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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. Self-assurance - admirable ploys under pressure
Stopgap
trivial / minutiae
dirge
Aplomb
2. To increase rapidly
Proliferate
Ungainly
Pernicious
Visceral
3. Feelings of sincere and deep regret
exemplary
Hiatus
audacious
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
4. To free from blame
vindicate
extirpate
demise
recluse
5. Excessively dramatic or melodramatic; theatrical; overacted
Paranoia
Histrionic - Overwrought
Fecund
Discordant
6. A person who receives benefits
beneficiary
odoriferous
covet
Flippant - Facetious
7. The lowest point
nadir
tumultuous
Ameliorate
circuitous
8. Not ordinary or typical
clairvoyant
unconventional / unorthodox
dispatch
proponent / advocate
9. A person who excels in telling anecdotes
morbid
beneficiary
innovator
raconteur
10. To surrender
Capitulate
jovial and jocular
Tepid
incoherent
11. Of great importance
momentous
prototype
Fawn
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
12. A person who introduces something new
innovator
incisive
laconic / succint / terse
Vacuous - Inane
13. Awkwardly; clumsy - not graceful
Affluent - Opulent
deride
reprieve
Ungainly
14. Gradual - often unconscious - process of assimilation
Effusive
Osmosis
jaded
Excoriating - Scathing
15. The highest point
magnanimous
demise
zenith / apex
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
16. Very determined; unwavering
Indomitable - Resolute
resurgent
Didactic
provocative
17. Not open to question
Unfettered
gerrymander
Disheartening
Indisputable
18. Excessively sentimental
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
malodorous
maudlin
Craven
19. An accidental but fortunate discovery
serendipity
Ostentatious
distend
raconteur
20. A similarity or likeness
analogy / analagous
strident
Duplicitous
ambivalent
21. Great in depth of feeling - intellect or meaning
maverick
profundity
Protean
Disingenuous
22. Pretentious; filled with excessive self-importance
covet
Scintillating
Magisterial
pompous
23. Empty - lacking serious purpose
Scintillating
odoriferous
Vacuous - Inane
iconoclast
24. A veiled reference
innuendo
wry / droll
indigenous / endemic
Blithe
25. A general agreement
exemplary
plausible
tedious
Consensus
26. Lacking organization or logic
Quiescent
incoherent
mellifluous
maverick
27. To narrowly restrict; to limit action; to draw a line around
circumscribe
Egalitarian
Disingenuous
Flippant - Facetious
28. A person who is a source of wise counsel and prophetic advice
distend
Oblivious
oracle
morbid
29. To make new again
Disquieting
renovate
Effusive
Discomfited
30. Cowardly - faint hearted
dirge
decry
Craven
Opaque
31. To destroy.
fastidious
extirpate
mentor
Apocryphal
32. Unrestrained: unchecked
occlusion
curtail
Rampant
rebuff
33. To reject; disreagard
dismissive
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Crystallize
Tepid
34. Association or participation in a wrongful act
Propitiate
Complicity
Complaisant
inexorable
35. State of great dismay & confusion
Consternation
implacable
Catalyst
exhort
36. A beginner
circumscribe
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
rebuff
extricate
37. Worn out; wearied.
Histrionic - Overwrought
jaded
gratuitous
Disenfranchise
38. Not capable of being appeased
extricate
implacable
clairvoyant
Hiatus
39. Domineering and arrogant; haughty
procure
Profligate
Imperious
subtle
40. A disloyal person
conspicuous
renegade
beneficiary
Profligate
41. A large number or amount
quixotic
Fawn
sonorous
Spate
42. The position of putting close together or side by side
circumvent
Juxtaposition
misanthrope
maudlin
43. Extremely complicated or devious
Restitution
austere
byzantine
unconventional / unorthodox
44. An amateur or dabbler
maudlin
Contiguous
dilettante
despondent / forlorn
45. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
Duplicitous
implacable
Paradigm
malodorous
46. Sparkling; shining; brilliantly clever
Chicanery
paradox
callous
Scintillating
47. To assume financial responsibility
acolyte
Underwrite
clairvoyant
acquiesce
48. An original model
prototype
pundit
renegade
Ornate
49. To introduce or communicate stealthily
despondent / forlorn
Lugubrious
Provisional
insinuate
50. To express strong disapproval
decry
vindictive
fortuitous
tacit