SAT Sample Test # SAT/M55

v. misrule
(a) to take, demand or claim, especially presumptuously or without reasons or grounds
(b) to manage badly; to govern in an evil manner
(c) to protect
(d) to converse in
 
v. interrogate
(a) to select or appoint, as by authority
(b) to remove by cutting, as a limb or some portion of the body
(c) to deprive of peace or tranquillity
(d) to examine formally by questioning
 
v. maltreat
(a) to place in position of office again
(b) to behave cruelly or unkindly toward a person or animal
(c) to precede
(d) to prove indubitably
 
v. exorcise
(a) to happen first
(b) to foreordain
(c) to cast or drive out by religious or magical means
(d) to utter with a loud and vehement voice
 
v. infuse
(a) to cause to cease temporarily
(b) to twist into a misshapen form
(c) to instill, introduce or inculcate, as principles or qualities
(d) to bring from a state of angry or hostile feeling to one of patience or friendliness

v. introspect
(a) to pass criticism or censure
(b) to serve as a characteristic example of
(c) to look into
(d) to use, control or manage, as a weapon or instrument, especially with full command
 
v. seclude
(a) to become dull or inert
(b) to fail to fulfill the expectation, hope, wish or desire of
(c) to place, keep or withdraw from the companionship of others
(d) to regard with inordinate love or admiration
 
v. adulterate
(a) to consider thoughtfully
(b) to refresh after labor
(c) to make impure by the admixture of other or baser ingredients
(d) to give pictorial vividness to a mental representation
 
v. dissuade
(a) to become detached
(b) to separate
(c) to translate freely
(d) to change the purpose or alter the plans of by persuasion, counsel or pleading
 
v. imply
(a) to return to a previous condition or position
(b) to empower
(c) to kill, as by surprise or secret assault, especially the killing of some eminent person
(d) to signify