SAT Words "T" list 1

The sentiment here is not tacit, but communicable and overt.

He is of a reserved, taciturn habit, somewhat surly: not talkative even in his cups.

Lady Ruth went back to her guests, and with the effortless ease of long training, she became once more the gracious and tactful hostess.

Researchers are promoting magnetic interfaces for touch screens, which will make operating the touch screen more tactile and reduce excessive tapping.

The industry, though, hasn’t disclosed what chemicals are used, raising concerns about tainted drinking water supplies and a call for peer-reviewed studies on the effects.

Tiny prayer wheels are now a popular car ornament, a talisman to ward off accidents.

It is terrific fun, but its relation to the theme remains tangential at best.

It has the capacity to change tangible, hard realities through no more than airy nothings, mere gauzy thoughts.

For long, monotonous months she had been struggling against just such cravings, impossible of realization, and therefore all the more tantalizing.

"But keeping rabbits cooped up alone in hutches of the type sold by these big retail chains is just tantamount to cruelty."

The snow tapered off after the field was cleared for warmups, but it picked back up toward halftime and kept falling with the mercury.

South Korea is dropping a long list of tariffs under the agreement, including stiff taxes on U.S. agricultural goods.

Verbal harassment refers to teasing, taunting, or insulting someone.

The stay wires were tightened by turn buckles till they were taut as fiddle strings, assuring stability of the wings.

The expression sounds trite and tautological; but it needs emphasis.

A cheap ornament spoils a handsome costume, better none at all; too many ornaments, even if good, look tawdry.

The journey was long and tedious, day after day passing with but few incidents to change the monotony of our progress.

He was confident that he had the backing of the men, and in that confidence grew bold with reckless temerity.

His bringing up was left to an uncle who had neither understanding nor sympathy for his dreamy and wayward temperament.

There was not room in Italy for two universal rulers, both holding of God, even though one ruled spiritual things and the other temporal.

I dare say you have often observed this disposition to temporize, or to procrastinate, in people who are labouring under any very poignant sorrow.

"Then you allow his position to be more tenable and reasonable than yours?"

Constancy, persistence, dogged tenacity is certainly the striking feature of Jacob’s character.

Mr. Malik, who does not drink, decided that trading so-called pub securities would violate tenets of his faith.

Here and there, passages of solid, compelling music making were marred by tentative, uncertain moments.

Watching Belasco's short play in London in 1900, Puccini reportedly was deeply moved — despite his tenuous grasp of the English language.

Mr. Marshall's career as Chief Justice extended through a period of more than thirty-four years, which is the longest judicial tenure recorded in history.

Workers prepare flower orders in the American Airlines cargo terminal at Kennedy International Airport.

This sight made us forget our fatigues, and we hurried on, with fond anticipations of finding a speedy termination to all our sufferings.

This building was known, in monastic terminology, as the “Lavabo.”

Most inhabitants were farmers struggling to coax crops out of the steep and rocky terrain.

On land, habitat loss takes away much-needed space for large, terrestrial animals.

The war was just a few months old, and the entire Michigan territory had fallen into British hands.

While she stared at him, he uttered the short, terse command: “Hands up!”

The plan divides roadways into three major categories: arterial, secondary and tertiary.

Passing from one pavilion to another over tessellated pavements, we enter apartments rich in mosaics and all manner of precious stones.

For in theocracies, to the social evil of the offence is added the impiety committed against the Deity and his representative on earth.

He had read widely in theology — Saint Augustine and Nietzsche and Reinhold Niebuhr — but he had no formal religious training.

The great masses of concrete act as a thermal sink, absorbing heat during the molten days and then radiating warmth at night.

True to her thespian inheritance, she played Olivia in Twelfth Night on a student tour of the Highlands and Islands.

The words are hardly out of her mouth when the door opens and somebody appears upon the threshold.

He was managing clerk in some mercantile house, and, being a thrifty soul, invested all his spare cash instead of spending it.

A naturally outgoing person, Irenstein learned quickly and his dating life began to thrive.

He suffered rheumatism in its most acute form, so the coastguard explained between his throes.

Visitors flocked to Fredericksburg and long before the beginning thousands had gathered, sidewalks, steps and porches were crowded with merry throngs in carnival mood.