This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Test Prep > Sat > Sat Vocabulary – Quiz 19 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Sat Vocabulary Quiz 19 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. His own shortcomings are ..... him. A) Rankling. B) Thwarting. C) Spurning. D) Vieing. E) Squandering. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Thwarting. 2. Adam fell to the floor weeping when he heard he couldn't chase cows. It was a very ..... scene. A) Melodramatic. B) Deleterious. C) Luminescent. D) Olfactory. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Melodramatic. 3. What does the word "evanescent" mean? A) Gradually fading away. B) Suddenly appearing. C) Intensely bright. D) Permanently staying. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gradually fading away. 4. Fill in the blank:After Johnny Depp won the case against Amber Heard, the actress was ..... by countless photographers and reporters. They want to know if she will compensate the damaged she caused on Depp. A) Devolved. B) Championed. C) Besieged. D) Enumerated. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Besieged. 5. Exhibit aggressively A) Brandish. B) Affability. C) Reproach. D) Surreal. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Brandish. 6. You must learn to ..... your emotions so they don't control you. A) Temper. B) Objective. C) Pliable. D) Rescind. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Temper. 7. Which term can be defined as "Humble submission and respect" ? A) Evoke. B) Deference. C) Denounce. D) Disgrace. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deference. 8. What does unequivocal mean? A) Leaving no doubt. B) Not fair, evenly balanced, or having equal advantage. C) Shout, complain, or argue loudly or vehemently. D) Done openly and unashamedly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Leaving no doubt. 9. Which word means extreme praise or admiration? A) Adversity. B) Culpable. C) Adulation. D) Abstracted. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adulation. 10. The (a) businessman lost everything when the stock market crashed. A) Grandeliquent. B) Antiseptic. C) Censorious. D) A. hapless. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A. hapless. 11. In the sentence "The author's argument, though **perspicacious**, was not well-received by the audience, who found it overly complex and inaccessible, " what does "perspicacious" most closely mean? A) Insightful. B) Simplistic. C) Long-winded. D) Pretentious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Insightful. 12. This sentence is so ..... ; it could really be any of our vocabulary words. A) Negligible. B) Gregarious. C) Sedentary. D) Ambiguous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Ambiguous. 13. Light from a nonthermal source A) Feign. B) Olfactory. C) Luminescence. D) Vim. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Luminescence. 14. Select the word that BEST matches the red word as a synonym.If you abhor bullying, you can make a difference by fighting it. A) Hate. B) Choose. C) Avoid. D) Understand. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hate. 15. Sunk to a low position; lower than low A) Abject. B) Expedite. C) Destitute. D) Anarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abject. 16. What does the term Benevolent mean? A) Friendly, helpful. B) Funny, silly. C) Hungry, starving. D) Happy, cheerful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Friendly, helpful. 17. What is the meaning of the word 'Abate'? A) To increase in intensity or spread. B) To remain constant or unchanged. C) To become more intense or widespread. D) To become less intense or widespread. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To become less intense or widespread. 18. Choose the correct definition:fortuitous A) (n) high praise. B) (adj) happening by luck. C) (v) to clear from blame. D) (adj) persistent, hard-working. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) (adj) happening by luck. 19. "To emphasize or draw attention to" most nearly means: A) Speculate. B) Refute. C) Underscore. D) Undermine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Underscore. 20. Showing a casual and cheerful indifference considered to be callous or improper A) Blithe. B) Headstrong. C) Lackluster. D) Enunciation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Blithe. 21. An art dealer all his life, Juan Hernandez was a ..... of Mexican art of the 19th century. A) Cacophony. B) Connoisseur. C) Cerebral. D) Chattel. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Connoisseur. 22. What is the definition of the word "pallor" ? A) Unnatural lack of color. B) High body temperature. C) Sudden weight loss. D) Excessive sweating. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Unnatural lack of color. 23. Unconventional; a little kooky-strange A) Archaic. B) Recondite. C) Imminent. D) Assiduous. E) Eccentric. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Eccentric. 24. Characterized by joking (used to describe words/moods, etc.) A) Jocose. B) Plaintive. C) Elegiac. D) Jocular. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Jocular. 25. Which word has the definition of:something that actually words against you. A) Counterproductive. B) Nuance. C) Momentous. D) Disdain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Counterproductive. 26. Part of speech-complacent A) Adverb. B) Noun. C) Adjective. D) Verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adjective. 27. Dark and forbidding; ominous A) Cosmopolitan. B) Stygian. C) Procrustean. D) Rife. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Stygian. 28. "To continue to have something or keep possession of" most nearly means: A) Own. B) Retain. C) Impose. D) Honor. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Retain. 29. Fearing his money would be ..... by his family, Wesley gave all of it to charity when he died. A) Squandered. B) Employed. C) Spurned. D) Relegated. E) Thwarted. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Squandered. 30. She invested her savings ..... , prioritizing long-term stability over short-term profit. A) Ambiguously. B) Inevitably. C) Prudently. D) Abruptly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Prudently. 31. Expected or required A) Exertion. B) Obligatory. C) Certitude. D) Nexus. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Obligatory. 32. Fill in the blank. She didn't want to have a ..... party, so she invited circus acts to make it more fun. A) Prosaic. B) Provocative. C) Prosperous. D) Prudent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prosaic. 33. A release of emotional tension A) Catharsis. B) Maxim. C) Apocryphal. D) Revere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Catharsis. 34. Fill in the blank:Capable of being felt, touchable is described as ..... A) Palpable. B) Abashed. C) Facetious. D) Cogitate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Palpable. 35. Which word means to lesson or decrease gradually? A) Aggrandize. B) Also-ran. C) Chasm. D) Wane. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Wane. 36. Then man, usually, is considered the DOMINANT ROLE in a familial context. A) Potluck. B) Punitive. C) Patriarchal. D) Partridge. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Patriarchal. 37. The bank robbers are still at large, but the police are carefully tracking there whereabouts. A) No change. B) They're. C) Their. D) Its. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Their. 38. HAVING NO DESIRE MEANS YEARNING A) T. B) F. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) F. 39. Select the correct vocabulary word for the followiong definition:an example that is used to justify simliar occurrences at a later time A) Ploy. B) Precedent. C) Pinnacle. D) Dupe. E) Spurn. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Precedent. 40. Which part of speech is the word "oblivion" ? A) Adverb. B) Verb. C) Adjective. D) Noun. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Noun. 41. To earnestly caution A) Acquiesce. B) Acrimonious. C) Abstemious. D) Admonish. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Admonish. 42. True or FalseLocomotion-N. Movement A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 43. Justus' (a) comments during class were not appreciated. Nobody found them funny. A) Deleterious. B) Aberration. C) A. facetious. D) Capitulate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A. facetious. 44. To examine or analyze closely A) Consummate. B) Truncate. C) Holistic. D) Parse. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Parse. 45. Antonym for INTREPID A) Bold. B) Cowardly. C) Fearless. D) Strange. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Cowardly. 46. A compilation or list; a collection A) Consternation. B) Vitriolic. C) Eidetic. D) Compendium. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Compendium. 47. Ben is an ..... Instagram user and is always posting pictures of his food and his trips. A) Adversity. B) Adament. C) Amicable. D) Avid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Avid. 48. To intensify, improve; strengthen A) Enhance. B) Obscure. C) Glutton. D) Engender. E) Delineate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enhance. 49. The queen signed the royal decree, with all eyes upon her. A) Ordain. B) Official document. C) Historical document. D) Order. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ordain. 50. The word cordial is A) A noun. B) An adjective. C) An adverb. D) A verb. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An adjective. 51. To sooth or make calm; make peace A) Sedentary. B) Transient. C) Placate. D) Gregarious. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Placate. 52. The definition of wary is ..... A) Careful, watchful. B) To look at carefully. C) To free from blame. D) Irritable, prone to argument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Careful, watchful. 53. What is an antonym of mere? A) Outgoing. B) Complicated. C) Simple. D) Intense. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Complicated. 54. (verb) to make less severe; to relieve, to lessen A) Alleviate. B) Allure. C) Aloof. D) Also-ran. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Alleviate. 55. Experiencing something through another person A) Pastoral. B) Hamper. C) Tranquil. D) Vicariously. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vicariously. 56. In what context is the word "abrogate" most often used? A) Legal or political. B) Culinary. C) Medical. D) Artistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Legal or political. 57. The guidon bearer posthumously ..... the flag to young Henry Fleming, who grasped it and then charged the enemy line. A) Relinquished. B) Conjured. C) Seceded. D) Retained. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Relinquished. 58. It means general agreement; it also means the judgment arrived at by most of those concerned. A) Consensus. B) Profusion. C) Reticence. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Consensus. 59. Consider the quote: "Whatever affects one directly, affects all indirectly." How does this relate to the concept of implication? A) It means that everyone is affected in the same way. B) It implies that only group actions have consequences. C) It shows that only direct actions matter. D) It suggests that indirect effects or consequences are also important, which is the essence of implication. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) It suggests that indirect effects or consequences are also important, which is the essence of implication. 60. Being a voluble person is a necessary skill for a politician because it means you are/can ..... A) Excitable. B) Proud and self-absorbed. C) Approachable. D) Talk with a great deal of ease. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Talk with a great deal of ease. ← 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