February SAT Words
Terms
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- perimeter
- the whole outer boundary or measurement of a suface or figure
- periphrastic
- discussed in a round about way
- periphery
- outside boundary
- peristalsis
- wavelike contraction of the walls of the intestines which propels contents onward
- peristyle
-
(1) row of columns around a building or courtyard
(2) the space so enclosed - fratricide
- act of killing (or killer of) one's brother
- genocide
- deliberate extermination of a racial or cultural group
- regicide
- act of killing (or killer of) a king
- sororicide
- act of killing (or killer of) one's sister
- astringent
-
substance that shrinks tissues and checks flow of
blood by drawing together blood vessels - constrict
- draw together, bind
- stricture
- strict (literally, "binding tight"); rigid; severe
- carnivorous
- flesh-eating
- devour
- (1) to eat greedily or ravenously (2) seize upon and destroy
- herbivorous
- dependent on ("eating") plants as food
- omnivorous
- (1) eating everything, both plant and animal substances (2) avidly taking in everything, as an omnivorous reader
- voracious
- (1) greedy in eating (2) insatiable, as a voracious appetite