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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. To hold back one's thoughts and feelings
acquiesce
Disenfranchise
reticent
prudent
2. Cheerfully confident; optimistic
Sanguine
reaffirm
repudiate / recant / renounce
reprehensible
3. Not in the proper time period
Redolent
anachronism
raze
reticent
4. Insensitive
austerity
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
callous
serendipity
5. To grow rapidly; to expand
jaded
Taciturn
quixotic
Burgeon
6. Cautious; careful
indifferent / apathetic
thwart / stymie
circumspect / prudent
Noxious
7. Showing great determination
Imperious
hilarity
despoiled
tenacious
8. An excuse - an alleged cause
Petulant
Interloper
Pretext
renegade
9. Doing or saying something again and again
incoherent
redundant
capricious / mercurial
Entrepreneur
10. Disturbing; upsetting; vexing; causing unease; worrisome
anomaly / atypical
Excoriating - Scathing
repudiate / recant / renounce
Disquieting
11. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
remiss
Obfuscate
Restitution
Duplicitous
12. To soothe or calm; to appease
impecunious
halcyon
Placate
unconventional / unorthodox
13. Not capable of being appeased
Brusque - Curt
insinuate
implacable
affectation
14. A complete failure
ominous
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
prattle
fiasco / debacle
15. A strict disciplinarian
Extemporize - Improvise
oracle
Taciturn
martinet
16. Showy; intended to attract notice; pretentious
Remunerate
Moribund
conjecture / supposition
Ostentatious
17. The study of characteristics of human population
prodigy
felicitous
Demography
Dilatory
18. Secretive; not aboveboard; covert
equanimity / unflappable
Disenfranchise
clandestine / surreptitious
provocative
19. To require; to order; to direct
provocative
Restitution
morose / despondent
Prescribe
20. To remove or delete objectionable parts of a book
bowdlerize
belie
Egalitarian
Credulous
21. Lacking self-confidence
prodigy
Convivial
diffident
Demography
22. A person who introduces something new
Protean
Propitiate
innovator
erroneous
23. Insightful - perceptive
raze
pandemonium
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
disparity
24. Gruesome (repugnant) ; grisly.
morbid
jaded
myopic
Didactic
25. Bare - not ornate
austere
Lambaste
reaffirm
Remunerate
26. A clumsy or inept person
byzantine
Ungainly
bungler
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
27. Very determined; unwavering
Lurid
benefactor
Ungainly
Indomitable - Resolute
28. The act of making good or compensating for a loss - damage - or injury
Restitution
fortuitous
procure
Idyllic
29. Very poor - lacking resources
Demarcation
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Flippant - Facetious
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
30. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
devoid
Sinecure
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
peremptory
31. Uneasy; in a state of embarrassment
Discomfited
provocative
polarize / divisive
relinquish
32. A morally unprincipled person
Ungainly
reprobate
Venerate - Revere
polarize / divisive
33. Any decrease or loss in value caused by age - wear - or market conditions
Depreciation
intemperate
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
Licentious
34. Minor - everyday details
capricious / mercurial
circumspect / prudent
implausible
trivial / minutiae
35. Mysterious; baffling
enigmatic / inscrutable
halcyon
Underwrite
Contentious - Cantankerous
36. Deserving great blame; wicked; evil
felicitous
incoherent
tacit
reprehensible
37. Moderate in eating and drinking
Florid
abstemious
Nonplus - Confounded
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
38. Fickle; constantly shifting moods
capricious / mercurial
Flippant - Facetious
Appeasement
extricate
39. Felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another
futile
aesthetic
vicarious
Lucrative
40. An accidental but fortunate occurence
fortuitous
dispel
Tepid
Dilapidated
41. The lowest point
nadir
Contiguous
Duplicitous
Extemporize - Improvise
42. Unable to pay; out of money (solvent - solvency - soluble - insoluble)
auspicious / propitious
Coerce
Profligate
insolvent
43. Poor; penniless; not affluent
Egalitarian
debunk
impecunious
Paranoia
44. A person who leads a life of self-denial
Lugubrious
itinerant
Flotsam
ascetic
45. Cowardly - faint hearted
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
Craven
Chagrin
Bombastic
46. To babble incessantly
Stopgap
Disenfranchise
profundity
prattle
47. A stimulus or encouragement
impetus
upbraid / reproach / castigate
vicarious
digress
48. Boring and tiresome
Duplicitous
tedious
renegade
Brusque - Curt
49. Sharing an edge or boundary - or touching
Licentious
proponent / advocate
Contiguous
repudiate / recant / renounce
50. Agreeable; marked by a pleasing personality
fiasco / debacle
Incredulous
demise
Complaisant