SAT SAT Word by meaning 405

n. an expressive word or pithy sentence enunciating some guiding rule of life or faith

n. a heap of combustibles arranged for burning a dead body

n. difficulty or failure in the alimentary canal in changing food into absorptive nutriment

n. digression

n. ill or poor conduct

n. mode of speech

n. a distance in miles

n. an incident or story in a literary work, separable from yet growing out of it

n. a figure of speech by which a phrase less offensive is substituted

n. an institution for instruction and training in music and declamation