This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Sat > Sat Vocabulary – Quiz 17 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Sat Vocabulary Quiz 17 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A large book A) Tome. B) Paradigm. C) Lieu. D) Quell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tome. 2. What does "adumbrate" mean? A) To praise highly. B) To sketch out in a vague way. C) To argue in favor. D) To decorate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To sketch out in a vague way. 3. Which word means to give the appearance of or to pretend? A) Affect. B) Assume. C) Effect. D) Imagine. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Affect. 4. Unpleasantly or offensively noisy; glaring A) Vociferous. B) Blatant. C) Impregnable. D) Subdued. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Blatant. 5. To decline in vigor, strength, or interest A) Blithe. B) Flag. C) Tawdry. D) Specious. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Flag. 6. Even though he was nervous, waiting for two hours to try out for the talent show was still ..... A) Monotonous. B) Precarious. C) Nonchalant. D) Benevolent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Monotonous. 7. Pat grounded his daughter as a ..... when she came home past curfew. A) Repercussion. B) Nostalgic. C) Animosity. D) Voracious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Repercussion. 8. 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) Surly. D) Tumult. E) Avarice. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Avarice. 9. Laconic A) Stubborn. B) Tending to show off one's learning. C) Concise. D) Wordy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Concise. 10. An interruption in time or space; a break A) Fission. B) Crevasse. C) Hiatus. D) Fissure. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Hiatus. 11. Which word is synonymous with someone who tends to betray? A) Nonchalant. B) Mundane. C) Lobbyist. D) Perfidious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Perfidious. 12. What does Desolate mean? A) Crowded, full. B) Bare, empty. C) Lively, vibrant. D) Noisy, chaotic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bare, empty. 13. Hardworking; busy-persistent A) Archaic. B) Imminent. C) Recondite. D) Assiduous. E) Eccentric. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assiduous. 14. 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. 15. "Pleasant and beneficial in nature or influence" . Choose the correct vocabulary word that goes with the statement. A) Malignant. B) Benign. C) Heed. D) Preclude. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Benign. 16. From which language does the English word 'camera' originate? A) German. B) Spanish. C) Latin. D) French. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Latin. 17. Contradictory A) Lacking interest. B) Not able to be true at the same time. C) Being well qualified. D) No longer in fashion. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Not able to be true at the same time. 18. 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. 19. Threatening A) Tedious. B) Menacing. C) Apathy. D) Obliterate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Menacing. 20. An event resulting in great loss and misfortune A) Calamity. B) Concoction. C) Evade. D) Euphoric. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Calamity. 21. A (public) fight or brawl A) Incantation. B) Contemptuous. C) Rife. D) Donnybrook. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Donnybrook. 22. Rise after defeat ..... A) Draconian. B) Karma. C) Resurgent. D) Elapse. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Resurgent. 23. What does the word 'custom' mean? A) To make familiar by use. B) To avoid something. C) To change something completely. D) To follow a tradition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To make familiar by use. 24. Mistaken conviction that is long lasting A) Abdicate. B) Boorish. C) Evoke. D) Delusion. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Delusion. 25. To berate; lecture ..... A) Myriad. B) Accolade. C) Grandiloquent. D) Harangue. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Harangue. 26. Done without care; in a routine fashion A) Perfunctory. B) Precocious. C) Quell. D) Ravenous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Perfunctory. 27. Jessica tried to ..... her friends who had started arguing loudly in the hallway. A) Placate. B) Gregarious. C) Ambiguous. D) Negligible. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Placate. 28. 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. 29. Urchin A) Waif. B) Wail. C) Wait. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Waif. 30. What does "adroit" mean? A) Clumsy. B) Skillful. 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