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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. Trait peculiar to individual
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
aloof
Idiosyncrasy
occlusion
2. Lacking self-confidence
fastidious
diffident
Contentious - Cantankerous
exorbitant
3. Feeling of distress caused by failure - distress - or embarrassment
tedious
Exonerate - Exculpate
Chagrin
flag
4. Habitually quiet; uncommunicative
glacial
Taciturn
austerity
pejorative
5. Abstaining from the enforcement of a right; the act of refraining from acting on a desire or impulse
Proscribe
upbraid / reproach / castigate
draconian
Forbearance
6. A complete failure
Didactic
chimerical
Consternation
fiasco / debacle
7. Sociable; fond of feasting - drinking - and good company
curtail
Convivial
Chicanery
Caustic
8. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
Ignominious
circumscribe
partisan
prognosticator
9. Very poor - lacking resources
strident
Extemporize - Improvise
Complaisant
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
10. Very depressed
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
indulgent
morose / despondent
11. Very small
dimunitive
Egalitarian
Brusque - Curt
exhort
12. Favoring social equality - believing in an equal society
Censorious - Captious
Ornate
Egalitarian
Guile
13. Domineering and arrogant; haughty
anguish
distend
Marginal - Peripheral
Imperious
14. To get out of a difficult situation
Effusive
Munificent
extricate
Consensus
15. Easily noticed
Egalitarian
conspicuous
tactile
Consternation
16. To regard with great respect - to hold in high esteem
halcyon
Vertiginous
Venerate - Revere
incisive
17. An inference
beneficiary
Timorous
conjecture / supposition
vindicate
18. Fearless; courageous
tactile
anguish
Moribund
intrepid / undaunted
19. A source of harm
bane
bowdlerize
superficial
jovial and jocular
20. A subtle shade of meaning or feeling - a slight degree of difference
Nuance
prognosticator
eccentric
affectation
21. A mixture; combination of different elements
prospectus
Exonerate - Exculpate
Nuance
amalgam
22. Commonplace
redundant
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
fleeting / ephemeral
23. Overbearing; impertinently bold
presumptuous
Imperious
Manifesto
Idiosyncrasy
24. An eloquent writer or speaker
mentor
Insidious
rhetorican
indulgent
25. State of being various or manifold; a great number
Paranoia
Restitution
Conundrum
multiplicity
26. A person who gives gifts
Burgeon
Aplomb
benefactor
prattle
27. Cautious; careful
tawdry
circumspect / prudent
Inquisition
acquiesce
28. Not capable of being overcome
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
insurmountable
Quiescent
Consternation
29. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
Idyllic
proponent / advocate
veracity
affectation
30. To surrender
Eschew
Capitulate
Redolent
glacial
31. The act of blocking
Empirical
occlusion
boon
Nuance
32. To introduce or communicate stealthily
irreverent
ominous
Epiphany
insinuate
33. Not in harmony - incompatible - at variance with - as in a discordant detail that doesn't fit a pattern
Osmosis
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
Discordant
Vertiginous
34. Great in depth of feeling - intellect or meaning
Pretext
incoherent
Lurid
profundity
35. Tending to give instruction or advice; inclined to teach others too much; containing a political/moral lesson
veracity
Didactic
Egalitarian
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
36. Plain; simple
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
fleeting / ephemeral
spartan
capricious / mercurial
37. Charmingly simple and carefree
Propitiate
Idyllic
Complicity
Solicitous
38. Soothing or pleasant sounds; harmony
Euphony
Entrepreneur
Pernicious
copious
39. An accidental but fortunate occurence
misanthrope
fortuitous
Profligate
decry
40. A teacher; a guide; an advisor
fleeting / ephemeral
Esoteric - Arcane
mentor
Lurid
41. Extremely wicked; vile
dissembler / prevaricator
jaded
nefarious
Sinecure
42. Of or related to the ear or the sense of hearing
nonchalant
aural
innuendo
chimerical
43. Unselfish concern for others
altruistic
digress
futile
draconian
44. To level to the ground; demolish
raze
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
synergy
Watershed
45. Of secondary importance; not central;on the perimeter
Juxtaposition
Marginal - Peripheral
bungler
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
46. A person who is impassive and emotionless
strident
anomaly / atypical
stoic
reprobate
47. An independent person
Proliferate
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
tedious
maverick
48. Strength of mind
Entrepreneur
fortitude
temperate
martinet
49. To appease - conciliate - or regain the good will of
Imperious
Bombastic
magnanimous
Propitiate
50. To narrowly restrict; to limit action; to draw a line around
circumscribe
squelch
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
debunk