[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: abdominal
a) An abiding.
b) A washing or cleansing, especially of the body.
c) Very hateful.
d) Of, pertaining to, or situated on the abdomen.

Q.2: abjure
a) Primitive; unsophisticated.
b) To recant, renounce, repudiate under oath.
c) To abolish, repeal.
d) The fact of not being present or available.

Q.3: absence
a) Self denial.
b) The fact of not being present or available.
c) Of or pertaining to an academy, college, or university.
d) To take when offered.

Q.4: accomplice
a) Exactness.
b) Of, pertaining to, or involving an accusation.
c) Sourness, with bitterness and astringency.
d) An associate in wrong-doing.

Q.5: actuality
a) To bring forward or name for consideration.
b) The state of being attached or joined.
c) That which is near or bordering upon.
d) Any reality.

Q.6: affluence
a) To cause to appear greatly.
b) A profuse or abundant supply of riches.
c) Struck with terror and amazement.
d) Slight sickness.

Q.7: alternate
a) Practicing an art or occupation for the love of it, but not as a profession.
b) One chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other.
c) To walk about
d) Done in a friendly spirit.

Q.8: Antarctic
a) Pertaining to time before the world's creation.
b) A collection of extracts from the writings of various authors.
c) Having or resembling human form.
d) Pertaining to the south pole or the regions near it.

Q.9: archdeacon
a) A fleet of war-vessels.
b) To call into court, as a person indicted for crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not.
c) Notoriously bad.
d) A high official administrator of the affairs of a diocese.

Q.10: autonomy
a) A mental condition of fixed opposition to or dislike of some particular thing.
b) Self-government.
c) Out of the proper form, direction, or position.
d) A microbe.

Q.11: bier
a) The science of life or living organisms.
b) A horizontal framework with two handles at each end for carrying a corpse to the grave.
c) A vivid glowing flame.
d) Cheerful.

Q.12: caitiff
a) Slander.
b) A leaden sash-bar or grooved strip for fastening panes in stained-glass windows.
c) A member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the land of Canaan, or western Palestine.
d) Cowardly.

Q.13: clumsy
a) Forcible constraint or restraint, moral or physical.
b) Taking notice.
c) Having the property of consistency.
d) Awkward of movement.

Q.14: conjugate
a) Descended from the same parent or ancestor.
b) Joined together in pairs.
c) A collective unanimous opinion of a number of persons.
d) A person to whom goods or other property has been entrusted.

Q.15: covenant
a) A vehement desire.
b) An agreement entered into by two or more persons or parties.
c) A formal summary of fundamental points of religious belief.
d) A criticism or critical review.

Q.16: denominate
a) The act of declaring an action or person worthy of reprobation or punishment.
b) Laying down.
c) Demeanor.
d) To give a name or epithet to.

Q.17: disparity
a) To take no notice of.
b) To burst or break asunder.
c) The act or operation of cutting in pieces, specifically of a plant or an animal.
d) Inequality.

Q.18: elude
a) To make beautiful or elegant by adding attractive or ornamental features.
b) To evade the search or pursuit of by dexterity or artifice.
c) To involve in dissension or strife.
d) One who moves from one place to settle in another.

Q.19: exhaustion
a) A going forth or departure from a place or country, especially of many people.
b) Deprivation of strength or energy.
c) A continuous area or stretch.
d) To cough up and spit forth.

Q.20: foresight
a) Difficult to accomplish.
b) Into notice or view.
c) Patient courage.
d) Provision against harm or need.