SAT Vocab Comprehension Check

The secretary was a ______ in the office, he had worked in that position for thirty years.

• parse

• necessitate

• fixture

• juncture

My children all ______ to great things; one wants to be president, another a lawyer, and the third a teacher.

• writhe

• aspire

• elude

• queue

Which word means "having two sides"?

• bilateral

• obliterate

• thearchy

• juncture

Which word means "to break something down into its parts in order to explain or understand it"?

• lapse

• parse

• imbibe

• bilateral

The worm had to _____ and twist on the ground until it found loose soil.

• scuttle

• elude

• nestle

• writhe

Criminals _____ unsuspecting consumers by stealing their online passwords.

• candor

• defraud

• elude

• imbibe

Which word means "chaos or large-scale destruction

• havoc

• ravenous

• obliterate

The man's date was offended by his _____ in saying she was not beautiful.

• myriad

• defraud

• candor

• scuttle

The student had a _____ of reasons for not completing their classwork.

• malady

• thearchy

• lapse

• myriad

It was a _____ of judgement to cheat on the test, but I didn't want to fail.

• lapse

• parse

• juncture

• malady