SAT Vocab Page 3

A wall or embankment used for a defensive fortification; something serving as a defense or safeguard.

To dress or groom with careful attention to detail.

A false report.

Moving swiftly.

Not ornamented; plain; absolute.

An artful or secret plot or scheme.

Soothing, mild, pleasant.

A paid position that requires little or no work.

To keep out; exclude.

To confuse or perplex.

marked by immortality; dishonest; containing errors.

Showing favoritism to relatives.

Conspicuously bad or offensive.

Something thought to have magic power.

Excessively greedy; taking by force.

Very large.

A long pompous speech; a speech or piece of writing expressing strong emotion; a tirade.

Straightforward; lacking in imagination.

Very wicked; villainous.

To attempt to gain, especially love or favor; to behave so as to invite.

To take the place of; to have priority or precedence over.

To give off a strong, unpleasant odor; to be pervaded with something unpleasant.

To take the place of.

Transparently clear.

Friendly and agreeable; sociable.

Bitter and resentful.

An item of trade or commerce, especially as distinguished from service.

Childish; foolishly immature.

Unselective; random; unrestrained.

A use of words in which the intended meaning is very different from the literal sense; an incongruity between what might be expected and what actually occurs, especially one that suggests a lesson about human folly.

Of a much earlier, often more primitive period.

To become aware of through the senses.

To assemble into a group.

An ideally perfect place.

A regulation requiring people to be inside at a certain time.

To restrain or block.

Going out; the right to go out or exit.

A rigid and hereditary social class

Aware

One's relatives.

Something presented as a drug, but having to actual effect.

Producing wealth; profitable.

The original pattern or model; a perfect example.

Harmless.

An object produced by human work, especially one of historical and archaeological interest.

To write, carve, or engrave words or letters on or in a surface.

An area of swampy ground; something that hinders.

Inactive; not moving.

To speak out against strongly and openly.

Showy; pretentious.

Yielding an opinion, desire, or position to another out of respect.

Complicated; puzzling.

Direct popular vote on a law or measure of public policy.

Overflowing; excessively emotional.

To feel hostility because of a perceived insult or injury.