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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. Very depressed
peremptory
morose / despondent
enumerate
evocation
2. To conceive and develop in the mind
Gestate
Perfunctory
Lucrative
plausible
3. Direct opposite
Epiphany
Forbearance
tedious
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
4. Not capable of being appeased
Flummox
Fecund
copious
implacable
5. Lacking restraint; excessive
occlusion
prudent
superficial
intemperate
6. The floating wreckage of a ship; debris
Flotsam
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Exacerbate
Enfranchise
7. A timely benefit
intrepid / undaunted
boon
aural
Depreciation
8. To soothe or calm; to appease
futile
specious
Placate
Noxious
9. Great vigor and energy - dash
digress
panache / verve / flamboyant
circuitous
expunge / excise / expurgate
10. Insightful - perceptive
Taciturn
repudiate / recant / renounce
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Disingenuous
11. A complete failure
Entrepreneur
Restitution
fiasco / debacle
vapid
12. Promptly obedient - submissive - marked by or exhibiting fawning
Brusque - Curt
Enfranchise
Sinecure
Obsequious
13. Of great importance
momentous
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Provisional
Petulant
14. Person who organizes a business/enterprise
Entrepreneur
demise
Idyllic
callous
15. Harmful; injurious
deleterious
equanimity / unflappable
pragmatic
ascetic
16. Any respite or temporary relief.
impasse
Sinecure
ambiguous
reprieve
17. Behaving in an obsequious manner
Eschew
Fawn
deleterious
enigmatic / inscrutable
18. A fantastic scheme; unchecked imagination
Demography
bane
Juxtaposition
chimerical
19. Touching; heartrending
Dilatory
poignant
recalcitrant / obdurate
resilient
20. Sharp; clear; clever; keen; perceptive; discriminating; astute
Parsimonious
Exonerate - Exculpate
prodigy
incisive
21. A small - moderate - or token amount
modicum
anomaly / atypical
misanthrope
Beleaguer
22. Noisily and stubbornly defiant
Ineffable
impasse
Obstreperous
Spate
23. Soothing or pleasant sounds; harmony
aloof
Euphony
devoid
nostalgia
24. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
clandestine / surreptitious
Petulant
Enfranchise
indignant
25. Many - numerous
Opaque
polarize / divisive
redundant
Myriad
26. Surplus or excess of something
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
modicum
indulgent
27. Feelings of sincere and deep regret
auspicious / propitious
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
Solicitous
Vituperative
28. An imaginative recreation
Avarice - Cupidity
evocation
Opaque
Inquisition
29. Extremely wicked; vile
erroneous
capricious / mercurial
conjecture / supposition
nefarious
30. Easily noticed
conspicuous
indigenous / endemic
dirge
paradox
31. Abundant; a great amount
Extemporize - Improvise
copious
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
veracity
32. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
dilettante
temperate
draconian
Extravagant
33. Causing hard in a subtle or stealthy manner; devious
Insidious
spartan
circuitous
indulgent
34. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
Ornate
Cerebral
superficial
ubiquitous
35. Tentative - temporary - not lasting
Provisional
Disingenuous
maverick
trivial / minutiae
36. Not open to question
Indisputable
Unfettered
placid / serence
proponent / advocate
37. Scientific study of insects
impecunious
squelch
Entomology
Disheartening
38. To treat as unimportant; ignore deliberately; disrespect
Contiguous
Slight
recalcitrant / obdurate
Accord
39. Tending to give instruction or advice; inclined to teach others too much; containing a political/moral lesson
Crystallize
Didactic
aural
multiplicity
40. Very concise; brief
Tepid
specious
copious
laconic / succint / terse
41. Of or related to the ear or the sense of hearing
Indisputable
aural
sycophant / obsequious
Ostentatious
42. Something performed in a spiritless - mechanical - and routine manner
Perfunctory
specious
Disquieting
morose / despondent
43. Indisputable; beyond doubt
maverick
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
inexorable
incontrovertible
44. Marked by precise accordance with details
dismissive
punctilious
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
Affluent - Opulent
45. The highest point
laconic / succint / terse
inexorable
zenith / apex
mellifluous
46. To introduce or communicate stealthily
raconteur
beneficiary
Triumvirate
insinuate
47. A sentimental longing for the past
Enlighten - Edify
Exonerate - Exculpate
nostalgia
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
48. Gaudy and cheap
Contentious - Cantankerous
Inquisition
tawdry
Dilatory
49. A professional commentator
exhort
Entrepreneur
ambivalent
pundit
50. To stop; frustrate
rejuvenate
Unfettered
thwart / stymie
Sinecure