SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
|
Email
Search
Test your basic knowledge |
SAT Vocab - 2
Start Test
Study First
Subjects
:
sat
,
english
,
vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
If you are not ready to take this test, you can
study here
.
Match each statement with the correct term.
Don't refresh. All questions and answers are randomly picked and ordered every time you load a test.
This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. To deliberately exclude from a group
denounce
Aplomb
indulgent
ostracize
2. W/o previous example - never known before
Unprecedented
cryptic
Perfunctory
Supercilious
3. Agreeable; friendly
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
enumerate
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
relinquish
4. Lacking restraint; excessive
Conundrum
Eschew
laconic / succint / terse
intemperate
5. Not capable of being overcome
Florid
wry / droll
insurmountable
Extemporize - Improvise
6. Joyous; sprightly; light; vivacious
felicitous
Blithe
modicum
prospectus
7. Very small
Precedent
fleeting / ephemeral
profundity
dimunitive
8. Bossy; tending to cut others off; dismissive; officious (peremptorily - preempt)
nadir
Juxtaposition
peremptory
Virulent
9. Producing a deep or full sound
abstemious
resurgent
nebulous
sonorous
10. Framework or model of thought
Paradigm
Enfranchise
Perfunctory
paradox
11. Showing nervousness or fear
Timorous
enumerate
erroneous
penchant / predilection
12. Doomed to failure
futile
despondent / forlorn
Dilapidated
innuendo
13. To fall off in vigor - energy - activity - interest - etc
belie
flag
laconic / succint / terse
Precedent
14. Someone who attacks cherished ideas and institutions
dirge
iconoclast
Venerate - Revere
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
15. The highest point
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Disheartening
rhetorican
zenith / apex
16. Thoroughly dried out
Remunerate
Dessicated
Convivial
subtle
17. Treacherous - traitorous - deceitful
demagogue
Perfidious
Dilapidated
paradox
18. Settled and therefore accustomed to sitting or doing little exercise
Pertinent
implacable
Sedentary
reprobate
19. A deviation from the norm
dilettante
anomaly / atypical
debunk
Censorious - Captious
20. Practical. sensible
Refractory
Rampant
pragmatic
Aphorism - Axiom
21. To deliberately confuse; to make something so confusing it's hard to understand
Obfuscate
Pristine
Paranoia
prattle
22. Cowardly - faint hearted
impasse
punctilious
Rampant
Craven
23. Of doubtful authenticity; false; spurious
mendacious
Apocryphal
Moribund
vapid
24. Annoyingly talkative
pandemonium
veracity
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Juxtaposition
25. To grow rapidly; to expand
covet
conjecture / supposition
Burgeon
dismissive
26. Excessive desire for wealth
nefarious
laconic / succint / terse
indignant
Avarice - Cupidity
27. To bounce back
Pertinent
Guile
resilient
Capitulate
28. To avoid; shun; to stay clear of
Eschew
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
exemplary
Vituperative
29. Excessively sentimental
oracle
tacit
innocuous
maudlin
30. To speak against
Pristine
mendacious
denounce
acrimonious
31. The floating wreckage of a ship; debris
recalcitrant / obdurate
Flotsam
Contiguous
Disingenuous
32. A fake; a fraud; a cheat
Osmosis
pejorative
chimerical
charlatan
33. Easily convinced; tending to - believe to readily - gullible
Ornate
Unfettered
Credulous
Sedentary
34. Lukewarm; mild; half-hearted
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
demagogue
devoid
Tepid
35. To declare invalid
decry
Visceral
Nullify
Flotsam
36. Overly tolerant
Redolent
indulgent
veracity
Unprecedented
37. To narrowly restrict; to limit action; to draw a line around
Moribund
pandemic
circumscribe
deride
38. Very stubborn - defiant
Incredulous
recalcitrant / obdurate
implacable
Triumvirate
39. Not believable
ambiguous
implausible
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
aloof
40. A person who hates humankind
Exonerate - Exculpate
misanthrope
jaded
spartan
41. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
indignant
Slight
Hiatus
affectation
42. Very generous
expunge / excise / expurgate
Prolific
Munificent
Obdurate - Intransigent
43. Flexible; easily shaped especially by outside influence/ force
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Disquieting
admonish
resurgent
44. Soothing or pleasant sounds; harmony
Euphony
polarize / divisive
digress
insurmountable
45. A wild uproar; tumult
pandemonium
procure
Credulous
Proliferate
46. Unsophisticated
naïve / gullible / credulous
rhetorican
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
austerity
47. To remove or delete objectionable parts of a book
bowdlerize
specious
convoluted
Chicanery
48. Lax in attending to duty; negligent
Duplicitous
remiss
Propitiate
inexorable
49. Limited in perspective; narrow; restricted in scope and outlook
inexorable
Pristine
iconoclast
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
50. To make clear or plain - especially by explanation
Elucidate
intrepid / undaunted
Caustic
innocuous