SAT Vocabulary Test (20 Questions)

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1.
n. Hindrance.
  allotment
  obstruction
  anticyclone
  multiform
 
2.
v. To deliver an elaborate or formal public speech.
  orate
  magician
  access
  guzzle
 
3.
v. To send off or consign, as to an obscure position or remote destination.
  relegate
  efficient
  endurable
  monolith
 
4.
n. Profound lethargy.
  latency
  stupor
  alder
  Calvinize
 
5.
n. Predestination.
  foreordination
  exemplar
  dissonance
  referrer
 
6.
n. Perplexity.
  salutary
  paraphernalia
  intricacy
  parsimonious
 
7.
n. The science of man in general.
  generosity
  obtrude
  anthropology
  octavo
 
8.
n. One who owns, enjoys, or controls anything, as property.
  possessor
  immutable
  kiln
  lyric
 
9.
adj. Pertaining to the face.
  abdicate
  decorous
  inexplicable
  facial
 
10.
n. A length of 1,000 meters.
  expatriate
  contender
  kilometer
  Epicurean
 
11.
n. A doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe.
  Briticism
  cosmogony
  Britannia
  instill
 
12.
n. The exertion of opposite effort or effect.
  collusion
  resistance
  repine
  contemporaneous
 
13.
n. A wharf or artificial landing-place on the shore of a harbor or projecting into it.
  insatiable
  fez
  quay
  intolerable
 
14.
adj. Of, pertaining to, or like the air.
  legionary
  aerial
  debonair
  tentative
 
15.
adj. Corresponding (to some other) in certain respects, as in form, proportion, relations.
  analogous
  suppression
  phonology
  cholera
 
16.
n. One who sells fish.
  fishmonger
  famish
  pectoral
  blemish
 
17.
adj. Able to reinforce sound by sympathetic vibrations.
  resonance
  clandestine
  diffusion
  quietus
 
18.
v. To make a beginning in some occupation or scheme.
  muster
  embark
  ocular
  apprehensible
 
19.
n. An expression of disapproval or blame personally addressed to one censured.
  pitiful
  reproof
  mutation
  raillery
 
20.
n. Apex.
  vertex
  miscount
  dearth
  menace