Hit Parade COMPLETE
Quiz yourself by thinking what should be in
each of the black spaces below before clicking
on it to display the answer.
Help!
|
|
||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| show | completely honest, straightforward
🗑
|
||||
| show | inference; guesswork
🗑
|
||||
| show | instructive
🗑
|
||||
| euphemism; "To pass away" is a common euphemism for dying. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | to infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information
🗑
|
||||
| incoherent; Maury's sentences were so incoherent that nobody understood a word. | show 🗑
|
||||
| insinuate; Sean insinuated that Grace stole the arsenic, but he never came out and said it. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | easily understood; clear
🗑
|
||||
| rhetoric; Since they are expected to make speeches, most politicians and lawyers are well-versed in the art of rhetoric. | show 🗑
|
||||
| acumen; Judge Ackerman's legal acumen was so well regarded that he was nicknamed the "Solomon of the South." | show 🗑
|
||||
| adroit; An adroit balloon-animal maker, Adrianna became popular at children's parties. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | to find out, as through investigation or experimentation
🗑
|
||||
| show | shrewd;clever
🗑
|
||||
| circumspect; Ned's circumspect manner makes him a wise appointment to the diplomatic corps. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | to scatter widely, as in sowing seed
🗑
|
||||
| show | deep, extensive learning
🗑
|
||||
| husbandry; After years of practicing animal husbandry, Marsha's husband was able to create a breed of dog that actually walked itself. | show 🗑
|
||||
| pedantic; Pedro's pedantic tendencies prompted him to remind us constantly of all the grammatical rules we were breaking. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | shrewd; clear-sighted
🗑
|
||||
| pragmatic; Never one for wild and unrealistic schemes, Matt took a pragmatic approach to research. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | exhibiting unusually early intellectual aptitude or maturity
🗑
|
||||
| prospectus; Before writing my thesis, I had to submit a detailed prospectus to the department for approval | show 🗑
|
||||
| rudimentary; Josh's rudimentary golf skills were easily overpowered by Tiger Woods's amazing performance on the green. | show 🗑
|
||||
| castigate; Mr. Castile preferred not to castigate student misbehavior publicly; instead, he would quietly send the troublemaker to the principal's office. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | to issue official blame
🗑
|
||||
| denounce; In many pwerful speeches throughout his lifetime, Martin Luther King, Jr. denounced racism as immoral. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | seeking or preferring seclusion or isolation
🗑
|
||||
| show | to retire from; give up or abandon
🗑
|
||||
| show | to give up (a title, for example), especially by formal announcement
🗑
|
||||
| vituperative; The vituperative speech was so cruel that the members left feeling completely abused. | show 🗑
|
||||
| circumscribe;The acrcheologist circumscribed the excavation area on the map. | show 🗑
|
||||
| contiguous; The continental United States consists of 48 contiguous states. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | appeasing; soothing; showing willingness to reconcile
🗑
|
||||
| show | capable of being believed; plausible
🗑
|
||||
| show | to free from blame
🗑
|
||||
| incontrovertible; The videotape of the robbery provided incontrovertible evidence against the suspect-he was obviously guilty. | show 🗑
|
||||
| indict;President Nixon's aides were indicted during the Watergate scandal. | show 🗑
|
||||
| litigious; Letitia was a litigious little girl; at one point, she tried to sue her dog. | show 🗑
|
||||
| partisan; Today's partisan politics are so antagonistic that it's difficult to reach a successful compromise on any issue. | show 🗑
|
||||
| parity; The judges at theh Olympice must score each athlete's performance with parity; such impartial treatment is hard since one always wants to root for one's own country. | show 🗑
|
||||
| rectitude; Thanks to his unerring sense of fairness and justice, Viktor was a model of moral rectitude; his hometown even erected a statue in his honor. | show 🗑
|
||||
| remiss; Cassie was remiss in fulfilling her Miss America duties; she didn't even come close to ending world hunger. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | to reject the validity or authority of
🗑
|
||||
| show | feigning piety or righteousness
🗑
|
||||
| show | principled, having a strong sense of right and wrong; conscientious and exacting
🗑
|
||||
| show | concerned
🗑
|
||||
| show | plausible but misleading or fallacious argument
🗑
|
||||
| show | to support with proof or evidence; verify
🗑
|
||||
| show | adherence to the truth; truthfulness
🗑
|
||||
| show | to free from blame
🗑
|
||||
| show | to urge with repeated appeals, teasing, or flattery
🗑
|
||||
| show | trickery
🗑
|
||||
| obsequious; Keevin was so obsequious that even his teachers were embarrassed; as a result, his sucking up rarely led to better grades. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | insincere, obsequious flatterer
🗑
|
||||
| altruism; Alta, a model of altruism, gave her movie ticket to someone who needed it more. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | distinguished; prominent
🗑
|
||||
| empathy; Emily is one of the most empathetic friends; she can always relate to my emotions. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | to praise highly
🗑
|
||||
| show | full of praise
🗑
|
||||
| magnanimous; The magnanimous prince cared deeply for his country and its people. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | humanitarian; benevolent; relating to monetary generosity
🗑
|
||||
| reciprocate; The chef reciprocated his rival's respect; they admired each other so much that they even traded recipes. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | no longer existing or functioning
🗑
|
||||
| eradicate; Radcliffe did her best to eradicate the radishes from her farm. | show 🗑
|
||||
| expurgate; The Chinese government expurgates nearly all obscene matter from the nation's Internet. | show 🗑
|
||||
| extirpate; While the family was on vacation, the termites practically extirpated the house. | show 🗑
|
||||
| quell; Nell quelled the fight over the quiche by throwing it out the window-she had long given up reasoning with her sisters. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | to level to the ground; demolish
🗑
|
||||
| show | to crush as if by trampling; squash
🗑
|
||||
| show | to usurp the place of, especially through intrigue or underhanded tactics
🗑
|
||||
| stymie; Stan was stymied by the Sudoku puzzle; he just couldn't solve it. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | to lower in rank, prestige, or esteem
🗑
|
||||
| deride; Derrick was derided for wearingn two different colored socks, but he couldn't help it-it was laundry day. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | insulting or intended to insult
🗑
|
||||
| show | to speak of negatively; to belittle
🗑
|
||||
| show | brazen boldenss; presumptuousness
🗑
|
||||
| show | great personal dishonor or humiliation; disgraceful conduct
🗑
|
||||
| show | to attack as false or questionable
🗑
|
||||
| show | to damage, especially in a disfiguring way
🗑
|
||||
| pejorative (adj.) ; Teachers should refrain from using pejorative terms as numbskull and idiot to refer to other teachers. | show 🗑
|
||||
| vex; Bex's mom was vexed when Bex was very vague about her whereabouts for the evening. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful
🗑
|
||||
| bombastic; The principal's bombastic speech bombed in the eyes of the students; it only furthered their impression of him as a pompous jerk. | show 🗑
|
||||
| ebullience; A sense of ebullience swept over the lacrosse fans crowd when their team won the game. | show 🗑
|
||||
| exorbitant; I wanted to buy a Porsche, but the price was exorbitant, so instead I purchaed a used mail truck. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | full of unrestrained enthusiasm or joy
🗑
|
||||
| embellish; One can never trust that Anwar's stories are realistic; his details are almost always embellished so that his experiences sound more interesting than they really are. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | extremely or diliberately shocking or noticeable
🗑
|
||||
| show | given freely; unearned; unneccessary
🗑
|
||||
| show | extravagant
🗑
|
||||
| lugubrious; Lucas's lugubrious eulogy for his pet lobster quickly became ridiculous. | show 🗑
|
||||
| opulent; The ophthalmologist's opulent home was the envy of his friends; the crystal chandeliers, marble floors, and teak furniture must have cost a fortune. | show 🗑
|
||||
| ornate; The wood carvings were so ornate that you could examine them many times and still notice things you had not seen before | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | a strong inclination or liking
🗑
|
||||
| show | needlessly repetitive
🗑
|
||||
| ubiquitous; Kenny had a ubiquitous little sister; wherever he turned, there she was. | show 🗑
|
||||
| vicarious; Stan, who was never athletic but loved sports, lived vicariously through his brother, a professional basketball player. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | a short scene or story
🗑
|
||||
| show | a combination of diverse elements; a mixture
🗑
|
||||
| inundate; The day after the ad ran, Martha was undated with phone calls. | show 🗑
|
||||
| multifarious; The multifarious achievements of Leo da Vinci, ranging from architecture and painting to phil. and sci. are unparalleled in our century. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | state of being various or manifold; a great number
🗑
|
||||
| alleviate; Alvin meditated to alleviate the pain from the headache he got after taking the SAT. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | to make something better; improve
🗑
|
||||
| beneficial; According to my doctor, tea's beneficial effects may niclude reducing anxiety. | show 🗑
|
||||
| curative; The aloe had a curative effect on my sunburn; within hours, the flaking had stopped | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | relieving or soothing the symptoms of a disease or disorder without effecting a cure
🗑
|
||||
| therapeutic; The therapeutic air of the Mediterranean cured Thomas of his asthma. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | something that completes, goes with, or brings to perfection
🗑
|
||||
| show | a representative or examplle of a type
🗑
|
||||
| show | admirably suited; apt
🗑
|
||||
| show | to misrepresent or disguise
🗑
|
||||
| show | to expose untruths, shams, or exaggerated claims
🗑
|
||||
| dubious; Jerry's dubious claim that he could fly like Superman didn't win him any summer job offers. | show 🗑
|
||||
| duplicitous; The duplicitous man duplicated dollars and gave the counterfeits to unsuspecting vendors. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | to make up in order to deceive
🗑
|
||||
| fallacy; The idea that there is only one college for you is a fallacy. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | lying; untruthful
🗑
|
||||
| specious; Susie's specious argument seemed to make sense, but when I looked more closely, it was clearly illogical | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | open to more than one interpretation
🗑
|
||||
| ambivalent; Amy felt ambivalent about her dance class: on one hand she enjoyed the exercise, but on the other, the chohice of dances bored her. | show 🗑
|
||||
| apathetic; The apathetic students didn't even bother to vote for class president. | show 🗑
|
||||
| capricious; The referee's capricious behavior angered the players; he would call a four for minor contact, but ignore elbowing and kicking. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | open to two or more interpretations and often intended to mislead; ambiguous (antonym: unequivocal)
🗑
|
||||
| show | markedly inconsistent
🗑
|
||||
| show | suddenly and forcefully energietic or emotional; impulsive and passionate
🗑
|
||||
| impetus; A looming deadline provided Imelda with the impetus she needed to finish her research paper. | show 🗑
|
||||
| sporadic; Storms in Florida are sporadic; it's hard to prdict when they're going to occur. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | to sway from one side to the other; oscillate
🗑
|
||||
| show | characterized by whim; unpredictable
🗑
|
||||
| show | to decline in vigor or strength; to tire; to droop
🗑
|
||||
| jaded; Jade's experiences had jaded her; she no longer believed that the junk stacked in her garage was going to make her rich. | show 🗑
|
||||
| ingenous; Janine was so ingenuous that it was too easy for her friends to dupe her. | show 🗑
|
||||
| subterfuge; The submarine pilots were trained in the art of subterfuge; they were excellent at faking out their enemies | show 🗑
|
||||
| surreptitious; Sara drank the cough syrup surreptitiously because she didn't want anyone to know that she was sick. | show 🗑
|
||||
| dearthy; There was a dearth of money in my piggybank; it collected dust, not bills. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | a small, moderate, or token amount
🗑
|
||||
| show | smallness in number; scarcity
🗑
|
||||
| show | to spend wastefully
🗑
|
||||
| show | moderate; restrained (antonym: intemperate)
🗑
|
||||
| show | having little substance or strength; shaky
🗑
|
||||
| show | marked by painstaking effort; hardworking
🗑
|
||||
| show | one who is independent and resists adherence to a group
🗑
|
||||
| mercenary; Mercer is a mercenary lawyer; he'll argue for whichever side pays him the most for his services | show 🗑
|
||||
| obstinate; Despite Jeremy's broken leg, his parents were obstinate; they steadfastly refused to buy him an XBOX. | show 🗑
|
||||
| proliferate; Because fax machines, pagers, and cell phones have proliferated in recent years, many new area codes have been created to handle the demand for phone numbers. | show 🗑
|
||||
| tenacity; With his overwhelming tenacity, Clark was finally able to interview Brad Pitt for the school newspaper | show 🗑
|
||||
| vigilant; The participants of the candlelight vigil were vigilant, as they had herad that the fraternity across the street was planning to egg them | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | irrelevant; inessential
🗑
|
||||
| juxtapose;Separately the pictures look identical, but if you juxtapose them, you can see the differences. | show 🗑
|
||||
| superflous; if there is sugar in your tea, honey would be superflous. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | compined action or operation
🗑
|
||||
| tangential; Though Abby's paper was well written, its thesis was so tangential to its proof that her teacher couldn't give her a good grade. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | having to do witih the appreciation of beauty
🗑
|
||||
| aural; It should come as no surprise that musicians prefer aural to visual leraning. | show 🗑
|
||||
| cacophony; Brian had to shield his ears from the awful cacophony produced by the punk band onstage. | show 🗑
|
||||
| dirge; The dirge was so beatiful that everyone cried, even those who hadn't known the deceased | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | made up of a variety of sources or styles
🗑
|
||||
| incongruous; my chicken and jello soup experiment failed; the tastes were just too incongruous | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | producing a deep or full sound
🗑
|
||||
| strident; The strident shouting dept the neighbors awake all night. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | disastrous or ludicrous defeat or failure; fiasco
🗑
|
||||
| show | impair the strength of; weaken
🗑
|
||||
| tumultuous; The tumultuous applause was so deafening that the pianist couldn't hear the singer | show 🗑
|
||||
| anachronistic; I noticed an anachronism in the museum's ancien Rome display: a digital clock ticking behind a statue of Venus | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | characteristic of anearlier time; antiquated; old
🗑
|
||||
| show | habitually late
🗑
|
||||
| ephemeral; The importance of SAT scores is truly ephemeral; when you are applying they are crucial, but once you get into college, no on cares how well you did. | show 🗑
|
||||
| redolent; The aroma of apple pie wafted into my room, redolent of weekendes spent baking with my grandmother. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | of, relating to, or limited by time
🗑
|
||||
| onerous; The onerous task was so difficult that Ona thought she'd never get through it. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | indication of something important or calamitous about to occur; omen
🗑
|
||||
| prescience; Preetha's prescience was such that people wondered if she was psychic; how else could she know so much about the future? | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | without decoration; strict
🗑
|
||||
| show | drearily commonplace; predictable; trite
🗑
|
||||
| show | worn out through overuse; trite
🗑
|
||||
| show | uninteresting; unchallenging; lacking taste or savor
🗑
|
||||
| show | unimaginative; dull (antonym: poetic)
🗑
|
||||
| show | inducing or tending to induce sleep
🗑
|
||||
| vapid; Valerie's date was so vapid that she thought he was sleeping with his eyes open. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | the quality or state of being brief in duration
🗑
|
||||
| expedient; It was more expedient to use Federal Express that to use the post office. | show 🗑
|
||||
| transient; Jack enjoyed his transient lifestyle; with nothing but the clothes on his back and the air in his lungs, he was free to travel wherever he wanted. | show 🗑
|
||||
| augment; The model Angele Franju is rumored to have augmented her studies in chemistry with a minor in German literature. | show 🗑
|
||||
| bolster; The class bolstered Amelia's confidence; she had no idea she already knew so much. | show 🗑
|
||||
| burgeon; The burgeoning Burgess family required a new house because its old one only had one beroom. | show 🗑
|
||||
| copious; She took copious notes during clas, using up five large notebooks | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | to swell out or expand from internal pressure, as when overly full
🗑
|
||||
| show | great in scope or intent; grand
🗑
|
||||
| prodigious; Spielberg's prodigious talent has made him the most successful film producer and director of our time. | show 🗑
|
||||
| profundity; Actor's profundity surprised the director, who had heard that he was a bit of an airhead. | show 🗑
|
||||
| redouble; Rita redoubled her efforts to become president of her class by campaigning twice as hard to before. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | brilliant
🗑
|
||||
| show | strongly disinclined
🗑
|
||||
| conspicuous | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | modest and reserved
🗑
|
||||
| show | timidity or shyness
🗑
|
||||
| show | submissive to instruction; willing to be taught
🗑
|
||||
| innocuous; Plants are innocuous as they look; we suffer no ill effects from eating their leaves. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | calm or quiet; undisturbed
🗑
|
||||
| quiescent; Quinn's quiescent behavior made him an ideal roommate. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | agreement (antonym: discord)
🗑
|
||||
| concur; the board concurred that the con artist who had stolen their money had to be convicted. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | stubbornly attached to insufficiently proven beliefs
🗑
|
||||
| fastidious; Kelly, always so fastidious, dramatically edited our group's report. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | refusal to moderate a position or to compromise
🗑
|
||||
| jocular; Yung-Ji's jocular disposition helped him gain popularity | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | extremely careful and precise
🗑
|
||||
| affable; My mom always said that the key to being affable is the ability to make others laugh. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | promptness in response; cheerful readiness; eagerness
🗑
|
||||
| show | friendly; agreeable; good-natured
🗑
|
||||
| show | kind and gentle
🗑
|
||||
| show | cheerfully confident; optimistic
🗑
|
||||
| show | eager to fight; hostile or aggressive
🗑
|
||||
| byzantine; I gave up trying to understand the byzantine tax code and had an accountant file my taxes for me. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | ill-tempered and quarrelsome; disagreeable
🗑
|
||||
| contentious; The contentious debate over sience class content is increasingly making the news. | show 🗑
|
||||
| deleterious; The snake venom is deleterious to one's health. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | to increase the severity, violence, or bitterness of; aggravate
🗑
|
||||
| show | disrespectfully humorous or casual
🗑
|
||||
| insolent; The insolent prime minister stuck her tongue out at the queen. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | flagrantly wicked; vicious
🗑
|
||||
| show | extremely or irrevocably harmful; deadly
🗑
|
||||
| show | marked by bitter, deep-seated ill-will
🗑
|
||||
| show | arousing disgust or aversion; offensive or repulsive
🗑
|
||||
| tawdry; Connor's tawdry attire embarrassed his snooty host. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | relating to or resembling a tree or trees
🗑
|
||||
| show | a call (usually upon a higher power)for assistance, support, or inspiration
🗑
|
||||
| stratify; Jonas studied the stratified bedrock and was able to see which time periods went with which layers. | show 🗑
|
||||
| variegated; The wood's markings were so variegated that Mr. Vargas assumed they had been painted on. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | green with vegetation
🗑
|
||||
| abstruse; Abby found her professor's lecture on non-Euclidian geometry abstruse; she doubted anyone else in class understood it either. | show 🗑
|
||||
| callous; Callie's callous remark about her friend's cluttered room really hurt his feelings. | show 🗑
|
||||
| convoluted; THe directions were so convoluted taht we became hopelessly lost. | show 🗑
|
||||
| enigma; The emu was an enigma; you could never tell what it was thinking. | show 🗑
|
||||
| inscrutable; The ancient poet's handwriting was so inscrutable, that even the most prominent Latin scholars could not read the manuscript. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | inclined to keep silent; reserved
🗑
|
||||
| staid; Mr. Estado was well known for his staid demeanor; he stayed calm even when everyone else celebrated the team's amazing victory. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | known or understood by only a few
🗑
|
||||
| show | to absorb or become absorbed; to make or become similar
🗑
|
||||
| show | independence; self-determination
🗑
|
||||
| show | worldly; widely sophisticated
🗑
|
||||
| derivative (n); Special Victims Unit and Criminal Intent are derivatives of the original Law and Order drams series | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | a group of attendants or associates; a retinue
🗑
|
||||
| esoteric; Esme's play is extremely esoteric; someone not raised in Estonia would find it difficult to follow. | show 🗑
|
||||
| gaffe; Geoff committed the gaff of telling his date that he'd gone out with her sister the night before. | show 🗑
|
||||
| idiosyncrasy; She had many idiosyncrasies, one of which was washing her socks in the dishwasher. | show 🗑
|
||||
| show | isolated; narrow or provincial
🗑
|
||||
| orthodox; My father held orthodox view of baseball; he believed that the field should be outside and made of real grass. | show 🗑
|
||||
| potentate; An omnipotent potentate is a person to be reckoned with; great power in the hands of a great leader is a powerful combination. | show 🗑
|
Review the information in the table. When you are ready to quiz yourself you can hide individual columns or the entire table. Then you can click on the empty cells to reveal the answer. Try to recall what will be displayed before clicking the empty cell.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
To hide a column, click on the column name.
To hide the entire table, click on the "Hide All" button.
You may also shuffle the rows of the table by clicking on the "Shuffle" button.
Or sort by any of the columns using the down arrow next to any column heading.
If you know all the data on any row, you can temporarily remove it by tapping the trash can to the right of the row.
Embed Code - If you would like this activity on your web page, copy the script below and paste it into your web page.
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Normal Size Small Size show me how
Created by:
pakamor
Popular SAT sets