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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. Call to a higher power (usually a god) for help
ingratiate
invocation
placate
dissuade
2. Worthless or in vain
disseminate
nugatory
frenzy
bog
3. Sharp of taste
tart
transgress
scowl
pillage
4. Being a mutually beneficial relationship
rigid
symbiotic
pique
echelon
5. To lessen
abate
ascetic
aggregate
lacerate
6. Unbeliever
feral
dissuade
infidel
auspices
7. An oppressive weight
incubus
perturb
preclude
meticulous
8. Lying
junta
mendacity
indiscriminate
enmesh
9. Damp
clarion
humid
epitome
aggregate
10. Dull or empty
displace
fain
jejune
deplorable
11. To break a rule; to violate
didactic
transgress
stimulation
comely
12. A statement from which a conclusion is drawn.
regimen
premise
austere
connive
13. Blameworthy
tuft
reprehensible
misconstrue
debacle
14. Lavishly overabundant
melancholy
banal
profuse
apolitical
15. False
impunity
extirpate
modicum
pseudo
16. To disturb - to increase apprehension
thespian
peremptory
defection
disquiet
17. Of few words
laconic
precursor
disgruntled
succulent
18. Obstruction
indispensable
gamut
palaver
impediment
19. Lack of; smallness of number
paucity
visage
sociometry
haphazard
20. Someone who strongly believes in a cause
caper
stalwart
sporadic
propitious
21. Tawdry; undignified
sordid
purport
debacle
gregarious
22. To reduce quantity or empty
inveterate
cherubic
depravity
deplete
23. Eager to help; anxious
execration
elicit
solicitous
stanch
24. Excessive
jaunty
variegated
cull
inordinate
25. A mistake in logic
fallacy
luminary
multifarious
bungler
26. Indecent; lustful
lascivious
cogent
rancor
enigma
27. Someone who studies language
decry
linguist
insular
ablution
28. Admirable; deserving praise
macrocosm
vulnerable
bestow
estimable
29. Future generations
vituperation
posterity
gaunt
agnostic
30. Occurring every three years
triennial
saline
scrutinize
portend
31. To disprove or demonstrate to be false; to contradict appearances
vituperation
gallantry
rarefied
belie
32. Lacking grace or ease of movement or form; clumsy
occidental
mores
sanction
ungainly
33. To exchange words
opulent
bandy
disparage
placebo
34. Revengeful
vindictive
deference
replicate
sanguine
35. Easily managed or controlled; governable
excoriate
probity
tractable
protuberant
36. To redo
revamp
estimable
decorum
holocaust
37. Desired
benign
vituperative
discombobulate
coveted
38. To obstruct; to block out (n. occlusion)
truculent
inchoate
occlude
maladaptive
39. To lie
drab
inexorable
somatic
prevaricate
40. 1) resentment 2) shadow
jurisprudence
resilient
affect
umbrage
41. Beginner; novice
momentous
papal
tyro
kinetic
42. Innumerable; of massive quantity
myriad
trinket
condescending
hone
43. Cliched - worn out by overuse
hackneyed
avouch
harlequin
flamboyant
44. Instinctive - untaught
emphatic
intuitive
plausible
vexation
45. To assume forcibly and or without right
guile
priggishness
usurp
emphatic
46. To imprison
incarcerate
serried
displace
peripheral
47. Move in a wavelike motion
gauntlet
devious
recant
undulate
48. Generosity
perilous
connotation
philanthropy
quelled
49. To blame or scold severely
physiognomy
excommunicate
apprehensive
excoriate
50. Causing sleep
embodiment
clamorous
bludgeon
soporific