click below
click below
Normal Size Small Size show me how
3000 SAT(pere-sent)
Word | Meaning |
---|---|
sententious | self-righteous; give to arrogant moralizing; preachy |
seminary | a school for religious training |
sedition | willful violation of allegiance to one's country; treason |
scion (SIE on) | a descendant directly from the same parents or ancestors |
sallow | lacking color; pale; sickly-looking |
sally | a sudden onslaught; an excursion or expedition; a clever rejoinder |
roue (roo AY) | an immoral man, libertine, wanton, profligate |
riposte | quick sharp return in speech or action; counterstroke |
rife | abundant; great in number or amount |
revamp | to renovate; to revise or reconstruct |
reticulate | cover with a network |
resurgent | able to rise after defeat |
requisite | compulsory, essential, manditory; requirement |
repudiate | disavow, revoke, annul, nullify |
reprove | to criticize or correct gently; reproach; chide, scold |
reprobate | a morally unprincipled person; a degenerate |
reprisal | revenge; retaliation; vendetta; vengeance |
remand | to remit, send back or consign again |
rarefied | not ordinary; interesting to a select group only |
rampart | fortification, a bulwark or defense |
raiment (RAY munt) | clothing; wearing apparel |
rakish (RAY kish) | appearing fast, neat appearance, dashing, casual |
raffish (RAF ish) | cheaply vulgar in appearance or nature; tawdry; disreputable |
rabble | disorderly crowd or mob, lower class |
quisling | person betraying one's own country, helping an invading enemy |
quip | a witty remark or reply |
quintessential | being the most perfect or typical example of something |
quid pro quo | one thing done in return for another |
putative (PYOO tuh tiv) | commonly accepted |
purist | someone who strictly observes traditions or conventions |
pumice | porous form of volcanic glass used as an abrasive |
puissant (PWIS ahnt) | potent, powerful, mighty |
provisional | tentative, stopgap, transitional, conditional |
propulsive | propelling; having a propelling force |
proliferate | to increase in number and spread rapidly, regenerate |
proffer | to put before a person for acceptance, offer |
privation | lack of the basic necessities or comforts of life; destitution; poverty |
pregnant | filled with meaning that has not been expressed |
prehensile | adapted for grasping or holding |
predispose | to set up or influence a behavior or condition; to lay the groudwork for |
predilection | tendency to think favorably of something, partiality, penchant |
preceptor | teacher, principal of a school, instructor |
pratfall | a fall on the buttocks; a humiliating defeat or failure |
pontificate | to act or speak arrogantly; to be conceited, overconfident, egotistical |
poltroon | a coward |
pithy | brief, forceful and meaningful in expression; concise |
philippic (fe LIP ik) | a verbal denunciation characterized by harsh, insulting language; a trirade |
petulant | ill-humored, irratable, cranky |
perfidy (PUR fuh dee) | treachery, treason, disloyalty, faithlessness |
peremptory (puh REMP tuh ree) | irrevocable, decisive, final, dictatorial |