SAT Words # SAT/M52

n. liking
(a) detective
(b) a trying and purifying test or agency
(c) the body of persons who attend a person of importance in travel or public appearance
(d) fondness
 
n. pantoscope
(a) the condition of not flowing or not changing
(b) a person to whom a donation is made
(c) a very wide-angled photographic lens
(d) harangue
 
n. egotism
(a) a change
(b) a liquid preparation for rubbing on the skin in cases of bruises, inflammation, etc
(c) self-conceit
(d) person who manages large amounts of money (privately or corporately)
 
v. invert
(a) to make desolate with loneliness and grief
(b) to turn inside out, upside down or in opposite direction
(c) to fill again, as something that has been emptied
(d) to swear falsely to
 
n. mystification
(a) the act of artfully perplexing
(b) a tirade
(c) cutting and reproachful language
(d) a chief city, either the capital or the largest or most important city of a state

n. confederacy
(a) that part of anything that is in excess of what is needed
(b) a number of states or persons in compact or league with each other, as for mutual aid
(c) the unnecessary and indiscriminate killing of human beings
(d) a theory of civil polity that aims to secure the reconstruction of society
 
v. stimulate
(a) to excite a slight degree of anger in
(b) to hurry
(c) to convert into bone
(d) to rouse to activity or to quickened action
 
n. parallelism
(a) a favorable or prosperous course or termination of anything attempted
(b) essential likeness
(c) the consequences that follow the transgression of natural or divine law
(d) the egg of a louse or some other insect
 
v. dispel
(a) to make positive assertions without supporting them by argument or evidence
(b) to drive away by or as by scattering in different directions
(c) to name one by one
(d) to produce
 
v. exceed
(a) to waver
(b) to make of or ornament with brass
(c) to deliver the amount or value of
(d) to go beyond; to pass; to surpass; to outdo