SAT Vocabulary Test (20 Questions)

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1.
 conjugation
  n. A small cavern.
  n. The egg of a louse or some other insect.
  n. The state or condition of being joined together.
  adj. Affected with a whirling or swimming sensation in the head.
 
2.
 recover
  v. To regain.
  v. To unite.
  n. A disturbance or violent agitation.
  adj. Harsh.
 
3.
 pique
  adj. Created or formed by the imagination.
  v. To assail with arguments, insinuations, or accusations.
  n. Sudden invasion.
  v. To excite a slight degree of anger in.
 
4.
 sapid
  adj. That desires or craves immoderately or unappeasably.
  adj. Affecting the sense of taste.
  n. General officer who commands a brigade, ranking between a colonel and a major-general.
  v. To withdraw from union or association, especially from a political or religious body.
 
5.
 granulate
  n. A name wrongly or mistakenly applied.
  adj. Characteristic of dwelling in the country.
  v. To form into grains or small particles.
  adj. Characteristic of an erudite person.
 
6.
 voracious
  n. A prophet.
  n. A coming between.
  n. Holiness.
  adj. Eating with greediness or in very large quantities.
 
7.
 specialize
  v. To assume an individual or specific character, or adopt a singular or special course.
  v. To overwhelm with a flood of water.
  v. To protect.
  v. To drive out or away.
 
8.
 excretion
  adj. Capable of being thrust out.
  n. A sorcerer.
  adj. Measureless.
  n. The getting rid of waste matter.
 
9.
 plutocracy
  n. Fitness to meet the requirements of a particular case.
  n. A wealthy class in a political community who control the government by means of their money.
  adj. At variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion.
  n. The power to produce an intended effect as shown in the production of it.
 
10.
 wantonness
  n. The feudal system.
  adj. Farthest from the front.
  n. An artificial trance-sleep.
  n. Recklessness.
 
11.
 prurient
  n. Sudden invasion.
  adj. Inclined to lascivious thoughts and desires.
  n. The sharp striking of one body against another.
  v. To draw into entanglement, literally or figuratively.
 
12.
 illuminate
  v. To supply with light.
  adj. Different.
  v. To keep oneself back (from doing or using something).
  v. To last longer than.
 
13.
 awry
  ad. Out of the proper form, direction, or position.
  n. A labyrinth.
  adj. Impartial.
  n. Rational self-esteem.
 
14.
 counter-claim
  n. A cross-demand alleged by a defendant in his favor against the plaintiff.
  n. That which nourishes.
  v. To study plant-life.
  v. To reveal in trust or confidence.
 
15.
 peter
  v. To fail or lose power, efficiency, or value.
  adj. Ingenuous.
  adj. That may be allowed.
  adv. Without intention.
 
16.
 ambulance
  n. A vehicle fitted for conveying the sick and wounded.
  v. To abandon without regard to the welfare of the abandoned
  n. Any unsound or delusive mode of reasoning, or anything based on such reasoning.
  v. To make stale or trite by repetition.
 
17.
 inundation
  adj. Characterized by intelligence.
  n. A doctrine of creation or of the origin of the universe.
  n. Inadequacy.
  n. Flood.
 
18.
 imminence
  adj. Unreasonable.
  n. Miscellaneous articles of equipment or adornment.
  v. To behave ill.
  n. Impending evil or danger.
 
19.
 lough
  n. The body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation.
  n. A lake or loch.
  n. The formation of opinions by relying upon reason alone, independently of authority.
  adj. Yielding to the desires or humor of oneself or those under one's care.
 
20.
 discolor
  v. To give a wrong impression.
  v. To stain.
  adj. Formed after one's father's name.
  n. A representative of one sovereign state at the capital or court of another.