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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. Characterized by verbal abuse and bitter criticism
penchant / predilection
raconteur
Vituperative
pompous
2. Boring and tiresome
tedious
Crystallize
curtail
Enlighten - Edify
3. Smooth and sweet flowing
Excoriating - Scathing
peremptory
nefarious
mellifluous
4. To require; to order; to direct
Florid
Prescribe
renegade
sophistry
5. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
strident
insinuate
Cerebral
hilarity
6. Skillful
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
pundit
Apocryphal
Fecund
7. A teacher; a guide; an advisor
reaffirm
conjecture / supposition
mentor
Perfidious
8. Noisily and stubbornly defiant
beneficiary
circuitous
Euphony
Obstreperous
9. Circular and therefore indirect
quixotic
Complicity
Convivial
circuitous
10. Not capable of being overcome
Spate
insurmountable
Hiatus
Pristine
11. Any decrease or loss in value caused by age - wear - or market conditions
incisive
autonomous
Depreciation
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
12. Abrupt in manner or speech: discourteously blunt
Brusque - Curt
acquiesce
Extemporize - Improvise
beneficiary
13. To surrender
Capitulate
Craven
demagogue
Furor
14. To list; to tick off
Sedentary
acolyte
skeptic
enumerate
15. Worldly; sophisticated; open-minded and aware of the big picture
Cosmopolitan
Flotsam
draconian
vacillate
16. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
Ignominious
thwart / stymie
modicum
Convivial
17. Agreeable; friendly
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
nonchalant
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
fastidious
18. Charmingly rural
Esoteric - Arcane
fortuitous
naïve / gullible / credulous
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
19. To treat as unimportant; ignore deliberately; disrespect
Elan
Slight
Crystallize
implausible
20. Unnecessary; extra
reaffirm
Extemporize - Improvise
procure
Superfluous - Extraneous
21. To inform or instruct to remove ignorance
recluse
aloof
Lugubrious
Enlighten - Edify
22. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
aloof
Sinecure
diffident
morose / despondent
23. Hard to understand - impenetrably dense and obscure
pandemonium
Imperious
Opaque
jovial and jocular
24. Limited in perspective; narrow; restricted in scope and outlook
Nonplus - Confounded
specious
nebulous
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
25. Very discouraging
capricious / mercurial
laconic / succint / terse
Disheartening
demise
26. A person who is impassive and emotionless
altruistic
byzantine
Inquisition
stoic
27. A group or association of three leaders
Refractory
acquiesce
Venal
Triumvirate
28. Foul smelling
fleeting / ephemeral
Precedent
Lurid
malodorous
29. To compensate - to make payment for - to pay a person
Enlighten - Edify
galvanize
Remunerate
squelch
30. Bare - not ornate
Noxious
capricious / mercurial
austere
charlatan
31. Language that is bitterly hostile or hateful
jaded
evocation
Virulent
Chicanery
32. Habitually quiet; uncommunicative
Placate
Lambaste
Duplicitous
Taciturn
33. Cautious; careful
Prescribe
Elan
rhetorican
circumspect / prudent
34. To drive away; scatter
zealot
Dessicated
laconic / succint / terse
dispel
35. Completely lacking in something
Triumvirate
devoid
renegade
tumultuous
36. To make young again
Chicanery
bowdlerize
rejuvenate
recalcitrant / obdurate
37. Faultless; perfect
upbraid / reproach / castigate
impeccable
vindictive
mendacious
38. Gradual - often unconscious - process of assimilation
amalgam
Osmosis
Noxious
Lugubrious
39. Plain; simple
spartan
remiss
Stopgap
Magisterial
40. Excessively sentimental
juggernaut
maudlin
pundit
altruistic
41. An odd - unconventional person
admonish
Avarice - Cupidity
eccentric
Sinecure
42. To make clear or plain - especially by explanation
impeccable
Elucidate
Proliferate
innuendo
43. Pretentious; filled with excessive self-importance
bungler
decry
anachronism
pompous
44. A person who hates humankind
Chagrin
Opaque
misanthrope
prognosticator
45. Outstanding
exemplary
Contentious - Cantankerous
strident
Interloper
46. Very poor - lacking resources
occlusion
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
juggernaut
pejorative
47. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false.
Discordant
austere
specious
stoic
48. An excuse - an alleged cause
Pretext
morbid
denounce
resurgent
49. Very determined; unwavering
felicitous
Indomitable - Resolute
recalcitrant / obdurate
belie
50. The highest point
stoic
Supercilious
Nuance
zenith / apex