SAT Vocab 4

Question 0

Ascribed

Answer 0

Credit or assign to a cause or source; attribute; think of as belonging as a quality or characteristic

Question 1

Visage

Answer 1

The face, reference to shape, features, expression; aspect; appearance

Question 2

Aspersion

Answer 2

The act of making rough, harsh, or uneven

Question 3

Perennial

Answer 3

Lasting for and indefinitely long time; enduring; lasting/continuing throughout a year; perpetual; everlasting; continuing; recurrent

Question 4

Precursor

Answer 4

A person/thing that precedes as in a job, method; person/animal/thing that goes before and indicate the approach of someone/something else

Question 5

Predilection

Answer 5

A tendency to think favorable of something in particular; partiality; preference

Question 6

Perfidious

Answer 6

Deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful

Question 7

Preponderance

Answer 7

Superiority in weight, power, numbers, etc; prevailing

Question 8

Ribald

Answer 8

Vulgar or indecent in speech; language, etc; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent; scurrilous

Question 9

Hermetically

Answer 9

So as to be airtight

Question 10

Vested

Answer 10

Held completely, permanently and inalienably; protected by law, commitment, tradition, ownership; clothed, robed

Question 11

Rotund

Answer 11

Round in shape; rounded; plump; gate; full toned or sonorous

Question 12

Perfunctory

Answer 12

Performed merely as a routine; hasty and superficial; lacking interest

Question 13

Bovine

Answer 13

Of or pertaining to cattle, buffalo, and kudus; ox like cow like, stolid, dull

Question 14

Mnemonics

Answer 14

The process of technique of improving or developing the memory

Question 15

Panacea

Answer 15

A remedy of all disease or ills; cute all; an answer of solution for all problems of difficulties

Question 16

Ponderous

Answer 16

Of a great weight; heavy; massive, awkward or unwieldy; dull and labored

Question 17

Portend

Answer 17

To indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does. To signify/ mean

Question 18

Platitude

Answer 18

A flat, dull, Or Trieste remark; the quality or state of being flat dull or trite

Question 19

Heterogeneous

Answer 19

Different kind; unlike; incur groups; composed of parts of different kinda; having Widley dissimilar elements or constituents