SSAT 3000 HARD 2332-2363 Flashcards
Sparsity
In a scattered condition
Scarceness, eagerness
Cogency
Persuasion, conviction
Bureaucracy
Officials running government division
Administration, government
Dowry
Money or property a woman brings to the man she marries
Novelized
To make into a novel
Preternatural
Out of the ordinary
Unusual, abnormal
Sinuosity
Having many curves or turns
Cordate
Heart-shaped
Spiritualism
Belief that spirits of the dead communicate with the living
Mysticism
Sidereal
Having to do with stars
Stellar, astral
Corpulence
Fatness, stoutness, plumpness
Vainglorious
Extreme pride in oneself
Arrogant, boasting
Calcify
To make or become rigid
Fortify
Intramural
Inside, indoors, internal
Stockade
Pen or other enclosure, barrier
Pixilated
Slightly crazy
Capricious, eccentric
Biopsy
Examination of cells or tissues
Irresolute
Unable to make up one’s mind
Indecisive, faltering
Flattery
Praising too much
Blandishment, cajolery
Privation
Lack of comforts, poverty destitution
Scurrility
Coarse joking, indecency, obscenity
Inexpedient
Not practical, futile, detrimental
Calibration
Being adjusted to the scale of something
Adjustment
Jerkin
A short, close fitting coat or jacket without sleeves
Shibboleth
An old idea, opinion or saying
Old-fashioned
Poltroon
A wretched coward
Hematoma
Tumor or swelling made up of blood
Itinerate
Travel from place to place,
Nomadic, wandering
Venerability
Commanding respect because of age
Naturalistic
A natural history
Impugn
Attack by words or argument
Hegemony
Political domination
Dominion, command