BSEP 192 REVISION EXAM 2025/2026 QUESTIONS WITH
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔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,
✔✔fallacy - ✔✔deception, error, evasion, falsehood, heresy, illusion, misconception,
mistake, untruth
✔✔fatigue - ✔✔burnout, exhaustion, weakness, weariness
✔✔fiasco - ✔✔disaster, blunder, breakdown, debacle, failure, mess
✔✔foment - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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
✔✔impertinent - ✔✔arrogant, brazen, discourteous, fresh, impolite, impudent, insolent,
offensive, rude
✔✔improbable - ✔✔illogical, implausible, inconceivable, questionable
✔✔impugn - ✔✔cast doubt upon, contradict, oppose, belittle, bash, malign
✔✔incendiary - ✔✔dangerous, inflammatory, provocative, rabble-rousing, treacherous
✔✔incite - ✔✔agitate, induce, prompt, engender, foment, stir up, stimulate
✔✔incubate - ✔✔breed, brood, nurture, produce, develop
✔✔indignant - ✔✔annoyed, displeased, exasperated, fuming, furious, irate, mad,
peeved, resentful, upset
✔✔inflexible - ✔✔adamant, determined, immovable, rigid, steadfast, unbending,
uncompromising, unyielding
✔✔ingratiate - ✔✔attract, brownnose, captivate, charm, crawl, flatter, grovel, insinuate
oneself, seek favor, teacher's pet
✔✔inquisitive - ✔✔inquiring, interested, intrusive, investigative, meddlesome, nosy,
probing, prying, questioning, scrutinizing
✔✔intransigent - ✔✔adamant, inflexible, obstinate, resolute, stubborn, tenacious
✔✔invariable - ✔✔consistent, fixed, immovable, inflexible, monotonous, rigid, static,
unalterable
✔✔iota - ✔✔atom, hint, jot, mite, molecule, ounce, particle, scrap, speck, trace, whit
✔✔lackadaisical - ✔✔apathetic, disinterested, inattentive, lazy, unenthusiastic,
unmotivated
✔✔leery - ✔✔careful, cautious, distrustful, doubting, on one's guard, shy, skeptical,
uncertain, unsure, wary
ANSWERS GRADED A+
✔✔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,
✔✔fallacy - ✔✔deception, error, evasion, falsehood, heresy, illusion, misconception,
mistake, untruth
✔✔fatigue - ✔✔burnout, exhaustion, weakness, weariness
✔✔fiasco - ✔✔disaster, blunder, breakdown, debacle, failure, mess
✔✔foment - ✔✔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 - ✔✔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
✔✔impertinent - ✔✔arrogant, brazen, discourteous, fresh, impolite, impudent, insolent,
offensive, rude
✔✔improbable - ✔✔illogical, implausible, inconceivable, questionable
✔✔impugn - ✔✔cast doubt upon, contradict, oppose, belittle, bash, malign
✔✔incendiary - ✔✔dangerous, inflammatory, provocative, rabble-rousing, treacherous
✔✔incite - ✔✔agitate, induce, prompt, engender, foment, stir up, stimulate
✔✔incubate - ✔✔breed, brood, nurture, produce, develop
✔✔indignant - ✔✔annoyed, displeased, exasperated, fuming, furious, irate, mad,
peeved, resentful, upset
✔✔inflexible - ✔✔adamant, determined, immovable, rigid, steadfast, unbending,
uncompromising, unyielding
✔✔ingratiate - ✔✔attract, brownnose, captivate, charm, crawl, flatter, grovel, insinuate
oneself, seek favor, teacher's pet
✔✔inquisitive - ✔✔inquiring, interested, intrusive, investigative, meddlesome, nosy,
probing, prying, questioning, scrutinizing
✔✔intransigent - ✔✔adamant, inflexible, obstinate, resolute, stubborn, tenacious
✔✔invariable - ✔✔consistent, fixed, immovable, inflexible, monotonous, rigid, static,
unalterable
✔✔iota - ✔✔atom, hint, jot, mite, molecule, ounce, particle, scrap, speck, trace, whit
✔✔lackadaisical - ✔✔apathetic, disinterested, inattentive, lazy, unenthusiastic,
unmotivated
✔✔leery - ✔✔careful, cautious, distrustful, doubting, on one's guard, shy, skeptical,
uncertain, unsure, wary
