SAT Vocabulary Power (3-24)
Vocabulary Cards: 36
- 1.
- harshly pungent or bitter
- full of bitterness
- 2.
- that which nourishes
- anything that will neutralize an acid, as lime, magnesia, etc
- 3.
- to make a prisoner of (a person) in the name of the law
- capable of being conceived
- 4.
- a narrow strip of wood
- a thick liquid mixture of two or more materials beaten together, to be used in cookery
- 5.
- power or tendency to float on or in a liquid or gas
- having the power or tendency to float or keep afloat
- 6.
- akin
- appealing strongly to the reason or conscience
- 7.
- to plot
- an officer whose duty is to maintain the peace
- 8.
- concise, compressed, and abrupt in act or expression
- to cut off or cut short
- 9.
- any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds
- to select or appoint, as by authority
- 10.
- discord
- to liquefy or soften, as by heat or moisture
- 11.
- to set forth publicly or in glowing terms
- a symbol
- 12.
- an abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling
- to shut out purposely or forcibly
- 13.
- pertaining to the treasury or public finances of a government
- one who sells fish
- 14.
- a tracer of pedigrees
- the principal portion
- 15.
- made up of similar parts or elements
- identical in nature, make-up, or relation
- 16.
- to deprive of power, capacity, competency, or qualification
- want of power to apprehend, understand, and manage
- 17.
- not accomplishing an intended purpose
- that which does not accomplish an intended purpose
- 18.
- a low tract of land between hills, especially along a river
- to interfere for some end
- 19.
- exhibiting changing rainbow-colors due to the interference of the light
- to afflict with pain, vexation, or fatigue
- 20.
- mentally sound
- highly profitable
- 21.
- the quality of giving or radiating light
- giving or radiating light
- 22.
- insanity
- a person raving with madness
- 23.
- extraordinarily generous
- an assemblage or review of troops for parade or inspection, or for numbering off
- 24.
- pertaining to ships
- the depression on the abdomen where the umbilical cord of the fetus was attached
- 25.
- capable of commercial navigation
- to traverse by ship
- 26.
- a book, or collection of paper in which the sheets are so folded as to make eight leaves
- a person of between eighty and ninety years
- 27.
- a remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases
- including or pertaining to the whole of America, both North and South
- 28.
- a member of a degraded class
- a social outcast
- the ecclesiastical district in charge of a pastor
- 29.
- reciprocal change, different ordering of same items
- tending to kill or hurt
- 30.
- a force of men
- to own
- 31.
- adequate return for good or ill
- to repay either good or evil to, as to a person
- 32.
- possessing wisdom
- 33.
- characterized by quivering or unsteadiness
- cutting deeply and quickly
- 34.
- a three-wheeled vehicle
- the three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune
- 35.
- a threefold personality existing in the one divine being or substance
- three things grouped or associated together
- 36.
- level or low land between hills
- a bidding farewell