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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. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
Spate
Opaque
renegade
2. Sensational - shocking - or ghastly
peremptory
Lurid
modicum
synergy
3. A remark that is hurtful or burning
felicitous
tumultuous
Nonplus - Confounded
Caustic
4. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
strident
Crystallize
Complicity
Vertiginous
5. Abstaining from the enforcement of a right; the act of refraining from acting on a desire or impulse
Forbearance
Chicanery
Coerce
tawdry
6. Insensitive
Rampant
innocuous
Burgeon
callous
7. Disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful.
vindictive
acolyte
partisan
affectation
8. To list; to tick off
Demarcation
enumerate
Munificent
Opaque
9. A champion of a cause
proponent / advocate
aesthetic
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Aplomb
10. Having fallen in a state of disrepair; broken-down condition
mellifluous
Dilapidated
Brusque - Curt
reticent
11. Praise; applaud
procure
boorish / uncouth / crass
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
amalgam
12. To reject; disreagard
maudlin
Crystallize
gratuitous
dismissive
13. Provokes controversy
provocative
partisan
Ameliorate
Imperious
14. Very concise; brief
laconic / succint / terse
indigenous / endemic
Entrepreneur
Gestate
15. To obtain or get by care - effort - or the use of special means
Furor
Caustic
Nonplus - Confounded
procure
16. Mysterious; baffling
Avarice - Cupidity
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
partisan
enigmatic / inscrutable
17. A doubter
clairvoyant
skeptic
Epiphany
polarize / divisive
18. To depart from a subject
incisive
Prescribe
digress
Ameliorate
19. Association or participation in a wrongful act
Beleaguer
Complicity
Demography
nefarious
20. Very favorable
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Inquisition
auspicious / propitious
convoluted
21. A clumsy or inept person
bungler
pragmatic
Disquieting
glacial
22. Vulgar; crude
boorish / uncouth / crass
galvanize
Pernicious
presumptuous
23. Belittle;slight
disparage
Accord
exhort
dispel
24. An imaginative recreation
evocation
pandemic
Sedentary
curtail
25. An excuse - an alleged cause
Pretext
impeccable
Indisputable
Fawn
26. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
beneficiary
austerity
Extravagant
Sedentary
27. A beginner
exemplary
Crystallize
peremptory
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
28. To free from guilt or blame
tumultuous
Entomology
Exonerate - Exculpate
Venerate - Revere
29. A ruler or other person with unlimited authority
Autocrat - Despot
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
convoluted
jovial and jocular
30. To surrender
Capitulate
Beleaguer
Ungainly
Lurid
31. To assert again
reaffirm
indulgent
vapid
Censorious - Captious
32. To deprive of some privilege - especially the right to vote
anomaly / atypical
felicitous
Disenfranchise
autonomous
33. A person who introduces something new
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
ambiguous
innovator
antipathy / animosity / rancor
34. Circular and therefore indirect
gratuitous
pundit
circuitous
Rampant
35. Very bold; daring
audacious
Catalyst
polarize / divisive
charlatan
36. To lecture or speak without notes
rejuvenate
Extemporize - Improvise
Dilapidated
Stopgap
37. Highly injurious - destructive - deadly
impeccable
recalcitrant / obdurate
Pernicious
Cerebral
38. Worn out; wearied.
occlusion
Enlighten - Edify
jaded
debunk
39. Sad mournful - melancholic
Restitution
Precedent
Obdurate - Intransigent
Lugubrious
40. To scold; rebuke
Bombastic
presumptuous
upbraid / reproach / castigate
debunk
41. The highest point
jovial and jocular
despoiled
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
zenith / apex
42. Treacherous - traitorous - deceitful
Perfidious
Venerate - Revere
Lugubrious
Dilatory
43. Commonplace
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Nuance
Conundrum
Venerate - Revere
44. Characterized by verbal abuse and bitter criticism
Contiguous
reaffirm
rejuvenate
Vituperative
45. Robbed - ruined - pillaged - looted
Accord
despoiled
Myriad
presumptuous
46. Deserving great blame; wicked; evil
Proliferate
Myriad
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
reprehensible
47. Agreeable; marked by a pleasing personality
redundant
Complaisant
Incredulous
Disingenuous
48. Direct opposite
Paranoia
Magisterial
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
Superfluous - Extraneous
49. Doomed to failure
innovator
Parsimonious
demagogue
futile
50. A person who leads a secluded - solitary life
recluse
Discordant
poignant
partisan