Hard SAT Words - Group 3

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n. guarantee, usually in the form of an asset, for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay


Spelling Word: collateral
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n. participation; involvement as partner or accomplice, especially in crime or other wrongdoing


Spelling Word: complicity
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n. large destructive fire


Spelling Word: conflagration
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n. flirt; seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men


Spelling Word: coquette
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v. smear as with paint; apply with quick or crude strokes to surface; make crude paintings


Spelling Word: daub
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v. change shape by stress; become misshapen; make formless


Spelling Word: deform
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v. remove or reduce an area's military power


Spelling Word: demilitarize
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v. blacken; defame; attack reputation of; degrade


Spelling Word: denigrate
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n. meaning or indication; distinguishing by name; something, such as a sign or symbol, that denotes


Spelling Word: denotation
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n. outcome; final resolution or clarification of dramatic or narrative plot


Spelling Word: denouement