SAT Words "T" list 2

It is an angry, sometimes abusive, but overall articulate and heartfelt tirade about growing up in Gaza.

It bored him, and he was no toady to waste his time fawning upon possible patrons.

Taking his stone axe he toiled all day until the tree was felled.

It works on a similar principle as casino chips, or, more directly, arcade tokens.

This seems like a particularly troubling trend for academia, where digital books are slowly overtaking the heavy tomes I used to lug around.

They land in a lush green jungle whose topography seems to resemble no known place on Earth.

His energies are suspended, his senses become numbed and torpid—in short, he feels as one who goes to sleep in a snow-storm.

Notwithstanding my nervous apprehension, a sleep more like the torpor of lethargy than natural slumber, fell on me at once.

Those photons produce very small amounts of torque that can slow the rotation or speed it up.

Torrential rains killed at least six people in Genoa on Friday, in the worst flooding the port city has seen in years, officials said.

Days dragged on; days of torrid, relentless heat.

Her dresses were fitted not only at the waist, but along the torso by a long and pointed bodice stiffened with wood, steel, or whalebone.

Suppression of art and ideas is something that happens in totalitarian regimes, not this country, he added.

Shock jock Howard Stern, however, didn't hold back at a news conference in New York touting his own new TV gig.

One tract of the mallee scrub, shared between Victoria and South Australia, covers an area of nearly 9000 square miles.

By a three months' School course stubborn horses may be made tractable, dangerous horses rendered comparatively safe, uncomfortable brutes easy and reliable.

One may "abuse," "assail," or vilify another to his face; he asperses, calumniates, slanders, or traduces him behind his back.

Losing altitude, they hurtled on a sloping trajectory toward Washington.

Lifelong fisherman Jay Cassell, deputy editor of Field & Stream magazine, treasures lakeside vacations for the peace and tranquility only one can offer.

That she should have wanted to captivate Mr. Traffick,—she with her high ideas of some transcendental, more than human, hero!

Hastily procuring pen and ink, he bade Sir Walter sing it over again while he transcribed the words to paper.

To say that I was transfixed, speechless, fascinated to intoxication by the spell of this marvellous development is no exaggeration.

Vietnamese state media prior to the trial reported prosecutors as saying that Mr. Dinh's transgressions represent a "particularly serious violation of national security."

Smokers, on the other hand, had wildly transient populations, with species moving in and out—which opened up real estate for the bad bugs.

Positive reviews are blissful but strangely transitory, forgotten within hours.

It is usually translucent, becoming nearly transparent on immersion in water.

In looking at any object through a perfectly transparent medium, such as plate glass, we do not perceive any alteration in the real colours.

So let’s inaugurate things around here by continuing a hallowed Technologizer tradition: making collective predictions about what will transpire at an upcoming Apple event.

Through an anguish of travail Canada has worked out an excellent system of self-government.

I purchased the requisite study guides — intimidating, densely worded treatises on gastroenterology, cardiology, geriatrics, hematology and all the specialty areas of internal medicine.

In the mountains, Mr. Sherpa can spend months trekking over glaciers and negotiating ice falls and treacherous crevasses at nosebleed heights.

Only his tremulous voice and shaking hand betrayed suffering.

The trenchant blade of his intellect is still keen.

No sign of trepidation or alarm, save the sudden stiffening of her form, was betrayed.

The students have described their personal trials, tribulations and emotional turmoil in my writing class.

"The judicial power of the United States shall be vested in one Supreme Court and certain inferior tribunals."

Everything, in fact, was well thought over, and as was subsequently proved, the mistakes that did occur were few and trifling.

Mr. Tucker never finished the third book of what was supposed to be his Stalin trilogy.

Well, all three teams in the Epstein management triumvirate are struggling.

The original cave man, the troglodyte, may have got his that way.

Now he turned to behold a huge cock ostrich bearing down upon him with hostility and aggressiveness writ large all over its truculent personality.

They cannot hurt us more than we can be hurt—an obvious truism but one which is often overlooked.

“Health care provider” came into vogue as the catchall phrase and was quickly truncated to just “provider.”

A scene of confusion and tumult arose in the office, lasting several moments.

The cities were berated as hubs of moral turpitude, decadence and greed.

The Falcons have even hired mixed martial arts instructors for off-season tutelage in wrestling, boxing and kickboxing.

Alexander Lebedev sees his newspapers as vital forces against tyranny, oppression and corruption.