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. Boorishness
Divided into two extremes
Hostility; hatred
Ordinary
Rudeness; ill-mannered behavior

2. Steadfastness
Attacking verbally
Fate - doom
Loyalty; firmness of purpose
Expressing care and concern

3. Litigious
Loyalty; firmness of purpose
Persuasive language
Hostility; hatred
Seeking legal remedies

4. Propensity

5. Bountiful
Practicality
Faithfulness; loyalty
Seeking legal remedies
Generous

6. Solicitous
Fate - doom
Expressing care and concern
Practicality
Can't be expressed in words

7. Histrionic
Gloomy
Melodramatic; expressing exaggerated emotion
Proving right
Fair; wise

8. Pragmatism
Practicality
Revolutionary
Thick and sticky
Generous

9. Intonation
Tone of voice
Revolutionary
Wavered; hesitated
Narrow-minded

10. Sedulous
Can't be expressed in words
Revolutionary
Thorough; eager
Juicy

11. Opacity
Lack of transparency; being opaque
Concerned with thinking
Put off; procrastinate
Inspiring awe

12. Demonstrative
Hostility; hatred
Expressing emotion freely
Attacking verbally
Medicinal

13. Treacly
Too sweet; over sentimental
Lack of transparency; being opaque
Something that makes better but does not cure
Expressing care and concern

14. Meticulous
Superficial
Put off; procrastinate
Smelling of (literal or metaphoric)
Thorough; taking care of details

15. Inscrutable
Concerned with thinking
Not easy to comprehend
Disasters
Inspiring awe

16. Indulgent
Kindly; pampering
Toadies; flatterers
Useless; waste of time and effort
Compulsory

17. Peer
Agreement
An equal
Gloomy
Inspiring awe

18. Advocate
Expressing care and concern
Thorough; taking care of details
Support
Very bad

19. Conflagration
Being fat
Doubtful
Thorough; taking care of details
Big fire

20. Dearth
Gloomy
Shortage
Tone of voice
Smelling of (literal or metaphoric)

21. Dubious
Sulky
Can't be expressed in words
Lack of transparency; being opaque
Doubtful

22. Petulant
Kindly; pampering
To cover
Expensive
Sulky

23. Succulent
Quirky; eccentric; unique to an individual
Juicy
Useless; waste of time and effort
Expensive

24. Lavish
Superficial
Over-simplified
Fair and equal
Expensive

25. Nemesis
Fate - doom
Thorough; taking care of details
Not moderate; excessive
On and off; not continuous

26. Amiable
Not easy to comprehend
Inspiring awe
Friendly - lovable
Joining - speaking

27. Prosaic
Harmful
Kindly; pampering
Sycophants; flatterers; boot-lickers
Ordinary

28. Insular
Doubtful
Attacking verbally
Narrow-minded
Shortage

29. Articulation
Sociable
Cruel; hard and unfeeling
Practicality
Joining - speaking

30. Compendious
Joining - speaking
Prevented
Containing a lot in a small space/few words
Something that makes better but does not cure

31. Consummate
Supremely good
Narrow-minded
Seeking legal remedies
Support

32. Formidable
Inspiring awe
Vague
In a commanding manner
Thorough; eager

33. Insufferable
Cannot be tolerated
Sulky
Persuasive language
Joining - speaking

34. Deleterious
Juicy
To cover
Harmful
Worship; great praise

35. Mandatory
Harmful
Doubtful
Quirky; eccentric; unique to an individual
Compulsory

36. Ambiguous
Vague
Annoy
Loyalty; firmness of purpose
In a commanding manner

37. Convivial
Sociable
Neglectful
Hostility; hatred
Prevented

38. Judicious
Narrow-minded
Hostility; hatred
Fair; wise
Expensive

39. Equitable
Divided into two extremes
To make legal; give approval to
Proving right
Fair and equal

40. Futile
Can't be expressed in words
Loyalty; firmness of purpose
Useless; waste of time and effort
Of great importance

41. Profundity
Lack of transparency; being opaque
Inspiring awe
Thorough; eager
Depth (of ideas/thought)

42. Robust
Moving backwards (literal or metaphoric)
Neglectful
Kindly; pampering
Strong and sturdy

43. Legitimate
Not moderate; excessive
Expressing care and concern
Tendency; leaning' predilection
To make legal; give approval to

44. Corpulence
Can be cultivated ('arable land')
Presumed
Being fat
Inspiring awe

45. Dalliance
Non-serious involvement; toying or playing with something
To cover
Worship; great praise
Wavered; hesitated

46. Polarized
Supremely good
Divided into two extremes
In a commanding manner
Juicy

47. Imperious
Depth (of ideas/thought)
In a commanding manner
Thick and sticky
Attacking verbally

48. Intemperate
Persuasive language
Not moderate; excessive
Fate - doom
Seeking money above all else

49. Sycophants
Toadies; flatterers
Attacking verbally
Not easy to comprehend
Support

50. Viscous
Gave moral lecture
Thick and sticky
Gloomy
Juicy