SAT WORDS TEST 10



1.
petulance
  n. a tirade
  n. the character or condition of being impatient, capricious or petulant
  v. to make adroit or artful moves: manage affairs by strategy
  v. to bargain with others for an agreement, as for a treaty or transfer of property
 
2.
depth
  n. deepness
  adj. contrary in tendency or direction
  n. an institution for instruction and training in music and declamation
  n. the act or process of absorbing
 
3.
fictitious
  n. the act of violating or profaning anything sacred
  n. the part of a nation's territory that abuts upon another country
  n. truth
  adj. created or formed by the imagination
 
4.
emblem
  n. a symbol
  v. to hold back or in
  n. a private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates
  adj. noting a genus or kind; opposed to specific
 
5.
theocrasy
  adj. a person of between eighty and ninety years
  v. to render flustered or agitated
  n. the mixed worship of polytheism
  adj. showing inexperience
 
6.
irrelevant
  adj. having no force, weight, or cogency
  n. the science that treats of computation of time or of investigation and arrangement of events
  adj. retired from active service but retained to an honorary position
  adj. inapplicable
 
7.
foreknowledge
  n. a series of illustrative or explanatory notes on any important work
  n. prescience
  n. hole
  adj. very repugnant; hateful
 
8.
vociferance
  n. the quality of making a clamor
  n. a beleaguerment
  v. to encircle
  n. a mere youth
 
9.
hilarious
  v. to passively permit or put up with
  n. dead and putrefying flesh
  n. neatness
  adj. boisterously merry
 
10.
overshadow
  v. to cast into the shade or render insignificant by comparison
  n. the chief of a tribe or race who rules by paternal right
  n. the act of denying or of asserting the falsity of a proposition
  n. an official appointed to examine or oversee any matter of public interest or importance
 
11.
frizz
  n. exultation
  adj. unadvisable
  n. a sour substance
  v. to give a crinkled, fluffy appearance to
 
12.
gyrate
  adj. commonplace
  v. to revolve
  v. to predict
  n. an explicit disclaimer of a right or privilege
 
13.
philosophize
  v. to seek ultimate causes and principles
  adj. having a crust-like shell
  n. a harmonic
  adj. consisting of money
 
14.
misanthropic
  v. to call into court, as a person indicted for crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not
  adj. hating mankind
  n. an eccentricity
  n. a sense of injury
 
15.
venereal
  n. a guilty person
  n. a clown
  adj. pertaining to or proceeding from sexual intercourse
  v. to summon or cause to assemble
 
16.
negligee
  n. a loose gown worn by women
  v. to make the first attack
  v. to harass with persistent demands or entreaties
  n. that which is to be subtracted
 
17.
abnegate
  adj. qualified for selection
  n. a room kept at a low temperature for preserving fruits, meat, etc
  v. to renounce (a right or privilege)
  adj. listless
 
18.
emphasize
  v. to articulate or enunciate with special impressiveness upon a word, or a group of words
  n. one who supports extreme measures or holds extreme views
  v. to overcome by force of will
  prep. in spite of
 
19.
intellect
  n. the natural height of an animal body
  v. to put out of proper place or order
  adj. animal
  n. the faculty of perception or thought
 
20.
sequent
  n. a tirade
  n. the fact of not being present or available
  n. part of a fraction which expresses the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided
  adj. following in the order of time
 
21.
demonstrable
  adj. capable of positive proof
  n. a person fully empowered to transact any business
  adj. animal
  n. an orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event
 
22.
missive
  n. a message in writing
  adj. accidental, by chance
  n. a quack
  adj. tremendous
 
23.
outburst
  v. to involve; necessitate
  v. to sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom
  n. that which passes the ordinary, proper, or required limit, measure, or experience
  n. a violent issue, especially of passion in an individual
 
24.
overweight
  n. a remainder or surplus after a part has been separated or otherwise treated
  n. preponderance
  v. to discern beforehand
  n. a slightly receding bay between headlands, formed by a long curve of a coast-line
 
25.
morality
  n. virtue
  adj. fixed or done capriciously
  n. one who owes allegiance to a foreign government
  n. abundance
 
26.
stratum
  n. a natural or artificial layer, bed, or thickness of any substance or material
  n. the whole of any sphere or department of nature or knowledge to which man is related
  n. a musical composition during which the first part or subject is repeated several times
  v. to conquer
 
27.
foreshore
  v. to last longer than
  n. a vest
  n. that part of a shore uncovered at low tide
  n. the state of being hard and insensible
 
28.
tarnish
  adj. characterized by charity and kindness
  v. to lessen or destroy the luster of in any way
  v. to occupy completely
  adj. clamorous
 
29.
exuberant
  n. a policy of maintaining great standing armies
  adj. marked by great plentifulness
  n. a comparison which directs the mind to the representative object itself
  n. one who advocates or practices altruism
 
30.
regress
  adj. exceedingly noxious or deleterious
  v. to return to a former place or condition
  n. inflammation of the bronchial tubes
  n. the obstruction of a heavenly body by its entering into the shadow of another body
 
31.
wherever
  v. to disavow any claim to, connection with, or responsibility to
  adj. justifiable
  adv. in or at whatever place
  n. an occupant
 
32.
glazier
  v. to avoid by artifice
  n. one who cuts and fits panes of glass, as for windows
  n. ferocity
  adj. disseminated far and wide
 
33.
opinion
  n. a conclusion or judgment held with confidence, but falling short of positive knowledge
  v. to pay or pay for
  n. deprivation of strength or energy
  adj. capable of being suppressed
 
34.
depositor
  n. insensibility to kindness
  n. one who makes a deposit, or has an amount deposited
  adj. effective
  adj. ungracious
 
35.
observant
  v. to remove the inhabitants from
  adj. appalling
  n. that by which anything is transported
  adj. quick to notice
 
36.
deluge
  n. a prophet
  adj. having and exercising the power to produce effects or results
  v. to overwhelm with a flood of water
  n. dandyism
 
37.
anathema
  n. bottomless gulf
  n. anything forbidden, as by social usage
  adj. durable
  n. the act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war
 
38.
assassin
  adj. first in rank or position
  adj. lazy
  adj. easily deceived
  n. one who kills, or tries to kill, treacherously or secretly
 
39.
constellation
  adj. shameful
  n. an arbitrary assemblage or group of stars
  n. a length of 1,000 meters
  adj. possessing a brave or chivalrous spirit
 
40.
sustenance
  adj. self-governing
  n. one who believes in God, but denies supernatural revelation
  n. food
  v. to take when offered
 
 


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