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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. An area of soft - naturally waterlogged ground.
lobbyist
plebeian
bog
ejaculate
2. Division
blight
cleavage
posthumous
quay
3. Prosperous
affluent
elucidate
invidious
aggravate
4. To lessen the severity of; moderate; soften; lessen
placebo
mitigate
occidental
lachrymose
5. Calm
cogent
affliction
unremitting
placid
6. Essential; very necessary
expendable
cherubic
rebuttal
imperative
7. To read through with attention
annunciate
embark
peruse
complement
8. A significant impediment; handicap; burden
abide
albatross
rankle
clump
9. Justice
malady
equity
antagonist
sapient
10. Wear away
superficial
satiate
erode
watershed
11. Disappointment
inexplicable
innuendo
bipartisanship
chagrin
12. To set apart from outside influence ('the jury was
sequester
lucrative
sophisticated
fulminate
13. One who responds
culminate
exigency
prudent
respondent
14. Random spontaneous behavior
convocation
imperious
caprice
vivacious
15. Very cold
fortify
esteemed
gelid
clamorous
16. An outcast
florid
pariah
medley
upstage
17. Reason earnestly with; to protest; to complain
postulate
promulgation
remonstrate
writhe
18. Emphasizing wholeness
hermetic
holistic
opaque
gradation
19. Existing at birth
affirmative
compassion
ascetic
congenital
20. To lessen
abate
unearth
retort
machination
21. Inherited right
dilapidated
resolute
patrimony
fraternal
22. Basis for which to do something
magnanimous
criterion
garret
concomitant
23. Fickle; potentially unstable
anecdote
volatile
optimal
bromide
24. Changes in fortune
tautological
ludicrous
vicissitudes
engender
25. Revolt; uprising
quixotic
insurgence
schematic
iconoclast
26. Imprisonment; incarceration
internment
motley
acolyte
mordant
27. To banish (usually from a church)
elucidate
obfuscate
excommunicate
implicit
28. Pertaining to the body
corporeal
tractable
exotic
hackneyed
29. Someone who studies language
linguist
transmute
recalcitrant
incarnate
30. Fill to excess
innocuous
opus
surfeit
conflict
31. To chew
discriminating
cardinal
reconnaissance
masticate
32. Prediction
augury
hoodwink
potent
brash
33. Red-colored - flushed; gaudy - ornate
solecism
florid
disquiet
artless
34. A very strong wind
elicit
coruscate
gale
grandiose
35. Hidden; not apparent
surrogate
nominal
latent
provincial
36. To render foolish
stultify
pristine
trite
gradation
37. Person who seeks to influence political events
lobbyist
impecunious
stolid
exasperation
38. To seize for military use; confiscate
putrid
commandeer
connive
pilfer
39. Sharp satire
concatenation
lampoon
vilify
carrion
40. Milky
lacteal
canter
vilify
dogmatic
41. Mysterious
askew
beget
suave
occult
42. Opposing conflict
morose
antipathy
pacifistic
mirth
43. A cure-all
panacea
assertion
bask
multifarious
44. Cowardly
discreet
potable
recreant
presentiment
45. Scornfully insubordinate; rebellious
apropos
synopsis
torrent
contumacious
46. A short saying that illustrates an important principle or
fissure
metamorphosis
aphorism
foible
47. A long speech of abuse
interdict
laureate
tirade
caustic
48. Sneering; sarcastic
accord
requisite
cynical
citadel
49. To evade by means of deception
circumvent
facet
relinquish
soothe
50. Indifferent; lacking liveliness
ingratiate
ambiguous
wend
lackadaisical