PSAT Lesson 32

Question 1

amenity

Answer 1

agreeable ways or manners; the quality of being agreeable or pleasant

Question 2

anathema

Answer 2

a vigorous denunciation; one who is intensely

Question 3

atypical

Answer 3

unusual or abnormal; odd

Question 4

balky

Answer 4

refusing to proceed in an expected direction

Question 5

bourgeois

Answer 5

a person with the traits or viewpoints of the bourgeoisie

Question 6

concert

Answer 6

agreement in purpose or feeling, consensus

Question 7

confluence

Answer 7

a coming together

Question 8

corpulence

Answer 8

state of being very fat

Question 9

dirge

Answer 9

funeral hymn, lament

Question 10

disconcerting

Answer 10

upsetting, frustrating

Question 11

endemic

Answer 11

peculiar to or a trait of a group or area

Question 12

focus

Answer 12

to concentrate

Question 13

hilarity

Answer 13

boisterous merriment, mirth

Question 14

indict

Answer 14

to charge or to accuse

Question 15

latent

Answer 15

not visible, dormant

Question 16

monumental

Answer 16

massive, very great, very important

Question 17

myriad

Answer 17

a very large and indefinite number

Question 18

oscillating

Answer 18

moving back and forth, swinging varying

Question 19

pithy

Answer 19

concise and meaningful

Question 20

premeditated

Answer 20

thought out beforehand

Question 21

presage

Answer 21

something that foreshadows a future event; foreknowledge of the future

Question 22

quixotic

Answer 22

idealistic but impractical

Question 23

reserve

Answer 23

self-restraint

Question 24

stasis

Answer 24

motionlessness, stagnation

Question 25

warranted

Answer 25

justified