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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 seize for military use; confiscate
ascertain
perfidious
commandeer
pollster
2. Highlighted; extremely expressive
pedagogue
tangible
carrion
emphatic
3. To banish (usually from a church)
indispensable
excommunicate
morose
despondency
4. To think hard; to ponder (n. rumination)
ruminate
eke
exacerbate
hackneyed
5. Grasping
consecrate
nonpartisan
prehensile
veneer
6. A liar
fabulist
mellifluous
myriad
scourge
7. Changes in fortune
envisage
sagacity
adjure
vicissitudes
8. Fluent and articulate (speech)
grimace
anomalous
eloquent
incognito
9. Preferring to live in isolation; hermit-like
reclusive
stimulation
vitality
stymie
10. Eventual consequence
pretentious
tort
ramification
euphony
11. Lecturer - speaker
captious
malignant
overhaul
orator
12. Ardent and enthusiastic
fervent
sangfroid
desultory
fanfare
13. Unpredictable; erratic or marked by unconventional behavior
slighting
retort
alleviate
eccentric
14. Burial
derisive
excommunicate
interment
prototype
15. Hasty
exasperation
impasse
jocular
cursory
16. Inborn; intrinsic; basic
imbue
machination
inherent
homonym
17. Study of group relationships
incessant
hemp
sociometry
lissome
18. Feeling hate - disdain - or scorn.
maladaptive
contemptuous
intrigue
eschew
19. Extremely angry; infuriated
livid
vertigo
dotage
dawdled
20. To make unnecessary
obviate
distrait
expedient
inimical
21. The incarnation of a given thing or idea ('she is the
usurp
comport
embodiment
prototype
22. Kindly or pleasant in disposition ('a genial attitude')
genial
upbraid
inclement
equivocation
23. Deadly
lethal
mesmerize
ravenous
dichotomy
24. Malignant; hostile
apostate
felicity
virulent
sever
25. The process of life arising from other living things
tenuous
biogenesis
magisterial
ameliorate
26. To taste; to relish
depravity
consecrate
saw
savor
27. To lie or give false and misleading testimony
detergent
perjure
attrition
ruminate
28. Hidden; secret
missile
halcyon
diffuse
covert
29. Head of a tribe or family
absolve
patriarch
abandon
exigency
30. Existing at birth
staid
convivial
discount
congenital
31. Continuous
effervesce
incessant
deleterious
proxy
32. An ambitious flatterer; brown-noser
educe
sycophant
probity
saw
33. Basic; inherent part of
disseminate
importune
tactile
intrinsic
34. To render unholy; treat as unholy ('to desecrate a temple')
scrupulous
bilk
desecrate
winnow
35. Ongoing flow
flux
posthumous
troglodyte
rectitude
36. Hindsight
recreant
retrospect
inarticulate
gastric
37. Overly attentive to trifling details
impalpable
fiat
verdant
punctilious
38. Bubbling over; outburst of spirit
inebriated
prodigal
parlance
ebullition
39. An absurd rumor circulated to deceive the public
docile
malign
sanction
canard
40. Greed
tantrum
effete
cupidity
stimulation
41. Taking advantage of one's position for personal gain
adjure
gorge
graft
squalid
42. Reminiscent of a funeral
vivacious
funereal
entreaty
aboriginal
43. Unequaled
ascertain
modulate
ramification
nonpareil
44. Inflammatory - insulting
sublimate
locution
renounce
slighting
45. Pertaining to the country
reciprocate
anachronism
pastoral
feral
46. Hiding place
asylum
equity
cache
mettle
47. Not relevant
immaterial
corroborate
despotism
epitaph
48. Lacking concentration
premise
duplicity
pariah
diffuse
49. To lessen the severity
nabob
palliate
parochial
intruder
50. Ruffled; upset
proboscis
specious
disconcerting
maleficent