SAT WORDS TEST 5



1.
illuminant
  adj. unadvisable
  n. that which may be used to produce light
  n. the sharp striking of one body against another
  v. to obstruct
 
2.
theorist
  n. a violent onset
  n. one given to speculating
  v. to cover or fill the surface of
  adj. guilty
 
3.
academy
  n. any institution where the higher branches of learning are taught
  n. an angel of high rank
  adj. eating or living on flesh
  adj. noisily or offensively loud or clamorous
 
4.
monograph
  n. a short thick stick used as a club
  n. melancholy
  n. a treatise discussing a single subject or branch of a subject
  n. a border region
 
5.
euphemism
  v. to find out the true words or meaning of, as something hardly legible
  v. to refuse to acknowledge as one's own or as connected with oneself
  adj. complicated
  n. a figure of speech by which a phrase less offensive is substituted
 
6.
dissonance
  v. to make a magnet of, permanently, or temporarily
  adj. pertaining to studies that are pursued after receiving a degree
  n. cessation
  n. discord
 
7.
effective
  adj. fit for a destined purpose
  v. to recognize; to admit the genuineness or validity of
  n. rich supply
  v. to take apart
 
8.
readjust
  adj. perceiving or feeling beforehand
  adj. disinclined to conversation
  v. to regard or worship as a god
  v. to put in order after disarrangement
 
9.
globose
  n. a tenant in possession of property, as distinguished from the actual owner
  adj. comprehensible
  adj. guilty
  adj. spherical
 
10.
immersion
  n. expansion
  n. the act of plunging or dipping entirely under water or another fluid
  n. self-distrust
  n. a treasurer
 
11.
acute
  v. to describe by distinctive marks or peculiarities
  adj. violently abusive and quarrelsome
  adj. having fine and penetrating discernment
  adj. exciting or exhilarating to the mind
 
12.
scholastic
  n. a worshiper of false gods
  n. a cloak
  adj. pertaining to education or schools
  n. anything that hangs from something else, either for ornament or for use
 
13.
confectionery
  n. the candy collectively that a confectioner makes or sells, as candy
  adj. affected with anemia
  adj. very bright
  adj. plentiful
 
14.
necessitate
  adj. straightforward
  n. a dealer in flowers
  v. to render indispensable
  n. government by several or many persons of what- ever class
 
15.
disrepute
  n. a retraction
  adj. looking back on the past
  n. a sudden outburst of any kind of activity
  n. a bad name or character
 
16.
superlative
  n. that which is of the highest possible excellence or eminence
  n. a storehouse for grain after it is thrashed or husked
  n. one wasteful or extravagant, especially in the use of money or property
  adj. obscure
 
17.
credible
  adj. believable
  adj. consisting of dissimilar elements or ingredients of different kinds
  n. a driving onward or forward
  adj. having the nature of a tree
 
18.
amour
  n. a love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature
  n. the act of placing side by side, together, or in contact
  adv. once more, after rest or interval
  n. omission of that which ought to be done
 
19.
intellectual
  adj. characterized by intelligence
  adj. out of the common or regular track
  n. evasion
  adj. transferable by assignment, endorsement, or delivery
 
20.
vitality
  n. a retaliatory speech
  adj. low in tone or compass
  v. to fill again, as something that has been emptied
  n. the state or quality of being necessary to existence or continuance
 
21.
preference
  adj. falling off at maturity as petals after flowering, fruit when ripe, etc
  n. an object of favor or choice
  adj. inherent
  adj. milky
 
22.
eclipse
  n. the obstruction of a heavenly body by its entering into the shadow of another body
  adj. governed by moral standard
  v. to misappropriate secretly
  adj. pertaining to supernatural things or to another life
 
23.
rapine
  n. the egg of a louse or some other insect
  n. the act of seizing and carrying off property by superior force, as in war
  adj. having or marking equality of temperature
  n. pride or haughtiness exhibited in contemptuous and overbearing treatment of others
 
24.
intolerance
  n. inability or unwillingness to bear or endure
  adj. excessively hot
  n. the act or practice of bringing from one country into another
  n. surmise
 
25.
orgies
  n. wild or wanton revelry
  n. one skilled in or occupied with financial affairs or operations
  n. a tribe
  v. to render ludicrous by imitating the language of
 
26.
preexistence
  adj. spherical
  n. wrath
  v. to move or incite to action
  n. existence antecedent to something
 
27.
bilateral
  adj. high in station, merit, or esteem
  n. angry or violent difference of opinion
  adj. toilsome
  adj. two-sided
 
28.
protomartyr
  n. the offspring of a white person and a black person
  n. the earliest victim in any cause
  n. the landed estate of a lord or nobleman
  adj. boisterously merry
 
29.
believe
  v. to accept as true on the testimony or authority of others
  v. to make shorter in words, keeping the essential features, leaning out minor particles
  n. the fall or sliding of a mass of snow or ice down a mountain-slope, often bearing with it rock
  adj. pliable
 
30.
parricide
  v. to invest with sovereign power
  n. admonition or warning
  adj. of three colors
  n. the murder of a parent
 
31.
pervasion
  v. to make more fluid or less concentrated by admixture with something
  n. the state of spreading through every part
  n. an intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner
  n. that which follows in consequence of what has previously happened
 
32.
involution
  n. one chosen or appointed, by mutual consent of parties in dispute, to decide matters
  n. complication
  v. to overtax the strength of
  adj. disposed to treat strangers or guests with generous kindness
 
33.
promulgate
  adj. belonging, relating to, or abounding in color
  v. to act in opposition to
  n. a liquid preparation for rubbing on the skin in cases of bruises, inflammation, etc
  v. to proclaim
 
34.
preponderate
  v. to mark with different shades or colors
  v. to overtax the strength of
  v. to exceed in influence or power
  n. a state of balance
 
35.
determination
  n. an image or likeness
  n. the act of deciding
  adj. not connected with what precedes
  adj. being or occurring in the mind, but without attendant consciousness or conscious perception
 
36.
labyrinth
  n. one of a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy
  adj. recurring at intervals of six months
  n. a maze
  adj. moving or advancing by steps
 
37.
indignity
  v. to undervalue
  v. to make satisfaction or amends for
  n. unmerited contemptuous conduct or treatment
  n. an impetus
 
38.
conciliatory
  n. the galaxy
  n. impetus
  adj. tending to reconcile
  v. to plunder
 
39.
monotony
  adj. lasting or continuous through life
  n. the office or dignity of a magistrate
  n. a lack of variety
  n. largeness
 
40.
semiconscious
  n. transition of the soul of a human being at death into another body, whether human or beast
  v. to live in a monotonous, passive way without exercise of the mental faculties
  n. something that branches off from the parent stock
  adj. partially conscious
 
 


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