This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Test Prep > Sat > Sat Vocabulary – Quiz 8 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Sat Vocabulary Quiz 8 (60 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. To remove improper or offensive from a text or account A) Bungler. B) Belie. C) Bowdlerize. D) Bane. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bowdlerize. 2. Select the vocabulary word that best fits in the blank:Considering his poor academic record, he was surprisingly ..... concerning his chances of being accepted to a top university. A) Sanguine. B) Cogent. C) Vindictive. D) Voracious. E) Sordid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sanguine. 3. When Bobby threw his toys against the wall, his father ..... him for bad behavior. A) Callous. B) Caucus. C) Chronic. D) Chided. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Chided. 4. Choose the correct definition:impute A) (v) tp attribute an action to a particular person or group. B) (adj) showy, displaying wealth. C) (n) repair, making something new again. D) (n) a person who complies with accepted rules and customs. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) (v) tp attribute an action to a particular person or group. 5. Please do not order me around, Lady Boswell, I am neither your servant nor your ..... A) Cerebral. B) Bulwark. C) Chattel. D) Connoisseur. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Chattel. 6. Select the word that best fills in the blank.Because Joan lost her job, she is going to request a ..... so she can pay her debts when her finances are stronger. A) Foster. B) Compassion. C) Extenuating. D) Forbearance. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Forbearance. 7. Choose the word that best matches the definition:To recognize or understand something clearly A) Conciliate. B) Blasphemy. C) Surreptitious. D) Discern. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Discern. 8. A short, heavy club ..... A) Opportune. B) Beleaguer. C) Dulcet. D) Bludgeon. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Bludgeon. 9. What does "adumbrate" mean? A) To argue in favor. B) To praise highly. C) To decorate. D) To sketch out in a vague way. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To sketch out in a vague way. 10. Which word means to give the appearance of or to pretend? A) Assume. B) Affect. C) Imagine. D) Effect. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Affect. 11. Unpleasantly or offensively noisy; glaring A) Impregnable. B) Subdued. C) Vociferous. D) Blatant. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Blatant. 12. To decline in vigor, strength, or interest A) Specious. B) Tawdry. C) Flag. D) Blithe. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Flag. 13. Even though he was nervous, waiting for two hours to try out for the talent show was still ..... A) Nonchalant. B) Monotonous. C) Benevolent. D) Precarious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Monotonous. 14. Pat grounded his daughter as a ..... when she came home past curfew. A) Nostalgic. B) Animosity. C) Repercussion. D) Voracious. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Repercussion. 15. Select the vocabulary word that best fits in the blank:There was a whole thought in the 1980s, that Wall Street greed thing and this sense of ..... was in the air. A) Voracious. B) Cogent. C) Tumult. D) Avarice. E) Surly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Avarice. 16. An interruption in time or space; a break A) Crevasse. B) Fissure. C) Hiatus. D) Fission. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hiatus. 17. Which word is synonymous with someone who tends to betray? A) Nonchalant. B) Lobbyist. C) Mundane. D) Perfidious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perfidious. 18. What does Desolate mean? A) Bare, empty. B) Noisy, chaotic. C) Crowded, full. D) Lively, vibrant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Bare, empty. 19. Hardworking; busy-persistent A) Recondite. B) Imminent. C) Assiduous. D) Archaic. E) Eccentric. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Assiduous. 20. Professing beliefs or acting in opposition to one's true beliefs or actions; insincerity A) Hypocrisy. B) Regress. C) Inhospitable. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hypocrisy. 21. "Pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence" . Choose the correct vocabulary word that goes with the statement. A) Benign. B) Heed. C) Preclude. D) Malignant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Benign. 22. From which language does the English word 'camera' originate? A) Spanish. B) German. C) Latin. D) French. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Latin. 23. To increase in size; enlarge, to cause to appear greater in power, influence A) Aftermath. B) Aggrandize. C) Ajar. D) Alienate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aggrandize. 24. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune A) Euphoric. B) Evade. C) Calamity. D) Concoction. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Calamity. 25. A (public) fight or brawl A) Rife. B) Incantation. C) Contemptuous. D) Donnybrook. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Donnybrook. 26. Rise after defeat ..... A) Resurgent. B) Elapse. C) Karma. D) Draconian. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Resurgent. 27. What does the word 'custom' mean? A) To follow a tradition. B) To change something completely. C) To make familiar by use. D) To avoid something. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To make familiar by use. 28. Mistaken conviction that is long lasting A) Abdicate. B) Delusion. C) Boorish. D) Evoke. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Delusion. 29. To berate; lecture ..... A) Myriad. B) Accolade. C) Grandiloquent. D) Harangue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Harangue. 30. Done without care; in a routine fashion A) Perfunctory. B) Ravenous. C) Quell. D) Precocious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perfunctory. 31. 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. 32. 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. 33. What does "adroit" mean? A) Skillful. B) Clumsy. C) Praiseworthy. D) Dangerous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skillful. 34. 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. 35. 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. 36. Choose the word that best fits the given definition:'Showing or expressing hostility' A) Welcoming. B) Kind. C) Friendly. D) Hostile. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Hostile. 37. 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. 38. Which word means talkative? A) Hamper. B) Garrulous. C) Jettison. D) Bulwark. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Garrulous. 39. What is an example of frugal behavior? A) Ignoring discounts. B) Throwing away old clothes. C) Purchasing luxury items. D) Buying clothes on sale. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Buying clothes on sale. 40. The frazzled mom tried to appease her whining children by buying them ice cream. A) To pacify, to bring peace, quiet, or calm to; to relieve. B) To make something unpleasant less severe. C) Put an end to. D) To help settle differences. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To pacify, to bring peace, quiet, or calm to; to relieve. 41. 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) Efface. C) Garner. D) Bizarre. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Garner. 42. The professor asked students to ..... their arguments with evidence rather than relying on personal opinions. A) Emphasize. B) Preclude. C) Undermine. D) Demonstrate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Demonstrate. 43. Which word means wild or disturbing activity? A) Turbulence. B) Ineptness. C) Adversity. D) Transparent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Turbulence. 44. Aladdin ..... the genie by rubbing the magic lamp. A) Conjured. B) Relinquished. C) Seceded. D) Banished. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conjured. 45. Disposition to be friendly and approachable A) Affability. B) Reproach. C) Benign. D) Precarious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Affability. 46. Foul smelling; rotten, rancid, malodorous A) Efficacious. B) Sybaritic. C) Servile. D) Putrid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Putrid. 47. To seek, attain, or achieve a goal A) Astute. B) Badger. C) Assuage. D) Aspire. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Aspire. 48. Grumbling, grumpy; fussy A) Obliterate. B) Pugnacious. C) Vernacular. D) Nefarious. E) Querulous. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Querulous. 49. Someone who speaks multiple languages A) Polyglot. B) Hoi polloi. C) Solipsism. D) Polymath. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polyglot. 50. What does "adverse" mean? A) Skillful. B) Favorable. C) Antagonistic or dangerous. D) Praiseworthy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antagonistic or dangerous. 51. The ability to move A) Mitigate. B) Desolate. C) The Cupid Shuffle. D) Mobility. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mobility. 52. Unsound mode of reasoning; delusion A) Abduction. B) Fallacy. C) Exacerbate. D) Hamper. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fallacy. 53. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of something innovative? A) Experimental. B) Original. C) Traditional. D) New. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Traditional. 54. The storm was ..... to the community as houses were uprooted and destroyed. A) Eminent. B) Deleterious. C) Deference. D) Entrenched. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Deleterious. 55. Choose the vocabulary word that means:(n) a small place, society, or situation that has the same characteristics as something much larger A) Jockey. B) Pivot. C) Microcosm. D) Rejuvenate. E) Intuition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Microcosm. 56. What does 'ostracism' refer to? A) Clean or pure. B) Vigorous in expression. C) Exclusion from a group. D) Critical of others. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Exclusion from a group. 57. Work at a job that you love, not one that you ..... A) Bolster. B) Abhor. C) Levity. D) Antithesis. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abhor. 58. Shrill, high-pitched; grating A) Strident. B) Anarchy. C) Gullible. D) Discreet. E) Discrete. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Strident. 59. 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. 60. In the sentence "We were best friends in elementary school, but now our interests are too divergent, and we have nothing in common, " what does the word "divergent" imply about the friends' interests? A) Their interests are consistent. 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