SAT Verbal Quiz # SAT/M192

n. polygamy
(a) means of subsistence
(b) the fact or condition of having more than one wife or husband at once
(c) a morbid condition, due to obstructed excretion of bile or characterized by yellowing of the skin
(d) an instrument for assisting the eye in the vision of minute objects or features of objects
 
n. propriety
(a) accordance with recognized usage, custom or principles
(b) in the British army, a cavalryman
(c) unlimited or infinite knowledge
(d) a certain time of year (in July)
 
n. opportunist
(a) a fatal or serious accident or disaster
(b) a measure that defines the amount a person can hold
(c) person who takes advantage of circumstances to gain his ends
(d) a list, in the order of succession, of ancestors and their descendants
 
adj. rapid
(a) proposable
(b) necessary
(c) trivial
(d) having great speed
 
adj. impious
(a) raving
(b) characterized by irreverence or irreligion
(c) situated on the other side of the Alps
(d) pertaining to streams

n. compression
(a) constraint, as by force or authority
(b) an instrumental composition
(c) a length of ten meters
(d) the place in or near which a person or thing is
 
adj. polytechnic
(a) that can not be restrained or kept down
(b) at variance with any commonly accepted doctrine or opinion
(c) being no longer in existence
(d) pertaining to, embracing or practicing many arts
 
n. leisure
(a) deep wisdom or knowledge
(b) spare time
(c) a hereditary nobility
(d) regularity
 
adj. verbose
(a) wordy
(b) deepest within
(c) capable of being conceived
(d) characterized by irreverence or irreligion
 
adj. irreparable
(a) in a state of preparedness for any given purpose or occasion
(b) that can not be rectified or made amends for
(c) abundant or superabundant in growth
(d) tending to reconcile