This quiz works best with JavaScript enabled. Home > Grammar > Test Prep > Sat > Sat Words – Quiz 22 🏠 Homepage 📘 Download PDF Books 📕 Premium PDF Books Sat Words Quiz 22 (25 MCQs) Quiz Instructions Select an option to see the correct answer instantly. 1. To make a secretive mention of something A) Ambiguous. B) Allow. C) Allude. D) Agitate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Allude. 2. Complete the sentence with the correct word:The speech helped ..... excitement in the crowd. A) Ignite. B) Kindle. C) Extinguish. D) Suppress. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Kindle. 3. Neophyte A) Master. B) Beginner. C) All the above. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Beginner. 4. Easy; not complex A) Straightforward. B) Stark. C) Simple. D) Tactful. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Simple. 5. What does 'elude' mean? A) To escape from someone or something giving chase. B) To cheat someone out of their money. C) God or goddess. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) To escape from someone or something giving chase. 6. The beginning of something, especially something unpleasant A) Oust. B) Bolster. C) Onset. D) Advocate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Onset. 7. What does 'preclude' mean? A) To encourage or facilitate. B) To ignore or overlook. C) To prevent or make impossible. D) To delay or procrastinate. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) To prevent or make impossible. 8. He was gaining a reputation as a remarkable ..... A) Virtuoso. B) Fatuous. C) Amenable. D) Ambivalent. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Virtuoso. 9. It is important to vote in the midterm elections to replace any politicians who are acting as ..... and allowing financial backers to make all the decisions. A) Pseudonyms. B) Complacent. C) Figureheads. D) Waive. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Figureheads. 10. Adjective:unwilling; reluctantPrivate about one's affairs; tending to say little A) Reticent. B) Indifferent. C) Garrulous. D) Verbose. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Reticent. 11. Definition:causing sleep, very boring A) Soporific. B) Dissent. C) Colloquial. D) Nonchalant. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Soporific. 12. Morbid means ..... A) An unhealthy mental state. B) A monetary contribution. C) A momentous occasion. D) A monument. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) An unhealthy mental state. 13. Infirmary is like what word/words in Spanish? A) Ignightimando. B) Inciendo. C) Italian. D) Enfermo/Enfermero. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enfermo/Enfermero. 14. A scientist wants to "propagate" a rare plant species. What is the scientist trying to do? A) Destroy the plant species. B) Spread or increase the plant species. C) Hide the plant species from others. D) Guess how many plants there are. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Spread or increase the plant species. 15. To clarify or explain A) Ambivalent. B) Elucidate. C) Contemplate. D) Efficacy. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Elucidate. 16. What does 'androgynous' describe? A) Masculine traits. B) Feminine traits. C) Traits that could be feminine or masculine. D) Related to androids. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Traits that could be feminine or masculine. 17. To be unstable, to rise and fall A) Ferocity. B) Fiscal. C) Geriatric. D) Fluctuate. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Fluctuate. 18. Showing little or no emotion or interest. A) Apathetic. B) Implicit. C) Credible. D) Plausible. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Apathetic. 19. What does Enigma mean A) Enigma means a type of fruit. B) Enigma means a famous historical figure. C) Enigma means a popular dance move. D) Enigma means a person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Enigma means a person or thing that is mysterious, puzzling, or difficult to understand. 20. The media's ..... coverage of the crime wave has most of the country living in fear. A) Pervasive. B) Comprehensive. C) Tenuous. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: A) Pervasive. 21. She made a deliberate choice, meaning it was ..... A) Accidental. B) Done on purpose. C) Impossible. D) None of the above. Show Answer Correct Answer: B) Done on purpose. 22. PIOUS A) WELL SPOKEN. B) Unsophisticated. C) DEEPLYRELIGIOUS. D) Doubting. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) DEEPLYRELIGIOUS. 23. The following text is adapted from George Eliot's 1871-72 novel Middlemarch. [Mr. Brooke] had travelled in his younger years, and was held in this part of the country to have "contracted" a too rambling habit of mind. Mr. Brooke's conclusions were as difficult to predict as the weather. As used in the text, what does the word "contracted" most nearly mean? A) Restricted. B) Described. C) Developed. D) Settled. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Developed. 24. Eager or quick to argue quarrel or fight. A) Prudent. B) Hubris. C) Duplicity. D) Pugnacious. Show Answer Correct Answer: D) Pugnacious. 25. The girl's father approves of her desire to sing, but he ..... her willingness to sing in nightclubs. A) Audacity. B) Credulous. C) Depricates. D) Euridite. Show Answer Correct Answer: C) Depricates. ← 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