College Board Online Test #1 Section 5

Question 1

melodious

Answer 1

sweet-sounding; musical.

Question 2

strident

Answer 2

loud and harsh; grating.

Question 3

discrete

Answer 3

apart or detached from others; separate; distinct

Question 4

vacuous

Answer 4

without contents; empty

Question 5

discontinuance

Answer 5

cessation

Question 6

enumeration

Answer 6

the act of mentioning separately or in order; name one by one; list

Question 7

levy

Answer 7

to impose

Question 8

chronicle

Answer 8

to record in or as in a chronicle.

Question 9

avert

Answer 9

to turn away or aside

Question 10

surmise

Answer 10

to think or infer without certain or strong evidence; conjecture; speculate; guess.

Question 11

libertine

Answer 11

1. a person who is morally or sexually unrestrained, especially a dissolute man; a profligate; rake.
2. a freethinker in religious matters.

Question 12

zealot

Answer 12

an excessively zealous person; fanatic.

Question 13

altruistic

Answer 13

unselfishly concerned for or devoted to the welfare of others

Question 14

maverick

Answer 14

1. a lone dissenter, as an intellectual, an artist, or a politician, who takes an independent stand apart from his or her associates
2. a person pursuing rebellious, even potentially disruptive, policies or ideas

Question 15

vicarious

Answer 15

experienced in place of another