SAT Verbal Test # SAT/M186

n. aspirant
(a) number that is deducted from an amount
(b) distribution and administration of justice by trial and judgment
(c) a narrow passage of water connecting two larger bodies of water
(d) one who seeks earnestly, as for advancement, honors, place
 
n. anthracite
(a) a woman who makes a business of assisting at childbirth
(b) hard coal
(c) a mechanical, chemical or pathological agent of inflammation, pain or tension
(d) an abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling
 
n. plenipotentiary
(a) pregnancy
(b) heir; inheritor; one who or that which follows or takes the place of another
(c) a light, colorless, volatile, inflammable oil used as a solvent, as in manufacture of paints
(d) a person fully empowered to transact any business
 
n. cajolery
(a) that side or direction toward which the wind blows
(b) delusive speech
(c) a title of Jesus
(d) use of many words without necessity
 
n. pinnacle
(a) tendency towards a former or opposite state of things, as after reform, revolution or inflation
(b) a high or topmost point, as a mountain-peak
(c) irreverence toward God
(d) family origin; genealogy; line of descent

n. vortex
(a) a series of tables giving the days of the week together with certain astronomical information
(b) the body of men constituting the official advisors of the executive head of a nation
(c) a mass of rotating or whirling fluid, especially when sucked spirally toward the center
(d) in engraving, an etched stone surface for printing
 
n. atonement
(a) keen enjoyment
(b) line of motion or direction
(c) a statement of religious faith or duty formulated by a body claiming authority
(d) amends, reparation or expiation made from wrong or injury
 
n. episode
(a) a studied or ostentatious pretense or attempt
(b) a small fissure, as between two contiguous surfaces
(c) the act of selling
(d) an incident or story in a literary work, separable from yet growing out of it
 
n. exodus
(a) a going forth or departure from a place or country, especially of many people
(b) artistry; skillfulness; manner of execution
(c) fine or ready mental discernment shown in saying or doing the proper thing
(d) one chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other
 
n. docket
(a) the registry of judgments of a court
(b) a grass cultivated for forage and cereal
(c) a figure having seven sides and seven angles
(d) a word idiom or phrase characteristic of Great Britain or the British