Words carry tremendous power. The words we know determine what we understand and how we can help others understand us. They also influence every measure of reading ability, which definitely includes tests like the SAT and ACT. How strong is your vocabulary? Evaluate how test ready your vocabulary is with the most essential words shared by Roots2Words in September 2025:
1. To make full or productive use of or to take advantage of:
(A) oust (B) exploit (C) mull (D) wallow (E) exude
2. Tending to cause harm or damage:
(A) preliminary (B) benign (C) detrimental (D) eminent (E) malleable
3. To reach a peak, climax, or final result:
(A) forbear (B) repudiate (C) prostrate (D) culminate (E) imprecate
4. Arrogant, opinionated, or dictatorial:
(A) brazen (B) consonant (C) salient (D) waggish (E) dogmatic
5. Frugality, economy, or a reluctance to spend money unnecessarily:
(A) impasse (B) pablum (C) parsimony (D) polymath (E) precept
Check your answers on the Roots2Words website. If you didn’t get 5 out of 5, be sure to subscribe to the free Word of the Day!
Mike Bergin