SSAT <- Upper Level SSAT <- SSAT Upper Level Verbal Reasoning - 2011 - Free SSAT Practice Tests SSAT Upper Level Verbal Reasoning - 2011 - Free SSAT Practice Tests 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 SSAT Upper Level Verbal Reasoning - 2011 - Free SSAT Practice Tests 1 / 60 DETER: hinder halt steer sting turn To deter is to discourage a person or group from doing something. Fear of retaliation may deter our enemies from attacking. 2 / 60 HOSTILE: indifferent suspicious unfriendly doubtful friendly Hostile means antagonistic or unfriendly. It is the nature of cats to be hostile to dogs. 3 / 60 UTILIZE: utilities sing undo make use of modernize To utilize is to make practical use of. You can utilize the microwave for quick defrosting. 4 / 60 ABDICATE: control resign explain remorse disprove To abdicate is to give up formally or to resign. King Edward abdicated from the English throne to marry a divorced woman. 5 / 60 PROMINENT: extravagant outstanding secret surreptitious disturbing Prominent means sticking out, noticeable, or outstanding. Jimmy Durante had a prominent nose. 6 / 60 BOUNDARY: limit map seam hovel ceiling A boundary is a border. Mexico shares a boundary with the state of Texas. 7 / 60 ILLITERATE: sickly unable to vote unclean unmanageable unable to read Illiterate means unable to read. One who is literate, educated and is able to read. The prefix il-creates the negative. Many of the homeless are unemployable because They are illiterate. 8 / 60 ORATOR: ear professor poet student speaker An orator is one who speaks. (Can you see the root oral?) The keynote speaker at the convention was a superb orator. 9 / 60 CORROBORATE: understand disagree confirm cooperate agree To corroborate is to strengthen, to support, or to confirm. The bloody knife served to corroborate the eyewitness's testimony. 10 / 60 RATIFY: assess approve delete consider examine To ratify is to give official sanction to or to approve. If three more states ratify the proposed amendment, it will become a part of our Constitution. 11 / 60 EXPEDITE: hasten hinder block harm send To expedite is to speed up the action or to send quickly. The Latin derivation of this word is "to free one caught by the feet". You can expedite the delivery of mail by using ZIP Code plus four. 12 / 60 TURBULENT: authentic tamed tranquil violent fatal Turbulent means unruly or agitated. As the airplane passed through turbulent air we all felt rather queasy. 13 / 60 TENACIOUS: divisive timid stranded thin unyielding Tenacious means holding on tightly or persistent. The tenacious salesman calls twice a week between 5 and 7 p.m. 14 / 60 PERTINENT: truthful irreverent prudent irrelevant applicable Pertinent means relevant. Testimony is admitted in court only if it is pertinent to the charges in the case. 15 / 60 DOGMATIC: opinionated bovine traditional canine individualistic Dogmatic means dictatorial or opinionated. The word has to do with doctrine or dogma, not with dogs. My uncle is so dogmatic that he refuses to even listen to my point of view. 16 / 60 UNSCRUPULOUS: unresolved filthy honest austere unprincipled One who is unscrupulous is not restrained by ideas of right and wrong. The unscrupulous stockbroker used inside: information to sell before the stock price plummeted. 17 / 60 WILY: broken crooked narrow cunning blunt Wily means crafty or sly. The wily wolf outwitted Red Riding Hood. 18 / 60 BLATANT: secret shining obvious closed insipid Blatant means loud and obtrusive. The misspelling in the address was a blatant error in an otherwise excellent letter. 19 / 60 PRETEXT: fit excuse reason doubt preface A pretext is a false reason or an excuse. Illness was his pretext for absence from school; actually he went to the beach. 20 / 60 ACUMEN: keenness beauty courtesy poise illness Acumen is. keenness and quickness in understanding and dealing with a situation. Acumen with respect to foreign cultures is a great asset in the diplomatic corps. 21 / 60 RECEDE: requite surrender retreat decline lose To recede is to pull back or move backward, House and trees seem to recede as we ride past in a train. 22 / 60 FASTIDIOUS: classify precise unkempt sanitary chaos Being fastidious means giving careful attention to detail. She is fastidious about her food. 23 / 60 SURLY: wily anticipate rude strong prodigal Being surly means behaving in a rude bad-tempered way. He become surly and rude toward me. 24 / 60 FRUGAL: poverty facility increase careful wealth Being frugal means avoiding waste. First; you must learn to be frugal. 25 / 60 DEPLETE: proceed continue guide exhaust utilize To deplete is to use up all the resources. or materials. Unfortunately, we have depleted all the fuels and our car couldn't move. 26 / 60 FORCE: might soldier military power requirement Force is an influence which produces a change in physical quantity. So I have found that civilization is a force. 27 / 60 EXTINCT: poor inactive brief clearimperfect Being extinct means no longer in existence. Within the environment worsen, many species become extinct. 28 / 60 THWART: grow love advance frustrate defend To thwart is to hinder or prevent the efforts of others. Our plan for a picnic is thwarted by the rain. 29 / 60 STIPEND: payment fluid financier plant bank Stipend is a sum of money allotted on a regular basis, usually for some specific purpose. I wish to be awarded a stipend for further research. 30 / 60 REPUTABLE: honest star significant capable fame Being reputable means having a good reputation. We only use reputable carriers. 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. Dessert is to meal as ocean is to river finale is to performance lunch is to breakfast fork is to spoon plate is to table The relationship here is one of order or sequence. A dessert is eaten at the end of a meal. A finale is played at the end of a performance. Lunch is eaten after breakfast, but it's a different meal, not part of the same one, so the bridge doesn't fit 32 / 60 Confirm is to deny as pull is to tug contend is to imply assert is to proclaim simplify is to organize accept is to reject The words in the stem are opposites. The only pair of opposites among the choices is in (E): accept is the opposite of reject, as confirm is the opposite of deny. 33 / 60 Tower is to airport as lighthouse is to jet park farm shoreline museum A tower is the rail structure that enables planes to navigate safely at an airport. A lighthouse is the tall structure that enables ships to navigate safely at the shoreline. 34 / 60 Fidelity is to unfaithfulness as laziness is to slothfulness loyalty is to honor friendship is to gossip intelligence is to unconcern honesty is to deceit Fidelity is the opposite or absence of unfaithfulness. Honesty is the opposite or absence of deceit. The words in (B) and (A) are synonyms, and there's no clear relationship between the words in (C) and (D). 35 / 60 Widespread is to limited as_ enlarged is to big provincial is to international encompassed is to surrounded broad is to narrow unusual is to strange If something is widespread, it's not limited. If something is broad, it's not narrow. The words in (C) are synonyms, as are the words in (A) and (E). (B) is a little tough; international seems to suggest sophisticated, which is the opposite of provincial, but the words are in the opposite order as those presented in the stem, 36 / 60 Saw is to carpenter as plow is to steelworker farmer banker surveyor physician A saw is a tool used by a carpenter. A plow is a tool used by a farmer. No other occupation listed here requires the use of a plow. 37 / 60 Sword is to fence as glove is to_ golf hockey soccer box baseball A sword is used against an opponent in fencing, as a glove is used in boxing. 38 / 60 Encourage is to demand as_ motivate is to undermine insinuate is to hint condemn is to reprimand fire is to dismiss suggest is to order Here the relationship is one of degree, with the second word being much stronger than the first. You can encourage or suggest that someone do something, and they may or may not do it. But if you demand or order them to do it, then they must. The words in (B) and (D) are synonyms, and the words in (A) are opposites. Condemn in (C) is stronger than to reprimand, not the other way around, so the order is wrong. 39 / 60 Grin is to delight as laugh is to happiness resignation is to uncertainty anxiety is to confusion frown is to dismay perspiration is to exhaustion A grin is a facial expression showing delight. A frown is a facial expression showing dismay. (Dismay is a mixture of fear and discouragement. ) A laugh in (A) expresses happiness, but it isn't precisely a facial expression. 40 / 60 Mysterious is to understandable as skillful is to swift obscure is to clear clouded is to warm doubtful is to incredulous unknown is to indefinable Something mysterious is not understand- able. Something obscure is not clear. 41 / 60 Scissors is to cut as pencil is to read raze snip write turn Scissors are specifically used to cut, just as a pencil is specifically used to write. 42 / 60 Pasta is to sauce as tomato is to vine napkin is to plate cheese is to milk noodle is to dough toast is to jam The specific topping for pasta is sauce; The specific topping for toast is jam. A Noodle (D) is made out of dough, and Tomato (A) grows on a vine. 43 / 60 Bread is to crust as orange is to pudding rind tree lemon butter The outer shell of bread is the crust. The outer shell of an orange is the rind. 44 / 60 Team is to captain as game to opponent sport is to player paper is to reporter navy is to ensign republic is to president A captain is the leader of a team, just as a president is the leader of a republic. Watch out for (B)—it mentions the word sports, which fits the subject matter of the stem pair, but does not match the bridge. 45 / 60 Olfactory is to smell as allergic is to nose tactile is to touch sweet is to mouth heavy is to strength seasonal is to flower Olfactory refers to one's sense of smell, just as tactile refers to one's sense of touch. 46 / 60 Ruler is to measure as camera is to photograph soul piano lung limb A ruler is a tool used to measure something, just as a camera is a tool used to photograph something. 47 / 60 Tiptoe is to walk as. rasp is to throat press is to wrinkle whisper is to speech dance is to rhythm tumble is to tree Tiptoe is a quiet kind of walk, as whisper is a quiet kind of speech. A rasp (A) is a harsh sound in one's throat. 48 / 60 Kernel is to central as trivia is to productive controversial unimportant unleavened harvested A kernel is a central piece of information. Trivia is an unimportant piece of information. 49 / 60 Fib is to liar as campaign is to politician perform is to crew tally is to banker convict is to attorney flatter is to toady A liar is a person who fibs, just as a toady is a person who flatters. A politician (A) by definition is not a person who campaigns, but: rather, a person who engages in politics. To tally (C) is to count up: a banker may tally money, but he may also do other things like lend money. 50 / 60 Nap is to sleep as snack is to part age rest meal biscuit A nap is a short sleep just as a snack is a short meal. A biscuit can be a type of snack, but we are looking for a word that fits the bridge "is a short". 51 / 60 Building is to foundation as plant is to_ primer floor root grotto pane The base of a building is its foundation. The base of a plant is its root, (B). If you chose (A), (C), or (E), you were probably confusing the vegetative meaning of "plant" with, say, a manufacturing plant. A grotto is a cave. 52 / 60 Nose is to olfactory as ear is to allergic beautiful edible auditory raspy Olfactory refers to anything having to do with the sense of smell. So our bridge could be, the nose is the organ of the olfactory sense. Similarly, the ear is the organ of the sense of hearing or auditory sense, (D). 53 / 60 Irk is to soothing as support is t o elevating undermining irritating vilifying conciliating Irk means to annoy, disgust or irritate. So the relationship here is of opposites: something that irks is not soothing. In the same way, something that supports is not weakening or undermining, (B). Irritating, (C), is second-best here; it would go better with soothing than with support. 54 / 60 Illegible is to read as irreparable is to break broken is to fix illegal is to act(D› intense is to strain invisible is to see Something illegible is impossible to read; just as something invisible is impossible to see, (E). Something broken is not by definition impossible to fix. 55 / 60 l'act is to diplomat as training is to physician bias is to judge parsimony is to philanthropist agility is to gymnast vulnerability is to victim Tact is sensitivity, skill at doing on saying the right thing with people. So tact is a necessary quality for a diplomat. - In the same way, agility is a necessary. quality for a gymnast, which makes (C) correct. Parsimony, (E), or stinginess is a quality a philanthropist had better not have, since a philanthropist is someone who gives generous amounts of money to charity. Similarly, a judge: (D), should be unbiased, not biased, Which means having a declared preference for one side or the other. Victims may be vulnerable, (B), but you wouldn't ordinarily say that vulnerability is a necessary quality for being a victim. And training in (A) is too vague; it's not quality specific to the practice.of medicine. 56 / 60 Ravenous is to hunger as agitated is to placidity concerned is to apathy smart is to tenacity furious is to indignation pliable is to obstinacy Ravenous means extremely hungry. So to be ravenous is to be in an extreme state of hunger. In the same way, to be furious is to be in an extreme state of Indignation, (D). None of the other choices has a first word that's an extreme version of the second word: Pliable, (E), means flexible, while obstinacy is stubbornness, so these words are opposites. The same is true for (A) and (B). Tenacity, (C), stubborn persistence; being smart is not being in an extreme state of tenacity. 57 / 60 Amplify is to sound as bolster is to courage silence smel insomnia light To amplify sound is to make it stronger or louder. To bolster something means to strengthen it. In the same way, then, to bolster courage is to make it stronger. Getting the right answer here depends a little on knowing common usage. You can’t bolster a smell, (C), insomnia or sleeplessness, (D), or light or silence, (B), (E). 58 / 60 Auditorium is to lecture as attic is to storage temple is to religion target is to arrow theater is to concert cafeteria is to food Reverse the order of the stem pair: you attend a lecture in an auditorium. In the Same way, you attend a concert in a theater, (D). This bridge clearly doesn't work on (A), (C), or (E). You attend religious services, not religion itself, in temple, (B). 59 / 60 Philanthropic is to benevolence as devout is to malice realistic is to plan smooth is to surface ostentatious is to reserve miserly is to stinginess Philanthropic means generous, giving; benevolence is the quality of generosity. So our bridge might be, a philanthropic act is evidence of benevolence. In the same way, a miserly act is evidence of stinginess, (E). Ostentatious, (D), means showy or extravagant. 60 / 60 Spurious is to authenticity as abject is to subjectivity affluent is to character laughable is to seriousness totalitarian is to completeness lavish is to expense Spurious is simply a fancy word meaning fake. So we've got a relationship of opposites here: something spurious has no authenticity. Similarly, something laughable has no seriousness, (C). Lavish, (E), means extravagantly expensive. Abject means miserable; subjectivity may or may not be miserable, (A). 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