Hard SAT Words - Group 3

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conformity  Speak Example sentences
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act or ceremony of crowning a sovereign or the sovereign's consort; ceremony of installing a new monarch
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move from a higher to a lower place; come or go down; arrive or attack in a sudden or an overwhelming manner
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similarity in form or character; agreement
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one who differs in opinion, or one who declares his disagreement
conscientious  Speak Example sentences
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thorough, careful, or vigilant; implies a desire to do a task well; characterized by extreme care and great effort
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withdrawing support or help; act of abandoning something to which one is bound by allegiance or duty; failure in duty
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coarse twilled cloth, usually cotton, used for jeans, overalls, and work uniforms
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swell out or expand from or as if from internal pressure
contentious  Speak Example sentences
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quarrelsome; disagreeable; marked by heated arguments or controversy
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formal discussion on a topic, either written or spoken
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having harmful effect; injurious; having quality of destroying life; noxious; poisonous
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wooden; impersonal; deliberately impassive or expressionless, as face or look
countervail  Speak Example sentences
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act or react with equal force; ; counteract
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complete or perfect in every respect; supremely accomplished or skilled
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wooden; impersonal; deliberately impassive or expressionless, as face or look
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withdrawing support or help; act of abandoning something to which one is bound by allegiance or duty; failure in duty
curator  Speak Example sentences
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coarse twilled cloth, usually cotton, used for jeans, overalls, and work uniforms
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one who manages or oversees, usually as an administrator in a museum or library
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increasing or enlarging by successive addition; acquired by or resulting from accumulation
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slow down rate of advancement of; decrease speed of
deference  Speak Example sentences
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act or react with equal force; ; counteract
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move from a higher to a lower place; come or go down; arrive or attack in a sudden or an overwhelming manner
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a yielding to the wishes and opinions of others
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take off; remove; tip or remove one's hat in salutation; put aside; discard
demagogue  Speak Example sentences
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person who appeals to people's prejudice; false leader of people
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plundering; destructive action; predatory attack; damage or loss
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sale or other disposal of some kind of asset
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discuss fully; talk at great length about something of one's interest
disband  Speak Example sentences
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move from a higher to a lower place; come or go down; arrive or attack in a sudden or an overwhelming manner
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cause being in bad temper; disappoint; disconcert
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discuss fully; talk at great length about something of one's interest
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loose bands of; set free; disunite; scatter
discomfit  Speak Example sentences
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lacking in spirit; affected or marked by low spirits
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prepare by mixing ingredients, as in cooking; devise, using skill and intelligence
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to defeat completely,to make perplex or uneasy
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swell out or expand from or as if from internal pressure
discourse  Speak Example sentences
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formal discussion on a topic, either written or spoken
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take off; remove; tip or remove one's hat in salutation; put aside; discard
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a sudden take-over of leadership or power
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serving to fill out or to complete; supplying mutual needs or offsetting mutual lacks