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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. Government by religious leaders
theocracy
melodramatic
trifling
intrigue
2. Occurring after death
rueful
dalliance
posthumous
intrinsic
3. Combination of parts into a whole
avian
synthesis
fanciful
unconscionable
4. Slang
fallacy
cant
convergence
cliche
5. To hypnotize
graft
mesmerize
testy
dudgeon
6. Someone who captivates
anthology
lambaste
charmer
taxonomy
7. To amass - gather - or accumulate
coin
derelict
garner
coruscate
8. A civil misdeed requiring compensation (law)
incarnate
spinster
stigmatize
tort
9. Burdensome; troublesome
adaptation
maverick
onerous
voracious
10. Pleasant or appealing (tasty)
inculcate
decadence
toothsome
penurious
11. Filthy
nonpareil
squalid
expunge
decrepit
12. Just beginning
multifaceted
ungainly
restrained
incipient
13. Hidden; secret
invidious
necrology
covert
desultory
14. Beauty
magisterial
insubordinate
pulchritude
ennui
15. To slow down
palaver
impede
deplore
eminence
16. A suspension or delay
bog
reprieve
innuendo
reticent
17. Wasteful or extravagant
lambent
nonfeasance
acute
prodigal
18. To illegally join forces in a secret plot or strategy
stalemate
paraphernalia
equanimity
collude
19. Baseness
replicate
conducive
grove
turpitude
20. Difficult to understand - grasp - or perceive
grove
elusive
decipher
unilateral
21. One who acts in place of another
pragmatic
laity
proxy
discreet
22. Stupid or silly
necrology
asinine
brassy
exigency
23. Existing everywhere
apposite
surrealistic
profundity
ubiquitous
24. Abandoned vessel; social outcast; negligent
derelict
diffident
prodigy
omnipotent
25. Miserly; stingy
catholic
bedraggled
penurious
talisman
26. Insulting
telepathy
adherent
periphery
pejorative
27. Not genuine
proboscis
lacteal
cajole
bogus
28. Untidy
stigmatize
slovenly
fledgling
smattering
29. To take place
transpire
eloquent
cumbrous
testator
30. Rude; brash
impertinent
gamut
stultify
triennial
31. Continuously changing one's mind; whimsical
brassy
yahoo
capricious
disdain
32. Concentrated outpouring or volley ('barrage of questions')
barrage
allude
antagonist
melodramatic
33. To shake at menacingly ('to brandish a revolver')
cogent
brandish
adulterate
mesmerize
34. Pertaining to the stars
lambaste
astral
encumbrance
confabulate
35. Irreverent
abbreviate
sacrilegious
anthology
munificent
36. Shameful or disgraceful
ignominious
virtuoso
loquacious
medley
37. No longer existing
dilettante
plebeian
deign
extinct
38. Cowardly
chime
connive
sleuth
feckless
39. Bewildered; perplexed; troubled
stultify
distraught
incarnate
impute
40. Pertaining to a swamp
derogatory
sanctimonious
marshy
orator
41. Causing sleep
tenebrous
repudiate
soporific
ruminate
42. Undiscriminating; sexually loose
acrimonious
nominal
promiscuous
equestrian
43. An alliance
implausible
bauble
consortium
solecism
44. The essential details of how something is to be accomplished.
fissure
eclat
logistics
effervesce
45. Burial
prerogative
ostentatious
ineffable
interment
46. Biting - harsh ('caustic remarks')
copious
caustic
iconoclast
interment
47. Agreed to by most people; by reputation
clamorous
aggrandize
facade
putative
48. To assume forcibly and or without right
feasible
proclivity
usurp
drab
49. A fit of anger
brandish
halcyon
tantrum
autocrat
50. Irritating
exacerbating
blandish
desultory
gourmet