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SAT Reasoning Vocab
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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. Mournful - dismal - or gloomy - especially to an exaggerated or ludicrous degree
mollified
reverence
lugubrious
esoteric
2. Brief - concise
succinct
rhetoric
esoteric
obtrusive
3. Confidently optimistic and cheerful
prognosis
jingoism
sanguine
intransigence
4. (n.) a survey made for military purposes; any kind of preliminary inspection or examination
spurious
reconnaissance
reverence
disposition
5. A forecast of the probable course and outcome of a disease or situation
apologetic
prognosis
didactic
chicanery
6. Having a secret or hidden meaning
sundry
cryptic
deft
languid
7. Clothing - garments
folly
implacable
raiment
loquacious
8. Profound respect
reverence
raiment
spurious
remonstrance
9. Very careful; diligent; requiring great care; meticulous
clandestine
cantankerous
rhetoric
painstaking
10. Various; miscellaneous - various; miscellaneous
ineffable
disposition
sundry
folly
11. Intended to deceive
spurious
erroneous
lassitude
mercurial
12. Undamaged; uninjured
militant
sustenance
cantankerous
unmarred
13. Very talkative
pretentious
sundry
loquacious
bureaucratization
14. Pushing - demanding attention - showy
ambiguous
obtrusive
antiquated
dispersive
15. Thin - slender - not dense; lacking clarity or sharpness; of slight importance or significance; lacking a sound basis - poorly supported
tenuous
reticent
impugned
hallowed
16. Secret - concealed; underhanded
antiquated
clandestine
stymied
liberality
17. Intended to teach or instruct
phlegmatic
didactic
disingenuous
sanguine
18. Intended for or understood by only a small group
esoteric
impetuous
phlegmatic
emphatic
19. Instinctive - untaught
fabricated
impugned
intuitive
phlegmatic
20. Insincere
sanguine
invidious
provocative
disingenuous
21. Having authority or ascendancy or influence
erudition
authoritative
divisive
whimsical
22. Rash - impulsive
impetuous
reconnaissance
enigma
bland
23. Intricate; complex
dispersive
convoluted
curative
fundamentalism
24. Not clearly understood or expressed
capricious
decorous
dissent
obscure
25. Extensive destruction
irascible
decimation
ossified
erroneous
26. Stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability
doctrinaire
esoteric
erudition
bucolic
27. Trickery; deception
dissent
churlish
dismayed
chicanery
28. Incapable of being expressed
prognosis
ineffable
lugubrious
cryptic
29. (adj.) appearing true - reasonable - or fair
languid
obscure
plausible
decimation
30. Open to more than one interpretation
authoritative
laconic
ambiguous
ambivalent
31. Showing excessive emotion; overflowing
wrongheaded
dispersive
effusive
erudition
32. Conflict within a group
bureaucratization
mollified
infighting
convoluted
33. Wordy - very talkative
preeminence
verbose
capricious
spurious
34. (adj.) subject to odd ideas - notions - or fancies; playful; unpredictable
fabricated
remiss
whimsical
decorous
35. Challenged; called into question
cryptic
convoluted
impugned
ossified
36. Floating debris (from a ship)
stringent
callous
ephemeral
flotsam
37. Extreme - chauvinistic patriotism - often favoring an aggressive - warlike foreign policy
spurious
dispassionate
visceral
jingoism
38. Refusal of any compromise; stubbornness
ambivalent
capricious
intransigence
emphatic
39. Pertaining to the countryside; rural; rustic
dispassionate
impetuous
bucolic
stymied
40. Emotionally hardened - unfeeling
visceral
plausible
callous
stringent
41. Lacking either stimulating or irritating characteristics
edifying
bucolic
authoritative
bland
42. (adj) given to fighting; active and aggressive in support of a cause; (n) an activist
erroneous
emphatic
enigma
militant
43. Not supported or proven by evidence
decimation
omnipotent
unsubstantiated
mundane
44. Instinctive
unsubstantiated
visceral
hallowed
convoluted
45. Tending to spread; spread over
laconic
incorrigible
mundane
dispersive
46. Troubled; distressed
obtrusive
dismayed
eclectic
unsubstantiated
47. Eating away gradually - acidlike; bitterly sarcastic
enigma
corrosive
venerable
dissent
48. Retiring - humble - modest
self-effacing
curative
churlish
dissent
49. yearning; sadly longing
wistful
succinct
bland
invidious
50. your usual mood
reticent
disposition
effusive
sanguine