Useful PSAT Vocabulary

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Substantiated

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To provide evidence to support or prove the truth of something; to corroborate.

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Parallel

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To have a similar or corresponding relationship; to correlate with.

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Commendatory

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Expressing praise or approval; laudatory.

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Pedagogic

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Relating to teaching or education; didactic.

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Spell out

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To explain something in detail; to enumerate.

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Corroborate

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To confirm or give support to a statement, theory, or finding.

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Enumerate

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To mention things one by one; to list.

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Didactic

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Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive.

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Laudatory

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Expressing praise and commendation.

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Ambivalent

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Having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone.