SAT Vocab Challenge 3

1. He decided to __________ the throne due to the overwhelming political pressure and personal scandals.

• Vindicate

• Impute

• Abdicate

• Entail

1. Her happiness on graduation day was pure __________, filled with laughter and tears of joy.

• Jubilation

• Querulous

• Anomaly

• Asylum

1. The architecture of the building was so __________ that it included gold leaf and marble statues, appearing almost gaudy to the casual observer.

• Precocious

• Spurious

• Surreptitious

• Ostentatious

1. Scientists were puzzled by the __________ in the data, which did not fit any of their established models.

• Demur

• Apex

• Anomaly

• Deleterious

1. Despite his __________ wealth, he always wore plain clothing and drove an old car, avoiding any display of his fortune.

• Superfluous

• Extenuating

• Ephemeral

• Impetuous

1. The theory was finally __________ by the new experimental data, confirming what had been suspected for years.

• Demured

• Abdicated

• Nulled

• 1. Vindicated

1. In light of the __________ circumstances, the judge decided to reduce the sentence.

• Melodramatic

• Extenuating

• Hedonistic

• Hackneyed

1. His claims were deemed __________, lacking evidence and credibility.

• Spurious

• Hackneyed

• Rancorous

• Deleterious

1. The medicine's effects were __________, causing harm when the dosage was not carefully controlled.

• Precocious

• Null

• Demured

• Deleterious

1. His __________ personality made him unpopular among his peers, who found his troublesome complaints annoying.

• Querulous

• Precocious

• Hedonist

• Superfluous