3000 Common SAT Vocabulary (8)

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a. temporary; provided for present need only

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v. beat or pound with fists; hit or strike heavily and repeatedly

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a. acting or speaking very disrespectfully toward what is held to be sacred; violating sacred things; profane

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n. form of literature in which irony and ridicule are used to attack human vice and folly

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a. requiring sitting; involving little exercise or physical activity; living in one area, not migratory

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n. deadlock; the situation in which further action is blocked

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a. dull, unimaginative, and commonplace; old-fashioned; stuffy

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v. be placed in or take the room of; replace; make obsolete; make void or useless by superior power

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n. combining parts into a coherent whole; putting of two or more things together

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a. marked by repeated turns or bends; winding or twisting; not straightforward; circuitous