SAT Lists 5 and 6 Quiz

To kids, snow days are wonderful because they allow them a _______ from school.

• reprieve

• laceration

• plethora

• tedium

I always _______ myself in my warm, cozy bed after a long school day.

• ensconce

• hasten

• enshroud

• reprieve

I don't see why my mother wants more shoes when she already has a _______ of them.

• plethora

• haughtiness

• laceration

• tedium

Despite the defendant's apology, the judge was _______ and gave him a thirty-year sentence.

• obdurate

• lachrymose

• blatant

• creditable

Confession and _______ give great power to the priesthood.

• absolution

• laceration

• reprieve

• haughtiness

After Diana's husband died, she became a _______ woman who could not stop crying.

• lachrymose

• obdurate

• creditable

• blatant

Kara took the joke seriously because she was too _______ to understand the sarcasm.

• credulous

• plausible

• blighted

• haughty

The one thing my parents cannot abide is _______ disobedience.

• blatant

• credulous

• creditable

• plausible

When Jason forgot to do his homework, he tried to come up with a _______ excuse his teacher would believe.

• plausible

• credulous

• blatant

• creditable

The loan contract was filled with legal words meant to _______ trusting borrowers.

• obfuscate

• abstain

• hasten

• obdurate