PSAT Power Vocabulary Quiz #1

Which ruins are________ to tourist?

• Appropriate

• Accessible

• Benign

• Altruistic

She wondered whether they had ever cared or whether they had always shown ____________________.

• aristocracy

• analogy

• apathy

• apprenticeship

This should ________the pain; but if it does not, we will use stronger drugs.

• aspire

• acknowledge

• alleviate

Because he _________ to a career in professional sports, Phillip enrolled in a graduate program in sports management.

• alleviate

• aspire

• acknowledge

Bond had _______ opportunity to escape. Why did he let us catch him?

• benign

• accessible

• ample

• authentic

Americans have mixed feelings about hereditary _________; we say all men are created equal, but we describe people who bear themselves with grade and graciousness as natural __________.

• aristocracy, aristocrats

• ambivalence

• apprenticeship, apprentices

Though her _______ smile and gentle bearing made Miss Marple seem a sweet little old lady, in reality she was a tough-minded, shrewd observer of human nature.

• bouyant

• ample

• benign

A well-known _____ compares the body's immune system with an army whose defending troops are lymphocytes or white blood cells.

• analogy

• aristocracy

• apprenticeship

Madonna spent hours looking for a suit that would be ____________ to wear at a summer wedding.

• bouyant

• appropriate

• ample

When the boat capsized, her _______ life jacket kept Jody afloat.

• appropriate

• authentic

• buoyant