[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: antiseptic
a) A word directly opposed to another in meaning.
b) Anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms.
c) The climax.
d) One who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions.

Q.2: aphorism
a) False.
b) To fill with dismay or horror.
c) To soothe by quieting anger or indignation.
d) Proverb.

Q.3: appreciable
a) A water-conduit, particularly one for supplying a community from a distance.
b) To act or give judgment as umpire.
c) Having the nature of a tree.
d) Capable of being discerned by the senses or intellect.

Q.4: armful
a) The act of putting in proper order, or the state of being put in order.
b) As much as can be held in the arm or arms.
c) Characterized by craft or cunning.
d) The act of rising.

Q.5: assonance
a) Keen in discernment.
b) Resemblance or correspondence in sound.
c) Outrageously or wantonly wicked, criminal, vile, or cruel.
d) Reddish-brown, said usually of the hair.

Q.6: avert
a) To arouse, as emotion, interest, or the like.
b) The color of the sky.
c) To pester.
d) To turn away or aside.

Q.7: beneficial
a) Good and kind of heart.
b) To give by will.
c) To implore.
d) Helpful.

Q.8: botanize
a) To place the products or merchandise of under a ban.
b) To study plant-life.
c) To make of or ornament with brass.
d) pl. Members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association, or the like.

Q.9: Calvary
a) A complete series of connected military operations.
b) The place where Christ was crucified.
c) To talk in a singsong, preaching tone with affected solemnity.
d) A minute vessel having walls composed of a single layer of cells.

Q.10: circumference
a) Any strong fortress.
b) Urgent in complaint or demand.
c) Clanking or a ringing, as of arms, chains, or bells; clamor.
d) The boundary-line of a circle.

Q.11: compute
a) Anything granted or yielded, or admitted in response to a demand, petition, or claim.
b) Harmony.
c) Agreement.
d) To ascertain by mathematical calculation.

Q.12: continuous
a) A placing opposite.
b) Connected, extended, or prolonged without separation or interruption of sequence.
c) To exercise a directing, restraining, or governing influence over.
d) A bruise.

Q.13: cursory
a) A young swan.
b) Rapid and superficial.
c) A base coward.
d) Scarcity, as of something customary, essential ,or desirable.

Q.14: deprave
a) A falling of the spirits.
b) Open to ridicule.
c) Coming or acquired from some origin.
d) To render bad, especially morally bad.

Q.15: disparage
a) To deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate.
b) To take no notice of.
c) To unclothe.
d) To regard or speak of slightingly.

Q.16: effusion
a) Extreme.
b) an outpouring.
c) A lyric poem lamenting the dead.
d) Relating to Elizabeth, queen of England, or to her era.

Q.17: eventual
a) To call or summon forth.
b) Ultimate.
c) To go beyond, as in measure, quality, value, action, power, skill, etc.
d) An extract or selection from written or printed matter.

Q.18: finite
a) One who or that which is expected to remain permanently in its position.
b) Accumulation of gas in the stomach and bowels.
c) Pliable.
d) Limited.

Q.19: glimpse
a) Given to excess in eating.
b) Flimsy.
c) Ungracious.
d) A momentary look.

Q.20: imaginable
a) That which is made as a likeness or copy.
b) That can be imagined or conceived in the mind.
c) To plunge or dip entirely under water or other fluid.
d) Dangerous and close at hand.