SSAT UPPER LEVEL VOCABULARY EXAM TEST 2025/2026
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔despondent - ✔✔sad, without hope, discouraged
✔✔reconcile - ✔✔to reestablish friendship, to resolve a dispute
✔✔disingenuous - ✔✔Insincere, not genuine
✔✔Penance - ✔✔voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
✔✔formidable - ✔✔arousing fear or awe
✔✔Parody - ✔✔humorous imitation
✔✔languid - ✔✔lacking energy; weak
✔✔engrossed - ✔✔completely occupied or absorbed
✔✔stupor - ✔✔a state of near-unconsciousness or insensibility
✔✔fallacy - ✔✔a false or mistaken idea
✔✔lassitude - ✔✔lack of energy
✔✔accrue - ✔✔to accumulate over time
✔✔sanguine - ✔✔cheerful; optimistic
✔✔gregarious - ✔✔outgoing; sociable
✔✔stupefy - ✔✔to stun, baffle, or amaze
✔✔nascent - ✔✔beginning to exist or develop
✔✔indolent - ✔✔lazy
✔✔qualm - ✔✔a feeling of uneasiness
✔✔rancor - ✔✔bitter resentment or ill-will
✔✔odious - ✔✔hateful
, ✔✔objectionable - ✔✔offensive; arousing disapproval
✔✔pithy - ✔✔precise and brief
✔✔succinct - ✔✔brief, concise
✔✔pliable - ✔✔flexible
✔✔voracious - ✔✔Devouring everything
✔✔lethargy - ✔✔lack of energy; sluggishness
✔✔inundate - ✔✔to overwhelm
✔✔idiosyncrasy - ✔✔a peculiar personality trait
✔✔panacea - ✔✔cure-all
✔✔facsimile - ✔✔an exact copy
✔✔amenable - ✔✔agreeable
✔✔succulent - ✔✔juicy
✔✔deciduous - ✔✔Trees and shrubs that shed their leaves at the end of the growing
season
✔✔perennial - ✔✔(adj.) lasting for a long time, persistent; (n.) a plant that lives for many
years
✔✔nonplussed - ✔✔puzzled, not knowing what to do, at a loss
✔✔rebuff - ✔✔to reject bluntly
✔✔dogmatic - ✔✔arrogant and stubborn about one's beliefs
✔✔dissident - ✔✔rebel
✔✔contrite - ✔✔feeling regret for having committed some wrongdoing
✔✔haphazard - ✔✔random
✔✔earnest - ✔✔Serious and sincere
QUESTIONS WITH ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔despondent - ✔✔sad, without hope, discouraged
✔✔reconcile - ✔✔to reestablish friendship, to resolve a dispute
✔✔disingenuous - ✔✔Insincere, not genuine
✔✔Penance - ✔✔voluntary self-punishment in order to atone for some wrongdoing
✔✔formidable - ✔✔arousing fear or awe
✔✔Parody - ✔✔humorous imitation
✔✔languid - ✔✔lacking energy; weak
✔✔engrossed - ✔✔completely occupied or absorbed
✔✔stupor - ✔✔a state of near-unconsciousness or insensibility
✔✔fallacy - ✔✔a false or mistaken idea
✔✔lassitude - ✔✔lack of energy
✔✔accrue - ✔✔to accumulate over time
✔✔sanguine - ✔✔cheerful; optimistic
✔✔gregarious - ✔✔outgoing; sociable
✔✔stupefy - ✔✔to stun, baffle, or amaze
✔✔nascent - ✔✔beginning to exist or develop
✔✔indolent - ✔✔lazy
✔✔qualm - ✔✔a feeling of uneasiness
✔✔rancor - ✔✔bitter resentment or ill-will
✔✔odious - ✔✔hateful
, ✔✔objectionable - ✔✔offensive; arousing disapproval
✔✔pithy - ✔✔precise and brief
✔✔succinct - ✔✔brief, concise
✔✔pliable - ✔✔flexible
✔✔voracious - ✔✔Devouring everything
✔✔lethargy - ✔✔lack of energy; sluggishness
✔✔inundate - ✔✔to overwhelm
✔✔idiosyncrasy - ✔✔a peculiar personality trait
✔✔panacea - ✔✔cure-all
✔✔facsimile - ✔✔an exact copy
✔✔amenable - ✔✔agreeable
✔✔succulent - ✔✔juicy
✔✔deciduous - ✔✔Trees and shrubs that shed their leaves at the end of the growing
season
✔✔perennial - ✔✔(adj.) lasting for a long time, persistent; (n.) a plant that lives for many
years
✔✔nonplussed - ✔✔puzzled, not knowing what to do, at a loss
✔✔rebuff - ✔✔to reject bluntly
✔✔dogmatic - ✔✔arrogant and stubborn about one's beliefs
✔✔dissident - ✔✔rebel
✔✔contrite - ✔✔feeling regret for having committed some wrongdoing
✔✔haphazard - ✔✔random
✔✔earnest - ✔✔Serious and sincere
