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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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1. Feeling of distress caused by failure - distress - or embarrassment
Chagrin
dispatch
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
acrimonious
2. Vulgar; crude
Refractory
Indisputable
acquiesce
boorish / uncouth / crass
3. Casual indifference
indigenous / endemic
nonchalant
martinet
boorish / uncouth / crass
4. Carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
circumscribe
fastidious
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
deleterious
5. To introduce or communicate stealthily
insinuate
copious
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
circuitous
6. Of or related to the ear or the sense of hearing
aural
Extravagant
Supercilious
Opaque
7. Lukewarm; mild; half-hearted
Tepid
implacable
Obdurate - Intransigent
Dessicated
8. Very generous
Licentious
reticent
Munificent
Slight
9. Believable
pundit
plausible
dirge
strident
10. Thoroughly dried out
Dessicated
Euphony
Ignominious
Idyllic
11. To avoid by artful maneuvering
circumvent
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
Redolent
aural
12. Of great importance
profundity
momentous
Esoteric - Arcane
morose / despondent
13. Corrupt - dishonest - open to bribery
Taciturn
Venal
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
Flippant - Facetious
14. Worn out; wearied.
reprobate
Lurid
jaded
Empirical
15. Unselfish concern for others
altruistic
thwart / stymie
innocuous
Enfranchise
16. Very strict laws and rules
diatribe / tirade
draconian
nefarious
Protean
17. Peevish - irritable
Elan
Extemporize - Improvise
Quiescent
Petulant
18. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly
fortuitous
tacit
morose / despondent
prototype
19. Something performed in a spiritless - mechanical - and routine manner
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
vapid
Perfunctory
Esoteric - Arcane
20. To reject; disreagard
automation
dismissive
Idiosyncrasy
ubiquitous
21. A gradual almost imperceptible change
Bombastic
capricious / mercurial
subtle
Obdurate - Intransigent
22. Detached; reserved
fortitude
aloof
insurmountable
Sanguine
23. A speaker who appeals to emotions - fears or prejudices
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Ostentatious
demagogue
decry
24. Strength of mind
zenith / apex
fortitude
myopic
panache / verve / flamboyant
25. Utterly perplexed - completely puzzled - totally bewildered
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
clandestine / surreptitious
Nonplus - Confounded
Accord
26. To remove or delete objectionable parts of a book
bowdlerize
Gestate
repudiate / recant / renounce
gratuitous
27. To avoid; shun; to stay clear of
Eschew
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Virulent
ambivalent
28. An inference
renovate
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
conjecture / supposition
29. To stop; frustrate
Enfranchise
pundit
Propitiate
thwart / stymie
30. Any decrease or loss in value caused by age - wear - or market conditions
Depreciation
altruistic
Indomitable - Resolute
Censorious - Captious
31. A scarcity or shortage
viable / feasible
dearth / paucity
occlusion
exemplary
32. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
nadir
Vertiginous
Histrionic - Overwrought
vapid
33. Doing or saying something again and again
naïve / gullible / credulous
redundant
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
Idiosyncrasy
34. To divide a district so as to give one side an advantage
dispatch
Epiphany
Chicanery
gerrymander
35. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
impasse
despondent / forlorn
ubiquitous
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
36. Felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another
benefactor
vicarious
rhetorican
diffident
37. To surrender
Obstreperous
naïve / gullible / credulous
Capitulate
Prolific
38. Very brief; short lived
Prescribe
autonomous
disparity
fleeting / ephemeral
39. Disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful.
prudent
Aphorism - Axiom
Accord
vindictive
40. Bare - not ornate
pragmatic
austere
vapid
unconventional / unorthodox
41. A morally unprincipled person
Sinecure
distend
reprobate
ubiquitous
42. Uneasy; in a state of embarrassment
abstemious
Discomfited
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
viable / feasible
43. Dying - on the way out - approaching that
Moribund
Obdurate - Intransigent
Licentious
malodorous
44. To be guided by practical experience - not theory
upbraid / reproach / castigate
Empirical
Vertiginous
Disingenuous
45. Not in the proper time period
eccentric
anachronism
dearth / paucity
pompous
46. To compensate - to make payment for - to pay a person
circuitous
Ameliorate
Opaque
Remunerate
47. Very determined; unwavering
polarize / divisive
distend
Indomitable - Resolute
dilettante
48. Deception by subterfuge; deliberate trickery
Chicanery
insurmountable
Watershed
Dilatory
49. Failure to reach an agreement
inexorable
impasse
Guile
Dessicated
50. Careful; cautious
Idyllic
insolvent
prudent
prattle