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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. Chain
fetter
pretense
erratic
predilection
2. Untidy
slovenly
autonomous
carrion
botanical
3. A trace
extrapolate
scintilla
hallow
pandemonium
4. A male writing a will
testator
misogamy
perspicacity
vitiate
5. Grasping; craving
deference
covetous
sleuth
facsimile
6. Agreed to by most people; by reputation
putative
reconcile
syllogism
telekinesis
7. Humor; lack of seriousness
levity
aberration
masochist
acquiesce
8. An abusive speech
diatribe
tutelage
prototype
reprisal
9. Two forces put together to make a larger force
denote
synergistic
pinnacle
jocular
10. A burden
jubilation
ingrate
encumbrance
extrapolate
11. Harshness; severity in temper
adjure
pallid
asperity
herbicide
12. Cheerful; genial
jocund
scapegoat
opprobrium
accede
13. Quarrel
sobriquet
nominal
wrangle
founder
14. To claim
inarticulate
fastidious
purport
orifice
15. Slang
cardinal
obloquy
cant
keynote
16. Unnoticeable
cumbrous
itemize
therapeutic
imperceptible
17. Person who complies with accepted rules and customs
symmetry
ascribe
punctilious
conformist
18. Inborn; intrinsic; basic
inherent
proclivity
affliction
keynote
19. Persistent; stubborn
facetious
adamant
yahoo
nexus
20. Grasping
procure
prehensile
consanguineous
dialectic
21. A conniving plot
affliction
martial
machination
besmirch
22. Wandering
obnoxious
rapprochement
compress
peripatetic
23. Tending to produce a response - e.g. - anger
replete
contravene
provocative
cumbrous
24. To survive or subsist ('to eke out an existence')
asperity
teetotaler
eke
demise
25. Delusions of wealth and/or power
megalomania
beleaguered
subservient
morbid
26. Stately; majestic
infinitesimal
mandate
august
ravenous
27. The absence of government; a disordered and uncontrolled
solecism
recreant
anarchy
androgynous
28. Exaggeratedly emotional or sentimental; histrionic
greenhorn
lascivious
melodramatic
pungent
29. Lying
jeopardize
invigorate
mendacity
reproach
30. Reminiscent of a funeral
funereal
gesticulate
synthesis
salient
31. Monotonous; dull
drab
equivocation
gauche
fortuitous
32. Extreme enthusiasm; dispensing of all inhibitions
facetious
corporeal
abandon
gauntlet
33. Instinctive - untaught
droll
ribald
intuitive
nuptial
34. To interpret; to explain
rococo
construe
propagate
capitulate
35. To the point; laconic
laudatory
sagacity
torpid
terse
36. Evil
decorous
convalescence
mellifluous
sinister
37. Authoritative
magisterial
quiescent
refractory
therapeutic
38. To ooze out
exude
lacerate
intrigue
enjoin
39. Being crazy about something
choleric
fanatical
complacent
pique
40. A commonplace or useless remark
discredit
mute
platitude
nemesis
41. To hesitate
perennial
pulchritude
benign
demur
42. Not easily pacified
maniacal
implacable
lucid
liability
43. A fight
solecism
debilitate
coin
confrontation
44. Indecisiveness
funereal
vacillation
interment
fiat
45. One who enjoys his own pain
masochist
sonnet
stultify
gossamer
46. To lie
superannuated
illusory
prevaricate
posthumous
47. To curse or use abusive language
abjure
complaisant
revile
sanguine
48. Hatred of marriage
vitality
misogamy
gamut
deplorable
49. Rude; uncultured; primitive; uncivilized
decipher
amiable
barbaric
eclogue
50. Strange; fantastic
bizarre
magnanimous
scapegoat
culinary