SAT Vocabulary Power (8-74)
Vocabulary Cards: 33
- 1.
- the group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns
- the superior of a community of monks
- 2.
- prior
- a room situated before and opening into another, usually larger
- 3.
- favoring, protecting, or propitious influence or guidance
- severely simple
- unadorned
- 4.
- the science that treats of plants
- showing abundance
- 5.
- to purify by affliction
- to subject to punitive measures
- 6.
- the state or feeling of trust in or reliance upon another
- assured
- 7.
- to accuse in return
- made to resemble something else
- 8.
- to annihilate
- capable of positive proof
- 9.
- debate
- to deprive of any right privilege or power
- 10.
- to obliterate
- a consequence
- 11.
- to use words of double meaning
- to destroy thoroughly
- 12.
- capable of erring
- land broken up and left to become mellow or to rest
- 13.
- prankish
- to cause to crinkle or curl, as the hair
- 14.
- devastation
- concordant in sound
- 15.
- blameless
- having no money
- 16.
- to harass with persistent demands or entreaties
- destitute of or lacking in power, physical, moral, or intellectual
- 17.
- that can not be separated
- working ill by slow and stealthy means
- 18.
- something that has actual and undeniable existence or reality
- foolishly and tearfully affectionate
- 19.
- fashionable
- to vary in tone, inflection, pitch or other quality of sound
- 20.
- binding in law or conscience
- slanting
- said of lines
- 21.
- affluence
- wealthy
- 22.
- acceptance of the common faith
- having or determined by right angles
- 23.
- to swing back and forth
- to kiss
- 24.
- a violent issue, especially of passion in an individual
- one rejected and despised, especially socially
- 25.
- of small value
- a small flute
- 26.
- conservation
- semblance
- 27.
- to offer to another for acceptance
- an advanced state of acquirement, as in some knowledge, art, or science
- 28.
- brought together without order, distinction, or design (for sex)
- expressing an engagement to pay
- 29.
- the most essential part of anything
- musical composition arranged for five voices or instruments
- 30.
- smelling sweet and agreeable
- 31.
- to do business
- situated beyond or on the other side of the Atlantic
- 32.
- having the character or the spirit of a savage
- a statement so plainly true as hardly to require statement or proof
- 33.
- eating with greediness or in very large quantities
- a mass of rotating or whirling fluid, especially when sucked spirally toward the center