SAT WORDS TEST 17



1.
intellect
  n. the faculty of perception or thought
  n. a person who has charge of mortars, bombs, and shells
  adj. contentious
  v. to dress
 
2.
stimulus
  n. intensity of passion or affection
  n. a tirade
  n. incentive
  adj. having or exercising the power of resistance
 
3.
extinct
  n. knowledge through the senses of the existence and properties of matter or the external world
  v. to act upon
  n. that which makes a thing to be what it is
  adj. being no longer in existence
 
4.
ligature
  n. anything that constricts, or serves for binding or tying
  adj. pertaining to marriage or matrimony
  adj. a temporary discontinuance
  n. the act of violating or profaning anything sacred
 
5.
reassure
  n. a young deer
  v. to give new confidence
  n. temporary diminution of a disease
  n. warmth and kindliness of disposition
 
6.
chiffon
  n. one who makes a claim or demand, as of right
  n. government by a supreme deity
  adj. not general or public
  n. a very thin gauze used for trimmings, evening dress, etc
 
7.
travesty
  n. a grotesque imitation
  prep. in spite of
  n. a title of honor or respectful address, equivalent to sir
  adj. harmonious
 
8.
evangelist
  n. a figure having seven sides and seven angles
  n. a preacher who goes from place to place holding services
  n. a connection with a particular nation
  adj. obese
 
9.
epithet
  v. to avoid by artifice
  v. to determine the amount of (a tax or other sum to be paid)
  n. a collection of tabular masses of floating polar ice
  n. word used adjectivally to describe some quality or attribute of is objects, as in "Father Aeneas"
 
10.
accusatory
  n. shortness of duration
  adj. of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation
  n. the coming or arrival, as of any important change, event, state, or personage
  n. the body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation
 
11.
loathe
  v. to free from deception, as by apprising of the real state of affairs
  v. to abominate
  adj. fashionable
  n. a range of action or view
 
12.
regality
  n. government administered by new or untried persons
  n. that part of the upper deck of a ship forward of the after fore-shrouds
  n. a simplified representation
  n. royalty
 
13.
monologue
  n. a place where some crude material, as sugar or petroleum, is purified
  adv. piecemeal
  n. a story or drama told or performed by one person
  adj. censurable
 
14.
mastery
  v. to fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish, or desire of
  n. the attainment of superior skill
  v. to refer incidentally, or by suggestion
  n. predestination
 
15.
logician
  n. an expert reasoner
  n. the entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something
  v. to interfere for some end
  v. to cause to loathe
 
16.
distill
  adj. a syllable or member of a series that is last but one
  v. to extract or produce by vaporization and condensation
  n. the rules and principles of poetry
  v. to hate violently
 
17.
malleable
  adj. religious
  adj. open to ridicule
  adj. pliant
  n. folly
 
18.
pique
  n. the color of the sky
  n. a flock of quails or partridges
  v. to excite a slight degree of anger in
  n. a message in writing
 
19.
tranquility
  n. paralysis
  n. calmness
  v. to feed to fullness or to satiety
  n. a sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted
 
20.
atrocity
  n. expansion
  v. to recover
  v. to praise in the highest terms
  n. great cruelty or reckless wickedness
 
21.
negligible
  adj. stiffly proper
  n. the head man
  n. a figure with ten sides and ten angles
  adj. transferable by assignment, endorsement, or delivery
 
22.
hypocrisy
  adj. able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations
  n. extreme insincerity
  v. to lay waste by pillage, rapine, devouring, or other destructive methods
  adj. savage
 
23.
accustom
  v. to turn inside out, upside down, or in opposite direction
  adj. devoted to feasting, or to good-fellowship in eating or drinking
  n. something that is bought and sold
  v. to make familiar by use
 
24.
alias
  v. to eradicate
  adv. in twofold degree or extent
  adj. exact
  n. an assumed name
 
25.
bawl
  v. to reject, as a teaching or a practice, with condemnation or denunciation
  v. to proclaim by outcry
  adj. making statements without argument or evidence
  v. to contaminate
 
26.
denunciation
  n. the act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment
  v. to deprive of something dishonestly
  adj. incapable of being forced, constrained, or compelled
  n. an umpire
 
27.
ascendant
  n. one of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins
  adj. making an ostentatious display or hypocritical pretense of holiness or piety
  adj. low in character or purpose
  adj. dominant
 
28.
misdemeanor
  n. a volume consisting of ten parts or books
  n. a journey
  adj. first in rank or position
  n. evil conduct, small crime
 
29.
opportunist
  n. one who takes advantage of circumstances to gain his ends
  n. politeness originating in kindness and exercised habitually
  n. a list of the words of an author, or the literature bearing on a particular subject
  n. active humanitarianism
 
30.
amalgam
  n. an alloy or union of mercury with another metal
  adj. surpassing
  adj. that may be estimated by reckoning
  adj. tending to produce sleep
 
31.
metaphysical
  adj. philosophical
  adj. relating to measurement
  n. a very deep bored well. water rises due to underground pressure
  n. diversion from the true meaning or proper purpose
 
32.
whimsical
  n. one who incites to evil
  adj. benevolent in feeling, character, or aspect
  adj. capricious
  v. to act in opposition to
 
33.
furtive
  n. the whole range or sequence
  adj. unduly changeable in feeling, judgment, or purpose
  adj. stealthy or sly, like the actions of a thief
  adj. manifesting a warlike spirit
 
34.
amour
  n. a love-affair, especially one of an illicit nature
  n. violation of allegiance, confidence, or plighted faith
  v. to interweave
  v. to accept as true on the testimony or authority of others
 
35.
vinery
  v. to deaden the sound of, as by wraps
  n. that which is given without demand or claim. Tip
  adj. greedy
  n. a greenhouse for grapes
 
36.
foppery
  n. brilliant or sparkling luster
  n. a high point of land extending outward from the coastline into the sea
  n. dandyism
  n. expression of sympathy with a person in pain, sorrow, or misfortune
 
37.
amicable
  adj. in a state of preparedness for any given purpose or occasion
  adj. inexpedient
  v. to involve in dissension or strife
  adj. done in a friendly spirit
 
38.
veracity
  n. the act or ridding or delivering from something undesirable
  n. truthfulness
  v. to empty by draining off the contents
  adv. according to the usual order of things
 
39.
archipelago
  n. any large body of water studded with islands, or the islands collectively themselves
  n. one of a party in Great Britain in favor of spirited and demonstrative foreign policy
  n. one who or that which propels
  n. possession or continuance of being
 
40.
orate
  v. to conduct or behave (oneself)
  n. an earnest wish for that which is above one's present reach
  v. to make the first attack
  v. to deliver an elaborate or formal public speech
 
 


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