Vocabulary and Synonyms

Ad (for) + voc (speak) = advocate is the person who speaks for you in a court of law. Other words are editor, merchant and astronomer.

A new finding can only be discovery or invention. Creation is not a 'finding', nor are composition and expression.

All the words, except 'direct', mean the same.

All, except 3, involve a fight. Option 3 gives the opposite meaning.

All, except 1, mean gather. Disperse is the opposite.

'Cilia' means smoothness. Only 3 will mean smoothening.

'De' means not; 'funct' is for functional. Something not functional is dead.

'Ex' (out) + 'ped' (foot) - to free one's feet to hasten up

'A' (no) + par (equality) + thei (theory) - theory of (racial) non-equality.

'Punct' is prick, as in puncture. Compunction is the pricking of your heart when something unpalatable takes place.

What is 'turned against' is anger.

'Al' (alert) + 'ac' (action) - alert for action

Aggression is defined as behavior intended to harm another person. Anger and hostility are internal emotional states that may accompany aggression but are not aggression themselves. The critical component is the intent to cause harm through action, distinguishing aggression from mere hostile feelings.

(1) Perspicacious is judicious; others are not concrete.

(2) Divulge is reveal; others are splits.