This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Sat > Sat Vocabulary – Quiz 60 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Sat Vocabulary Quiz 60 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. A principal defense ..... A) Chattel. B) Aloof. C) Bulwark. D) Incongruous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bulwark. 2. What does Candid mean? A) Truthful and straightforward. B) Deceptive and misleading. C) Reserved and quiet. D) Confused and uncertain. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Truthful and straightforward. 3. Instead of; in the place of A) Lieu. B) Bolster. C) Tenacious. D) Quell. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lieu. 4. What does the adjective "affable" mean? A) Wealthy. B) Friendly. C) Artistic. D) Spontaneous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Friendly. 5. To misshape or misrepresent A) Distort. B) Contort. C) Diverge. D) Inexplicable. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Distort. 6. What does Ornate mean? A) Highly detailed and decorated. B) Simple and plain. C) Rough and unfinished. D) Dark and gloomy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Highly detailed and decorated. 7. Which word means to act silly in an obnoxious way? A) Fatuous. B) Miser. C) Suffrage. D) Stoic. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Fatuous. 8. Beginning or early stages A) Civic. B) Melodramatic. C) Onset. D) Persecute. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onset. 9. Abundant, plentiful; profuse A) Hinder. B) Hiatus. C) Kindle. D) Copious. E) Artisan. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Copious. 10. An official who watches others for correct behavior, or to officially delete unacceptable parts of something A) Censor. B) Extricate. C) Solicit. D) Assuage. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Censor. 11. The policeman asked the witnesses to be ..... in recounting what they saw. A) Succinct. B) Bolster. C) Quell. D) Latent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Succinct. 12. The politician acted quickly to mitigate the damage from her opponent's attack on her character. A) To make or become less severe; to lessen pain or damage. B) To improve, make better, correct a flaw or shortcoming. C) To pacify, to bring peace, quiet, or calm to; to relieve. D) To restore calm, bring peace. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To make or become less severe; to lessen pain or damage. 13. Loquacious A) Full of life. B) Talking a lot. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Talking a lot. 14. Penury A) Poverty. B) Penmanship. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Poverty. 15. Selecting from or made up from a variety of sources A) Eclectic. B) Fanaticism. C) Glutton. D) Invoke. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Eclectic. 16. What is the tone of something described as insidious? A) Positive. B) Neutral. C) Negative. D) Joyful. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Negative. 17. Ease or minimize damage A) Apathy, indifference. B) Ominous, foreboding. C) Enigma. D) Mitigate, ameliorate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Mitigate, ameliorate. 18. Maria is so ..... , she can tell if something is wrong without you saying anything to her. A) Inevitable. B) Inconsequential. C) Impetuous. D) Intuitive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intuitive. 19. The warring tribes competed for land and resources throughout history, but neither tribe was ever able to completely conquer the small island. A) No change. B) Defeat. C) Trounce. D) Overcome. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) No change. 20. Gene thinks all rock music is nothing more than a ..... to be avoided whenever possible. A) Expunge. B) Conoisseur. C) Cacophony. D) Incongruous. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Cacophony. 21. A song or religious service for the dead/lost A) Requiem. B) Vigilant. C) Sopor. D) Languor. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Requiem. 22. Clear pronouncement of words; accent; articulation A) Objective. B) Abstemious. C) Enunciation. D) Crepuscular. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Enunciation. 23. Scholarly; learned A) Destitute. B) Erudite. C) Irascible. D) Ambivalent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Erudite. 24. To be of the same opinion; to agree with A) Cynical. B) Ambivalent. C) Demure. D) Concur. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Concur. 25. Cassette tapes may now be ..... , but records will always be a classic way to listen to music. A) Obsolete. B) Plethora. C) Avid. D) Adversity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Obsolete. ← 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