[SAT Vocabulary Test] - based on the word list at www.freevocabulary.com

# What are the meanings of the following words?

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Q.1: capacious
a) Hypercritical.
b) Of prime or special importance.
c) Massacre.
d) Roomy.

Q.2: caret
a) To drink deeply and in boisterous or jovial manner.
b) A sign (^) placed below a line, indicating where omitted words, etc., should be inserted.
c) A fatal or serious accident or disaster.
d) The negative pole or electrode of a galvanic battery.

Q.3: caucus
a) An official examiner of manuscripts empowered to prohibit their publication.
b) A private meeting of members of a political party to select candidates.
c) Pertaining to edible grain or farinaceous seeds.
d) Keen vexation, annoyance, or mortification, as at one's failures or errors.

Q.4: check
a) Pertaining to, intended for, or performed by a chorus or choir.
b) Belonging, relating to, or abounding in color.
c) To calculate arithmetically. (also a noun meaning zero or nothing)
d) To hold back.

Q.5: coddle
a) Appealing strongly to the reason or conscience.
b) Consistency.
c) A circumstance so agreeing with another: often implying accident.
d) To treat as a baby or an invalid.

Q.6: complacence
a) Complicated.
b) Satisfaction with one's acts or surroundings.
c) To conduct or behave (oneself).
d) To press together or into smaller space.

Q.7: confluence
a) Correspondence in form, manner, or use.
b) The place where streams meet.
c) A guess.
d) The state of being joined together, or the things so joined.

Q.8: contingent
a) To twist into a misshapen form.
b) A placing opposite.
c) One who gives or furnishes, in common with others, for a common purpose.
d) Not predictable.

Q.9: countryman
a) An agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties.
b) One who steers a rowboat, or one who has charge of a ship's boat and its crew under an officer.
c) Coarse or thick in nature or structure, as opposed to thin or fine.
d) A rustic.

Q.10: declension
a) The voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause.
b) The change of endings in nouns and
c) A person against whom a suit is brought.
d) Characterized by bold or insolent opposition.

Q.11: descendant
a) Any remedy which, when applied externally, dries up or absorbs moisture, as that of wounds.
b) One who is descended lineally from another, as a child, grandchild, etc.
c) Contemptible.
d) Any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part.

Q.12: dishabille
a) To deprive of an inheritance.
b) Displacement by authority from an office or an employment.
c) Neglecting or refusing to obey.
d) Undress or negligent attire.

Q.13: dun
a) Showing submission to natural superiors.
b) The force which, applied to a mass of one gram for 1 second, would give it a velocity of 1 cm/s.
c) Edible.
d) To make a demand or repeated demands on for payment.

Q.14: enormity
a) To entrap.
b) Immensity.
c) A complete thing.
d) To fortify or protect, as with a trench or ditch and wall.

Q.15: expend
a) To cause to burst in pieces by force from within.
b) To spend.
c) Full of meaning.
d) Capable of being thrust out.

Q.16: forego
a) To judge of before hearing evidence.
b) Predestination.
c) A square sail.
d) To deny oneself the pleasure or profit of.

Q.17: gratify
a) A member of a regiment composed of men of great stature.
b) A distortion of the features, occasioned by some feeling of pain, disgust, etc.
c) Incongruously composed or ill-proportioned.
d) To please, as by satisfying a physical or mental desire or need.

Q.18: imitator
a) Very great in degree, extent, size, or quantity.
b) One who makes in imitation.
c) Separating, as oil and water.
d) Unchangeable.

Q.19: inference
a) Measureless.
b) The derivation of a judgment from any given material of knowledge on the ground of law.
c) That can not be altered or varied.
d) Uncommon.

Q.20: irradiate
a) Inapplicable.
b) That can not be successfully withstood or opposed.
c) Showing or expressing a deficiency of veneration, especially for sacred things.
d) To render clear and intelligible.


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