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SAT 8
Term | Definition |
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Amity | friendship |
Castigate | scold strongly |
Destitution | hardship; poverty; misery |
Expedient | convenient; practical |
Incantation | chant; invocation; prayer |
Lynch | assassinate; kill; illegal hanging |
Overt | obvious; not hidden |
Sanguine | optimistic; cheerful |
Ubiquitous | found everywhere; omnipresent |
Amorphous | lacking in shape |
Catharsis | purging of pent-up emotions |
Deter | put off; prevent |
Incarceration | putting in prison |
Machinations | plots and plans |
Overwrought | worked up; in an emotional state |
Preeminent | famous; outstanding |
Sardonic | mocking |
Unalloyed | undiluted; total |
Analgesic | medicine to combat pain |
Caucus | type of private political meeting |
Exposition | clear explanation |
Prerogative | right or privilege |
Savant | person with knowledge |
Unctuous | oily; using excessive flattery |
Analogous | comparable |
Caustic | burning |
Detrimental | harmful |
Incipient | just beginning |
Magnanimous | generous; big-hearted |
Palisade | fence made of posts |
Prescient | having fore-knowledge |
Scale | to climb |
Anarchy | chaos; lack of government |
Cavalcade | procession of vehicles |
Devoured | greedily eaten/consumed |
Extradite | deport from one country back to the home country |
Inclination | tendency; a leaning toward |
Magnate | powerful businessman |
Palliative | a remedy that improves but doesn't cure |