click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
SSAT Verbal - Grp 4
Group 4 SSAT Word Web, 2011
Question | Answer |
---|---|
voracious | 1. craving or consuming large quantities of food 2. exceedingly eager or avid: voracious readers |
incarnation | a living being taking on the form of a god or spirit |
ingratiate | to establish (oneself) in the favor or good graces of others, esp. by deliberate effort |
tractor | a powerful motor-driven vehicle with large, heavy treads, used for pulling farm machinery, other vehicles, etc. |
belligerent | 1. warlike; given to waging war. 2. of warlike character; aggressively hostile; bellicose |
amity | friendship; peaceful harmony |
naive | 1. unsophisticated; ingenuous 2. having or showing a lack of experience, judgment, or information |
omnivorous | 1. eating both animal and plant foods. 2. eating all kinds of foods indiscriminately |
potent | powerful; mighty |
prefix | an affix, or word part, placed before a base or another prefix, as un- |
devour | to swallow or eat up hungrily, voraciously, or ravenously |
infiltrate | 1. to filter into or through; permeate. 2. to cause to pass in by filtering |
antecedent | preceding; prior |
bellicose | inclined or eager to fight; aggressively hostile; belligerent; pugnacious |
amicable | characterized by or showing goodwill; friendly; peaceable |
natal | of or having to do with a person's birth |
omniscient | having complete or unlimited knowledge, awareness, or understanding; perceiving all things |
potentate | a person who possesses great power, as a sovereign, monarch, or ruler |
predestine | to destine (or establish for a purpose) in advance; foreordain; predetermine |
carnivorous | flesh-eating, or meat-eating |
input | something that is put in |
intractable | 1. not easily controlled or directed; not docile or manageable; stubborn; obstinate: an intractable disposition. 2. (of things) hard to shape or work with 3. hard to treat, relieve, or cure: |
antebellum | before or existing before the war |
enamored | 1. to fill or inflame with love 2. to charm or captivate |
innate | existing in one from birth; inborn; native |
native | being the place or environment in which a person was born or a thing came into being |
omnipotent | 1. almighty or infinite in power 2. having very great or unlimited authority or power |
prescience | knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge; foresight |
carnage | the slaughter of a great number of people, as in battle; butchery; massacre |
inject | 1. to force (a fluid) into a passage, cavity, or tissue 2. to introduce (something new or different) |
protract | to draw out or lengthen, esp. in time; extend the duration of; prolong |
rebel | 1. to reject, resist, or rise in arms against one's government or ruler. 2. to resist or rise against some authority, control, or tradition |
amorous | 1. inclined or disposed to love 2. showing or expressing love |
nascent | beginning to exist or develop |
renaissance | a renewal of life, vigor, interest, etc.; rebirth; revival |
potential | 1. possible, as opposed to actual 2. capable of being or becoming |
preface | 1. a preliminary statement in a book by the book's author or editor, setting forth its purpose and scope, expressing acknowledgment of assistance from others, etc. 2. an introductory part, as of a speech |