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Word List 07 PDF
Word List 07 PDF
Word List 07 PDF
Ages
16+
PSAT
9
SAT
9
GRE
9
Word list 7
Group 1
Notes
Archetype
classic example of
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Clemency
mercy
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Disinterested
unbiased
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Flout
defy; reject
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Ingnue
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Mendacious
given to lying
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Paucity
shortage
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Protean
changeable
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Sophomoric
juvenile; immature
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Venal
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Group 2
Notes
Archives
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Clich
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Disparage
criticize; belittle
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Flustered
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Ingrate
ungrateful person
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Mercenary
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Peccadillo
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Protg
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Soporific
inducing sleep
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Veneer
surface coating
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Group 3
Notes
Articulate
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Clientele
customers
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Disparity
an inequality
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Fly-by-night
unreliable; disreputable
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Inimical
hostile
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Mercurial
volatile; changeable
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Pedant
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Protocol
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Sparse
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Venerate
revere; worship
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Group 4
Notes
Artifice
deception; trickery
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Coalesce
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Dispassionate
neutral; objective
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Forensic
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Innate
inherited; inborn
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Merge
come together
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Pedestrian
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Provincial
unsophisticated; narrow-minded
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Specious
false
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Venial
minor; unimportant
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Group 5
Notes
Artisan
craftsman
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Coddle
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Disseminating
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Fortitude
bravery
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Innocuous
harmless; inoffensive
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Metaphorically
symbolically; figuratively
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Peerless
without equal
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Prudent
cautious; wise
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Speckled
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Veracity
truthfulness
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Group 6
Notes
Ascetic
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Coercion
force
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Diurnal
active in daytime
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Fortuitous
happening by chance
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Innovate
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Meticulous
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Pejorative
derogatory
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Puerile
childish
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Sporadic
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Verbose
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Group 7
Notes
Assiduous
thorough; diligent
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Cogent
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Divert
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Fractious
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Inscrutable
mysterious; impenetrable
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Mettle
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Pellucid
transparently clear
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Punctilious
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Spurious
false
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Verbosity
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Group 8
Notes
Assuage
to calm
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Cogitate
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Docile
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Fraudulent
fake; false
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Insentient
unfeeling
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Milieu
environment
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Pensive
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Purloin
steal
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Stagnant
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Vertigo
dizziness
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Group 9
Notes
Astute
perceptive; sharp-witted
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Collage
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Dogmatic
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Frivolous
not serious
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Insipid
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Mire
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Penury
poverty
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Pusillanimous
cowardly
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Staid
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Vestigial
not developed
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Group 10
Notes
Asylum
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Collate
arrange in order
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Dolt
stupid person
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Frugal
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Instigate
to start; provoke
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Misanthrope
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Perceptive
observant
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Pyromania
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Stanza
section of a poem
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Vignette
small sketch
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