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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Treacherous - traitorous - deceitful
Perfidious
auspicious / propitious
Nuance
tenacious
2. A person who uses intuition to see into the future; a seer
placid / serence
reprieve
insinuate
clairvoyant
3. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit
Guile
demise
vacillate
Interloper
4. Pompous - or pretentious in speech or writing; ostentatiously lofty in side
Bombastic
stoic
Burgeon
tacit
5. To scold; rebuke
Histrionic - Overwrought
Unfettered
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
upbraid / reproach / castigate
6. To declare invalid
nebulous
byzantine
Nullify
recluse
7. Not believable
implausible
Ostentatious
Superfluous - Extraneous
Dessicated
8. Very stubborn; inflexible
Egalitarian
Chagrin
Obdurate - Intransigent
Convivial
9. Highly critical; carping
punctilious
Censorious - Captious
impetus
Obsequious
10. Instinctive rather than irrational
Visceral
dilettante
sonorous
Coerce
11. To hold back one's thoughts and feelings
synergy
oracle
reticent
raze
12. A deliberately misleading argument
amalgam
sophistry
Taciturn
benefactor
13. Not ordinary or typical
provocative
Pernicious
byzantine
unconventional / unorthodox
14. An appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive
pandemic
aesthetic
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
vicarious
15. Worn out; wearied.
impasse
unconventional / unorthodox
rejuvenate
jaded
16. Corrupt - dishonest - open to bribery
prattle
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
Venal
Oblivious
17. Outstanding
Obsequious
Histrionic - Overwrought
Capitulate
exemplary
18. Minor - everyday details
Vacuous - Inane
trivial / minutiae
temperate
subtle
19. Worldly; sophisticated; open-minded and aware of the big picture
Cosmopolitan
redundant
prototype
Caustic
20. Doing or saying something again and again
redundant
nadir
Timorous
Stopgap
21. Peevish - irritable
Placate
Petulant
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Censorious - Captious
22. Act/instance used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances
Marginal - Peripheral
Precedent
Histrionic - Overwrought
Idiosyncrasy
23. To narrowly restrict; to limit action; to draw a line around
circumscribe
altruistic
Perfidious
Hiatus
24. To destroy.
extirpate
Catalyst
proponent / advocate
indifferent / apathetic
25. Unable to pay; out of money (solvent - solvency - soluble - insoluble)
insolvent
impecunious
exhort
upbraid / reproach / castigate
26. Belittle;slight
disparage
Stopgap
Perfunctory
Solicitous
27. Charmingly simple and carefree
Prolific
Discordant
Idyllic
zenith / apex
28. To surrender
Flotsam
Juxtapose
Excoriating - Scathing
Capitulate
29. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly
pejorative
Proscribe
Contentious - Cantankerous
tacit
30. Lacking liveliness - animation or interest; dull.
Redolent
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
vapid
Ostentatious
31. A similarity or likeness
circumscribe
Consensus
Disquieting
analogy / analagous
32. To bounce back
curtail
resilient
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
Cosmopolitan
33. Scientific study of insects
recluse
Egalitarian
Entomology
reprieve
34. Faultless; perfect
impeccable
Flotsam
bowdlerize
Demography
35. Circular and therefore indirect
nefarious
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
circuitous
cryptic
36. Idyllically calm and tranquil
bane
halcyon
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Pernicious
37. Admirably suited; apt.
innuendo
felicitous
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Disquieting
38. Unreasonable expensive
admonish
plausible
reaffirm
exorbitant
39. Person who organizes a business/enterprise
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
Entrepreneur
Underwrite
Accord
40. A sentimental longing for the past
resurgent
Underwrite
mendacious
nostalgia
41. To increase rapidly
Proliferate
peremptory
Chicanery
Sanguine
42. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
aural
Flummox
Tepid
43. Empty - lacking serious purpose
indignant
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Lambaste
Vacuous - Inane
44. Lack of interest or concern
impecunious
momentous
indifferent / apathetic
martinet
45. A deviation from the norm
prototype
Placate
naïve / gullible / credulous
anomaly / atypical
46. Excessively sentimental
plausible
dimunitive
Inquisition
maudlin
47. A subtle shade of meaning or feeling - a slight degree of difference
Nuance
subtle
dispatch
Remunerate
48. Too overwhelming to be put into words; indescribable; inexpressible
dispel
circuitous
Ineffable
itinerant
49. An imaginative recreation
evocation
Incredulous
Ineffable
Obsequious
50. Foul smelling
squelch
austere
Marginal - Peripheral
malodorous