The View From Saturday
Vocabulary Word List
Chapter 1
1. ACCURATE
2. BRAWN
3. DECORUM
4. LECTERN
5. BENEVOLENT
6. QUARTERING
7. BATED
8. DOMICILE
9. MAIMED
10. DIRIGIBLES
Precisely correct
Physical strength
Etiquette; proper social behavior
Podium
Kindly
Able to cut into fourths
Tapered off; became smaller or less
Homes
Injured permanently
Capable of being steered, guided, or directed
Chapter 2
1. DE FACTO
2. TERMINALLY
3. HOVER
4. ATROCIOUS
5. MAMMOTH
6. REINFORCE
7. ADVISE
8. TRANQUILIZE
9. INVENTORY
10. PREOCCUPIED
11. MECHANISM
Existing in fact
Irreversibly
Linger without purpose
Extremely bad
Huge
Strengthen
Offer advice; recommended
Administer a drug that will soothe or calm
List of the quantity of items contained in an area
Consumed by the thought of something
Method or instinct an animal has for finding its way
Chapter 3 (Part I)
1. REFRAIN
2. UNRULY
3. NONCHALANT
4. ARCHIVE
5. PARCELED
6. ITINERANT
7. KNOLL
8. NEGLECT
9. CONVERSION
10. FEEBLE
11. INEVITABLE
Kept oneself from doing something
Hard to control
Casual; in a relaxed manner
Collection of historical documents or records
Divided into smaller units
Traveling
Small hill
Inattention
Something that has changed into another form, substance, state, or product
Weak
Certain; with an unavoidable outcome
Chapter 3 (Part II)
1. PROTRUDING
2. TORMENT
3. DISENTANGLE
4. PRECEDE
5. GENUS
6. NATURALIZATION
7. ORIGINATE
8. ACQUIRE
9. INCUBATING
10. UNFURL
Chapter 4
1. REVISED
2. SPONTANEOUS
3. SUPPRESSED
4. ADMONISH
5. ACRONYMS
6. EXCESSIVE
7. RENDERING
8. CARAFE
9. RUCKUS
10. CARDINAL
Chapters 5 - 6
1. DICTATORIAL
2. APPOINT
3. SOPHISTICATED
4. MALICE
5. QUAINT
6. VULGAR
7. VERGE
8. ANIMATED
9. MEDIOCRE
10. TRAJECTORY
11. AMBLED
12. JUBILANT
Sticking out
Intense suffering
Untwist
To come before something
In biology, a category above species and below family
Process of granting citizenship to a foreigner
Have a beginning
To learn or possess
Keeping eggs warm until hatchlings emerge
Spread out from a folded position
Reconsidered; altered; amended; improved
Occurring without planning or warning
Prevented from being expressed; kept down
Warn
Word created from the initial letters of words in a longer phrase
More than is needed or wanted
Version or translation
Glass receptacle with an open top used for holding liquid
Commotion
Fundamental
Behaving as if one has complete rule over others
Assign people to a certain task or job
Having worldly experience or culture
Wanting to do harm
Charmingly old-fashioned
Lacking charm, culture, or sophistication
A point or limit
Lively
Average to below average in quality
Path a flying object takes
Strolled or walked leisurely
Triumphantly happy
Chapter 7
1. SOVEREIGN
2. PRETEXT
3. FAVORABLE
4. SYLLABICATION
5. TRANSLUCENCE
6. NANOSECOND
7. SENTINELS
8. CONVERGED
9. PHALANX
King who is supreme ruler
False excuse
Showing approval
Having to do with the parts of words
State of being semi-transparent
Tiniest fraction of a second
Guards
Came from different directions toward a central point
Unit of troops who stand closely together
Chapters 8 - 12
1. ADORN
2. COMPLEMENTARY
3. PRECEDENT
4. FRIEZE
5. INVOLUNTARILY
6. PERPETUAL
Decorate splendidly
Combining in such a way as to enhance each other
Previous event that serves as an example in the future
Horizontal band of decoration in a building
Doing something against one's will
Continuing without change or end