SAT Sample Test # SAT/M220

n. desistance
(a) careful and persevering effort to accomplish what is undertaken
(b) cessation
(c) a statement of religious faith or duty formulated by a body claiming authority
(d) a three-legged stand, usually hinged near the top, for supporting some instrument
 
n. grindstone
(a) maintenance
(b) rapturous excitement or exaltation
(c) any severe and strict rule in which the judgment of the governed has little or no part
(d) an abrasive wheel that sharpens or polishes something
 
adj. acetic
(a) expressing no power of feeling or perceiving
(b) of, pertaining to or of the nature of vinegar
(c) no longer practiced or accepted
(d) sheltering
 
v. congeal
(a) to turn from the accustomed course or a line of action already established
(b) to make sad; discourage
(c) to coagulate
(d) to attach at the beginning
 
n. stature
(a) the natural height of an animal body
(b) a measure of length; one-eighth of a mile
(c) one who makes in imitation
(d) intensified emotion or action

v. occlude
(a) to make indigent or poor
(b) to give grief or sorrow to
(c) to absorb, as a gas by a metal
(d) to disfigure
 
adj. comprehensible
(a) that gives warning or information
(b) watery
(c) very bright
(d) intelligible
 
n. gordian knot
(a) a remainder or surplus after a part has been separated or otherwise treated
(b) person who has the charge and direction of, especially of some work or movement
(c) any difficulty the only issue out of which is by bold or unusual manners
(d) person who works for wages or a salary
 
n. dissonance
(a) a plot or scheme, usually complicated and intended to accomplish something by secret ways
(b) something that causes damage, depreciation or loss
(c) the three-pronged fork that was the emblem of Neptune
(d) discord
 
v. enhance
(a) to intensify
(b) to make complex, difficult or hard to deal with
(c) to hold or preserve in any particular state or condition
(d) to give a lecture; make a speech; declaim