Vocabulary Test Online - DIY

Test your vocabulary by dynamic question sheets, including options like spelling words of American middle school and high school, some standardized exams, and word frequency levels.

Want to get a comment or suggestion? Show the result to your teacher, or report it to us by the PL Tutor Page.
Vocabulary Study Online by Level
Vocabulary Study Online By Level (VSOBL) is a fast, reliable, and handy tool to prepare English exam vocabulary. It has lots of built-in word lists to load by level.
 Actions
 Test Questions
SAT Vocabulary: Level 3
abrade     Speak
 
(1)
v.  
Select answer:
renovate; make bright by polishing
foretell; serve as an omen or a warning of; indicate by prediction
wear away by friction; scrape; erode
stimulate by shock; stir up; spur to action
nick; set in from margin;  impress or stamp
Don't select.
appall     Speak
 
(2)
v.  
Select answer:
treat with great respect and deference; consider hallowed or be in awe of
depress or discourage with fear; grow faint or become weak
praise highly; glorify; celebrate
rejoice; feel extreme happiness
wrestle; come to grips with; seize firmly, as with the hands
Don't select.
bedizen     Speak
 
(3)
v.  
Select answer:
fill with astonishment and perplexity; confound
entertain; provide with great enjoyment
make impure by adding inferior or tainted substances
pierce, punch, or borehole or holes in; penetrate
ornament something in showy, tasteless, or gaudy finery
Don't select.
churlish     Speak
 
(4)
a. or ad.  
Select answer:
speaking or expressed in lofty style; using high sounding language; overly wordy
difficult to work with; rude; unyielding; unmanageable
regarded as sacred and inviolable
having pleasing or useful qualities; gentle; knowing; cautious; cunning; shrewd
needlessly repetitious; using repetition or excessive wordiness
Don't select.
denouement     Speak
 
(5)
n.  
Select answer:
act of putting something in working order again; act or process of making amends; compensation
witty sentence, phrase, or remark; wisecrack
branch of zoology that deals with the study of fishes
outcome; final resolution or clarification of dramatic or narrative plot
an outer, protective layer of skin of vertebrates
Don't select.
edify     Speak
 
(6)
v.  
Select answer:
instruct or correct, especially to encourage intellectual, moral, or spiritual improvement
foretell; serve as an omen or a warning of; indicate by prediction
cause to become sick; fill with disgust
become engaged to marry; promise to marry
reject; mock; express contempt for rules by word or action; behave with contempt
Don't select.
encomium     Speak
 
(7)
n.  
Select answer:
high praise; formal expression of praise; a tribute
power to produce desired effect
an unincorporated business owned by a single person who is responsible for its liabilities and entitled to its profits
plundering; destructive action; predatory attack; damage or loss
skillful deceit; disposition to deceive or cheat; disguise cunningly
Don't select.
fleck     Speak
 
(8)
v.  
Select answer:
spot; make spot or mark onto; mark with small spots
create by shaping stone or wood or any other hard material
contract binding one party into the service of another for a specified term
make peace with; appease and render favorable
limit narrowly; confine; draw a line around; encircle
Don't select.
grandiloquent     Speak
 
(9)
a. or ad.  
Select answer:
speaking or expressed in lofty style; using high sounding language; overly wordy
free from deceit; sincere; honest
daily; relating to or occurring in a 24-hour period
of or pertaining to a snob; vulgarly pretentious
wooden; impersonal; deliberately impassive or expressionless, as face or look
Don't select.
importune     Speak
 
(10)
v.  
Select answer:
mud, clay, or small rocks deposited by river or lake
blacken; defame; attack reputation of; degrade
exclude from community or group; banish by popular vote
make less active or intense; satisfy thirst
beg persistently; ask for urgently or repeatedly; annoy
Don't select.
libertine     Speak
 
(11)
n.  
Select answer:
free thinker, usually used disparagingly; one without moral restraint
feeling of depression or gloom; sullenness
one who has more than one spouse at a time
characteristic or feature that distinguishes something from others
ancient paper made from stem of plant
Don't select.
mnemonic     Speak
 
(12)
a. or ad.  
Select answer:
assisting, or intended to assist the memory
bringing disgrace; shameful or infamous
secret; done or made by stealth, or without proper authority; made or introduced fraudulently
good-natured ridiculing; cleverly amusing in tone
spacious and comfortable; fit; proper; convenient
Don't select.
ordination     Speak
 
(13)
n.  
Select answer:
property of being close together; kinship; nearness; similarity in nature
any of various flies that bite or annoy livestock and other animals; an irritating person
oddity; departure from that which is stated, regular, or usual; deviation from the center
pirate; robber upon the sea
act of admitting to holy orders; disposition as in ranks or rows; formal arrangement
Don't select.
peremptory     Speak
 
(14)
a. or ad.  
Select answer:
drowsy; dull; indifferent or apathetic
regarded as sacred and inviolable
affected by involuntary jerky muscular contractions; periodic
incomplete; fragmentary; favoring one person or side over another or others
offensively self-assured; dictatorial; not allowing contradiction or refusal
Don't select.
predetermine     Speak
 
(15)
v.  
Select answer:
cause disgrace to by malicious and false statements; hold up or expose to ridicule or calumny; defame
confuse; frustrate by throwing into disorder; embarrass
form into grains or small masses; make rough on the surface
split into opposite extremes or camps
determine, decide, or establish in advance; influence markedly
Don't select.
quantitative     Speak
 
(16)
a. or ad.  
Select answer:
manlike; resembling a human, especially in shape or outward appearance
characteristic of acting or stage performance
capable of being stretched or extended; ductile
expressed or expressible as a quantity; relating to the measurement of quantity
dull and uninteresting; lacking distinct or individual
Don't select.
repast     Speak
 
(17)
n.  
Select answer:
food eaten or provided at a meal; feast; banquet
state of deeply felt distress or sorrow; keenness of emotion
minister or priest; cleric; one holding an office in the Christian ministry
a person with refined taste, especially in food and wine
refusal of any compromise; stubbornness
Don't select.
spurn     Speak
 
(18)
v.  
Select answer:
reach the highest or most decisive point;  rise to the summit
arrange laws, rules as a code; classify; arrange or systematize
reject disdainfully or contemptuously; scorn
appeal to or entreat earnestly; command or enjoin solemnly, as under oath
burn without flame; be liable to break out at any moment
Don't select.
temerity     Speak
 
(19)
n.  
Select answer:
one who is overly concerned with formal rules and trivial points of learning
unnecessary repetition, especially for the same sense in different words; redundancy
symbolic representation of abstract ideas or principles in narrative, dramatic, or pictorial form
boldness; rashness; foolhardy disregard of danger
society or government ruled by wealthy class
Don't select.
turpitude     Speak
 
(20)
n.  
Select answer:
depravity; corrupt, depraved, or degenerate act
refusal of any compromise; stubbornness
fragment substance, as of glass or metal; a piece of broken pottery, especially found in an archaeological dig
the belief that forces beyond one's control determine events
the fourth state of matter distinct from solid or liquid or gas and present in stars and fusion reactors
Don't select.