PSAT Student Guide

Question 0

Didactic

Answer 0

Intended to teach, particularly in having moral instruction as an ulterior motive

Question 1

Caustic

Answer 1

Sarcastic in a scathing and bitter way

Question 2

Irreverent

Answer 2

Showing a lack of respect for people or things that are generally taken seriously

Question 3

Pensive

Answer 3

Engaged in, involving, or reflecting deep or serious thought

Question 4

Satirical

Answer 4

Vices, follies, abuses, and shortcomings that are held up to ridicule, ideally with the intent of shaming individuals, corporations, and society itself into improvement

Question 5

Dubious

Answer 5

Doubtful

Question 6

Superlative

Answer 6

Of very high quality

Question 7

Eradication

Answer 7

Complete elimination

Question 8

Conventional

Answer 8

Customary

Question 9

Verisimilitude

Answer 9

The quality of appearing to be true or real

Question 10

Transcendence

Answer 10

Riding beyond the scope of ordinary experience

Question 11

Romanticism

Answer 11

Focusing on the heroic or the adventurous

Question 12

Impenetrability

Answer 12

Difficult or impossible to understand

Question 13

Loquacity

Answer 13

Full of excessive talk