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QUIZ: SAT Vocabulary List 2

Total questions: 15

Worksheet time: 45mins

Name
Class
Date
1.

To the Romans, the goddess Venus was the ________ of beauty.

a)

iconoclast

b)

bulwark

c)

recalcitrant

d)

paragon

2.

Which word means to give the appearance of or to pretend?

a)

affect

b)

assume

c)

effect

d)

imagine

3.

"I hope, for our sake, that Ms. Carr didn't ______ her morning coffee!"

a)

lament

b)

vacillate

c)

forgo

d)

dearth

4.

Which word means talkative?

a)

garrulous

b)

bulwark

c)

jettison

d)

hamper

5.

An iconoclast is __________________.

a)

one who follows the crowd

b)

one who goes against the norm

c)

one who breaks the law

d)

one who shows the way

6.

Which word means no longer fashionable?

a)

recalcitrant

b)

bulwark

c)

machination

d)

outmoded

7.

Recalcitrant means

a)

resistant to authority

b)

crafty scheme

c)

sluggishness

d)

to hold back

8.

To free from blame is to

a)

bulwark

b)

garrulous

c)

exculpate

d)

vacillate

9.

If something is cryptic, it is ________________.

a)

changing in nature

b)

mysterious in meaning

c)

staying in place

d)

running on empty

10.

I ________ that I can't go to the beach this weekend.

a)

lament

b)

vacillate

c)

affect

d)

torpor

11.

Don't ________ your chance at success!

a)

verbatim

b)

affect

c)

paragon

d)

jettison

12.

When you remember definitions word for word, you remember them __________.

a)

lament

b)

vacillate

c)

verbatim

d)

torpor

13.

Your behavior is __________!

a)

lament

b)

deplorable

c)

verbatim

d)

hamper

14.

Perfidy means ________________________.

a)

a deliberate breach of trust

b)

to declare legally void

c)

payment for goods and services

d)

to free from guilt or blame

15.

Changeable; volatile

a)

ignominious

b)

ostentatious

c)

lurid

d)

mercurial