The Official SAT: Practice Test 1

glutting - correct answer v. supply or fill to excess (ie: glutting ourselves on space's riches) scuttling - correct answer v. to run with quick, hasty steps; scurry brazier - correct answer n. an open pan or basin for holding live coals. lacquer - correct answer n. a hard glossy coating refined - correct answer adj. very polite or cultured deferential - correct answer adj. respectful showing respect for another's authority candidacy - correct answer n. the fact of applying for a position unseemliness - correct answer adj. not proper or appropriate for the situation preposterous - correct answer adj. ridiculous, senseless engender - correct answer v. to bring into existence, to give rise to ambivalent - correct answer adj. having mixed feelings or contradictory ideas about something or someone anthropologist - correct answer n. a scientist who studies human development and culture