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
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. Work oneself into another's good graces
ingratiate
orifice
bluster
infernal
2. Sadness or depression
devious
melancholy
triennial
onus
3. To read through with attention
titillate
hoodwink
reprobate
peruse
4. Pretending to be important - intelligent or cultured
peccadillo
stalwart
pretentious
conditional
5. Not penetrable ('raincoats are impervious to water')
impervious
acumen
sleuth
alluvial
6. An introduction to a novel
labyrinthine
aberration
prologue
adaptation
7. A misgiving or pang of conscience
pulchritude
odyssey
qualm
flaunt
8. Combination of parts into a whole
confine
meticulous
quell
synthesis
9. Existing at birth
frugal
congenital
animosity
vulnerable
10. A mix of different things
menagerie
compounded
hubris
hoodwink
11. Grandest - very large
discount
reproach
imposing
humid
12. Undertaken independently - although likely to affect others
mettle
elucidate
unilateral
profligate
13. Apprentice - beginner
recumbent
novice
bulwark
odometer
14. Shameful or disgraceful
prologue
ignominious
noxious
persnickety
15. Lower ('the nether regions of the ocean')
nether
junta
copious
delusion
16. Impudent; hasty
brash
denote
martyrdom
replete
17. Having a logical approach to things ('with dialectic thoroughness')
demagogue
decipher
dialectic
tome
18. Merciless; harsh
curtail
antithesis
disport
inclement
19. To remove a ruler from office
judicature
subjective
internment
depose
20. Fickle; potentially unstable
volatile
brandish
scourge
plagiarism
21. An outcast
duress
pariah
wont
oscillate
22. Juicy
succulent
antipathy
delineate
antithesis
23. Courage
oblivious
brazenness
mettle
pretense
24. A mistake in logic
spectator
piquant
fallacy
translucent
25. An alliance
troglodyte
barrage
philistine
consortium
26. To suffer from oppressive heat
swelter
cartel
condescending
recrudescence
27. Genuine
profundity
effect
macrocosm
authentic
28. To reason
exonerate
disparage
usurp
ratiocinate
29. Something used absorb shock or scrutiny
buffer
condiment
troglodyte
profligate
30. Irreverent
sacrilegious
inane
machination
sleazy
31. Mutual hatred
gratuitous
inconspicuous
culinary
enmity
32. Stale; commonplace; worn out by overuse
trite
perilous
repugnant
discursive
33. An office-holder
volatile
sordid
incumbent
torpid
34. Inhabitant
protuberant
facsimile
prototype
denizen
35. Dying
pilfer
moribund
sully
abject
36. Inflammatory - insulting
slighting
vituperative
proximity
equivocal
37. An exclamation - interjection - or profane oath
combative
slovenly
expletive
corporeal
38. To disclose from hiding
gird
unearth
clump
mortify
39. A crack in the earth
fissure
anesthetic
marionette
eschew
40. Incomprehensible; difficult to decipher
effrontery
gustatory
impregnable
inscrutable
41. Outwardly religious
succulent
hypothesis
prowess
sanctimonious
42. To pretend (to deceive)
vindictive
feign
misogamy
chicanery
43. Relating to beasts
bestial
cadaverous
apposite
compassion
44. Extremely angry; infuriated
decorous
stymie
ornate
livid
45. Distrustfully
askance
forge
reclusive
omniscient
46. Person whose work is collecting public opinion polls
pollster
calvary
fleet
grove
47. Stealing another's ideas
ecclesiastical
torpid
plagiarism
beget
48. Shameless boldness
disingenuous
acme
travesty
effrontery
49. Dismay; sudden amazement; alarm
enmesh
rueful
redolent
consternation
50. Strange similarity
simulacrum
frivolous
undermine
aridity