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SAT Vocab
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Subjects
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A poem about the country
trifling
preemptive
eclogue
dichotomy
2. A cliff
temperance
felicity
bilk
precipice
3. Lacking authenticity - false; not genuine
spurious
truculent
virago
insouciant
4. Waver; undulate
disport
stultify
oscillate
bestial
5. Food
victuals
jettison
lustrous
flamboyant
6. Not important; silly; trivial
laconic
perquisites
effervesce
frivolous
7. A close friend
procrastinate
cohort
stimulation
lamentation
8. To banish (usually from a church)
asperity
jaunty
excommunicate
anarchy
9. Changeable (as in interest)
rectitude
attrition
fickle
chivalrous
10. Inborn; intrinsic; basic
unprecedented
adventitious
admonition
inherent
11. To play; to entertain
echelon
disport
resilience
enigma
12. Having an equal measure
commensurate
eschew
denote
frivolous
13. Style of speaking
myriad
detergent
locution
tangible
14. False accusation; slander
sinister
plumage
beatitude
aspersion
15. Division
deplore
cleavage
despondency
caricature
16. Emerging; coming into being
equity
recumbent
tutelage
nascent
17. Structural balance
exonerate
symmetry
appellation
grisly
18. To saunter or stroll
constellation
expunge
amble
nonfeasance
19. Open; manifest
sedentary
overt
obese
indomitable
20. Abundance
hemp
simile
plentitude
fetish
21. Extreme in effect
drastic
eke
opprobrium
canard
22. Pale
pallid
sedulous
feign
synergistic
23. Innumerable; of massive quantity
lethargic
myriad
antithesis
expendable
24. To better
egregious
ameliorate
necromancy
reconciliation
25. Something that measures duration
heresy
plague
reparation
hour
26. Supernatural perceptive skills - ability to foresee the future
clairvoyance
surreptitious
virtuoso
sententious
27. A pleasure resulting from something ('fruition of years of research')
fruition
solipsism
conclave
apocryphal
28. Loyalty
vitality
infer
soliloquy
fealty
29. Composure
relaxant
sangfroid
perquisites
slovenly
30. Someone with extreme nationalism
estimable
craven
jingoist
boorish
31. To kill as if as a sacrifice - especially by fire
discern
inure
immolate
acolyte
32. A ceremony that inducts a monarch
tactile
coronation
botanical
abscond
33. Contributing to a result
conducive
soothe
polyglot
apportion
34. Common; relating to the common people
plebeian
extraneous
eminent
adulterate
35. 1. cheerful; confident; hopeful; optimistic 2. red
sanguine
consternation
prerogative
nonpareil
36. Generous
munificent
alluvial
arrogance
doggerel
37. Pertaining to the city
urban
vignette
repugnant
laconic
38. To pretend (to deceive)
tangible
hypothesis
opus
feign
39. Meaningful
effete
progeny
quelled
sententious
40. Occurring after death
dissipate
paradigm
vitiate
posthumous
41. To articulate or pronounce
levity
mesmerize
prehensile
enunciate
42. Radiant - shining
purlieus
lustrous
blithe
martinet
43. Having to do with revelation or prophecy
travesty
apocalyptic
equable
travail
44. Of dubious origin; fictitious
guileless
apocryphal
rail
fatuous
45. Dull; commonplace (prose)
capacious
emulate
prosaic
obtuse
46. Pertaining to cooking
truculent
congenial
blather
culinary
47. A smugly proper or prudish attitude
priggishness
hoax
flippant
envisage
48. To swindle; to cheat
capacious
hone
bilk
sinecure
49. A comparison in speech or writing
macrocosm
amble
simile
explicit
50. Nonconformist
diagnosis
obeisance
lurid
maverick