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Example Question #37 : Synonyms: Adjectives Describing Emotional States
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
SKEPTICAL
Agreeable
Quirky
Fetid
Doubting
Ready
Doubting
Skeptical means having doubt.
Example Question #38 : Synonyms: Adjectives Describing Emotional States
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
INFURIATED
Excluded
Enraged
Hoodwinked
Overwhelmed
Splattered
Enraged
Infuriated means made extremely angry, or enraged.
Example Question #32 : Synonyms: Adjectives Describing Emotional States
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
CONTRITE
Discreet
Remorseful
Transparent
Dignified
Diminutive
Remorseful
Contrite means remorseful and filled with the desire to repent.
Example Question #32 : Synonyms: Adjectives Describing Emotional States
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
IRATE
Melancholy
Rapid
Legal
Longitudinal
Furious
Furious
Irate means very angry or furious.
Example Question #901 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
SENSATIONAL
Muted
Tactile
Garrulous
Shocking
Thought-provoking
Shocking
Sensational means causing great public excitement, or shocking.
Example Question #902 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
VOLATILE
Stoic
Mercurial
Seasoned
Charismatic
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 #903 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
PENSIVE
Verifiable
Sociable
Uplifting
Hurried
Thoughtful
Thoughtful
"Pensive" means thoughtful or reflective. The root wood, "pensare," means to consider.
Example Question #904 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
VEHEMENT
Malignant
Passionate
Rebellious
Dominant
Plausible
Passionate
"Vehement" means passionate or angry.
Example Question #905 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
ABJECT
Heavy
Erroneous
Unforgettable
Miserable
Scared
Miserable
"Abject" means utterly hopeless or miserable.
Example Question #906 : Identifying Synonyms
Select the answer choice that is closest in meaning to the word in capital letters.
PETULANT
Logical
Gifted
Irritable
Delicious
Unsound
Irritable
"Petulant" means irritable or impatient.
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