Hard SAT Words - Group 5

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fluster  Speak Example sentences
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difficult to perceive senses or mind
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confuse; hot and rosy, as with drinking; be in a heat or bustle; be agitated
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awkward or lacking in social graces; coarse and uncouth
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deliberate, vigorous motion or gesture
gait  Speak Example sentences
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weakness or failing of character
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manner of walking or stepping; bearing or carriage while moving; walk; rate of moving
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look at with a fixed gaze; angry stare
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sign; indication; something that serves to guide, point out
gauche  Speak Example sentences
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state of being self-contradictory; lack of uniformity or steadiness
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not allowing passage, especially of liquids; waterproof
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awkward or lacking in social graces; coarse and uncouth
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a mount for a traveling crane consisting of a large frame to move along a set of tracks; supporting framework for a barrel
gendarme  Speak Example sentences
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start; initiate; induct into office by formal ceremony
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curse; act of calling down a curse that invokes evil
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armed policeman in France; French policeman
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deliberate, vigorous motion or gesture
girder  Speak Example sentences
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without limits in extent, size, or quantity
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beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as main horizontal support in building
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confuse; hot and rosy, as with drinking; be in a heat or bustle; be agitated
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form into grains or small masses; make rough on surface
hegemony  Speak Example sentences
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cannot be penetrated or affected, immune
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sprawling low-height building or complex
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beam of steel, wood, or reinforced concrete, used as main horizontal support in building
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domination, influence, or authority over another, especially by political group or nation over others
histrionic  Speak Example sentences
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speech given by a person being formally inducted into office
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characteristic of acting or stage performance
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form into grains or small masses; make rough on surface
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domination, influence, or authority over another, especially by political group or nation over others
hypercritical  Speak Example sentences
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excessively exacting; inclined to judge too severely
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sprawling low-height building or complex
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difficult to perceive senses or mind
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cannot be penetrated or affected, immune
ichthyology  Speak Example sentences
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like a glacier; extremely cold; lacking warmth and friendliness
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branch of zoology that deals with study of fishes
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lacking self-restraint; lacking sexual restraint; unchaste
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fern leaf, especially compound leaf; palm or banana leaf
illimitable  Speak Example sentences
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recently begun; imperfectly formed or developed; elementary
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start; initiate; induct into office by formal ceremony
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without limits in extent, size, or quantity
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thrift; prudent economy; sparing use