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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. Head of a tribe or family
febrile
essay
patriarch
covert
2. Cutting or keen; keen-edged
hiatus
trenchant
inculpate
ascetic
3. Best; favored
lucrative
treatise
optimal
myopic
4. Disrespectful; casual; pert; showing an inappropriate disregard for decorum.
flippant
scapegoat
jejune
rabid
5. To avoid; to forego
peruse
tandem
eschew
philatelist
6. To persuade by flattery
cohort
inveigle
prodigy
kibosh
7. To supplant or replace
emollient
emeritus
supersede
rectitude
8. To avoid work by making up excuses
geochronologist
contiguity
morass
malinger
9. Brilliantly shining
transgress
acerb
ossify
resplendent
10. To imitate - follow an example
salutary
ovoid
emulate
niggardly
11. An implication beyond literal meaning; an unspoken suggestion
licentious
nirvana
melodious
connotation
12. To make one's opinion known
discreet
utilitarian
opine
misconstrue
13. The essential details of how something is to be accomplished.
emolument
infallible
inoculate
logistics
14. To reject emphatically as unfounded - untrue - or unjust
serendipity
jejune
repudiate
nepotism
15. Submission
diagnosis
mien
corporeal
obeisance
16. Submissive
contravene
docile
prognosis
potentate
17. A great cook
depravity
extant
transpire
gourmet
18. Chain
insidious
eclogue
frugal
fetter
19. To share another's emotions (n. empathy)
empathize
metamorphosis
enmesh
indigent
20. An act that breaks formal rules
gregarious
seemly
tautological
solecism
21. To scold severely
flay
kaleidoscopic
unilateral
discredited
22. Female-like
telekinesis
effeminate
degenerate
platonic
23. Western
occidental
appraise
albatross
morsel
24. Wisdom
proliferate
sagacity
absolve
dudgeon
25. To plead with
pellucid
importune
spinster
testatrix
26. Hated
sententious
reviled
miry
pulchritude
27. Not easily tired
insurrection
incontrovertible
cognizant
indefatigable
28. Prediction
augury
tart
testator
reconciliation
29. Something that causes worry or dismay
rankle
bugaboo
mawkish
phlegmatic
30. Praise
eulogy
diaphanous
motion
perpetuate
31. Greed
avarice
malleable
superficial
inure
32. Someone who tries to establish the chronology of the earth's history
reviled
internment
geochronologist
frivolous
33. Lacking authenticity - false; not genuine
incorporeal
tenebrous
spurious
altercation
34. Complex and difficult to comprehend
magisterial
remunerate
abstruse
approbation
35. To threaten
cognition
ingenious
bluster
laud
36. The burden
onus
bilateral
undulate
prehensile
37. Less than honest; not straightforward
disingenuous
tome
ascribe
solemnity
38. To remove offensive portions in a book
adamant
respondent
saline
bowdlerize
39. Not mindful
monograph
enmesh
oblivious
piebald
40. Causing sleep
obeisance
soporific
tout
immaterial
41. Lacking speed
incubus
sumptuous
sidle
laggardly
42. Lecture
concerted
discourse
postulate
morass
43. Frank; without cunning
artless
tryst
somnolent
redundant
44. Restrain
diatribe
inhibit
occult
magisterial
45. Separating - moving towards different directions from a particular point
divergent
innuendo
inveterate
travesty
46. Gained at an unjustifiably high cost
pyrrhic
presentiment
orthography
derelict
47. Brilliance
scion
oscillate
derision
eclat
48. To take more time than necessary; To move aimlessly or lackadaisically
fetid
virile
coin
dawdled
49. Something in the wrong time period; out-of -date
anachronism
obstinate
filch
amicable
50. The state or quality of being ferocious; fierceness.
ferocity
patch
argot
bovine