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SAT Vocab
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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. To make accustomed to home life
domesticate
gibberish
zealous
temporal
2. An actor
thespian
criterion
demagogue
charlatan
3. To infer or derive
unremitting
avarice
deduce
baleful
4. One who is ungrateful
ingrate
aggrandize
awry
divergent
5. To discourage
spurious
daunt
sedulous
denote
6. Of few words
intemperance
clemency
laconic
coveted
7. Lament; to really regret
rankle
rectitude
deplore
imbibe
8. Elasticity; property of a material that enables it to resume
anomalous
resilience
patch
contumely
9. To disprove
authentic
tenuous
rebut
hone
10. Conforming to church law
inveterate
eke
restrained
canonical
11. The first of its kind in a region
extrapolate
aboriginal
assuage
eminent
12. A hunted animal; prey
ingenuous
quarry
genial
rapprochement
13. To stipulate
posit
lexicon
debonair
ameliorate
14. Originating in one's personal observation
officious
deride (adj. derisive)
subjective
mendicant
15. To appease - calm
detergent
sovereignty
fallacy
placate
16. In existence
aberration
extant
panegyric
hybrid
17. Irregular; governed by chance
abide
haphazard
overture
levity
18. Non-interference
mortify
tantalize
laissez faire
avuncular
19. Belittling
gullible
debonair
derogatory
tenable
20. To indicate or make clear
denote
introspective
buffer
soliloquy
21. To decode
hypothesis
morbid
charlatan
decipher
22. Constantly complaining - irritable; grumbling
sidle
querulous
pilfer
gauntlet
23. To specify a condition (n. stipulation - condition)
stipulate
niggardly
anarchy
retinue
24. To worsen or aggravate
exacerbate
palatable
cartel
derogatory
25. To increase temptation
fecund
entice
auspices
bask
26. Ecstatic feeling
rapture
domicile
acrimonious
erode
27. To distract attention from
extirpate
overt
undulate
upstage
28. Someone who hates people
niggardly
dialectic
misanthrope
auspicious
29. Pompous speech or expression; bombast
cognizant
obeisance
grandiloquence
demarcate
30. Haggard; ghastly pale
nonfeasance
truncheon
cadaverous
ineluctable
31. Best; favored
quarantine
optimal
acquit
missile
32. Longing
wistful
quixotic
aspersion
deplete
33. To boil
vacillation
indispensable
peruse
seethe
34. Overly attentive to trifling details
plaudit
punctilious
fain
menagerie
35. Flawless
diplomacy
chicanery
insurrection
impeccable
36. Harmful - injurious
rebut
gloat
noxious
repression
37. Greed
rapprochement
unwonted
induce
cupidity
38. A male writing a will
testator
cant
con
quintessence
39. Persistent; stubborn
adamant
preclude
latent
imparity
40. To imprison
incarcerate
fetish
disconcerting
suave
41. Snakelike
eclogue
insurgence
serpentine
piety
42. Punishment (as from God) for past wrongdoing
gibberish
transcend
carnal
retribution
43. Showy - excessive - pretentious
ostentatious
revamp
tertiary
missive
44. Characterization
spontaneity
epithet
avarice
graft
45. The meantime ('in the interim')
alluvial
gibe
discount
interim
46. Someone who studies clues
sleuth
stigma
commensurate
synthesis
47. Intrigue; a group plotting secretly
embezzle
curator
cabal
decrepit
48. A sauce - relish - or spice used to season food
desecrate
tantamount
interdict
condiment
49. A fit of anger
tantrum
clemency
ramification
syllogism
50. To pay back
torpid
modulate
fissure
requite