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Example Question #899 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
SKEPTICAL
Fetid
Doubting
Agreeable
Quirky
Ready
Doubting
Skeptical means having doubt.
Example Question #900 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
INFURIATED
Overwhelmed
Splattered
Excluded
Enraged
Hoodwinked
Enraged
Infuriated means made extremely angry, or enraged.
Example Question #941 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
CONTRITE
Transparent
Dignified
Discreet
Remorseful
Diminutive
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 #942 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
SENSATIONAL
Muted
Thought-provoking
Tactile
Garrulous
Shocking
Shocking
Sensational means causing great public excitement, or shocking.
Example Question #943 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
VOLATILE
Bothersome
Seasoned
Charismatic
Stoic
Mercurial
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 #944 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
PENSIVE
Uplifting
Verifiable
Thoughtful
Hurried
Sociable
Thoughtful
"Pensive" means thoughtful or reflective. The root wood, "pensare," means to consider.
Example Question #945 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
VEHEMENT
Passionate
Rebellious
Plausible
Dominant
Malignant
Passionate
"Vehement" means passionate or angry.
Example Question #946 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
ABJECT
Miserable
Erroneous
Heavy
Scared
Unforgettable
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.
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