PSAT NMSQT LATEST 2026 COMPREHENSIVE EXAM
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔ancillary - ✔✔subordinate or supplementary
✔✔antithesis - ✔✔exact opposite or direct contrast
✔✔arable - ✔✔arbiter
✔✔arduous - ✔✔hard to do, requiring much effort
✔✔ascendancy - ✔✔controlling influence; domination
✔✔ascetic - ✔✔one who leads a life of self-denial and contemplation; absent of luxury
✔✔assail - ✔✔attack
✔✔assiduous - ✔✔persistent, attentive, diligent
✔✔assimilate - ✔✔to absorb fully; to adopt as one's own; to adapt fully
✔✔assuage - ✔✔to make something unpleasant less severe
✔✔astute - ✔✔shrewd; clever
✔✔asylum - ✔✔sanctuary
✔✔attrition - ✔✔a wearing down over time
✔✔avarice - ✔✔greed
✔✔axiomatic - ✔✔self-evident, expressing a universally accepted principle or rule
✔✔balk - ✔✔to refuse stubbornly or abruptly; to stop short and refuse to go on
✔✔begrudge - ✔✔to resent another's success; to envy
✔✔beguile - ✔✔to deceive
✔✔blasphemy - ✔✔an act, utterance, or writing showing contempt for something sacred
✔✔blithe - ✔✔cheerful, lighthearted; casual, unconcerned
, ✔✔bourgeois - ✔✔middle class
✔✔breach - ✔✔a violation; a gap or break
✔✔brusque - ✔✔short, abrupt, dismissive
✔✔burgeon - ✔✔begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish
✔✔caricature - ✔✔an exaggerated portrayal of one's features
✔✔carping - ✔✔finding fault
✔✔caste - ✔✔a rigid and hereditary social class
✔✔castigation - ✔✔severe criticism or punishment
✔✔casualty - ✔✔a person killed or injured in a war or accident
✔✔catharsis - ✔✔a release of emotional tension
✔✔caustic - ✔✔burning
✔✔cede - ✔✔to go
✔✔cessation - ✔✔stopping
✔✔chargrin - ✔✔embarrassment
✔✔charlatan - ✔✔one who pretends to have knowledge in order to swindle others
✔✔chary - ✔✔cautious
✔✔chauvinist - ✔✔someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs
✔✔chicanery - ✔✔deception by means of craft or guile
✔✔clemency - ✔✔mercy
✔✔coalesce - ✔✔to come together
✔✔coalition - ✔✔a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose
✔✔cogitate - ✔✔to think deeply
QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔ancillary - ✔✔subordinate or supplementary
✔✔antithesis - ✔✔exact opposite or direct contrast
✔✔arable - ✔✔arbiter
✔✔arduous - ✔✔hard to do, requiring much effort
✔✔ascendancy - ✔✔controlling influence; domination
✔✔ascetic - ✔✔one who leads a life of self-denial and contemplation; absent of luxury
✔✔assail - ✔✔attack
✔✔assiduous - ✔✔persistent, attentive, diligent
✔✔assimilate - ✔✔to absorb fully; to adopt as one's own; to adapt fully
✔✔assuage - ✔✔to make something unpleasant less severe
✔✔astute - ✔✔shrewd; clever
✔✔asylum - ✔✔sanctuary
✔✔attrition - ✔✔a wearing down over time
✔✔avarice - ✔✔greed
✔✔axiomatic - ✔✔self-evident, expressing a universally accepted principle or rule
✔✔balk - ✔✔to refuse stubbornly or abruptly; to stop short and refuse to go on
✔✔begrudge - ✔✔to resent another's success; to envy
✔✔beguile - ✔✔to deceive
✔✔blasphemy - ✔✔an act, utterance, or writing showing contempt for something sacred
✔✔blithe - ✔✔cheerful, lighthearted; casual, unconcerned
, ✔✔bourgeois - ✔✔middle class
✔✔breach - ✔✔a violation; a gap or break
✔✔brusque - ✔✔short, abrupt, dismissive
✔✔burgeon - ✔✔begin to grow or increase rapidly; flourish
✔✔caricature - ✔✔an exaggerated portrayal of one's features
✔✔carping - ✔✔finding fault
✔✔caste - ✔✔a rigid and hereditary social class
✔✔castigation - ✔✔severe criticism or punishment
✔✔casualty - ✔✔a person killed or injured in a war or accident
✔✔catharsis - ✔✔a release of emotional tension
✔✔caustic - ✔✔burning
✔✔cede - ✔✔to go
✔✔cessation - ✔✔stopping
✔✔chargrin - ✔✔embarrassment
✔✔charlatan - ✔✔one who pretends to have knowledge in order to swindle others
✔✔chary - ✔✔cautious
✔✔chauvinist - ✔✔someone prejudiced in favor of a group to which he or she belongs
✔✔chicanery - ✔✔deception by means of craft or guile
✔✔clemency - ✔✔mercy
✔✔coalesce - ✔✔to come together
✔✔coalition - ✔✔a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose
✔✔cogitate - ✔✔to think deeply
