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SAT Vocabulary # SAT/M457

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n. nominee
(a) the part of a nation's territory that abuts upon another country
(b) boundless or immeasurable extension or duration
(c) a person nominated by the will of another to execute the will
(d) person who receives a candidacy
 
n. indulgence
(a) person who or that which regulates or directs
(b) a model of excellence
(c) the yielding to inclination, passion, desire or propensity in oneself or another
(d) order; neatness
 
n. constituency
(a) a contraction of any material into less bulk or dimension
(b) the inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body
(c) a slight degree of difference in anything perceptible to the sense of the mind
(d) immoderate action or indulgence, as of the appetites
 
n. furlong
(a) a measure of length; one-eighth of a mile
(b) the state or quality of being necessary to existence or continuance
(c) a beleaguerment
(d) fitness, as of time or place
 
n. nonentity
(a) a difficult, trying situation or plight
(b) a person or thing of little or no account
(c) the state of being permanently existing in something
(d) one chosen to act in place of another, in case of the absence or incapacity of that other

 

n. pyx
(a) a vessel or casket, usually of precious metal, in which the host is preserved
(b) airplane or ship which is run by a transportation company; eye pencil
(c) a premise, starting-point or given fact
(d) a variety show
 
n. ridicule
(a) the outer skin
(b) looks or acts expressing amused contempt
(c) ferocity
(d) the change of endings in nouns and adjectives to express their different relations of gender
 
n. successor
(a) great cruelty; reckless wickedness
(b) the close of a narrative or dramatic poem
(c) a giving characterized by generous motives and extraordinary liberality
(d) heir; inheritor; one who or that which follows or takes the place of another
 
v. generalize
(a) make sweeping statements
(b) to put something in a wrong position
(c) to make desolate with loneliness and grief
(d) to emit or send forth sparks or little flashes of light
 
n. corpse
(a) a dead body
(b) current electricity, especially that arising from chemical action
(c) a fleshy fruit; trailing or climbing plant which bears this fruit
(d) the intellectual and moral tendencies that characterize any age or epoch

n. nominee (d) person who receives a candidacy
n. indulgence (c) the yielding to inclination, passion, desire or propensity in oneself or another
n. constituency (b) the inhabitants or voters in a district represented in a legislative body
n. furlong (a) a measure of length; one-eighth of a mile
n. nonentity (b) a person or thing of little or no account
n. pyx (a) a vessel or casket, usually of precious metal, in which the host is preserved
n. ridicule (b) looks or acts expressing amused contempt
n. successor (d) heir; inheritor; one who or that which follows or takes the place of another
v. generalize (a) make sweeping statements
n. corpse (a) a dead body


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