HPAT VOCABULARY QUESTIONS AND
ANSWERS WITH SOLUTIONS 2024
Scornful - ANSWER Feeling or expressing contempt or derision
Contempt - ANSWER The feeling that a person or thing is worthless/beneath consideration
Derision - ANSWER Contemptuous ridicule or mockery
Exuberant - ANSWER Full of energy/excitement
Assertive - ANSWER Having or showing a confident/forceful personality
Managing - ANSWER Having executive control or authority
Curt - ANSWER Rudely brief
Moral - ANSWER Concerned with the principles of right and wrong behaviour
Caress - ANSWER Verb: To touch or stroke gently/lovingly
Noun: A gentle/loving touch
Repress - ANSWER To subdue a person or thing by force
Subdue - ANSWER Overcome/quieten/bring under control
Alleviate - ANSWER Make suffering/deficiency/a problem less severe
Calculating - ANSWER Acting in a scheming and ruthless determined way
Resilient - ANSWER Able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditions
Evasive - ANSWER Tending to avoid commitment or self revelation, especially by responding only
indirectly
Self-revelation - ANSWER Disclosure of ones private feelings, thoughts, etc.
Permutation - ANSWER The act of arranging all the members of a set into some sequence or order, or,
if the set is already ordered; rearranging/reordering its elements - permuting
Prevail - ANSWER Prove more powerful or superior
Superimpose - ANSWER Place or lay (one thing) over another, typically so that both are still evident
Apprehensive - ANSWER Anxious or fearful that something bad or unpleasant will happen
Prevail - ANSWER Prove more powerful or superior
Superimpose - ANSWER Place or lay (one thing) over another, typically so that both are still evident
Affable - ANSWER Friendly
, Good natured
Easy to talk to
Aglow - ANSWER Glowing
Ailing - ANSWER To cause pain or trouble
To suffer bad health
Alienated - ANSWER Feeling isolated or estranged
Amiable - ANSWER Having or displaying a friendly and pleasant manner
Amicable - ANSWER Having a spirit of friendliness
Ardent - ANSWER Enthusiastic
Passionate
Caring
Blithe - ANSWER Carefree
Happy
Light-hearted
Buoyant - ANSWER Happy
Confident
Cherishing - ANSWER Protecting and caring for someone lovingly
Compassionate - ANSWER Feeling or showing sympathy and concern for others
Exacerbate - ANSWER To make (a problem, bad situation, negative feeling) worse
Ostensibly - ANSWER As appears or is stated to be true, though not necessarily so; apparently
Profusely - ANSWER To a great degree; in large amounts.
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