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SAT Vocab - 2
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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. To give a false impression
hedonist
belie
Protean
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
2. Insightful - perceptive
Venal
viable / feasible
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
penchant / predilection
3. Noisy and disorderly
tumultuous
naïve / gullible / credulous
prudent
thwart / stymie
4. Admirably suited; apt.
anguish
tenacious
felicitous
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
5. To put down by exposing false claims
exhort
Propitiate
debunk
Consensus
6. To soothe or calm; to appease
Placate
Vacuous - Inane
nostalgia
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
7. Secretive; not aboveboard; covert
Licentious
dismissive
clandestine / surreptitious
dimunitive
8. To give a definite form to an idea or plan
Refractory
boon
Crystallize
vindicate
9. Framework or model of thought
odoriferous
synergy
Paradigm
automation
10. A very enthusiastic person
Precedent
Restitution
zealot
exhort
11. Excessive desire for wealth
Avarice - Cupidity
Virulent
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
incontrovertible
12. Sociable; fond of feasting - drinking - and good company
Convivial
antipathy / animosity / rancor
martinet
dismissive
13. Joyous; sprightly; light; vivacious
digress
veracity
Licentious
Blithe
14. The property of being prompt and efficient
dispatch
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
boorish / uncouth / crass
15. A morally unprincipled person
reprobate
prognosticator
Juxtaposition
Fecund
16. Gruesome (repugnant) ; grisly.
altruistic
skeptic
Obstreperous
morbid
17. Someone who attacks cherished ideas and institutions
Guile
impetus
iconoclast
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
18. Highly injurious - destructive - deadly
cryptic
Pernicious
equivocal
itinerant
19. State of great dismay & confusion
Blithe
Sinecure
Consternation
misanthrope
20. Lacking foresight or scope
Affluent - Opulent
indigenous / endemic
deleterious
myopic
21. Habitually late; tardy
insinuate
elusive
recluse
Dilatory
22. A clumsy or inept person
Marginal - Peripheral
bungler
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
jovial and jocular
23. To lecture or speak without notes
sophistry
reprieve
Egalitarian
Extemporize - Improvise
24. To regard with great respect - to hold in high esteem
Venerate - Revere
nebulous
ambivalent
tawdry
25. Excessively cheap with money - stingy
aesthetic
Parsimonious
insurmountable
spartan
26. Treacherous - traitorous - deceitful
Paranoia
Perfidious
disparity
punctilious
27. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
Enfranchise
dilettante
tawdry
deleterious
28. To avoid; shun; to stay clear of
bowdlerize
Esoteric - Arcane
Eschew
byzantine
29. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
prototype
affectation
incisive
Obfuscate
30. Minor - everyday details
Oblivious
placid / serence
trivial / minutiae
Parsimonious
31. Cautious; careful
beneficiary
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
circumspect / prudent
Flippant - Facetious
32. A vigorous spirit or great enthusiasm
automation
Elan
Preclude
intrepid / undaunted
33. Fearless; courageous
Manifesto
intrepid / undaunted
extirpate
Lugubrious
34. A beginner
tedious
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
juggernaut
35. Relevant - to the point
Cerebral
Empirical
Pertinent
Pretext
36. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
fleeting / ephemeral
strident
rejuvenate
altruistic
37. A wild uproar; tumult
Extravagant
pandemonium
Discomfited
momentous
38. Happening or moving extremely slowly
glacial
ascetic
Depreciation
Autocrat - Despot
39. Outstanding
Lugubrious
recalcitrant / obdurate
placid / serence
exemplary
40. The study of characteristics of human population
Elan
voracious / ravenous
Demography
equivocal
41. Lack of interest or concern
indifferent / apathetic
Proliferate
Licentious
pandemic
42. To repel or drive back; to reject
paradox
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
poignant
rebuff
43. To make a situation better
eccentric
Ameliorate
curtail
charlatan
44. Showy; intended to attract notice; pretentious
Ostentatious
amalgam
maudlin
clairvoyant
45. Abundant; a great amount
prudent
punctilious
copious
Cerebral
46. Abrupt in manner or speech: discourteously blunt
zealot
despondent / forlorn
raze
Brusque - Curt
47. Very productive
Prolific
prodigy
procure
irreverent
48. To drive away; scatter
Nonplus - Confounded
renovate
Aphorism - Axiom
dispel
49. A devoted student
Convivial
acolyte
clandestine / surreptitious
intrepid / undaunted
50. Denounce or strongly criticize
Lambaste
Remunerate
bowdlerize
repudiate / recant / renounce