SAT Words List 3
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GatorsRock97 on October 6, 2012
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24 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 abject | of low condition; degraded |
| archaic | outmoded, belonging to an earlier time |
| behest | command, order |
| chicanery | trickery, especially in legal matters |
| deference | respect |
| duenna | chaperone; governess |
| expatiate | expound; talk or write at length |
| furtive | sly, stealthy |
| hoary | ancient; gray with age |
| inexorable | ceaseless, unrelenting, unmoved by pleading |
| labyrinth | maze |
| mendacity | untruth, dishonesty |
| noxious | harmful, unwholesome |
| patrician | aristocratic, of noble birth |
| prevaricate | lie, avoid telling the truth |
| rapacious | greedy, grasping |
| sagacity | keenness of judgement; wisdom; shrewdness |
| somnolent | sleepy, drowsy |
| tawdry | flashy, cheap, showy |
| unremitting | not stopping, relaxing or slackening; persistent |
| -logy | science, study, account |
| bio- | life |
| -tomy (-tom) | cutting, operation of incision |
| pod- | foot |
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