SSAT 3000 HARD 2001-2034 Flashcards
Sanatorium
Institution, hospital
Effeminacy
Femaleness, femininity
Asphyxiate
To suffocate, choke, smother
Kismet
Fate, destiny, fortune
Scrutiny
Close examination
Surveillance, inspection
Adhoc
For a specific purpose, specified
Alate
Having wings
Nepenthe
Drink supposed to bring forgetfulness of sorrow
Discoidal
Having the form of a disk
Commiserative
Compassionate, empathetic, sympathetic
Entrant
A person who enters a contest
Ostracism
Banishment, expulsion
Heretical
Of or having to do with opinion that is generally opposed to what is accepted
Unorthodox, dissenting
Sovereignty
Supreme power or authority
Entreaty
An earnest request
Appeal, petition
Pablum
Food, nutriment, comestible
Ascribe
Attributed to
Applied, connected
Pusillanimous
Lacking in courage,
Afraid, cowardly
Mensurability
Property of being measurable
Quantitative, significance
Aesthete
A person who pretends to appreciate beauty
Volubility
Tendency to talk too much
Cinerary
Of or for ashes
Solemnity
Feeling serious
Sobriety, earnestness
Parricide
Act of killing one’s own parents
Incorporeal
Not made of any material or substance
Spiritual, immaterial
Fortnight
Two weeks
Incandescent
Bream, luminescence,glow
Stratification
Arrangement in layers
Layered
Lamentable
To be regretted or pitied
Upsetting, miserable
Exculpatory
Freeing from blame
Excusable, forgiveable
Dentition
Worth of teeth
Teething
Cancerous
Corrosive, troublesome
Reportage
An account of news or events
Communication, dispatch
Invalidate
To make valueless
Impair, negate