This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Test Prep > Sat > Sat Vocabulary – Quiz 4 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Sat Vocabulary Quiz 4 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. The professor carried the Shakespearean ..... as if it were a Bible. A) Paradigm. B) Lieu. C) Camaraderie. D) Tome. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Tome. 2. Lawlessness; an absence of control-disorder A) Discreet. B) Discrete. C) Strident. D) Gullible. E) Anarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Anarchy. 3. What is the definition of 'offhand'? A) To make an example of. B) Say that one no longer holds an opinion or belief. C) Ungraciously or offensively. D) To find a way around. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ungraciously or offensively. 4. Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing A) Commence. B) Euphoric. C) Evade. D) Calamity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Evade. 5. Not subject or susceptible to change or variation A) Diminutive. B) Sedate. C) Immutable. D) Despondent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Immutable. 6. What is the meaning of the word root 'aud'? A) To hear. B) To taste. C) To see. D) To touch. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To hear. 7. What does covet mean? A) Yearn to possess or have. B) Fraud. C) An agreement. D) An expression of sympathy, especially on the occasion of a death. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yearn to possess or have. 8. What does Discord mean? A) A lack of respect. B) Disagreement. C) Creation of a problem. D) A grueling task. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disagreement. 9. Deserted, abandoned, lonely A) Vulgar. B) Solipsism. C) Monotonous. D) Desolate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Desolate. 10. When babysitting an infant, a sitter must be frugal with the needs of the child, especially the need for food, security, and sleep. A) [NO CHANGE]. B) Attentive to. C) Thrifty with. D) Shrewd about. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Attentive to. 11. After he experienced the (a) of his former friends, Greg began eating lunch by himself at the picnic table. A) Meretricious. B) Irreverence. C) A. ostracism. D) Trenchant. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) A. ostracism. 12. To insult; to cause someone to lose dignity or respect A) Vicarious. B) Affluent. C) Demean. D) Paucity. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Demean. 13. What is the meaning of the Greek root word 'tele'? A) Small or tiny. B) Far off or distant. C) Loud or noisy. D) Wet or damp. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Far off or distant. 14. Long hours walking his dog Crazy Maisy after school had a(n) ..... effect on Slaten's schoolwork. A) Fabulist. B) Deleterious. C) Voluptuary. D) Premonition. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deleterious. 15. Mood, atmosphere ..... A) Ambiance. B) Cubism. C) Coterie. D) Enrage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ambiance. 16. Which word means misfortune or unfavorable happenings? A) Culpable. B) Adversity. C) Abstracted. D) Adulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Adversity. 17. A "talisman" is most closely a: A) Curse. B) Poison. C) Weapon. D) Charm. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Charm. 18. We used two ropes to ..... the boat to the dock. A) Wane. B) Chasm. C) Tether. D) Aggandize. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tether. 19. To arouse or incite A) Foment. B) Postulate. C) Substantiate. D) Dubious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Foment. 20. Noticeable or important; standing out. A) Rectitude. B) Salient. C) Aberration. D) Fickle. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Salient. 21. My grandparents fell deeply in love with each other from the moment they met; my grandpa, in particular, always described feeling attentive to my grandma from the first time he saw her. A) Enamored with. B) Concerned with. C) Armored with. D) [NO CHANGE]. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Enamored with. 22. To gesture for emphasis A) Gesticulate. B) Rapport. C) Importunate. D) Gestate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Gesticulate. 23. Aesthetic (Noun or adject.)means A) Smugly pleased and self-satisfied. B) A person who is appreciative of art or beauty. C) Concerned with beauty or the appreciation with beauty. D) A new method or idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Concerned with beauty or the appreciation with beauty. 24. Characterized by a feeling of well-being or elation A) Capitulate. B) Evade. C) Bluster. D) Euphoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Euphoric. 25. The community responded with ..... to the theif who stole from the homeless man. A) Bittersweet. B) Disdain. C) Malicious. D) Apex. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disdain. 26. "Submissive or fawning in attitude or behavior" Choose the correct vocabulary word that goes with the statement. A) Dominant. B) Tangible. C) Heed. D) Servile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Servile. 27. Overcrowded; tightly packed; blocked A) Importunate. B) Congested. C) Insufferable. D) Preferential. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Congested. 28. A mouth or opening A) Crevice. B) Hiatus. C) Orifice. D) Concave. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Orifice. 29. Don't ..... me with insults. A) Underscore. B) Postulate. C) Undermine. D) Promulgate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Undermine. 30. Fill in the blank: "Many sermons tend to focus on the moral ..... in our time." A) Decadence. B) Fastidious. C) Imminent. D) Hedonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Decadence. 31. The extent of the disgraced Mayor's ..... was not limited to bribery and embezzlement ..... A) Neglect. B) Malfeasance. C) Nefarious. D) Iniquitous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Malfeasance. 32. Cautious; discreet; exercising good judgement A) Prudent. B) Reproach. C) Succinct. D) Quell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Prudent. 33. Your ..... disrespect earned you a suspension. A) Absolved. B) Ensconced. C) Creditable. D) Blatant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blatant. 34. It means expressing or dealing with facts or conditions as perceived without distortion by personal feelings, prejudices, or interpretations. A) Peripheral. B) Objective. C) Flagrant. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Objective. 35. The definition of abate is ..... A) Reduce or lessen. B) Give up a position. C) To really hate. D) To refrain from doing something. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reduce or lessen. 36. To call or summon forth. A) Evoke. B) Achromatic. C) Delusion. D) Boorish. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Evoke. 37. A lack of interest or desire A) Covert. B) Autonomous. C) Emaciated. D) Apathy. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Apathy. 38. Which word means "strikingly odd in appearance or style; grotesque" ? A) Efface. B) Bizarre. C) Hedonist. D) Imminent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bizarre. 39. What word means:Temporary A) Transient. B) Tenacious. C) Superfluous. D) Tactful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transient. 40. Part of speech-ambivalent A) Verb. B) Adverb. C) Noun. D) Adjective. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Adjective. 41. Meticulous; paying attention to detail A) Felicity. B) Fastidious. C) Impeach. D) Facilitate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fastidious. 42. Being supercilious has more to do with A) Having pride for a personal accomplishment. B) Pretentiousness. C) Being confident. D) Being super silly. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Pretentiousness. 43. The definition of abstain is ..... A) To refrain from doing something. B) Reduce or lessen. C) :to really hate. D) Pertaining to beauty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To refrain from doing something. 44. Which sentence uses the word "rectify" correctly? A) The teacher needs more money to rectify the issue of not having enough books. B) Allowing more kids into the school will rectify the issue of overcrowding. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The teacher needs more money to rectify the issue of not having enough books. 45. If John Smith wants to win the election, he will have to mollify the voters he angered during last week's debate. A) To make or become less severe; to lessen pain or damage. B) To put an end to. C) To calm or soothe. D) To make something unpleasant less severe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To calm or soothe. 46. The calculator rapidly ..... the mechanical adding machine. A) Affluent. B) Indigenous. C) Vicarious. D) Antiquated. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antiquated. 47. To remove or delete objectionable parts of a book A) Bucolic. B) Pastoral. C) Bowdlerize. D) Rustic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bowdlerize. 48. Fill in the blank. How ..... of you to tell everyone that you have a summer house in France and a winter home in Florida. A) Pretentious. B) Procrastinate. C) Precocious. D) Pragmatic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pretentious. 49. The ..... of the palace was very impressive; it was covered in gold! A) Opulence. B) Lobbyist. C) Orator. D) Mundane. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Opulence. 50. Select the word that best fills in the blank.The ..... Christmas tree was so fancy, it received an award. A) Fortuitous. B) Collaborate. C) Fortitude. D) Florid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Florid. 51. What does digression mean? A) Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike. B) Cause to be distrusted or disbelieved. C) Leaving the main subject or topic. D) Quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leaving the main subject or topic. 52. Daily activities of people who do not serve in the military or work as police officers or firefighters (a) A) A. civilian. B) Advocate. C) Civil. D) Succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. civilian. 53. Choose the word that best fits the given definition:'Having or showing tact' A) Rude. B) Empathetic. C) Polite. D) Impolite. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Empathetic. 54. Going before, preceding A) Appalling. B) Aptitude. C) Alienate. D) Antecedent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antecedent. 55. Fill in the blank:The ..... Mrs. Jones celebrated her 100th birthday on Sunday. A) Venerable. B) Wary. C) Tactful. D) Tenacious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Venerable. 56. Fame in the world of rock and pop is largely ..... A) Morbid. B) Ephemeral. C) Specious. D) Indigenous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ephemeral. 57. Select the correct definition:indignant A) Feeling anger over a perceived injustice. B) Two things that are fundamentally different. C) Determined by impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason. D) Tastelessly showy; cheap and shoddy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Feeling anger over a perceived injustice. 58. To twist, wrench, or bend severely out of shape (sometimes one's body) A) Distort. B) Contort. C) Proclivity. D) Diverge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Contort. 59. Fill in the blank:His views on technology are so ..... that he refuses to use a smartphone. A) Altruistic. B) Antediluvian. C) Innovative. D) Modern. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Antediluvian. 60. To make amends for; to atone A) Foist. B) Comprise. C) Disconcert. D) Expiate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Expiate. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTest Prep QuizzesGrammar QuizzesSat Vocabulary Quiz 1Sat Vocabulary Quiz 2Sat Vocabulary Quiz 3Sat Vocabulary Quiz 5Sat Vocabulary Quiz 6Sat Vocabulary Quiz 7Sat Vocabulary Quiz 8Sat Vocabulary Quiz 9 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books