Answer the following questions to check your English vocabulary skill for the SAT Exam. (The correct answers are given at the bottom of the questions) 1. What is the synonym of VITIATE? (A) weaken morally (B) look (at) (C) assent to (D) make stable (E) start again 2. What is the antonym of VITIATE? (A) canalize (B) elevate (C) inscribe (D) descend (E) tribute 3. What is the synonym of ABSURDITY? (A) commander (B) condensation (C) discouragement (D) insanity (E) gumption 4. What is the antonym of ABSURDITY? (A) dogma (B) pigmentation (C) supposition (D) confinement (E) logic 5. What is the synonym of RUMINATE? (A) enforce (B) research (C) contemplate (D) surprise (E) engrave 6. What is the antonym of RUMINATE? (A) simulate (B) repel (C) bring (D) vanish (E) ignore 7. What is the synonym of PITTANCE? (A) spokeswoman (B) enlightenment (C) articulation (D) reclamation (E) trifle 8. What is the antonym of PITTANCE? (A) lot (B) uncommonly (C) kindly (D) verbally (E) fluently 9. What is the synonym of PAUPER? (A) submissive (B) vast (C) lamentable (D) mendicant (E) worthless 10. What is the antonym of PAUPER? (A) incompetent (B) painful (C) ingenious (D) comparable (E) rich 11. What is the synonym of PASTORAL? (A) relating to the countryside in a pleasant sense (B) agreement reached by a group as a whole (C) having the character of a loud deep sound (D) having the tendency to erode or eat away (E) making it hard and slow to move about 12. What is the antonym of PASTORAL? (A) urban (B) poisonous (C) clumsy (D) listless (E) amenable 13. What is the synonym of OBFUSCATE? (A) kick around (B) make bad (C) show indecision (D) make obscure (E) display menacingly 14. What is the antonym of OBFUSCATE? (A) exemplify (B) clarify (C) edify (D) displace (E) absolve 15. What is the synonym of ENIGMATIC? (A) easy (B) illustrious (C) beautiful (D) irrelevant (E) mysterious 16. What is the antonym of ENIGMATIC? (A) bookish (B) surprised (C) clear (D) expansive (E) disgraceful 17. What is the synonym of COMPOUND? (A) combine parts (B) displaced person (C) basic school (D) funeral hymn (E) verbal controversy 18. What is the antonym of COMPOUND? (A) denouncement (B) pointlessness (C) newborn (D) separation (E) disintegration 19. What is the synonym of TRANSIENT? (A) captive (B) wasted (C) lawless (D) fleeting (E) push 20. What is the antonym of TRANSIENT? (A) economic (B) intransient (C) insanity (D) rarity (E) footprint ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... ... Answers: 1. A 2. B 3. D 4. E 5. C 6. E 7. E 8. A 9. D 10. E 11. A 12. A 13. D 14. B 15. E 16. C 17. A 18. D 19. D 20. B