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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Uncompromising; unyielding
intransigent
manacle
winnow
adage
2. Coin collecting
sanctimonious
swamp
entice
numismatics
3. Widespread; everywhere
assuage
pervasive
gnash
moribund
4. The essential details of how something is to be accomplished.
logistics
cessation
jocular
bevy
5. Suave; sophisticated; charming
querulous
naive
chagrin
debonair
6. Move sideways
deplore
vociferous
sidle
utilitarian
7. To be moderate - especially in eating and drinking
abstemious
solicitous
pecuniary
innate
8. Gladly
pretentious
somnolent
arboreal
fain
9. Fused together; not distinct
conflated
pejorative
proxy
deplorable
10. To give praise to; glorify; acclaim
peremptory
wistful
laud
gainsay
11. Changing sides
mercenary
defunct
tergiversation
amenity
12. Supreme
paramount
foal
perspicuity
kibosh
13. Wealthy person who is accustomed to luxury
nabob
covenant
rigmarole
soliloquy
14. Talkative
subvert
rail
doggerel
voluble
15. To move (a person) to the country
ennui
somatic
rusticate
coin
16. Move in a wavelike motion
abate
acquiesce
staid
undulate
17. A summary
clemency
apt
synopsis
ponderous
18. To increase instigation
specious
dictum
lamentable
incite
19. Predicament
dalliance
connoisseur
indolent
plight
20. A charm
intemperance
subservient
supersede
talisman
21. Conspiracy
pretense
intrigue
burlesque
conflict
22. Foundation; underlying base
consanguineous
mirth
infrastructure
discursive
23. To judge; to hear and decide a case in court
splenetic
sociometry
adjudicate
fain
24. A woman who presides over a family or group
matriarch
citadel
funereal
desultory
25. To command solemnly as if under oath
adjure
pervasive
maelstrom
contumely
26. Irrelevant; not basic
extraneous
circumspect
conduits
longevity
27. To multiply quickly
panegyric
homage
impalpable
mushroom
28. Acting on a prior right
perverse
preemptive
catholic
eminent
29. To sparkle (intellectually) ('scintillating ideas')
reticent
condiment
compress
scintillate
30. To fasten; to encircle; to empower
obstinate
paraphrase
gird
convoluted
31. Someone who manages a museum
curator
euphemism
sully
manifest
32. To render void
invalidate
implore
prescience
gauntlet
33. Someone who adheres to an opinion
adherent
travail
abdicate
affliction
34. Lacking vitality; listless and weak
vulpine
anemic
amicable
apprehensive
35. A puzzle
enigma
consanguineous
benison
berate
36. Something that causes worry or dismay
acerb
ossified
belated
bugaboo
37. Sad
bumptious
ejaculate
obsequious
doleful
38. Satanic - devilish
chalice
diabolic
factious
reprove
39. To display (oneself or a possession)
decipher
flaunt
reconnaissance
quip
40. Incapable of being weighed or evaluated precisely
alluvial
carnal
imponderable
rarefied
41. Two forces put together to make a larger force
clamorous
hyperbole
synergistic
novice
42. Nickname
garland
arrogance
impugn
sobriquet
43. A male writing a will
discount
testator
aboriginal
blasphemy
44. To accuse publicly ('to denounce')
denunciation
incessant
scurrilous
ostracize
45. Random spontaneous behavior
antiquity
ingrate
baleful
caprice
46. Unable to speak clearly
toothsome
inarticulate
saturnine
copious
47. Not genuine
contravene
daunting
repudiate
bogus
48. Outstanding bravery or skill
tentative
prologue
amorphous
prowess
49. Bewildered; perplexed
fetish
bemused
vicarious
archipelago
50. One who behaves in a beastly - savage - or primitive manner
wistful
autocrat
zealous
troglodyte