SAT VOCABULARY FLASHCARDS
A CLUE TOO "FAR"
FOODS NAMED AFTER PLACES
WHICH BILL SAID IT?
Final Jeopardy!
200
Fraught with danger:
puerile,
precocious,
precarious
precarious
200
It's a journey you might take to observe animals in the wild--or the web browser you might use to book the tickets
Safari
200
Named for a city near Boston, these chewy cookies dropped the word "fig" from their name in 2012
Newtons
200
"Early on, Paul Allen & I set the goal of a computer on every desk & in every home"
Bill Gates
200
MILLION-DOLLAR IDEAS
Art Fry co-invented this product as a bookmark for his choir hymnal; only later did he realize it was "a whole new way to communicate"
400
Capable of being molded or changed:
mellifluous,
maudlin,
malleable
malleable
400
Shakespeare's "The Comedy of Errors" is one of these works with a highly improbable plot; so are "Zoolander" & "Blazing Saddles"
farce
400
Anyone who's ever crammed onto a train at rush hour can relate to these little fish, who take their name from an Italian island
sardines
400
"If you're looking for a place to relax with an old lady, look no further. New York's hottest club is 'Spicy"'
Bill Hader (doing Stefon)
400
Art Fry co-invented this product as a bookmark for his choir hymnal; only later did he realize it was "a whole new way to communicate"
Post-it notes
600
A feeling of regret:
corpulence,
compunction,
conjecture
compunction
600
This old-timey British coin was worth about 1/4 of a penny--in other words, diddly-squat
a farthing
600
Similar to Russian dressing, this condiment is believed to be named for a region near Lake Ontario
Thousand Island
600
"For relaxing times, make it Suntory time"
Bill Murray
800
Being of questionable authenticity:
apocryphal,
arboreal,
assiduous
apocryphal
800
Not to be confused with the legal term "infraction", it's the medical term for death of tissue due to lack of blood supply
infarction
800
These beans are named after the capital of Peru but, just to keep things confusing, their name is pronounced differently
lima beans
800
"This is it... we're on live in the No Spin Zone. It's a nightmare place for charlatans & deceivers"
Bill O'Reilly
1000
Expressing contempt or disapproval:
pedantic,
proverbial,
pejorative
pejorative
1000
A modern form of Persian, it's the official language of Iran
Farsi
1000
John Wheeley Lea & William Henry Perrins named an early version of this tangy condiment after their British home county
Worcestershire sauce
1000
"That depends on what the meaning of the word 'is', is"
Bill Clinton