SAT Vocabulary Power (3-23)
Vocabulary Cards: 35
- 1.
- sharpness or bitterness of speech or temper
- affording cause for instituting an action, as trespass, slanderous words
- 2.
- to cause to turn away
- estrangement
- 3.
- to estimate the money value of
- capable of being discerned by the senses or intellect
- 4.
- an official staff borne either as a weapon or as an emblem of authority or privilege
- a body of infantry composed of two or more companies, forming a part of a regiment
- 5.
- full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit
- to execute clumsily
- 6.
- forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical
- serving or tending to force
- 7.
- clearly visible
- one who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose
- 8.
- writing in which the letters are joined together
- rapid and superficial
- 9.
- to discern
- to abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned
- 10.
- lewd
- a breaking up of a union of persons
- 11.
- to make beautiful or elegant by adding attractive or ornamental features
- to misappropriate secretly
- 12.
- nervously high-strung
- intensified emotion or action
- 13.
- limited
- subtle contrivance used to gain a point
- 14.
- in continental Europe, particularly in France, a uniformed and armed police officer
- a list, in the order of succession, of ancestors and their descendants
- 15.
- reverential regard or worship
- congruity of the members or elements or parts
- 16.
- anything done or said on the impulse of the moment
- not appropriate, suitable, or becoming
- 17.
- to come between other things or persons
- a coming between
- 18.
- to render of no force or effect
- exceedingly precious
- 19.
- wrath
- a many-colored appearance
- 20.
- that can not be rectified or made amends for
- that can not be restrained or kept down
- 21.
- anything kept or given to be kept for the sake of the giver
- a square of linen, silk, or other material, used as a covering for the head or neck
- 22.
- defamation
- justly or legally responsible
- 23.
- a list of persons who have died in a certain place or time
- one who practices the art of foretelling the future by means of communication with the dead
- 24.
- a base or support as for a column, statue, or vase
- one who journeys on foot
- 25.
- speaking several tongues
- a figure having many angles
- 26.
- foreboding
- a judgment as a conclusion
- 27.
- derived from authoritative direction
- an authoritative direction
- 28.
- to use ambiguous or evasive language for the purpose of deceiving or diverting attention
- thwarting
- 29.
- an intermediate state where souls are made fit for paradise or heaven by expiatory suffering
- to cause to whirl, as in an eddy
- 30.
- comfort in grief, trouble, or calamity
- pertaining to the sun
- 31.
- lacking courage
- a solution, usually alcoholic, of some principle used in medicine
- 32.
- calm
- to soothe
- 33.
- capable of being poured from one vessel to another
- the act of pouring from one vessel to another
- 34.
- oily
- the art of anointing as with oil
- 35.
- of less than the customary size
- clandestinely carried on