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SAT Vocab - 2
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english
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1. To make new again
Contiguous
renovate
jovial and jocular
affectation
2. To drive away; scatter
trivial / minutiae
dispel
Ornate
naïve / gullible / credulous
3. Not in harmony - incompatible - at variance with - as in a discordant detail that doesn't fit a pattern
dissembler / prevaricator
oracle
Parsimonious
Discordant
4. Association or participation in a wrongful act
Eclectic
Complicity
maudlin
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
5. Lax in attending to duty; negligent
innovator
remiss
Extravagant
evocation
6. Practical. sensible
pragmatic
irreverent
chimerical
reaffirm
7. Boring and tiresome
Remunerate
Unfettered
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
tedious
8. The act of blocking
dispatch
tacit
panache / verve / flamboyant
occlusion
9. A general commotion; an uproar
insurmountable
Furor
multiplicity
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
10. To deprive of some privilege - especially the right to vote
thwart / stymie
Disenfranchise
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
panache / verve / flamboyant
11. Lacking restraint; excessive
boon
intemperate
Esoteric - Arcane
Marginal - Peripheral
12. Disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful.
magnanimous
Visceral
vindictive
Lambaste
13. The property of being prompt and efficient
Lugubrious
Scintillating
thwart / stymie
dispatch
14. Mixed feelings
dispel
dimunitive
Elucidate
ambivalent
15. Harmless
halcyon
innocuous
tacit
Cacophony
16. Delete; remove
expunge / excise / expurgate
disparity
Obstreperous
Interloper
17. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit
beneficiary
recalcitrant / obdurate
squelch
Guile
18. A general agreement
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
Consensus
ominous
Triumvirate
19. Any respite or temporary relief.
reprieve
maverick
impecunious
enumerate
20. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
nebulous
malodorous
Beleaguer
21. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
indignant
specious
strident
zenith / apex
22. Hard to understand - impenetrably dense and obscure
Juxtaposition
Crystallize
renovate
Opaque
23. A person who gives gifts
Superfluous - Extraneous
Sedentary
benefactor
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
24. To declare invalid
Empirical
Brusque - Curt
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
Nullify
25. Indisputable; beyond doubt
Licentious
Juxtaposition
incontrovertible
circumspect / prudent
26. Scientific study of insects
conspicuous
itinerant
Entomology
Demarcation
27. Possible
audacious
viable / feasible
Ornate
iconoclast
28. Instinctive rather than irrational
unconventional / unorthodox
Hiatus
Visceral
intrepid / undaunted
29. Plain; simple
viable / feasible
Ignominious
spartan
distend
30. Charmingly rural
Superfluous - Extraneous
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
Unfettered
morose / despondent
31. A person who introduces something new
resurgent
Entrepreneur
Brusque - Curt
innovator
32. A person who makes predictions based on data
ostracize
magnanimous
redundant
prognosticator
33. Very brief; short lived
magnanimous
innocuous
fleeting / ephemeral
deride
34. Strong dislike
tenacious
vacillate
Accord
antipathy / animosity / rancor
35. A disloyal person
Complaisant
affectation
Underwrite
renegade
36. To break into opposing factions
polarize / divisive
resurgent
galvanize
spartan
37. Generous nad forgiving
belie
fleeting / ephemeral
naïve / gullible / credulous
magnanimous
38. To make a situation better
Quiescent
glacial
Ameliorate
naïve / gullible / credulous
39. A person who excels in telling anecdotes
sycophant / obsequious
raconteur
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
Aphorism - Axiom
40. To make a situation worse
Demarcation
magnanimous
Exacerbate
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
41. A veiled reference
innuendo
Scintillating
Placate
Solicitous
42. Abrupt in manner or speech: discourteously blunt
Brusque - Curt
abstemious
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
43. Relentless - unstoppable
resurgent
sycophant / obsequious
ominous
inexorable
44. Good-humored; cheerful
maverick
Opaque
spartan
jovial and jocular
45. A large number or amount
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
Solicitous
Dilatory
Spate
46. Very stubborn - defiant
Proscribe
recalcitrant / obdurate
amalgam
skeptic
47. Harmful - injurious to physical - mental - or moral health
impecunious
Restitution
circumscribe
Noxious
48. To narrowly restrict; to limit action; to draw a line around
Refractory
circumscribe
Enlighten - Edify
Consensus
49. Flowery in style - very ornate
Manifesto
Florid
diatribe / tirade
serendipity
50. A fake; a fraud; a cheat
Proscribe
charlatan
indigenous / endemic
deride
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