SAT Word Skills 4 - Lesson 9

the quality of being suited to the end in view

serving to promote your interest

use up, consume fully

used of persons or behavior; showing no clemency or mercy

the act of inclining; bending forward

including everything or everyone, without excluding any particular group or element

(ophthalmology) eyesight abnormality resulting from the eye's faulty refractive ability; distant objects appear blurred

a large indefinite number

strict observance of formalities

paying a lot of attention to the correctness of behavior or to detail

someone who has been admitted to membership in a scholarly field

capable of wounding

intended to punish or discipline someone for wrongdoing

to gradually fill something, typically with a quality or emotion

be sufficient; be adequate, either in quality or quantity

patient endurance especially of pain or distress

marked by refinement in taste and manners

belonging to or characteristic of non-Jewish peoples

the formal act of freeing from slavery

a company or person that makes or produces goods on a large scale using machinery, labor, and materials