This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Sat > Sat Vocabulary – Quiz 74 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Sat Vocabulary Quiz 74 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Perfunctory A) (Of an action or gesture) carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection. B) (Of a task) done with great enthusiasm and care. C) (Of a person) showing deep thought and consideration. D) (Of a gesture) performed with excessive energy. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) (Of an action or gesture) carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection. 2. A deviation from the norm; an odd occurrence A) Anomaly. B) Consternation. C) Plethora. D) Coterie. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Anomaly. 3. Ben is ..... and charming; he knows how to make people feel comfortable in his presence. A) Amiable. B) Clandestine. C) Apprehensive. D) Tribulation. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Amiable. 4. What word means:show to be right by providing justification or proof; to clear someone of blame or suspicion A) Transient. B) Vindicate. C) Superfluous. D) Venerable. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Vindicate. 5. Abstruse A) Easy to understand. B) Simplified. C) Difficult to understand. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Difficult to understand. 6. The belief that God (or a higher power) has already determined one's fate A) Auspices. B) CONsort. C) Predestination. D) Destine. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Predestination. 7. Impractical ..... A) Arduous. B) Porcine. C) Quixotic. D) Beleaguer. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Quixotic. 8. A song or poem which memorializes the dead or something lost A) Plaint. B) Elegy. C) Fete. D) Elegiac. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elegy. 9. What does "Trivialize" mean? A) To make something seem less important. B) To make something less severe. C) To act without thinking. D) To extend the duration of something. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To make something seem less important. 10. What does Inept mean? A) Having or showing no skill; clumsy. B) Skilled and proficient. C) Quick and agile. D) Intelligent and clever. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Having or showing no skill; clumsy. 11. Large number ..... A) Myriad. B) Noxious. C) Proficient. D) Harangue. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Myriad. 12. Which word is synonymous with ordinary? A) Jubilation. B) Mundane. C) Lobbyist. D) Nonchalant. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Mundane. 13. The tumor located in my brain is ..... and does not affect my every day life. A) Cumbersome. B) Commendable. C) Derisive. D) Benign. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Benign. 14. Without fear; brave A) Cynical. B) Demure. C) Intrepid. D) Dogmatic. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Intrepid. 15. Avoid at all cost being a contemptuous person. Be proud of yourself, because contemptuous people are ..... A) Dangerous. B) Unstable. C) Lacking respect. D) Excitable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lacking respect. 16. A small cave or cavern. A) Deluge. B) Grotto. C) Feign. D) Fabulist. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Grotto. 17. Melodious and harmonic; pleasing to the ear A) Talisman. B) Pellucid. C) Archaic. D) Dulcet. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Dulcet. 18. Choose the word that best matches the definition:To make peace or calm anger A) Discern. B) Conciliate. C) Squander. D) Blasphemy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Conciliate. 19. City or citizens A) Civic. B) Deplete. C) Emit. D) Imposition. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Civic. 20. Spontaneously derived from or prompted by a natural tendency A) Inevitable. B) Inconsequential. C) Impetuous. D) Intuitive. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Intuitive. 21. Abrogate A) To repeal or do away with a law, right, or formal agreement. B) To create or establish a new law or agreement. C) To modify or amend an existing law or agreement. D) To enforce a law or agreement strictly. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To repeal or do away with a law, right, or formal agreement. 22. What does it mean to 'recant' something? A) Showing NO prejudice for or against something, impartial. B) Not leading to a firm conclusion, not ending doubt. C) The operation of two or more things at the same time. D) Say that one no longer holds an opinion or belief, renounce or take bac. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Say that one no longer holds an opinion or belief, renounce or take bac. 23. Sleep or drowsiness A) Sopor. B) Somnolent. C) Languor. D) Soporific. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Sopor. 24. Tortuous A) Having many twists and turns; intricate and difficult to follow. B) To work against a project or purpose; to subvert or sabotage. C) To talk harshly or critically of, particularly to speak false criticisms. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Having many twists and turns; intricate and difficult to follow. 25. One facet of a problem is A) One side of it. B) Solution for it. C) Part of it. D) All of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) One side of it. ← 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