SAT Vocabulary Power (8-71)

Vocabulary Cards: 39

SAT Verbal
SAT Verbal
  • 1.
    • in bed
    • on a bed
    • deviation from a right, customary, or prescribed course
  • 2.
    • a waiting room for those who seek audience
    • to assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one
  • 3.
    • pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons
    • of or pertaining to the ear
  • 4.
    • rude
    • to weary by tediousness or dullness
  • 5.
    • a court of equity, as distinguished from a common-law court
    • any condition of which the elements or parts are in utter disorder and confusion
  • 6.
    • one who is united with others in a league, compact, or agreement
    • to bestow
  • 7.
    • common to all the world
    • a cosmopolitan character
  • 8.
    • deportment
    • an unprincipled politician
  • 9.
    • to get first sight or knowledge of, as something previously unknown or unperceived
    • to injure the reputation of
  • 10.
    • enraptured
    • suitable to be eaten
  • 11.
    • pertaining to horses or horsemanship
    • a state of balance
  • 12.
    • ease
    • an exact copy or reproduction
  • 13.
    • apt to induce terror or alarm
    • lacking warmth
  • 14.
    • improvident
    • a tirade
  • 15.
    • unbiased
    • imperceptible to the touch
  • 16.
    • to attribute
    • difficult of approach
  • 17.
    • pertaining to the administration of justice
    • that department of government which administers the law relating to civil and criminal justice
  • 18.
    • an articulation, joint, or seam
    • a council or assembly that deliberates in secret upon the affairs of government
  • 19.
    • deceitfulness in dealing
    • to mix and work into a homogeneous mass, especially with the hands
  • 20.
    • that which binds objects together
    • anything that constricts, or serves for binding or tying
  • 21.
    • afraid to express facts or opinions plainly
    • to wind and turn while proceeding in a course
  • 22.
    • clamorous
    • very offensive, particularly to the sense of smell
  • 23.
    • a formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act
    • a rectangular piece set in or as in a frame
  • 24.
    • a scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning
    • to go about with a small stock of goods to sell
  • 25.
    • the science of human vocal sounds
    • the property of emitting light
  • 26.
    • the art of measuring the intensity of light
    • a specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy
  • 27.
    • any small portion or meager allowance
    • to bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness
  • 28.
    • the common people
    • containing many inhabitants, especially in proportion to the territory
  • 29.
    • one who profits
    • shameless viciousness
  • 30.
    • habitually complaining
    • to make inquiry
  • 31.
    • harsh
    • to lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring, or other destructive methods
  • 32.
    • desultory fighting between advanced detachments of two armies
    • a trick or feat so deftly done that the manner of performance escapes observation
  • 33.
    • having spines
    • a woman who has never been married
  • 34.
    • to displace
    • lying on the back
  • 35.
    • that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse
    • outline of a subject, course, lecture, or treatise
  • 36.
    • unendurable
    • unsuited to the wearer, place, or surroundings
  • 37.
    • inexpressible
    • moved or managed with difficulty, as from great size or awkward shape
  • 38.
    • noisy
    • to eradicate
  • 39.
    • truth
    • a noxious or troublesome animal