Practice Test

Question 1

Confound

Answer 1

Cause surprise or confusion

Amaze, astonish, baffle

Question 2

Repudiate

Answer 2

Refuse to accept or be associated with

Reject, renounce

Question 3

Recapitulate

Answer 3

Summarize, restate

Question 4

Facetious

Answer 4

Treating serious issues with inappropriate humor

Flippant

Question 5

Patent

Answer 5

Clearly revealed, unmistakable, obvious

Question 6

Arcane

Answer 6

Secret, mysterious, obscure

Question 7

Painstaking

Answer 7

Extreme care and great effort

Scrupulous

Question 8

Construe

Answer 8

To interpret, see, perceive

Question 9

Vexation

Answer 9

Irritated, annoyed

Question 10

Ubiquitous

Answer 10

Being everywhere, all at once

Omnipresent, universal

Question 11

Fastidious

Answer 11

Giving careful attention to detail

Perfectionist, painstaking

Question 12

Solicitous

Answer 12

Greatly concerned, anxious to please

Question 13

Munificent

Answer 13

Very generous, very liberal in giving or bestowing

Question 14

Taciturn

Answer 14

Habitually reserved, uncommunicative

Saying little

Question 15

Ebullient

Answer 15

Showing enthusiasm or exhilaration

Exuberant, buoyant, jaunty

Question 16

Garrulous

Answer 16

Talkative

Loquacious

Question 17

Irresolute

Answer 17

Feeling or showing uncertainty, hesitant, indecisive

Vacillating

Question 18

Avarice

Answer 18

Greed

Question 19

Mendacity

Answer 19

Untruthful

Lie, prevarication, deception

Question 20

Fortuitous

Answer 20

Occurring by chance

Accidental, haphazard

Question 21

Unadorned

Answer 21

Plain, simple

Question 22

Impediment

Answer 22

Hindrance, obstruction

Question 23

Indolence

Answer 23

Lazy, sloth, lethargy

Question 24

Belies

Answer 24

Disguise or contradict, call into question