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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. Quarrelsome: argumentative: likely to provoke a controversy - disputatious
disparage
admonish
Contentious - Cantankerous
Lurid
2. To soothe or calm; to appease
Credulous
Incredulous
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
Placate
3. Of doubtful authenticity; false; spurious
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
Apocryphal
Paradigm
inexorable
4. To sway from once side to the other; oscillate.
decry
vacillate
indulgent
impetus
5. Lying; untrustful
indigenous / endemic
penchant / predilection
Ornate
mendacious
6. To avoid; shun; to stay clear of
Slight
prattle
Conundrum
Eschew
7. A person who introduces something new
sycophant / obsequious
Protean
innovator
despoiled
8. Act/instance used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances
Precedent
Avarice - Cupidity
vapid
eccentric
9. The act of blocking
draconian
occlusion
insolvent
circuitous
10. Fickle; constantly shifting moods
jovial and jocular
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
capricious / mercurial
Petulant
11. To free from guilt or blame
mendacious
Exonerate - Exculpate
fortitude
zenith / apex
12. Disbelieving - skeptical
Incredulous
Egalitarian
Craven
clairvoyant
13. Direct opposite
magnanimous
Flummox
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
curtail
14. Remaining in a pure state: uncorrupted by civilization
Pristine
Restitution
acrimonious
irreverent
15. The final ending of something; the downfall
tacit
acquiesce
Magisterial
demise
16. Lax in attending to duty; negligent
Flippant - Facetious
remiss
Complaisant
hilarity
17. A deviation from the norm
incisive
Euphony
anomaly / atypical
futile
18. Generous nad forgiving
Florid
magnanimous
pejorative
expunge / excise / expurgate
19. A deliberately misleading argument
Timorous
sophistry
innovator
Superfluous - Extraneous
20. Robbed - ruined - pillaged - looted
itinerant
Quiescent
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
despoiled
21. A person who behaves in a servile manner; a toady
sycophant / obsequious
Marginal - Peripheral
Aphorism - Axiom
Lugubrious
22. Sparkling; shining; brilliantly clever
deride
Scintillating
Quiescent
incontrovertible
23. A temporary solution designed to meet an urgent need
maverick
Stopgap
Timorous
dispel
24. To regard with great respect - to hold in high esteem
auspicious / propitious
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
Venerate - Revere
Perfidious
25. A liar; deceiver
dearth / paucity
dissembler / prevaricator
dispel
placid / serence
26. Very depressed
Censorious - Captious
resurgent
morose / despondent
Superfluous - Extraneous
27. Harmful; injurious
beneficiary
Eclectic
extricate
deleterious
28. Sociable; fond of feasting - drinking - and good company
rejuvenate
Idyllic
Convivial
Superfluous - Extraneous
29. Bossy; tending to cut others off; dismissive; officious (peremptorily - preempt)
peremptory
iconoclast
circumspect / prudent
provocative
30. To get out of a difficult situation
Supercilious
Contiguous
extricate
juggernaut
31. To stop; frustrate
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
fleeting / ephemeral
thwart / stymie
Cosmopolitan
32. Learned and authoritative
specious
Vituperative
Magisterial
Noxious
33. To free from blame
circumvent
auspicious / propitious
Discomfited
vindicate
34. A tendency toward or irrational suspiciousness; irrational fear; delusions of persecution
presumptuous
Paranoia
rebuff
fortuitous
35. A strict disciplinarian
martinet
incoherent
Demography
Proliferate
36. A bitter denunciation
diatribe / tirade
placid / serence
Ignominious
recalcitrant / obdurate
37. Misconduct/wrongdoing - especially by a public official
Malfeasance
Furor
ostracize
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
38. A clumsy or inept person
bungler
momentous
maudlin
Noxious
39. To make clear or plain - especially by explanation
Eclectic
Elucidate
anguish
Epiphany
40. To strongly desire; to crave
covet
Prescribe
dissembler / prevaricator
Parsimonious
41. Association or participation in a wrongful act
Precedent
Complicity
pompous
reprieve
42. To scold; rebuke
Magisterial
tenacious
upbraid / reproach / castigate
rebuff
43. To divide a district so as to give one side an advantage
Tepid
gerrymander
implausible
debunk
44. To lecture or speak without notes
modicum
Extemporize - Improvise
Autocrat - Despot
felicitous
45. Tending to give instruction or advice; inclined to teach others too much; containing a political/moral lesson
Fawn
amalgam
stoic
Didactic
46. A severe interrogation or a systematic questioning
voracious / ravenous
distend
subtle
Inquisition
47. To give a definite form to an idea or plan
picayune
redundant
Crystallize
Ineffable
48. Favoring social equality - believing in an equal society
Egalitarian
abstemious
Epiphany
altruistic
49. Behaving in an obsequious manner
Fawn
galvanize
veracity
exhort
50. Casual indifference
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Effusive
Flummox
nonchalant