This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Sat > Sat Vocabulary – Quiz 18 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Sat Vocabulary Quiz 18 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Detrimental A) Noun. B) Verb. C) Adjective. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adjective. 2. 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. 3. 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. 4. Choose the word that best fits the given definition:'Showing or expressing hostility' A) Hostile. B) Friendly. C) Welcoming. D) Kind. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Hostile. 5. Amicable A) Noun. B) Verb. C) Adjective. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adjective. 6. 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. 7. Which word means talkative? A) Garrulous. B) Bulwark. C) Jettison. D) Hamper. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Garrulous. 8. What is an example of frugal behavior? A) Throwing away old clothes. B) Buying clothes on sale. C) Purchasing luxury items. D) Ignoring discounts. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Buying clothes on sale. 9. The frazzled mom tried to appease her whining children by buying them ice cream. A) To make something unpleasant less severe. B) To help settle differences. C) Put an end to. D) To pacify, to bring peace, quiet, or calm to; to relieve. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To pacify, to bring peace, quiet, or calm to; to relieve. 10. Choose the word that best fits: "By paying close attention, you may be able to ..... some information that will elucidate the situation." A) Garner. B) Efface. C) Cajole. D) Bizarre. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Garner. 11. The professor asked students to ..... their arguments with evidence rather than relying on personal opinions. A) Emphasize. B) Demonstrate. C) Preclude. D) Undermine. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Demonstrate. 12. Which word means wild or disturbing activity? A) Transparent. B) Ineptness. C) Adversity. D) Turbulence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Turbulence. 13. Aladdin ..... the genie by rubbing the magic lamp. A) Conjured. B) Relinquished. C) Seceded. D) Banished. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Conjured. 14. Disposition to be friendly and approachable A) Affability. B) Precarious. C) Benign. D) Reproach. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Affability. 15. Foul smelling; rotten, rancid, malodorous A) Efficacious. B) Servile. C) Sybaritic. D) Putrid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Putrid. 16. To seek, attain, or achieve a goal A) Assuage. B) Aspire. C) Badger. D) Astute. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aspire. 17. Grumbling, grumpy; fussy A) Nefarious. B) Obliterate. C) Vernacular. D) Querulous. E) Pugnacious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Querulous. 18. Someone who speaks multiple languages A) Polyglot. B) Hoi polloi. C) Polymath. D) Solipsism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polyglot. 19. What does "adverse" mean? A) Favorable. B) Skillful. C) Antagonistic or dangerous. D) Praiseworthy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antagonistic or dangerous. 20. The ability to move A) Mitigate. B) Desolate. C) The Cupid Shuffle. D) Mobility. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mobility. 21. Unsound mode of reasoning; delusion A) Abduction. B) Fallacy. C) Exacerbate. D) Hamper. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fallacy. 22. Which of the following is NOT a characteristic of something innovative? A) New. B) Original. C) Traditional. D) Experimental. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Traditional. 23. The storm was ..... to the community as houses were uprooted and destroyed. A) Deleterious. B) Deference. C) Entrenched. D) Eminent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Deleterious. 24. Choose the vocabulary word that means:(n) a small place, society, or situation that has the same characteristics as something much larger A) Intuition. B) Pivot. C) Jockey. D) Rejuvenate. E) Microcosm. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Microcosm. 25. What does 'ostracism' refer to? A) Critical of others. B) Clean or pure. C) Vigorous in expression. D) Exclusion from a group. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exclusion from a group. 26. Work at a job that you love, not one that you ..... A) Abhor. B) Antithesis. C) Bolster. D) Levity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abhor. 27. Shrill, high-pitched; grating A) Strident. B) Gullible. C) Discreet. D) Discrete. E) Anarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Strident. 28. 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. 29. 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 very similar. B) Their interests are moving apart. C) Their interests are identical. D) Their interests are consistent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Their interests are moving apart. 30. Match each vocabulary word from the word bank with the correct definition. Word Bank:abate, conspicuous, abundant, pervasive, adhere, ambivalent, buttress, abet, abhor, verisimilitude6 ..... :decrease, recede A) Abate. B) Abhor. C) Abundant. D) Adhere. 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