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SAT Reasoning Common Words
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logic-and-reasoning
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Able to be believed; convincing
cajole
imperious
credible
supplant
2. Optimistic; certain
confident
conflagration
prestige
aesthetics
3. Formal and dignified; not cheerful or smiling
irreproachable
expansive
solemn
sensational
4. Unnecessary - especially through being more than enough; surplus
incontrovertible
superfluous
regressive
amalgamate
5. A person who attacks cherished beliefs or institutions
despondent
prescribe
iconoclast
provocation
6. Well-chosen or particularly favorable or appropriate; auspicious
compromise
personify
archaic
opportune
7. Overimaginative and unrealistic; far-fetched
contend
fanciful
obsequious
curative
8. To dispute the truth - validity - or honesty of (a statement or motive); to call into question
impugn
viscous
dramatic
deride
9. Something that is mysterious - puzzling - or difficult to figure out
decorous
reclusive
embroil
enigma
10. Adroitness and sensitivity in dealing with others or with difficult issues; diplomacy
revere
tact
allusion
imposing
11. The use of trickery to achieve a political - financial - or legal purpose; deception
to be reputed
chicanery
erratic
anomaly
12. Kept secret or done secretively - especially because illicit; covert
docile
censor
accost
clandestine
13. To assume
composite
prescribe
prescriptive
presume
14. To participate or become involved in
antiquity
disinclined
terminal
engage
15. Briefness; conciseness
brevity
exhaust
discernment
obsolete
16. Uncertain; hesitant
tentative
humility
credulity
implicate
17. Lasting only for a short time; impermanent
abstruse
transient
skirt
unpremeditated
18. An intense but short-lived passion or admiration for (something)
infatuation
flagging
didactic
indulgent
19. Careful consideration
symbolism
prohibitive
prescriptive
deliberation
20. To make legitimate
expansive
borne
legitimize
portent
21. To regard as perfect or better than in reality
reprehensible
idealize
provocative
versatile
22. A refusal or unwillingness to change one's views or to agree about something; stubbornness
radical
enthrall
wistful
intransigence
23. A ruler who has absolute power; a dictator
sate
autocrat
inundate
versatile
24. To take the place of (a person or thing previously in use); to supplant
discriminating
commendable
monotonous
supersede
25. To voluntarily cease to claim; to give (something) up
diverge
critical
stratagem
relinquish
26. Conforming to what is generally or traditionally accepted as right or true
discrete
orthodox
misconception
chronicle
27. To depict (someone or something) in a work of art or literature; to represent
antipathy
concur
portray
circumscribe
28. Related to the sense of hearing
consequential
simile
auditory
prevalent
29. Heated disagreement
analogy
autonomy
contention
recount
30. Doubting; hesitating or uncertain
adverse
recollection
apathy
dubious
31. Giving a broad subjective picture or general idea rather than an exact - systematic description
disrepute
prevalent
inimical
impressionistic
32. To harm the good reputation of (someone or something)
discredit
astute
remorse
conception
33. Individually separate and distinct
barrage
discrete
objective
condone
34. Unable to be affected by
oblivious
impervious
subterfuge
attribute
35. A tendency to be too ready to believe that something is real or true
perfidy
revelation
sufficient
credulity
36. Logical and consistent
table
unpretentious
forbear
coherent
37. Beyond criticism; faultless
rhetoric
enthralling
unprovoked
irreproachable
38. Well chosen or suited to the circumstances; apt
audible
incoherent
felicitous
lavish
39. Brisk and cheerful readiness; eagerness
idealism
infelicity
alacrity
benevolent
40. A person who creates a chronicle
chronicler
profusely
adherent
convoluted
41. Arrogantly superior and disdainful; conceited
haughty
respectively
advocate
vigor
42. A person who either critiques things or criticizes things
repress
critic
skepticism
temperamental
43. A person who cultivates an area of interest - such as the arts - without real commitment or knowledge; an amateur
dispassionate
dilettante
pervasive
testament
44. To return to a former or less developed state; to go backward
malice
discrete
apprehension
regress
45. Carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection; cursory
indigent
consummate
perfunctory
stimulant
46. A lack of good sense; foolishness
infelicity
counterintuitive
capricious
folly
47. An impression of a manner given by someone; an appearance
complicity
decorous
litigious
air
48. To make (a disease or its symptoms) less severe or unpleasant without removing the cause
circumspect
versatile
palliate
brevity
49. To irritate or annoy to an extreme degree; to infuriate
exasperate
appropriate
cacophony
belligerent
50. To succeed in persuading or influencing (someone) to do something
incisive
satirize
induce
homogeneous