SAT Regular Vocabulary 12

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Paradigm

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Model or pattern; worldview, set of shared assumptions, values, etc.

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Paradox

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Contradiction, or seeming contradiction that is actually true

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Pariah

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Social outcast, untouchable

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Partial

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Biased, prejudiced, favoring one over others; having a special liking for something or someone

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Partisan

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Devoted to a particular group, cause, etc. (adj.); fervent supporter of a group, party, idea, etc.; guerilla fighter (noun)

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Patent

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Obvious, apparent, plain to see (adj); a letter from a government guaranteeing an inventor the rights to his or her invention (noun)

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Pathological

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Relating to or caused by disease; relating to compulsive bad behavior

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Patronizing

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Condescending, having a superior manner, treating as an inferior

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Paucity

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Scarcity, the state of being small in number

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Peccadillo

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Small sin or fault