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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. Injustice; immoral action
patriarch
iniquity
carrion
contrive
2. Misfortune - an unfavorable turn of events
adulation
adversity
ruminate
melange
3. A smugly proper or prudish attitude
bask
autonomous
lambent
priggishness
4. To give an inheritance to
imperative
sleazy
bequeath
lugubrious
5. Boldly conceited
haggard
tenuous
bumptious
braggart
6. Very harmful
felicity
inane
malignant
luminary
7. Supreme
paramount
balk
niggardly
roster
8. Fantastic - wild fancies
dissension
complaisant
chimerical
haggard
9. To give compensation (for suffering or injury - for instance)
oblique
recompense
opprobrium
abscond
10. Decrease
wane
misanthropic
potentate
medley
11. Lacking movement
abash
amicable
apocryphal
quiescent
12. A significant impediment; handicap; burden
albatross
nubile
magnanimous
murky
13. To reduce to the form of a code; arrange; systematize
berate
burnish
codify
patronize
14. A parley or conference
palaver
confluence
prolix
tentative
15. Best; favored
ignoble
optimal
lobbyist
rhetoric
16. Stately; majestic
amiable
nomenclature
august
philanthropy
17. Customs
brash
abortive
mores
temperance
18. Shallow - lacking in depth
superficial
mute
wont
consortium
19. Causing dissension; divisive
jostle
factious
facetious
quixotic
20. A renegade; one who desserts his principles
meddle
mendicant
apostate
facetious
21. Replaced
ingrate
supplanted
malevolent
humid
22. Shameless boldness
affirmative
depose
effrontery
convalescence
23. Outwardly religious
inviolable
sanctimonious
wayfaring
deplorable
24. Overwrought or decorated elaborately
ornate
epitaph
pacifistic
hortatory
25. Responsive; agreeable (to an idea)
amenable
bedraggled
cronies
saline
26. Pertaining to mud left by running water
botanical
alluvial
facsimile
megalomania
27. Gladly
fain
fictitious
tome
peccadillo
28. Treachery
commendable
misogamy
bigoted
perfidy
29. A misgiving or pang of conscience
vitality
hot-spur
qualm
rancorous
30. To cause to become subservient; to expose to
subjugate
jeopardize
insurgence
reciprocate
31. To make holy; to hallow
yahoo
consecrate
consortium
accost
32. To put too much water on; to flood (n. inundation)
occlude
hierarchy
deleterious
inundate
33. Haggard; ghastly pale
cadaverous
congregation
pedantic
superficial
34. Pragmatic
utilitarian
physiognomy
inordinate
askew
35. A binding agreement
covenant
labyrinthine
bestow
quandary
36. Okay to lose
expendable
comport
maverick
rueful
37. To boil
soporific
seethe
nuptial
skittish
38. Briefness; conciseness
telekinesis
brevity
haughty
unwonted
39. To put into exile
homonym
banish
devious
ancillary
40. Cliched - worn out by overuse
hackneyed
mitigate
marshy
nascent
41. Associated with verbal abuse
inure
requisite
venerable
vituperative
42. Rephrase
docile
paraphrase
stringent
eminence
43. An emotional purging
invidious
succinct
catharsis
tenable
44. Sorry for sin
introspective
posit
penance
interpret
45. Serious
regimen
discern
incongruous
solemnity
46. Pleasant
congenial
translucent
embodiment
erratic
47. One who acts in place of another
tenebrous
iniquitous
nubile
proxy
48. Pitiless; unyielding
inexorable
synchronize
moribund
dilapidated
49. An introduction to a play
guile
diffident
capricious
overture
50. Something additional; an item to be added on
salient
intrinsic
apropos
addendum