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SAT Reasoning Common Words
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sat
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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. Showing dedication and diligence; meticulous
empathy
indulgent
sedulous
tact
2. To make (someone) less angry or hostile; to pacify
keen
circumvent
consecrate
placate
3. A thing that is conspicuously old-fashioned; a thing belonging to a different time period
arbitrary
mendacious
anachronism
appropriate
4. Not able to be removed or forgotten; ineradicable
irreconcilable
concord
indelible
contention
5. Inclined to agree with others or obey rules - especially to an excessive degree; acquiescent
espouse
verbose
compliant
personify
6. A refusal or unwillingness to change one's views or to agree about something; stubbornness
subtle
supercilious
intransigence
contrived
7. To hold down or subdue (something) by force
proverb
discernment
repress
docile
8. A view of or attitude toward a situation or event; an opinion
cosmopolitan
sentiment
jocular
ego
9. Providing psychological relief through the open expression of strong emotions
gratuitous
derision
testimonial
cathartic
10. Not influenced by strong emotion; objective - neutral - or impartial
peruse
dispassionate
euphemism
discernment
11. Deceit used in order to achieve a goal; trickery
acquisition
incongruous
concede
subterfuge
12. Based on a hypothesis; theoretical
squalid
negligent
hypothetical
apprehensive
13. An official order to do something
mandate
disrepute
implication
rancor
14. The state of being unaware of what is happening
autonomous
fallible
oblivion
prospect
15. Average; not too large - severe or intense
arrogant
moderate
levity
elusive
16. Carried or supported
irrefutable
temperance
borne
anthropologist
17. The act of deceiving someone
exhaustive
deception
presumptive
cohere
18. To publicly denounce; to condemn
decry
incredulous
tenacious
assertion
19. An ancestor
reiterate
forebear
munificent
bureaucrat
20. To imitate the appearance or character of
derive
substantiate
incredulous
simulate
21. Well meaning and kindly; compassionate
benevolent
supercilious
perplexity
sufficient
22. Lacking strength and solidity
impediment
portent
insubstantial
zeal
23. The action - process - or result of combining or uniting
amalgamation
spare
zealous
duplicitous
24. Most important; main
flaunt
prominent
principal
haughty
25. Truthful and straightforward; open
supercilious
condone
straightforward
candid
26. A basic building block of something; an elementary or primitive form of something
pretentious
insure
rudiment
autonomy
27. To attempt to persuade people of the merits of (someone or something); to extol
contention
slovenly
tout
unpremeditated
28. Completely; absolutely
susceptible
utterly
adherent
critic
29. Unsophisticated or narrow-minded; parochial
convene
insight
foresight
provincial
30. Not easily letting go of or giving up an object - a position - or an idea; not easily dispelled or discouraged
expeditious
ascetic
malicious
tenacious
31. Relating to a violent natural event or disaster; catastrophic
to be resigned
metaphor
deplore
cataclysmic
32. An angry argument or disagreement - typically between people who are usually on good terms
endeavor
chicanery
quarrel
persevere
33. Full of energy and enthusiasm
somber
unwieldy
complicity
vibrant
34. To increase rapidly in numbers; to multiply
prominent
iconoclast
indiscernible
proliferate
35. To cause (someone) to be no longer close or affectionate; to alienate
preconception
stimulant
fallacy
estrange
36. Instinctive; easy to use and understand
adverse
convoluted
intuitive
rouse
37. Not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily; reserved
aesthete
rouse
reticent
infallible
38. A thing that completes or brings to perfection
anomaly
complement
prevalent
adept
39. Presumed in the absence of further information; assumed
presumptive
premeditate
mercurial
belie
40. To establish or originate (an institution or organization)
belligerent
apathy
unwieldy
found
41. Having refined taste or good judgment; discerning
buoy
discriminating
evade
engage
42. To cause (someone) to believe something that is not true; to trick
linguistic
indispensable
ornate
deceive
43. Mutually respectful; friendly
impressionable
depiction
collegial
provocation
44. Arrogantly superior and disdainful; conceited
arrogant
terse
haughty
check
45. Vigorous or incisive; penetrating
tact
trenchant
enthralling
infallible
46. A real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint or protest - especially unfair treatment; an injustice
astute
grievance
impressionable
ingenuous
47. A dangerous - difficult - or otherwise unfortunate situation
dispassionate
mandatory
acquisition
plight
48. To openly disregard (a rule - law or convention); to defy
flout
mandatory
insure
implausible
49. A burden or impediment; a hindrance
substantial
avuncular
superficial
encumbrance
50. To make (a disease or its symptoms) less severe or unpleasant without removing the cause
magnanimity
strident
insolent
palliate