SSAT <- Upper Level SSAT <- 2014 SSAT Verbal Reasoning Practice Test Questions - Official Test with Answers and Explanations 2014 SSAT Verbal Reasoning Practice Test Questions - Official Test with Answers and Explanations Share Quiz Get Embed Code Copy the code below to embed this quiz on your website: <iframe src="https://tutorone.ca/practice-test/?embed=true" width="100%" height="800" style="border: none; max-width: 100%;" data-source="tutorone" allowfullscreen></iframe> Copy Code 123456789101112131415161718192021222324252627282930313233343536373839404142434445464748495051525354555657585960 2014 SSAT Verbal Reasoning Practice Test Questions - Official Test with Answers and Explanations 1 / 60 Choose the one word that is most nearly the same in meaning as the word in capital letters. HARSH: angry poor useless severe cold Harsh means rough or overly demanding In other words, severe, (D). A harsh penalty, for example. One can be angry: (A), without being harsh, these words a r e not synonyms. 2 / 60 INDICATE: look at point out search for help with meet with Indicate means to show, state, or point out. 3 / 60 BLEAK: cheerless trembling quiet timid unknown Bleak means desolate and barren, or cheerless, (A). "We camped out in a bleak wilderness. " 4 / 60 SECURE: safe secret aware knotty unseen Secure means free from danger, or safe. 5 / 60 ALIEN: unclear brutal futile valuable strange Alien means foreign, or strange. 6 / 60 CHRONIC: legal elaborate difficult doubtful persistent Chronic means frequently occurring, habitual, or persistent, (E), as in a "chronic cough". 7 / 60 QUENCH: demean satisfy withdraw compare complete To quench a thirst means to slake or satisfy it, (B): 8 / 60 SEVERE: limited long essential extreme frozen Severe, means harsh, overly demanding, o r extreme, (D). Severe cold leaves you frozen, (E), but severe and frozen are not synonyms. Don't just think associatively; look for the word that's closest in meaning t o the word stem. 9 / 60 RANSACK: denounce publicly cover completely make secure act quickly search thoroughly When thieves ransack an apartment, they turn it upside down looking for things to steal. In other words, to ransack is to search thoroughly, (E). 10 / 60 SUMMIT: slope plateau landscape peak island The summit is the top of something, as in the summit of a mountain peak, which makes (D) correct.* 11 / 60 ALIAS: deep emotion formal relationship assumed name blatant falsehood presumed location k An alias is an assumed name. Superman's my alias is Clark Kern. 12 / 60 PHOBIA: anxiety illumination dismissal retraction height To have a phobia is to have great fear or anxiety about something. To have a phobia of snakes is to have a fear of snakes. 13 / 60 PROPEL: project intend repel belie fly5 To propel something is to thrust it forward, or to project it. A strong wind can propel a ship through the water. Note that project is used as a verb here, not as a noun. Your answer must always be the same word form as that of the word stem. 14 / 60 HEADSTRONG: hysterical foreign useless delicate stubborn A headstrong person is stubborn and doesn't like to listen to anyone else. A headstrong horse may refuse to walk when you ask it to. 15 / 60 CODDLE: carry baby riddle assume waddle To coddle something is to treat it gently or to baby it. Too much coddling of a child, for example, may cause him to be insufficiently prepared to face the harsh realities of life. 16 / 60 KEEN: nice forgiving sharp rotund dense To be keen is to be very smart or sharp. A keen mind is good at solving problems. 17 / 60 MURKY: musty gloomy religious forgetful sentimental If something is murky, it is dark and mysterious, or gloomy. Murky water is hard to see through. 18 / 60 TRYING: weathered morose impossible strenuous easy The word trying isn't used here as a verb as you might expect. It is used as an adjective. A trying situation is very demanding or strenuous. A trying hike, for example, will make you very tired. Always look at the root word to see what word form you need to use. 19 / 60 ADHERE: complete listen connect alter stick If you adhere to a decision, you stay with it, or stick to it. Adhesive tape is sticky tape-it adheres. 20 / 60 ENIGMATIC: confused happy unfortunate attractive mysterious An enigmatic person is difficult to figure out—she is mysterious. Many people thought Howard Hughes was enigmatic because so little was known about him. 21 / 60 CLANDESTINE: dated exclusive secret overt fortunate Clandestine means surreptitious or secret, usually for some illicit reason or purpose. The married man had clandestine meetings with his mistress. 22 / 60 BOUNTEOUS: abundant energetic industrious elastic mutinous Bounteous means plentiful, generous, and abundant. At the end of a favorable growing season, we had a bounteous harvest. 23 / 60 DIVERGE: stay analyze distract annoy change course To diverge is to move off in different directions or to become different. Parallel lines do not diverge. 24 / 60 BENIGN: malignant initial virulent gentle blessed Benign means good-natured, kindly, or harmless. When applied to a tumor, benign means harmless as opposed to malignant, which implies life-threatening. The Pope faced his audience with a benign smile. 25 / 60 CAUCUS: corpse meeting partnership cosmetic dispersal A caucus is a meeting of people with similar goals, usually a group of people within a larger group. The Black Congressional caucus meets periodically to discuss minority issues. 26 / 60 DISSEMINATE: collect collate strip spread disagree To disseminate is to scatter widely. It is important that we disseminate information about the transmission of AIDS. 27 / 60 CHAGRIN: anger delight alter embarrass wreck Chagrin is embarrassment or humiliation. The bettor was chagrined that the horse he had praised so loudly came in last. 28 / 60 VALOR: foreboding courage hate disclosure treason Valor is high value, courage, or bravery. The soldiers defended the Alamo with valor. 29 / 60 NONCHALANT: impoverished interested indifferent(1) persecuted caring Nonchalant means without enthusiasm or indifferent. The student was so nonchalant about her award that she did not even tell her parents. 30 / 60 LIAISON: laziness scarf permission association remedy A liaison is a linking up or a connection. The liaison of allies from a number of countries led to defeat of the enemy forces. 31 / 60 Part Two Directions: Each question below is made up of a sentence with one or two blanks. One blank indicates that one word is missing. Two blanks indicate that two words are missing. Each sentence is followed by four choices. Select the one word or pair of words that wil best complete the meaning of the sentence as a whole. Subject is to predicate as senator is to president capitol representative senate congress This is a part-to-part relationship. Both subject and predicate are parts of a sentence; both senator and representative are parts of the congress. (E) iS. an incorrect answer because a senator's relationship to congress is that of parts to-whole. 32 / 60 Pungent is to odor as infect is to spread proverb is to paragraph resent is to denial pervade is to atmosphere intense is to emotion This is an association relationship. Pungent is an adjective used to describe a degree of odor. Intense is an adjective used to describe a degree of emotion. 33 / 60 Exploit is to adventure as safari is to expedition school is to field trip attack is to hunt chase is to escape rule is to governor The analogy is based on synonyms. 34 / 60 Spread is to scatter as separate is to distribute group displace reap integrate All other four terms are synonyms. 35 / 60 Exuberant is to mood as adroit is to hand dexterous adept movement proficient The relationship is one of association org characteristic. Exuberant is an adjective, used to describe mood; adroit is adjective used to describe movement. 36 / 60 Defiance is to opposition as exertion is to restraint endeavor vigor challenge expert Opposition leads to defiance; challenge leads to exertion. The actual statement of the analogy is effect and its cause. 37 / 60 Food is to nutrition as light is to reading vision bulb electricity watt This is a true cause-and-effect relationships Food promotes nutrition; light promotes vision. Light does not promote any of the other choices. 38 / 60 Perpetuity is to impermanence as interminable is to_ brief incessant occasional impertinent eternal The relationship is that of true antonyms! The false choices are synonyms or partial antonyms, making this a very difficult analogy question. 39 / 60 Erratic is to predictable as exorbitant is to small implicit productive absorbent reasonable This antonym relationship is easier to see at a glance. This may be either a part-to-whole relation- ship or an analogy of degree. 40 / 60 Comment is to speech as written is to spoken question is to answer exclamation is to statement note is to letter prose is to essay Either a comment is part of a speech and a note is part of a letter or a comment is much shorter than a speech and a note is much shorter than a letter. 41 / 60 Redundant is to necessary as plain is to valuable desirable is to pretty fake is to expensive original is to needed vague is to explicit Something that is redundant, by definition, is not necessary. Something that is vague, by definition, is not explicit. Something that is desirable (B) is not necessarily pretty, 42 / 60 Coral is to pink as aquamarine is to bland deep blue rosy shady Coral is a shade of pink, the way aquamarine is a shade of blue. Rosy (D) is another shade of pink, while bland. (A) means plain." 43 / 60 Fan is to air as heart is to lung power wind blood heat A fan by definition circulates air, and a heart circulates blood. 44 / 60 Palette is to colors as collage is to images paint is to canvases kaleidoscope is to glass side is to pictures brush is to pictures A palette is an assortment of colors, and a collage is an assortment of images. 45 / 60 Salutation is to letter as heading is to stationary introduction is to book handwriting is to analysis postscript is to note postcard is to picture A salutation is an introductory greeting in a letter, as an introduction is an introductory greeting in a book. A postscript (D) occurs at the end of a letter. 46 / 60 Quill is to porcupine as pouch is to kangaroo scent is to skunk wings is to duck needle is to thread tail is to pig A quill is a porcupine's means of defense just as a scent is a skunk's means of defense. Wings (C) are a duck's means of flight. 47 / 60 Caterpillar is to butterfly as tadpole is to frog worm is to bait nest is to chick salmon is to fish egg is to dinosaur A caterpillar is an animal that turns into a butterfly. A tadpole is an animal that turns into a frog. 48 / 60 Budget is to cost as definition is to vocabulary demonstration is to argument foundation is to concrete blueprint is to design ratio is to value A budget is used to plan the cost of a project; the way a blueprint is used to plan the design of a project. 49 / 60 Juror is to judge as soothsayer is to soften report punish deny predict The job of a juror is to judge. The job of a soothsayer is to predict. A soothsayer predicts the future. 50 / 60 Buffer is to impact as boundary is to design bandage is to heal injury is to fault antiseptic is to infection median is to lane A buffer is used to prevent an impact, as an antiseptic is used to prevent an infection. A bandage (B) may help to heal a wound, but it will not prevent it, which is the bridge we need. 51 / 60 Astute is to acumen as clumsy is to skill vacuous is to intelligence diplomatic is to tact rainbow is to hue indigent is to wealth The relationship is possession. Someone who is astute possesses acumen. Therefore, only choice (C) has the same relationship. Someone who is diplomatic possesses a great deal of tact. 52 / 60 Judge is to adjudicate as champion is to defend doctor is to sublimate bodyguard is to guide suburb is to neighborhood lawyer is to propitiate The relationship is one of object to its function; a judge would by definition adjudicate. A champion is a person who by definition would defend a matter. 53 / 60 Imperceptible is to notice as assuage is to repair enviable is to foresee insoluble is to discern invisible is to sense intangible is to touch The relationship is word to antonym: if something is imperceptible, a person cannot notice it. The only answer that is an antonym is choice (E): if something is intangible, a person cannot touch it. 54 / 60 Claustrophobic is to enclosure as misogynist is to women miser is to money narcissist is to sell myth is to tragedy' glutton is to food The relationship is object to its function. A claustrophobic by definition hates enclosure. The only answer that is object to function is choice (A): a misogynist is a person who by definition dislikes women . 55 / 60 Hammer is to carpenter as author is to typewriter awl is to cobbler scale is to musician computer is to printer saw is to timber A hammer is a tool used by a carpenter; an awl is a tool used by a cobbler. Choice (A) reverses the order of tool and user. 56 / 60 Gullible is to bilk as vanquish is to disappear valiant is to cow affluent is to impoverish confident is to perturb docile is to lead The relationship is cause to effect. One who is gullible is easy to bilk. The only cause-to-effect relationship is choice (E) : if you are docile, it would be easy to lead you. 57 / 60 Overblown is to exaggerated as anachronism is to timely malapropism is to accurate warrant is to justify indefinite is to tomorrow requirement is to optional The relationship is word to definition. An overblown situation is exaggerated. Choice (C) has the same relationship: a warrant is by definition justified. 58 / 60 Ruthless is to pity as ingenious is to character bewildered is to comprehension merciful is to kindness elderly is to longevity enamored is to love Somebody ruthless has 1 O . pity, and somebody bewildered has no comprehension. 59 / 60 Clown is to zany as jester is to lugubrious canvas is to paint showoff is to flamboyant zealot is to patrician spy is to effusive The relationship is the action of an object. A clown acts zany. A show off is a person whose actions could aptly be described as flamboyant. 60 / 60 Horn is to blow as harp is to pluck denounce pants democracy play A horn is blown and a harp is plucked to make music. Your score is Follow us on socials! LinkedIn Facebook Twitter 0% Restart quiz Send feedback More Quizzes Free SSAT Upper Level Math Practice Test 1 - 2011 - Math Achievement Take Quiz 2014 SSAT Free Practice Test - Quantitative Section Questions with Answers + Explanations Take Quiz 2013 SSAT Quantitative Math Practice Questions Take Quiz 2014 SSAT Free Practice Test - Reading Comprehension Questions Take Quiz 2015 SSAT Practice Test - Verbal Section + Answers + Explanations Take Quiz SSAT 011 Math Achievement Section Take Quiz 2012 SSAT Practice Test - Mathematics Achievement (Quantitative Reasoning 2) Take Quiz 2013 SSAT Reading Comprehension Practice Test Questions with Answers Take Quiz
