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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. Fickle; constantly shifting moods
pompous
Nonplus - Confounded
capricious / mercurial
Malfeasance
2. Sensational - shocking - or ghastly
Lurid
Enfranchise
Interloper
proponent / advocate
3. A vigorous spirit or great enthusiasm
Vacuous - Inane
equanimity / unflappable
Elan
polarize / divisive
4. A devoted student
acolyte
Imperious
Disingenuous
amalgam
5. Failure to reach an agreement
impasse
circuitous
relinquish
pandemic
6. Denounce or strongly criticize
Supercilious
enigmatic / inscrutable
Lambaste
distend
7. Agreeable; friendly
Gestate
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
provocative
Noxious
8. A champion of a cause
Opaque
laconic / succint / terse
proponent / advocate
Slight
9. Insensitive
callous
occlusion
Unprecedented
misanthrope
10. A large number or amount
Exacerbate
tumultuous
prototype
Spate
11. Direct opposite
vapid
acolyte
prototype
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
12. To forbid; to prohibit; to outlaw
Proscribe
Capitulate
mellifluous
reprobate
13. Worldly; sophisticated; open-minded and aware of the big picture
spartan
Cosmopolitan
indifferent / apathetic
Catalyst
14. Boring and tiresome
Forbearance
aesthetic
Watershed
tedious
15. Harmful; injurious
deleterious
Demarcation
Accord
dispel
16. Very productive
Prolific
mendacious
naïve / gullible / credulous
Petulant
17. An odd - unconventional person
pandemonium
voracious / ravenous
multiplicity
eccentric
18. A sudden realization or insightful moment
pompous
dissembler / prevaricator
Perfidious
Epiphany
19. An excuse - an alleged cause
naïve / gullible / credulous
halcyon
Pretext
Lugubrious
20. Intellectually productive or inventive - fertile
ominous
dimunitive
serendipity
Fecund
21. To electrify; to stir into action
automation
panache / verve / flamboyant
galvanize
Visceral
22. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
intrepid / undaunted
dismissive
ubiquitous
demagogue
23. A speaker who appeals to emotions - fears or prejudices
juggernaut
nebulous
Duplicitous
demagogue
24. Not capable of being overcome
insurmountable
sophistry
bowdlerize
Discomfited
25. To force or act by using pressure
Coerce
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
Quiescent
enumerate
26. Language that is bitterly hostile or hateful
spartan
Virulent
Cacophony
Disenfranchise
27. Out of reach; difficult to catch
elusive
Disingenuous
Gestate
thwart / stymie
28. A public declaration of beliefs - policies - or intentions
Manifesto
tacit
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Cacophony
29. Highly injurious - destructive - deadly
Discordant
Pernicious
Contentious - Cantankerous
Entomology
30. To level to the ground; demolish
dismissive
raze
Ungainly
Complicity
31. An amateur or dabbler
dilettante
despoiled
Ornate
Obfuscate
32. Very poor - lacking resources
pompous
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
enumerate
ascetic
33. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Unfettered
zenith / apex
Autocrat - Despot
34. Poor; penniless; not affluent
Venal
Refractory
impecunious
multiplicity
35. A severe interrogation or a systematic questioning
Inquisition
Forbearance
Accord
indigenous / endemic
36. A person who introduces something new
picayune
innovator
Idiosyncrasy
jovial and jocular
37. Robbed - ruined - pillaged - looted
despoiled
Idiosyncrasy
Demography
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
38. Lacking organization or logic
incoherent
reprieve
malodorous
Convivial
39. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly
Affluent - Opulent
ascetic
jaded
tacit
40. A young genius
insinuate
implacable
Preclude
prodigy
41. Commonplace
squelch
presumptuous
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Enlighten - Edify
42. A person who leads a life of self-denial
bungler
ascetic
boon
circumscribe
43. Deception by subterfuge; deliberate trickery
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Pernicious
Chicanery
Discomfited
44. The study of characteristics of human population
Aphorism - Axiom
hilarity
Excoriating - Scathing
Demography
45. Harsh - clashing - jarring - grating sounds; disharmony
Indisputable
Cacophony
reprobate
innovator
46. To hold back one's thoughts and feelings
reticent
Flippant - Facetious
nefarious
partisan
47. An intruder: a gate-crasher
renegade
odoriferous
capricious / mercurial
Interloper
48. Habitually late; tardy
Dilatory
extirpate
Bombastic
polarize / divisive
49. Detached; reserved
aloof
mendacious
Lugubrious
deride
50. To give a definite form to an idea or plan
Rampant
Crystallize
Propitiate
Nuance