SAT Vocabulary Power (1-6)
Vocabulary Cards: 38
- 1.
- misfortune
- opposing or opposed
- 2.
- said in a preceding part or before
- once more, after rest or interval
- 3.
- an anthem or other composition sung responsively
- a place or region on the opposite side of the earth
- 4.
- the fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock
- passion for getting and keeping riches
- 5.
- one who trains horses, dogs, etc
- the buttocks
- 6.
- belonging, relating to, or abounding in color
- the science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events
- 7.
- to collect into a mass
- to bring together into a crowd
- 8.
- one who steers a rowboat, or one who has charge of a ship's boat and its crew under an officer
- a rugged, rocky projection on a cliff or ledge
- 9.
- that part of a play or story in which the mystery is cleared up
- to point out or publicly accuse as deserving of punishment, censure, or odium
- 10.
- displacement by authority from an office or an employment
- to throw down, push off, or otherwise remove from a horse or the like
- 11.
- opening in flower
- a noxious or ill-smelling exhalation from decaying or putrefying matter
- 12.
- a wide lower part of a tidal river
- and so forth
- 13.
- to league together
- any sham, pretense, or deceptive movement
- 14.
- spongy
- a plant destitute of chlorophyll, as a mushroom
- 15.
- to worry or harass by ill temper and petty annoyances
- a figure having seven sides and seven angles
- 16.
- the state or quality of being unfit, unseemly, or inappropriate
- lacking foresight or thrift
- 17.
- to imprison
- chemical or person who starts a fire-literally or figuratively
- 18.
- initial
- a front or cutting tooth
- 19.
- a policy of maintaining great standing armies
- to have weight or influence (in determining a question)
- 20.
- the state of being normal
- of or peculiar to Normandy, in northern France
- 21.
- of or pertaining to number
- a convent for nuns
- 22.
- having the nature of or breeding pestilence
- to fail or lose power, efficiency, or value
- 23.
- an expert in linguistics
- the study of language in connection with history and literature
- 24.
- a piece of lead for making soundings, adjusting walls to the vertical
- expressing past time or action prior to some other past time or action
- 25.
- uncultured in thought and manner
- a clause in a contract, will, etc., by which its operation is rendered conditional
- 26.
- one who refers
- ascribable
- 27.
- a systematized order or course of living with reference to food, clothing and personal habits
- a body of soldiers
- 28.
- feeling, expressive of, or full of regret
- to restore to a former status, capacity, right rank, or privilege
- 29.
- the quality of being able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations
- able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations
- 30.
- a very lascivious person
- a wild and uncivilized human being
- 31.
- persevering in effort or endeavor
- a prophet
- 32.
- to tease
- having equal or equivalent value, effect, or import
- 33.
- technical
- the art or process of preserving dead animals or parts of them
- 34.
- to speculate
- near that number, quantity, degree, place, or time, approximately
- 35.
- to be the ground or support of
- a subordinate
- 36.
- the pressure of necessity
- treatment
- 37.
- a stringed instrument of the violin class
- a musical instrument somewhat larger than a violin
- 38.
- to become or cause to become withered or dry
- having a shriveled face