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Example Question #901 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
CONTRITE
Dignified
Diminutive
Transparent
Discreet
Remorseful
Remorseful
Contrite means remorseful and filled with the desire to repent.
Example Question #902 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
IRATE
Longitudinal
Melancholy
Legal
Furious
Rapid
Furious
Irate means very angry or furious.
Example Question #903 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
SENSATIONAL
Garrulous
Muted
Tactile
Shocking
Thought-provoking
Shocking
Sensational means causing great public excitement, or shocking.
Example Question #904 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
VOLATILE
Charismatic
Stoic
Mercurial
Seasoned
Bothersome
Mercurial
“Volatile” is an adjective that can mean “easily evaporated” when referring to a substance, “liable to change rapidly and unpredictably,” or when describing a person, “displaying rapid changes of emotion.” So, we need to pick out an answer choice that means something like “easily evaporated,” “changing rapidly,” or “rapid change of emotion.” That means that “stoic” cannot be the correct answer, because “stoic” means “enduring hardship without showing one’s feelings,” a meaning very distant from that of “volatile.” “Mercurial,” however, is an adjective that can mean “subject to unpredictable changes of mood or mind” when describing a person, and because “mercurial” is the answer choice closest in meaning to “volatile,” “mercurial” is the correct answer.
Example Question #905 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
PENSIVE
Hurried
Verifiable
Sociable
Thoughtful
Uplifting
Thoughtful
"Pensive" means thoughtful or reflective. The root wood, "pensare," means to consider.
Example Question #906 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
VEHEMENT
Rebellious
Passionate
Malignant
Dominant
Plausible
Passionate
"Vehement" means passionate or angry.
Example Question #907 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
ABJECT
Unforgettable
Scared
Miserable
Heavy
Erroneous
Miserable
"Abject" means utterly hopeless or miserable.
Example Question #947 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
PETULANT
Delicious
Logical
Unsound
Irritable
Gifted
Irritable
"Petulant" means irritable or impatient.
Example Question #908 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
APATHETIC
Lawless
Motivated
Ignorant
Uninterested
Aggressive
Uninterested
"Apathetic" means uninterested or indifferent.
Example Question #952 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
ELATED
Immediate
Saddened
Delicious
Joyful
Tedious
Joyful
"Elated" means very happy or overjoyed.
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