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SAT Vocabulary: Level 3
amorphous     Speak
 
(1)
a. or ad.  
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incomplete; fragmentary; favoring one person or side over another or others
open or liable to objection or debate; liable to cause disapproval
difficult to perceive senses or mind
serving to reduce sensibility to pain without loss of consciousness
formless; lacking shape or definition
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ancillary     Speak
 
(2)
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presenting favorable circumstances; fortunate; advantageous
sharp-cornered; consisting of an angle or angles; stiff in manner
serving as aid or accessory; auxiliary
capable of being derived by reasoning from known principles or facts
half asleep; inclined to drowsiness; tending to induce sleep
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bate     Speak
 
(3)
v.  
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cause; bring into existence; give rise to
let down; restrain; lessen force or intensity of; moderate
plan, arrange or plot in advance; deliberate upon future action
edit by omitting or modifying parts considered offensive, vulgar, or otherwise unseemly
rise again; sweep or surge back again
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churlish     Speak
 
(4)
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capable of producing heat; causing heat; heating
penetrating, clear, and sharp, as in operation or expression
played abruptly; marked by an abrupt sharp sound
difficult to work with; rude; unyielding; unmanageable
incipient; coming into existence; emerging
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decelerate     Speak
 
(5)
v.  
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cause; bring into existence; give rise to
slow down the rate of advancement of; decrease speed of
express in speech;  speak or use words to express
examine closely and critically
make slender, fine, or small; weaken; lessen the density of
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eccentricity     Speak
 
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n.  
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indirect or roundabout expression; evasion in speech or writing
manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving; walk; the rate of moving
someone who has withdrawn from his native land
oddity; departure from that which is stated, regular, or usual; deviation from the center
scarcity; smallness of number; fewness
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evanescent     Speak
 
(7)
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having properties of vinegar; sour
naive and trusting; young; unsophisticated
strikingly bright; shining with intense heat; emitting light as a result of being heated
serving to reduce sensibility to pain without loss of consciousness
fleeting; vanishing or likely to vanish like vapor
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expunge     Speak
 
(8)
v.  
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become formal or affected in dress or manners; give a neat appearance to
isolate; retire from public life; segregate; seclude
cancel; remove; erase or strike out
mismanage; blunder; work or act in clumsy, awkward, or blundering manner
pronounce the letter s imperfectly; give s and z the sound of th; speak hesitatingly with a low voice, as if afraid
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immobility     Speak
 
(9)
n.  
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strict disciplinarian; one who demands absolute adherence to forms and rules
the mechanism that imitates actions of humans
quality of not moving; remaining in place
author or compiler of dictionary; one employed in the making of vocabulary or wordbook of language
act of seceding; withdrawal; withdrawal of 11 Southern states from the Union
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indissoluble     Speak
 
(10)
a. or ad.  
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mutually destructive; equally devastating to both sides
nominal holding of the title without obligations; existing in name only; nominal
moving with wavelike motion
permanent; impossible to dissolve, disintegrate, or decompose
abolish, do away with, or annul, especially by authority
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irascible     Speak
 
(11)
a. or ad.  
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penetrating, clear, and sharp, as in operation or expression
wrinkled; shaped into alternating parallel grooves and ridges
irritable; easily angered; excited by or arising from anger
constituting or acting as a single, often in rigid or uniform
impossible to recover or regain; irreparable
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matriculate     Speak
 
(12)
v.  
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enroll in college or graduate school
start; initiate; induct into office by a formal ceremony
embezzle;  appropriate fraudulently to one's own use; steal public money entrusted to one's care
teach with biased or one-sided ideology; teach doctrines to; teach uncritically
claim without justification; claim for oneself without the right
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ornithologist     Speak
 
(13)
n.  
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one who makes special study of birds
formal or high praise; formal eulogistic composition intended as a public compliment
the fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors
anger; wrath; keen resentment; irritate
a person interested mostly in external objects and actions
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parch     Speak
 
(14)
v.  
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cause to become sick; fill with disgust
induce someone to convert to one's own religious faith
satisfy appetite fully; satisfy to excess
repair or unite by using fusible metal alloy, usually tin and lead
burn the surface of; roast over the fire, as dry grain; dry to extremity
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plagiarize     Speak
 
(15)
v.  
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dance and skip about in sport; leap playfully
wrap or bind with or as if with bandages
split into opposite extremes or camps
repay; revenge; make repayment for or return something
steal another's ideas and pass them off as one's own
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propound     Speak
 
(16)
v.  
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take possession of; transfer another's property to oneself
loose bands of; set free; disunite; scatter
put forward; offer for consideration or debate
enter drop by drop; infuse slowly
form a circle about; enclose within a circle or ring; surround
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restive     Speak
 
(17)
a. or ad.  
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serving to reduce sensibility to pain without loss of consciousness
offensively flattering or insincere; offensive; disgusting
intended to confuse in an argument
haphazard; careless; done hastily
impatient under restraint or opposition; resisting control; difficult to control
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soporific     Speak
 
(18)
a. or ad.  
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not intentional; not on purpose; careless; negligent; inattentive
bringing disgrace; shameful or infamous
sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness
inclined to make trouble; disobedient; irritable
impervious to moral persuasion; of hard heart
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thematic     Speak
 
(19)
a. or ad.  
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capable of being stretched or extended; ductile
suggesting the horror of death and decay; gruesome
relating to motif or idea; relating to theme or topic
of very poor quality or condition; loose-jointed; ill-made; out of gear or repair
prevailing among a specific group of people or in a specific area or country
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vacuous     Speak
 
(20)
a. or ad.  
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loosely connected; divided into incidents; occurring or appearing at usually irregular intervals
having or covered with protective barbs or others; very irritable
with great care or delicacy; cautiously
agreeable; gracious; charming, often in a childlike or naive way
empty; showing lack of thought or intelligence; vacant
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