SAT Vocabulary Power (3-25)
Vocabulary Cards: 30
- 1.
- release or discharge from indebtedness, obligation, or responsibility
- quantity or extent of land, especially of cultivated land
- 2.
- mitigate
- to calm the violence or reduce the intensity of
- to assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court
- 3.
- sanction
- suitable for the purpose and circumstances
- 4.
- a trinket
- to proclaim by outcry
- 5.
- a chest of drawers for clothing, etc
- government by departments of men transacting particular branches of public business
- 6.
- taking notice
- to stick together
- 7.
- an arbitrary assemblage or group of stars
- panic
- 8.
- a downward movement of the body by bending the knees
- like a circle
- 9.
- cessation
- to cease from action
- 10.
- harsh or disagreeable in sound
- to change the purpose or alter the plans of by persuasion, counsel, or pleading
- 11.
- to express, formulate, or exemplify in a concrete, compact or visible form
- to give courage to
- 12.
- non-admission
- any unnatural addition, outgrowth, or development
- 13.
- spasmodic
- a crack or crack-like depression
- 14.
- ordinarily
- to draw general inferences
- 15.
- a word agreeing in sound with but different in meaning from another
- 16.
- speechless
- that can not be heard
- 17.
- to rouse to a particular action
- that which moves to action, or serves as an incentive or stimulus
- 18.
- incapable of being forced, constrained, or compelled
- want of connection, or agreement, as of parts or ideas in thought, speech, etc
- 19.
- uprising
- one who takes part in forcible opposition to the constituted authorities of a place
- 20.
- a place or structure dangerous to human life
- a command
- 21.
- over-cautious
- a figure of speech that consists in the naming of a thing by one of its attributes
- 22.
- temperance
- the presiding officer of a meeting
- 23.
- a gaseous body of unorganized stellar substance
- indispensably requisite or absolutely needed to accomplish a desired result
- 24.
- a city of the dead
- the death of part of the body
- 25.
- love and devotion to one's country
- to exercise an arrogant condescension toward
- 26.
- to withdraw formally one's belief (in something previously believed or maintained)
- to repeat again the principal points of
- 27.
- capable of being or fit to be received - often money
- having the capacity, quality, or ability of receiving, as truths or impressions
- 28.
- to regret extremely
- a lawless or recklessly brutal fellow
- 29.
- making a loud outcry
- the prevalent way or fashion
- 30.
- to relinquish, especially temporarily, as a right or claim
- beads strung on threads, formerly used among the American Indians as currency