This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Sat > Sat Word Power – Quiz 3 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Sat Word Power Quiz 3 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Define debase. (the base) A) Collapse or failure. B) To lower in quality, character or value. C) An order having the force of law. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To lower in quality, character or value. 2. DIVINE:to foretell a prophecy; to inter, to guess A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 3. DENOUNCE:to dry out completely; dehydrate A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 4. Define deft. (link:deaf) A) Skillful, dexterous. B) To libel or slander. C) To lower in qualify, character or value. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Skillful, dexterous. 5. Define abut. A) Hard to understand. B) To border upon; to adjoin. C) An award, an honor; approval, praise. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To border upon; to adjoin. 6. (verb) to dislike strongly, to regard with intense aversion or loathing A) Abridge. B) Abominate. C) Abstruse. D) Abut. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Abominate. 7. The exact date of the first Egyptian dynasty is not known, but it is believed to have occurred ..... 3000 BC. A) Certify. B) Circa. C) Catharsis. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Circa. 8. DISPEL:to drive away; to dissipate A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 9. Which word means to harass? A) Bereave. B) Bizarre. C) Balm. D) Beset. E) Beget. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Beset. 10. The ..... belongs to Herodotos of Athens at this death were seven horses, six hunting dogs, ten cattle and three dwarf gladiators. A) Chattel. B) Chronic. C) Citadel. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Chattel. 11. During his last year in office, Richard Nixon was a ..... president, struggling to fight off the Watergate scandal. A) Beleaguered. B) Beget. C) Beset. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Beleaguered. 12. Define coup. A) The violent overthrow of a government by a small group. B) A general agreement. C) Spacious, roomy, capacious. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) The violent overthrow of a government by a small group. 13. The study of the dynamics or flight characteristics of projectiles A) Badger. B) Ballistics. C) Askew. D) Atrophy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Ballistics. 14. (adj.) hard to understand A) Abstruse. B) Abut. C) Abyss. D) Accolade. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Abstruse. 15. What is the "job" of a verb? A) To describe a person, place, thing or idea. B) To describe the action of the subject. C) To be the action. D) To be the subject-person, place, thing or idea. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To be the action. 16. DOCILE:easily taught or controlled; obedient, easy to handle A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) True. 17. Define commodious. A) To consist of; to include, to contain, to be made up of. B) Spacious, roomy, capacious. C) A general agreement. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spacious, roomy, capacious. 18. Which word means rural or rustic in nature? A) Bludgeon. B) Balm. C) Beget. D) Beleaguer. E) Bucolic. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Bucolic. 19. Which word means depressing, discouraging, harsh? A) Beget. B) Balm. C) Bleak. D) Beleaguer. E) Blather. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Bleak. 20. Give an example of an antecedent in a sentence. A) In the sentence 'The cat slept on the mat, ' 'the cat' is the antecedent. B) In the sentence 'The dog barked because it saw a stranger, ' 'the dog' is the antecedent. C) In the sentence 'She loves her brother, ' 'her brother' is the antecedent. D) In the sentence 'The sun sets in the west, ' 'the sun' is the antecedent. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) In the sentence 'The dog barked because it saw a stranger, ' 'the dog' is the antecedent. 21. Definition of SCRUPULOUS A) Sociable. B) An insatiable appetite. C) Careful of small details. D) False. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Careful of small details. 22. Define decree. (link:set free) A) Collapse or failure. B) To come to a conclusion by reasoning from the evidence. C) An order having the force of law. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) An order having the force of law. 23. Which word means to wither away? A) Assuage. B) Atrophy. C) Askew. D) Aspire. E) Astute. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Atrophy. 24. DISPARAGE:to drive away; to dissipate A) True. B) False. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) False. 25. 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