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. Happy most nearly means the opposite of:

 
 
 
 

2. Terse most nearly means:

 
 
 
 

3. She did not condone his insubordination.

 
 
 
 

4. Quiescent most nearly means:

 
 
 
 

5. Antipathy most nearly means:

 
 
 
 

6. Ambiguous most nearly means:

 
 
 
 

7. The new senator was a man of candor.

 
 
 
 

8. Rigid most nearly means the opposite of:

 
 
 
 

9. Ebullient most nearly means:

 
 
 
 

10. Mitigate most nearly means:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

12. Adversary most nearly means:

 
 
 
 

13. Disparate most nearly means:

 
 
 
 

14. Contrived most nearly means:

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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

 
 
 
 

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