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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 smooth - easy pace
inherent
inveigle
bucolic
canter
2. Lasting a long time - indefinitely
voluptuous
compress
decorum
perennial
3. Stubborn
ineluctable
evasive
tumultuous
refractory
4. Beginner; novice
propensity
cadence
tyro
debacle
5. Cajole; entice
wheedle
philistine
intransigent
maudlin
6. A stick carried by police officers
truncheon
lacerate
multifarious
compatible
7. Pressing need
fickle
exigency
kaleidoscopic
didactic
8. Absurd to the point of being laughable.
ludicrous
capitulate
symmetry
cite
9. To render foolish
putative
tintinnabulation
stultify
implacable
10. Hard to control
heretic
rambunctious
plight
superficial
11. Mild
injunction
anthology
hemp
bland
12. Science of word origins
imperious
hegemony
desideratum
etymology
13. Enlightenment
balderdash
gazelle
edification
benison
14. Corruption
desultory
depravity
placid
vernacular
15. Emerging; coming into being
tutelage
feign
omnivorous
nascent
16. Chaos
decorous
pandemonium
histrionic
avid
17. A fight
confrontation
buffer
exacerbating
educe
18. A wicked person
rebuff
dank
reprobate
erratic
19. Clear of blame
aver
exonerate
deify
discreet
20. To harden; to become bonelike
ossify
temperance
quay
inoculate
21. Someone who tries to establish the chronology of the earth's history
aboriginal
ebullition
martial
geochronologist
22. To blend into a coherent single unit
amalgamate
mien
expunge
cliche
23. Finicky; fastidious; extremely picky; careful
gargantuan
pugnacious
meticulous
itinerant
24. To suggest or foretell
desultory
emanate
portend
pontificate
25. Ruffled; upset
consanguineous
mien
disconcerting
acculturation
26. Of few words
opportune
laconic
hackneyed
peccadillo
27. A civil misdeed requiring compensation (law)
tort
fissure
insurgence
fallacy
28. An implication beyond literal meaning; an unspoken suggestion
flux
connotation
quell
salutary
29. A blessing
emanate
amity
renounce
benediction
30. An assembly of people
hortatory
choleric
amenable
convocation
31. To calm down
pacify
plagiarism
primordial
arbitrary
32. To thwart; to stump; stand in the way
allude
stymie
beguile
vernal
33. Cheap or showy
sequester
acrid
brassy
resurgence
34. Lover of luxurious living
saturnine
epicure
discount
adumbrate
35. Rude; uncultured; primitive; uncivilized
barbaric
ransack
bounty
founder
36. A drink
tart
tantamount
libation
drastic
37. To curse or use abusive language
stringent
revile
stolid
discursive
38. False - malicious accusation
calumny
indiscriminate
injunction
smattering
39. Quarrelsome woman
virago
archipelago
malady
febrile
40. Traveling
itinerant
rancorous
compunction
jocund
41. Careful - cautious
laggard
daunt
anachronism
wary
42. Appropriately expressed
symbiotic
incubus
complaisant
felicitous
43. Happening by chance; incidental; accidental
premonition
piety
debauchery
adventitious
44. The act or practice of spying
reviled
espionage
saturnine
rebut
45. On one's back
omnivorous
supine
analogy
diabolic
46. Of concealed identity
incognito
amble
abide
comely
47. A copy of a document
moribund
feral
inveterate
facsimile
48. Abating the courage of; discouraging
daunting
trenchant
posterity
importune
49. To stare with open mouth
enigma
eminent
insouciant
gape
50. To command solemnly as if under oath
erudite
composure
adjure
avant-garde