SAT Vocabulary Test (40 Questions)

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1.
 v. to sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom
  ravenous
  afterthought
  scuttle
  preternatural
 
2.
 n. the science of life or living organisms
  journalize
  enthuse
  ceremonious
  biology
 
3.
 v. to turn inside out, upside down, or in opposite direction
  decapitate
  finality
  panel
  invert
 
4.
 v. to rouse to a particular action
  bedlam
  incite
  armada
  benefit
 
5.
 v. to break a law
  epitaph
  collective
  transgress
  whereupon
 
6.
 v. to cut apart or to pieces
  plenteous
  dissect
  ineligible
  centurion
 
7.
 adj. living or existing at the same time
  utmost
  contemporary
  reparable
  apposite
 
8.
 n. that which causes gradual decay by crumbling or surface disintegration
  contravene
  disservice
  witticism
  corrosive
 
9.
 adj. designed to excite love
  secretary
  entangle
  botany
  amatory
 
10.
 n. virtue
  forgo
  defalcate
  morality
  octavo
 
11.
 adj. raving
  alto
  mane
  duplicity
  delirious
 
12.
 n. the science of the nervous system
  left-handed
  neurology
  literature
  dehydrate
 
13.
 n. the act or sensation of hearing
  audition
  suggestible
  dissension
  orate
 
14.
 adj. answering yes; to a question at issue
  exasperate
  affirmative
  cosmopolitanism
  chastity
 
15.
 n. a seller
  aforesaid
  domineer
  perturb
  vendor
 
16.
 v. to chew over again, as food previously swallowed and regurgitated
  recapitulate
  cryptogram
  ruminate
  cull
 
17.
 n. contemptuous disregard of the requirements of rightful authority
  extant
  hemorrhage
  contumacy
  malady
 
18.
 adj. contemptible
  truthful
  despicable
  irritable
  fastidious
 
19.
 v. to drive away by or as by scattering in different directions
  dispel
  afire
  clan
  squalid
 
20.
 adj. anticipating and making ready for future wants or emergencies
  provident
  wretchedness
  frightful
  refinery
 
21.
 v. to prolong
  despond
  reprieve
  indulgent
  protract
 
22.
 v. to increase in range or scope
  frizzle
  expand
  ampere
  abhorrent
 
23.
 n. double-dealing
  liquidate
  overshadow
  scarcity
  duplicity
 
24.
 n. alert and intent mental watchfulness in guarding against danger
  decagon
  polyhedron
  proficiency
  vigilance
 
25.
 adj. somewhat rough or rude in manner or speech
  repel
  brusque
  polyarchy
  neopaganism
 
26.
 n. a related group of words containing a subject and a predicate and expressing a complete thought
  symmetrical
  dissolute
  invective
  sentence
 
27.
 v. to manage or carry through by some device or scheme
  peerless
  personality
  contrive
  mountainous
 
28.
 v. to pay back as an equivalent of what has been expended
  theocrasy
  glorious
  predecessor
  reimburse
 
29.
 n. dispersion
  diffusion
  assonance
  brazier
  nominal
 
30.
 adj. not having the abilities desired or necessary for any purpose
  incompetent
  impoverish
  coxswain
  devious
 
31.
 adv. from side to side
  impracticable
  penetrable
  athwart
  absent-minded
 
32.
 adj. abundant
  habitude
  rife
  pediatrics
  quiescence
 
33.
 n. treatment
  usage
  somnolent
  alderman
  retention
 
34.
 n. the climax
  symphonic
  infirmity
  geniality
  apogee
 
35.
 n. a party to a lawsuit
  material
  litigant
  rondo
  objective
 
36.
 v. to dignify
  demagnetize
  ridicule
  palinode
  ennoble
 
37.
 n. a substance which neutralizes the poisonous products of micro-organisms
  revise
  conspirator
  antitoxin
  sensual
 
38.
 adj. matchless
  mileage
  encumber
  incomparable
  diffidence
 
39.
 n. friendly counsel given by way of warning and implying caution or reproof
  credence
  monition
  colloquy
  abyss
 
40.
 n. proclamation
  exhume
  annunciation
  superintendent
  hypocrite