This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Sat > Sat Vocabulary – Quiz 22 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Sat Vocabulary Quiz 22 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. To seek, attain, or achieve a goal A) Assuage. B) Aspire. C) Badger. D) Astute. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aspire. 2. Grumbling, grumpy; fussy A) Nefarious. B) Obliterate. C) Vernacular. D) Querulous. E) Pugnacious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Querulous. 3. Someone who speaks multiple languages A) Polyglot. B) Hoi polloi. C) Polymath. D) Solipsism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Polyglot. 4. What does "adverse" mean? A) Favorable. B) Skillful. C) Antagonistic or dangerous. D) Praiseworthy. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Antagonistic or dangerous. 5. The ability to move A) Mitigate. B) Desolate. C) The Cupid Shuffle. D) Mobility. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mobility. 6. Unsound mode of reasoning; delusion A) Abduction. B) Fallacy. C) Exacerbate. D) Hamper. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Fallacy. 7. 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. 8. 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. 9. 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. 10. 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. 11. 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. 12. Shrill, high-pitched; grating A) Strident. B) Gullible. C) Discreet. D) Discrete. E) Anarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Strident. 13. 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. 14. 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. 15. 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. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abate. 16. Substantiate (a verb) means A) Provide evidence to support the truth. B) Lacking self-control. C) Not appropriate/ Unsuitablbe; Out of place. D) Remove or destroy completely; get rid of. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Provide evidence to support the truth. 17. 1-Even as Lincoln ..... McClellan for his excessive caution, the Confederates completed another act of daring. A) A. refuted. B) B. chided. C) C. vindicated. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) B. chided. 18. We are taught that God is omnipotent. A) Almighty and all-powerful. B) All-knowing. C) All-forgiving. D) Understanding. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Almighty and all-powerful. 19. Although the colonists possessed a rudimentary degree of freedom of speech under the English Bill of Rights, a British subject could still be hanged for ..... , such as speaking ill of the king or crown. A) Libel. B) Sedition. C) Slander. D) Subservience. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Sedition. 20. Extremely demanding; insistent A) Importune. B) Preferential. C) Importunate. D) Congested. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Importunate. 21. What word means:Marked by keen caution and watchful prudence; aware of the dangers A) Wary. B) Vindicate. C) Superfluous. D) Venerable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Wary. 22. Fearless and bold A) Deduce. B) Impetuous. C) Intrepid. D) Erroneous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intrepid. 23. To fuse or unite-combine A) Squander. B) Lethargy. C) Predator. D) Coalesce. E) Incantation. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Coalesce. 24. What word means showing deep-seated resentment? A) Provocative. B) Prudent. C) Querulous. D) Rancorous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Rancorous. 25. "Not challenging" . Choose the correct vocabulary word that goes with the statement. A) Inadvertant. B) Prosaic. C) Preclude. D) Creative. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Prosaic. ← 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