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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 illness or unwholesome condition
malady
gale
nabob
deplete
2. Unimportant - trivial
avant-garde
dossier
catholic
inconsequential
3. The quality of being grand; extravagance in scale or
progeny
ostentatious
serried
grandeur
4. Wordy
intruder
missive
circumlocutory
cessation
5. To reverse or change the position of
rubicund
opportune
transpose
pugilist
6. Bewildered; perplexed
flux
grove
infinitesimal
bemused
7. Extreme excitement
erratic
cadaverous
frenzy
credulous
8. Belonging to or reserved for a small - select group; esoteric;
fanciful
rarefied
equestrian
deride (adj. derisive)
9. Strong inclination; partiality
millennium
pedagogue
officious
predilection
10. Return to a former condition
retrogress
grove
galvanize
bombastic
11. Wild and uncontrolled ('feral pigs')
feral
insouciant
revamp
ascetic
12. Shy; modest
chaos
diffident
jocular
expletive
13. Corruption
trajectory
depravity
opine
impervious
14. A valuable item or collection of valuable items discovered
colloquial
trove
feral
peripheral
15. Overly attentive to trifling details
punctilious
protract
fulminate
didactic
16. To reason earnestly with
mephitic
respondent
consortium
expostulate
17. To alienate; to remove from a position or relationship
infrastructure
coterie
fain
estrange
18. To render foolish
stultify
tactile
anachronism
nominal
19. To hold back; to restrain
visage
turgid
pollster
repression
20. Affectedly modest
credence
latent
demure
fallow
21. Someone with a big ego
transcend
trove
braggart
plebiscite
22. Boredom
lachrymose
homonym
ennui
replicate
23. Capable of being maintained
apportion
impediment
tenebrous
tenable
24. Secret - stealthy
tergiversation
heretic
surreptitious
inimical
25. Inflammatory - insulting
slighting
sapient
temperance
beatitude
26. To be loud - or otherwise ostentatious
boisterous
rueful
austere
hapless
27. To involve - entangle - or implicate
enmesh
stringent
ultimatum
refute
28. A scolding - especially a lengthy one delivered in public
dissension
doleful
disparity
harangue
29. A prearranged meeting - especially one between lovers
tryst
archaic
nefarious
mollify
30. Highly productive; prolific
alluvial
gestation
fecund
desecrate
31. Aromatic
predation
redolent
fanfare
ascertain
32. To harden; to become accustomed to
hybrid
inure
prowess
capacious
33. Accuse; attack as false or questionable; challenge in argument
unctuous
impugn
emanate
gossamer
34. Burdensome; troublesome
dissension
charismatic
hiatus
onerous
35. Faithfulness; loyalty
reconciliation
rebuttal
fidelity
graft
36. Lacking refinement
trepidation
sacrilegious
philistine
requisite
37. Benevolent
swelter
magnanimous
occlude
euphemism
38. Arrogant; lacking humility; scornfully proud
morose
incredible
fawn
haughty
39. Persistent; stubborn
impecunious
debonair
protege
adamant
40. Not making mistakes; flawless
sublime
infallible
dispossess
nuptial
41. To reduce quantity or empty
abjure
incubus
deplete
promulgate
42. To disturb - to increase apprehension
liability
coronation
intruder
disquiet
43. Call to a higher power (usually a god) for help
imbibe
invocation
misnomer
fop
44. One who says that man cannot understand the nature of men
succinct
despotism
dialectic
agnostic
45. To polish
burnish
impertinent
atrophy
dais
46. A scalawag; a person with low morals and habits
indoctrinate
raze
impugn
rogue
47. Likely to cause delay; late
extirpate
dilatory
gape
obviate
48. Lasting a long time - indefinitely
eulogy
impasse
papal
perennial
49. To diminish in size - intensity - or extent (opposite of escalate)
deescalate
flout
congenial
morbid
50. A crack in the earth
palatable
fissure
wallow
coterie