SAT Vocabulary L5

askance

• having two possible meanings; able to be understood in two different ways

• lacking in strength, especially due to old age or illness

• with a sideways glance, as with distrust

• o calm or pacify

the scientific study of plants

• biology

• botany

• plantology

• waif

obsolete

• a desire to atone for wrongdoing

• no longer used or useful

• to come together, to meet

penitence

• he ability to anticipate future happenings or to plan for the future

• a desire to atone for wrongdoing

mollify

• o hold in a rapt state; to have overpowering influence

• no longer used or useful

• to calm or pacify

tortuous

• having many twists and turns; intricate and difficult to follow

• to work against a project or purpose; to subvert or sabotage

• to talk harshly or critically of, particularly to speak false criticisms

a person, especially a child, with no home or prospects

• waif

• pyromania

• absence

lacking in liveliness and flavor; dull

• mollify

• pommel

• vapid

• penitence

to work against a project or purpose; to subvert or sabotage

• vapid

• undermine

• mollify

• obsolete

professing beliefs or acting in opposition to one's true beliefs or actions; insincerity

• hypocrisy

• regress

• inhospitable