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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. Harsh - clashing - jarring - grating sounds; disharmony
Cacophony
presumptuous
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
Enfranchise
2. Unnecessary; extra
draconian
Superfluous - Extraneous
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
subtle
3. To confuse or perplex; utterly dumbfounded
erroneous
Cosmopolitan
Flummox
mentor
4. Abundant; a great amount
elusive
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
copious
resurgent
5. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
Unfettered
thwart / stymie
Exacerbate
enigmatic / inscrutable
6. A speaker who appeals to emotions - fears or prejudices
penchant / predilection
demagogue
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
misanthrope
7. Formal proposal
placid / serence
prospectus
disparage
vindictive
8. To treat as unimportant; ignore deliberately; disrespect
Dessicated
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Slight
myopic
9. To speak against
despondent / forlorn
denounce
Nuance
Munificent
10. An appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive
aesthetic
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
disparity
rhetorican
11. Soothing or pleasant sounds; harmony
Consternation
insinuate
extricate
Euphony
12. Sensational - shocking - or ghastly
fiasco / debacle
Lurid
circuitous
Noxious
13. To express strong disapproval
Vacuous - Inane
admonish
futile
decry
14. Praise; applaud
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
voracious / ravenous
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
recalcitrant / obdurate
15. Having a natural fragrance
odoriferous
prospectus
elusive
Burgeon
16. Unrestrained: unchecked
Rampant
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Complicity
Autocrat - Despot
17. A very enthusiastic person
ubiquitous
zealot
Vituperative
pejorative
18. Quarrelsome: argumentative: likely to provoke a controversy - disputatious
Contentious - Cantankerous
prodigy
amalgam
Insidious
19. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
dimunitive
disparity
Ignominious
sycophant / obsequious
20. Gruesome (repugnant) ; grisly.
fortitude
nonchalant
Ostentatious
morbid
21. Failure to reach an agreement
Accord
Eclectic
impasse
relinquish
22. Empty - lacking serious purpose
Disingenuous
curtail
vicarious
Vacuous - Inane
23. Mysterious; having a hidden meaning
antipathy / animosity / rancor
cryptic
insurmountable
exorbitant
24. Fearless; courageous
Credulous
Ungainly
Vacuous - Inane
intrepid / undaunted
25. Domineering and arrogant; haughty
indigenous / endemic
Osmosis
dispatch
Imperious
26. An inequality; an imbalance
disparity
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
Furor
Proliferate
27. Utterly perplexed - completely puzzled - totally bewildered
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
rebuff
Nonplus - Confounded
circumspect / prudent
28. The setting or marking of boundaries or limits
resurgent
Perfunctory
Refractory
Demarcation
29. Characterized by elaborate and expensive decorations; lavish
Credulous
disparity
acquiesce
Ornate
30. Something of small value; petty; trifling
Obdurate - Intransigent
Myriad
boorish / uncouth / crass
picayune
31. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
Lurid
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
Extravagant
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
32. Abstaining from the enforcement of a right; the act of refraining from acting on a desire or impulse
aural
Proliferate
Profligate
Forbearance
33. A person who receives benefits
Noxious
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
beneficiary
Complicity
34. Very productive
iconoclast
Prolific
Consternation
veracity
35. Peevish - irritable
Munificent
morose / despondent
beneficiary
Petulant
36. Instinctive rather than irrational
curtail
Visceral
Preclude
Myriad
37. Showing great care and concern; attentive
Sedentary
Solicitous
Exacerbate
Esoteric - Arcane
38. Readily taking on various forms and meanings
Moribund
Protean
veracity
Epiphany
39. The highest point
digress
Fawn
zenith / apex
distend
40. Detestable; repulsive; extremely bad
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
thwart / stymie
Entomology
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
41. Lacking liveliness - animation or interest; dull.
vapid
Aphorism - Axiom
circumspect / prudent
nonchalant
42. Treacherous - traitorous - deceitful
Profligate
Perfidious
Perfunctory
demise
43. A complete failure
Moribund
insurmountable
galvanize
fiasco / debacle
44. To assert again
intrepid / undaunted
Entomology
dirge
reaffirm
45. The act of blocking
audacious
fortitude
occlusion
byzantine
46. Charmingly rural
prattle
mentor
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
felicitous
47. A young genius
Discordant
prodigy
Remunerate
pandemic
48. Noisy and disorderly
equivocal
jaded
tumultuous
sophistry
49. A stimulus or encouragement
tawdry
boon
impetus
trivial / minutiae
50. A fake; a fraud; a cheat
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
charlatan
insurmountable
resilient