SAT Words: Argument Edition

Solidarity

• the fact of having or showing both positive and negative feelings about someone or something

• a strong feeling of dislike between two people or groups

• support by one person or group of people for another because they share feelings, opinions or aims 

• to support something publicly

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Disparage

• to suggest that someone or something is not important or valuable

• to create trouble or violence or to make it worse

• to refuse to accept something

• to say that you do not agree with something or that you refuse to do something

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Ignominious

• too satisfied with yourself or with a situation, so that you do not feel that any change is necessary

• extremely bad

• solving problems in a practical and sensible way rather than by having fixed ideas or theories

• that which makes, or should make, you feel ashamed

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Bolster

• to say that you do not agree with something or that you refuse to do something

• to improve something or make it stronger

• to force somebody out of a job or position of power, especially in order to take their place

• to make somebody take action by shocking or exciting them

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Opine

• to express a particular opinion

• to suggest that someone or something is not important or valuable

• to spread an idea or belief among many people

• to force somebody out of a job or position of power, especially in order to take their place

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Foment

• to spread an idea or belief among many people

• to emphasize or show that something is important or true

• to make somebody take action by shocking or exciting them

• to create trouble or violence or to make it worse

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Promulgate

• to spread an idea or belief among many people

• to emphasize or show that something is important or true

• to support something publicly

• to make somebody take action by shocking or exciting them

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Underscore

• to support something publicly

• to say that you do not agree with something or that you refuse to do something

• to emphasize or show that something is important or true

• to refuse to accept something

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Advocate

• to improve something or make it stronger

• to support something publicly

• to refuse to accept something

• to suggest that someone or something is not important or valuable

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Galvanize

•  to express a particular opinion

•  to say that you do not agree with something or that you refuse to do something

• to force somebody out of a job or position of power, especially in order to take their place

• to make somebody take action by shocking or exciting them

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