Primary SSAT Vocabulary

A great diaster or failure

• dearth

• debacle

• bewildered

• adorn

Tending to make a striking display / showy / flashy

• Livid

• Merit

• Gaffe

• Flamboyant

If a person is boisterous then they are

• sad

• happy

• loud

• calm

When Jasmine writes her essays she is extremely __________.

• arciclate

• articulate

• arctictic

• arcticulit

Jessica is extremely _____ when it comes to cheerleading.

• candid

• deft

• flout

• wary

I can never tell when Ronald is being serious since he always has a _____ up his sleeve.

• goad

• respite

• surly

• ruse

in an unwilling and hesitant way

• bolster

• doctrine

• squalid

• reluctantly

Elizabeth prefers to _____ her little brother because at times, he can be a pest.

• nettle

• flout

• elude

• surly

Sanguine

• to argue to a point or position; or, to struggle

• penetrating beyond the superficial; filled with

  wisdom and insight; deep

• optimistic; cheerful

• imitate

Yasmine was very _____ when it came to sharing her secret with her brother.

• agile

• lucid

• dour

• wary