SAT Vocabulary Power (1-1)
Vocabulary Cards: 38
- 1.
- a balloon or other apparatus floating in or sustained by the air
- the branch of pneumatics that treats of the equilibrium, pressure, and mechanical properties
- 2.
- easy to approach
- to act upon
- 3.
- the science of man in general
- having or resembling human form
- 4.
- the state or quality of being genuine, or of the origin and authorship claimed
- the story of one's life written by himself
- 5.
- to place the products or merchandise of under a ban
- hillside
- 6.
- any article of personal property
- to hold back
- 7.
- a great fire, as of many buildings, a forest, or the like
- the place where streams meet
- 8.
- a house or office used for transacting business, bookkeeping, correspondence, etc
- a rustic
- 9.
- one who proves in a convincing and conclusive manner
- any application soothing to an irritable surface
- 10.
- to impair or injure the beauty, symmetry, or appearance of
- undress or negligent attire
- 11.
- womanishness
- having womanish traits or qualities
- 12.
- incorrect
- very-learned
- 13.
- one having a taste for or interest in special objects
- unimaginative
- 14.
- economical
- fulfillment
- 15.
- precipitately, as in diving
- precipitately, as in diving. knight
- 16.
- that can not be taken by assault
- to make pregnant
- 17.
- one who takes part in a conversation or oral discussion
- an action or event considered as coming between others of greater length
- 18.
- of considerable bulk and weight
- a superior production
- 19.
- lasting but a short time
- very significant
- 20.
- an impetus
- government by a single, sovereign ruler
- 21.
- to disfigure
- the act or process of change
- 22.
- the son of the Athenian river-god Cephisus, fabled to have fallen in love with his reflection
- to tell a story
- 23.
- impervious to light
- to put in action and supervise the working of
- 24.
- a habitual lawbreaker
- to continue to exist after
- 25.
- the state of having the mind, attention, or inclination preoccupied
- to fill the mind of a person to the exclusion of other subjects
- 26.
- strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom
- observant and exact in points of time
- 27.
- an acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act
- to recall the identity of (a person or thing)
- 28.
- unwillingness
- to like the taste or savor of
- 29.
- bloody
- holiness
- 30.
- outward appearance
- half-civilized
- 31.
- one who makes an investment that involves a risk of loss, but also a chance of profit
- the state or condition of being a sphere
- 32.
- to cease to resist
- toleration
- 33.
- to add in addition to what has been added
- to become deteriorated or incapacitated by long service
- 34.
- a word having the same or almost the same meaning as some other
- a syllabus or summary
- 35.
- capable of being conveyed from one person or place to another
- the person to whom a transfer is made
- 36.
- an interpreter
- the property or state of allowing the passage of light
- 37.
- marketable
- the act of selling
- 38.
- punitive
- to prove true, right, or real