SAT Verbal Quiz # SAT/M368

n. intolerance
(a) inability or unwillingness to bear or endure
(b) an apparatus for reducing a liquid to a fine spray, as for disinfection, inhalation, etc.
(c) an element that forms a base by combining with oxygen, is usually hard, heavy, and lustrous
(d) dissimilitude
 
n. occupant
(a) control by the exercise of power or constituted authority
(b) a bazaar or shop
(c) a tenant in possession of property, as distinguished from the actual owner
(d) advancement
 
v. furbish
(a) to pay out or expend, as money from a fund
(b) to quietly terminate
(c) to restore brightness or beauty
(d) to invade partially or insidiously and appropriate the possessions of another
 
v. wield
(a) to declare; publicize; advertise widely; publish; distribute widely
(b) to use, control or manage, as a weapon or instrument, especially with full command
(c) to cause to appear less guilty
(d) to be chief in importance, quantity or degree
 
n. prologue
(a) immoderate action or indulgence, as of the appetites
(b) an abrupt or emphatic expression of thought or of feeling
(c) a prefatory statement or explanation to a poem, discourse or performance
(d) the general science of the universe

n. dissuasion
(a) the act of changing the purpose of or altering the plans of through persuasion or pleading
(b) one who calculates insurance risks and premiums according to statistical probabilities
(c) one of a pair of like things
(d) poetry
 
n. reproduction
(a) in colonial times, a member of the lower house of the legislature of Maryland or Virginia
(b) the process by which an animal or plant gives rise to another of its kind
(c) the act or art of tracing or inscribing on a surface letters or ideographs
(d) a slender, graceful young woman or girl
 
n. frontier
(a) the language of one's country
(b) superior ruler (especially in feudal system); one with great influence
(c) the part of a nation's territory that abuts upon another country
(d) diversion
 
v. wean
(a) to make better or improve, as in quality or social or physical condition
(b) to appropriate (private property) as forfeited to the public use or treasury
(c) to transfer (the young) from dependence on mother's milk to another form of nourishment
(d) to call into court, as a person indicted for crime, and demand whether he pleads guilty or not
 
n. portent
(a) one having a taste for or interest in special objects
(b) anything that indicates what is to happen
(c) the doer of a wrong or a criminal act
(d) statesmanship; art of governing