SAT Vocabulary Power (7-66)

Vocabulary Cards: 42

SAT Verbal
SAT Verbal
  • 1.
    • a washing or cleansing, especially of the body
    • to renounce (a right or privilege)
  • 2.
    • occurring every year
    • an annual allowance, payment, or income
  • 3.
    • to certify as accurate, genuine, or true
    • the chief law-officer of a government
  • 4.
    • corporeal
    • unchecked merriment or animal spirits
  • 5.
    • a hundredth of a liter
    • a length of one hundredth of a meter
  • 6.
    • the act or process of making dense or denser
    • to abridge
  • 7.
    • to ruin or destroy little by little
    • gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration
  • 8.
    • delight
    • hurtful, morally or physically
  • 9.
    • to train to obedience
    • to disavow any claim to, connection with, or responsibility to
  • 10.
    • the force which, applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second, would give it a velocity of 1 cm/s
    • ardent in spirit and speech
  • 11.
    • any appearance or bodily manifestation of a deity
    • an incident or story in a literary work, separable from yet growing out of it
  • 12.
    • to drive out or away
    • rich supply
  • 13.
    • counterfeit
    • deceitfulness
  • 14.
    • fit to be dwelt in
    • dweller
  • 15.
    • to come into a country or region from a former habitat
    • impending evil or danger
  • 16.
    • beginning
    • to reduce to ashes
  • 17.
    • matchless
    • discordant
  • 18.
    • contradictory
    • small in quantity or importance
  • 19.
    • one who makes an investigation
    • forcible encroachment or trespass
  • 20.
    • instinctive knowledge or feeling
    • to fill with an overflowing abundance
  • 21.
    • prolonged sluggishness of body or mind
    • an embankment beside a river or stream or an arm of the sea, to prevent overflow
  • 22.
    • an expert reasoner
    • one who consumes time idly
  • 23.
    • an animal that devours human beings
    • to make adroit or artful moves: manage affairs by strategy
  • 24.
    • to make a mistake in counting
    • a villain
  • 25.
    • to soothe
    • to cast off, as hair, feathers, etc
  • 26.
    • a state of mind with reference to confidence, courage, zeal, and the like
    • a writer on ethics
  • 27.
    • a filter
    • the sharp striking of one body against another
  • 28.
    • severity or acuteness, especially of pain or grief
    • severely painful or acute to the spirit
  • 29.
    • to utter in simple or childish talk
    • a statement introductory to and explanatory of what follows
  • 30.
    • the act of going forward
    • a high and very steep or approximately vertical cliff
  • 31.
    • immense
    • one wasteful or extravagant, especially in the use of money or property
  • 32.
    • offspring
    • a moving forward or proceeding in course
  • 33.
    • a work, original in character, afterward imitated in form or spirit
    • to prolong
  • 34.
    • less important or effective than that which is primary
    • in the second place in order or succession
  • 35.
    • an instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes
    • to catch or take hold of suddenly and forcibly
  • 36.
    • resonant
    • a poem of fourteen decasyllabic or octosyllabiclines expressing two successive phrases
  • 37.
    • the art or process of communicating by telephone
    • to drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass
  • 38.
    • a formal token of regard, often presented in public
    • government by a supreme deity
  • 39.
    • the path described by a projectile moving under given forces
    • an impediment
  • 40.
    • one who or that which is only of temporary existence
    • passage from one place, condition, or action to another
  • 41.
    • revengeful
    • a greenhouse for grapes
  • 42.
    • attractive
    • lacking warmth of manner