SAT vocabulary list 3
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Musical_rose on December 15, 2008
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english vocabulary, english 11
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25 terms
Terms | Definitions |
|---|---|
 Aberration | something different from the usual or normal |
| banal | trite and overly common; lame |
| calamitous | disastrous; catastrophic |
| dearth | lack, scarcity, insufficiency |
| edict | law, command, official public order |
| facile | easy |
| garner | to gather and store |
| harbinger | precursor, sign of something to come |
| ignominious | disgraceful and dishonorable |
| jaundice | yellowish discoloration of skin |
| kinetic | relating to motion; characterized by movement |
| lachrymose | tearful |
| magnanimous | generous, noble in spirit |
| necromancy | black magic |
| oblique | indirect, evasive; misleading, devious |
| palaver | idle talk, chitchat |
| quell | to crush or subdue |
| ramification | an implication, outgrowth, or consequence |
| sagacious | shrewd or cunning |
| taciturn | uncommunicative, not inclined to |
| unadulterated | absolutely pure |
| vagrant | poor person with no home |
| wan | sickly pale |
| zenith | highest point, summit |
| abet | to aid, help, or act as accomplice |
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