SAT Exam Test # SAT/M140

n. violation
(a) a servile flatterer, especially of those in authority or influence
(b) a forerunner or herald
(c) excessive or superfluous growth or quantity
(d) infringement
 
n. vignette
(a) a bidding farewell
(b) expression of blame
(c) a picture having a background or that is shaded off gradually
(d) devastation
 
n. alcove
(a) intent
(b) person who makes exploration, search or examination, especially for minerals
(c) a certain time of year (in July)
(d) a covered recess connected with or at the side of a larger room
 
v. circumscribe
(a) to confine within bounds
(b) to surrender or stipulate terms
(c) to examine formally by questioning
(d) to be full to overflowing
 
adj. unbiased
(a) biting or giving to biting
(b) impartial, as judgment
(c) unmindful; oblivious; rash
(d) that desires or craves immoderately or unappeasably

n. foreknowledge
(a) a certain profession
(b) prescience
(c) anything that unduly exhilarates or excites
(d) a cannibal; femme fatale
 
n. superabundance
(a) an excessive amount
(b) one who advocates or practices egoism
(c) murderer, as by secret assault or treachery
(d) lassitude of body or depression
 
n. service
(a) any work done for the benefit of another
(b) the pretended forecast of future events or discovery of what is lost or hidden
(c) the external appearance or manner of a person
(d) a man without principle
 
adj. bumptious
(a) full of offensive and aggressive self-conceit
(b) free, clear or released, as from some liability or restriction affecting others
(c) intermeddling with what is not one's concern
(d) binding in law or conscience
 
n. reparation
(a) a remedy or medicine proposed for or professing to cure all diseases
(b) water saturated with salt
(c) the seven- or nine-headed water-serpent slain by Hercules
(d) the act of making amends, as for an injury, loss or wrong