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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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1. A stimulus
impetus
titular
coerce
impregnable
2. Cowardly
egocentric
sensationalism
ethnology
pusillanimous
3. To be subservient; to beg
sangfroid
quay
grovel
arbitrary
4. To disclaim knowledge of
arrogance
malleable
disavow
troupe
5. Turned to one side
discredited
aloof
visceral
awry
6. Atrocious; evil; reprehensible
eulogy
penance
plaudit
heinous
7. A single woman - especially a middle-aged one
cavalier
spinster
dubious
defer
8. Unchecked; wild
exotic
rampant
fecund
palliate
9. Arrogantly proud
lampoon
nomadic
surcease
supercilious
10. A major work (or art or literature)
permafrost
acumen
avail
opus
11. Trivial or satirical poetry
derisive
propinquity
doggerel
vigilant
12. To pretend
anemic
potent
simulate
symmetry
13. Debase; besmirch
infallible
vilify
vassal
tenebrous
14. Having to do with a diagram or scheme
viscous
reapportionment
licentious
schematic
15. Monotonous; dull
conflict
drab
deescalate
reprove
16. An instrument that makes a loud clash sound
fetish
equivocation
abandon
cymbal
17. Constantly changing in scene
fulsome
kaleidoscopic
grandiose
wont
18. To indicate or make clear
interdict
denote
celibate
circumvent
19. To boil
jettison
symmetry
seethe
vicariously
20. To weaken
bauble
putrid
enervate
aboriginal
21. 1. to punish severely 2. a source of widespread - dreadful affliction
callous
eminent
judicature
scourge
22. Deep
profound
bizarre
obstinate
sublimate
23. To humiliate
dolorous
amortize
toxic
abash
24. Art of the dance
reaffirm
strident
choreography
augury
25. Unchangeable
excommunicate
immutable
impermeable
complacent
26. The act or practice of spying
equable
espionage
salutary
wheedle
27. Teach for improvement; enlighten
wont
olfactory
edify
parlance
28. Incomprehensible; difficult to decipher
fabulist
console
precedent
inscrutable
29. Bewildered; perplexed
iconoclast
bemused
blather
pugilist
30. Doesn't seem possible
cogent
inconceivable
redoubtable
promiscuous
31. Fixed; difficult to change
disparate
awry
ossified
sporadic
32. Desertion (of a duty)
unctuous
defection
nonfeasance
eclectic
33. To show excessive satisfaction
gloat
posit
macabre
lampoon
34. To make dirty; to soil (like a reputation)
besmirch
avert
prowess
patent
35. Opposed in nature - not able to live or work together
abbreviate
incompatible
blandish
formidable
36. Wrong name
misnomer
solipsism
travail
sacerdotal
37. Partnership in wrongful act
peripheral
complicity
combative
debonair
38. Drying
cogitate
opprobrium
bland
desiccant
39. Lavishly overabundant
maverick
profuse
inebriated
destitute
40. Unbeliever
fissure
latent
infidel
dirge
41. To sift through
commandeer
canonical
aver
winnow
42. The science of law
virago
rusticate
jurisprudence
incisive
43. Eager to help; anxious
trinket
succinct
chagrin
solicitous
44. To assume forcibly and or without right
pedagogue
reconnaissance
usurp
indispensable
45. A seemingly convincing argument that is logically flawed
quarantine
sophistry
watershed
visage
46. The way something is phrased
patent
demarcate
semantics
undermine
47. Lacking speed
enigma
exotic
laggardly
impute
48. A nonfiction literary work
acumen
posit
omniscient
essay
49. Arousing fear
pinnacle
redoubtable
exculpate
adept
50. Pertaining to motion
kinetic
posthumous
invective
acolyte