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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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1. An experimental or trial version of a system or invention
prototype
abstruse
vendetta
envisage
2. Radiant
erode
lambent
irrefutable
apportion
3. Fiendish; devilish
cartel
infernal
bog
bellicose
4. Fighting
proverbial
dissension
melee
cognizant
5. To make fake money
counterfeit
imposing
console
cessation
6. The meantime ('in the interim')
ultimatum
piebald
inordinate
interim
7. Thin; gaunt
haggard
melancholy
brassy
console
8. To satisfy fully
satiate
compounded
circumlocutory
florid
9. Wealth or success
salvo
prosperity
gradation
fir
10. The state or quality of being ferocious; fierceness.
inevitable
detergent
desultory
ferocity
11. To sink
founder
veneer
invigorate
desiccant
12. Optical illusion
dulcet
vacillate
mirage
turgid
13. Death or suffering for one's beliefs ('martyr')
tactile
martyrdom
ransack
comport
14. To stare with open mouth
tautological
holocaust
brusque
gape
15. An interruption - intermission - or break
endemic
hiatus
nominal
bounty
16. Something falling apart or run down
prologue
melodramatic
inviolable
dilapidated
17. The primary impact of a blow
brunt
imparity
bungler
bureaucracy
18. Intoxicated; drunk
hiatus
inebriated
enunciate
writhe
19. Irregular; governed by chance
orthography
ostentatious
haphazard
conducive
20. To agree
dais
concur
marionette
squalid
21. Leader who arouses by emotional and inflamed speech
propagate
circumspect
swelter
demagogue
22. An inefficient administrative body
serried
bureaucracy
meticulous
unilateral
23. Formal etiquette
melancholy
protocol
vivid
purlieus
24. Reduced or removed
bestow
apprehensive
quelled
caprice
25. Assurance; self-confidence
commodious
aplomb
defection
misogyny
26. Harshness; severity in temper
alleviate
asperity
tintinnabulation
virulent
27. To hate
abhor
dolorous
wrangle
commodious
28. A means by which prophetic wisdom is imparted
remonstrate
oracle
montage
elan
29. Unusually advanced or talented at an early age
precocious
lithe
permafrost
coin
30. Pale
atrophy
transcend
squalid
wan
31. Just; fair
equitable
equanimity
cavalier
denigrate
32. Lacking pragmatism
fanciful
winnow
epitome
moot
33. Not making mistakes; flawless
incipient
infallible
laconic
vicariously
34. A long description
chronicle
adage
atrophy
enthrall
35. Deadly
derelict
extirpate
lethal
demarcate
36. A cure-all
fallacy
pedantic
deference
panacea
37. Personally appealing; inspiring
infinitesimal
charismatic
imposing
curative
38. Showing grace of movement - form - or proportion
melancholy
fraternal
graceful
defection
39. (adj.) perfect; (verb) to complete or finalize
consummate
resplendent
protean
fledgling
40. Filthy
hegemony
gormandize
squalid
contumacious
41. Hindsight
droll
corroborate
malleable
retrospect
42. Descendent
quiescent
scion
dawdled
disseminate
43. Deep-seated malice
accolade
rancor
desultory
bowdlerize
44. To cause to become subservient; to expose to
subjugate
limpid
berate
capacious
45. Dark
tenebrous
salutary
infer
choreography
46. To stop and refuse to go on; to thwart; to frustrate; to prevent
balk
plutocracy
presage
err
47. To lessen
contrive
inchoate
abate
depose
48. Someone who studies language
ecumenical
lampoon
extenuate
linguist
49. Poisonous
elusive
incarcerate
clump
toxic
50. Easily managed or controlled; governable
resurgence
tractable
impromptu
quelled