Vocabulary For Standardized Tests Word List 11 Template Page 5
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Avaricious
greedy for money
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Extirpate
wipe out totally
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peaceful and happy; calm (esp. of summer
Halcyon
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weather)
List (v)
1. to lean to one side; 2. to write in order
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Maudlin
sad; sentimental; inclined to weep
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Refulgent
glowing; radiant
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Subliminal
below the threshold of consciousness
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Testiness
irritability; irascibility [testy (a)]
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Vituperate
attack bitterly
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Whittle
1. carve with knife; 2. reduce step by step
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Caricature
ridicule (v); cartoon intended to ridicule (n)
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Colander
bowl with holes used to drain vegetables etc.
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Cumbersome
bulky; difficult to carry [encumber = to burden]
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Dispatch
1. send (v); 2. speed; celerity (n)
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Epistemology
theory of knowledge
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Froward
stubborn; wayward; disobedient
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Supine
lying flat on one’s back
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Throwback
exhibiting primitive, or ancestral, traits
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Untoward
unexpected
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Verisimilar
true to life; giving the appearance of reality
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