[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: deficient
a) Diminution, as of strength or magnitude.
b) To deem worthy of notice or account.
c) To dishearten.
d) Not having an adequate or proper supply or amount.

Q.2: degradation
a) Delight.
b) Diminution, as of strength or magnitude.
c) To overwhelm with a flood of water.
d) Insane.

Q.3: demagogue
a) Deportment.
b) To disband, as troops.
c) An unprincipled politician.
d) Like a tree.

Q.4: deport
a) To take or send away forcibly, as to a penal colony.
b) To render bad, especially morally bad.
c) A lowering in value or an underrating in worth.
d) To ridicule.

Q.5: desultory
a) Not connected with what precedes.
b) Hindering from action through fear.
c) Something that causes damage, depreciation, or loss.
d) Out of the common or regular track.

Q.6: diplomacy
a) A representative of one sovereign state at the capital or court of another.
b) To withhold permission or sanction.
c) Tact, shrewdness, or skill in conducting any kind of negotiations or in social matters.
d) One who refuses to believe.

Q.7: dispossess
a) Verbal controversy.
b) Dishonorable or disgraceful.
c) To deprive of actual occupancy, especially of real estate.
d) To sow or scatter abroad, as seed is sown.

Q.8: dolorous
a) Expressing or causing sorrow or pain.
b) Conspicuously prominent.
c) To rule with insolence or unnecessary annoyance.
d) Being in a state of or resembling sleep.

Q.9: egregious
a) Extreme.
b) The process of decomposing a chemical compound by the passage of an electric current.
c) A component or essential part.
d) The art of correct intonation, inflection, and gesture in public speaking or reading.

Q.10: enthrone
a) To yield to or display intense and rapturous feeling.
b) pl. The internal parts of an animal.
c) To invest with sovereign power.
d) Indulging, ministering, or pertaining to daintiness of appetite.

Q.11: exemplify
a) Free, clear, or released, as from some liability, or restriction affecting others.
b) Causing or tending to cause exhaustion.
c) To show by example.
d) A way or passage out.

Q.12: ferocity
a) Savageness.
b) Merry.
c) Pertaining to the relation of lord and vassal.
d) Created or formed by the imagination.

Q.13: frightful
a) Apt to induce terror or alarm.
b) To give a crinkled, fluffy appearance to.
c) The part of a nation's territory that abuts upon another country.
d) The support on or against which a lever rests, or the point about which it turns.

Q.14: guise
a) Credulous.
b) To swallow greedily or hastily; gulp.
c) The external appearance as produced by garb or costume.
d) Customary relation or association.

Q.15: illuminate
a) To make bright or clear.
b) That can be imagined or conceived in the mind.
c) To supply with light.
d) Of no essential consequence.

Q.16: indigenous
a) Native.
b) Unmerited contemptuous conduct or treatment.
c) Promiscuous.
d) Laziness.

Q.17: interrogative
a) Having the nature or form of a question.
b) To interfere for some end.
c) That part of the digestive tube below or behind the stomach, extending to the anus.
d) Bigoted.

Q.18: later
a) Directed toward the side.
b) Praiseworthy.
c) At a subsequent time.
d) Not stringent or energetic.

Q.19: manliness
a) Constant or excessive adherence to one manner, style, or peculiarity, as of action or conduct.
b) A person engaged in manufacturing as a business.
c) The qualities characteristic of a true man, as bravery, resolution, etc.
d) Submission to death or persecution for the sake of faith or principle.

Q.20: mordacious
a) Biting or giving to biting.
b) Composed of heterogeneous or inharmonious elements.
c) Full of or abounding in mountains.
d) A mule-driver.


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