SAT VOCAB (apr. 24)

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Boon

Something beneficial that is bestowed; blessing

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Inimical

Injurious; unfriendly

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Pernicious

Tending to cause death or serious injury; deadly

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Bane

A cause of death, destruction, or ruin

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Toxic

Poisonous; harmful

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Salutary

Designed to effect an improvement; remedial

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Panacea

A remedy for all diseases, evils, or difficulties

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Adulterate

To make impure or inferior by adding extraneous, unusual, or improper ingredients.

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Exorcise

To expel an evil spirit

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Vitiate

To impair the value or quality of

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Prone

Tending; inclined; lying face downward

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Contingent

Dependent upon conditions not yet established; likely

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Feasible

Capable of being accomplished; suitable; plausible

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Presumably

By reasonable assumption; probably; likely

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Preposterous

Contrary to nature or common sense; absurd

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Implausible

Not valid, likely, or acceptable; difficult to believe.

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Proclivity

A natural inclination or tendency

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Eventuality

A possible event; possibility

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Perchance

Perhaps; possibly

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Inconceivable

Incapable of being imagined or comprehended

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Protean

Readily taking on a different shape, form, or character

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Evolve

To develop or achieve gradually; devise

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Metamorphosis

A marked change in appearance, character, or function

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Immutable

Not subject or susceptible to change

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Modulate

It regulate, adjust, or adapt to a certain proportion; soften

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Volatile

Changeable; fickle; explosive

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Malleable

Capable of being altered or influenced

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Sporadic

Occurring at irregular intervals; having no pattern or order

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Inveterate

Firmly establish by having existed for a long time fixed in habit, custom, or practice

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Transmute

To change from one form, nature, or state to another

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