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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. Lecturer - speaker
proselyte
plaudit
orator
cull
2. Confusion
postulate
chaos
providence
vivid
3. Low in language; crude; offensive; amusingly coarse or lewd
veneer
ribald
pertinacity
occult
4. Outlaw; to prohibit
expunge
hallow
proscribe
itinerant
5. Egg-shaped
bureaucracy
somatic
anathema
ovoid
6. Fuse; merge
coalesce
obstinate
communal
jostle
7. The path of flight followed by a projectile
impermeable
ostentatious
trajectory
similitude
8. Novice; young assistant
acolyte
redolent
hypothesis
panegyric
9. To deprive ownership of
dispossess
incipient
paralysis
avuncular
10. Pertaining to taste
blatant
relegate
dilettante
gustatory
11. To root out
transpose
preclude
chalice
extirpate
12. Pertaining to the back
prehensile
dorsal
contemptuous
rebuttal
13. Wear away
belie
wanton
composure
erode
14. Curing
gradation
cymbal
hibernal
curative
15. Prone to quarrels or fights
pugnacious
contumely
salutary
taxonomy
16. To thwart; to stump; stand in the way
prosaic
genteel
auspices
stymie
17. Wild and uncontrolled ('feral pigs')
feral
indiscriminate
rapture
imprecation
18. An area of soft - naturally waterlogged ground.
potent
bog
maniacal
entreaty
19. Genetic; naturally inherent; having since birth ('innate talent')
chivalrous
innate
tryst
aberration
20. To incriminate
ignominious
inculpate
diminution
pseudonym
21. To surrender; to give in without resistance
pejorative
arbiter
virtuoso
capitulate
22. Belittle; to speak ill of; to criticize
disparage
picayune
pseudonym
cull
23. The outer covering of a bird
prologue
plumage
proximity
aggrandize
24. A company or group - esp. of touring actors - singers - or
itemize
turncoat
masochist
troupe
25. Unquestioned right
dawdled
prerogative
apprehensive
encomium
26. A short - personal story
enigma
anecdote
sundry
defunct
27. Deeply felt
visceral
rill
onerous
vernal
28. Destructive
infinitesimal
baneful
mien
hoodwink
29. Tending to produce a response - e.g. - anger
explicit
abide
provocative
sangfroid
30. To pretend
simulate
neophyte
placate
awry
31. Changeable (as in interest)
fickle
supple
upstage
stultify
32. Superfluous
redundant
phlegmatic
bequeath
imperious
33. An outcast
pariah
holocaust
coalesce
rococo
34. To plot; to conspire
apolitical
erode
canard
connive
35. Priestly
peruse
vassal
perennial
sacerdotal
36. Cheap or showy
demarcate
discourse
brassy
anathema
37. Worthy of praise
obviate
felicitous
pacify
commendable
38. Cowardly
proximity
avuncular
equestrian
craven
39. Cutting or keen; keen-edged
trenchant
eclogue
dais
pliant
40. Rotting
plight
lenient
putrid
perverse
41. Disrespectful; casual; pert; showing an inappropriate disregard for decorum.
peerless
anathema
flippant
tandem
42. Causing sleep
soporific
bipartisanship
morose
ambiguous
43. A vain man who cares too much about his appearance
fop
stultify
cumbrous
impinge
44. Bitter - hateful
allude
malignant
dossier
rancorous
45. To stop a flow
consecrate
beseech
ebullition
stanch
46. To arouse to awareness or action
incarcerate
solecism
apprise
galvanize
47. A leave of absence from duty
furlough
encomium
expunge
surreptitious
48. Selfish
unctuous
prologue
egocentric
prognosis
49. Inception and creation
specious
bland
inveigle
gestation
50. Feeling of something to come
presentiment
dank
emollient
saline