ASVAB Word Knowledge Practice Test

The Word Knowledge section of the ASVAB practice test assesses your understanding of word meanings, synonyms, and antonyms. It’s an important section for your AFQT score. Our ASVAB Word Knowledge practice test contains 16 questions that must be answered within 8 minutes.


1. Adversary most nearly means:

 
 
 
 

2. She did not condone his insubordination.

 
 
 
 

3. Happy most nearly means the opposite of:

 
 
 
 

4. Rigid most nearly means the opposite of:

 
 
 
 

5. Ebullient most nearly means:

 
 
 
 

6. Quiescent most nearly means:

 
 
 
 

7. The word most opposite in meaning to tranquil is:

 
 
 
 

8. The teenager abandoned his job because he found it to be onerous.

 
 
 
 

9. The word most opposite in meaning to rescind is:

 
 
 
 

10. Disparate most nearly means:

 
 
 
 

11. Terse most nearly means:

 
 
 
 

12. Ambiguous most nearly means:

 
 
 
 

13. Mitigate most nearly means:

 
 
 
 

14. Contrived most nearly means:

 
 
 
 

15. The new senator was a man of candor.

 
 
 
 

16. Antipathy most nearly means:

 
 
 
 

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