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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. Very small
remiss
Accord
dimunitive
Proliferate
2. An amateur or dabbler
extricate
Precedent
dispatch
dilettante
3. To get out of a difficult situation
extricate
resilient
polarize / divisive
conjecture / supposition
4. To beset; to surround with problems
Scintillating
conjecture / supposition
poignant
Beleaguer
5. A beginner
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
Oblivious
Conundrum
indulgent
6. The highest point
deride
nostalgia
zenith / apex
Vertiginous
7. Derisive mocking comments
Opaque
circumscribe
subtle
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
8. To declare invalid
Nullify
fleeting / ephemeral
Beleaguer
odoriferous
9. To take back; disavow
repudiate / recant / renounce
Consensus
Appeasement
Guile
10. Readily taking on various forms and meanings
Dilapidated
vindictive
placid / serence
Protean
11. Scientific study of insects
intrepid / undaunted
Insidious
hedonist
Entomology
12. Lacking self-confidence
glacial
Superfluous - Extraneous
diffident
decry
13. A speaker who appeals to emotions - fears or prejudices
partisan
Fecund
galvanize
demagogue
14. Lacking conscious awareness - unmindful - unaware
Contentious - Cantankerous
juggernaut
circumscribe
Oblivious
15. To make impossible - to rule out - to prevent
Opaque
Preclude
conjecture / supposition
juggernaut
16. Many - numerous
Sanguine
fortitude
Vituperative
Myriad
17. Plain; simple
iconoclast
spartan
recalcitrant / obdurate
flag
18. Favoring social equality - believing in an equal society
reprieve
Egalitarian
bowdlerize
Tepid
19. To make young again
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
ascetic
rejuvenate
myopic
20. Unable to pay; out of money (solvent - solvency - soluble - insoluble)
insolvent
Didactic
implausible
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
21. State of great dismay & confusion
Visceral
Consternation
sycophant / obsequious
draconian
22. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
modicum
ubiquitous
partisan
panache / verve / flamboyant
23. Peevish - irritable
momentous
Petulant
fortitude
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
24. Formal proposal
conspicuous
prattle
prospectus
anguish
25. Learned and authoritative
Nonplus - Confounded
Magisterial
penchant / predilection
equanimity / unflappable
26. Combined action or operation
autonomous
synergy
Propitiate
bungler
27. Immoral - debauched
impecunious
Licentious
remiss
Solicitous
28. A person with biased beliefs
Licentious
fortuitous
partisan
Pertinent
29. A public declaration of beliefs - policies - or intentions
amalgam
Manifesto
Munificent
odoriferous
30. Quarrelsome: argumentative: likely to provoke a controversy - disputatious
pragmatic
Redolent
Contentious - Cantankerous
dearth / paucity
31. Disturbing; upsetting; vexing; causing unease; worrisome
Depreciation
Exonerate - Exculpate
Didactic
Disquieting
32. Intellectual rather than emotional
Duplicitous
jovial and jocular
Cerebral
naïve / gullible / credulous
33. An appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive
voracious / ravenous
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
Opaque
aesthetic
34. Not capable of being appeased
Proliferate
Lucrative
implacable
extricate
35. To give something back
synergy
reprobate
vacillate
relinquish
36. To make clear or plain - especially by explanation
denounce
expunge / excise / expurgate
despondent / forlorn
Elucidate
37. A champion of a cause
proponent / advocate
sophistry
vicarious
Pertinent
38. Idyllically calm and tranquil
maverick
penchant / predilection
reprieve
halcyon
39. Of secondary importance; not central;on the perimeter
repudiate / recant / renounce
Marginal - Peripheral
rhetorican
Nonplus - Confounded
40. Exercising moderation
subtle
temperate
evocation
devoid
41. Disparaging - belittling - insulting
dissembler / prevaricator
Moribund
Stopgap
pejorative
42. Shallow; lacking depth
Nonplus - Confounded
itinerant
Vertiginous
superficial
43. To earnestly caution
altruistic
admonish
capricious / mercurial
felicitous
44. Moderate in eating and drinking
devoid
abstemious
Precedent
covet
45. Ill-tempered; rude; lacking civility
indigenous / endemic
Contentious - Cantankerous
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Apocryphal
46. Belittle;slight
exemplary
disparage
felicitous
Moribund
47. Very stubborn; inflexible
acolyte
Obdurate - Intransigent
Perfidious
extirpate
48. Tentative - temporary - not lasting
proponent / advocate
Licentious
aesthetic
Provisional
49. Sensational - shocking - or ghastly
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
demagogue
Lurid
austerity
50. Person who organizes a business/enterprise
Entrepreneur
temperate
Florid
Burgeon