SSAT 3000 HARD 2834-2867 Flashcards
Dossier
Collection of documents or papers about some subject
Emulsion
Mixture of liquids that do not dissolve into each other,
Blend, compound
Neonatal
Having to do with newborn babies
Promulgate
To proclaim formally
Publicise, spread
Appliqué
Ornaments that are sewn to another material
Ornament, decoration
Phantasmagoria
A shifting scene of real things, illusions, deceptions
Illusion, dream
Dodder
To be unsteady
Quiver, shudder
Cataclysmic
Of or relating to a violent change
Calamitous, catastrophic
Delinquency
Neglect of a duty
Misconduct, offense
Charity
Cautiously
Delicately, warily
Billet
A place where someone is lodged,, especially a soldier
Camp, dwelling
Educe
Draw forth
Elicit, deduce
Ventral
Having to do with the belly
Intestinal, gastric
Suspiration
A sigh
Antagonise
To arouse dislike or make an enemy of someone
Annoy irritate
Retrofit
To modernize by incorporating changes to a later model
Modify
Prenable
Open to attack
Assailable, vulnerable
Galumph
Gallop in a clumsy way
Clump, stumble
Preponderate
Being stronger or more numerous
Sensate
Able to perceive by means of one or more of the senses
Argyle
A diamond-shaped pattern
Postulant
A candidate, especially for admission to a religious order
Excrescent
Forming an unnatural growth
Concession
A yielding
Granting, compromise
Synthesize
Combine into a complex whole
Incorporate, combine
Lepidopterist
A person who collects butterflies
Eclipse
Cut off of dim the light from
Obscure, veil
Vassal
In the Middle Ages, a person granted the use of land in return for fealty to a lord
Depository
Place where something is stored for safekeeping
Storehouse, repository
Ecocide
Destruction of the natural environment
Vermillion
A bright red
Crimson, charming
Mercantile
Having to do with merchants or trade
Commercial, sales
Schizophrenia
A from of psychosis characterised by dissociation from the environment and deterioration of personality
Circumlocutory
Marked by a roundabout way of talking
Indirectness, wordiness
