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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 strongly desire; to crave
covet
equivocal
laconic / succint / terse
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
2. A small - moderate - or token amount
modicum
Myriad
boon
Remunerate
3. A severe interrogation or a systematic questioning
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
Inquisition
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
Solicitous
4. Mysterious; having a hidden meaning
Lurid
anomaly / atypical
martinet
cryptic
5. Having fallen in a state of disrepair; broken-down condition
insolvent
anachronism
Flummox
Dilapidated
6. To make clear or plain - especially by explanation
Elucidate
automation
conjecture / supposition
resurgent
7. Admirably suited; apt.
glacial
temperate
devoid
felicitous
8. W/o previous example - never known before
debunk
Unprecedented
laconic / succint / terse
Consternation
9. Act/instance used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances
indignant
Idiosyncrasy
Precedent
equivocal
10. Instinctive rather than irrational
thwart / stymie
Visceral
mellifluous
dirge
11. Vulgar; crude
autonomous
felicitous
boorish / uncouth / crass
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
12. Misconduct/wrongdoing - especially by a public official
vindictive
vapid
myopic
Malfeasance
13. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
Vertiginous
Consternation
raconteur
Restitution
14. A source of harm
bane
Ornate
Flippant - Facetious
Demarcation
15. Thoroughly dried out
synergy
Dessicated
pragmatic
ubiquitous
16. Fearless; courageous
Pertinent
Conundrum
intrepid / undaunted
tenacious
17. Excessively sentimental
Moribund
deride
Beleaguer
maudlin
18. To surrender
Contiguous
Capitulate
reaffirm
picayune
19. A scarcity or shortage
innocuous
dearth / paucity
anachronism
pragmatic
20. The position of putting close together or side by side
Juxtaposition
Aplomb
resilient
veracity
21. Person who organizes a business/enterprise
sonorous
Brusque - Curt
Entrepreneur
Timorous
22. Quarrelsome: argumentative: likely to provoke a controversy - disputatious
Contentious - Cantankerous
cryptic
spartan
incoherent
23. An imaginative recreation
evocation
Myriad
serendipity
raconteur
24. Great bitterness
Vituperative
Nullify
Perfidious
acrimonious
25. Harmful; injurious
Demography
Disheartening
Perfunctory
deleterious
26. To make new again
Autocrat - Despot
tedious
renovate
superficial
27. Uneasy; in a state of embarrassment
Discomfited
Supercilious
Esoteric - Arcane
Lambaste
28. Cowardly - faint hearted
jovial and jocular
Craven
placid / serence
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
29. A fake; a fraud; a cheat
pundit
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
devoid
charlatan
30. A devoted student
abstemious
acolyte
Opaque
draconian
31. To introduce or communicate stealthily
incontrovertible
jovial and jocular
erroneous
insinuate
32. Believable
plausible
Gestate
morose / despondent
hilarity
33. To force or act by using pressure
ambiguous
Coerce
Oblivious
ascetic
34. Idyllically calm and tranquil
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
renegade
halcyon
devoid
35. A formal concurrence or agreement or harmony of minds
Preclude
Consternation
Accord
felicitous
36. Showing great care and concern; attentive
Solicitous
morbid
specious
stoic
37. Insensitive
mentor
curtail
callous
prognosticator
38. Agreeable; friendly
dearth / paucity
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
ascetic
sycophant / obsequious
39. Skillful
Cacophony
prudent
Flippant - Facetious
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
40. Utterly perplexed - completely puzzled - totally bewildered
Enlighten - Edify
Pertinent
Nonplus - Confounded
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
41. To strongly encourage
rhetorican
viable / feasible
Pristine
exhort
42. A subtle shade of meaning or feeling - a slight degree of difference
Empirical
irreverent
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
Nuance
43. Agent that provokes or triggers change
belie
fastidious
Catalyst
benefactor
44. A person who excels in telling anecdotes
raconteur
nebulous
despoiled
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
45. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
iconoclast
deleterious
Ineffable
Enfranchise
46. To stop; frustrate
poignant
Spate
trivial / minutiae
thwart / stymie
47. Sensational - shocking - or ghastly
tedious
repudiate / recant / renounce
innuendo
Lurid
48. Settled and therefore accustomed to sitting or doing little exercise
reprobate
Sedentary
enigmatic / inscrutable
jovial and jocular
49. Good-humored; cheerful
paradox
incoherent
equivocal
jovial and jocular
50. State of being various or manifold; a great number
multiplicity
denounce
circumscribe
redundant