Rock the SAT: Spitball in the Eye

It was activity day, and there was an electricity and excitement in the air that was almost _______

• palpable

• obsequious

• impending

• demure

If I were more ___________,

If I didn’t show emotion

If I were more stoic

Wouldn’t feel all this commotion.

• tangible

• gregarious

• stolid

• impending

Much to my ________, I discovered that I had been wearing my shirt inside out all day.

• facetious

• chagrin

• demure

• quixotic

He showered his boss with compliments and gifts, but in spite of his _________ behavior, the promotion went to the employee who actually did the work.

• quixotic

• facetious

• obsequious

• imminent

foolishly idealistic and impractical

• obsequious

• baneful

• stoic

• quixotic

The sailors were ____________ by the beautiful song of the sirens and, in that charmed state, they crashed their ship on the rocks.

• abashed

• summoned

• beguiled

• cogitated

embarrassed, ashamed

• facetious

• insipid

• demure

• abashed

boring, dull, uninspired

• insipid

• abashed

• impending

• demure

Ants, dogs, lions, and geese are all examples of _______ animals

• frenetic

• gregarious

• abashed

• beguiled

Due to an ________ tropical storm, the school was closed and teachers were required to close the typhoon shutters and move all electronic equipment away from the windows.

• quixotic

• frenetic

• facetious

• impending