SAT Vocabulary Power (5-49)
Vocabulary Cards: 39
- 1.
- a member of an academy of literature, art, or science
- any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught
- 2.
- sufficiently
- to remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body
- 3.
- pale
- having no distinct sexual organs
- 4.
- to engage to marry
- engagement to marry
- 5.
- hypercritical
- to fascinate, as by excellence. eloquence, or beauty
- 6.
- complicated
- yielding
- 7.
- to summon or cause to assemble
- fitness, as of time or place
- 8.
- the voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause
- to derive or draw as a conclusion by reasoning from given premises or principles
- 9.
- dispersion
- one who holds high rank
- 10.
- to influence controllingly
- control by the exercise of power or constituted authority
- 11.
- to set on fire
- to cause to see clearly
- 12.
- to cause to burst in pieces by force from within
- a sudden and violent outbreak
- 13.
- the upper part of the face, between the eyes and the hair
- belonging to, situated in, or derived from another country
- 14.
- composed of small grains or particles
- to form into grains or small particles
- 15.
- to regard with inordinate love or admiration
- low in character or purpose
- 16.
- the act or practice of bringing from one country into another
- urgent in character, request, or demand
- 17.
- unceasing
- beginning
- 18.
- tasteless
- urgency
- 19.
- anything that unduly exhilarates or excites
- to make drunk
- 20.
- misfortune
- a person given to saving and hoarding unduly
- 21.
- having no fame or reputation
- a light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints
- 22.
- that which nourishes
- having nutritious properties
- 23.
- fully
- chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree
- 24.
- to provide with a fixed allowance or portion, especially of food
- the formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority
- 25.
- having the power to refract
- denial of what is asked
- 26.
- exercising royal authority in one's own right
- to return to a former place or condition
- 27.
- to hold and exercise sovereign power
- to pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended
- 28.
- sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong
- a place where things are stored or gathered together
- 29.
- to separate the parts of by violence
- characteristic of dwelling in the country
- 30.
- sorrow for another's misery
- to make an offering of to deity, especially by presenting on an altar
- 31.
- insufficiency of supply for needs or ordinary demands
- characteristic of an erudite person
- 32.
- the time of year when the sun is at its greatest declination
- capable of being dissolved, as in a fluid
- 33.
- a faint trace of color
- befuddled with drinks
- 34.
- to passively permit or put up with
- a spirit of charitable leniency
- 35.
- artifice
- of three colors
- 36.
- swollen
- veracious
- 37.
- absolute power arbitrarily or unjustly administrated
- one slightly skilled in or acquainted with any trade or profession
- 38.
- insufficiently exposed for proper or full development, as negatives in photography
- a garment to be worn under the ordinary outer garments
- 39.
- a picture having a background or that is shaded off gradually
- conquerable