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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. Relevant - to the point
Osmosis
Pertinent
Paranoia
Ignominious
2. To increase rapidly
Proliferate
despoiled
intemperate
Extravagant
3. Careful; cautious
raconteur
prudent
Precedent
capricious / mercurial
4. Provokes controversy
provocative
Caustic
prototype
despoiled
5. To make clear or plain - especially by explanation
benefactor
indigenous / endemic
Craven
Elucidate
6. Harmful - injurious to physical - mental - or moral health
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
jaded
Noxious
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
7. Indisputable; beyond doubt
morbid
dearth / paucity
incontrovertible
Dilapidated
8. Language that is bitterly hostile or hateful
Proliferate
vindicate
Dilatory
Virulent
9. Secretive; not aboveboard; covert
clandestine / surreptitious
remiss
Crystallize
Lurid
10. Treacherous - traitorous - deceitful
Demography
Sedentary
Perfidious
unconventional / unorthodox
11. A person who receives benefits
Affluent - Opulent
beneficiary
dearth / paucity
myopic
12. To fall off in vigor - energy - activity - interest - etc
flag
prodigy
reaffirm
acolyte
13. Treating serious manners with light-hearted humor or lack of respect
Flippant - Facetious
Demarcation
Discomfited
viable / feasible
14. Very stubborn; inflexible
Obdurate - Intransigent
Consensus
voracious / ravenous
prognosticator
15. Trait peculiar to individual
Prolific
futile
Furor
Idiosyncrasy
16. Bare - not ornate
Ungainly
austere
vacillate
pejorative
17. Choosing or using a variety of sources
Taciturn
Eclectic
Egalitarian
gerrymander
18. Out of reach; difficult to catch
Insidious
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
elusive
itinerant
19. An independent person
irreverent
maverick
Consensus
Pretext
20. To electrify; to stir into action
galvanize
pragmatic
Apocryphal
mentor
21. Self-assurance - admirable ploys under pressure
Complicity
tacit
aloof
Aplomb
22. A very enthusiastic person
Venerate - Revere
evocation
zealot
Nullify
23. Bossy; tending to cut others off; dismissive; officious (peremptorily - preempt)
auspicious / propitious
peremptory
inexorable
indifferent / apathetic
24. State of being various or manifold; a great number
acolyte
exorbitant
multiplicity
Remunerate
25. Having fallen in a state of disrepair; broken-down condition
dilettante
Dilapidated
relinquish
morbid
26. A huge appetite; cannot be satisfied; insatiable
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
wry / droll
voracious / ravenous
Avarice - Cupidity
27. Doing or saying something again and again
Underwrite
redundant
Demarcation
debunk
28. Touching; heartrending
Stopgap
poignant
incisive
Consternation
29. Smooth and sweet flowing
mellifluous
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
indulgent
Gestate
30. Very brief; short lived
fleeting / ephemeral
Obfuscate
panache / verve / flamboyant
Blithe
31. A sentimental longing for the past
intemperate
peremptory
nostalgia
recluse
32. The act of making good or compensating for a loss - damage - or injury
innuendo
Eschew
Restitution
Brusque - Curt
33. To treat as unimportant; ignore deliberately; disrespect
Slight
Chicanery
Crystallize
bowdlerize
34. An intruder: a gate-crasher
Interloper
raconteur
implacable
conspicuous
35. Believable
irreverent
impetus
acquiesce
plausible
36. A general agreement
futile
Consensus
Paranoia
conspicuous
37. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
Dilatory
circuitous
intemperate
Extravagant
38. Felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another
vicarious
Petulant
innocuous
chimerical
39. Faultless; perfect
impeccable
recalcitrant / obdurate
austere
Egalitarian
40. Sharp; clear; clever; keen; perceptive; discriminating; astute
itinerant
morose / despondent
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
incisive
41. Easily noticed
conspicuous
temperate
resilient
dispel
42. Great merriment
pandemic
hilarity
nefarious
vapid
43. A group or association of three leaders
reprieve
intrepid / undaunted
Refractory
Triumvirate
44. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly
tacit
Eclectic
Solicitous
mendacious
45. Disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful.
Watershed
gerrymander
byzantine
vindictive
46. Person who organizes a business/enterprise
raze
Depreciation
Visceral
Entrepreneur
47. Of or related to the ear or the sense of hearing
Noxious
aural
unconventional / unorthodox
Ungainly
48. A clumsy or inept person
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
Ungainly
bungler
Superfluous - Extraneous
49. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
implacable
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
pandemonium
veracity
50. Intellectually productive or inventive - fertile
Fecund
circumscribe
draconian
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal