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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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1. An experimental or trial version of a system or invention
prototype
demote
cache
eclectic
2. Producing wealth; profitable
gape
lucrative
jocular
oblivious
3. To distract attention from
ornate
upstage
senile
benevolent
4. Genuine
atrophy
authentic
potent
sophisticated
5. Structural balance
anthology
lucrative
symmetry
discriminating
6. Wasting away of muscle
vertigo
atrophy
viscous
miserly
7. Daily; occurring at daytime
compassion
patronize
diurnal
rebuttal
8. Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food;
nabob
voracious
turpitude
omnivorous
9. Sharp satire
masticate
potentate
lampoon
ludicrous
10. Common speech; informal language
vernacular
augury
hirsute
bygone
11. To avoid work by making up excuses
malinger
lamentation
motley
incite
12. Not making mistakes; flawless
compounded
infallible
surrealistic
reprisal
13. Arousing hatred
effervesce
transgress
deference
odious
14. Sermon
gauntlet
homily
tenacious
talisman
15. Being illegally married to two people simultaneously
consternation
bereaved
bigamy
incorporeal
16. Appropriate to wartime
martial
mute
cessation
propound
17. A desirable thing
serried
desideratum
poignant
forensic
18. Highly indecent; provocative (pictures or writing)
supercilious
reapportionment
salacious
quiescence
19. To reduce in rank
diligent
bluster
demote
macrocosm
20. Someone who studies data
ecumenical
cant
analyst
repugnant
21. The act of refraining from pleasurable activity - e.g. -
exacerbate
abstinence
procure
adaptation
22. Someone who has a lot of ineptitude.
lamentation
bungler
extrapolate
mendicant
23. Associated with verbal abuse
gibe
desultory
vituperative
efflorescent
24. A formal proposal
ruthless
synthesis
orthography
motion
25. Something that completes - makes up a whole - or brings to perfection.
complement
utilitarian
libation
reclusive
26. Speedy and efficient
amity
expeditious
facetious
intransigent
27. Descendent
misogyny
caper
scion
anonymous
28. Huge
labyrinthine
monolithic
rogue
cant
29. To comply; to yield
acquiesce
malady
vindicate
exigency
30. To end an activity - e.g. - to prevent the dissemination of
suppress
plagiarism
gestation
sinecure
31. A group of trees
grove
exemplary
inviolable
beget
32. Something displaying dashing bravery or chivalry
ambient
gallantry
nadir
amiable
33. Favorable; kind
paucity
opaque
dichotomy
benign
34. Unbelievable
harbinger
precarious
supersede
incredible
35. Shy; given to flirting
hegemony
etymology
coquettish
gentry
36. To instruct in a body of doctrine or principles
ameliorate
perambulate
intrinsic
indoctrinate
37. The supposed ability to read minds or communicate
trove
telepathy
fetter
exacerbating
38. Irritable
symbiotic
caper
irascible
profligate
39. An expression of mourning; major regret
lamentation
judge
pliant
epitome
40. 1) changing in color 2) marked by variety
effete
variegated
augment
mercenary
41. To illegally join forces in a secret plot or strategy
collude
avuncular
recrudescence
decorous
42. Incapable of being weighed or evaluated precisely
fervent
veneer
imponderable
voracious
43. To atone for sin
pedantic
expiate
acerb
pyrrhic
44. Warlike
vapid
deride (adj. derisive)
adjure
bellicose
45. Skillful
deft
duplicity
facetious
nadir
46. Eager to please; agreeable
caper
complaisant
similitude
lissome
47. To allot
sublimate
apportion
reprieve
parched
48. To pay back
amity
amoral
requite
propitiate
49. To evade by means of deception
circumvent
beguile
pusillanimous
goad
50. Lack of temperance - especially with alcohol
compounded
consecrate
intemperance
rasping