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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. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false.
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Incredulous
abstemious
specious
2. Fickle; constantly shifting moods
Blithe
incontrovertible
Catalyst
capricious / mercurial
3. Commonplace
jovial and jocular
Epiphany
Entrepreneur
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
4. Easily noticed
hedonist
conspicuous
Consensus
elusive
5. To appease - conciliate - or regain the good will of
automation
Venal
Conundrum
Propitiate
6. A veiled reference
Nullify
innuendo
vacillate
Dilapidated
7. Very productive
futile
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
Prolific
reticent
8. Seeker of pleasure
Ameliorate
hedonist
sophistry
extricate
9. Completely lacking in something
affectation
pragmatic
Contentious - Cantankerous
devoid
10. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
recluse
Ignominious
Lugubrious
Depreciation
11. An irresistible force
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Indomitable - Resolute
Forbearance
juggernaut
12. Very small
penchant / predilection
dimunitive
Lucrative
Munificent
13. Quarrelsome: argumentative: likely to provoke a controversy - disputatious
prospectus
tawdry
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
Contentious - Cantankerous
14. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
Extravagant
Spate
Disheartening
clandestine / surreptitious
15. Dry humor
Restitution
Nuance
incontrovertible
wry / droll
16. Having fallen in a state of disrepair; broken-down condition
exhort
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Sanguine
Dilapidated
17. Joyous; sprightly; light; vivacious
inexorable
Blithe
ominous
autonomous
18. Choosing or using a variety of sources
mentor
Eclectic
dispatch
Effusive
19. Insincere; not straightforward; not candid
Disingenuous
sycophant / obsequious
disparity
beneficiary
20. To deliberately exclude from a group
fastidious
insolvent
cryptic
ostracize
21. Feeling of distress caused by failure - distress - or embarrassment
Chagrin
fastidious
felicitous
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
22. Great merriment
beneficiary
pragmatic
equivocal
hilarity
23. Worldly; sophisticated; open-minded and aware of the big picture
Effusive
Cosmopolitan
dispatch
Duplicitous
24. Lacking restraint; excessive
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
reticent
sycophant / obsequious
intemperate
25. The property of being prompt and efficient
dispatch
pandemic
analogy / analagous
pandemonium
26. To remove or delete objectionable parts of a book
bowdlerize
extricate
antipathy / animosity / rancor
Moribund
27. A person who is a source of wise counsel and prophetic advice
oracle
Vacuous - Inane
rebuff
renegade
28. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
evocation
Exacerbate
Disheartening
Duplicitous
29. To strongly encourage
Profligate
exhort
rhetorican
Flippant - Facetious
30. Lax in attending to duty; negligent
trivial / minutiae
erroneous
Inquisition
remiss
31. A vigorous spirit or great enthusiasm
Spate
Elan
indignant
abstemious
32. Insensitive
circumspect / prudent
Hiatus
upbraid / reproach / castigate
callous
33. Readily taking on various forms and meanings
Protean
Spate
acolyte
Tepid
34. Mobile; not sedentary
Ineffable
Chagrin
itinerant
decry
35. Charmingly rural
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
auspicious / propitious
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
impeccable
36. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
implacable
nefarious
inexorable
Enfranchise
37. Mixed feelings
trivial / minutiae
prodigy
ambivalent
copious
38. A temporary solution designed to meet an urgent need
futile
fortuitous
Stopgap
relinquish
39. A group or association of three leaders
Triumvirate
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
indignant
demagogue
40. Of great importance
momentous
exhort
Solicitous
implacable
41. Relevant - to the point
multiplicity
Pertinent
reaffirm
pandemic
42. To get out of a difficult situation
dispel
impetus
rhetorican
extricate
43. To strongly desire; to crave
covet
recluse
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
Sanguine
44. Happening or moving extremely slowly
reprobate
Extemporize - Improvise
glacial
dimunitive
45. Unreasonable expensive
myopic
deleterious
exorbitant
Conundrum
46. A similarity or likeness
Oblivious
martinet
equivocal
analogy / analagous
47. To assume financial responsibility
diffident
Underwrite
vindictive
Vituperative
48. Any decrease or loss in value caused by age - wear - or market conditions
decry
devoid
Depreciation
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
49. To crush as if by trampling; squash
Precedent
Watershed
dispatch
squelch
50. Corrupt - dishonest - open to bribery
Vacuous - Inane
Cerebral
ubiquitous
Venal