Top 100 HSPT Vocabulary Words – Flashcards
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Abate
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reduce or lessen
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Abandon
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to give up completely
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Aberration
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something unusual, different from the norm.
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Abet
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to encourage or support
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Abstain
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to refrain from doing something
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Abrogate
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to abolish or render void
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Aesthetic
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pertaining to beauty
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Abstemious
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moderate in appetite
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Anachronistic
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Chronologically misplaced
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Acrimonious
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Exhibiting harshness or sharpness in speech or mood
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Asylum
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sanctuary, a place of safety
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Banal
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lacking in freshness, originality and vigor
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Bias
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a prejudice towards something or against something
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Belie
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to give a false idea of
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Brazen
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bold
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Belligerent
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engaged in war
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Camaraderie
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togetherness, a group dynamic of trust
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Cabal
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a small group of persons engaged in plotting
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Capacious
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very large, spacious
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Callous
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unfeeling or insensitive
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Clairvoyant
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can predict the future, see things that others can't
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Cantankerous
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ill-natured, quarrelsome
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Compassion
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sympathy
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Captious
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quick to find fault about trifle
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Condescending
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patronizing, arrogance
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Chauvinist
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someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he/she belongs, an extreme patriot
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Conformist
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someone who follows the majority
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Clamorous
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very loud/noisy
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Deleterious
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harmful, destructive
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Deference
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submitting to the wishes or judgement of another
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Digression
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straying from the main point
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Delectable
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very pleasing (esp. in food)
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Discredit
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dishonor someone, prove something untrue
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Demeanor
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behavior; bearing
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Divergent
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moving apart, going in different directions, scoring inconclusive on the Aptitude Test
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Edict
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a public command or proclamation issued by an authority
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Emulate
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following someone else's example
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Effete
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no longer productive; lacking in, worn out
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Ephemeral
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fleeting, temporary
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Elicit
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to draw out
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Exemplary
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outstanding
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Elucidate
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to make clear
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Forbearance
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patience, restraint
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Facade
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front or face, especially of a building
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Fortuitous
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lucky, fortunate
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Fallacious
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unsound; misleading; deceptive
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Fraught
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filled with
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Flaccid
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lacking firmness
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Ghastly
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horrible; deathlike
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Grimace
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a distortion of the face to express and attitude or feeling
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Hedonist
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person who acts in pursuit of pleasure
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Harbinger
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a forerunner; ail announcer
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Impetuous
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rash, impulsive
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Immaculate
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spotless; pure
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Inconsequential
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without concise, trivial, doesn't matter
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Impeccable
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faultless
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Intrepid
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fearless
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Imprecation
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a curse
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Jubilation
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extreme happiness or joy
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Latent
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hidden; present but not fully developed
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Longevity
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long, particularly when describing life
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Maudlin
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Sentimental to the point of tears
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Nonchalant
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casual, calm, at ease
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Oblivious
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forgetful, absent-minded
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Orator
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speaker
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Obviate
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to prevent, dispose of, or make unnecessary
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Parched
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lacking water, dried up
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Panacea
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a remedy for all ills
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Pragmatic
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practical
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Paraphrase
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to rewrite the meaning or idea of a piece of writing using other words
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Pretentious
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being self-important, thinking you are better than others
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Pecuniary
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pertaining to money
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Prosaic
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ordinary
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Pensive
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sadly thoughtful
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Provocative
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causes a fuss, inflammatory, likely to get people riled up
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Peruse
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to read carefully
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Querulous
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irritable, prone to argument
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Radical
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one who advocates for extreme basic changes
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Reclusive
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hermit, withdrawn
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Recapitulate
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to restate in brief, concise form
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Renovate
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to make new, rebuild
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Refute
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to prove incorrect or false
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Reverence
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deep respect
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Sallow
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sick
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Sanguinary
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bloody
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Spurious
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false, untrue
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Scourage
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to punish severely; to afflict; to whip
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Substantiate
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to confirm, prove
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Scrutinize
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to observe carefully
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Superficial
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shallow
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Supernatural
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Entities and actions that transcend the natural world of cause and effect.
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Sleazy
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flimsy and cheap
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Surreptitious
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secret
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Tactful
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polite
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Tangible
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real; actual
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Transient
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temporary, short-lived
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Vanquish
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to subdue or conquer
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Vindicate
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to free from blame
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Wary
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careful, watchful
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Zenith
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the highest point
