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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. To irritate or arouse
pandemic
pique
ramification
soliloquy
2. Drinkable
sidle
potable
inundate
synergistic
3. Considerate - skillful in acting to avoid offense to others
palpable
catholic
tactful
unctuous
4. Likeness or similarity
rigmarole
similitude
apocryphal
facet
5. Open; manifest
overt
indefatigable
potable
complacent
6. Not respected
craven
pliant
acquiesce
discredited
7. Deliberately vague; open to two or more interpretations
bogus
equivocal
covenant
ornate
8. To avoid committing oneself
adherent
impeccable
disgruntled
temporize
9. To harden; to become accustomed to
inure
injunction
sleuth
omniscient
10. The response to an argument
rotund
sedate
gargantuan
rebuttal
11. A small bit of food
morsel
debase
lexicon
vociferous
12. Fuse; merge
quiescent
labyrinthine
coalesce
staid
13. Dull; commonplace (prose)
contiguity
prosaic
acrid
emphatic
14. Someone who strongly believes in a cause
bellicose
stalwart
tentative
renegade
15. Transparently clear
defection
exonerate
limpid
sanguine
16. A horseback rider
perfunctory
equestrian
travesty
fetter
17. Deadlocked position where no one can win
marionette
stalemate
expendable
progeny
18. To stop a flow
stanch
semantics
impecunious
feign
19. Very grave
palatable
sensationalism
staid
quarantine
20. Highest point
zenith
docile
affinity
propound
21. Unhappy; angry
disgruntled
languid
ameliorate
overture
22. Skip
anathema
amortize
caper
deft
23. Final; decisive
ultimatum
peremptory
dictum
protocol
24. To increase strength
similitude
celibate
fortify
delinquent
25. Constantly changing in scene
kaleidoscopic
lurid
bogus
animosity
26. Shining light
pensive
luminary
commensurate
interlude
27. Slang
paraphrase
redundant
cant
vanguard
28. Kept or done in secret
acolyte
clandestine
superannuated
paucity
29. Thoughtful
divisive
senile
pensive
effrontery
30. A violent storm
specious
carnal
genteel
tempest
31. To annoy
badger
commensurate
obligatory
savant
32. Blessing
alluvial
derogatory
promulgate
benison
33. Naive; without cunning
guileless
inimical
eke
obstinate
34. To cause to become subservient; to expose to
subjugate
autocrat
masochist
remorse
35. Joking; facetious
renege
sanctimonious
jocular
fir
36. Pertaining to cooking
monolithic
culinary
diagnosis
dichotomy
37. An introduction to a novel
upstage
foible
prologue
analogy
38. Uncompromising; unyielding
illustrious
intransigent
induce
patent
39. Pertaining to smell
bane
olfactory
tuft
penury
40. A thousand years
cabal
lugubrious
vacillation
millennium
41. A cheap toy
bauble
orator
desuetude
rigid
42. Fixed; difficult to change
solipsism
impediment
ossified
tenet
43. Loud
congenital
stentorian
naive
extrapolate
44. Indirect - taking the longest route
ratiocinate
averse
quarry
circuitous
45. To comply; to yield
dudgeon
acquiesce
abscond
bizarre
46. To command solemnly as if under oath
misogamy
homily
adjure
supple
47. To eat in a greedy - ravenous manner
eradicate
gormandize
infrastructure
decrepit
48. Universal
anthology
dubious
ecumenical
renounce
49. Indifferent ('cavalier attitude')
strident
cavalier
undulate
erode
50. To endanger
analyst
purveyor
collaborate
jeopardize