Sat Vocab - List 7

Front 1

Recriminate

Back 1

(v.)
to bring a countercharge against an accuser

Front 2

Allegation

Back 2

(n.)
1. the act of alleging; affirmation.
2. an assertion made with little or no proof.
3. an assertion made by a party in a legal proceeding, which the party then undertakes to prove.
4. a statement offered as a plea, excuse, or justification.

Front 3

Allege

Back 3

(v.)
1. to assert without proof.
2. to declare with positiveness; affirm; assert: to allege a fact.
3. to declare before a court or elsewhere, as if under oath.
4. to plead in support of; offer as a reason or excuse.
5. Archaic. to cite or quote in confirmation.

Front 4

Patent

Back 4

(n.)
the exclusive right granted by a government to an inventor to manufacture, use, or sell an invention for a certain number of years.
(v.)
to originate and establish as one's own.

Front 5

Legitimate

Back 5

(v.)
to make lawful or legal
(adj.)
lawful

Front 6

Tangential

Back 6

(adj.)
slightly connected

Front 7

Peripheral

Back 7

(adj.)
concerned with relatively minor, irrelevant, or superficial aspects of the subject in question.

Front 8

Ancillary

Back 8

(adj.)
subordinate; subsidiary.

Front 9

Auxiliary

Back 9

(adj.)
additional; supplementary; reserve

Front 10

Censor

Back 10

(v.)
to remove anything considered obsene, inappropriate, etc.

Front 11

Censure

Back 11

(v.)
criticize

Front 12

Discreet

Back 12

(adj.)
judicious in one's conduct or speech, esp. with regard to respecting privacy or maintaining silence about something of a delicate nature; prudent; circumspect

Front 13

Discrete

Back 13

(adj.)
seperate

Front 14

Voracious

Back 14

(ad.)
ravenous

Front 15

Veracious

Back 15

(adj.)
honest

Front 16

Allusion

Back 16

(n.)
a reference

Front 17

Illusion

Back 17

(n.)
something that deceives by producing a false or misleading impression of reality

Front 18

Insolent

Back 18

(adj.)
rude

Front 19

Indolent

Back 19

(adj.)
lazy

Front 20

Compatriot

Back 20

(n.)
a native or inhabitant of one's own country; fellow countryman or countrywoman
(v.)
of the same country

Front 21

Expatriate

Back 21

(v.)
to banish a person from his or her native country