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Example Question #941 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
SKEPTICAL
Quirky
Agreeable
Doubting
Ready
Fetid
Doubting
Skeptical means having doubt.
Example Question #942 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
INFURIATED
Overwhelmed
Splattered
Hoodwinked
Excluded
Enraged
Enraged
Infuriated means made extremely angry, or enraged.
Example Question #943 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
CONTRITE
Remorseful
Discreet
Transparent
Dignified
Diminutive
Remorseful
Contrite means remorseful and filled with the desire to repent.
Example Question #944 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
IRATE
Legal
Rapid
Longitudinal
Furious
Melancholy
Furious
Irate means very angry or furious.
Example Question #945 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
SENSATIONAL
Muted
Garrulous
Shocking
Thought-provoking
Tactile
Shocking
Sensational means causing great public excitement, or shocking.
Example Question #946 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
VOLATILE
Bothersome
Seasoned
Stoic
Charismatic
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 #947 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
PENSIVE
Hurried
Verifiable
Thoughtful
Sociable
Uplifting
Thoughtful
"Pensive" means thoughtful or reflective. The root wood, "pensare," means to consider.
Example Question #948 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
VEHEMENT
Plausible
Dominant
Rebellious
Passionate
Malignant
Passionate
"Vehement" means passionate or angry.
Example Question #949 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
ABJECT
Heavy
Erroneous
Unforgettable
Scared
Miserable
Miserable
"Abject" means utterly hopeless or miserable.
Example Question #950 : Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
PETULANT
Irritable
Delicious
Unsound
Gifted
Logical
Irritable
"Petulant" means irritable or impatient.
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