a piece of bric-a-brac

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n. travail definition (b) hard or agonizing labor

A10 n. portfolio definition (b) a portable case for holding writing-materials, drawings, etc

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n. pedagogy definition (a) the science and art of teaching

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adj. olfactory definition (a) of or pertaining to the sense of smell

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v. predicate definition (b) to state as belonging to something

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adj. dolesome definition (b) melancholy

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v. dissatisfy definition (b) to displease

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n. loiterer definition (b) person who consumes time idly

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adj. competitive definition (b) characterized by rivalry

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v. tantalize definition (c) to tease

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v. accelerate definition (b) to move faster

A10 v. enlist definition (b) to enter voluntarily the military service by formal enrollment

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n. retrogression definition (a) a going or moving backward or in a reverse direction

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n. incidence definition (d) casual occurrence

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n. jubilation definition (c) exultation

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n. penetration definition (d) discernment

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n. legging definition (c) a protective covering made of a strong material

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n. dastard definition (b) a base coward

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n. chattel definition (a) any article of personal property

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n. occurrence definition (b) a happening

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v. detest definition (d) to dislike or hate with intensity

A10 n. opulence definition (d) affluence

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n. origin definition (c) the beginning of that which becomes or is made to be

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n. ichthyology definition (c) the branch of zoology that treats of fishes

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n. digraph definition (a) a union of two characters representing a single sound

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adj. homologous definition (a) identical in nature, make-up or relation

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adj. angelic definition (b) saintly

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adj. corrigible definition (a) capable of reformation

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adj. unanimous definition (a) sharing the same views or sentiments

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adj. determinate definition (d) definitely limited or fixed

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adj. laudatory definition (a) pertaining to, expressing or containing praise

A10 v. emanate definition (b) to flow forth or proceed, as from some source

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n. regent definition (a) person who is lawfully deputized to administer the government for the time being in the name of the ruler

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n. academy definition (b) any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught

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n. convenience definition (a) fitness, as of time or place

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n. justification definition (a) vindication

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n. pioneer definition (c) person who is among the first to explore a country

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n. remission definition (c) temporary diminution of a disease

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n. dissolution definition (a) process of breaking up of a union of persons

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n. wretchedness definition (c) extreme misery or unhappiness

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n. altitude definition (b) vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea

A10 n. albino definition (d) a person with milky white skin and hair, and eyes with bright red pupil and usually pink iris

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adj. debonair definition (b) having gentle or courteous bearing or manner

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v. digress definition (d) to turn aside from the main subject and for a time dwell on some incidental matter

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n. heredity definition (a) transmission of physical or mental qualities, diseases, etc., from parent to offspring

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adj. academic definition (d) of or pertaining to an academy, college or university

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adj. impetuous definition (b) impulsive

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n. anthropology definition (a) the science of man in general

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n. decameter definition (a) a length of ten meters

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n. translator definition (c) an interpreter

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adj. corpulent definition (d) obese

A10 n. vassal definition (d) a slave or bondman

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n. surcharge definition (d) an additional amount added to the usual price

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n. generosity definition (b) a disposition to give liberally or to bestow favors heartily

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n. infrequence definition (d) rareness

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n. barometer definition (a) an instrument for indicating the atmospheric pressure per unit of surface

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n. discontinuance definition (c) interruption or intermission

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n. cynosure definition (c) that to which general interest or attention is directed

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n. hydra definition (c) the seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by Hercules

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n. fealty definition (d) loyalty

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n. alacrity definition (c) cheerful willingness

A10 n. annuity definition (c) an annual allowance, payment or income

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n. observance definition (c) a traditional form or customary act

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n. misadventure definition (d) an unlucky accident

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n. absence definition (a) the fact of not being present or available

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adj. galvanic definition (b) pertaining or relating to electricity produced by chemical action

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n. frankincense definition (b) a gum or resin which on burning yields aromatic fumes

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n. apostasy definition (d) a total departure from one's faith or religion

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v. bore definition (b) to weary by tediousness or dullness

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n. penchant definition (d) a bias in favor of something

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adj. cognate definition (b) akin

A10 n. enmity definition (a) hatred

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n. infusion definition (d) the act of imbuing or pouring in

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n. external definition (d) anything relating or belonging to the outside

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n. misogamy definition (c) hatred of marriage

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n. cantonment definition (c) the part of the town or district in which the troops are quartered

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n. dexterity definition (d) readiness, precision, efficiency, and ease in any physical activity or in any mechanical work

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n. pincers definition (a) an instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot

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n. skepticism definition (a) the entertainment of doubt concerning something

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n. repentance definition (c) sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong

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n. mite definition (a) a very small amount, portion or particle

A10 n. finale definition (a) concluding performance

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adj. abominable definition (b) very hateful

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v. beatify definition (b) to make supremely happy

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v. engrave definition (c) to cut or carve in or upon some surface

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adj. ascendant definition (c) dominant

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adj. endemic definition (c) peculiar to some specified country or people

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n. covey definition (a) a flock of quails or partridges

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n. minion definition (d) a servile favorite

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n. insight definition (c) intellectual discernment

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n. prospectus definition (d) a document or brochure providing a brief description of a project or enterprise

A10 adj. inchoate definition (c) incipient

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n. nemesis definition (d) a goddess; divinity of chastisement and vengeance

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n. outcast definition (a) person who is rejected and despised, especially socially

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n. equilibrium definition (d) a state of balance

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n. manumission definition (b) emancipation

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n. tempter definition (d) an allurer or enticer to evil

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n. baize definition (b) a single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc.

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n. optometry definition (a) measurement of the powers of vision

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n. tolerance definition (d) forbearance in judging of the acts or opinions of others

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n. manifesto definition (c) a public declaration, making announcement, explanation or defense of intentions or motives

A10 n. curator definition (c) a person having charge as of a library or museum

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adj. sparse definition (a) thinly diffused

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v. undeceive definition (b) to free from deception, as by apprising of the real state of affairs

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n. embargo definition (d) authoritative stoppage of foreign commerce or of any special trade

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n. incident definition (a) a happening in general, especially one of little importance

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n. physiognomy definition (a) the external appearance merely

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adj. shrewd definition (a) characterized by skill at understanding and profiting by circumstances

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n. forehead definition (d) the upper part of the face, between the eyes and the hair

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adj. garrulous definition (c) given to constant trivial talking

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v. germinate definition (d) to begin to develop into an embryo or higher form

A10 adj. boisterous definition (d) unchecked merriment or animal spirits

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n. impetuosity definition (b) rashness

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n. lever definition (a) something that exerts or through through which one may exert great power

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n. presentment definition (d) semblance

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n. soliloquy definition (c) a monologue

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n. reliance definition (c) dependence

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n. contribution definition (c) the act of giving for a common purpose

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n. allotment definition (d) portion

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n. velocity definition (b) rapid motion

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n. abdomen definition (d) in mammals, the visceral cavity between the diaphragm and the pelvic floor; the belly

A10 n. insomnia definition (b) sleeplessness

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adj. gluttonous definition (a) given to excess in eating

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v. contuse definition (d) to bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin

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adj. outlandish definition (a) of barbarous, uncouth and unfamiliar aspect or action

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adj. expository definition (a) pertaining to a formal presentation

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v. arrange definition (a) to put in definite or proper order

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adj. preferential definition (d) possessing, giving or constituting preference or priority

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adj. inceptive definition (a) beginning

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adj. sensual definition (d) relating to physical or, especially, sexual pleasure

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n. grimace definition (c) a distortion of the features, occasioned by some feeling of pain, disgust, etc

A10 adj. indigenous definition (a) native

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 449 (Answer Keys)

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n. blemish definition (a) a mark that mars beauty

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n. tenant definition (d) an occupant

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n. purgatory definition (b) an intermediate state where souls are made fit for paradise or heaven by expiatory suffering

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n. corrosion definition (a) gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration

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n. resilience definition (b) the power of springing back to a former position

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n. complication definition (c) an intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner

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n. alto definition (c) the lowest or deepest female voice or part

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n. autopsy definition (d) the examination of a dead body by dissection to ascertain the cause of death

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n. colloquy definition (d) conversation

A10 n. miser definition (a) a person given to saving and hoarding unduly

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 450 (Answer Keys)

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n. conjecture definition (b) a guess

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n. preemption definition (d) the right or act of purchasing before others

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adj. obese definition (d) exceedingly fat

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n. tinge definition (d) a faint trace of color

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n. remembrance definition (b) recollection

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n. diphthong definition (b) the sound produced by combining two vowels in to a single syllable or running together the sounds

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adj. insuppressible definition (b) incapable of being concealed

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n. poetaster definition (c) a writer of light verse, usually of low quality

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v. conceive definition (a) to form an idea, mental image or thought of

A10 adj. pallid definition (d) ashen; colorless; white; faint; weak; sickly

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 451 (Answer Keys)

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n. aborigine definition (b) native; indigenous person; member of a people considered to be the earliest known inhabitants of a country or region

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n. hypotenuse definition (b) the side of a right-angled triangle opposite the right angle

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n. avarice definition (d) passion for getting and keeping riches

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n. octagon definition (b) a figure with eight sides and eight angles

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n. manor definition (a) the landed estate of a lord or nobleman

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n. syneresis definition (d) the coalescence of two vowels or syllables, as e'er for ever

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n. afterthought definition (d) an idea that comes later than its appropriate or expected time

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n. susceptibility definition (d) a specific capability of feeling or emotion

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n. derision definition (d) ridicule

A10 n. parity definition (b) equality, as of condition or rank

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n. inexperience definition (c) state of being unfamiliar with something; lack of knowledge or ability

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adj. docile definition (a) easy to manage

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n. illuminant definition (d) that which may be used to produce light

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adj. latish definition (d) rather late

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n. pittance definition (b) any small portion or meager allowance

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adj. inexorable definition (a) unrelenting

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adj. piteous definition (d) compassionate

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adj. inestimable definition (b) above price

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adj. grotesque definition (d) incongruously composed or ill-proportioned

A10 n. grandeur definition (b) largeness; stateliness, magnificence; importance; nobility

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 453 (Answer Keys)

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n. superintendent definition (b) person who has the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement

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n. stimulus definition (d) incentive

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n. joggle definition (d) a sudden irregular shake or a push causing such a shake

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n. cadence definition (b) rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops

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n. makeup definition (a) the arrangements or combination of the parts of which anything is composed

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n. moonbeam definition (d) a pale, milky, or iridescent light reflected to the Earth at night

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n. anglophobia definition (a) hatred or dread of England or of what is English

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n. continence definition (b) self-restraint with respect to desires, appetites and passion

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n. pedestrian definition (d) one who journeys on foot

A10 n. variation definition (a) modification

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 454 (Answer Keys)

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n. heifer definition (d) a young cow

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n. promoter definition (d) a furtherer, forwarder or encourager

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v. antedate definition (b) precede in time

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n. linguist definition (a) person who is acquainted with several languages

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v. entwine definition (b) to interweave

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v. expect definition (b) to look forward to as certain or probable

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adv. later definition (b) at a subsequent time

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int. adieu definition (a) good-by; farewell

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adj. irrelevant definition (b) inapplicable

A10 adj. abrupt definition (d) beginning, ending or changing suddenly or with a break

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 455 (Answer Keys)

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n. obstruction definition (b) hindrance

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n. course definition (d) line of motion or direction

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n. pantomime definition (b) sign-language

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n. abstinence definition (d) self denial

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n. monition definition (a) friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof

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n. outcry definition (c) a scream; shout; protest

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n. mallet definition (a) a wooden hammer

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n. hydromechanics definition (b) a part of the study of liquids

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adj. bestial definition (b) animal

A10 n. optician definition (a) person who makes or deals in optical instruments or eye-glasses

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adj. nugatory definition (a) having no power or force

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n. credence definition (d) belief

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adj. protuberant definition (b) bulging

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adj. nameless definition (c) having no fame or reputation

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n. degeneracy definition (a) process of becoming worse

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adj. cosmetic definition (d) pertaining to the art of beautifying, especially the complexion

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n. monocracy definition (a) government by a single person

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adj. precedential definition (a) of the nature of an instance that may serve as a guide or basis for a rule

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n. luminary definition (b) one of the heavenly bodies as a source of light

A10 v. probe definition (b) to search through and through

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n. nominee definition (d) person who receives a candidacy

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n. indulgence definition (c) the yielding to inclination, passion, desire or propensity in oneself or another

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n. constituency definition (b) the inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body

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n. furlong definition (a) a measure of length; one-eighth of a mile

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n. nonentity definition (b) a person or thing of little or no account

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n. pyx definition (a) a vessel or casket, usually of precious metal, in which the host is preserved

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n. ridicule definition (b) looks or acts expressing amused contempt

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n. successor definition (d) heir; inheritor; one who or that which follows or takes the place of another

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v. generalize definition (a) make sweeping statements

A10 n. corpse definition (a) a dead body

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n. atheism definition (d) the denial of the existence of God

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adj. pitiable definition (b) contemptible

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adj. monetary definition (a) financial

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n. distemper definition (b) a disease or malady

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adj. tricolor definition (b) of three colors

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adj. hypnotic definition (c) tending to produce sleep

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v. idealize definition (b) to make to conform to some mental or imaginary standard

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n. benefice definition (a) a church office endowed with funds or property for the maintenance of divine service

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n. volition definition (c) an act or exercise of will

A10 n. default definition (d) the neglect or omission of a legal requirement

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n. pantheism definition (c) the worship of nature for itself or its beauty

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n. aggregate definition (b) the entire number, sum, mass or quantity of something

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n. fernery definition (c) a place in which ferns are grown

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n. antiphon definition (b) a response or alteration of responses, generally musical

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n. humbug definition (b) anything intended or calculated to deceive or mislead

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n. pavilion definition (b) an open structure for temporary shelter

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n. foreordination definition (c) predestination

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n. poesy definition (a) poetry

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n. negation definition (a) the act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition

A10 n. influx definition (b) infusion

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n. intrusion definition (c) the act of entering without warrant or invitation; encroachment

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adj. forcible definition (d) violent

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n. penury definition (d) indigence

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adj. reliant definition (a) having confidence

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n. interpreter definition (a) a person who makes intelligible the speech of a foreigner by oral translation

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n. predicament definition (c) a difficult, trying situation or plight

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n. prophecy definition (b) any prediction or foretelling

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adj. floral definition (c) pertaining to flowers

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n. microcosm definition (a) the world or universe on a small scale

A10 n. repository definition (a) a place in which goods are stored

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n. atomizer definition (b) an apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc.

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n. indolence definition (b) laziness

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n. effulgence definition (d) splendor

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n. precaution definition (c) a provision made in advance for some possible emergency or danger

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n. conformance definition (a) the act or state or conforming

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n. creed definition (b) a formal summary of fundamental points of religious belief

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n. invalid definition (a) person who is disabled by illness or injury

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n. somnolence definition (c) oppressive drowsiness

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adj. moribund definition (d) on the point of dying

A10 n. anticlimax definition (b) a gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said

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adj. illegible definition (c) undecipherable

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v. propel definition (b) to drive or urge forward

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adj. epizootic definition (d) prevailing among animals

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v. embolden definition (b) to give courage to

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n. trait definition (b) a distinguishing feature or quality

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adj. aqueous definition (b) of, pertaining to or containing water

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n. neurology definition (d) the science of the nervous system

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n. grenadier definition (c) a member of a regiment composed of men of great stature

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n. characteristic definition (b) a distinctive feature

A10 adj. cursory definition (c) rapid and superficial

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 463 (Answer Keys)

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n. perspicacity definition (c) acuteness or discernment

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n. bevel definition (a) any inclination of two surfaces other than 90 degrees

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n. biograph definition (b) a bibliographical sketch or notice

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n. dragoon definition (b) in the British army, a cavalryman

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n. dolor definition (a) lamentation

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n. pension definition (a) a periodical allowance to an individual on account of past service done by them

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n. syndicate definition (c) an association of individuals united for the prosecution of some enterprise

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n. telephony definition (d) the general use of equipment to provide voice communication over distances

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n. panegyric definition (c) a formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act

A10 n. incendiary definition (b) chemical or person who starts a fire-literally or figuratively

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v. incinerate definition (c) to reduce to ashes

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v. displace definition (d) to remove from office; oust

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n. breech definition (a) the buttocks

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adj. municipal definition (d) of or pertaining to a town or city or to its corporate or local government

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adj. thoroughbred definition (c) pedigreed; cultured

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adj. fitful definition (b) spasmodic

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n. pestilence definition (a) a raging epidemic

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v. unyoke definition (a) to separate

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v. deter definition (a) to frighten away

A10 n. occident definition (a) the countries lying west of Asia and the Turkish dominions

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n. allegory definition (c) the setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness

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n. gynecocracy definition (b) female supremacy

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n. non-combatant definition (d) person who is attached to the army or navy, but having duties other than that of fighting

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n. jurisdiction definition (d) lawful power or right to exercise official authority

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n. ampere definition (a) the practical unit of electric-current strength

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n. cudgel definition (c) a short thick stick used as a club

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n. subversion definition (c) an overthrow, as from the foundation

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n. deformity definition (c) a disfigurement

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n. timbre definition (c) the quality of a tone, as distinguished from intensity and pitch

A10 n. valedictory definition (d) a parting address

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adj. asexual definition (b) referring to reproduction without the combination of genetic material with another individua

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adj. hilarious definition (b) boisterously merry

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n. oratorio definition (c) a composition for solo voices, chorus, and orchestra, generally taken from the Scriptures

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adj. peaceful definition (b) tranquil

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adj. resistive definition (b) having or exercising the power of resistance

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v. distort definition (a) to twist into an unnatural or irregular form

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adj. isochronous definition (b) relating to or denoting equal intervals of time

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n. acquittance definition (a) release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation or responsibility

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n. pagan definition (c) a worshiper of false gods

A10 n. genesis definition (c) creation

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n. statics definition (b) the branch of mechanics that treats of the relations that subsist among forces in order

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n. dilettante definition (a) a superficial amateur

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n. dissent definition (b) disagreement

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n. abbot definition (a) the superior of a community of monks

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n. paucity definition (a) fewness

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n. lithograph definition (d) a print made by printing from stone

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n. expanse definition (b) a continuous area or stretch

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n. deposition definition (a) testimony legally taken on interrogatories and reduced to writing, for use as evidence in court

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n. entomology definition (b) the branch of zoology that treats of insects

A10 n. quarantine definition (d) the enforced isolation of any person or place infected with contagious disease

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v. protract definition (a) to postpone; lengthen; continue; maintain; preserve

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n. by-law definition (d) a rule or ordinance adopted by an association, a corporation or the like

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n. overture definition (b) an instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio or ballet

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v. delineate definition (a) to represent by sketch or diagram

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adj. inseparable definition (c) indivisible; close; devoted

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adj. derisible definition (b) open to ridicule

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v. distend definition (b) to stretch out or expand in every direction

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v. foreordain definition (d) to predetermine

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adj. liable definition (b) justly or legally responsible

A10 adj. copious definition (d) plenteous

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n. death's-head definition (b) human skull or representation of a man's skull

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n. kernel definition (d) a grain or seed

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n. transient definition (a) somebody or something that is only of temporary existence

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n. municipality definition (c) a city or district with its own government; city council; governing body of the local area

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n. hemorrhage definition (c) discharge of blood from a ruptured or wounded blood-vessel

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n. difference definition (d) dissimilarity in any respect

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n. guess definition (c) surmise

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n. impropriety definition (c) the state or quality of being unfit, unseemly or inappropriate

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n. caste definition (a) the division of society on artificial grounds

A10 n. itinerary definition (b) a detailed account or diary of a journey

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adj. repellent definition (c) having power to force back in a manner, physically or mentally

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n. assailant definition (b) person who attacks

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adj. excitable definition (a) nervously high-strung

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n. salutatory definition (b) the opening oration at the commencement in American colleges

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n. bronchus definition (d) either of the two subdivisions of the trachea conveying air into the lungs

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n. disservice definition (c) an ill turn

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n. persecution definition (d) harsh or malignant oppression

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adj. redundant definition (a) constituting an excess

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n. refusal definition (d) denial of what is asked

A10 adj. medial definition (a) of or pertaining to the middle

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n. vicissitude definition (c) a change, especially a complete change, of condition or circumstances, as of fortune

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n. pyromania definition (c) an insane propensity to set things on fire

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n. submergence definition (b) flood; inundate; engulf

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n. alienation definition (a) estrangement

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n. protagonist definition (b) a leader in any enterprise or contest

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n. stringency definition (d) strictness

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n. lea definition (b) a field

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n. fallow definition (a) land broken up and left to become mellow or to rest

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n. corollary definition (d) a proposition following so obviously from another that it requires little demonstration

A10 n. cornice definition (b) an ornamental molding running round the walls of a room close to the ceiling

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n. impunity definition (b) freedom from punishment

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n. misanthropy definition (d) hatred of mankind

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adj. titanic definition (d) of vast size or strength

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v. congregate definition (b) to bring together into a crowd

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adj. fungous definition (c) spongy

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n. deviltry definition (c) wanton and malicious mischief

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adj. licit definition (d) lawful

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adj. laureate definition (c) crowned with laurel, as a mark of distinction

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adj. imprudent definition (a) heedless

A10 n. consumption definition (d) gradual destruction, as by burning, eating, etc. or by using up, wearing out, etc.

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n. divisor definition (c) that by which a number or quantity is divided

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n. brogan definition (a) a coarse, heavy shoe

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n. equity definition (d) fairness or impartiality

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n. hypnosis definition (c) an artificial trance-sleep

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n. inherence definition (d) the state of being permanently existing in something

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n. crockery definition (d) earthenware made from baked clay

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n. aeronautics definition (a) the art or practice of flying aircraft

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n. prevention definition (c) thwarting

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adj. belligerent definition (c) manifesting a warlike spirit

A10 n. charlatan definition (c) a quack

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n. packet definition (a) a bundle, as of letters

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v. succeed definition (c) to accomplish what is attempted or intended

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v. intersect definition (b) to cut through or into so as to divide

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v. succumb definition (b) to cease to resist

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n. diplomatist definition (b) person who is remarkable for tact and shrewd management

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n. antichrist definition (d) any opponent or enemy of Jesus, whether a person or a power

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n. toleration definition (c) a spirit of charitable leniency

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adj. vertical definition (b) lying or directed perpendicularly to the horizon

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n. apathy definition (c) insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling

A10 v. vindicate definition (c) to prove true, right or real

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n. shrinkage definition (a) a contraction of any material into less bulk or dimension

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n. iridescence definition (b) a many-colored appearance

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n. epicycloid definition (b) a curve traced by a point on the circumference of a circle which rolls upon another circle

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n. antechamber definition (c) a waiting room for those who seek audience

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n. azalea definition (a) a flowering shrub

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n. laudation definition (d) high praise

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n. breaker definition (c) one who trains horses, dogs, etc

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n. intestine definition (c) that part of the digestive tube below or behind the stomach, extending to the anus

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n. autocrat definition (b) any person who claims or wields unrestricted or undisputed authority or influence

A10 n. necrosis definition (c) the death of part of the body

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n. pertinacity definition (c) unyielding adherence

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adj. consumptive definition (d) designed for gradual destruction

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n. optics definition (b) the science that treats of light and vision, and all that is connected with sight

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adj. indigestible definition (c) difficult or impossible to break down and absorb (food)

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v. reck definition (a) to have a care or thought for

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n. abridgment definition (b) a condensed form as of a book or play

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n. magnet definition (b) a body possessing that peculiar form of polarity found in nature in the lodestone

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n. colossus definition (b) any strikingly great person or object

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adj. fervid definition (a) intense

A10 n. avocation definition (b) diversion

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n. pendant definition (d) anything that hangs from something else, either for ornament or for use

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n. epoch definition (a) an interval of time, memorable for extraordinary events

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n. possessor definition (c) person who owns, enjoys or controls anything, such as property

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n. eccentricity definition (d) idiosyncrasy

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n. battalion definition (b) a body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment

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n. vociferance definition (c) the quality of making a clamor

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n. dismissal definition (d) displacement by authority from an office or an employment

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n. forecourt definition (d) space in front of building

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v. pacify definition (a) to bring into a peaceful state

A10 n. metal definition (b) an element that forms a base by combining with oxygen, is usually hard, heavy, and lustrous

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v. revert definition (c) to return or turn or look back, as toward a former position or the like

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v. marvel definition (c) to be astonished and perplexed because of (something)

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n. raillery definition (d) good-humored satire

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n. reprehension definition (d) expression of blame

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adj. preternatural definition (b) extraordinary

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adj. arboreal definition (b) of or pertaining to a tree or trees

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n. moderation definition (d) temperance

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v. deforest definition (d) to clear of woods

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n. preamble definition (c) a statement introductory to and explanatory of what follows

A10 n. aphorism definition (b) proverb

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n. insignificance definition (c) lack of import or of importance

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n. motto definition (b) an expressive word or pithy sentence enunciating some guiding rule of life or faith

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n. hillock definition (c) a small mound

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n. freshness definition (b) vigor; liveliness; newness; recentness

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n. narrator definition (b) a storyteller

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n. guile definition (c) duplicity

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n. americanism definition (c) a peculiar sense in which an English word or phrase is used in the United States

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n. islet definition (b) a little island

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n. zenith definition (b) the culminating-point of prosperity, influence or greatness

A10 n. technology definition (d) the knowledge relating to industries and manufactures

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n. injunction definition (a) mandate

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v. gibe definition (d) to utter taunts or reproaches

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n. interim definition (a) time between acts or periods

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adj. pungent definition (d) affecting the sense of smell

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adj. abnormal definition (d) not conformed to the ordinary rule or standard

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v. assuage definition (a) to cause to be less harsh, violent or severe, as excitement, appetite, pain or disease

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n. variance definition (a) change

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n. prescription definition (d) an authoritative direction

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adj. insuperable definition (c) invincible

A10 v. analyze definition (d) to examine minutely or critically

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n. collegian definition (b) a college student

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n. fulcrum definition (d) the support on or against which a lever rests or the point about which it turns

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n. ripplet definition (a) a small wave

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n. doe definition (d) the female of the deer

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n. transference definition (a) the act of conveying from one person or place to another

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n. pennant definition (d) a small flag

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adj. subconscious definition (a) occurring outside of an individual's awareness

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n. pungency definition (c) the quality of affecting the sense of smell

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n. assay definition (b) the chemical analysis or testing of an alloy ore

A10 n. sinus definition (b) an opening or cavity

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v. oust definition (b) to eject

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adj. fraternal definition (b) brotherly

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adj. misanthropic definition (c) hating mankind

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adv. forth definition (d) into notice or view

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v. disappear definition (b) to cease to exist, either actually or for the time being

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adj. happy-go-lucky definition (b) improvident

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n. residue definition (c) a remainder or surplus after a part has been separated or otherwise treated

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n. excitation definition (a) intensified emotion or action

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adj. conservative definition (d) adhering to the existing order of things

A10 v. accredit definition (b) to certify; recognize; assign; license

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n. reticence definition (a) the quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance

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n. telepathy definition (d) thought-transference

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n. calvary definition (b) the place where Christ was crucified

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n. mien definition (c) the external appearance or manner of a person

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n. infidel definition (a) one who denies the existence of God

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n. colloquialism definition (c) form of speech used only or chiefly in conversation

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n. calculus definition (d) a concretion formed in various parts of the body resembling a pebble in hardness

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n. deceit definition (a) falsehood

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n. stipend definition (b) a definite amount paid at stated periods in compensation for services or as an allowance

A10 n. truculence definition (a) ferocity

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adj. modish definition (a) fashionable

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adj. convertible definition (a) interchangeable

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n. verbiage definition (c) use of many words without necessity

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adv. wittingly definition (c) with knowledge and by design

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n. maharaja definition (b) a great Hindu prince

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n. libel definition (c) defamation

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n. concurrence definition (c) agreement

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n. iniquity definition (b) gross wrong or injustice

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v. abridge definition (a) to make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles

A10 v. prolong definition (a) to extend in time or duration

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n. pinchers definition (d) an instrument having two jaws working on a pivot

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n. collier definition (d) one who works in a coal-mine

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n. stimulant definition (a) anything that rouses to activity or to quickened action

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n. aroma definition (c) an agreeable odor

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n. iliad definition (d) a Greek epic poem describing scenes from the siege of Troy

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n. alliance definition (d) any combination or union for some common purpose

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n. prospector definition (c) person who makes exploration, search or examination, especially for minerals

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n. annalist definition (c) historian

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n. addendum definition (c) something added or to be added

A10 adj. versatile definition (c) having an aptitude for applying oneself to new and varied tasks or to various subjects

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n. prejudice definition (a) preconceived opinion; bias; sentence passed before proper examination of the circumstances

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n. bibliography definition (b) a list of the words of an author or the literature bearing on a particular subject

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adj. sagacious definition (d) able to discern and distinguish with wise perception

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n. ladle definition (a) a cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, intended for dipping up and pouring liquids

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v. disburden definition (b) to disencumber

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v. immigrate definition (d) to come into a country or region from a former habitat

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n. explosion definition (d) a sudden and violent outbreak

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v. convolve definition (d) to move with a circling or winding motion

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n. tyranny definition (c) absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly administrated

A10 adj. retrospective definition (d) looking back on the past

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 487 (Answer Keys)

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n. offshoot definition (a) a branch; a derivative

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n. precedence definition (c) priority in place, time or rank

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n. sentience definition (b) capacity for sensation or sense-perception

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n. ordeal definition (b) anything that severely tests courage, strength, patience, conscience, etc

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n. profiteer definition (b) person who benefits

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n. microscopy definition (a) the art of examining objects with the microscope

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n. darwinism definition (a) the doctrine that natural selection has been the prime cause of evolution of higher forms

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n. trammel definition (d) an impediment

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v. ravage definition (c) to lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring or other destructive methods

A10 n. bureaucracy definition (b) government by departments of men transacting particular branches of public business

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 488 (Answer Keys)

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v. disapprove definition (a) to regard with blame

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n. hazard definition (b) risk

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v. abjure definition (a) to recant, renounce or repudiate under oath

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n. reliquary definition (b) a casket, coffer or repository in which relics are kept

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adj. voracious definition (b) eating with greediness or in very large quantities

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v. disenfranchise definition (a) to deprive of any right privilege or power

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n. irritancy definition (c) the quality of producing vexation

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n. preference definition (d) an object of favor or choice

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n. anthology definition (c) a collection of extracts from the writings of various authors

A10 v. exert definition (b) to make an effort

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 489 (Answer Keys)

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n. option definition (a) the right, power or liberty of choosing

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n. flag-officer definition (a) the captain of a special ship

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n. flux definition (a) a state of constant movement, change or renewal

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n. incandescence definition (c) the state of being white or glowing with heat

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n. contributor definition (d) one who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose

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n. handwriting definition (d) penmanship

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n. antilogy definition (c) inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas

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n. gyroscope definition (b) an instrument for illustrating the laws of rotation

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n. anarchy definition (b) absence or utter disregard of government

A10 n. icon definition (d) an image or likeness

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n. fissure definition (a) a crack or crack-like depression

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n. venom definition (c) the poisonous fluid that certain animals secrete

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adv. out-and-out definition (a) genuinely

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v. bestrew definition (b) to sprinkle or cover with things strewn

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adj. semiannual definition (b) recurring at intervals of six months

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v. cohere definition (a) to stick together

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n. concerto definition (d) a musical composition

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n. depository definition (a) a place where anything is kept in safety

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n. counterpart definition (b) something taken with another for the completion of either

A10 v. divert definition (a) to turn from the accustomed course or a line of action already established

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 491 (Answer Keys)

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n. altruist definition (c) philanthropist; person who is very unselfish

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n. retort definition (a) a retaliatory speech

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n. knighthood definition (a) chivalry

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n. consul definition (a) an officer appointed to reside in a foreign city, chiefly to represent his country

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n. ancestry definition (d) family origin; genealogy; line of descent

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n. extremist definition (d) one who supports extreme measures or holds extreme views

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v. underlie definition (c) to be the ground or support of

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n. equanimity definition (a) evenness of mind or temper

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n. sybarite definition (b) a luxurious person

A10 n. calumny definition (a) slander

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n. progeny definition (a) offspring

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adj. irrefrangible definition (a) that can not be broken or violated

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n. census definition (c) an official numbering of the people of a country or district

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v. mistrust definition (c) to regard with suspicion or jealousy

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n. administrator definition (b) one who manages affairs of any kind

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n. olive-branch definition (c) a peace offering; a gesture of goodwill

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n. interlude definition (c) an action or event considered as coming between others of greater length

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adj. salutary definition (c) beneficial

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n. demagogue definition (a) an unprincipled politician

A10 v. portend definition (b) to indicate as being about to happen, especially by previous signs

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n. masquerade definition (a) a social party composed of persons masked and costumed so as to be disguised

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n. distillation definition (a) separation of the more volatile parts of a substance from those less volatile

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n. palate definition (d) the roof of the mouth

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n. pillory definition (b) a wooden framework in which an offender is fastened to boards and is exposed to public scorn

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n. legislator definition (d) a lawgiver

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n. aggravation definition (b) the fact of being made heavier or more heinous, as a crime, offense, misfortune, etc.

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n. seer definition (c) a prophet

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n. stripling definition (c) a mere youth

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n. patriarch definition (d) the chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right

A10 n. commodity definition (a) something that is bought and sold

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SAT Vocabulary / Meaning by Word / Test # 494 (Answer Keys)

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adj. autonomous definition (a) self-governing

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n. idiosyncrasy definition (a) a mental quality or habit peculiar to an individual

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adj. inane definition (d) silly

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n. adoration definition (b) profound devotion

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v. disseminate definition (d) to sow or scatter abroad, as seed is sown

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n. viola definition (b) a musical instrument somewhat larger than a violin

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n. intermission definition (a) a recess

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adj. pastoral definition (a) having the spirit or sentiment of rural life

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v. unify definition (a) to cause to be one

A10 n. mandate definition (d) a command

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v. allot definition (d) to assign a definite thing or part to a certain person

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v. expostulate definition (d) to discuss

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adj. low-spirited definition (c) despondent

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n. lassie definition (c) a young girl; sweetheart

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adj. contemporaneous definition (b) living, occurring or existing at the same time

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v. divest definition (c) to strip, specifically of clothes, ornaments or accouterments or disinvestment

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n. precession definition (a) the act of going forward

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n. confluence definition (b) the place where streams meet

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n. position definition (a) the manner in which a thing is placed

A10 adj. inveterate definition (d) habitual

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n. mnemonics definition (c) a system of principles and formulas designed to assist the recollection in certain instances

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n. alternate definition (b) one chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other

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n. proverb definition (a) a brief, pithy saying, condensing in witty or striking form the wisdom of experience

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adj. sebaceous definition (b) pertaining to or appearing like fat

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adj. scholastic definition (a) pertaining to education or schools

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adj. censorious definition (c) judging severely or harshly

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n. disobedience definition (b) neglect or refusal to comply with an authoritative injunction

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n. mutation definition (c) the act or process of change

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n. arrival definition (b) a coming to stopping-place or destination

A10 n. trajectory definition (c) the path described by a projectile moving under given forces

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n. siren definition (a) a sea-nymph, described by Homer as dwelling between the island of Circe and Scylla

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n. rote definition (d) repetition of words or sounds as a means of learning them, with slight attention

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n. genealogist definition (d) a tracer of pedigrees

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adj. magisterial definition (b) having an air of authority

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adj. left-handed definition (b) clumsy

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n. surety definition (c) security for payment or performance

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n. declension definition (d) the change of endings in nouns and adjectives to express their different relations of gender

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adj. improvident definition (d) lacking foresight or thrift

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n. resonance definition (d) the quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations

A10 adj. imminent definition (a) dangerous and close at hand

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v. waive definition (c) to relinquish, especially temporarily, as a right or claim

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adj. vehement definition (a) very eager or urgent

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n. reform definition (c) change for the better

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n. rectitude definition (a) the quality of being upright in principles and conduct

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n. bulwark definition (c) anything that gives security or defense

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n. foresail definition (a) part on a foremast of a ship

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n. claimant definition (d) one who asserts a right or title to something

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n. arboriculture definition (c) the cultivation of trees or shrubs

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n. paramour definition (d) person who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress

A10 adj. vicarious definition (c) suffered or done in place of or for the sake of another

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n. alias definition (c) an assumed name

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v. reassure definition (b) to give new confidence

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n. bale definition (d) a large package prepared for transportation or storage

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n. convulsion definition (d) a violent and abnormal muscular contraction of the body

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adj. illegal definition (d) not according to law

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n. paraphernalia definition (d) miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment

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v. prophesy definition (d) to predict or foretell, especially under divine inspiration and guidance

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n. brigand definition (b) one who lives by robbery and plunder

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adj. irrepressible definition (c) that can not be restrained or kept down

A10 n. fiasco definition (b) a complete or humiliating failure

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n. ligature definition (a) anything that constricts or serves for binding or tying

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adj. perspicacious definition (a) astute

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n. annals definition (d) a record of events in their chronological order, year by year

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adj. sanguine definition (b) having the color of blood

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n. ascent definition (d) a rising, soaring or climbing

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adj. somnolent definition (b) sleepy

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adj. habitual definition (b) according to usual practice

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adj. rampant definition (a) growing, climbing or running without check or restraint

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n. significance definition (b) importance

A10 v. promulgate definition (d) to declare; publicize; advertise widely; publish; distribute widely

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n. acridness definition (a) sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper

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adj. perpendicular definition (d) straight up and down

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adj. prohibitory definition (c) forbidding; disallowing; enjoining; preventing; hindering; preclusive

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adj. stagy definition (b) having a theatrical manner

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n. benison definition (c) blessing

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n. collector definition (c) person who makes a collection, as of objects of art, books or the like

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adj. inbred definition (d) innate

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adj. dubious definition (b) doubtful

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adj. facetious definition (b) amusing

A10 adj. arrogant definition (d) unduly or excessively proud, as of wealth, station, learning, etc

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