SAT WORDS TEST 3



1.
abeyance
  n. a state of suspension or temporary inaction
  n. a horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave
  adj. distinctive
  n. impending evil or danger
 
2.
pauperism
  v. to plunge or dip entirely under water or other fluid
  n. a horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave
  n. dependence on charity
  adj. not to be approved, considered, or allowed, as testimony
 
3.
differential
  n. a place or region on the opposite side of the earth
  adj. distinctive
  adj. founded on the number 10
  v. to introduce, as a fluid, by injection
 
4.
virile
  adj. insisting on obedience
  adj. masculine
  v. to withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body
  n. a convent for nuns
 
5.
extraneous
  adj. having no essential relation to a subject
  adj. prevalent
  n. the keeping of a thing within one's power or possession
  adj. guilty
 
6.
hysteria
  adj. pertaining to ancient times
  v. to surrender
  n. a dealer in flowers
  n. a nervous affection occurring typically in paroxysms of laughing and crying
 
7.
chaos
  v. to deprive of something dishonestly
  n. the entertainment of doubt concerning something
  v. to take the place of
  n. any condition of which the elements or parts are in utter disorder and confusion
 
8.
luscious
  adj. rich, sweet, and delicious
  n. an expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured
  n. the whole body of legends cherished by a race concerning gods and heroes
  v. to cause to loathe
 
9.
necessary
  v. to obliterate
  adj. multiplied by six
  adj. indispensably requisite or absolutely needed to accomplish a desired result
  adj. employing harsh words or ill treatment
 
10.
discord
  v. to entrust
  n. absence of harmoniousness
  n. an outline or contour
  n. insensibility to emotion or passionate feeling
 
11.
intention
  adj. preliminary
  adj. thorough and complete in execution
  n. that upon which the mind is set
  v. to hold back
 
12.
repentance
  v. to pass across or over, as a river
  n. combination in a body or mass
  v. to have weight or influence (in determining a question)
  n. sorrow for something done or left undone, with desire to make things right by undoing the wrong
 
13.
domesticity
  adj. severely simple; unadorned
  n. one who makes or repairs machines, or uses metal-working tools
  n. life in or fondness for one's home and family
  n. a place or structure dangerous to human life
 
14.
hospitable
  n. a picture or description in which natural characteristics are exaggerated or distorted
  adj. white or glowing with heat
  adj. dishonorable or disgraceful
  adj. disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness
 
15.
promiscuous
  adj. brought together without order, distinction, or design (for sex)
  n. the act of putting in proper order, or the state of being put in order
  n. a concealed manner of acting
  adj. solid
 
16.
trivial
  n. a salt of acetic acid
  n. spare time
  n. a person fully empowered to transact any business
  adj. of little importance or value
 
17.
belate
  v. to make explanatory or critical notes on or upon
  v. to delay past the proper hour
  n. a race in which two or more competitors come out even, and there is no winner
  n. an instrument consisting of nine pieces of cord, formerly used for flogging in the army and navy
 
18.
demented
  adj. having the color of blood
  adj. pertaining to the sun
  adj. grief-stricken
  adj. insane
 
19.
delicacy
  n. that which is agreeable to a fine taste
  v. to like the taste or savor of
  v. to fail to put strongly enough, as a case
  n. the breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman
 
20.
inlet
  v. to pile or heap together
  v. to assert as a fact
  v. to form into grains or small particles
  n. a small body of water leading into a larger
 
21.
exert
  n. a member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the land of Canaan, or western Palestine
  n. extreme misery or unhappiness
  v. to make an effort
  n. a person against whom a suit is brought
 
22.
opponent
  adj. belonging to a people not Jewish
  n. that branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms
  n. the act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war
  n. one who supports the opposite side in a debate, discussion, struggle, or sport
 
23.
defamation
  n. any preparation used for cleaning the teeth
  n. a state of suspension or temporary inaction
  n. malicious and groundless injury done to the reputation or good name of another
  v. to enter voluntarily the military service by formal enrollment
 
24.
naturally
  n. one who objects, as to a proposition, measure, or ruling
  n. the point where or path by which a voltaic current enters an electrolyte or the like
  n. restoration of anything to the one to whom it properly belongs
  adv. according to the usual order of things
 
25.
juncture
  n. an inhabitant, citizen or freeman of a borough burgh, or corporate town
  adj. admitting the entrance or passage of another substance
  adj. not essential under the circumstances
  n. an articulation, joint, or seam
 
26.
cryptogram
  adj. black-and-blue, as contused flesh
  adj. worn and gaunt in appearance
  n. an instrument having two lever-handles and two jaws working on a pivot
  n. anything written in characters that are secret or so arranged as to have hidden meaning
 
27.
utmost
  adj. ungracious
  n. a work containing information on subjects, or exhaustive of one subject
  n. the greatest possible extent
  n. capacity for sensation or sense-perception
 
28.
benediction
  n. knowledge of events before they take place
  v. to clear of forests
  n. a solemn invocation of the divine blessing
  adj. pertaining to the throat
 
29.
operate
  v. to encircle
  v. to put in action and supervise the working of
  n. the branch of mechanics that treats of the dynamics of fluids
  n. a vivid glowing flame
 
30.
humiliate
  v. to move like a wave or in waves
  n. an accursed thing
  v. to put to shame
  n. change of order so that the first shall become last and the last first
 
31.
maintenance
  adj. expressing an engagement to pay
  n. the face, countenance, or look of a person
  n. that which supports or sustains
  n. a microbe
 
32.
dilatory
  prep. apart from
  n. a book containing the formulas and methods of preparation of medicines for the use of druggists
  adj. tending to cause delay
  n. examination of two or more objects with reference to their likeness or unlikeness
 
33.
seismograph
  n. the rules and principles of poetry
  n. the quality of being marked by an assumed stateliness and impressiveness of manner
  adj. changeable
  n. an instrument for recording the phenomena of earthquakes
 
34.
crevasse
  v. to burst or break asunder
  n. a deep crack or fissure in the ice of a glacier
  n. one of the highest class of offenses, and punishable with death or imprisonment
  adj. befuddled with drinks
 
35.
inanimate
  v. to treat as a baby or an invalid
  adj. destitute of animal life
  adj. suitable for the purpose and circumstances
  n. a drama with a romantic story or plot and sensational situation and incidents
 
36.
dissolution
  adj. coming or acquired from some origin
  v. to deprive of simplicity of mind or manner
  v. to drive together so that one slides into the another like the sections of a spy-glass
  n. a breaking up of a union of persons
 
37.
kinsfolk
  n. a variety of the peach
  adj. guilty
  adj. having fine and penetrating discernment
  n. pl. Relatives
 
38.
coagulate
  n. pervasive psychic influence supposed to emanate from persons
  v. to change into a clot or a jelly, as by heat, by chemical action, or by a ferment
  n. in cricket, the player who delivers the ball
  n. infusion
 
39.
glimpse
  n. indigence
  adj. harsh or disagreeable in sound
  n. a burial-place
  n. a momentary look
 
40.
ardent
  adj. burning with passion
  adj. having an aptitude for applying oneself to new and varied tasks or to various subjects
  v. to proclaim by outcry
  n. an acknowledgment entered into before a court with condition to do some particular act
 
 


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