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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. Charmingly simple and carefree
Virulent
Idyllic
Licentious
Ineffable
2. To treat as unimportant; ignore deliberately; disrespect
Slight
renovate
Disquieting
Sedentary
3. Of great importance
Imperious
dispel
Extravagant
momentous
4. W/o previous example - never known before
Lurid
Unprecedented
dirge
insolvent
5. Framework or model of thought
deride
Paradigm
raze
presumptuous
6. To confuse or perplex; utterly dumbfounded
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
Proliferate
Noxious
Flummox
7. To cut short or reduce
magnanimous
aloof
curtail
diffident
8. Harsh - clashing - jarring - grating sounds; disharmony
despoiled
ambiguous
Cacophony
Protean
9. Unclear; not definitive
Obstreperous
Osmosis
ambiguous
Brusque - Curt
10. Careful; cautious
dispel
prudent
Affluent - Opulent
covet
11. Great in depth of feeling - intellect or meaning
incoherent
profundity
Complaisant
ascetic
12. Very determined; unwavering
callous
Craven
Indomitable - Resolute
momentous
13. Foul smelling
malodorous
multiplicity
Fecund
Apocryphal
14. To reject; disreagard
conjecture / supposition
implacable
dismissive
Idyllic
15. Instinctive rather than irrational
Eclectic
Visceral
dearth / paucity
innocuous
16. Idyllically calm and tranquil
glacial
enumerate
demise
halcyon
17. Calmness; composure
curtail
Exacerbate
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
equanimity / unflappable
18. Producing a deep or full sound
innocuous
sonorous
veracity
Ignominious
19. A general agreement
Consensus
boorish / uncouth / crass
innocuous
mentor
20. A bitter denunciation
Fawn
diatribe / tirade
rhetorican
Cacophony
21. Worn out; wearied.
conjecture / supposition
dearth / paucity
charlatan
jaded
22. Robbed - ruined - pillaged - looted
irreverent
despoiled
Prescribe
Entrepreneur
23. Great merriment
Protean
galvanize
spartan
hilarity
24. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit
Guile
poignant
Interloper
Catalyst
25. Boring and tiresome
rhetorican
tedious
Consternation
Refractory
26. To declare invalid
nebulous
Nullify
Paradigm
affectation
27. Twisted; intricate
convoluted
Demography
Indomitable - Resolute
prodigy
28. A remark that is hurtful or burning
Pristine
Guile
hilarity
Caustic
29. A timely benefit
redundant
boon
renegade
Spate
30. Fickle; constantly shifting moods
capricious / mercurial
indigenous / endemic
Provisional
despondent / forlorn
31. A sentimental longing for the past
Didactic
jovial and jocular
nostalgia
Catalyst
32. To rise again; surge back
covet
Contentious - Cantankerous
resurgent
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
33. An original model
prototype
reprehensible
renovate
Nullify
34. To repel or drive back; to reject
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
rebuff
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Flotsam
35. A clumsy or inept person
impeccable
Cosmopolitan
bungler
reprehensible
36. Unselfish concern for others
altruistic
Brusque - Curt
recalcitrant / obdurate
Manifesto
37. An appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive
laconic / succint / terse
aesthetic
benefactor
evocation
38. A person who hates humankind
raconteur
misanthrope
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
strident
39. Easily convinced; tending to - believe to readily - gullible
expunge / excise / expurgate
fortuitous
Credulous
Quiescent
40. Very brief; short lived
fleeting / ephemeral
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
tacit
Autocrat - Despot
41. Intellectual rather than emotional
superficial
Didactic
clandestine / surreptitious
Cerebral
42. Noisily and stubbornly defiant
Obstreperous
Elan
halcyon
clairvoyant
43. Dying - on the way out - approaching that
disparage
Elan
Moribund
prognosticator
44. A fake; a fraud; a cheat
punctilious
picayune
cryptic
charlatan
45. To remove or delete objectionable parts of a book
Catalyst
dirge
bowdlerize
Indomitable - Resolute
46. To stop; frustrate
thwart / stymie
Pretext
intemperate
aural
47. Independent
Exacerbate
Proliferate
Preclude
autonomous
48. A funeral hymn; mournful music
Nullify
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
impetus
dirge
49. Of or related to the ear or the sense of hearing
futile
aural
misanthrope
Elucidate
50. To express strong disapproval
halcyon
decry
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
flag