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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. To compensate - to make payment for - to pay a person
Remunerate
Ungainly
Blithe
Pertinent
2. To crush as if by trampling; squash
Complicity
relinquish
squelch
Disheartening
3. Native to an area
indigenous / endemic
rebuff
Virulent
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
4. A severe interrogation or a systematic questioning
Cacophony
procure
Inquisition
circumspect / prudent
5. Obstinately resistant to authority or control
wry / droll
Refractory
vacillate
curtail
6. Settled and therefore accustomed to sitting or doing little exercise
Duplicitous
quixotic
nefarious
Sedentary
7. Flowery in style - very ornate
Crystallize
Egalitarian
Florid
Malfeasance
8. Idyllically calm and tranquil
Vituperative
exhort
vapid
halcyon
9. A tendency toward or irrational suspiciousness; irrational fear; delusions of persecution
Disingenuous
Paranoia
tumultuous
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
10. To make new again
serendipity
Apocryphal
tenacious
renovate
11. To assert again
Empirical
reaffirm
incoherent
aloof
12. Limited in perspective; narrow; restricted in scope and outlook
reprobate
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
zenith / apex
indignant
13. To free from guilt or blame
prototype
Exonerate - Exculpate
Avarice - Cupidity
indulgent
14. To free from blame
tumultuous
vacillate
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
vindicate
15. Immoral - debauched
Licentious
Chicanery
Perfidious
morbid
16. A mixture; combination of different elements
vapid
partisan
bowdlerize
amalgam
17. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
Profligate
Nuance
dispel
veracity
18. Highly critical; carping
Censorious - Captious
diffident
tacit
implacable
19. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
dimunitive
itinerant
Extravagant
automation
20. Strong dislike
polarize / divisive
Profligate
antipathy / animosity / rancor
Oblivious
21. Bare - not ornate
magnanimous
multiplicity
austere
vacillate
22. To assume financial responsibility
Chicanery
felicitous
convoluted
Underwrite
23. Foul smelling
Paradigm
malodorous
Slight
Ungainly
24. A person who uses intuition to see into the future; a seer
Convivial
Redolent
clairvoyant
mellifluous
25. Excessive desire for wealth
nadir
prototype
acquiesce
Avarice - Cupidity
26. A disloyal person
renegade
Enlighten - Edify
devoid
Timorous
27. Excessively sentimental
nadir
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
maudlin
Solicitous
28. A remark that is hurtful or burning
Caustic
Noxious
incoherent
placid / serence
29. Showing great care and concern; attentive
Stopgap
Petulant
Propitiate
Solicitous
30. To forbid; to prohibit; to outlaw
Paranoia
naïve / gullible / credulous
Proscribe
disparage
31. A timely benefit
Dilatory
Appeasement
boon
voracious / ravenous
32. Mysterious; having a hidden meaning
ubiquitous
Catalyst
cryptic
maudlin
33. Annoyingly talkative
Rampant
pragmatic
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Ungainly
34. To treat as unimportant; ignore deliberately; disrespect
veracity
Slight
punctilious
Discomfited
35. Lacking self-confidence
Fecund
impasse
Cacophony
diffident
36. A person who acts in a mechanical fashion; a mindless follower
automation
Visceral
Disquieting
temperate
37. Believable
Provisional
Conundrum
aural
plausible
38. Very productive
inexorable
indignant
specious
Prolific
39. A teacher; a guide; an advisor
irreverent
dismissive
mentor
Flummox
40. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
strident
reprehensible
maverick
equanimity / unflappable
41. Lacking organization or logic
incoherent
circuitous
Oblivious
presumptuous
42. To strongly desire; to crave
Cerebral
exorbitant
covet
Indisputable
43. Trait peculiar to individual
Idiosyncrasy
conjecture / supposition
Demography
Timorous
44. Causing hard in a subtle or stealthy manner; devious
Provisional
Complaisant
auspicious / propitious
Insidious
45. Deserving great blame; wicked; evil
sonorous
reprehensible
despoiled
insolvent
46. Lacking restraint; excessive
Exonerate - Exculpate
Petulant
despondent / forlorn
intemperate
47. The act of blocking
wry / droll
occlusion
recalcitrant / obdurate
Credulous
48. Failure to reach an agreement
auspicious / propitious
impasse
Ameliorate
mentor
49. A group or association of three leaders
deride
raconteur
Eschew
Triumvirate
50. A person who behaves in a servile manner; a toady
Histrionic - Overwrought
sycophant / obsequious
Blithe
Noxious