SAT Vocab Prep 01 Flash Cards

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Title: SAT Vocab Prep 01
Description: vocab words to help you prepare for the SAT
Number of Cards: 249
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Author: support21
Created: 2001-04-11
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    • competitive
    • adjective: characterized by rivalry.
    • wantonness
    • noun: Recklessness.
    • galvanic
    • adjective: Pertaining or relating to electricity produced by chemical action.
    • effeminacy
    • noun: Womanishness.
    • avidity
    • noun: Greediness.
    • magnet
    • noun: A body possessing that peculiar form of polarity found in nature in the lodestone.
    • compulsion
    • noun: Coercion.
    • irksome
    • adjective: Wearisome.
    • merciful
    • adjective: Disposed to pity and forgive.
    • admonition
    • noun: Gentle reproof.
    • contravene
    • verb: To prevent or obstruct the operation of.
    • destitute
    • adjective: Poverty-stricken.
    • absolve
    • verb: To free from sin or its penalties.
    • aggrieve
    • verb: To give grief or sorrow to.
    • suasion
    • noun: The act of persuading.
    • retouch
    • verb: To modify the details of.
    • occlude
    • verb: To absorb, as a gas by a metal.
    • mendacious
    • adjective: Untrue.
    • inert
    • adjective: Inanimate.
    • personal
    • adjective: Not general or public.
    • submerge
    • verb: To place or plunge under water.
    • sextet
    • noun: A band of six singers or players.
    • preexistence
    • noun: Existence antecedent to something.
    • extant
    • adjective: Still existing and known.
    • panegyric
    • noun: A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act.
    • violation
    • noun: Infringement.
    • deciduous
    • adjective: Falling off at maturity as petals after flowering, fruit when ripe, etc.
    • bier
    • noun: A horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave.
    • reminiscence
    • noun: The calling to mind of incidents within the range of personal knowledge or experience.
    • rhetoric
    • noun: The art of discourse.
    • covenant
    • noun: An agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties.
    • ailment
    • noun: Slight sickness.
    • transcribe
    • verb: To write over again (something already written)
    • prophecy
    • noun: Any prediction or foretelling.
    • deprecate
    • verb: To express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite.
    • contagion
    • noun: The communication of disease from person to person.
    • exuberant
    • adjective: Marked by great plentifulness.
    • physiocracy
    • noun: The doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth.
    • carnivorous
    • adjective: Eating or living on flesh.
    • anemic
    • adjective: Affected with anemia.
    • revelation
    • noun: A disclosing, discovering, or making known of what was before secret, private, or unknown.
    • gentile
    • adjective: Belonging to a people not Jewish.
    • insolent
    • adjective: Impudent.
    • monocracy
    • noun: Government by a single person.
    • theocracy
    • noun: A government administered by ecclesiastics.
    • rehabilitate
    • verb: To restore to a former status, capacity, right rank, or privilege.
    • harangue
    • noun: A tirade.
    • pretext
    • noun: A fictitious reason or motive.
    • implausible
    • adjective: Not plausible.
    • theological
    • adjective: Based on or growing out of divine revelation.
    • nausea
    • noun: An affection of the stomach producing dizziness and usually an impulse to vomit
    • instigator
    • noun: One who incites to evil.
    • grenadier
    • noun: A member of a regiment composed of men of great stature.
    • parlor
    • noun: A room for reception of callers or entertainment of guests.
    • dragnet
    • noun: A net to be drawn along the bottom of the water.
    • confront
    • verb: To encounter, as difficulties or obstacles.
    • chastise
    • verb: To subject to punitive measures.
    • fraudulence
    • noun: Deceitfulness.
    • indescribable
    • adjective: That can not be described.
    • christen
    • verb: To name in baptism.
    • immovable
    • adjective: Steadfast.
    • modify
    • verb: To make somewhat different.
    • perturb
    • verb: To disturb greatly.
    • furrier
    • noun: A dealer in or maker of fur goods.
    • intimacy
    • noun: Close or confidential friendship.
    • phonic
    • adjective: Pertaining to the nature of sound.
    • naval
    • adjective: Pertaining to ships.
    • soothsayer
    • noun: One who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight.
    • precocious
    • adjective: Having the mental faculties prematurely developed.
    • medallion
    • noun: A large medal.
    • soliloquy
    • noun: A monologue.
    • physicist
    • noun: A specialist in the science that treats of the phenomena associated with matter and energy.
    • prolong
    • verb: To extend in time or duration.
    • invigorate
    • verb: To animate.
    • species
    • noun: A classificatory group of animals or plants subordinate to a genus.