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SAT Vocabulary # SAT/M431

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n. narrative
(a) any messenger commissioned by or as by divine authority
(b) an artificial trance-sleep
(c) a stone coffin or a chest-like tomb
(d) an orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event
 
n. bosom
(a) the quality of habitually keeping silent or being reserved in utterance
(b) lassitude of body or depression
(c) the breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman
(d) person who works with or controls some machine or scientific apparatus
 
n. mantel
(a) a circle that rolls upon the external or internal circumference of another circle
(b) model; pattern
(c) the facing, sometimes richly ornamented, about a fireplace, including the usual shelf above it
(d) a quack
 
n. laundress
(a) a substance possessing or reputed to possess curative or remedial properties
(b) comfort in grief, trouble or calamity
(c) washerwoman
(d) slight sickness
 
n. purport
(a) the science that describes the universe, including astronomy, geography and geology
(b) any soft, gentle wind
(c) a laborer who changes jobs frequently
(d) intent

 

n. collision
(a) violent contact
(b) rapid motion
(c) a gum or resin which on burning yields aromatic fumes
(d) a solid bounded by five plane faces
 
n. bailiff
(a) formal presentation
(b) the principles or the practice of the Stoics-being very even tempered in success and failure
(c) an officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment
(d) a work containing information on subjects or exhaustive of one subject
 
n. tutorship
(a) melancholy
(b) a place where anything is kept in safety
(c) the term during which a thing is held
(d) the office of a guardian
 
adj. caustic
(a) strictly observant of the rules or forms prescribed by law or custom
(b) out of the common or regular track
(c) sarcastic and severe
(d) having lost sparkling quality and flavor
 
n. reprisal
(a) a number or body of persons in some way associated or acting together
(b) any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy
(c) a subordinate officer of a vessel, who has general charge of the rigging, anchors, etc
(d) a waiting room for those who seek audience

n. narrative (d) an orderly continuous account of the successive particulars of an event
n. bosom (c) the breast or the upper front of the thorax of a human being, especially of a woman
n. mantel (c) the facing, sometimes richly ornamented, about a fireplace, including the usual shelf above it
n. laundress (c) washerwoman
n. purport (d) intent
n. collision (a) violent contact
n. bailiff (c) an officer of court having custody of prisoners under arraignment
n. tutorship (d) the office of a guardian
adj. caustic (c) sarcastic and severe
n. reprisal (b) any infliction or act by way of retaliation on an enemy


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