SSAT 3000 HARD 2201-2238

Question 1

Telepathy

Answer 1

Communication of one mind with another without using

Question 2

Blarney

Answer 2

Blandishments, compliments

Question 3

Soporiferous

Answer 3

Calming, hypnotic

Question 4

Cognition

Answer 4

Perception, awareness

Question 5

Embargo

Answer 5

An order from the government forbidding trade by law

Question 6

Annular

Answer 6

Circular

Question 7

Antipodes

Answer 7

Two places on the opposites side of the earth

Question 8

Recantation

Answer 8

Retraction, abnegation

Question 9

Surfeit

Answer 9

Excess, profusion

Question 10

Parvenu

Answer 10

Person who has risen above his or her class

Question 11

Saponification

Answer 11

Process of making soapy

Question 12

Joviality

Answer 12

Gaiety, geniality, merriment

Question 13

Baleful

Answer 13

Disastrous, poisonous

Question 14

Impertinence

Answer 14

Impudence, audacity

Question 15

Exasperation

Answer 15

Displeasure, fury

Question 16

Conterminous

Answer 16

Adjacent, bordering

Question 17

Ligature

Answer 17

Link, binding

Question 18

Pinnate

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Like a feather

Question 19

Scabrous

Answer 19

Rough, scaly

Question 20

Usurer

Answer 20

Person who lends money and charges an unlawful interest rate

Question 21

Comestible

Answer 21

Food, edible

Question 22

Enormity

Answer 22

Delight, goodness

Question 23

Carrion

Answer 23

Corpse, remains

Question 24

Efflorescence

Answer 24

Flower, burgeon, to burst into bloom

Question 25

Coruscate

Answer 25

Glitter, sparkle

Question 26

Septennial

Answer 26

Lasting seven years

Question 27

Schism

Answer 27

Separation, fissure

Question 28

Omniscience

Answer 28

Knowledge of everything

Question 29

Chimera

Answer 29

Delusion, fantasy

Question 30

Besot

Answer 30

Infatuate, to make foolish

Question 31

Anticlimactic

Answer 31

Relating to an abrupt descent from important to unimportant

Question 32

Artifice

Answer 32

A clever trick, con, ploy

Question 33

Antimony

Answer 33

Show of holiness

Question 34

Dipsomania

Answer 34

An uncontrollable craving for alcohol

Question 35

Necrologist

Answer 35

A person who prepares obituaries

Question 36

Xénophobe

Answer 36

Bigot, racist

Question 37

Clangorous

Answer 37

Cacophonous, noisy