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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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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. Cowardly
utilitarian
pusillanimous
balk
sully
2. The supposed ability to move objects by means of mental
hybrid
penance
telekinesis
stalwart
3. Shining; glowing
benison
requite
benediction
refulgent
4. Lacking pliancy
lacteal
misogamy
rigid
ablution
5. Lack of; smallness of number
inconceivable
savant
facetious
paucity
6. To seize for military use; confiscate
misanthrope
commandeer
fluctuate
virile
7. Someone who studies data
analyst
spinster
accessory
fruition
8. A stick carried by police officers
adage
truncheon
avarice
displace
9. To be moderate - especially in eating and drinking
immutable
infrastructure
adherent
abstemious
10. Stingy
parsimonious
convoluted
averse
subservient
11. To encourage
askance
subliminal
abet
incongruous
12. The practice of extreme self-centeredness
solipsism
tome
dissolution
demur
13. Malignant; hostile
torrent
disparity
virulent
covenant
14. A powerful person
potentate
exasperation
quay
emancipate
15. To share in another's sorrow or disappointment
importune
denote
commiserate
infernal
16. An abusive speech
venerable
diatribe
complement
ascetic
17. Eventual consequence
quandary
ramification
mandate
retroactive
18. The act of providing guided instruction or protection
tutelage
magnate
doggerel
disport
19. Mournful in the extreme
mellifluous
vanquish
vivacious
lugubrious
20. To hypnotize
derisive
mesmerize
entourage
remorse
21. Suffering; a state of pain
jocund
muse
mandate
affliction
22. Red-colored - flushed; gaudy - ornate
intrigue
florid
brandish
gormandize
23. Great happiness; bliss.
matriarchal
salivate
felicity
feral
24. Pertaining to mud left by running water
coveted
perspicacity
fanatical
alluvial
25. To diminish in size - intensity - or extent (opposite of escalate)
hierarchy
deescalate
feign
banal
26. Preferring to live in isolation; hermit-like
reclusive
sinecure
fabricate
astral
27. Intoxicated; drunk
gape
inebriated
diaphanous
compromise
28. Frustration or disappointment; embarrassment
gossamer
discomfiture
prurient
transgress
29. A binding agreement
quay
versatile
hallow
covenant
30. To wander from the usual course
intercession
deviate
sycophancy
bromide
31. Sympathy
presentment
savant
condolence
somnolent
32. A long description
voluptuous
graft
quiescence
chronicle
33. Getting smaller
reprieve
rueful
rudimentary
dwindling
34. Nervous and lacking confidence
skittish
admonition
deprecate
impious
35. Distrustfully
askance
droll
ecclesiastical
judge
36. Call to a higher power (usually a god) for help
perjure
onus
undulate
invocation
37. To interpret; to explain
bolster
emeritus
construe
anthology
38. Wear away
supine
euphony
erode
altruistic
39. Something that is continuously becoming something else.
vitality
ulterior
transitory
psychosomatic
40. A counselor or teacher
caprice
salvo
abstruse
mentor
41. To obstruct; to block out (n. occlusion)
occlude
celibate
disdain
noxious
42. Acts lacking virtue
inherent
plight
debauchery
effrontery
43. Hard to please; squeamish
fictitious
acculturation
iridescent
fastidious
44. Milky
smattering
captious
lacteal
perfidious
45. Neighborhood
purlieus
scowl
coalesce
nonfeasance
46. Sharp of taste
assuage
asinine
tart
moderator
47. An ambitious flatterer; brown-noser
sycophant
haughty
lexicon
potent
48. To mock - scoff - or make fun of
blatant
resilience
hoax
gibe
49. To increase
augment
iridescent
amend
inculpate
50. Change of one culture from interacting with another
braggart
acculturation
curative
consummate