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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. To settle a debt by means of installment payments
dilate
perambulate
eccentric
amortize
2. Self-denying
imperative
tureen
amend
ascetic
3. Someone with extreme nationalism
malady
hirsute
eminence
jingoist
4. The incarnation of a given thing or idea ('she is the
immutable
embodiment
deify
salutary
5. To protest strongly
nomadic
rostrum
refractory
inveigh
6. Instrument used to measure distance
bogus
odometer
rebut
haggard
7. Basis for which to do something
criterion
veracity
curative
relentless
8. Causing sleep
soporific
tutelage
discriminating
impasse
9. To give up (rights); to deny
interim
abjure
petulant
linguist
10. Haughty; urgent
imperious
disseminate
tenebrous
buffer
11. Death or suffering for one's beliefs ('martyr')
martyrdom
desuetude
mimicry
piety
12. Fluent
vehement
caprice
depose
glib
13. The path of flight followed by a projectile
trajectory
pliant
expatriate
mortify
14. Contributing to a result
slighting
lascivious
conducive
lithe
15. Deadly
relevant
courtiers
sapient
lethal
16. A counselor or teacher
salutary
palliate
aggregate
mentor
17. Someone who is inexperienced
greenhorn
quintessence
confluence
provocative
18. To reverse or change the position of
intuitive
transpose
impede
motion
19. Redistribution
proverbial
macrocosm
valiant
reapportionment
20. Work oneself into another's good graces
ingratiate
winnow
greenhorn
kinetic
21. To harden; to become bonelike
prudent
ossify
tertiary
hapless
22. A small brook
rarefied
rill
cadence
undulate
23. Calmness of mind or manner
graft
vituperative
composure
knell
24. Insignificant
trifling
combative
adversity
obstinate
25. Rephrase
imparity
paraphrase
insular
abscond
26. Careful - cautious
wary
spectator
qualm
refurbish
27. Deadlocked position where no one can win
arbiter
gambol
stalemate
connive
28. Humor; lack of seriousness
compassion
predation
levity
tantalize
29. Cool; indifferent
mushroom
aloof
diurnal
sidle
30. A clique; a circle
annul
coterie
clarion
occult
31. To intrude into other people's affairs or business; interfere
opprobrium
adulterate
meddle
laissez faire
32. Cheap or showy
scrutinize
brassy
embark
virile
33. Needlessly repetitive; wordy
tautological
compassion
verbiage
hallmark
34. Of or pertaining to plant life; the study of plants
botanical
fir
redress
pandemic
35. The essential details of how something is to be accomplished.
edify
logistics
diurnal
benign
36. Unquestioned right
cavil
kibosh
august
prerogative
37. Swollen
bowdlerize
turgid
missile
anachronism
38. Holiness
pellucid
inert
sanctity
rotund
39. young or inexperienced
cogitate
fledgling
kaleidoscopic
blithe
40. Regretful
rueful
confluence
encumbrance
consanguineous
41. To give praise to; glorify; acclaim
feasible
compulsory
corroborate
laud
42. List of names
phlegmatic
roster
gape
voluminous
43. A long speech of abuse
tirade
arduous
spontaneity
affliction
44. Incomprehensible; difficult to decipher
peremptory
euphemism
sanction
inscrutable
45. Extreme poverty
penury
discreet
premise
incognito
46. Waver
fledgling
bucolic
inure
fluctuate
47. To ridicule
premise
sedentary
imponderable
deride (adj. derisive)
48. To reach about blindly
dialectic
amoral
grope
lackey
49. Female-like
metamorphosis
purge
effeminate
adumbrate
50. Unconquerable
anemic
hyperbole
impregnable
confluence