SUBJECTS
|
BROWSE
|
CAREER CENTER
|
POPULAR
|
JOIN
|
LOGIN
Business Skills
|
Soft Skills
|
Basic Literacy
|
Certifications
About
|
Help
|
Privacy
|
Terms
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. A strict disciplinarian
Florid
Pristine
martinet
Marginal - Peripheral
2. Great bitterness
Marginal - Peripheral
acrimonious
Coerce
Restitution
3. Doomed to failure
Munificent
futile
denounce
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
4. Indisputable; beyond doubt
incontrovertible
Virulent
Manifesto
itinerant
5. Lying; untrustful
reprehensible
Pristine
mendacious
Disheartening
6. Denounce or strongly criticize
circuitous
Preclude
Quiescent
Lambaste
7. Excessively sentimental
maudlin
Crystallize
Catalyst
Flotsam
8. To make a situation better
Ameliorate
dissembler / prevaricator
Ungainly
Enfranchise
9. A large number or amount
Spate
Effusive
Nonplus - Confounded
voracious / ravenous
10. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly
tacit
aesthetic
Nuance
trivial / minutiae
11. Sharing an edge or boundary - or touching
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
Contiguous
tacit
Cacophony
12. Very rich - having abundant resources
Excoriating - Scathing
disparage
Affluent - Opulent
fastidious
13. To make impossible - to rule out - to prevent
halcyon
Moribund
vindicate
Preclude
14. Noisy and disorderly
tumultuous
bowdlerize
benefactor
Prescribe
15. To give a false impression
mentor
belie
Cosmopolitan
Imperious
16. A sudden realization or insightful moment
analogy / analagous
aesthetic
Epiphany
Petulant
17. Overly tolerant
indulgent
covet
recalcitrant / obdurate
benefactor
18. Not open to question
pandemic
Indisputable
circumscribe
vindicate
19. To sway from once side to the other; oscillate.
vacillate
impasse
Conundrum
glacial
20. An inference
conjecture / supposition
squelch
impeccable
juggernaut
21. Surplus or excess of something
skeptic
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
raconteur
peremptory
22. Highly detailed
extricate
Redolent
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
intrepid / undaunted
23. A group or association of three leaders
Preclude
Insidious
pragmatic
Triumvirate
24. Of great importance
maverick
momentous
jaded
Effusive
25. A person who makes predictions based on data
dismissive
prognosticator
indignant
Indisputable
26. Casual indifference
impecunious
Venerate - Revere
nonchalant
insolvent
27. Harmful - injurious to physical - mental - or moral health
inexorable
incontrovertible
Ungainly
Noxious
28. Annoyingly talkative
morbid
austerity
acolyte
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
29. Marked by inactivity OR in a state of quiet repose
extricate
Watershed
Quiescent
Fecund
30. To swell out or expand from internal pressure (overly full)
Prolific
voracious / ravenous
distend
magnanimous
31. Intellectually productive or inventive - fertile
Fecund
Prolific
recluse
Forbearance
32. To put down with comtemptuous jeering
despondent / forlorn
Spate
deride
Apocryphal
33. Out of reach; difficult to catch
Demarcation
elusive
Excoriating - Scathing
Lambaste
34. A gradual almost imperceptible change
benefactor
Gestate
subtle
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
35. To grow rapidly; to expand
Burgeon
Obsequious
Vituperative
Incredulous
36. A person who leads a secluded - solitary life
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
pandemic
recluse
Triumvirate
37. Easily convinced; tending to - believe to readily - gullible
Credulous
elusive
reprobate
synergy
38. Soothing or pleasant sounds; harmony
halcyon
Euphony
Scintillating
despoiled
39. A person who gives gifts
diatribe / tirade
benefactor
covet
boon
40. A beginner
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
Perfunctory
prototype
remiss
41. State of great dismay & confusion
sophistry
Consternation
Autocrat - Despot
vindicate
42. Very stubborn - defiant
vicarious
mellifluous
recalcitrant / obdurate
Licentious
43. Language that is bitterly hostile or hateful
Accord
Demography
Virulent
recalcitrant / obdurate
44. A sentimental longing for the past
profundity
Spate
Inquisition
nostalgia
45. An amateur or dabbler
Blithe
dilettante
Consternation
rejuvenate
46. Relevant - to the point
Dessicated
capricious / mercurial
Pertinent
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
47. Vulgar; crude
boorish / uncouth / crass
Exonerate - Exculpate
redundant
disparity
48. Threatening and menacing
ominous
nostalgia
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
tactile
49. Harmful; injurious
Moribund
charlatan
deleterious
auspicious / propitious
50. To be guided by practical experience - not theory
acolyte
Empirical
resurgent
pandemic