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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. Off to the side
flaunt
diminution
catalyst
peripheral
2. To chat or talk informally
elan
flay
confabulate
rail
3. Sorry for sin
fanatical
accost
condescending
penance
4. Scent; smell
rigid
condolence
aroma
conglomeration
5. To ooze out
concur
dynamic
exude
petulant
6. Sad
penultimate
doleful
scintillate
carnal
7. Harmful - injurious
noxious
paucity
bogus
dorsal
8. To surrender; to give in without resistance
prodigious
gamut
vivid
capitulate
9. Lacking energy or vitality; weak; sluggish; listless
lassitude
adroit
frenzy
languid
10. To stipulate
orator
refractory
posit
languid
11. Coarsely abusive in language
ostracize
scurrilous
ethnology
malediction
12. Pretender of knowledge; a fake
feckless
charlatan
macrocosm
ulterior
13. Showy
charlatan
telepathy
flamboyant
banter
14. Hard to understand; intended for only a chosen few
esoteric
cavil
undermine
priggishness
15. Of mixed breed
galvanize
atrophy
hybrid
prodigal
16. To wander from the usual course
expatriate
indoctrinate
craven
deviate
17. To increase temptation
cartel
elicit
entice
scrupulous
18. Highly irritable
hoax
bravado
petulant
stigmatize
19. Certain - unavoidable
serpentine
inevitable
amble
interdict
20. To revel; rowdy merriment
demagogue
nugatory
compromise
carouse
21. Wintery
punctilious
hibernal
intransigent
grovel
22. One who enjoys his own pain
celibate
paraphrase
masochist
nomadic
23. 1) tact 2) the conduct of relations among nations
diplomacy
matriarch
superannuated
engender
24. To humiliate
abash
obese
dilate
fallacy
25. Confirm; substantiate
corroborate
nexus
avert
infallible
26. Reluctant; disinclined
vivid
averse
austere
adjure
27. Moderation of food or drink
interdict
lurid
temperance
synopsis
28. Overused - trite
hackneyed
renege
composure
irrefutable
29. Showy - excessive - pretentious
ostentatious
inexorable
concatenation
inveterate
30. Perception; the process of knowing
defer
cognition
bureaucracy
deify
31. Moving fast ('fleeting moment')
fleet
febrile
complicity
amend
32. To end an activity - e.g. - to prevent the dissemination of
mendicant
suppress
renegade
knell
33. To accomplish or bring about (a thing)
technocracy
vitriolic
vagary
effect
34. A poetry literary work
dais
somnolent
mimicry
sonnet
35. Angled; indirect
archaic
proselyte
retrogress
oblique
36. Unjustified boasting
gelid
empirical
stentorian
braggadocio
37. A group of attendants for a celebrity
monochromatic
euphemism
entourage
propitious
38. A mix from various sources (usually referred to songs)
albatross
watershed
emeritus
medley
39. Decency - honesty - wholeness
bromide
integrity
corroborate
opprobrium
40. Lacking movement
quiescent
plagiarism
crass
banal
41. A pier
tutelage
quay
diaphanous
insolent
42. Occurring after death
credulous
garrulous
undermine
posthumous
43. A procession involving people on horses or in vehicles
trite
saccharine
console
cavalcade
44. Acts lacking virtue
estrange
ardent
saline
debauchery
45. To curse
imprecation
swelter
desultory
latent
46. A summary
synopsis
putrid
diplomacy
advocate
47. A positive statement or claim
cavalier
rail
assertion
dais
48. To lighten
monolithic
sophisticated
alleviate
contemptuous
49. A mistake in logic
remonstrate
cogent
ruminate
fallacy
50. Lower ('the nether regions of the ocean')
nether
procure
iniquity
stipulate