SAT words from 'oversee' to 'paramour'
Words alphabetically from 'oversee' to 'paramour' from the monster 5000-word at http://www.freevocabulary.com/
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- oversee
- To superintend.
- overseer
- A supervisor.
- overshadow
- To cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison.
- overstride
- To step beyond.
- overthrow
- To vanquish an established ruler or government.
- overtone
- A harmonic.
- overture
- An instrumental prelude to an opera, oratorio, or ballet.
- overweight
- Preponderance.
- pacify
- To bring into a peaceful state.
- packet
- A bundle, as of letters.
- pact
- A covenant.
- pagan
- A worshiper of false gods.
- pageant
- A dramatic representation, especially a spectacular one.
- palate
- The roof of the mouth.
- palatial
- Magnificent.
- paleontology
- The branch of biology that treats of ancient life and fossil organisms.
- palette
- A thin tablet, with a hole for the thumb, upon which artists lay their colors for painting.
- palinode
- A retraction.
- pall
- To make dull by satiety.
- palliate
- To cause to appear less guilty.
- pallid
- Of a pale or wan appearance.
- palpable
- perceptible by feeling or touch.
- palsy
- Paralysis.
- paly
- Lacking color or brilliancy.
- pamphlet
- A brief treatise or essay, usually on a subject of current interest.
- pamphleteer
- To compose or issue pamphlets, especially controversial ones.
- panacea
- A remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases.
- Pan-American
- Including or pertaining to the whole of America, both North and South.
- pandemic
- Affecting a whole people or all classes, as a disease.
- pandemonium
- A fiendish or riotous uproar.
- panegyric
- A formal and elaborate eulogy, written or spoken, of a person or of an act.
- panel
- A rectangular piece set in or as in a frame.
- panic
- A sudden, unreasonable, overpowering fear.
- panoply
- A full set of armor.
- panorama
- A series of large pictures representing a continuous scene.
- pantheism
- The worship of nature for itself or its beauty.
- Pantheon
- A circular temple at Rome with a fine Corinthian portico and a great domed roof.
- pantomime
- Sign-language.
- pantoscope
- A very wide-angled photographic lens.
- papacy
- The official head of the Roman Catholic Church.
- papyrus
- The writing-paper of the ancient Egyptians, and later of the Romans.
- parable
- A brief narrative founded on real scenes or events usually with a moral.
- paradox
- A statement or doctrine seemingly in contradiction to the received belief.
- paragon
- A model of excellence.
- parallel
- To cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts.
- parallelism
- Essential likeness.
- paralysis
- Loss of the power of contractility in the voluntary or involuntary muscles.
- paralyze
- To deprive of the power to act.
- paramount
- Supreme in authority.
- paramour
- One who is unlawfully and immorally a lover or a mistress.