SAT Vocabulary Power (3-26)
Vocabulary Cards: 37
- 1.
- to free or clear, as from accusation
- a discharge from accusation by judicial action
- 2.
- the setting forth of a subject under the guise of another subject of aptly suggestive likeness
- to make less burdensome or less hard to bear
- 3.
- a water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance
- of, pertaining to, or containing water
- 4.
- to make supremely happy
- any state of great happiness
- 5.
- in colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of Maryland or Virginia
- an inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town
- 6.
- consistency
- having the property of consistency
- 7.
- the inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body
- one who has the right to vote at an election
- 8.
- a young swan
- exhibiting moral skepticism
- 9.
- utter hopelessness and despondency
- one without regard for law or life
- 10.
- the act of changing the purpose of or altering the plans of through persuasion, or pleading
- a word of two syllables
- 11.
- an obstruction or plugging up of an artery or other blood-vessel
- to involve in dissension or strife
- 12.
- the getting rid of waste matter
- to inflict severe pain or agony upon
- 13.
- one who or that which is expected to remain permanently in its position
- the captain of a flag-ship
- 14.
- to produce or cause to be
- noting a genus or kind
- opposed to specific
- 15.
- a token fee or payment to a professional man for services
- to deceive
- 16.
- unsuitable for the time, place, or occasion
- valueless
- 17.
- unrelenting
- so large or furnishing so great a supply as not to be emptied, wasted, or spent
- 18.
- difficult to follow or understand
- a plot or scheme, usually complicated and intended to accomplish something by secret ways
- 19.
- the art or practice of sleight of hand
- pertaining to the throat
- 20.
- language
- the tongue
- 21.
- the parts of a machine or engine, taken collectively
- one who makes or repairs machines, or uses metal-working tools
- 22.
- having an air of authority
- the office or dignity of a magistrate
- 23.
- of or pertaining to Sir Isaac Newton, the English philosopher
- stingy. (no longer acceptable to use)
- 24.
- funeral rites
- showing a servile readiness to fall in with the wishes or will of another
- 25.
- quinqeuvalent
- the number five
- 26.
- capable of being made perfect
- treachery
- 27.
- astute
- the relative importance of facts or matters from any special point of view
- 28.
- thoroughly penetrating or permeating
- unreasonable
- 29.
- open robbery, as in war
- a wooden framework in which an offender is fastened to boards and is exposed to public scorn
- 30.
- accordance with recognized usage, custom, or principles
- a driving onward or forward
- 31.
- to correct
- to enlist men for military or naval service
- 32.
- to sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom
- a long curved blade for mowing, reaping, etc
- 33.
- to withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body
- voluntary withdrawal from fellowship, especially from political or religious bodies
- 34.
- any authoritatively declared rule, ordinance, decree, or law
- a concealed manner of acting
- 35.
- to prevent from being disclosed or punished
- capable of being suppressed
- 36.
- a group of three persons of things
- any champion of the rights and liberties of the people: often used as the name for a newspaper
- 37.
- wordy
- use of many words without necessity