SAT Vocabulary Power (7-66)
Vocabulary Cards: 42
- 1.
- a washing or cleansing, especially of the body
- to renounce (a right or privilege)
- 2.
- occurring every year
- an annual allowance, payment, or income
- 3.
- to certify as accurate, genuine, or true
- the chief law-officer of a government
- 4.
- corporeal
- unchecked merriment or animal spirits
- 5.
- a hundredth of a liter
- a length of one hundredth of a meter
- 6.
- the act or process of making dense or denser
- to abridge
- 7.
- to ruin or destroy little by little
- gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration
- 8.
- delight
- hurtful, morally or physically
- 9.
- to train to obedience
- to disavow any claim to, connection with, or responsibility to
- 10.
- the force which, applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second, would give it a velocity of 1 cm/s
- ardent in spirit and speech
- 11.
- any appearance or bodily manifestation of a deity
- an incident or story in a literary work, separable from yet growing out of it
- 12.
- to drive out or away
- rich supply
- 13.
- counterfeit
- deceitfulness
- 14.
- fit to be dwelt in
- dweller
- 15.
- to come into a country or region from a former habitat
- impending evil or danger
- 16.
- beginning
- to reduce to ashes
- 17.
- matchless
- discordant
- 18.
- contradictory
- small in quantity or importance
- 19.
- one who makes an investigation
- forcible encroachment or trespass
- 20.
- instinctive knowledge or feeling
- to fill with an overflowing abundance
- 21.
- prolonged sluggishness of body or mind
- an embankment beside a river or stream or an arm of the sea, to prevent overflow
- 22.
- an expert reasoner
- one who consumes time idly
- 23.
- an animal that devours human beings
- to make adroit or artful moves: manage affairs by strategy
- 24.
- to make a mistake in counting
- a villain
- 25.
- to soothe
- to cast off, as hair, feathers, etc
- 26.
- a state of mind with reference to confidence, courage, zeal, and the like
- a writer on ethics
- 27.
- a filter
- the sharp striking of one body against another
- 28.
- severity or acuteness, especially of pain or grief
- severely painful or acute to the spirit
- 29.
- to utter in simple or childish talk
- a statement introductory to and explanatory of what follows
- 30.
- the act of going forward
- a high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff
- 31.
- immense
- one wasteful or extravagant, especially in the use of money or property
- 32.
- offspring
- a moving forward or proceeding in course
- 33.
- a work, original in character, afterward imitated in form or spirit
- to prolong
- 34.
- less important or effective than that which is primary
- in the second place in order or succession
- 35.
- an instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes
- to catch or take hold of suddenly and forcibly
- 36.
- resonant
- a poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases
- 37.
- the art or process of communicating by telephone
- to drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass
- 38.
- a formal token of regard, often presented in public
- government by a supreme deity
- 39.
- the path described by a projectile moving under given forces
- an impediment
- 40.
- one who or that which is only of temporary existence
- passage from one place, condition, or action to another
- 41.
- revengeful
- a greenhouse for grapes
- 42.
- attractive
- lacking warmth of manner