SAT Vocab 4 Flashcards
Ascribed
Credit or assign to a cause or source; attribute; think of as belonging as a quality or characteristic
Visage
The face, reference to shape, features, expression; aspect; appearance
Aspersion
The act of making rough, harsh, or uneven
Perennial
Lasting for and indefinitely long time; enduring; lasting/continuing throughout a year; perpetual; everlasting; continuing; recurrent
Precursor
A person/thing that precedes as in a job, method; person/animal/thing that goes before and indicate the approach of someone/something else
Predilection
A tendency to think favorable of something in particular; partiality; preference
Perfidious
Deliberately faithless; treacherous; deceitful
Preponderance
Superiority in weight, power, numbers, etc; prevailing
Ribald
Vulgar or indecent in speech; language, etc; coarsely mocking, abusive, or irreverent; scurrilous
Hermetically
So as to be airtight
Vested
Held completely, permanently and inalienably; protected by law, commitment, tradition, ownership; clothed, robed
Rotund
Round in shape; rounded; plump; gate; full toned or sonorous
Perfunctory
Performed merely as a routine; hasty and superficial; lacking interest
Bovine
Of or pertaining to cattle, buffalo, and kudus; ox like cow like, stolid, dull
Mnemonics
The process of technique of improving or developing the memory
Panacea
A remedy of all disease or ills; cute all; an answer of solution for all problems of difficulties
Ponderous
Of a great weight; heavy; massive, awkward or unwieldy; dull and labored
Portend
To indicate in advance; to foreshadow or presage, as an omen does. To signify/ mean
Platitude
A flat, dull, Or Trieste remark; the quality or state of being flat dull or trite
Heterogeneous
Different kind; unlike; incur groups; composed of parts of different kinda; having Widley dissimilar elements or constituents
