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 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. To understand; to penetrate the meaning of A) Ponder. B) Falter. C) Fathom. D) Tarnish. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Fathom. 2. Occurring at a good time ..... A) Quixotic. B) Histrionic. C) Arduous. D) Opportune. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Opportune. 3. A love song A) Dearth. B) Ballad. C) Idiosyncratic. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballad. 4. The professor carried the Shakespearean ..... as if it were a Bible. A) Tome. B) Camaraderie. C) Paradigm. D) Lieu. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Tome. 5. Lawlessness; an absence of control-disorder A) Strident. B) Gullible. C) Discreet. D) Discrete. E) Anarchy. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Anarchy. 6. What is the definition of 'offhand'? A) Ungraciously or offensively. B) To make an example of. C) Say that one no longer holds an opinion or belief. D) To find a way around. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Ungraciously or offensively. 7. Avoid or try to avoid fulfilling, answering, or performing A) Evade. B) Euphoric. C) Calamity. D) Commence. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Evade. 8. Not subject or susceptible to change or variation A) Immutable. B) Despondent. C) Sedate. D) Diminutive. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Immutable. 9. What is the meaning of the word root 'aud'? A) To touch. B) To taste. C) To see. D) To hear. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) To hear. 10. What does covet mean? A) Yearn to possess or have. B) Fraud. C) An agreement. D) An expression of sympathy, especially on the occasion of a death. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Yearn to possess or have. 11. What does Discord mean? A) A grueling task. B) Disagreement. C) A lack of respect. D) Creation of a problem. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Disagreement. 12. Deserted, abandoned, lonely A) Desolate. B) Monotonous. C) Vulgar. D) Solipsism. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Desolate. 13. When babysitting an infant, a sitter must be frugal with the needs of the child, especially the need for food, security, and sleep. A) [NO CHANGE]. B) Shrewd about. C) Attentive to. D) Thrifty with. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Attentive to. 14. After he experienced the (a) of his former friends, Greg began eating lunch by himself at the picnic table. A) Meretricious. B) Trenchant. C) Irreverence. D) A. ostracism. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) A. ostracism. 15. Skillful A) Adroit/deft/dexterous. B) Aesthetic. C) Affable/amiable/genial/gregarious. D) Aloof. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Adroit/deft/dexterous. 16. To insult; to cause someone to lose dignity or respect A) Demean. B) Vicarious. C) Paucity. D) Affluent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Demean. 17. What is the meaning of the Greek root word 'tele'? A) Small or tiny. B) Far off or distant. C) Loud or noisy. D) Wet or damp. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Far off or distant. 18. Long hours walking his dog Crazy Maisy after school had a(n) ..... effect on Slaten's schoolwork. A) Voluptuary. B) Fabulist. C) Deleterious. D) Premonition. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Deleterious. 19. Mood, atmosphere ..... A) Cubism. B) Enrage. C) Ambiance. D) Coterie. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ambiance. 20. Which word means misfortune or unfavorable happenings? A) Abstracted. B) Adulation. C) Adversity. D) Culpable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Adversity. 21. A "talisman" is most closely a: A) Curse. B) Charm. C) Weapon. D) Poison. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Charm. 22. We used two ropes to ..... the boat to the dock. A) Wane. B) Chasm. C) Tether. D) Aggandize. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Tether. 23. To arouse or incite A) Dubious. B) Foment. C) Substantiate. D) Postulate. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Foment. 24. Noticeable or important; standing out. A) Aberration. B) Salient. C) Fickle. D) Rectitude. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Salient. 25. Dizziness A) Abdicate. B) Boorish. C) Achromatic. D) Vertigo. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vertigo. ← 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