PSAT Lesson 14

Question 0

Animosity

Answer 0

Harsh feelings, enmity, resentment, hatred

Question 1

Adulterate

Answer 1

To make impure by adding lesser substances; to corrupt

Question 2

Apocryphal

Answer 2

Of doubtful origin or authenticity, not genuine

Question 3

Avarice

Answer 3

Greed for wealth

Question 4

Coalesce

Answer 4

To merge, to fuse, to join, or to unite

Question 5

Collaborate

Answer 5

To work together

Question 6

Cryptic

Answer 6

Mysterious, secret

Question 7

Desultory

Answer 7

Jumping around, aimless, random

Question 8

Dissipation

Answer 8

Wasteful spending, squandering

Question 9

Edifying

Answer 9

Instructing an improving spiritually or morally

Question 10

Equivocate

Answer 10

To attempt to lie, to mislead, or to hide the truth

Question 11

Espousing

Answer 11

Marrying, giving ones loyalty; adopting or embracing a cause

Question 12

Hedonist

Answer 12

One go seeks pleasure as the sole aim in life

Question 13

Indefatigable

Answer 13

Tireless, incapable of being fatigued

Question 14

Interminable

Answer 14

Having or seeming to have no end, wearisomely protracted

Question 15

Naive

Answer 15

Unsophisticated; inexperienced

Question 16

Parody

Answer 16

Humorous or ridiculous imitation

Question 17

Peripheral

Answer 17

On the edge, not important

Question 18

Portent

Answer 18

A sign or forewarning

Question 19

Prodigious

Answer 19

Extraordinary in bulk, quantity, or degree great size, enormous

Question 20

Profane

Answer 20

Showing contempt toward sacred things

Question 21

Respite

Answer 21

A rest, a delay, a period of relief

Question 22

Sordid

Answer 22

Filthy, foul

Question 23

Surfeited

Answer 23

Fed or supplied excess

Question 24

Trifling

Answer 24

Not significant, frivolous