SAT Vocab 5 Flashcards
Mendicants
Depending on alms for a living; practicing begging
Bias
Line going diagonally across grain of fabric; preference or inclination with partial judgement
Brackish
Having somewhat salty taste; distasteful or unpalatable
Postulated
To make claim for, demand( assume the truth, reality, or necessit; take for granted. N. Basic principle
Posters
A back door or gate; a private side entrance or way
Mayhem
Actions that cripple, multilateral? Or disfigure any part of the body; scene/situation that involves a lot of violence
Megalomania
A delusional mental disorder that causes people to think that have great or unlimited power
Aborigines
An aboriginal inhabitant, member of the original people to live in an area
Peccadillo
A slight offense that is not very bad/serious
Henchmen
A trusted follower is ripple yet who performs unpleasant, wrong or illegal tasks for a person of high rank
Heinous
Hatefully or shockingly evil
Platonic
Purely spiritual; free from sensual desire
Hedonism
The doctrine that happiness is the highest good; devotion to pleasure as a way of life
Viscosity
Te glutinous nature/consistency; sticky, thick adhesive
Plagarism
Using other people’s words as your own
Utopian
Involving idealized perfection; given to impractical or unrealistic schemes of such perfection
Utilitarian
Having regard to utility or usefulness rather than beauty
Renaissance
Activity, spirit? Time of the great revival of art an learning in Europe from the 14th to 17th venture
Remunerate
To pay, recompense, or reward for the work, trouble etc
Wizened
Withered, shriveled
