Hard SAT Words - Group 8

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a. offensively self-assured; dictatorial; not allowing contradiction or refusal


Spelling Word: peremptory
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a. tending to betray; disloyal; faithless


Spelling Word: perfidious
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a. penetrable; porous; allowing liquids or gas to pass through


Spelling Word: permeable
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a. improperly forward or bold; trim and stylish in appearance


Spelling Word: pert
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n. theft of another's ideas or writings passed off as original


Spelling Word: plagiarism
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n. society or government ruled by wealthy class


Spelling Word: plutocracy
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n. one who has more than one spouse at a time


Spelling Word: polygamist
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a. being beyond normal course of nature; differing from natural


Spelling Word: preternatural
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n. hardship; state of extreme poverty


Spelling Word: privation
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a. cowardly; lacking strength and firmness of mind


Spelling Word: pusillanimous