SAT Vocabulary - Week 6

he looked around the ____ little room in despair

• bleak

• cacaphony

• balm

• beget

Price is constantly used as a ______ against the company by reviewers who can't find anything bad to say about its products.

• buccolic

• bludgeon

• candor

• ballistics

The painting shows a typically ______ scene with peasants.

• bizarre

• beautify

• buccolic

• callous

My savings were to be a ____ against unemployment.

• bollard

• bulwark

• beleaguer

• candor

The squirrels pull off the cones and drop them to the ground, then collect and _____ them for winter.

• cajole

• bleak

• cache

• asunder

As we entered the farmyard we were met with a _____ of animal sounds.

• beset

• callow

• bludgeon

• cacaphony

He really knows how to ____ people into doing what he wants.

• cajole

• candor

• capacious

• arduous

It might sound _____, but I don't care if he's homeless. He's not living with me!

• candor

• altercation

• aloof

• callous

Everyone who has been ____ has to find his or her own way of coping.

• callow

• abyss

• bereaved

• ballistics

Mark was just a (a)   and inexperienced youth of 16 when he arrived in Paris.