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SAT Vocab - 2
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A deliberately misleading argument
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
sophistry
insinuate
zealot
2. Failure to reach an agreement
impasse
Complaisant
Oblivious
Duplicitous
3. Possible
clairvoyant
viable / feasible
distend
ascetic
4. An accidental but fortunate occurence
fortuitous
resilient
callous
Appeasement
5. Strong dislike
nostalgia
bungler
antipathy / animosity / rancor
Spate
6. Robbed - ruined - pillaged - looted
Incredulous
Juxtapose
despoiled
ubiquitous
7. Sparkling; shining; brilliantly clever
pejorative
Scintillating
Paradigm
incisive
8. Peevish - irritable
Flummox
intemperate
Petulant
squelch
9. Habitually quiet; uncommunicative
Precedent
Censorious - Captious
Dessicated
Taciturn
10. Corrupt - dishonest - open to bribery
stoic
Tepid
Ameliorate
Venal
11. Harmful - injurious to physical - mental - or moral health
innovator
gerrymander
temperate
Noxious
12. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
Unfettered
Moribund
prototype
dismissive
13. Any respite or temporary relief.
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
reprieve
Hiatus
fortuitous
14. Indisputable; beyond doubt
vindictive
incontrovertible
curtail
Idyllic
15. Very favorable
enumerate
Elucidate
autonomous
auspicious / propitious
16. To scold; rebuke
upbraid / reproach / castigate
zealot
incontrovertible
Effusive
17. Out of reach; difficult to catch
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
Tepid
elusive
reticent
18. To put down with comtemptuous jeering
Esoteric - Arcane
deride
quixotic
Moribund
19. Unsophisticated
affectation
expunge / excise / expurgate
Blithe
naïve / gullible / credulous
20. Derisive mocking comments
redundant
Beleaguer
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
diffident
21. To free from blame
vindicate
Sanguine
relinquish
halcyon
22. A person who uses intuition to see into the future; a seer
ostracize
draconian
clairvoyant
Myriad
23. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false.
Beleaguer
specious
stoic
Burgeon
24. A complete failure
Chagrin
dispatch
Flummox
fiasco / debacle
25. Of doubtful authenticity; false; spurious
Lucrative
Apocryphal
digress
reprieve
26. Smooth and sweet flowing
anachronism
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
disparity
mellifluous
27. Very rich - having abundant resources
dearth / paucity
Pristine
Obsequious
Affluent - Opulent
28. Agreeable; marked by a pleasing personality
Complaisant
Restitution
impecunious
picayune
29. A person who is impassive and emotionless
stoic
erroneous
ubiquitous
tedious
30. Foul smelling
tedious
bane
tawdry
malodorous
31. To cut short or reduce
Esoteric - Arcane
curtail
Perfunctory
Idiosyncrasy
32. Happening or moving extremely slowly
recluse
Disenfranchise
Flummox
glacial
33. Lukewarm; mild; half-hearted
Spate
recalcitrant / obdurate
autonomous
Tepid
34. To list; to tick off
enumerate
Depreciation
Consternation
Insidious
35. A bitter denunciation
pejorative
trivial / minutiae
diatribe / tirade
Lambaste
36. Self-assurance - admirable ploys under pressure
Malfeasance
Marginal - Peripheral
Aplomb
austerity
37. To deliberately confuse; to make something so confusing it's hard to understand
Solicitous
Precedent
Obfuscate
Tepid
38. A general commotion; an uproar
paradox
Noxious
Lambaste
Furor
39. An odd - unconventional person
devoid
Craven
occlusion
eccentric
40. Detached; reserved
bane
aloof
reprieve
Lugubrious
41. Relevant - to the point
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
Pertinent
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
prudent
42. Many - numerous
Elucidate
ominous
Myriad
deride
43. Very discouraging
Ornate
Disheartening
sophistry
momentous
44. Very concise; brief
laconic / succint / terse
diffident
draconian
acolyte
45. To put down by exposing false claims
Complaisant
tumultuous
debunk
paradox
46. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
ambiguous
Enfranchise
Contentious - Cantankerous
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
47. Of or related to the ear or the sense of hearing
Entomology
enumerate
aural
altruistic
48. Extremely complicated or devious
Gestate
byzantine
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
Inquisition
49. Combined action or operation
Duplicitous
insolvent
copious
synergy
50. Outstanding
Ignominious
Lugubrious
indifferent / apathetic
exemplary