HPAT vocabulary Exam Questions and AnswersScornful - Answer- Feeling or expressing contempt or derisionContempt - Answer- The feeling that a person or thing is worthless/beneath considerationDerision - Answer- Contemptuous ridicule or mockeryExuberant - Answer- Full of energy/excitementAssertive - Answer- Having or showing a confident/forceful personalityManaging - Answer- Having executive control or authorityCurt - Answer- Rudely briefMoral - Answer- Concerned with the principles of right and wrong behaviourCaress - Answer- Verb: To touch or stroke gently/lovinglyNoun: A gentle/loving touchRepress - Answer- To subdue a person or thing by forceSubdue - Answer- Overcome/quieten/bring under controlAlleviate - Answer- Make suffering/deficiency/a problem less severeCalculating - Answer- Acting in a scheming and ruthless determined wayResilient - Answer- Able to withstand or recover quickly from difficult conditionsEvasive - Answer- Tending to avoid commitment or self revelation, especially by responding only indirectlySelf-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 - permutingPrevail - Answer- Prove more powerful or superiorSuperimpose - Answer- Place or lay (one thing) over another, typically so that both are still evidentApprehensive -