This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > 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. Validate A) (v) to check or prove the validity or accuracy of (something). B) (v) to make something invalid or void. C) (v) to create a new version of something. D) (v) to ignore or overlook something. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) (v) to check or prove the validity or accuracy of (something). 2. The definition of abate is ..... A) Reduce or lessen. B) Give up a position. C) To really hate. D) To refrain from doing something. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reduce or lessen. 3. To call or summon forth. A) Delusion. B) Evoke. C) Boorish. D) Achromatic. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Evoke. 4. A lack of interest or desire A) Apathy. B) Autonomous. C) Covert. D) Emaciated. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apathy. 5. Which word means "strikingly odd in appearance or style; grotesque" ? A) Imminent. B) Bizarre. C) Efface. D) Hedonist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bizarre. 6. What word means:Temporary A) Transient. B) Tenacious. C) Superfluous. D) Tactful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Transient. 7. Part of speech-ambivalent A) Noun. B) Verb. C) Adjective. D) Adverb. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adjective. 8. Meticulous; paying attention to detail A) Fastidious. B) Impeach. C) Felicity. D) Facilitate. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fastidious. 9. Being supercilious has more to do with A) Having pride for a personal accomplishment. B) Being super silly. C) Being confident. D) Pretentiousness. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pretentiousness. 10. The definition of abstain is ..... A) To refrain from doing something. B) Reduce or lessen. C) :to really hate. D) Pertaining to beauty. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To refrain from doing something. 11. Which sentence uses the word "rectify" correctly? A) The teacher needs more money to rectify the issue of not having enough books. B) Allowing more kids into the school will rectify the issue of overcrowding. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The teacher needs more money to rectify the issue of not having enough books. 12. If John Smith wants to win the election, he will have to mollify the voters he angered during last week's debate. A) To calm or soothe. B) To put an end to. C) To make or become less severe; to lessen pain or damage. D) To make something unpleasant less severe. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To calm or soothe. 13. The calculator rapidly ..... the mechanical adding machine. A) Affluent. B) Indigenous. C) Antiquated. D) Vicarious. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antiquated. 14. To remove or delete objectionable parts of a book A) Rustic. B) Bucolic. C) Bowdlerize. D) Pastoral. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bowdlerize. 15. Fill in the blank. How ..... of you to tell everyone that you have a summer house in France and a winter home in Florida. A) Pragmatic. B) Precocious. C) Pretentious. D) Procrastinate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Pretentious. 16. The ..... of the palace was very impressive; it was covered in gold! A) Orator. B) Mundane. C) Opulence. D) Lobbyist. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Opulence. 17. Select the word that best fills in the blank.The ..... Christmas tree was so fancy, it received an award. A) Fortitude. B) Collaborate. C) Fortuitous. D) Florid. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Florid. 18. What does digression mean? A) Lack of respect accompanied by a feeling of intense dislike. B) Cause to be distrusted or disbelieved. C) Leaving the main subject or topic. D) Quietly and steadily persevering especially in detail or exactness. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Leaving the main subject or topic. 19. Daily activities of people who do not serve in the military or work as police officers or firefighters (a) A) A. civilian. B) Advocate. C) Civil. D) Succession. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) A. civilian. 20. Choose the word that best fits the given definition:'Having or showing tact' A) Polite. B) Impolite. C) Empathetic. D) Rude. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Empathetic. 21. Going before, preceding A) Appalling. B) Aptitude. C) Alienate. D) Antecedent. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Antecedent. 22. Fill in the blank:The ..... Mrs. Jones celebrated her 100th birthday on Sunday. A) Venerable. B) Wary. C) Tenacious. D) Tactful. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Venerable. 23. Fame in the world of rock and pop is largely ..... A) Indigenous. B) Ephemeral. C) Specious. D) Morbid. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ephemeral. 24. Select the correct definition:indignant A) Feeling anger over a perceived injustice. B) Two things that are fundamentally different. C) Determined by impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason. D) Tastelessly showy; cheap and shoddy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Feeling anger over a perceived injustice. 25. To twist, wrench, or bend severely out of shape (sometimes one's body) A) Distort. B) Proclivity. C) Diverge. D) Contort. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Contort. 26. Fill in the blank:His views on technology are so ..... that he refuses to use a smartphone. A) Altruistic. B) Modern. C) Antediluvian. D) Innovative. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antediluvian. 27. To make amends for; to atone A) Foist. B) Expiate. C) Disconcert. D) Comprise. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Expiate. 28. 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. 29. Recalling the past ..... A) Milieu. B) Histrionic. C) Reminisce. D) Arduous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Reminisce. 30. Intended to deceive or entrap; sly, treacherous A) Insidious. B) Blithe. C) Dour. D) Opulent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Insidious. ← 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