LSAT Vocabulary: Description

Words for how things look, sound, and feel, each in a short sentence.

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A lamp over the table

In the hearing room, a lamp over the witness table was luminous and cast a soft glow on the transcript.

  1. 1.As used in the text, what does the word "luminous" most nearly mean?

Soft talk in the stacks

Talk between the law library stacks stayed muted, soft enough that the next table missed most of it.

  1. 2.As used in the text, what does the word "muted" most nearly mean?

Neon on the brick

Neon letters on the neighborhood council banner were garish, painfully bright against the plain brick.

  1. 3.As used in the text, what does the word "garish" most nearly mean?

Dust on the curtains

Dust had left the clinic's waiting-room curtains dingy, gray and dull along the hems.

  1. 4.As used in the text, what does the word "dingy" most nearly mean?

White covers with no marks

Every brief cover on the small firm's table was pristine, bright white with no mark on it.

  1. 5.As used in the text, what does the word "pristine" most nearly mean?

Carved leaves on the bench

Carved leaves and gilt scrolls made the hearing room bench ornate.

  1. 6.As used in the text, what does the word "ornate" most nearly mean?

Bare walls in the new wing

Bare white walls and no pictures left the law library's new wing looking stark.

  1. 7.As used in the text, what does the word "stark" most nearly mean?

A street hard to see

Beyond the clinic window, the street was hazy, and the buildings were soft shapes rather than clear lines.

  1. 8.As used in the text, what does the word "hazy" most nearly mean?

A screen that hides the notes

A solid panel made the small firm's privacy screen opaque, so no note behind it could be seen.

  1. 9.As used in the text, what does the word "opaque" most nearly mean?

Light through a frosted door

Pale light and blurred shapes came through the hearing room's translucent frosted door, but no face was clear.

  1. 10.As used in the text, what does the word "translucent" most nearly mean?

Brown spots on a map

Brown spots scattered over the ink left the law library's old map mottled.

  1. 11.As used in the text, what does the word "mottled" most nearly mean?

Washed-out hallway paint

Washed-out white paint made the clinic hallway look pallid, closer to gray than to white.

  1. 12.As used in the text, what does the word "pallid" most nearly mean?

Red brick at dusk

Late light turned the neighborhood council's brick front ruddy, a warm red across the wall.

  1. 13.As used in the text, what does the word "ruddy" most nearly mean?

A nameplate that mirrors light

The small firm's nameplate was glossy enough to mirror the ceiling lights in a smooth shine.

  1. 14.As used in the text, what does the word "glossy" most nearly mean?

A rail with no glare

With a flat finish and no glare, the hearing room's wooden rail was matte.

  1. 15.As used in the text, what does the word "matte" most nearly mean?

A flat brown carpet

A flat brown with no pattern left the law library carpet looking drab.

  1. 16.As used in the text, what does the word "drab" most nearly mean?

Glitter on a holiday sign

Cheap glitter crowded the clinic's holiday sign and made it gaudy.

  1. 17.As used in the text, what does the word "gaudy" most nearly mean?

Dark panels in the chamber

Dark panels swallowed the light and left the neighborhood council chamber somber.

  1. 18.As used in the text, what does the word "somber" most nearly mean?

A high empty chamber

The hearing room was cavernous, with a high empty ceiling that made one voice seem small.

  1. 19.As used in the text, what does the word "cavernous" most nearly mean?

Boxes against both walls

Boxes pressed against both walls left the small firm's file room cramped.

  1. 20.As used in the text, what does the word "cramped" most nearly mean?

Desks with sharp corners

Sharp corners and straight edges made the law library's new desks angular.

  1. 21.As used in the text, what does the word "angular" most nearly mean?

Matching lamps by the door

Matching windows and lamps on each side of the door left the clinic entrance symmetrical.

  1. 22.As used in the text, what does the word "symmetrical" most nearly mean?

A banner lower on the left

The neighborhood council's banner hung lopsided, much lower on the left than on the right.

  1. 23.As used in the text, what does the word "lopsided" most nearly mean?

Pitted steps outside

Sun and rain had left the hearing room's outer steps weathered, the stone pitted and gray.

  1. 24.As used in the text, what does the word "weathered" most nearly mean?

Dark spots on the brass

Dark spots had stolen the shine from the small firm's brass lamp, leaving it tarnished.

  1. 25.As used in the text, what does the word "tarnished" most nearly mean?

Wood rubbed to a shine

Rubbed until the wood held a warm shine, the law library rail was burnished.

  1. 26.As used in the text, what does the word "burnished" most nearly mean?

A thin coat of gold

A thin coat of gold on the clinic's old frame left it gilded where the window light caught it.

  1. 27.As used in the text, what does the word "gilded" most nearly mean?

Colors washed to white

Washed nearly to white, the neighborhood council's flag was faded.

  1. 28.As used in the text, what does the word "faded" most nearly mean?

Three colors in the marble

Gray, cream, and green veins ran together in the hearing room's variegated marble floor.

  1. 29.As used in the text, what does the word "variegated" most nearly mean?

Blue then gold in the glass

As the small firm's glass award turned, it looked iridescent, flashing blue and then gold.

  1. 30.As used in the text, what does the word "iridescent" most nearly mean?

Shelves in low light

Weak bulbs left the law library stacks dim, and most of the aisle stayed in low light.

  1. 31.As used in the text, what does the word "dim" most nearly mean?

A lamp that washes out the chart

A hard white light from the clinic's exam lamp was glaring and washed out the chart.

  1. 32.As used in the text, what does the word "glaring" most nearly mean?

Dark gaps in the hall

Dark patches sat between the few lamps, so the neighborhood council hallway was shadowy.

  1. 33.As used in the text, what does the word "shadowy" most nearly mean?

No empty inch on the desk

Papers, pens, and cups covered every inch of the small firm's cluttered desk.

  1. 34.As used in the text, what does the word "cluttered" most nearly mean?

A wall with nothing on it

Nothing hung on the hearing room's side wall, which stayed barren from end to end.

  1. 35.As used in the text, what does the word "barren" most nearly mean?

Green vines on the brick

Thick green vines covered the brick and made the law library courtyard verdant.

  1. 36.As used in the text, what does the word "verdant" most nearly mean?

Gray tiles overhead

Under the lights, the clinic's ceiling tiles looked ashen, a flat pale gray.

  1. 37.As used in the text, what does the word "ashen" most nearly mean?

Paint that looks yellow

The neighborhood council's old paint was sallow, a sickly yellow rather than white.

  1. 38.As used in the text, what does the word "sallow" most nearly mean?

Creases across the cloth

Creases ran across the small firm's exhibit cloth, leaving it rumpled on the table.

  1. 39.As used in the text, what does the word "rumpled" most nearly mean?

Fabric worn at the corners

At the corners, the hearing room cushion was threadbare, the fabric worn thin.

  1. 40.As used in the text, what does the word "threadbare" most nearly mean?

Smooth lines on the chairs

Smooth unbroken lines made the law library's new chairs sleek.

  1. 41.As used in the text, what does the word "sleek" most nearly mean?

Uneven slabs underfoot

Rough, uneven slabs made the clinic's stone path rugged underfoot.

  1. 42.As used in the text, what does the word "rugged" most nearly mean?

Scratches in the wood

Pale scratches crossed the wood, so the neighborhood council's floor looked scuffed.

  1. 43.As used in the text, what does the word "scuffed" most nearly mean?

Glass with no dust

No fingerprint or grain of dust showed on the small firm's immaculate glass table.

  1. 44.As used in the text, what does the word "immaculate" most nearly mean?

Dirt along the ledge

A film of dirt along the paint left the hearing room's window ledge grubby.

  1. 45.As used in the text, what does the word "grubby" most nearly mean?

Patches in the plaster

Darker patches showed through the paint, leaving the law library plaster blotchy.

  1. 46.As used in the text, what does the word "blotchy" most nearly mean?

Dots in the counter

Tiny dark dots spread across the pale surface of the clinic's speckled countertop.

  1. 47.As used in the text, what does the word "speckled" most nearly mean?

Gray veins on white covers

Swirling gray veins crossed the white of the small firm's marbled folder covers.

  1. 48.As used in the text, what does the word "marbled" most nearly mean?

Cloth the light passes through

The hearing room curtain was so thin the hallway lights showed through, because the cloth was sheer.

  1. 49.As used in the text, what does the word "sheer" most nearly mean?

A brush that pricks

Stiff hairs on the law library's desk brush were bristly and prickly against the hand.

  1. 50.As used in the text, what does the word "bristly" most nearly mean?

A pad that gives way

Under a light press, the clinic's wrist pad was spongy and gave way softly.

  1. 51.As used in the text, what does the word "spongy" most nearly mean?

A folder that bends

The neighborhood council's leather folder was supple and bent easily in the hand.

  1. 52.As used in the text, what does the word "supple" most nearly mean?

A label still sticky

Still sticky to the touch, the small firm's new label was tacky.

  1. 53.As used in the text, what does the word "tacky" most nearly mean?

Thin lines in the grain

Thin dark lines ran with the grain of the hearing room's striated wood panel.

  1. 54.As used in the text, what does the word "striated" most nearly mean?

Black and cream squares

Black and cream squares repeated down the aisle of the law library's checkered floor.

  1. 55.As used in the text, what does the word "checkered" most nearly mean?

Letters of one blue

Every letter on the clinic's new signs was the same deep blue, so the signs were monochrome.

  1. 56.As used in the text, what does the word "monochrome" most nearly mean?

Bright red pins

Against the pale board, the neighborhood council's map pins were vivid, a sharp bright red.

  1. 57.As used in the text, what does the word "vivid" most nearly mean?

A gray that stays quiet

A soft gray that did not catch the eye made the small firm's wall color subdued.

  1. 58.As used in the text, what does the word "subdued" most nearly mean?

A cold glow from the tubes

Ceiling tubes in the hearing room were fluorescent and cast a cold glow over the benches.

  1. 59.As used in the text, what does the word "fluorescent" most nearly mean?

Daylight on the tables

Warm daylight covered the long tables, and the law library reading room was sunlit.

  1. 60.As used in the text, what does the word "sunlit" most nearly mean?

Footsteps that ring back

In the clinic's empty hall, each footstep returned as a deep ring, and the space was resonant.

  1. 61.As used in the text, what does the word "resonant" most nearly mean?

Words lost behind the door

Through the closed door, neighborhood council voices were muffled and hard to catch.

  1. 62.As used in the text, what does the word "muffled" most nearly mean?

A thin tone that cuts

A thin high tone from the small firm's alarm was shrill and cut across the room.

  1. 63.As used in the text, what does the word "shrill" most nearly mean?

Loud talk and scraping chairs

Chairs scraped and several people talked loudly at once, and the hearing room grew raucous.

  1. 64.As used in the text, what does the word "raucous" most nearly mean?

A sweet chime from the clock

The law library's old clock was melodious, its chime clear and sweet.

  1. 65.As used in the text, what does the word "melodious" most nearly mean?

Alarms that clash

Sounding together, the clinic's two alarms were dissonant, and the tones clashed.

  1. 66.As used in the text, what does the word "dissonant" most nearly mean?

Harsh noise in the hall

Phones, voices, and a rolling cart made the neighborhood council hallway cacophonous with harsh noise.

  1. 67.As used in the text, what does the word "cacophonous" most nearly mean?

Voices dropped low

In the small firm's library corner, speech dropped to very quiet voices, and the corner was hushed.

  1. 68.As used in the text, what does the word "hushed" most nearly mean?

A boom that fills the room

A door slam in the hearing room was thunderous, a huge boom that filled the chamber.

  1. 69.As used in the text, what does the word "thunderous" most nearly mean?

A thin metal-like voice

Through the law library speaker, the announcement sounded tinny, thin and like metal.

  1. 70.As used in the text, what does the word "tinny" most nearly mean?

A low scrape on the intercom

A low rough sound from the clinic intercom was gravelly and scraped across the words.

  1. 71.As used in the text, what does the word "gravelly" most nearly mean?

A rich tone from the gavel

The neighborhood council gavel strike was sonorous, a full rich tone in the hall.

  1. 72.As used in the text, what does the word "sonorous" most nearly mean?

Sweet music under the talk

Under the conversation, the small firm's lobby music was dulcet, sweet and soft.

  1. 73.As used in the text, what does the word "dulcet" most nearly mean?

A blare hard to ignore

The hearing room microphone made the voice strident, a harsh tone that kept pressing on the ear.

  1. 74.As used in the text, what does the word "strident" most nearly mean?

A hiss under the windows

Under the law library windows, the radiator was sibilant, a steady hiss.

  1. 75.As used in the text, what does the word "sibilant" most nearly mean?

Steps that echo upward

Each step in the clinic stairwell echoed up the concrete, and the stairwell was reverberant.

  1. 76.As used in the text, what does the word "reverberant" most nearly mean?

Tones that sit off pitch

The neighborhood council's two speakers were discordant, their tones unpleasantly off pitch.

  1. 77.As used in the text, what does the word "discordant" most nearly mean?

Notes that blend

Notes from the small firm's chimes were harmonious and blended into one pleasant sound.

  1. 78.As used in the text, what does the word "harmonious" most nearly mean?

A confused rush of voices

Overlapping voices made a confused noise, and the hearing room became clamorous.

  1. 79.As used in the text, what does the word "clamorous" most nearly mean?

A hoarse announcement

The law library announcement came through raspy, hoarse and rough in the speaker.

  1. 80.As used in the text, what does the word "raspy" most nearly mean?

A tune that rises and falls

The clinic's recorded greeting was lilting, the tune gently rising and then falling.

  1. 81.As used in the text, what does the word "lilting" most nearly mean?

A deep voice in the hall

A deep loud voice filled the neighborhood council hall, and the microphone was booming.

  1. 82.As used in the text, what does the word "booming" most nearly mean?

Words pinched on the phone

On the small firm's old phone, the words sounded nasal, as if pinched through the nose.

  1. 83.As used in the text, what does the word "nasal" most nearly mean?

A throaty growl from the speaker

The hearing room's broken speaker was guttural, forcing the words out in a harsh throaty growl.

  1. 84.As used in the text, what does the word "guttural" most nearly mean?

A smooth sweet chime

The law library's reading chime was mellifluous, smooth and sweet from the first note to the last.

  1. 85.As used in the text, what does the word "mellifluous" most nearly mean?

Short notes with gaps

The clinic's door chime was staccato, a run of short notes separated by little gaps.

  1. 86.As used in the text, what does the word "staccato" most nearly mean?

A clear ring down the street

A loud clear ring from the neighborhood council's bell was clarion and carried down the street.

  1. 87.As used in the text, what does the word "clarion" most nearly mean?

A blast like struck metal

The small firm's announcement tone was brassy, a harsh blast like struck metal.

  1. 88.As used in the text, what does the word "brassy" most nearly mean?

A tap with no body

A tap on the hearing room bench sounded hollow, a thin empty tone rather than a solid thud.

  1. 89.As used in the text, what does the word "hollow" most nearly mean?

Steps with no scrape

On the law library carpet, footsteps sounded velvety, soft and smooth, with no scrape.

  1. 90.As used in the text, what does the word "velvety" most nearly mean?

Words cut off early

Each word of the clinic's overhead message was clipped, cut short before the next began.

  1. 91.As used in the text, what does the word "clipped" most nearly mean?

A sharp strike to order

Each call to order came with a percussive blow of the gavel, a sharp strike in the neighborhood council hall.

  1. 92.As used in the text, what does the word "percussive" most nearly mean?

Sentences that flow

The small firm's recorded instructions were fluid, one sentence flowing smoothly into the next.

  1. 93.As used in the text, what does the word "fluid" most nearly mean?

A squeak from the chair

Each time the hearing room's old chair moved, it was creaky and let out a squeak.

  1. 94.As used in the text, what does the word "creaky" most nearly mean?

A whisper that does not carry

Beyond the same table, the law library whisper was inaudible, too quiet to catch.

  1. 95.As used in the text, what does the word "inaudible" most nearly mean?

A beep that blasts

A harsh loud beep from the clinic's pager was blaring down the hallway.

  1. 96.As used in the text, what does the word "blaring" most nearly mean?

Talk clear from the back

From the back row, the neighborhood council's side conversation was audible and clear enough to follow.

  1. 97.As used in the text, what does the word "audible" most nearly mean?

A steady beat from the copier

Under the talk, the small firm's copy machine was rhythmic and kept a steady beat.

  1. 98.As used in the text, what does the word "rhythmic" most nearly mean?

A fan on one tone

The hearing room fan was monotonous, holding one flat tone that never shifted.

  1. 99.As used in the text, what does the word "monotonous" most nearly mean?

Pleasant tones by the window

By the window, the law library's wind chime was euphonious, and the tones were pleasant to hear.

  1. 100.As used in the text, what does the word "euphonious" most nearly mean?

A grating scrape from the hinge

Each swing of the clinic door brought an abrasive scrape, rough and grating from the hinge.

  1. 101.As used in the text, what does the word "abrasive" most nearly mean?

A high scrape of feedback

Microphone feedback in the neighborhood council hall was screechy, a high scraping tone.

  1. 102.As used in the text, what does the word "screechy" most nearly mean?

Breathy words from the speaker

Through the small firm's old speaker, the announcement was husky, the words rough and breathy.

  1. 103.As used in the text, what does the word "husky" most nearly mean?

A cool damp rail

Under the hand, the hearing room's metal rail was clammy, cool and damp.

  1. 104.As used in the text, what does the word "clammy" most nearly mean?

Shoes slipping on wax

Shoes slipped on the law library's waxed floor because the surface was slick.

  1. 105.As used in the text, what does the word "slick" most nearly mean?

Sand in the entry mat

Sand in the clinic's entry mat felt gritty and rough under the shoes.

  1. 106.As used in the text, what does the word "gritty" most nearly mean?

Fluffy cushions

To the touch, the neighborhood council's chair cushions were downy, soft and fluffy.

  1. 107.As used in the text, what does the word "downy" most nearly mean?

Arms like worn leather

The small firm's old chair arms were leathery, tough and creased in the way worn leather is.

  1. 108.As used in the text, what does the word "leathery" most nearly mean?