This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Sat > Sat Words – Quiz 42 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Sat Words Quiz 42 (30 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. Define licentious. A) Be full of or swarming with. B) Difficult to understand; obscure. C) Make corrections and improvements to (a text). D) Lacking in moral restraints. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Lacking in moral restraints. 2. To make known, to tell, to relate A) Clout. B) Dismay. C) Surly. D) Impart. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Impart. 3. A natural tendency to do something. A) Magnanimous. B) Demagogue. C) Proclivity. D) Intransigent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Proclivity. 4. A sign that something good is likely to happen. A) Apocryphal. B) Beguiling. C) Auspicious. D) Implacable. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Auspicious. 5. ..... to become absorbed in thought; to turn something over in the mind A) Love. B) Muse. C) Osmosis. D) Urbane. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Muse. 6. Excess; excessive amount; more than enough A) Surfeit. B) Epitome. C) Umbrage. D) Sedulous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Surfeit. 7. The contestant was ..... and optimistic she had won the prize. A) Reticent. B) Slough. C) Scrupulous. D) Sanguine. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Sanguine. 8. Outrageously bad A) Egregious. B) Magnanimous. C) Soporific. D) Gregarious. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Egregious. 9. Recede A) To come inward. B) To move away. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) To move away. 10. To prove false A) Refute. B) Repercussion. C) Vivid. D) Trivial. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Refute. 11. Which sentence uses mollify correctly? A) She mollified fears with calm updates. B) They mollify the data to enlarge it. C) The storm mollified into a blizzard. D) Engineers mollify steel to harden it. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) She mollified fears with calm updates. 12. Using very few words, often seeming blunt. A) Laconic. B) Bombastic. C) Vindicate. D) Intransigent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Laconic. 13. To destroy or cause devastating destruction A) Culmination. B) Candid. C) Annihilate. D) Anomaly. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Annihilate. 14. What is a synonym for affluent? A) Destitute. B) Poor. C) Impoverished. D) Prosperous. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Prosperous. 15. Wary:adjective A) Restrain oneself from doing or enjoying something. B) Feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems. C) Not immediately obvious or comprehensible. D) Money paid for work or a service. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Feeling or showing caution about possible dangers or problems. 16. Adversary A) WITHOUT BIAS. B) An opponent. C) CLOUDED. D) RELIGIOUS. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) An opponent. 17. Since there was not enough evidence of his guilt, the jury had to ..... Mr. Melman of the murder. A) Encounter. B) Epitome. C) Absolve. D) Malign. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Absolve. 18. Anthropo A) Woman. B) Man. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Man. 19. Centric A) Middle. B) Center. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Center. 20. The ..... lived an ..... life. A) Adversary abstract. B) Anarchist audacious. C) Ascetic austere. D) Artisan aloof. E) Aggregate abstemious. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Ascetic austere. 21. Technical terminology characteristic of a particular subject A) Jabber. B) Cunning. C) Jargon. D) Headway. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Jargon. 22. What does 'Jeopardize' mean? A) To safeguard. B) To secure. C) To put at risk. D) To protect. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To put at risk. 23. What does "intrepid" mean? A) Hasty and therefore not thorough or detailed. B) Excessively talkative. C) Transparently clear; easily understood. D) To give up a position. E) Invulnerable to fear or intimidation; fearless and adventurous. Show Answer Correct Answer: E) Invulnerable to fear or intimidation; fearless and adventurous. 24. Pleasing to the taste buds A) Obstinate. B) Antiquated. C) Palatable. D) Fervent. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Palatable. 25. To clear someone from blame; to prove they were right. A) Chicanery. B) Anachronistic. C) Proclivity. D) Vindicate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Vindicate. 26. Which word would fit into this list?distant, unfriendly, uninvolved, ..... A) Chattel. B) Aloof. C) Lament. D) Expunge. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Aloof. 27. A period of rest or relief A) Respite. B) Admonish. C) Capitulate. D) Confute. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Respite. 28. To feel or express sorrow or regret A) Decree. B) Abate. C) Lament. D) Taut. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Lament. 29. Understood by only a few A) Arcane. B) Querulous. C) Loquacious. D) Tempestuous. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Arcane. 30. Despite the project's tight deadline, the team's progress was ..... ; they completed tasks ahead of schedule, allowing extra time for review and refinement. A) Sluggish. B) Unpredictable. C) Steady. D) Exceptional. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Exceptional. ← PreviousNext →Related QuizzesTest Prep QuizzesGrammar QuizzesSat Words Quiz 1Sat Words Quiz 2Sat Words Quiz 3Sat Words Quiz 4Sat Words Quiz 5Sat Words Quiz 6Sat Words Quiz 7Sat Words Quiz 8 🏠 Back to Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books