SSAT 3000 HARD 2634-2667

Question 1

Masticatoire

Answer 1

Having to do with or used in chewing

Question 2

Stricture

Answer 2

Unfavourable criticism

Blame

Question 3

Exodus

Answer 3

A going out

Departure, evacuation

Question 4

Austere

Answer 4

Simple or plain, not fancy

Question 5

Inclemency

Answer 5

Lacking kindness or mercy

Austerity, coldness

Question 6

Tabernacle

Answer 6

A house of worship

Question 7

Vapidity

Answer 7

Lacking or having lost sharpness, flavour, or spirit

Drabness, dullness

Question 8

Fusillade

Answer 8

Rapid and continuous discharge of firearms

Barrage

Question 9

Panoply

Answer 9

A splendid array

Display, exhibition

Question 10

Extricable

Answer 10

That can be set free from entanglements or difficulties

Question 11

Sycophant

Answer 11

A servile or self-serving flatterer

Lackey, minion

Question 12

Microcosm

Answer 12

A universe or world in miniature

Question 13

Presage

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A sign felt as a warning

Omen, prediction

Question 14

Proviso

Answer 14

Clause or article in a contract, agreement

Question 15

Ambiguity

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The possibility that something could be interpreted more than one way

Doubt, uncertainty

Question 16

Quintessential

Answer 16

Having the nature of the purest from of something

Typical, ultimate

Question 17

Peradventure

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Maybe

Chance, possible

Question 18

Circumspection

Answer 18

Caution

Carefulness, discretion

Question 19

Enterprise

Answer 19

Great or bold undertaking

Adventure, operation

Question 20

Gullibility

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Being easily deceived or cheated

Artlessness

Question 21

Matutinal

Answer 21

Having to do with occurring early in the morning

Question 22

Risibility

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Ability or inclination to laugh

Question 23

Stymie

Answer 23

To block completely

Hinder, thwart

Question 24

Veritable

Answer 24

True or real

Authentic, factual

Question 25

Appurtenance

Answer 25

An object that is used with or for something

Question 26

Incarnadine

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To make blood-red

Redden, boldly

Question 27

Synchronous

Answer 27

Occurring at the same time

Concurrent, simultaneous

Question 28

Contumelious

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Insulting

Disdainful, brazen

Question 29

Ruminate

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Think or ponder

Contemplate, meditate

Question 30

Spousal

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The ceremony of marriage

Matrimony, nuptial

Question 31

Emasculate

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Destroy the force of

Weaken, debilitate

Question 32

Discomfiture

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The act of making someone confused or upset

Question 33

Satirise

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Attack with sarcasm, irony or wit to ridicule something

Mock, lampoon

Question 34

Reliquary

Answer 34

A small box that contains relics