[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: complacence
a) Pleased or satisfied with oneself.
b) Complicated.
c) An intermingling or combination of things or parts, especially in a perplexing manner.
d) Satisfaction with one's acts or surroundings.

Q.2: compliment
a) A constituent element or part.
b) To address or gratify with expressions of delicate praise.
c) Capable of being pressed into smaller compass.
d) Remorseful feeling.

Q.3: conciliate
a) Tending to reconcile.
b) To obtain the friendship of.
c) A violent shock to some organ by a fall or a sudden blow.
d) To bring about.

Q.4: confluence
a) A stream that unites with another.
b) Correspondence in form, manner, or use.
c) Having kindred character or tastes.
d) The place where streams meet.

Q.5: consonance
a) Being in agreement or harmony with.
b) To plot.
c) Panic.
d) The state or quality of being in accord with.

Q.6: contuse
a) A bruise.
b) To bruise by a blow, either with or without the breaking of the skin.
c) Tending to one point.
d) That by which anything is transported.

Q.7: countryman
a) Brave.
b) A rustic.
c) To crouch down tremblingly, as through fear or shame.
d) A vehement desire.

Q.8: decalogue
a) A volume consisting of ten parts or books.
b) Ten-footed or ten-armed.
c) Fraudulent.
d) The ten commandments.

Q.9: demulcent
a) the detention of a vessel beyond the specified time of sailing.
b) To give a name or epithet to.
c) To designate by word or mark.
d) Any application soothing to an irritable surface

Q.10: differential
a) To acquire a distinct and separate character.
b) Distinctive.
c) To turn aside from the main subject and for a time dwell on some incidental matter.
d) A superficial amateur.

Q.11: dissimilar
a) To disperse or disappear.
b) Different.
c) To change the purpose or alter the plans of by persuasion, counsel, or pleading.
d) Expansion.

Q.12: effeminate
a) To bubble up.
b) The power to produce an intended effect as shown in the production of it.
c) The state of being flowery, or a flowery appearance.
d) Having womanish traits or qualities.

Q.13: epic
a) One who cultivates a delicate taste for eating and drinking.
b) Wide-spread occurrence of a disease in a certain region.
c) The close of a narrative or dramatic poem.
d) A poem celebrating in formal verse the mythical achievements of great personages, heroes, etc.

Q.14: expostulate
a) An open situation or position in relation to the sun, elements, or points of the compass.
b) To discuss.
c) A reaching or stretching out, as in space, time or scope.
d) Anything relating or belonging to the outside.

Q.15: forego
a) That part of a landscape or picture situated or represented as nearest the spectator.
b) To deny oneself the pleasure or profit of.
c) To predetermine.
d) To discern beforehand.

Q.16: grandeur
a) The quality of being grand or admirably great.
b) To form into grains or small particles.
c) Satisfaction.
d) Not habitually solitary or living alone.

Q.17: illegal
a) Not according to law.
b) Having little or no book-learning.
c) To supply with light.
d) That can be imagined or conceived in the mind.

Q.18: indivertible
a) Laziness.
b) The yielding to inclination, passion, desire, or propensity in oneself or another.
c) That can not be turned aside.
d) Not fit or suitable.

Q.19: intrusion
a) To fill with an overflowing abundance.
b) One who is disabled by illness or injury.
c) The act of entering without warrant or invitation; encroachment.
d) Contrary in tendency or direction.

Q.20: lien
a) A legal claim or hold on property, as security for a debt or charge.
b) Anything that constricts, or serves for binding or tying.
c) A probability.
d) A vessel belonging to a steamship-line.