This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Sat > Sat Vocabulary – Quiz 70 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Sat Vocabulary Quiz 70 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Set in motion A) Commence. B) Concoction. C) Capitulate. D) Calamity. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Commence. 2. Boon A) A thing that is harmful or detrimental; a curse. B) A thing that is helpful or beneficial; a blessing. C) A thing that is neutral; neither good nor bad. D) A thing that is rare and difficult to find. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) A thing that is helpful or beneficial; a blessing. 3. To reveal information or a secret; to make public A) Divulge. B) Polymath. C) Soliloquy. D) Vulgar. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Divulge. 4. What does it mean to be 'discernible'? A) Able to detect, perceptible. B) Showing no prejudice for or against something. C) An obscuring of the light. D) Ungraciously or offensively. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Able to detect, perceptible. 5. The coach put the players through intense conditioning to get them ready for the season after they had been ..... all summer. A) Sedentary. B) Ambiguous. C) Gregarious. D) Transient. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sedentary. 6. What does the word 'censorious' mean? A) Critical of others. B) Clean or pure. C) Vigorous in expression. D) Exclusion from a group. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Critical of others. 7. The adjective CAPRICIOUS means ..... A) Complaining. B) To surrender; to cease resisting. C) Changeable:fickle. D) Stinging, biting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Changeable:fickle. 8. Foresight A) To hold in a rapt state; to have overpowering influence. B) He ability to anticipate future happenings or to plan for the future. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) He ability to anticipate future happenings or to plan for the future. 9. Which word would considered an appropriate antonym for "nebulous" ? A) Vague. B) Annoyed. C) Clear. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Clear. 10. Define-Exalt A) Disown. B) To lift up in status, dignity, or power. C) Honesty. D) Very small. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To lift up in status, dignity, or power. 11. Those in attendance represented a ..... of the city's denizens; chimney sweepers could be seen sitting elbow to elbow with stockbrokers. A) Stem. B) Hodgepodge. C) Demean. D) Indigenous. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Hodgepodge. 12. Treating serious issues with inappropriate humor. A) Facetious. B) Capitulate. C) Deleterious. D) Aberration. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Facetious. 13. Unbiased; not subjective; based on facts 2. goal A) Objective. B) Abstemious. C) Lackluster. D) Crepuscular. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Objective. 14. Shrewd, clever ..... A) Karma. B) Misnomer. C) Astute. D) Draconian. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Astute. 15. Journalists need to be completely ..... when writing an article so they focus on facts, not their own opinions. A) Objective. B) Abstemious. C) Enunciation. D) Crepuscular. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Objective. 16. The plants and animals ..... to Australia are notably different from those ..... to the U.S. One look at the duckbill platypus and you know for sure you're not dealing with an opossum. A) Demean; apprehension. B) Affluent; indigenous. C) Indigenous; vicarious. D) Indigenous; indigenous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Indigenous; indigenous. 17. Antonym for CYNICAL A) Optimistic. B) Critical. C) Hateful. D) Skeptical. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Optimistic. 18. Express sorrow ..... A) Lament. B) Chattel. C) Expunge. D) Austere. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Lament. 19. "Formally reject or disavow a formerly held belief, usually under pressure" . Choose the correct vocabulary word that goes with the statement. A) Ambiguous. B) Heed. C) Retract. D) Corroborate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Retract. 20. Mollify A) O hold in a rapt state; to have overpowering influence. B) No longer used or useful. C) To calm or pacify. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To calm or pacify. 21. An established truth; an old saying or axiom A) Maxim. B) Estrange. C) Kudos. D) Catharsis. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Maxim. 22. Which word would best describe a painting that is extremely strange and outlandish in style? A) Fastidious. B) Bizarre. C) Imminent. D) Garner. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Bizarre. 23. Any trouble that severely tests courage, strength, patience, conscience A) Ordeal. B) Impetuous. C) Intrepid. D) Mediocre. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ordeal. 24. His constant whistling would ..... her, sometimes causing her to leave in a huff. A) Rankle. B) Thwart. C) I don't know the answer. D) Ploy. E) Bleak. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Rankle. 25. There was nothing in his ..... that suggested he was anxious. A) Dogma. B) Fraught. C) Demeanor. D) Lucid. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Demeanor. ← 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