Answer the following questions to check your English vocabulary skill for the PSAT Exam. (The correct answers are given at the bottom of the questions) 1. What is the synonym of JUXTAPOSE? (A) change something into another form (B) draw or trace outline of (C) place next to one another (D) make something smaller or weaker (E) provide evidence for a claim 2. What is the antonym of JUXTAPOSE? (A) isolation (B) combat (C) suggestions (D) unpleasantness (E) holder 3. What is the synonym of ADVOCATE? (A) supporter (B) reform (C) aggrandize (D) disperse (E) necessitate 4. What is the antonym of ADVOCATE? (A) attack (B) intensify (C) wait (D) detach (E) record 5. What is the synonym of ADAMANT? (A) aside (B) amusement (C) inflexible (D) uplifted (E) uprooted 6. What is the antonym of ADAMANT? (A) flexible (B) rainy (C) yelling (D) swift (E) treelike 7. What is the synonym of ALTERCATION? (A) extremely poor (B) cheerful willingness (C) heated dispute (D) elation, exhilaration (E) proof film 8. What is the antonym of ALTERCATION? (A) experience (B) transformation (C) fruitlessness (D) destruction (E) concord 9. What is the synonym of FINITE? (A) true or real (B) ready to fight (C) far and wide (D) having an end (E) tending to delay 10. What is the antonym of FINITE? (A) true (B) ambitious (C) horrible (D) secrecy (E) unlimited 11. What is the synonym of PALLIATE? (A) give information to (B) put into words (C) get by heart (D) relieve without curing (E) take up again 12. What is the antonym of PALLIATE? (A) exacerbate (B) transit (C) build (D) gossip (E) dial 13. What is the synonym of PLACID? (A) man-made (B) infertile (C) disregardful (D) unmindful (E) steady 14. What is the antonym of PLACID? (A) oral (B) baseless (C) stormy (D) witty (E) exclusive 15. What is the synonym of APOSTATE? (A) object made by hand (B) recalling of the past (C) a brief amusing story (D) fallen from the faith (E) great unhappiness or suffering 16. What is the antonym of APOSTATE? (A) exactness (B) follower (C) monitor (D) trustworthiness (E) helicopter 17. What is the synonym of SUSPEND? (A) reduce or decrease (B) hang from above (C) bring into being (D) take control of (E) divide into parts 18. What is the antonym of SUSPEND? (A) attack (B) rise (C) harden (D) shape (E) continue 19. What is the synonym of DIMINISH? (A) lift (B) hurry (C) decrease (D) acknowledge (E) dye 20. What is the antonym of DIMINISH? (A) revoke (B) abide (C) magnify (D) misguide (E) imply ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Answers: 1. C 2. A 3. A 4. A 5. C 6. A 7. C 8. E 9. D 10. E 11. D 12. A 13. E 14. C 15. D 16. B 17. B 18. E 19. C 20. C

1. Psat Vocabulary Words
Answer the following questions to check your English vocabulary skill for the PSAT Exam.
(The correct answers are given at the bottom of the questions)
1. What is the synonym of DAUNT?
(A) make afraid or discouraged
(B) eat an excessive amount
(C) impress upon the mind
(D) make stronger with evidence
(E) encourage or stir up
2. What is the antonym of DAUNT?
(A) socialize
(B) adhere
(C) cover
(D) assist
(E) save
3. What is the synonym of EMBEZZLE?
(A) hear, see, or recognize differences
(B) irritate or annoy very much
(C) steal money, often from employer
(D) make an indirect reference to
(E) worsen an already bad situation
4. What is the antonym of EMBEZZLE?
(A) deduct

2. (B) perceive
(C) compensate
(D) retail
(E) inject
5. What is the synonym of DIDACTIC?
(A) irrational distrust of others
(B) expressing admiration or praise
(C) obviously dissimilar and individual
(D) not given careful consideration
(E) intended primarily to instruct
6. What is the antonym of DIDACTIC?
(A) togetherness
(B) defenseless
(C) misguiding
(D) noneducational
(E) wrongdoing
7. What is the synonym of KINDLE?
(A) arouse
(B) generate
(C) evolve
(D) relate
(E) supply
8. What is the antonym of KINDLE?
(A) stir
(B) continue

3. (C) extinguish
(D) abolish
(E) ignore
9. What is the synonym of IMPETUOUS?
(A) moving with great, sudden energy
(B) not easily taught or disciplined
(C) someone who follows the majority
(D) make an indirect reference to
(E) assumed in order to impress
10. What is the antonym of IMPETUOUS?
(A) honest
(B) nameless
(C) cautious
(D) fruitless
(E) torturous
11. What is the synonym of SENTENTIOUS?
(A) fearless
(B) inapplicable
(C) small
(D) concise
(E) interrogative
12. What is the antonym of SENTENTIOUS?
(A) nimble
(B) laudable
(C) busy

4. (D) verbose
(E) spotless
13. What is the synonym of FALLIBLE?
(A) subject to fear
(B) diverse in character
(C) capable of error
(D) a gentle breeze
(E) not easily explained
14. What is the antonym of FALLIBLE?
(A) woebegone
(B) cartilaginous
(C) energetic
(D) reliable
(E) ridiculousness
15. What is the synonym of TANGIBLE?
(A) malicious
(B) satirical
(C) wry
(D) hot
(E) concrete
16. What is the antonym of TANGIBLE?
(A) slack
(B) quizzical
(C) opprobrious
(D) stupendous

5. (E) conceptual
17. What is the synonym of VESTIGE?
(A) problem
(B) sign
(C) reconversion
(D) fearfulness
(E) altercation
18. What is the antonym of VESTIGE?
(A) carelessness
(B) nightmare
(C) observer
(D) branch
(E) effacement
19. What is the synonym of ADHERE?
(A) carry from one place to another
(B) conform to or follow rules exactly
(C) an act of making something right
(D) make a claim of wrongdoing against
(E) easy to see or to understand
20. What is the antonym of ADHERE?
(A) disjoin
(B) refer
(C) ascribe
(D) jump
(E) overcome

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20. A
The above questions are created from the following synonyms and antonyms:
1. DAUNT
Synonyms: become afraid; cause to lose courage; frighten; intimidate; make afraid or discouraged;
subdue; thwart
Antonyms: assist; embolden; encourage
2. EMBEZZLE
Synonyms: purloin; steal; steal by fraud; steal money, often from employer; steal money/wealth that
people trust you to look after; steal money by falsifying records
Antonyms: compensate; reimburse; return
3. DIDACTIC

7. Synonyms: educational; informative; instructional; instructive; intended primarily to instruct; intended
to instruct; intended to teach; intended to teach, especially excessively; intended to teach or instruct;
overly moralistic; teaching
Antonyms: misleading; noneducational; uninformative
4. KINDLE
Synonyms: arouse; encourage; enlighten; illuminate; inspire; start a fire; stimulate
Antonyms: douse; extinguish; put out
5. IMPETUOUS
Synonyms: acting without thinking; done with little thought; hasty; impulsive; moving with great,
sudden energy; moving with great force; rash; reckless; unbridled
Antonyms: calm; cautious; circumspect
6. SENTENTIOUS
Synonyms: be moralizing; concise; full of trite wordings; tending to moralize excessively; terse; trying to
appear wise, clever and important; usually in a pompous sense
Antonyms: circuitous; verbose; wordy
7. FALLIBLE
Synonyms: able to make mistakes and be wrong; apt to be erroneous or less than accurate; capable of
error; capable of making a mistake; imperfect; liable to err; likely to make mistakes
Antonyms: certain; correct; reliable
8. TANGIBLE
Synonyms: capable of being understood; concrete; definite; having actual form and substance; real; real
and able to be valued; touchable
Antonyms: conceptual; fictional; imaginary
9. VESTIGE

8. Synonyms: a visible trace that something once existed; footprint; indication that something has been
happened; mark; remains; sign; trace
Antonyms: deletion; effacement; misindication
10. ADHERE
Synonyms: attach; comply; conform to or follow rules exactly; stay firm in support of a leader or a plan;
stick or remain fixed to something; stick to a plan; stick to firmly
Antonyms: disjoin; not conform; separate
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