[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: intervale
a) That part of the digestive tube below or behind the stomach, extending to the anus.
b) Inability or unwillingness to bear or endure.
c) To make drunk.
d) A low tract of land between hills, especially along a river.

Q.2: intoxicant
a) Fearless and bold.
b) Anything that unduly exhilarates or excites.
c) To insert.
d) To come in without leave or license.

Q.3: inundation
a) To render of no force or effect.
b) Flood.
c) Contrary in tendency or direction.
d) Habitual.

Q.4: ire
a) Wearisome.
b) Not possessed of reasoning powers or understanding.
c) That can not be broken or violated.
d) Wrath.

Q.5: jeopardize
a) A sudden irregular shake or a push causing such a shake.
b) Exultation.
c) Pertaining to the administration of justice.
d) To imperil.

Q.6: lacteal
a) Falling behind.
b) Milky.
c) A slight deviation from what is right, proper, or just.
d) At a subsequent time.

Q.7: liable
a) Wanton.
b) Justly or legally responsible.
c) The time that life continues.
d) A probability.

Q.8: lucid
a) Showing increase.
b) Mental unsoundness.
c) The moon.
d) Mentally sound.

Q.9: marvel
a) Of considerable bulk and weight.
b) To take perceptible or substantial form.
c) The killing, especially the murdering, of one's mother.
d) To be astonished and perplexed because of (something).

Q.10: miniature
a) A service.
b) Much smaller than reality or that the normal size.
c) Hatred of mankind.
d) To make a mistake in counting.

Q.11: multiform
a) A district enjoying municipal government.
b) Having many shapes, or appearances.
c) A vast indefinite number.
d) Having no fame or reputation.

Q.12: nude
a) Of or pertaining to number.
b) That which nourishes.
c) Hemp-fiber obtained by untwisting and picking out loosely the yarns of old hemp rope.
d) Naked.

Q.13: orthodoxy
a) To swing back and forth.
b) Exclusion from intercourse or favor, as in society or politics.
c) To eject.
d) Acceptance of the common faith.

Q.14: patronymic
a) Dependence on charity.
b) Formed after one's father's name.
c) Guilty.
d) The science and art of teaching

Q.15: phlegmatic
a) The science of human vocal sounds.
b) Not easily roused to feeling or action.
c) The doctrine that land and its products are the only true wealth.
d) Of small value.

Q.16: preferential
a) Adapted for grasping or holding.
b) One of a higher order of clergy having direct authority over other clergy.
c) First in rank or position.
d) Possessing, giving, or constituting preference or priority.

Q.17: puerile
a) Strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom.
b) Pertaining to punishment.
c) To cause to whirl, as in an eddy.
d) Childish.

Q.18: rejuvenate
a) To yield.
b) To restore to youth.
c) Unwillingness.
d) Negligent.

Q.19: satiric
a) To perceive by taste or smell.
b) Resembling poetry, in which vice, incapacity ,or corruption is held up to ridicule.
c) A range of action or view.
d) Pertaining to, contained in, or warranted by the Holy Scriptures.

Q.20: staid
a) The art of conducting state affairs.
b) One who is skilled in collecting and tabulating numerical facts.
c) The natural height of an animal body.
d) Of a steady and sober character.


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