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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. Not genuine
wool
imperceptible
defer
bogus
2. A wreath
complicity
obloquy
garland
spontaneity
3. A formal rule
precept
cache
deride (adj. derisive)
consecrate
4. Smelly
latent
egregious
ostracize
mephitic
5. Reluctant; disinclined
vitriolic
averse
preclude
importune
6. A room on the top floor of a house - typically under a pitched roof; an attic
tempest
clarion
execration
garret
7. 1. frank; honest; open 2. an informal photograph or snapshot
encumbrance
candid
lustrous
surcease
8. Legitimacy as a nation
obsequious
sovereignty
upbraid
vanguard
9. Cowardly
benign
spectator
covetous
craven
10. To put into punishment
refute
castigate
liability
lithe
11. Depth of reasoning or insight
perfidious
proscribe
profundity
parsimonious
12. Fantastic - wild fancies
dilate
chimerical
arduous
effeminate
13. Prolong
tactful
ulterior
retrogress
protract
14. High praise
encomium
curator
ubiquitous
dictum
15. Ill-tempered
resonate
choleric
effrontery
barrage
16. Mediocre
middling
adventitious
awry
erratic
17. To accuse publicly ('to denounce')
adherent
echelon
lascivious
denunciation
18. Horrifying; gruesome
obviate
temporal
macabre
emanate
19. Evil; harmful
maleficent
portend
protean
rubicund
20. Guess
valiant
conjecture
repression
ransack
21. Overly polite
gustatory
headstrong
recreant
unctuous
22. Repulsive
solicitous
suppress
fulsome
dilettante
23. Wealthy person who is accustomed to luxury
resplendent
plebeian
nabob
exacerbate
24. Tearful
vacillate
lachrymose
vanquish
modulate
25. To be moderate - especially in eating and drinking
chalice
garland
abstemious
conduits
26. Approval
grandiloquence
obtuse
aloof
sanction
27. Merry; festive; fond of feasting - drinking - and good company;
deluge
acolyte
convivial
curator
28. Coarsely abusive in language
bowdlerize
resilient
nubile
scurrilous
29. To gather by reasoning
affect
effete
infer
tether
30. Baseness
rostrum
caustic
torpid
turpitude
31. A daydream
adept
vituperation
reverie
exigency
32. To make one's opinion known
domicile
opine
oracle
grimace
33. Consuming or eager to consume great amounts of food;
voracious
hibernal
reticent
pollster
34. Excessive exaggeration
confine
bask
hyperbole
vindictive
35. Very grave
intrigue
effect
bask
staid
36. Joy - celebration - exultation
distraught
rasping
jubilation
paragon
37. Biting
staid
mordant
tribulation
mollify
38. Long life
dirge
itemize
longevity
complement
39. A collection of stories
evanescent
anthology
stanch
emissary
40. Experiencing something without being there (like reading
intruder
vicariously
solipsism
hyperbole
41. Drinkable
cumbrous
incipient
potable
concatenation
42. Poor
glib
antipathy
indigent
dotage
43. Unquestioned right
indelible
prognosis
prerogative
premise
44. To illegally join forces in a secret plot or strategy
symbiotic
collude
ultimatum
junta
45. A mixture
squalid
melange
explicit
inchoate
46. Verbal abuse
papal
vituperation
ultimatum
counterfeit
47. Lacking speed
disport
gestation
laggardly
renounce
48. Packed close
precursor
inane
ecclesiastical
serried
49. Submission
exude
haughty
expurgate
obeisance
50. Age
convince
aeon
caricature
ablution