PSAT NMSQT LATEST 2026 TETS PAPER QUESTIONS AND
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔coalition - ✔✔a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose
✔✔cogitate - ✔✔to think deeply
✔✔commiserate - ✔✔sympathize
✔✔concoct - ✔✔to invent
✔✔congeal - ✔✔to solidify
✔✔connotation - ✔✔an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or
primary meaning.
✔✔consolidation - ✔✔the process by which memories become stable in the brain
✔✔constituent - ✔✔a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to
represent
✔✔contagion - ✔✔infection
✔✔contend - ✔✔to assert
✔✔contention - ✔✔heated disagreement
✔✔contingent - ✔✔dependent
✔✔convoluted - ✔✔intricate and complicated
✔✔corrosion - ✔✔the gradual wearing away of a metal element due to a chemical
reaction
✔✔cosmopolitan - ✔✔worldly; sophisticated
✔✔countenance - ✔✔facial expression
✔✔covert - ✔✔hidden; undercover
✔✔credulity - ✔✔readiness to believe
✔✔culmination - ✔✔the highest point of attainment; the end or climax
, ✔✔cynical - ✔✔doubtful or distrustful of the goodness or sincerity of human motives
✔✔decadence - ✔✔moral deterioration
✔✔decorous - ✔✔proper
✔✔decry - ✔✔to criticize openly
✔✔defamation - ✔✔the action of damaging the good reputation of someone; slander or
libel.
✔✔defeatist - ✔✔attitude of one who is ready to accept defeat as a natural outcome
✔✔derelict - ✔✔abandoned
✔✔derision - ✔✔ridicule
✔✔deriative - ✔✔unoriginal; taken from something already existing
✔✔designation - ✔✔a distinguishing name or mark
✔✔desultory - ✔✔jumping from one thing to another; disconnected
✔✔dexterous - ✔✔skillful
✔✔dichotomy - ✔✔a division into two parts
✔✔dilettante - ✔✔one who merely dabbles in an art or a science
✔✔din - ✔✔terrible
✔✔disenfranchise - ✔✔deprive of voting rights
✔✔disseminate - ✔✔to scatter or spread widely
✔✔dissertation - ✔✔a formal and long paper, written for a degree at a university or
college
✔✔dissident - ✔✔rebel
✔✔duplicity - ✔✔treachery, deceitfulness
SOLUTIONS RATED A+
✔✔coalition - ✔✔a combination, union, or merger for some specific purpose
✔✔cogitate - ✔✔to think deeply
✔✔commiserate - ✔✔sympathize
✔✔concoct - ✔✔to invent
✔✔congeal - ✔✔to solidify
✔✔connotation - ✔✔an idea or feeling that a word invokes in addition to its literal or
primary meaning.
✔✔consolidation - ✔✔the process by which memories become stable in the brain
✔✔constituent - ✔✔a person whom a member of Congress has been elected to
represent
✔✔contagion - ✔✔infection
✔✔contend - ✔✔to assert
✔✔contention - ✔✔heated disagreement
✔✔contingent - ✔✔dependent
✔✔convoluted - ✔✔intricate and complicated
✔✔corrosion - ✔✔the gradual wearing away of a metal element due to a chemical
reaction
✔✔cosmopolitan - ✔✔worldly; sophisticated
✔✔countenance - ✔✔facial expression
✔✔covert - ✔✔hidden; undercover
✔✔credulity - ✔✔readiness to believe
✔✔culmination - ✔✔the highest point of attainment; the end or climax
, ✔✔cynical - ✔✔doubtful or distrustful of the goodness or sincerity of human motives
✔✔decadence - ✔✔moral deterioration
✔✔decorous - ✔✔proper
✔✔decry - ✔✔to criticize openly
✔✔defamation - ✔✔the action of damaging the good reputation of someone; slander or
libel.
✔✔defeatist - ✔✔attitude of one who is ready to accept defeat as a natural outcome
✔✔derelict - ✔✔abandoned
✔✔derision - ✔✔ridicule
✔✔deriative - ✔✔unoriginal; taken from something already existing
✔✔designation - ✔✔a distinguishing name or mark
✔✔desultory - ✔✔jumping from one thing to another; disconnected
✔✔dexterous - ✔✔skillful
✔✔dichotomy - ✔✔a division into two parts
✔✔dilettante - ✔✔one who merely dabbles in an art or a science
✔✔din - ✔✔terrible
✔✔disenfranchise - ✔✔deprive of voting rights
✔✔disseminate - ✔✔to scatter or spread widely
✔✔dissertation - ✔✔a formal and long paper, written for a degree at a university or
college
✔✔dissident - ✔✔rebel
✔✔duplicity - ✔✔treachery, deceitfulness
