SAT word list 47: topography-ubiquitous
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- topography
- n. physical features of a region
- torrent
- n. rushing stream; flood
- torrid
- adj. passionate; hot or scorching
- torso
- n. trunk of statue with head and limbs missing; human trunk
- tortuous
- adj. winding; full of curves
- totter
- v. move unsteadily; sway, as if about to fall
- touchstone
- n. stone used to test the fineness of gold alloys; criterion
- touchy
- adj. sensitive; irascible
- tout
- v. publicize; praise excessively
- toxic
- adj. poisonous
- tract
- n. region of land (often imprecisely described); pamphlet
- tractable
- adj. docile; easily managed
- traduce
- v. expose to slander
- trajectory
- n. path taken by a projectile
- transcendent
- adj. surpassing; exceeding ordinary limits; superior
- transcribe
- v. copy
- transgression
- n. violation of a law; sin
- transition
- n. going from one state of action to another
- transitory
- adj. impermanent; fleeting
- translucent
- adj. partly transparent
- transmute
- v. change; convert to something different
- transparent
- adj. easily detected; permitting light to pass through freely
- transport
- n. strong emotion
- trappings
- n. outward decorations; ornaments
- traumatic
- adj. pertaining to an injury caused by violence
- travail
- n. painful physical or mental labor; drudgery; torment
- traverse
- v. go through or across
- travesty
- n. harshly distorted imitation; parody; debased likeness
- treacly
- adj. sticky sweet; cloyingly sentimental
- treatise
- n. article treating a subject systematically and thoroughly
- trek
- n. travel; journey
- tremor
- n. trembling; slight quiver
- tremulous
- adj. trembling; wavering
- trenchant
- adj. forceful and vigorous; cutting
- trespass
- v. unlawfully enter the boundaries of some else's property
- tribute
- n. tax levied by a ruler; mark of respect
- trigger
- v. set off
- trinket
- n. knickknack; bauble
- trivial
- adj. unimportant; trifling
- trough
- n. container for feeding farm animals; lowest point (of a wave, business cycle, etc.)
- truculence
- n. aggressiveness; ferocity
- truism
- n. self-evident truth
- tryst
- n. meeting
- tumult
- n. commotion; riot; noise
- tundra
- n. rolling, treeless plain in Siberia and arctic North America
- turbid
- adj. muddy; having the sediment disturbed
- turgid
- adj. swollen; distended
- turncoat
- n. traitor
- turpitude
- n. depravity
- tutelage
- n. guardianship; training
- tycoon
- n. wealthy leader
- typhoon
- n. tropical hurricane or cyclone
- tyranny
- n. oppression; cruel government
- tyro
- n. beginner; novice
- ubiquitous
- adj. being everywhere; omnipresent