[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: ambulate
a) The act or state of lying concealed for the purpose of surprising or attacking the enemy.
b) To walk about
c) Without determinate shape.
d) An edifice of elliptical shape, constructed about a central open space or arena.

Q.2: ampere
a) The character &; and.
b) Sufficiently.
c) Anything occurring or existing out of its proper time.
d) The practical unit of electric-current strength.

Q.3: anemic
a) An instrument for measuring the force or velocity of wind.
b) The entire English race wherever found, as in Europe, the United States, or India.
c) Withered.
d) Affected with anemia.

Q.4: antedate
a) Of or pertaining to the times, things, events before the great flood in the days of Noah.
b) To assign or affix a date to earlier than the actual one.
c) Hard coal.
d) A gradual or sudden decrease in the importance or impressiveness of what is said.

Q.5: apostle
a) One who keeps drugs for sale and puts up prescriptions.
b) Any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority.
c) The name or title by which a particular person, class, or thing is called.
d) To estimate the money value of.

Q.6: arrant
a) Something overdue and unpaid.
b) A very deep bored well. water rises due to underground pressure
c) Trickery.
d) Notoriously bad.

Q.7: aural
a) One of the two chambers of the heart which receives the blood from the veins.
b) favoring, protecting, or propitious influence or guidance.
c) Of undisputed origin.
d) Of or pertaining to the ear.

Q.8: begrudge
a) To delay past the proper hour.
b) To envy one of the possession of.
c) Manifesting a warlike spirit.
d) Characterized by charity and kindness.

Q.9: bore
a) An incorporated village or town.
b) To weary by tediousness or dullness.
c) In cricket, the player who delivers the ball.
d) An aggressive display of boldness.

Q.10: Canaanite
a) Of a bright but delicate yellow.
b) Any rule or law.
c) One of the divisions of an extended poem.
d) A member of one of the three tribes that dwelt in the land of Canaan, or western Palestine.

Q.11: clearance
a) Mercy.
b) Awkward of movement.
c) The act or process of coming together so as to form one body, combination, or product.
d) A certificate from the proper authorities that a vessel has complied with the law and may sail.

Q.12: confer
a) A person with whom another confers.
b) To bestow.
c) To appropriate (private property) as forfeited to the public use or treasury.
d) The act or state or conforming.

Q.13: copious
a) A flirt.
b) Plenteous.
c) Belonging to a corporation.
d) A minute particle of matter.

Q.14: declension
a) To embellish.
b) The voluntary consecration or relinquishment of something to an end or cause.
c) To cut off or take away, as a part of something.
d) The change of endings in nouns and

Q.15: dialect
a) A logician.
b) A bitter or malicious criticism.
c) Dissimilarity in any respect.
d) Forms of speech collectively that are peculiar to the people of a particular district.

Q.16: docile
a) The registry of judgments of a court.
b) Easy to manage.
c) Lamentation.
d) Ascendancy.

Q.17: engrave
a) To occupy completely.
b) To cut or carve in or upon some surface.
c) Hatred.
d) To delight extravagantly or intensely.

Q.18: extensor
a) To diminish the gravity or importance of.
b) To render extinct.
c) The practice of obtaining by violence or compulsion.
d) A muscle that causes extension.

Q.19: frigid
a) A room kept at a low temperature for preserving fruits, meat, etc.
b) To cause to crinkle or curl, as the hair.
c) Slovenly in appearance.
d) Lacking warmth.

Q.20: hexapod
a) A break or vacancy where something necessary to supply the connection is wanting.
b) Having six feet.
c) Farthest from the front.
d) Reverential regard or worship.