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TGLC - SAT Vocabulary List HH-8 /SENTENCE FLASH CARDS
antithesis, anxiety, apathetic, colossus, combustion, commendation, discrepancy, discretion, discursive, excavate, exculpate, excursion, idolatrous, ignominious, illicit
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| Your values, which hold war and violence in the highest esteem, are the __ of my pacifist beliefs. | antithesis (n) |
| When he heard about the car crash, he felt __ because he knew that his girlfriend had been driving on the road where the accident occurred. | anxiety (n) |
| Uninterested in politics, Bruno was __ aobut whether he lived under a capitalist or communist regime. | apathetic (adj) |
| for 56 years, the ancient city of Rhodes featured a __ standing astride its harbor. | colossus (n) |
| The unexpected __ of the prosecution's evidence forced the judge to dismiss the case against Ramirez. | combustion (n) |
| Jared received a __ from Linda, his supervisor, for his stellar performance. | commendation (n) |
| He was troubled by the __ between what he remembered paying for the appliance and what his receipt showed he paid for it. | discrepancy (n) |
| Not wanting her patient to get overly anxious, the doctor used __ in deciding how much to tell the patient about his condition. | discretion (n) |
| The professor's __ lectures seemed to be about every subject except the one initially described. | discursive (adj) |
| The pharaoh's treasures were __ by archeologists in Egypt. | excavate (v) |
| My discovery of the ring behind the dresser __ me from the charge of having stolen it. | exculpate (v) |
| After taking an __ to the Bronx Zoo, I dreamed about pandas and monkeys. | excusion (n) |
| Xena's __ fawning over the band--following them on tour, starting their fan club, filming their documentary--is really beginning to get on my nerves. | idolatrous (adj) |
| It was really __ to be kicked out of the dorm for having an illegal gas stove in my room.) | ignominious (adj) |
| The fourth-grader learned many __ words from a pamphlet that was being passed around school. | illicit (adj) |
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