SAT Vocabulary Power (8-71)
Vocabulary Cards: 39
- 1.
- in bed
- on a bed
- deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course
- 2.
- a waiting room for those who seek audience
- to assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one
- 3.
- pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons
- of or pertaining to the ear
- 4.
- rude
- to weary by tediousness or dullness
- 5.
- a court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court
- any condition of which the elements or parts are in utter disorder and confusion
- 6.
- one who is united with others in a league, compact, or agreement
- to bestow
- 7.
- common to all the world
- a cosmopolitan character
- 8.
- deportment
- an unprincipled politician
- 9.
- to get first sight or knowledge of, as something previously unknown or unperceived
- to injure the reputation of
- 10.
- enraptured
- suitable to be eaten
- 11.
- pertaining to horses or horsemanship
- a state of balance
- 12.
- ease
- an exact copy or reproduction
- 13.
- apt to induce terror or alarm
- lacking warmth
- 14.
- improvident
- a tirade
- 15.
- unbiased
- imperceptible to the touch
- 16.
- to attribute
- difficult of approach
- 17.
- pertaining to the administration of justice
- that department of government which administers the law relating to civil and criminal justice
- 18.
- an articulation, joint, or seam
- a council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon the affairs of government
- 19.
- deceitfulness in dealing
- to mix and work into a homogeneous mass, especially with the hands
- 20.
- that which binds objects together
- anything that constricts, or serves for binding or tying
- 21.
- afraid to express facts or opinions plainly
- to wind and turn while proceeding in a course
- 22.
- clamorous
- very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell
- 23.
- a formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act
- a rectangular piece set in or as in a frame
- 24.
- a scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning
- to go about with a small stock of goods to sell
- 25.
- the science of human vocal sounds
- the property of emitting light
- 26.
- the art of measuring the intensity of light
- a specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy
- 27.
- any small portion or meager allowance
- to bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness
- 28.
- the common people
- containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory
- 29.
- one who profits
- shameless viciousness
- 30.
- habitually complaining
- to make inquiry
- 31.
- harsh
- to lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring, or other destructive methods
- 32.
- desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies
- a trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observation
- 33.
- having spines
- a woman who has never been married
- 34.
- to displace
- lying on the back
- 35.
- that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse
- outline of a subject, course, lecture, or treatise
- 36.
- unendurable
- unsuited to the wearer, place, or surroundings
- 37.
- inexpressible
- moved or managed with difficulty, as from great size or awkward shape
- 38.
- noisy
- to eradicate
- 39.
- truth
- a noxious or troublesome animal