SAT Vocabulary Power (4-33)
Vocabulary Cards: 37
- 1.
- invulnerable
- to be in pain or distress
- 2.
- change or modification
- to contend angrily or zealously in words
- 3.
- the chief of the bishops of an ecclesiastical province in the Greek, Roman, and Anglican church
- a high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese
- 4.
- to misrepresent
- to accept as true on the testimony or authority of others
- 5.
- rhythmical or measured flow or movement, as in poetry or the time and pace of marching troops
- an embellishment or flourish, prepared or improvised, for a solo voice or instrument
- 6.
- violent contact
- pertaining or peculiar to common speech as distinguished from literary
- 7.
- disdainful
- worthy of scorn or disdain
- 8.
- to lower in character or virtue
- subject to contention or dispute
- 9.
- the act of deciding
- hindering from action through fear
- 10.
- lack of confidence in the power, wisdom, or good intent of any person
- separation of relations or interests
- 11.
- one who works for wages or a salary
- one who uses or engages the services of other persons for pay
- 12.
- to empty by draining off the contents
- causing or tending to cause exhaustion
- 13.
- a dealer in flowers
- to pass backward and forward irregularly from one state or degree to another
- 14.
- hideous
- a movement or action of the hands or face, expressive of some idea or emotion
- 15.
- to move with haste and promptness
- cross-bred
- 16.
- rashness
- impenetrable
- 17.
- not digestible, or difficult to digest
- difficulty or failure in the alimentary canal in changing food into absorptive nutriment
- 18.
- sovereign
- a legal claim or hold on property, as security for a debt or charge
- 19.
- means of subsistence
- black-and-blue, as contused flesh
- 20.
- talkative
- to plunder
- 21.
- in prosody, a line of verse containing five units or feet
- the contest of five associated exercises in the great games and the same contestants
- 22.
- foreboding
- perceiving or feeling beforehand
- 23.
- lying prone, or with the head to the ground
- a leader in any enterprise or contest
- 24.
- immediately
- a person who is empowered by another to represent him or her in a given matter
- 25.
- equal mutual rights and benefits granted and enjoyed
- the act of reciting or repeating, especially in public and from memory
- 26.
- to start back as in dismay, loathing, or dread
- to recall the knowledge of
- 27.
- one abandoned to depravity and sin
- to make a copy of
- 28.
- habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance
- the body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance
- 29.
- looking back on the past
- to unite or join again, as after separation
- 30.
- one who attends to correspondence, keeps records. or does other writing for others
- having a tendency to conceal
- 31.
- the order in which a number or persons, things, or events follow one another in space or time
- following in the order of time
- 32.
- curving in and out
- an opening or cavity
- 33.
- a coin or coins of gold, silver, copper, or other metal
- a classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus
- 34.
- the act of submitting
- belonging to an inferior order in a classification
- 35.
- methodical
- an arrangement of inanimate figures representing a scene from real life
- 36.
- nervous uncertainty of feeling
- an open braced framework for supporting the horizontal stringers of a railway-bridge
- 37.
- student who delivers an address at graduating exercises of an educational institution
- a parting address