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Example Question #898 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
SKEPTICAL
Agreeable
Doubting
Ready
Quirky
Fetid
Doubting
Skeptical means having doubt.
Example Question #941 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
INFURIATED
Overwhelmed
Excluded
Hoodwinked
Splattered
Enraged
Enraged
Infuriated means made extremely angry, or enraged.
Example Question #942 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
CONTRITE
Transparent
Diminutive
Discreet
Remorseful
Dignified
Remorseful
Contrite means remorseful and filled with the desire to repent.
Example Question #943 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
IRATE
Furious
Melancholy
Legal
Longitudinal
Rapid
Furious
Irate means very angry or furious.
Example Question #944 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
SENSATIONAL
Shocking
Thought-provoking
Tactile
Muted
Garrulous
Shocking
Sensational means causing great public excitement, or shocking.
Example Question #945 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
VOLATILE
Stoic
Bothersome
Mercurial
Seasoned
Charismatic
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 #946 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
PENSIVE
Uplifting
Verifiable
Sociable
Hurried
Thoughtful
Thoughtful
"Pensive" means thoughtful or reflective. The root wood, "pensare," means to consider.
Example Question #947 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
VEHEMENT
Malignant
Dominant
Rebellious
Plausible
Passionate
Passionate
"Vehement" means passionate or angry.
Example Question #948 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
ABJECT
Unforgettable
Erroneous
Heavy
Scared
Miserable
Miserable
"Abject" means utterly hopeless or miserable.
Example Question #949 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
PETULANT
Delicious
Unsound
Gifted
Logical
Irritable
Irritable
"Petulant" means irritable or impatient.
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