This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Sat > Sat Vocabulary – Quiz 38 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Sat Vocabulary Quiz 38 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Mr. Smith's ..... behavior made it clear that he had not been trained in matters of etiquette. A) Helpful. B) Caustic. C) Banal. D) Altruistic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Caustic. 2. What is the best definition of "Noxious" ? A) Pleasant. B) Nasty. C) Awesome. D) Favorable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Nasty. 3. She ..... a creative way to solve the problem that no one else had thought of. A) Surmise. B) Contrive. C) Disparate. D) Indecipherable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Contrive. 4. What is the word for this definition:Lacking self-control, characterized by excessive indulgences A) Temperance. B) Refute. C) Intemperate. D) Complacent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intemperate. 5. Cheerful, happy, merry (describing people or personalities) A) Bacchic. B) Festoon. C) Jocose. D) Jocular. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jocose. 6. How might you feel if something is irksome? A) Happy. B) Annoyed. C) Thrilled. D) Relaxed. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Annoyed. 7. Poverty stricken; without the basic necessities of life A) Destitute. B) Expedite. C) Anarchy. D) Abject. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Destitute. 8. At family events, I tend to avoid trite conversations because they're usually about the weather or how school is going. A) Unusual; interesting. B) Unoriginal and stale due to overuse. C) Engaging. D) An obvious remark uttered as if it were original. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Unoriginal and stale due to overuse. 9. What does it mean to 'proclaim' something? A) To form a theory. B) To set up or show to be true. C) The avoidance of extremes especially in behavior. D) To announce or declare officially or publicly. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To announce or declare officially or publicly. 10. I give no ..... to the rumors circulating about his personal life. A) Disparate. B) Paucity. C) Immerse. D) Credence. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Credence. 11. Extravagant or exaggerated A) Civic. B) Melodramatic. C) Onset. D) Persecute. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Melodramatic. 12. The organizer ..... support from hundreds as she delivered an impassioned speech. A) Postulated. B) Conceded. C) Corroborated. D) Galvanized. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Galvanized. 13. What does Extirpate mean? A) Eliminate. B) Experience. C) Examine. D) Simplify. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eliminate. 14. Which of the following is a synonym for "quirk" ? A) Routine. B) Peculiarity. C) Flaw. D) Habit. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Peculiarity. 15. Fill in the blank. It was very ..... of you to pay all your bills before taking a vacation. A) Provocative. B) Prudent. C) Prosperity. D) Prosaic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prudent. 16. Everyone lost their money when the so-called treasurer ..... with all the society's profits. A) Exhaustive. B) Condone. C) Eschew. D) Absconded. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Absconded. 17. Hostility; active opposition A) Antagonism. B) Benevolent. C) Precarious. D) Lament. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Antagonism. 18. Which of the following best describes a "loquacious" person? A) Someone who is full of trivial conversation. B) Someone who is very quiet and reserved. C) Someone who is always angry. D) Someone who is extremely shy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Someone who is full of trivial conversation. 19. Which of the following is an example of a "cordial" action? A) Ignoring someone. B) Greeting someone with a smile. C) Yelling at someone. D) Avoiding eye contact. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Greeting someone with a smile. 20. Spiderman easily scaled the ..... in the city. A) Duress. B) Dromedary. C) Efface. D) Edifice. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Edifice. 21. What is a synonym for "revere" ? A) Detest. B) Admire. C) Mandate. D) Augment. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Admire. 22. Great happiness; bliss A) Garrulous. B) Implicit. C) Felicity. D) Invincible. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Felicity. 23. Adept A) Very skilled or proficient at something. B) Lacking in skill or ability. C) Somewhat skilled but inexperienced. D) Completely untrained or novice. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Very skilled or proficient at something. 24. Exacerbate A) To make better. B) To increase. C) To make worse. D) To disturb the peace. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To make worse. 25. What is the meaning of "Evince" ? A) To show clearly. B) To make something less severe. C) To act without thinking. D) To extend the duration of something. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To show clearly. 26. Someone who takes the law into his/her own hands A) Sopor. B) Vigilante. C) Requiem. D) Vigilant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vigilante. 27. The definition of benevolent ..... A) Friendly, helpful. B) Give up a position. C) To refrain from doing something. D) Enthusiastic, loud. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Friendly, helpful. 28. To soothe or make less severe A) Askew. B) Austere. C) Asunder. D) Assuage. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Assuage. 29. A system of naming, used mostly in art and science A) Carte blanche. B) Sophistry. C) Vestige. D) Nomenclature. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Nomenclature. 30. How you see the world; how you realize or understand something A) Anarchy. B) Morose. C) Perceive. D) Inconsequential. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Perceive. ← 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