SAT Vocabulary: sentences section

It is very hard to feel ____ when you have the flu; all you want to do is lie in bed, not dance around the house.

• Capricious

• Vivacious

• Truculent

• Vapid

This club doesn’t really attract the dangerous types, so why was that bouncer being so________?

• superfluous

• vapid

• truculent

• capricious

It is _____ to have 36 pairs of shoes when you always wear the same five.

• capricious

• superfluous

• vapid

• cupidity

Men generally think that women are_______ , one minute they want to cuddle on the couch and watch TV, the next they are angry at you and going shopping with your credit card.

• clemency

• acumen

• vapid

• Capricious

The professor’s comments about the poem were surprisingly _______ and dull.

• vapid

• eschews

• plethora

• clemency

His ______made him enter the abandoned gold mine despite the obvious dangers; he just had to get his hands on a diamond.

• eschews

• cupidity

• clemency

• acumen

After he forgot their anniversary, Martin could only beg Maria for_________.

• decrying

• acumen

• clemency

• plethora

Because of his mathematical___________ Larry was able to figure out in minutes problems that took other students hours.

• acumen

• plethora

• decrying

• neophyte

Phil hates reality TV shows so much that he_______ television in general.

• vexes

• eschews

• usurps

• neophytes

The wedding banquet included a(n)________ of oysters piled almost three feet high.

• plethora

• surfeit

• propitious

• vex