SAT Exam Test # SAT/M434

n. irradiance
(a) luster
(b) the group of buildings which collectively form the dwelling-place of a society of monks or nuns
(c) person who attends to correspondence, keeps records or does other writing for others
(d) uprising
 
v. defame
(a) determine beforehand before hearing evidence
(b) make sweeping statements
(c) to fret at the edge so as to loosen or break the threads
(d) to slander
 
n. acid
(a) the superior of a community of monks
(b) a sour substance
(c) a note at this interval above or below any other, considered in relation to that other
(d) a principle accepted as true and acted on as a rule or guide
 
adj. transparent
(a) having an aptitude for applying oneself to new and varied tasks or to various subjects
(b) having the property of consistency
(c) easy to see through or understand
(d) yielding
 
n. cornucopia
(a) the horn of plenty, symbolizing peace and prosperity
(b) magnitude
(c) the art of anointing as with oil
(d) the murder of a parent

v. effuse
(a) to hasten the movement or progress of
(b) to sink (a ship) by making holes in the bottom
(c) to pour forth
(d) to excrete through the pores of the skin
 
n. britannia
(a) the act or process of entrusting or consigning for safe-keeping
(b) omission of that which ought to be done
(c) person who makes or repairs metal-working tools
(d) the United Kingdom of Great Britain
 
adj. simultaneous
(a) effected by divine guidance
(b) unendurable
(c) occurring, done or existing at the same time
(d) deceiving or tending to deceive, as by false appearance
 
v. instigate
(a) to provoke
(b) to retake; to repossess
(c) to make fast, as a rope, by winding round a cleat
(d) to cause to correspond or lie in the same direction and equidistant in all parts
 
adj. contagious
(a) having an air of authority
(b) of or pertaining to a tree or trees
(c) transmitting disease
(d) having the nature of a tree