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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. Common; relating to the common people
pernicious
plebeian
patronize
inconsequential
2. To punish or criticize
kaleidoscopic
castigate
binary
remonstrate
3. To drink
patronize
gird
probity
imbibe
4. To think hard; to ponder (n. rumination)
grandiloquence
august
mitigate
ruminate
5. A secret conference
wanton
tome
rococo
conclave
6. Belittle; to speak ill of; to criticize
ingrate
disparage
philology
profundity
7. To act in an offensively condescending way towards
dialectic
encomium
surfeit
patronize
8. Dark; gloomy; not clear
maleficent
murky
convivial
extant
9. Prone to quarrels or fights
fain
presentiment
livid
pugnacious
10. Highest possible blessedness or contentment
beatitude
invalidate
lenient
vignette
11. Make holy
fabricate
hallow
recrudescence
tantamount
12. An exclamation - interjection - or profane oath
fabulist
expletive
charismatic
succinct
13. Having an equal measure
efficacious
caprice
infallible
commensurate
14. Indifference
aggrandize
imprecation
apathy
pallid
15. Stupid or silly
androgynous
abortive
patrimony
asinine
16. Dishonorable in nature
nadir
opprobrium
ignoble
telekinesis
17. Causing great harm; destructive; deadly; dangerous
hour
encumbrance
abdicate
pernicious
18. Opportunely; as an apt point
catharsis
confrontation
apropos
nominal
19. Off to the side
peripheral
munificent
secular
bugaboo
20. Harshness; severity in temper
asperity
yahoo
brevity
momentous
21. Mournful in the extreme
refractory
lugubrious
chide
terse
22. Beauty
complacent
pulchritude
preclude
herbicide
23. Relating to beasts
bestial
variegated
vernacular
ameliorate
24. Cunning; treacherous deceit
guile
treatise
insurrection
frivolous
25. Destroy effectiveness
vitiate
bovine
probity
mawkish
26. Extravagant
circumlocutory
vernal
renovation
sumptuous
27. Sleepy
endemic
somnolent
hermetic
inure
28. Responsive; agreeable (to an idea)
despicable
sleazy
ferocity
amenable
29. Casual conversation; jesting
ethnology
dilettante
malediction
banter
30. To alienate; to remove from a position or relationship
amenable
inclement
estrange
spontaneity
31. To raise the importance or make to appear great
profuse
hyperbole
distrait
aggrandize
32. Sorry for past wrong actions
relentless
harangue
contrite
plight
33. Carefree spending of time ('dilly-dally')
entice
malevolent
renegade
dalliance
34. To accomplish or bring about (a thing)
effect
perfunctory
asperity
supercilious
35. Poisonous
quintessence
subliminal
toxic
somatic
36. To entertain
sedentary
melee
regale
odious
37. Graceful animal
impetuous
collaborate
gazelle
rancor
38. Cool; indifferent
salacious
foal
reciprocate
aloof
39. The quality of being grand; extravagance in scale or
viscous
poignant
rostrum
grandeur
40. Selfish
commodious
egocentric
urban
abrogate
41. Dignified conduct
engender
decorum
innate
repression
42. To raid
echelon
equanimity
integrity
maraud
43. Neglectful
adulation
greenhorn
laud
remiss
44. Belittling
depravity
trite
derogatory
injunction
45. Wordy
adaptation
circumlocutory
punctilious
ludicrous
46. To expunge; to cancel
bereaved
delete
avuncular
askew
47. To estimate by examining unknown values
extrapolate
epitaph
boorish
clemency
48. Clearly expressed
explicit
heresy
compendium
hoodwink
49. Wisdom
infinitesimal
sagacity
anachronism
repudiate
50. To be added to by growth
portentous
paramount
accrue
carnal