Vocabulary SAT TOEFL 5000 Words

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knowledge. overleap v. To leap beyond.
opponent n. One who supports the opposite side in a debate, discussion, struggle, or overlord n. One who holds supremacy over another.
sport. overpass v. To pass across or over, as a river.
opportune adj. Especially fit as occurring, said, or done at the right moment. overpay v. To pay or reward in excess.
opportunist n. One who takes advantage of circumstances to gain his ends. overpower v. To gain supremacy or victory over by superior power.
opportunity n. Favorable or advantageous chance or opening. overproduction n. Excessive production.
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overreach v. To stretch out too far. participant n. One having a share or part.
overrun v. To infest or ravage. participate v. To receive or have a part or share of.
oversee v. To superintend. partition n. That which separates anything into distinct parts.
overseer n. A supervisor. partisan adj. Characterized by or exhibiting undue or unreasoning devotion to a party.
overshadow v. To cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison. passible adj. Capable of feeling of suffering.
overstride v. To step beyond. passive adj. Unresponsive.
overthrow v. To vanquish an established ruler or government. pastoral adj. Having the spirit or sentiment of rural life.
overtone n. A harmonic. paternal adj. Fatherly.
overture n. An instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio, or ballet. paternity n. Fatherhood.
overweight n. Preponderance. pathos n. The quality in any form of representation that rouses emotion or sympathy.
pacify v. To bring into a peaceful state. patriarch n. The chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right.
packet n. A bundle, as of letters. patrician adj. Of senatorial or noble rank.
pact n. A covenant. patrimony n. An inheritance from an ancestor, especially from one's father.
pagan n. A worshiper of false gods. patriotism n. Love and devotion to one's country.
pageant n. A dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one. patronize v. To exercise an arrogant condescension toward.
palate n. The roof of the mouth. patronymic adj. Formed after one's father's name.
palatial adj. Magnificent. patter v. To mumble something over and over.
paleontology n. The branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms. paucity n. Fewness.
palette n. A thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for pauper n. One without means of support.
painting. pauperism n. Dependence on charity.
palinode n. A retraction. pavilion n. An open structure for temporary shelter.
pall v. To make dull by satiety. payee n. A person to whom money has been or is to be paid.
palliate v. To cause to appear less guilty. peaceable adj. Tranquil.
pallid adj. Of a pale or wan appearance. peaceful adj. Tranquil.
palpable n. perceptible by feeling or touch. peccable adj. Capable of sinning.
palsy n. Paralysis. peccadillo n. A small breach of propriety or principle.
paly adj. Lacking color or brilliancy. peccant adj. Guilty.
pamphlet n. A brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest. pectoral adj. Pertaining to the breast or thorax.
pamphleteer v. To compose or issue pamphlets, especially controversial ones. pecuniary adj. Consisting of money.
panacea n. A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases. pedagogics n. The science and art of teaching.
Pan-American adj. Including or pertaining to the whole of America, both North and South. pedagogue n. A schoolmaster.
pandemic adj. Affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease. pedagogy n. The science and art of teaching
pandemonium n. A fiendish or riotous uproar. pedal n. A lever for the foot usually applied only to musical instruments, cycles, and other
panegyric n. A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act. machines.
panel n. A rectangular piece set in or as in a frame. pedant n. A scholar who makes needless and inopportune display of his learning.
panic n. A sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear. peddle v. To go about with a small stock of goods to sell.
panoply n. A full set of armor. pedestal n. A base or support as for a column, statue, or vase.
panorama n. A series of large pictures representing a continuous scene. pedestrian n. One who journeys on foot.
pantheism n. The worship of nature for itself or its beauty. pediatrics n. The department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of
childhood.
Pantheon n. A circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed
pedigree n. One's line of ancestors.
roof.
peddler n. One who travels from house to house with an assortment of goods for retail.
pantomime n. Sign-language.
peerage n. The nobility.
pantoscope n. A very wide-angled photographic lens.
peerless adj. Of unequaled excellence or worth.
papacy n. The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
peevish adj. Petulant. (irritable)
papyrus n. The writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians, and later of the Romans.
pellucid adj. Translucent.
parable n. A brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral.
penalty n. The consequences that follow the transgression of natural or divine law.
paradox n. A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief.
penance n. Punishment to which one voluntarily submits or subjects himself as an
paragon n. A model of excellence.
expression of penitence.
parallel v. To cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts.
penchant n. A bias in favor of something.
parallelism n. Essential likeness.
pendant n. Anything that hangs from something else, either for ornament or for use.
paralysis n. Loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles.
pendulous adj. Hanging, especially so as to swing by an attached end or part.
paralyze v. To deprive of the power to act.
pendulum n. A weight hung on a rod, serving by its oscillation to regulate the rate of a
paramount adj. Supreme in authority.
clock.
paramour n. One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress.
penetrable adj. That may be pierced by physical, moral, or intellectual force.
paraphernalia n. Miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment.
penetrate v. To enter or force a way into the interior parts of.
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