SAT Vocabulary Power (2-13)
Vocabulary Cards: 29
- 1.
- auxiliary
- a vehement appeal
- 2.
- pertaining to land, especially agricultural land
- an officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general
- 3.
- the highest point, as of a mountain
- proverb
- 4.
- the color of the sky
- of or pertaining to Lord Bacon or his system of philosophy
- 5.
- fragile
- to mention, for the first time
- 6.
- urgent in complaint or demand
- a tribe
- 7.
- descended from the same parent or ancestor
- the faculty in man by which he distinguishes between right and wrong in character and conduct
- 8.
- a small fissure, as between two contiguous surfaces
- a standard by which to determine the correctness of a judgment or conclusion
- 9.
- a place where anything is kept in safety
- to render bad, especially morally bad
- 10.
- to take no notice of
- dishonorable or disgraceful
- 11.
- that property of matter by which a body tends to return to a former shape after being changed
- the process of decomposing a chemical compound by the passage of an electric current
- 12.
- ultimate
- escape
- 13.
- joyous
- merry
- 14.
- festivity
- merrily
- 15.
- vacillation
- at variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion
- 16.
- that which begins, or expresses beginning
- casual occurrence
- 17.
- general lack of capacity or fitness
- not having the abilities desired or necessary for any purpose
- 18.
- to abominate
- indicating place, or the place where or wherein an action occurs
- 19.
- to cause to disappear
- the state of having passed out of the memory or of being utterly forgotten
- 20.
- of or pertaining to the eye
- one versed or skilled in treating diseases of the eye
- 21.
- to exceed in influence or power
- a preconceived liking
- 22.
- caution
- proceeding or marked by caution
- 23.
- pertaining to the mind or soul
- morally irresponsible
- 24.
- childish
- quarrelsome
- 25.
- matter that settles to the bottom of a liquid
- conduct directed against public order and the tranquillity of the state
- 26.
- made with a hissing sound
- to give a hissing sound to, as in pronouncing the letter s
- 27.
- clandestine
- to overcome by force of will
- 28.
- stretched tight
- a levy, by government, of a fixed contribution
- 29.
- to utter with complaining tone
- completely