A strong academic and practical vocabulary yields benefits across a wide range of settings and scenarios, including on high stakes tests. If you want an impressive SAT or ACT score, your command of the English language should be just as impressive. How strong is your vocabulary? Evaluate how test ready your vocabulary is with the most essential words shared by Roots2Words in November 2025:
1. To spread through; to permeate:
(A) acclaim (B) forsake (C) extort (D) pervade (E) refute
2. A source of comfort or relief:
(A) blandishment (B) solace (C) caricature (D) precarity (E) breviloquence
3. Unable to stopped, moved, or persuaded; pitiless and unrelenting:
(A) cogent (B) sinuous (C) inexorable (D) genial (E) saturnine
4. To lessen the courage or resolution of:
(A) disburse (B) pontificate (C) daunt (D) parse (E) synopsize
5. A dissident, rebel, or rule breaker:
(A) travesty (B) tenure (C) iconoclast (D) spendthrift (E) verdure
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Mike Bergin