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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. To represent or depict artistically
resurgent
render
radical
squander
2. Lacking thought or intelligence; mindless
anecdote
aristocracy
contemptuous
vacuous
3. Related to a city or town
urban
criticize
capricious
evade
4. The use of trickery to achieve a political - financial - or legal purpose; deception
chicanery
unforeseen
dilettante
irascible
5. Characterized by vulgar or pretentious display; showy
synthesis
implacable
stimulation
ostentatious
6. Intense happiness
utterance
felicity
solicit
unpretentious
7. To waste (something - especially money or time) in a reckless and foolish manner
prospect
fanciful
squander
unsentimental
8. A person who starts - organizes and operates a business
entrepreneur
compromise
dilettante
alacrity
9. To make (an idea - impression - or feeling) known or understandable to someone; to communicate
seclusion
compelling
deplore
convey
10. Fully comprehensive; all-inclusive
contend
flagging
compromise
exhaustive
11. New - unusual - and experimental - especially as related to the arts; innovative
pursuit
avant-garde
account for
renowned
12. Thrifty; careful not to waste money or resources
adverse
deceit
apt
economical
13. Intended to placate or pacify; appeasing
critique
conciliatory
wield
render
14. Optimistic; certain
ingenuity
confident
depreciate
belligerent
15. The feeling that a person or a thing is beneath consideration - worthless - or deserving scorn; disdain
contempt
profound
supercilious
exasperate
16. The feeling or belief that someone or something is worthless or despicable; contempt
scorn
injudicious
circumspect
diminutive
17. Uncomplicated and easy to do or understand; honest
presume
straightforward
intuition
apathetic
18. Having good judgment or taste; selective
spontaneous
perfunctory
discerning
inclination
19. A lack of experience - wisdom - or judgment; innocence or unsophistication
belligerent
naïvete
recollect
exemplar
20. Having no foundation or basis in fact; groundless
unfounded
ensure
principle
pathetic
21. Deep sadness or guilt for a wrong committed
remorse
enthralling
contemporary
antagonistic
22. Something that exists only as an idea
robust
employ
pretentious
abstraction
23. A refutation or contradiction
rebuttal
receptacle
negligible
rebut
24. Behaving as though one thinks one is superior to others; arrogant
flout
supercilious
entrepreneur
provocative
25. Too expensive for most people to pay
portentous
prohibitive
concordant
citation
26. Implied but not plainly expressed
intemperate
profusion
resurgent
implicit
27. Likely to happen at a future date; concerned with the future
epitomize
temperate
prospective
ambivalent
28. Showing contempt; scornful
apprehensive
contemptuous
mandate
insolent
29. An incorrect understanding
misconception
economy
rebuttal
laconic
30. Never done or known before; unheard of
expedite
diplomatic
unprecedented
borne
31. Having a meaning that is mysterious or obscure; confusing
embroil
intrigue
discerning
cryptic
32. Situated at the end of something
collegial
complicity
terminal
unprovoked
33. Charming; magnetic
charismatic
amalgamation
omen
unprovoked
34. To make legitimate
exasperate
conventional
legitimize
diligent
35. Hesitant; indecisive
repress
irresolute
deference
convention
36. Dark or dull in color or tone; gloomy
subdue
somber
epitomize
ingenuity
37. Having the potential to become disastrous; at a point of crisis
critical
opportune
strident
epitome
38. Because or as a result of
complimentary
by virtue of
concord
proximity
39. To come to an end - or to bring (something) to an end
deride
terminate
moderate
meticulous
40. Complimentary
confide
mortality
laudatory
articulate
41. To adopt or support (a cause - belief - or way of life); to endorse
zealot
adhere
heritage
espouse
42. To attempt to persuade people of the merits of (someone or something); to extol
rigors
vivid
tout
tactful
43. A stock of plays - dances - or pieces that a company or a performer knows or is prepared to perform
grounded
supplant
cantankerous
repertoire
44. To cause (someone) to become more alert or active - or excited about something
corroborate
stimulate
hackneyed
adherent
45. Having refined taste or good judgment; discerning
renown
stimulus
illusionist
discriminating
46. Inspiring fear or respect through being impressively large - powerful - intense - or capable
formidable
plight
contempt
tenacity
47. A person who promotes the welfare of others - especially by the generous donation of money to good causes
evasive
philanthropist
resignation
impediment
48. Experienced in the imagination through the feelings or actions of someone else
extravagant
denude
lament
vicarious
49. Overimaginative and unrealistic; far-fetched
fanciful
moribund
analogous
enterprise
50. Related to the philosophy of determinism
imposing
acquisitive
deterministic
solemnize