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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. Formal proposal
vicarious
prospectus
Discomfited
Hiatus
2. Sociable; fond of feasting - drinking - and good company
Unprecedented
decry
relinquish
Convivial
3. Framework or model of thought
mendacious
nostalgia
Paradigm
Placate
4. Outrage at something that is unjust
automation
tedious
indignant
viable / feasible
5. Carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
Pristine
Flummox
Disquieting
fastidious
6. To force or act by using pressure
Obdurate - Intransigent
Complaisant
Coerce
felicitous
7. An independent person
gerrymander
implacable
expunge / excise / expurgate
maverick
8. Obstinately resistant to authority or control
Refractory
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
reprehensible
Solicitous
9. Intellectual rather than emotional
Petulant
Sanguine
Cerebral
Proscribe
10. Sparkling; shining; brilliantly clever
Disenfranchise
Chagrin
wry / droll
Scintillating
11. Having fallen in a state of disrepair; broken-down condition
Dilapidated
Epiphany
Discordant
ominous
12. Highly detailed
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Bombastic
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
penchant / predilection
13. Abundant; a great amount
Pertinent
Conundrum
Aphorism - Axiom
copious
14. A person who makes predictions based on data
prognosticator
odoriferous
Discordant
analogy / analagous
15. Settled and therefore accustomed to sitting or doing little exercise
Sedentary
copious
Spate
presumptuous
16. A very enthusiastic person
Catalyst
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
picayune
zealot
17. To scold; rebuke
copious
upbraid / reproach / castigate
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
sophistry
18. To depart from a subject
incontrovertible
draconian
digress
acrimonious
19. Plain; simple
bane
antipathy / animosity / rancor
spartan
Sedentary
20. Of great importance
Credulous
renovate
hedonist
momentous
21. Robbed - ruined - pillaged - looted
Proscribe
Pretext
despoiled
tawdry
22. Utterly perplexed - completely puzzled - totally bewildered
Lugubrious
viable / feasible
Nonplus - Confounded
despondent / forlorn
23. Having a natural fragrance
odoriferous
Sanguine
laconic / succint / terse
Moribund
24. Derisive mocking comments
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
Quiescent
rebuff
reprobate
25. To deliberately exclude from a group
Obstreperous
Manifesto
Contiguous
ostracize
26. A formal concurrence or agreement or harmony of minds
Accord
recalcitrant / obdurate
Spate
Euphony
27. Uneasy; in a state of embarrassment
Discomfited
Indisputable
redundant
Slight
28. Behaving in an obsequious manner
denounce
Fawn
abstemious
Protean
29. Intentionally unclear or ambiguous; duplicitous; obscuring one's meaning - often in response to a question (unequivocal - equivocate)
gerrymander
zenith / apex
Ostentatious
equivocal
30. A doubter
skeptic
resilient
occlusion
auspicious / propitious
31. Lax in attending to duty; negligent
ominous
pundit
reticent
remiss
32. The act of blocking
occlusion
Restitution
diatribe / tirade
skeptic
33. Agreeable; friendly
Parsimonious
Exonerate - Exculpate
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
acquiesce
34. Fickle; constantly shifting moods
capricious / mercurial
circumscribe
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
pragmatic
35. To treat as unimportant; ignore deliberately; disrespect
Nullify
Slight
enigmatic / inscrutable
clairvoyant
36. A large number or amount
recalcitrant / obdurate
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
Spate
veracity
37. To assume financial responsibility
vapid
Underwrite
vacillate
Obfuscate
38. Habitually quiet; uncommunicative
Catalyst
Taciturn
deride
Oblivious
39. Commonplace
vicarious
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
bungler
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
40. To lecture or speak without notes
gerrymander
insolvent
Excoriating - Scathing
Extemporize - Improvise
41. To make young again
Extemporize - Improvise
Ineffable
rejuvenate
Enfranchise
42. Lacking organization or logic
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
Florid
incoherent
placid / serence
43. Habitually late; tardy
Dilatory
impeccable
enigmatic / inscrutable
Duplicitous
44. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
disparity
Vertiginous
Idyllic
eccentric
45. The lowest point
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
incisive
nadir
myopic
46. Insightful - perceptive
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
distend
synergy
tacit
47. To free from guilt or blame
Scintillating
Exonerate - Exculpate
Obstreperous
Lucrative
48. Excessive desire for wealth
covet
Avarice - Cupidity
synergy
poignant
49. To compensate - to make payment for - to pay a person
diffident
Flippant - Facetious
subtle
Remunerate
50. Tending to give instruction or advice; inclined to teach others too much; containing a political/moral lesson
Didactic
anachronism
Ineffable
expunge / excise / expurgate