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Every day 10 SAT words Flash Cards

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condole
express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death.
"You must condole the widow"
condolence
an expression of sympathy with another's grief.
"They sent their condolences"
Inculcate
teach and impress by frequent repetitions or admonitions.
"inculcate values into the young generation"
clamor
loud and persistent outcry from many people.
"he ignored the clamor of the crowd"
compunction
a feeling of deep regret (usually for some misdeed).
"This means they may feel less compunction to take the pain of contributing more in the short term."
chimerical
produced by a wildly fanciful imagination.
"his Utopia is not a chimerical commonwealth but a practical improvement on what already exists"- Douglas Bush
Imbibe
receive into the mind and retain.
"Imbibe ethical principles"
squander
spend thoughtlessly. throw away;
"He wasted his inheritance on his insincere friends"; "You squandered the opportunity to get and advanced degree"
perspicacious
mentally acute or penetratingly discerning.
"much too perspicacious to be taken in by so spurious an argument"
stigmatize
mark with a stigma or stigmata.
"They wanted to stigmatize the adulteress"
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