SAT WORDS TEST 15



1.
belie
  adj. brave
  n. a small shrill trumpet or bugle
  v. to misrepresent
  n. that which is indispensably requisite to an end desired
 
2.
foist
  n. a throwing upward
  v. to palm off
  adj. easily understood
  adj. pertaining to stars or constellations
 
3.
nectar
  adj. solid
  adj. colorless,
  adj. apt to omit what ought to be done
  n. any especially sweet and delicious drink
 
4.
soldier
  n. a person engaged in military service
  v. to refuse to have anything to do with
  v. to regard with inordinate love or admiration
  adj. that can not be burned
 
5.
aloof
  adv. not in sympathy with or desiring to associate with others
  adj. insufficient
  n. friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof
  n. a performer of moral and social duties
 
6.
prosody
  n. universal prevalence or acceptance
  adj. clearly visible
  v. to secure the right of preference in the purchase of public land
  n. the science of poetical forms
 
7.
paraphrase
  n. a single-colored napped woolen fabric used for table-covers, curtains, etc
  v. translate freely
  v. to strengthen, as proof or conviction
  adj. gloomy
 
8.
lune
  v. to infuriate
  adj. that may be pierced by physical, moral, or intellectual force
  n. the moon
  n. something that has actual and undeniable existence or reality
 
9.
ladle
  n. a cup-shaped vessel with a long handle, intended for dipping up and pouring liquids
  v. to manage or carry through by some device or scheme
  n. commerce unrestricted by tariff or customs
  n. one attached to the army or navy, but having duties other than that of fighting
 
10.
declension
  n. the change of endings in nouns and adj. to express their different relations of gender
  n. an assumed name
  n. a symbol
  adj. having no limit or end
 
11.
optimism
  n. a dead body
  v. to produce or cause to be
  n. the view that everything in nature and the history of mankind is ordered for the best
  v. to give an appearance of foolishness to
 
12.
esquire
  n. a title of dignity, office, or courtesy
  n. a periodical allowance to an individual on account of past service done by him/her
  n. the act of bending
  adj. not harsh
 
13.
agrarian
  v. to relieve or vindicate from accusation, imputation, or blame
  v. to convert into a liquid or into liquid form
  v. to make indigent or poor
  adj. pertaining to land, especially agricultural land
 
14.
distraught
  adj. sticky
  n. scarcity, as of something customary, essential ,or desirable
  adv. blindly
  adj. bewildered
 
15.
harmonious
  adj. having spines
  adj. concordant in sound
  adj. that can not be broken or violated
  n. a connoisseur in the delicacies of the table
 
16.
trite
  v. to breathe forth
  n. an official appointed to examine or oversee any matter of public interest or importance
  v. to express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite
  adj. made commonplace by frequent repetition
 
17.
prescript
  adj. prescribed as a rule or model
  n. the highest non-commissioned officer in a regiment
  adj. characterized by self denial or abstinence, as in the use of drink, food
  v. to soothe by quieting anger or indignation
 
18.
nationality
  v. to entrap
  n. a connection with a particular nation
  v. to refer incidentally
  adj. of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation
 
19.
imminent
  v. to manage badly, improperly, or unskillfully
  n. the control of a thing, as a commodity, to enable a person to raise its price
  adj. dangerous and close at hand
  n. a luxurious person
 
20.
diffident
  n. an expression of applause
  v. to make characteristic of the present or of recent times
  adj. affected or possessed with self-distrust
  adj. chivalrous or romantic to a ridiculous or extravagant degree
 
21.
position
  n. the manner in which a thing is placed
  v. to imperil
  n. the act of ending or concluding
  v. to arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like
 
22.
fresco
  adj. moderately good
  v. to make complex, difficult, or hard to deal with
  n. the state of being hard and insensible
  n. the art of painting on a surface of plaster, particularly on walls and ceilings
 
23.
brusque
  n. some auxiliary person or thing
  n. a wide lower part of a tidal river
  v. to find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible
  adj. somewhat rough or rude in manner or speech
 
24.
hypnosis
  n. an uncastrated male horse, commonly one kept for breeding
  n. an artificial trance-sleep
  n. a brief account of some interesting event or incident
  n. rebound
 
25.
fernery
  n. a place in which ferns are grown
  n. the process of decomposing a chemical compound by the passage of an electric current
  n. the rules and principles of poetry
  n. anything intended or calculated to deceive or mislead
 
26.
epoch
  n. any act of saving property
  n. a interval of time, memorable for extraordinary events
  n. the act of plunging or dipping entirely under water or another fluid
  n. a going forth or departure from a place or country, especially of many people
 
27.
regenerate
  adj. adverse
  n. a statement so plainly true as hardly to require statement or proof
  n. the act of submitting
  v. to reproduce
 
28.
disappoint
  v. to fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish, or desire of
  n. special eminence
  n. the branch of zoology that treats of insects
  n. the roof of the mouth
 
29.
hemorrhoids
  v. to share the sentiments or mental states of another
  n. lawless control of public affairs by the mob or populace
  n. pl. Tumors composed of enlarged and thickened blood-vessels, at the lower end of the rectum
  adj. plausible
 
30.
carrion
  n. the body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation
  v. to assert to be true, especially in a formal manner, as in court
  n. dead and putrefying flesh
  adj. unchanging and tedious
 
31.
infallible
  v. to annihilate
  n. a state of well-founded happiness
  adv. with directness
  adj. exempt from error of judgment, as in opinion or statement
 
32.
abjure
  v. to trouble with importunities, cares, or annoyances
  v. to bestow
  n. pastime
  v. to recant, renounce, repudiate under oath
 
33.
foresee
  v. to discern beforehand
  adj. of undisputed origin
  adj. having no money
  n. a difficult, trying situation or plight
 
34.
aspiration
  v. to vanquish an established ruler or government
  n. a morbid process in some part of the body characterized by heat, swelling, and pain
  n. an earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach
  v. to fascinate, as by excellence. eloquence, or beauty
 
35.
indicator
  adj. having the ability to express emotion or feeling in lofty and impassioned speech
  n. one who or that which points out
  n. unusually prolonged life
  adj. able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations
 
36.
rabid
  n. an aggressive display of boldness
  n. the sun
  adj. affected with rabies or hydrophobia
  adj. like a circle
 
37.
verification
  n. an anthem or other composition sung responsively
  adj. that can not be refuted or disproved
  n. a figure of speech in which one object is likened to another, by speaking as if the other
  n. the act of proving to be true, exact, or accurate
 
38.
facetious
  adj. proceeding downward
  adj. amusing
  adj. of a bright but delicate yellow
  adj. that which points out
 
39.
sedate
  adj. pertaining to the administration of justice
  v. to oppose with an equal force
  adj. even-tempered
  n. a young bird
 
40.
scoundrel
  n. a man without principle
  adj. scanty
  n. the moon
  adj. having an odor, especially a fragrant one
 
 


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