SAT Quiz wk3 - 11th

Question 1

feeling of humiliation due to disappointment. Embarrassment, or disappointment; anxiety.

Accepted Answer

chagrin

Question 2

a deliberately false report, rumor, or fabrication intended as a joke.

Accepted Answer

canard

Question 3

an experience or feeling of spiritual or emotional release

Accepted Answer

catharsis

Question 4

the use of excess language to avoid saying something directly or truthfully.

Accepted Answer

circumlocution

Question 5

authentic, actual, or genuine. Not deceptive; indisputably legitimate.

Accepted Answer

bona fide

Question 6

beat repeatedly with a heavy object. To bully someone into doing something against their will.

Accepted Answer

bludgeon

Question 7

increases the rate of a chemical reaction/makes a change happen/initiates a process or event.

Accepted Answer

catalyst

Question 8

to beg or ask earnestly. To entreat, to implore, or request forcefully.

Accepted Answer

beseech

Question 9

thing that causes fear, annoyance, trouble, worry, or dismay. An imagined threat or problem.

Accepted Answer

bugaboo

Question 10

short or brief in duration. Economical use of words and writing or speech.

Accepted Answer

brevity

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