BSEP CORE EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS
GRADED A+
✔✔Dilemma - ✔✔bind, difficulty, impasse, jam, mess, mine, perplexity, plight,
predicament, puzzle, quandary, stalemate
✔✔Discord - ✔✔cacophony, clamor, clash, conflict, disagreement, disharmony,
dissonance, harshness, racket, strife
✔✔Discretion - ✔✔care, consideration, discernment, discreetness, heedfulness,
prudence, sense, tact, thoughtfulness, vigilance, wariness, watchfulness, wisdom
✔✔Dislodge - ✔✔displace, disturb, eject, extricate
✔✔Diverse - ✔✔assorted, contrasting, distinct, diversified, miscellaneous, unalike,
varied
✔✔Domineering - ✔✔bossy, dictatorial, dominating, imperious, intimidating, threatening,
overbearing, tyrannical
✔✔Dregs - ✔✔deposits, dirt, residue, settlings, waste, outcasts, rabble, riffraff
✔✔eccentricity - ✔✔abnormality, anomaly, idiosyncrasy, irregularity, nonconformity,
oddity, quirk, strangeness, weirdness
✔✔ecstasy - ✔✔bliss, delight, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, rapture, paradise
✔✔Eddy - ✔✔swirl, tide, whirlpool, vortex
✔✔Engender - ✔✔bring about, create, develop, foment, generate, incite, instigate,
make, produce, prompt, work up
✔✔enigma - ✔✔bewilderment, head-scratcher, mystification, perplexity, problem,
puzzle, question, riddle, secret
✔✔enlighten - ✔✔acquaint, inform, instruct, reveal, illuminate
✔✔eventual - ✔✔ensuing, final, imminent, impending, inevitable, later, possible,
prospective, resulting, subsequent, succeeding, ultimate
✔✔exhort - ✔✔beseech, counsel, encourage, goad, insist, persuade, plead, prompt
✔✔extol - ✔✔acclaim, applaud, brag about, celebrate, commend, exalt, glorify, laud,
praise
, ✔✔fallacy - ✔✔deception, error, evasion, falsehood, heresy, illusion, misconception,
mistake, untruth
✔✔fatigue - ✔✔burnout, exhaustion, weakness, weariness
✔✔fiasco - ✔✔disaster, blunder, breakdown, debacle, failure, mess
✔✔foment - ✔✔bring about, compose, engineer, fabricate, form, manufacture, produce,
shape
✔✔fraught - ✔✔abounding, attended, bristling, charged, filled with, heavy, laden,
replete, stuffed
✔✔girth - ✔✔circumference, compass, distance around, perimeter
✔✔guile - ✔✔craftiness, cunning, deception, dishonesty, treachery, trickery, wiliness
✔✔Hapless - ✔✔cursed, forlorn, hexed, ill-fated, ill-starred, jinxed, miserable, unhappy,
unlucky, wretched
✔✔Harbor - ✔✔conceal, provide refuge, shield, shelter; anchorage, bay, cove, dock,
haven, marina, pier, port, wharf
✔✔Heresy - ✔✔blasphemy, defection, disbelief, dissidence, error, fallacy,
nonconformity, paganism, religious dissent
✔✔Illegible - ✔✔difficult to read, faint, hard to make out, hieroglyphic, indecipherable,
indistinct, obscure, scrawled, unclear, undecipherable
✔✔illustrative - ✔✔clarifying, comparative, demonstrative, descriptive, explanatory,
indicative, informative, representative, symbolic, typical
✔✔impartial - ✔✔candid, detached, equal, equitable, fair-minded, impersonal, neutral,
non-discriminating, nonpartisan, objective, open-minded, unbiased
✔✔impede - ✔✔block, defer, delay, deter, disrupt, interfere, restrain, stall
✔✔imperial - ✔✔royal, stately, kingly, majestic, bossy, doctorial, domineering,
imperious, overbearing
✔✔imperil - ✔✔endanger, jeopardize, menace, peril, risk
GRADED A+
✔✔Dilemma - ✔✔bind, difficulty, impasse, jam, mess, mine, perplexity, plight,
predicament, puzzle, quandary, stalemate
✔✔Discord - ✔✔cacophony, clamor, clash, conflict, disagreement, disharmony,
dissonance, harshness, racket, strife
✔✔Discretion - ✔✔care, consideration, discernment, discreetness, heedfulness,
prudence, sense, tact, thoughtfulness, vigilance, wariness, watchfulness, wisdom
✔✔Dislodge - ✔✔displace, disturb, eject, extricate
✔✔Diverse - ✔✔assorted, contrasting, distinct, diversified, miscellaneous, unalike,
varied
✔✔Domineering - ✔✔bossy, dictatorial, dominating, imperious, intimidating, threatening,
overbearing, tyrannical
✔✔Dregs - ✔✔deposits, dirt, residue, settlings, waste, outcasts, rabble, riffraff
✔✔eccentricity - ✔✔abnormality, anomaly, idiosyncrasy, irregularity, nonconformity,
oddity, quirk, strangeness, weirdness
✔✔ecstasy - ✔✔bliss, delight, elation, euphoria, exhilaration, rapture, paradise
✔✔Eddy - ✔✔swirl, tide, whirlpool, vortex
✔✔Engender - ✔✔bring about, create, develop, foment, generate, incite, instigate,
make, produce, prompt, work up
✔✔enigma - ✔✔bewilderment, head-scratcher, mystification, perplexity, problem,
puzzle, question, riddle, secret
✔✔enlighten - ✔✔acquaint, inform, instruct, reveal, illuminate
✔✔eventual - ✔✔ensuing, final, imminent, impending, inevitable, later, possible,
prospective, resulting, subsequent, succeeding, ultimate
✔✔exhort - ✔✔beseech, counsel, encourage, goad, insist, persuade, plead, prompt
✔✔extol - ✔✔acclaim, applaud, brag about, celebrate, commend, exalt, glorify, laud,
praise
, ✔✔fallacy - ✔✔deception, error, evasion, falsehood, heresy, illusion, misconception,
mistake, untruth
✔✔fatigue - ✔✔burnout, exhaustion, weakness, weariness
✔✔fiasco - ✔✔disaster, blunder, breakdown, debacle, failure, mess
✔✔foment - ✔✔bring about, compose, engineer, fabricate, form, manufacture, produce,
shape
✔✔fraught - ✔✔abounding, attended, bristling, charged, filled with, heavy, laden,
replete, stuffed
✔✔girth - ✔✔circumference, compass, distance around, perimeter
✔✔guile - ✔✔craftiness, cunning, deception, dishonesty, treachery, trickery, wiliness
✔✔Hapless - ✔✔cursed, forlorn, hexed, ill-fated, ill-starred, jinxed, miserable, unhappy,
unlucky, wretched
✔✔Harbor - ✔✔conceal, provide refuge, shield, shelter; anchorage, bay, cove, dock,
haven, marina, pier, port, wharf
✔✔Heresy - ✔✔blasphemy, defection, disbelief, dissidence, error, fallacy,
nonconformity, paganism, religious dissent
✔✔Illegible - ✔✔difficult to read, faint, hard to make out, hieroglyphic, indecipherable,
indistinct, obscure, scrawled, unclear, undecipherable
✔✔illustrative - ✔✔clarifying, comparative, demonstrative, descriptive, explanatory,
indicative, informative, representative, symbolic, typical
✔✔impartial - ✔✔candid, detached, equal, equitable, fair-minded, impersonal, neutral,
non-discriminating, nonpartisan, objective, open-minded, unbiased
✔✔impede - ✔✔block, defer, delay, deter, disrupt, interfere, restrain, stall
✔✔imperial - ✔✔royal, stately, kingly, majestic, bossy, doctorial, domineering,
imperious, overbearing
✔✔imperil - ✔✔endanger, jeopardize, menace, peril, risk
