SAT Vocab 6 Flashcards
Winch
The crank or handle of a revolving machine
Artifice
Trickery;craftiness; cunning, inventiveness, a clever trick
Winced
To tense the body as from pain or from a blow; flinch
Welter
To roll/toss as of waves of the seas or animals 69 lie bathed in or drenched in; deeply or extensively involved
Gnome
Shriveled little old men that act as guardians of its treasures; expert in monetary or financial affairs
Abnegation
Denying oneself of some right, conveniences; giving up right or possession etc
Ablution
Cleansing with water or other liquid especially as a religious ritual
Mausoleum
Magnificent tomb; burial place; large gloomy building room etc
Volatile
Evaporating rapidly; threatening to break out into open violence; explosive; changeable flighty fleeting
Pendent
Hanging or suspended; overhanging; undecided, undetermined, pending
Vivacious
Lively animated gay
Vitriolic
Caustic; scathing
Vitiated
Impair the quality of( spoil; weaken the effectiveness of; corrupt; make legally invalid
Abjure
Renounce, give up under oath; to avoid or shun; renounce with formal solemnity
Abeyance
Temporary inactivity; condition of real property in which the title does not have a title owner