SAT Vocabulary List 3

v. chat; talk informally

adj. obedient; easily managed

adj. fearless

n. tyrant; harsh, authoritarian ruler

adj. not essential; minor

v. to border upon; adjoin

adj. having an aversion or lack of concern for political affairs

n. wreak; mess

adj. attractive; agreeable

n. teaching; art of education

n. division of a poem

v. give in respectfully; submit; delay

n. dictionary

adj. having little or no money

v. capture; enslave

n. cause of ruin; curse

n. to insult one's dignity; snub

adj. clear

n. downward slope

adj. suffering from a disease

adj. self-assertive

adj. hateful; spiteful

adj. treacherous; disloyal

adj. meat-eating

v. weaken; enfeeble

adj. fit for growing crops

v. put into effect; carry out

v. inform or tell

v. sift; separate good parts from bad

n. goodness, moral excellence; good quality

n. act of turning aside; pastime

adj. cutting; sharp

• n. case fo arrows
• v. tremble

adj. having a pale or sickly colour; pallid

adj. harmful

adj. grain-eating

adj. unalterable; irreversible

n. colouring matter

adj. stormy; unkind

n. creature that seizes and devours another animal; person who robs or exploits others

v. signify; indicate

n. unfriendliness; hatred

adj. of a law that dates back to a period before its enactment

n. very small object or creature; small coin

n. language used by a special group; technical terminology; gibberish