Hard SAT Words - Group 3

bowl-shaped strainer, used to wash or drain foods

thorough, careful, or vigilant; implies a desire to do a task well; characterized by extreme care and great effort

vary; go in different directions from the same point

deserving hatred and contempt

force into military service; take for public use; seize for military use; take arbitrarily or by force

serving to compensate or as compensation; making amends; repaying

thorough, careful, or vigilant; implies a desire to do a task well; characterized by extreme care and great effort

exercising power or serving a function without being legally or officially established; in fact or in practice; in actual use or existence

turn into a god; idolize or idealize; worship or revere as a god

loose bands of; set free; disunite; scatter

serving to fill out or to complete; supplying mutual needs or offsetting mutual lacks

guarantee, usually in the form of an asset, for the repayment of a loan if one cannot procure enough funds to repay

act or art of writing in code or secret characters; also, secret characters, codes or ciphers, or messages written in a secret code

planned or accomplished together; combined

flirt; seductive woman who uses her sex appeal to exploit men

formal discussion on a topic, either written or spoken

participation; involvement as partner or accomplice, especially in crime or other wrongdoing

selection; organised killing of selected animals; person or thing that is rejected or set aside as inferior in quality

increasing or enlarging by successive addition; acquired by or resulting from accumulation

in certain societies, such as imperial China, a woman contracted to a man as a secondary wife, often having few legal rights and low social status

thorough, careful, or vigilant; implies a desire to do a task well; characterized by extreme care and great effort

withdrawing support or help; act of abandoning something to which one is bound by allegiance or duty; failure in duty

to assemble something in a logical sequence

force into military service; take for public use; seize for military use; take arbitrarily or by force

loose bands of; set free; disunite; scatter

pretend; hide feelings from other people

deserving hatred and contempt

with a way of nestling together; by hugging, embracing so as to keep warm

discord; disagreeable sounds; harsh, disagreeable combination of sounds

turn into a god; idolize or idealize; worship or revere as a god

act or practice of tilling land and preparing it for crops; the agricultural management of land; husbandry in general

call together; cause to assemble in meeting; convene

pretend; hide feelings from other people

discord; disagreeable sounds; harsh, disagreeable combination of sounds

inhabitant or resident; regular visitor

express strong disapproval of; disparage

formal discussion on a topic, either written or spoken

having harmful effect; injurious; having quality of destroying life; noxious; poisonous

to assemble something in a logical sequence

fundamentally distinct or different in kind; entirely dissimilar