This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Test Prep > Sat > Sat Vocabulary – Quiz 16 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Sat Vocabulary Quiz 16 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Done without care; in a routine fashion A) Precocious. B) Ravenous. C) Quell. D) Perfunctory. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perfunctory. 2. Jessica tried to ..... her friends who had started arguing loudly in the hallway. A) Gregarious. B) Negligible. C) Ambiguous. D) Placate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Placate. 3. 1-This excludes all possibility of innate ideas or any faculty akin to ..... reason. A) A. intuitive. B) B. disruptive. C) C. conspicuous. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. intuitive. 4. What does "adroit" mean? A) Dangerous. B) Skillful. C) Clumsy. D) Praiseworthy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Skillful. 5. The driver's ..... driving as he swerved from lane to lane made me very nervous! A) Compulsion. B) Challenge. C) Erratic. D) Dubious. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Erratic. 6. What is the definition of the word 'Insipid'? A) Bland or dull. B) Hectic and disorganized. C) Embarrassed. D) Harsh and grating to the ears. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bland or dull. 7. Choose the word that best fits the given definition:'Showing or expressing hostility' A) Kind. B) Welcoming. C) Friendly. D) Hostile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hostile. 8. What does it mean to have "tenacity" ? A) To be stubborn and not give up. B) To be very funny. C) To be very tall. D) To be very quiet. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To be stubborn and not give up. 9. Which word means talkative? A) Jettison. B) Bulwark. C) Garrulous. D) Hamper. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Garrulous. 10. What is an example of frugal behavior? A) Ignoring discounts. B) Buying clothes on sale. C) Purchasing luxury items. D) Throwing away old clothes. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buying clothes on sale. 11. The frazzled mom tried to appease her whining children by buying them ice cream. A) To help settle differences. B) Put an end to. C) To pacify, to bring peace, quiet, or calm to; to relieve. D) To make something unpleasant less severe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To pacify, to bring peace, quiet, or calm to; to relieve. 12. Choose the word that best fits: "By paying close attention, you may be able to ..... some information that will elucidate the situation." A) Cajole. B) Bizarre. C) Efface. D) Garner. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Garner. 13. The professor asked students to ..... their arguments with evidence rather than relying on personal opinions. A) Demonstrate. B) Undermine. C) Preclude. D) Emphasize. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Demonstrate. 14. Which word means wild or disturbing activity? A) Ineptness. B) Turbulence. C) Transparent. D) Adversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Turbulence. 15. Aladdin ..... the genie by rubbing the magic lamp. A) Conjured. B) Relinquished. C) Seceded. D) Banished. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conjured. 16. Disposition to be friendly and approachable A) Precarious. B) Reproach. C) Affability. D) Benign. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Affability. 17. Foul smelling; rotten, rancid, malodorous A) Sybaritic. B) Putrid. C) Efficacious. D) Servile. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Putrid. 18. To seek, attain, or achieve a goal A) Assuage. B) Astute. C) Badger. D) Aspire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aspire. 19. Grumbling, grumpy; fussy A) Vernacular. B) Pugnacious. C) Obliterate. D) Nefarious. E) Querulous. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Querulous. 20. Someone who speaks multiple languages A) Hoi polloi. B) Solipsism. C) Polymath. D) Polyglot. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Polyglot. 21. What does "adverse" mean? A) Favorable. B) Praiseworthy. C) Antagonistic or dangerous. D) Skillful. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antagonistic or dangerous. 22. The ability to move A) Mitigate. B) Desolate. C) The Cupid Shuffle. D) Mobility. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mobility. 23. Unsound mode of reasoning; delusion A) Abduction. B) Fallacy. C) Exacerbate. D) Hamper. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fallacy. 24. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of something innovative? A) New. B) Experimental. C) Original. D) Traditional. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Traditional. 25. The storm was ..... to the community as houses were uprooted and destroyed. A) Deference. B) Entrenched. C) Eminent. D) Deleterious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Deleterious. 26. Choose the vocabulary word that means:(n) a small place, society, or situation that has the same characteristics as something much larger A) Rejuvenate. B) Pivot. C) Jockey. D) Intuition. E) Microcosm. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Microcosm. 27. What does 'ostracism' refer to? A) Clean or pure. B) Exclusion from a group. C) Vigorous in expression. D) Critical of others. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Exclusion from a group. 28. Work at a job that you love, not one that you ..... A) Abhor. B) Levity. C) Bolster. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abhor. 29. Shrill, high-pitched; grating A) Gullible. B) Discreet. C) Discrete. D) Strident. E) Anarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Strident. 30. What is the definition of the word 'Cacophonous'? A) Harsh and grating to the ears. B) Distress caused by disappointment or embarrassment. C) Reserved and tactful. D) Bland or dull. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Harsh and grating to the ears. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTest Prep QuizzesGrammar QuizzesSat Vocabulary Quiz 1Sat Vocabulary Quiz 2Sat Vocabulary Quiz 3Sat Vocabulary Quiz 4Sat Vocabulary Quiz 5Sat Vocabulary Quiz 6Sat Vocabulary Quiz 7Sat Vocabulary Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books