TEST Semester 1 SAT Vocab

Fill in the blank:

Carrying five bags of groceries up the stairs was a ____ task.

• ubiquitous

• innocuous

• intrepid

• cumbersome

Kids eat a _____ amount of candy on Halloween! They eat too much and get a stomach ache!

• advocate

• bolster

• terse

• superfluous

Fill in the blank:

AVID students with lots of determination are ____ because they don't give up, even when times are tough!

• desolate

• premature

• tenacious

• fastidious

Staying up to play Fortnite had a negative _____ on his studying habit.

• affect

• effect

If you eradicate a creature, you will ____

• preserve it

• eliminate it

• assist it

• forget about it

Select the word that matches the picture and description:

Bare, uninhabited, and deserted

• desolate

• innocous

• tenacious

• fastidious

harmless, inoffensive; insignificant

• innocuous

• tenacious

• premature

• ubiquitous

What is the correct meaning of the word terse?

• stingy with money

• Short, concise

• support

• Calm, peaceful

Fill in the blank:

The 5:30pm JV soccer game will _____ the 7pm Varsity soccer game tonight.

• precede

• perturb

• compensate

• squabble

Fill in the blank:

Lady Gaga's red carpet look was quite ______ with its flashy garnishes and tinsel.

• perturbed

• flagrant

• aloof

• ostentatious