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. Great merriment
maverick
Spate
presumptuous
hilarity
2. A morally unprincipled person
reprobate
elusive
diffident
Imperious
3. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
Perfidious
deride
affectation
Obdurate - Intransigent
4. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
ubiquitous
Vertiginous
Sedentary
equanimity / unflappable
5. A person who behaves in a servile manner; a toady
Beleaguer
sycophant / obsequious
extirpate
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
6. A person who uses intuition to see into the future; a seer
hilarity
Inquisition
clairvoyant
Entomology
7. Quarrelsome: argumentative: likely to provoke a controversy - disputatious
fortuitous
Beleaguer
Contentious - Cantankerous
presumptuous
8. Moderate in eating and drinking
audacious
abstemious
Fawn
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
9. Foul smelling
laconic / succint / terse
malodorous
Disenfranchise
irreverent
10. An inference
audacious
Craven
conjecture / supposition
enumerate
11. An intruder: a gate-crasher
nadir
Propitiate
Interloper
Indomitable - Resolute
12. A difficult problem; a dilemma with no easy solution
eccentric
Conundrum
Epiphany
Indisputable
13. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
Ostentatious
impasse
convoluted
Unfettered
14. To soothe or calm; to appease
eccentric
indignant
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Placate
15. A remark that is hurtful or burning
Caustic
fleeting / ephemeral
vicarious
Complaisant
16. Not ordinary or typical
unconventional / unorthodox
tenacious
vindicate
Indomitable - Resolute
17. The act of making good or compensating for a loss - damage - or injury
anachronism
Preclude
Manifesto
Restitution
18. A complete failure
fiasco / debacle
beneficiary
Precedent
Flummox
19. Very stubborn - defiant
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
recalcitrant / obdurate
analogy / analagous
disparage
20. Failure to reach an agreement
provocative
Craven
Burgeon
impasse
21. Given freely; unearned; unnecessary
morose / despondent
pompous
Capitulate
gratuitous
22. Immoral - debauched
Crystallize
multiplicity
Licentious
Pernicious
23. Boring and tiresome
tedious
Entomology
despondent / forlorn
oracle
24. To deliberately exclude from a group
Esoteric - Arcane
ostracize
circumvent
peremptory
25. To narrowly restrict; to limit action; to draw a line around
viable / feasible
veracity
despondent / forlorn
circumscribe
26. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false.
specious
Cerebral
felicitous
nefarious
27. A person who leads a life of self-denial
Depreciation
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
ascetic
futile
28. A deliberately misleading argument
pundit
sophistry
incontrovertible
Fecund
29. A stimulus or encouragement
gratuitous
aloof
impetus
Cosmopolitan
30. Feelings of sincere and deep regret
denounce
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
equanimity / unflappable
Capitulate
31. Showy; intended to attract notice; pretentious
polarize / divisive
Affluent - Opulent
Ostentatious
Opaque
32. To inform or instruct to remove ignorance
auspicious / propitious
innuendo
Enlighten - Edify
maverick
33. Excluding fragrance - full of a specified smell; suggestive of; reminiscent
Licentious
Redolent
denounce
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
34. Mixed feelings
modicum
ambivalent
Juxtapose
repudiate / recant / renounce
35. A mixture; combination of different elements
Exonerate - Exculpate
amalgam
incisive
acolyte
36. Very concise; brief
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
laconic / succint / terse
Exonerate - Exculpate
rejuvenate
37. Marked by inactivity OR in a state of quiet repose
Quiescent
penchant / predilection
Vertiginous
Enfranchise
38. Carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
Apocryphal
fastidious
denounce
Cacophony
39. A person who makes predictions based on data
Protean
enigmatic / inscrutable
dimunitive
prognosticator
40. Believable
indifferent / apathetic
plausible
dearth / paucity
Exacerbate
41. Agreeable; friendly
Moribund
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
gerrymander
42. To obtain or get by care - effort - or the use of special means
procure
erroneous
circumscribe
distend
43. Mobile; not sedentary
itinerant
Capitulate
boon
charlatan
44. Utterly perplexed - completely puzzled - totally bewildered
Nonplus - Confounded
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Perfidious
pundit
45. Harmful - injurious to physical - mental - or moral health
Noxious
paradox
subtle
fiasco / debacle
46. To force or act by using pressure
Petulant
Coerce
upbraid / reproach / castigate
Incredulous
47. To get out of a difficult situation
extricate
Elucidate
draconian
Indisputable
48. A strict disciplinarian
innuendo
martinet
naïve / gullible / credulous
Vituperative
49. Fearless; courageous
intrepid / undaunted
recalcitrant / obdurate
Obdurate - Intransigent
jovial and jocular
50. To depart from a subject
digress
temperate
nostalgia
mentor