College Board Online Test #6 Section 4

Question 1

demonstrative

Answer 1

explanatory or illustrative

Question 2

nebulous

Answer 2

hazy, vague, indistinct, or confused

cloudlike

Question 3

meticulous

Answer 3

taking or showing extreme care about minute details; precise; thorough

Question 4

versatile

Answer 4

capable of or adapted for turning easily from one to another of various tasks, fields of endeavor, etc

Question 5

immaterial

Answer 5

1. unimportant, irrelevant.

2. spiritual.

Question 6

incriminate

Answer 6

to accuse of or present proof of a crime or fault

Question 7

nominal

Answer 7

in name only.

Question 8

indisputable

Answer 8

unquestionable, unable to be disputed.

Question 9

illusory

Answer 9

deceptive, misleading

Question 10

taxing

Answer 10

wearingly burdensome

Question 11

indulgent

Answer 11

benignly lenient or permissive

Question 12

strenuous

Answer 12

physically demanding; requiring a lot of effort or energy.

Question 13

dubious

Answer 13

doubtful, questionable

Question 14

hamper

Answer 14

hold back; hinder; impede

Question 15

belie

Answer 15

tend to contradict.

Question 16

mortality

Answer 16

the state or condition of being subject to death

Question 17

laconic

Answer 17

concise, succinct

Question 18

duplicity

Answer 18

deceitfulness in speech or conduct, as by speaking or acting in two different ways to different people concerning the same matter; double-dealing.

Question 19

voluble

Answer 19

characterized by a ready and continuous flow of words; fluent; talkative

Question 20

prescience

Answer 20

knowledge of things before they exist or happen; foreknowledge, foresight

Question 21

complicit (in)

Answer 21

passively participating (in); being an accomplice (in).

Question 22

mendacity

Answer 22

tendency to lie; untruthfulness

Question 23

induction

Answer 23

the act of bringing about or causing

introduction, initiation

Question 24

pragmatic

Answer 24

having a practical point of view.

Question 25

fiscal

Answer 25

financial (used only in the context of budgets)

Question 26

bombastic

Answer 26

pompous, pretentious, arrogant.

Question 27

empirical

Answer 27

based on experience or experiments; relating to things that can be observed.

Question 28

inchoate

Answer 28

not yet completed or fully developed.

Question 29

lugubrious

Answer 29

mournful, dismal, gloomy especially in an affected, exaggerated, or unrelieved manner

Question 30

dirge

Answer 30

a funeral song or tune, or one expressing mourning in commemoration of the dead.

Question 31

facetious

Answer 31

not meant to be taken seriously or literally

Question 32

sprightly

Answer 32

animated; vivacious