SAT WORDS TEST 20



1.
matrimony
  adj. making a loud outcry
  n. permanence
  n. a storehouse for grain after it is thrashed or husked
  n. the union of a man and a woman in marriage
 
2.
chastity
  v. to secure the right of preference in the purchase of public land
  v. to refer to specifically
  n. sexual or moral purity
  adj. capable of being conceived
 
3.
coincide
  v. to correspond
  v. to move back or away
  n. the inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body
  adj. impulsive
 
4.
disenfranchise
  adj. qualified
  v. to make pregnant
  v. to deprive of any right privilege or power
  adj. of or pertaining to the act of calling
 
5.
ineffable
  v. to give the authority of law to
  adj. unutterable
  adj. pertaining to or consisting of air or gas
  adj. pertaining to the use of the tongue in utterance
 
6.
illegitimate
  adj. unlawfully begotten
  n. murderer, as by secret assault or treachery
  adj. unsuitable for the time, place, or occasion
  adj. belonging, relating to, or abounding in color
 
7.
intrinsic
  v. to prevent
  adj. of barbarous, uncouth, and unfamiliar aspect or action
  adj. inherent
  adj. disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness
 
8.
vocative
  adj. of or pertaining to the act of calling
  adj. common to all the world
  v. to interfere for some end
  n. an ancestor
 
9.
gourmand
  n. the property or state of allowing the passage of light
  n. one who entrusts
  n. a hermitage
  n. a connoisseur in the delicacies of the table
 
10.
telephony
  n. an imaginary belt encircling the heavens within which are the larger planets
  n. a book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists
  n. a vivid glowing flame
  n. the art or process of communicating by telephone
 
11.
physiocracy
  v. to make a copy of
  v. to walk about
  n. the doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth
  v. to wander from place to place
 
12.
isothermal
  adj. having or marking equality of temperature
  n. a statement so plainly true as hardly to require statement or proof
  n. exclusion
  v. to comfort
 
13.
sylph
  n. the union of a man and a woman in marriage
  n. a slender, graceful young woman or girl
  n. penmanship
  n. the study of language in connection with history and literature
 
14.
symphony
  n. a noxious or troublesome animal
  n. a harmonious or agreeable mingling of sounds
  n. a trifling act, thought, saying, or practice
  n. a gambler
 
15.
incisor
  n. one who narrates anything
  n. a front or cutting tooth
  v. to misgovern
  n. savageness
 
16.
importunate
  v. to express disapproval or regret for, with hope for the opposite
  adj. urgent in character, request, or demand
  n. the branch of medical science concerned with the treatment and care of women during pregnancy
  n. a furtherer, forwarder, or encourager
 
17.
exclude
  n. the act or process of absorbing
  adj. flushed with red
  n. one who or that which is expected to remain permanently in its position
  v. to shut out purposely or forcibly
 
18.
corrigible
  adj. capable of reformation
  n. a citizen of a foreign country
  n. an undue display of modesty or delicacy
  adj. that can not be restrained or kept down
 
19.
pediatrics
  adj. insufficient
  v. to make a hole or holes through
  n. a violent and abnormal muscular contraction of the body
  n. the department of medical science that relates to the treatment of diseases of childhood
 
20.
belittle
  n. wrath
  v. to disparage
  n. a volume consisting of ten parts or books
  v. to convert into a liquid or into liquid form
 
21.
juridical
  v. to lower in character or virtue
  n. any institution or systematic scheme for propagating a doctrine or system
  n. one without means of support
  adj. assumed by law to exist
 
22.
sequence
  n. a three-legged stand, usually hinged near the top, for supporting some instrument
  v. to relieve or vindicate from accusation, imputation, or blame
  n. the order in which a number or persons, things, or events follow one another in space or time
  v. to bestow
 
23.
thesis
  v. to make supremely happy
  n. an essay or treatise on a particular subject
  n. possession or continuance of being
  n. an ancestor
 
24.
psychiatry
  n. the quality or character of being godlike
  adj. that can be suggested
  n. the branch of medicine that relates to mental disease
  v. to mediate between persons
 
25.
bilingual
  adj. speaking two languages
  n. one who claims to have supernatural insight or foresight
  v. to fill with an overflowing abundance
  n. a disclaimer of intentional error or offense
 
26.
observant
  v. to strip the covering from
  adj. quick to notice
  n. a salt of acetic acid
  n. examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness
 
27.
dendroid
  adj. characteristic
  adj. like a tree
  n. an abstract
  n. a species of lyric poems
 
28.
remodel
  v. to cause to turn aside or downward
  v. reconstruct
  v. to put in some relation of connection or correspondence
  adj. harmless
 
29.
efflorescent
  n. a figurine
  v. to soothe
  adj. opening in flower
  adj. extraordinary
 
30.
myriad
  n. a vast indefinite number
  n. a ditch on the outside of a fortress wall
  adj. enfeebled, as by old age or some chronic infirmity
  v. to talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity
 
31.
reprieve
  adj. having lost sparkling quality and flavor
  v. to grant a respite from punishment to
  n. an adulterating substance
  n. perceptible by feeling or touch
 
32.
crustaceous
  adj. having a crust-like shell
  adj. inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires
  n. increase of amount, size, scope, or the like
  n. the division of society on artificial grounds
 
33.
accustom
  adj. biting or giving to biting
  v. to reject
  v. to make familiar by use
  n. the doctrine or belief that there are more gods than one
 
34.
denude
  adj. cutting deeply and quickly
  n. hades
  v. to strip the covering from
  v. to dishearten
 
35.
illicit
  v. to contaminate
  adj. unlawful
  n. a title of honor bestowed upon various high officials
  n. that which oppresses, injures, or causes grief and at the same time a sense of wrong
 
36.
perseverance
  v. to ask information about
  v. to restore to a former status, capacity, right rank, or privilege
  n. the head-harness of a horse consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and the reins
  n. a persistence in purpose and effort
 
37.
luscious
  adj. no longer practiced or accepted
  n. a display dictated by vanity and intended to invite applause or flattery
  v. to embellish
  adj. rich, sweet, and delicious
 
38.
protective
  adj. persistent or unyielding
  n. any dialectic pronunciation of English, especially that of the Irish people
  adj. sheltering
  adj. doubtful
 
39.
likely
  conj. notwithstanding
  n. quickness of intellectual insight, or discernment; keenness of discrimination
  n. a small flag
  adj. plausible
 
40.
disillusion
  v. to disenchant
  adj. lacking the power of feeling or perceiving
  n. delusive speech
  adj. subject to contention or dispute
 
 


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