91-180 (+ selected previous) SAT Vocab Words (more correct)

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Kowtow
acts in an excessively subservient manner
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Labyrinthine
complicated, complexing, or maze-like
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Lambent
glowing, gleaming, or flickering radiance
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Languid
drooping or sluggish
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Libation
a drink poured as an offering to a deity
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Lineage
lineal descent from ancestor
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Loquacious
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give into excessive talking
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Ludicrous
laughable because of obvious absurdity
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Lugubrious
exaggeratedly or effectively mournful
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Luminary
one who is notable in a particular field
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Maelstrom
powerful whirlpool
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Manacle
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handcuff or a restraint
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Masticate
to chew or to soften by crushing
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Mausoleum
a large elaborate tomb
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Mellifluous
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smoothly flowing or sweet
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Metamorphosis
a transformation or a marked alteration
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Monolith
a single large stone often in a form of a column or monument
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Nadir
the lowest point
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Nocturnal
pertaining to the night or active at night
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Nodule
a small lump
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Obdurate
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hard or unmoved by persuasion
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Obsequious
servile or submissive
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Opulent
demonstrating great wealth or lavish
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Oscillate
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move or swing back and forth
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Ostracize
 to exclude from a group or banished
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Ovation
enthusiastic display of approval or applause
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Panorama
a wide unbroken view
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Paraphernalia
 personal belongings or equipment
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Pariah
an outcast
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Parochial
relating to a church perish or limited in scope
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Penurious
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stingy or extremely poor
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Pilfer
to steal things of little value
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Pinion
to restrain by binding the arms or to hold fast
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Pinnacle
the highest point or a spire
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Plummet
to fall or plunge straight downward
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Pogrom
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an organized execution or massacre
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Polyglot
using multiple languages
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Posh
elegant and fashionable
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Potable
suitable for drinking
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Precarious
dangerous, risky, or dependent on chance
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Progeny
descendant or offspring
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Projectile
a missile or something thrown
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Promontory
a high point of land or rock projecting into the water
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Prostrate
lying flat or faced down
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Pugilist
fighter or boxer
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Pulchritude
physical beauty
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Queue
 a waiting line of people or vehicles
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Ravenous
hungry or very eager
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Recalcitrant
stubbornly restrictive or to restraint
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Remorse
regret to have doing something wrong
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Remuneration
money paid for work or a service
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Rendezvous
 a meeting planned at a certain time and place
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Replicate
to repeat, copy, or duplicate
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Reverberate
(of a loud noise) repeated several times as an echo ex: screaming into a cave
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Reverie
a day dream; the condition of being lost in thought
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Roster
a list of names
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Ruminate
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to ponder or to think over
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Salutary
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promoting health or beneficial
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Sangfroid
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poise, calmness especially under strained
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Satiated
fully fed fully satisfied
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Saturnine
gloomy or surly
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Scintillate
to sparkle or to flash
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Sediment
matter that settles to a bottom of a liquid
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Seraph
an angel
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Sibilant
making a hissing sound
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Silhouette
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a dark outline against a light background
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Sinewy
strong and firm or tough
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Somnambulist
a sleepwalker
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Soporific
Causing sleep
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Spectrum
Wide range or sequence
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Symposium
 a meeting to discuss a particular topic
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Taciturn
disinclined to talk or silent
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Tantalize
 to tease by keeping something out of reach
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Tendril
 a coiling part of a climbing plant which served to attach it to a support
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Timorous
easily frightened or timid
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Titanic
huge power roll
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Tortuous
winding or twisting
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Transpose
to reverse the order or place of
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Tributary
a stream or river flowing into a larger stream or river
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Truculent
 savage or fierce
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Truncated
cut off or shortened
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Valor
courage or bravery
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Verve
energy or liveliness
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Vie
 strive, compete, contend
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Vintage
classic, outstanding, old
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Virtuoso
a person highly skilled in a field, particularly music or art
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Votary
a devoted follower or worshiper
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Wanderlust
 a strong desire to travel
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Whet
 to sharpen or to stimulate
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Xenophobia
fear or hatred of strangers or foreigners
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halcyon
calm or peaceful
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amalgam
a mixture or blend
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ambrosial
delicious, fragrant, divine
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bonafide
made in good faith or genuine
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gossamer
something light or delicate
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gyrate
to spin in a circular motion
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escalate
to enlarge or to increase
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circumvent
find a way around something
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exodus
a mass departure of people, especially emigrants
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gregarious
living in groups or social