Vocabulary Quiz: SAT and GRE

Question 1

My boss said that I should put a check on my lateness. What did she mean?

Accepted Answer

Keep your lateness under control.

Question 2

A peer commented that I used the wrong word - extant - to describe dinosaurs. Is he right?

Accepted Answer

Yes, take the shame. Extant means that they endured.

Question 3

A raft of complaints showed the city counsel that the plan cannot be implemented. Correct?

Accepted Answer

No, it should be: raft, council.

Question 4

Rather than being expansive at the office party, he chose to be retiring. Correct?

Accepted Answer

Yes, expansive means likely to socialize.

Question 5

My date defined my speech as prosaic. Will I go home alone?

Accepted Answer

Yes, you're boring.

Question 6

Lumberjacks fell trees for a living. Correct?

Accepted Answer

Yes, fell is in present tense.

Question 7

I decided to break up with her anyway. After my speech, she murmured: "Schadenfreude." WTF?

Accepted Answer

You take pleasure in others' suffering, specifically hers.

Question 8

His scintillating intelligence made him a pariah at social gatherings. Logical?

Accepted Answer

No, because pariah means an outcast.

Question 9

Indigent upon seeing indignance in Africa, he resolved to help the indigenous people. Correct?

Accepted Answer

No, it should be indignant, indigence, indigenous.

Question 10

My grandma said: "Your girlfriend's demeanor seems positively artless." Should we break up?

Accepted Answer

No, your girlfriend is a sincere person.

Question 11

My professor said my evidence is disparate. What did she mean?

Accepted Answer

It's fragmented.

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