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SAT MEGA DRILL A through C

Every time you restart, a slightly different list of words will be incorporated, so be sure to repeat this activity at least five times.

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A	B
abeyance	suspended action
abjure	recant solemnly
abrogate	abolish or annul by authority; put down
abstruse	difficult to comprehend; obscure
abysmal	extreme; low
acarpous	effete
accretion	growth
adamant	hard and inflexible; unyielding
alacrity	cheerful promptness
alloy	to debase by mixing with something inferior
ameliorate	improve
anachronism	something out of place for its time
anomalous	unexpected
antipathy	aversion
apostate	one who abandons long-held religious or political convictions
apotheosis	"deification
apprehension	misgiving
prosaic	dull
apprise	give notice to
approbation	approval
appropriate (verb)	take for one's own use
appropriate (adjective)	fitting or suitable
apropos	appropriate to the situation; apt
arabesque	a complex dance maneuver
ardor	warm interest
arduous	requiring hard work
arrant	someone very much disapproved of
ascetic	practicing self-denial
asperity	roughness
aspersion	slander
assay	an analysis
assiduous	diligent
attenuate	make thin. weaken
audacious	daring; bold
august	majestic
August	the month which follows July
auspices	protection or support
auspicious	favorable
austere	forbiddingly stern
aver	affirm
baleful	harmful
bane	cause of injury
baneful	causing harm or ruin
beatify	to bless
beautify	to make beautiful
bedizen	to adorn
belie	contradict
bellicose	belligerent
bilge	the swollen part of a cask or seepage from a cask"
blandishment	flattery
blithe	cheerful
loud	noisy
boorish	"crude
broach	bring up
brook	to tolerate
burgeon	grow forth
burnish	to polish
cabal	a scheme or plot
cadge	to beg
calumniate	to slander
calumny	slander
capricious	fickle
castigate	to chastise
censure	"expression of blame or disapproval; a rebuke"
chastened	corrected
chauvinist	a blindly devoted patriot
coeval	of the same period
cogent	convincing
complaisance	tending to comply
conciliatory	reconciling
conjoin	to join together
consequential	pompous
consternation	sudden confusion or amazement
contemn	to scorn or despise
contentious	argumentative
contentious	quarrelsome
contumacious	insubordinate
conundrum	a riddle
countenance (verb)	to favor or approve of
countenance (noun)	someone or something's face
craven	cowardly
credulous	gullible
If you have gotten this far in the drill	send Nora the word "Victory!"