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SAT Vocabulary # SAT/M323

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n. anecdote
(a) any violation of established rules or customs
(b) a brief account of some interesting event or incident
(c) a very boastful and talkative person; a vain boaster
(d) an official appointed to examine or oversee any matter of public interest or importance
 
n. tirade
(a) the state or condition of knowing how to read and write
(b) festivity
(c) anything that rouses to activity or to quickened action
(d) harangue
 
adj. conversant
(a) abandoned to vice
(b) lying or directed perpendicularly to the horizon
(c) thoroughly informed
(d) marked by a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds
 
n. triplicity
(a) masculinity
(b) division of words into that which is uttered in a single vocal impulse
(c) the condition of existing in three identical copies
(d) heir; inheritor; one who or that which follows or takes the place of another
 
n. nunnery
(a) family origin; genealogy; line of descent
(b) a trying and purifying test or agency
(c) conversation
(d) a convent

 

v. embarrass
(a) to prevent from being disclosed or punished
(b) to render flustered or agitated
(c) to be pushed or to push oneself into undue prominence
(d) to pay or pay for
 
adj. inglorious
(a) indisputable
(b) ghastly and sensational
(c) affected by a condition caused by a lack of red blood cells
(d) shameful
 
adj. palatial
(a) talkative
(b) comprehensible
(c) characterized by special tact in negotiations
(d) magnificent
 
v. beset
(a) to attack on all sides
(b) to bind
(c) to endue with life
(d) to make characteristic of the present or of recent times
 
adj. variable
(a) burning with passion
(b) having a tendency to change
(c) worthless; cheap; low in value; trivial
(d) of unchangeable length or area

n. anecdote (b) a brief account of some interesting event or incident
n. tirade (d) harangue
adj. conversant (c) thoroughly informed
n. triplicity (c) the condition of existing in three identical copies
n. nunnery (d) a convent
v. embarrass (b) to render flustered or agitated
adj. inglorious (d) shameful
adj. palatial (d) magnificent
v. beset (a) to attack on all sides
adj. variable (b) having a tendency to change

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