This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > English Grammar > Grammar > Test Prep > Sat > Sat Vocabulary – Quiz 9 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Sat Vocabulary Quiz 9 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Which sentence best illustrates the meaning of 'altruistic'? A) She donated her entire bonus to charity, showing her altruistic nature. B) He kept all the profits for himself, proving his altruistic tendencies. C) Her altruistic behavior was evident when she refused to help anyone. D) His altruistic actions were questioned when he demanded recognition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She donated her entire bonus to charity, showing her altruistic nature. 2. Recalling the past ..... A) Reminisce. B) Histrionic. C) Milieu. D) Arduous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reminisce. 3. Intended to deceive or entrap; sly, treacherous A) Blithe. B) Opulent. C) Dour. D) Insidious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Insidious. 4. Match each vocabulary word from the word bank with the correct definition. Word Bank:abate, conspicuous, abundant, pervasive, adhere, ambivalent, buttress, abet, abhor, verisimilitude7 ..... :to aid, act as an accomplice A) Adherent. B) Abhor. C) Abundant. D) Abet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Abet. 5. Passion; excessive devotion A) Invoke. B) Fanaticism. C) Maudlin. D) Glutton. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fanaticism. 6. Choose the correct definition:adulation A) (adj) happening by luck. B) (v) to improve, bring a greater level of intensity. C) (n) high praise. D) (adj) relating to prose; dull, commonplace. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) (n) high praise. 7. Choose the word that best matches the definition:Careful or extreme unwillingness to spend money A) Adulation. B) Squander. C) Parsimony. D) Discern. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Parsimony. 8. Which term describes something comparable in certain respects, typically in a way which makes clearer the nature of things compared? A) Respectively. B) Comparatively. C) Reciprocate. D) Analogous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Analogous. 9. Charge with misdeeds in public office A) Fallible. B) Heathen. C) Insolent. D) Impeach. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Impeach. 10. When Rexton and Joey were unable to fulfill their basic duties, instead of firing them, Albert, who is their boss, ..... them to kitchen cleanup. A) Vied. B) Impeded. C) Squandered. D) Rankled. E) Relegated. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Relegated. 11. Ever since Jack's hamster died, he just mopes around the house, day after day in the ..... A) Fjord. B) Aspire. C) Consensus. D) Citadel. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fjord. 12. To be erroneous to to A) Err. B) Correct. C) Change. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Err. 13. Extreme wickedness; reprehensible A) Pugnacious. B) Obliterate. C) Vernacular. D) Nefarious. E) Querulous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nefarious. 14. To plead; to beg for relentlessly A) Importunate. B) Gesticulate. C) Importune. D) Periphery. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Importune. 15. Willing and likely to pursue a lawsuit. A) Placid. B) Spurious. C) Elasticity. D) Litigious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Litigious. 16. The two roads that ..... at the intersection meet again in about 35 miles. A) Diffidance. B) Converge. C) Enthrall. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Converge. 17. The children were ..... after lying to their parents and wished they had told the truth. A) Contrite. B) Dilatory. C) Hapless. D) Hackneyed. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Contrite. 18. Maria faced much ..... in high school but overcame it and eventually became class president. A) Adversity. B) Debacle. C) Amicable. D) Avid. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adversity. 19. Clashing or incompatible; discordant A) Vitriolic. B) Anomaly. C) Innocuous. D) Incongruous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Incongruous. 20. The ..... music in the elevator made the ride to the fifty-fifth floor pleasurable. A) Dulcet. B) Domain. C) Efface. D) Doldrums. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Dulcet. 21. Our ..... teacher always gives us at least three hours of homework a night and term papers to write over every vacation. A) Dromedary. B) Edifice. C) Egalitarian. D) Draconian. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Draconian. 22. What does "capacity" describe? A) Your ability to do something or the amount something can hold. B) The weight of an object. C) The color of an object. D) The speed of an action. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Your ability to do something or the amount something can hold. 23. Which of the following best describes a "cordial" greeting? A) Full of hugs and excessive emotion. B) Cold and formal. C) Perfectly pleasant without excessive emotion. D) Indifferent and uninterested. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Perfectly pleasant without excessive emotion. 24. Choose the correct definition:perfidious A) (adj.) nameless; without a disclosed identity. B) (adj) happening by luck, fortunate. C) (n) wisdom. D) (adj) faithless; disloyal. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) (adj) faithless; disloyal. 25. To publicly brag; boast A) Tout. B) Efface. C) Brawn. D) Extol. E) Quell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tout. 26. This new idea doesn't work well with the rest as it hasn't been properly ..... with the over-arching system. A) Grouped. B) Integrated. C) Accredited. D) Attributed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Integrated. 27. Wearing an inappropriate t-shirt to church is an example of: A) Trenchant. B) Hapless. C) Ostracism. D) Irreverence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Irreverence. 28. He ..... disregarded the rules. A) Lacklusterly. B) Rescind. C) Blithely. D) Crepuscularly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Blithely. 29. Because the biggest thing in my hometown is the grocery store, the city really is a prosaic little place. A) Aesthically pleasing; cute. B) Dull; commonplace. C) Small. D) Self-containted. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Dull; commonplace. 30. Define-Magnanimous A) Aloof. B) Generous in overlooking insult or injury by others. C) Mean-spirited. D) Noble. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Generous in overlooking insult or injury by others. ← 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