Hard SAT Words - Group 6

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a. unfriendly; hostile; harmful; detrimental


Spelling Word: inimical
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a. unconscious; unresponsive; very small or gradual


Spelling Word: insensible
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n. intelligent and educated elite, especially in nineteenth-century Poland, in Russia and later the Soviet Union


Spelling Word: intelligentsia
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a. mutually destructive; equally devastating to both sides


Spelling Word: internecine
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n. temporary halting of usual operations of government or control; time between two reigns


Spelling Word: interregnum
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ad. done with skill, but without special training or planning; instinctively


Spelling Word: intuitively
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a. relating to, or produced by motion; dynamic


Spelling Word: kinetic
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a. slow; sluggish; wasting time


Spelling Word: laggard
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n. state or feeling of weariness, diminished energy, or listlessness


Spelling Word: lassitude
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n. horizontal projection forming a narrow shelf on a wall; cut or projection forming a shelf on a cliff or rock wall


Spelling Word: ledge