PSAT NMSQT UPDATED TEST PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔evocative - ✔✔calling forth a vivid image or impression
✔✔exonerate - ✔✔to free from blame
✔✔expedient - ✔✔a means to an end; advantageous, useful
✔✔expedite - ✔✔to make easy, cause to progress faster
✔✔explicate - ✔✔to make plain or clear, explain; to interpret
✔✔expurgate - ✔✔to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to
cleanse, purify
✔✔extrapolate - ✔✔to infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information
✔✔extrinsic - ✔✔irrelevant; on the outside
✔✔exuberant - ✔✔full of unrestrained enthusiasm or joy
✔✔facile - ✔✔too simplistic or easy
✔✔fallible - ✔✔capable of error
✔✔feint - ✔✔a false attack
✔✔fervor - ✔✔intense and passionate feeling
✔✔fiasco - ✔✔a complete failure
✔✔fiery - ✔✔like or suggestive of fire
✔✔finesse - ✔✔diplomacy; tact; artful management
✔✔fitful - ✔✔irregular
✔✔flippant - ✔✔not showing a serious or respectful attitude
✔✔flout - ✔✔to mock, treat with contempt
✔✔foible - ✔✔a minor weakness in character
, ✔✔franchise - ✔✔the right to vote
✔✔fraudulent - ✔✔cheating; deceitful
✔✔galvinize - ✔✔to startle into sudden activity
✔✔garrulous - ✔✔talkative
✔✔germane - ✔✔relevant
✔✔grandiose - ✔✔impressive; showy; magnificent
✔✔heresy - ✔✔the crime of holding a belief that goes against established doctrine
✔✔hypocritical - ✔✔pretending to be virtuous; deceiving
✔✔iconoclastic - ✔✔attacking or seeking to overthrow popular or traditional beliefs,
ideas, or institutions
✔✔idiosyncrasy - ✔✔a peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify
✔✔imminent - ✔✔likely to happen; threatening
✔✔impetuous - ✔✔impulsive
✔✔impetus - ✔✔a moving force, impulse, stimulus
✔✔impromptu - ✔✔unplanned
✔✔incapacitate - ✔✔to deprive of strength or ability
✔✔incessant - ✔✔never stopping, going on all the time
✔✔incipient - ✔✔beginning to come into being or to become apparent
✔✔incorrigible - ✔✔incapable of being reformed or improved
✔✔indefatigable - ✔✔untiring
✔✔indelible - ✔✔cannot be removed, washed away or erased
✔✔indomitable - ✔✔unconquerable
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔evocative - ✔✔calling forth a vivid image or impression
✔✔exonerate - ✔✔to free from blame
✔✔expedient - ✔✔a means to an end; advantageous, useful
✔✔expedite - ✔✔to make easy, cause to progress faster
✔✔explicate - ✔✔to make plain or clear, explain; to interpret
✔✔expurgate - ✔✔to remove objectionable passages or words from a written text; to
cleanse, purify
✔✔extrapolate - ✔✔to infer or estimate by extending or projecting known information
✔✔extrinsic - ✔✔irrelevant; on the outside
✔✔exuberant - ✔✔full of unrestrained enthusiasm or joy
✔✔facile - ✔✔too simplistic or easy
✔✔fallible - ✔✔capable of error
✔✔feint - ✔✔a false attack
✔✔fervor - ✔✔intense and passionate feeling
✔✔fiasco - ✔✔a complete failure
✔✔fiery - ✔✔like or suggestive of fire
✔✔finesse - ✔✔diplomacy; tact; artful management
✔✔fitful - ✔✔irregular
✔✔flippant - ✔✔not showing a serious or respectful attitude
✔✔flout - ✔✔to mock, treat with contempt
✔✔foible - ✔✔a minor weakness in character
, ✔✔franchise - ✔✔the right to vote
✔✔fraudulent - ✔✔cheating; deceitful
✔✔galvinize - ✔✔to startle into sudden activity
✔✔garrulous - ✔✔talkative
✔✔germane - ✔✔relevant
✔✔grandiose - ✔✔impressive; showy; magnificent
✔✔heresy - ✔✔the crime of holding a belief that goes against established doctrine
✔✔hypocritical - ✔✔pretending to be virtuous; deceiving
✔✔iconoclastic - ✔✔attacking or seeking to overthrow popular or traditional beliefs,
ideas, or institutions
✔✔idiosyncrasy - ✔✔a peculiarity that serves to distinguish or identify
✔✔imminent - ✔✔likely to happen; threatening
✔✔impetuous - ✔✔impulsive
✔✔impetus - ✔✔a moving force, impulse, stimulus
✔✔impromptu - ✔✔unplanned
✔✔incapacitate - ✔✔to deprive of strength or ability
✔✔incessant - ✔✔never stopping, going on all the time
✔✔incipient - ✔✔beginning to come into being or to become apparent
✔✔incorrigible - ✔✔incapable of being reformed or improved
✔✔indefatigable - ✔✔untiring
✔✔indelible - ✔✔cannot be removed, washed away or erased
✔✔indomitable - ✔✔unconquerable
