[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: affront
a) On fire, literally or figuratively.
b) An open insult or indignity.
c) To make heavier, worse, or more burdensome.
d) To give grief or sorrow to.

Q.2: aggregate
a) To make the first attack.
b) Able to move or act quickly, physically, or mentally.
c) An officer who receives and transmits the orders of the general.
d) The entire number, sum, mass, or quantity of something.

Q.3: alcove
a) Any shrub or small tree of the genus Alumnus, of the oak family.
b) One who owes allegiance to a foreign government.
c) Estrangement.
d) A covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room.

Q.4: alternative
a) Vertical distance or elevation above any point or base-level, as the sea.
b) Something that may or must exist, be taken or chosen, or done instead of something else.
c) Designed to excite love.
d) A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded.

Q.5: anatomy
a) One's ancestors collectively.
b) That branch of morphology which treats of the structure of organisms.
c) Saintly.
d) The utterance of criticism or censure.

Q.6: antilogy
a) To show or feel a feeling of antagonism, aversion, or dislike.
b) One who collects and examines old things, as coins, books, medals, weapons, etc.
c) Anything that destroys or restrains the growth of putrefactive micro-organisms.
d) Inconsistency or contradiction in terms or ideas.

Q.7: archetype
a) Any large body of water studded with islands, or the islands collectively themselves.
b) A hereditary nobility
c) As much as can be held in the arm or arms.
d) A prototype.

Q.8: augment
a) To predict.
b) To make bigger.
c) A luminous phenomenon in the upper regions of the atmosphere.
d) The state or quality of being genuine, or of the origin and authorship claimed.

Q.9: belle
a) Warlike.
b) A woman who is a center of attraction because of her beauty, accomplishments, etc.
c) Helpful.
d) Good and kind of heart.

Q.10: braze
a) An open pan or basin for holding live coals.
b) pl. Members of a brotherhood, gild, profession, association, or the like.
c) The head-harness of a horse consisting of a head-stall, a bit, and the reins.
d) To make of or ornament with brass.

Q.11: carrion
a) An elastic animal tissue of firm consistence.
b) Accidental, by chance.
c) Any overwhelming flood of water.
d) Dead and putrefying flesh.

Q.12: colloquy
a) A secret agreement for a wrongful purpose.
b) Conversation.
c) To blend.
d) Something that is bought and sold.

Q.13: consignor
a) A state of permanence.
b) One who entrusts.
c) One who agrees with others to cooperate in accomplishing some unlawful purpose.
d) The inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body.

Q.14: creamy
a) Belief.
b) A place for cremating dead bodies.
c) A standard by which to determine the correctness of a judgment or conclusion.
d) Resembling or containing cream.

Q.15: denomination
a) Part of a fraction which expresses the number of equal parts into which the unit is divided.
b) Any preparation used for cleaning the teeth.
c) To reduce or lessen, as by use, exhaustion, or waste.
d) A body of Christians united by a common faith and form of worship and discipline.

Q.16: disinterested
a) To put out of proper place or order.
b) Neglecting or refusing to obey.
c) Impartial.
d) Verbal controversy.

Q.17: egoist
a) One given to self-mention or who is constantly telling of his own views and experiences.
b) To quietly terminate: said of time.
c) One who advocates or practices egoism.
d) To separate and cast aside.

Q.18: exceed
a) To go beyond, as in measure, quality, value, action, power, skill, etc.
b) That which passes the ordinary, proper, or required limit, measure, or experience.
c) An abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling.
d) To inflict severe pain or agony upon.

Q.19: flue
a) A smoke-duct in a chimney.
b) To palm off.
c) The traditions, beliefs, and customs of the common people.
d) Characteristic of one who is unduly devoted to dress and the niceties of manners.

Q.20: grief
a) Creating affliction.
b) Incongruously composed or ill-proportioned.
c) Sorrow.
d) Credulous.