From Practice Tests

Question 1

Recondite

Answer 1

Implies something is little known or obscure

Question 2

Clemency

Answer 2

Mercy or pardon

Question 3

Refractory

Answer 3

Stubborn or unmanageable

Question 4

Ingenuous

Answer 4

Innocent or unsuspecting

Question 5

Disingenuous

Answer 5

Not candid or sincere, typically by pretending that one knows less about something then one really does.

Question 6

Mendacious

Answer 6

Not telling the truth; lying

Question 7

Taciturn

Answer 7

Reserved or uncommunicative in speech; saying little

Question 8

Impetuous

Answer 8

Acting or done quickly and without thought or care

Question 9

Tenuous

Answer 9

Very weak or slight

A tenuous thread, or a tenuous theory

Question 10

Loquacious

Answer 10

Talkative or long winded

Question 11

Erudite

Answer 11

Demonstrating great learning or knowledge

Question 12

Tacit

Answer 12

Understood or implied without being stated

Question 13

Facetious

Answer 13

Treating serious issues with deliberately inappropriate humor; flippant

Question 14

Quixotic

Answer 14

Impractical in the pursuit of ideals

Question 15

Perfunctory

Answer 15

(Of an action or gesture) carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection

Question 16

Nascent

Answer 16

Synonyms: beginning, budding, developing, growing, embryonic,

Question 17

Redoubtable

Answer 17

(Of a person) formidable, especially as an opponent.

Inspiring fear or respect

Question 18

Specious

Answer 18

Superficially plausible, but actually wrong

Question 19

Inimical

Answer 19

Not friendly

Question 20

Philistine

Answer 20

A person uninterested in intellectual pursuits

Smug, ignorant and indifferent or hostile to artistic and cultural values

Question 21

Dissimulation

Answer 21

Concealment of one’s thoughts, feelings, or character; pretense

Question 22

Germane

Answer 22

Relevant and appropriate

Pertinent

Question 23

Abandon

Answer 23

Allow oneself to indulge in ( a desire or impulse)

“Abandoning herself to moony fantasies”

Question 24

Egregious

Answer 24

Outstandingly bad

Shocking

Question 25

Gregarious

Answer 25

Fond of company; sociable

Question 26

Scrupulous Sedulous

Answer 26

With extreme conscientiousness In a sedulous manner

Question 27

Protracted

Answer 27

Relatively long in duration; tediously protracted Syn: prolonged

Question 28

Prevarication

Answer 28

A statement the deviates from or prevents truth Intentionally vague He delicate act of deviating from the truth Syn: equivocate;