Test your basic knowledge |

SAT Vocab 2010 2011

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. Integrity
Honor; honesty
Tendency; leaning' predilection
Put off; procrastinate
Dedicated; made holy

2. Redolent
Divided into two extremes
Critical
Not moderate; excessive
Smelling of (literal or metaphoric)

3. Presumptive
Honor; honesty
Dictator
Presumed
Fair and equal

4. Sycophants
Moving backwards (literal or metaphoric)
Toadies; flatterers
Depth (of ideas/thought)
Sycophants; flatterers; boot-lickers

5. Meticulous
Devaluing; criticizing
Over-simplified
Thorough; taking care of details
In a commanding manner

6. Corpulence
Agreement
Smelling of (literal or metaphoric)
Being fat
Something that makes better but does not cure

7. Animosity
Revolutionary
Not easy to comprehend
Hostility; hatred
Moving backwards (literal or metaphoric)

8. Demonstrative
Tone of voice
To make legal; give approval to
Loyalty; firmness of purpose
Expressing emotion freely

9. Formidable
Inspiring awe
Toadies; flatterers
To make legal; give approval to
Narrow-minded

10. Insufferable
Persuasive language
Compulsory
Fate - doom
Cannot be tolerated

11. Adulation
Useless; waste of time and effort
Worship; great praise
Gloomy
Moving backwards (literal or metaphoric)

12. Treacly
Attacking verbally
Seeking revenge
Inspiring awe
Too sweet; over sentimental

13. Equitable
An equal
Medicinal
Fair and equal
Worship; great praise

14. Vex
Disasters
Annoy
Something that makes better but does not cure
Non-serious involvement; toying or playing with something

15. Toadies
Loyalty; firmness of purpose
Generous minded; big-hearted (merciful; forgiving)
Agreement
Sycophants; flatterers; boot-lickers

16. Inscrutable
Sociable
Seeking money above all else
Not easy to comprehend
Passed on through touch; infectious

17. Vindictive
Seeking revenge
Moving backwards (literal or metaphoric)
Thorough; taking care of details
Superficial

18. Propensity

19. Facile
An equal
Fair and equal
Harmful
Over-simplified

20. Intemperate
Disasters
Not moderate; excessive
Wavered; hesitated
Harmful

21. Indulgent
Kindly; pampering
Toadies; flatterers
Very fussy; excessively concerned (esp. about cleanliness)
Compulsory

22. Consummate
Supremely good
Melodramatic; expressing exaggerated emotion
Can't be expressed in words
Cannot be tolerated

23. Pragmatism
Practicality
Worship; great praise
Useless; waste of time and effort
Honor; honesty

24. Mandatory
Fair and equal
Strong and sturdy
Compulsory
On and off; not continuous

25. Bountiful
Over-simplified
Generous minded; big-hearted (merciful; forgiving)
Generous
Smelling of (literal or metaphoric)

26. Imperious
Over-simplified
Presumed
Non-serious involvement; toying or playing with something
In a commanding manner

27. Debacles
Can be cultivated ('arable land')
Disasters
Shortage
Generous minded; big-hearted (merciful; forgiving)

28. Shroud
Critical
To cover
Supremely good
Expressing care and concern

29. Quelled
Doubtful
Suppressed
Experts with good taste/judgment
Divided into two extremes

30. Conflagration
Honor; honesty
Big fire
Ordinary
Inspiring awe

31. Haranguing
Attacking verbally
Inspiring awe
Cruel; hard and unfeeling
Something that makes better but does not cure

32. Ambiguous
Superficial
Expressing care and concern
Vague
Divided into two extremes

33. Deleterious
Harmful
On and off; not continuous
Vague
Shortage

34. Fidelity
Medicinal
Useless; waste of time and effort
Faithfulness; loyalty
Dictator

35. Floridity
Neglectful
Redness
Sycophants; flatterers; boot-lickers
Medicinal

36. Wistful
Very fussy; excessively concerned (esp. about cleanliness)
Sad - yearning; longing in a thoughtful way
Annoy
Not easy to comprehend

37. Lavish
Divided into two extremes
Expensive
Sociable
Cruel; hard and unfeeling

38. Censure
Supremely good
Tone of voice
Shortage
Blame; criticize

39. Reprehensible
Vague
Fair and equal
Very bad
An equal

40. Viscous
Toadies; flatterers
Thick and sticky
Cruel; hard and unfeeling
Doubtful

41. Boorishness
Of great importance
Wavered; hesitated
Worship; great praise
Rudeness; ill-mannered behavior

42. Advocate
Support
Blame; criticize
Seeking revenge
Shortage

43. Ineffable

44. Autocrat
Toadies; flatterers
Dictator
Tone of voice
Supremely good

45. Profundity
Depth (of ideas/thought)
Tendency; leaning' predilection
Practicality
Superficial

46. Rhetoric
Fair and equal
To cover
Presumed
Persuasive language

47. Sedulous
Melodramatic; expressing exaggerated emotion
Attacking verbally
Thorough; eager
Of great importance

48. Idiosyncratic
Quirky; eccentric; unique to an individual
Thorough; eager
Superficial
Expressing emotion freely

49. Vindication
Proving right
Big fire
Joining - speaking
To make legal; give approval to

50. Magnanimous
Wavered; hesitated
Expensive
Generous minded; big-hearted (merciful; forgiving)
Cannot be tolerated