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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. Abrupt in manner or speech: discourteously blunt
Dessicated
charlatan
Brusque - Curt
indifferent / apathetic
2. To babble incessantly
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
prattle
punctilious
Paradigm
3. Deception by subterfuge; deliberate trickery
panache / verve / flamboyant
Chicanery
rhetorican
Ineffable
4. Marked by inactivity OR in a state of quiet repose
despoiled
Quiescent
affectation
Gestate
5. Harsh - clashing - jarring - grating sounds; disharmony
Cacophony
ominous
paradox
ascetic
6. Derisive mocking comments
wry / droll
vindicate
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
Obstreperous
7. State of great dismay & confusion
Chicanery
Discordant
innovator
Consternation
8. A sudden realization or insightful moment
Epiphany
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
rejuvenate
Sedentary
9. Sharing an edge or boundary - or touching
Ineffable
Contiguous
iconoclast
prodigy
10. Circular and therefore indirect
rhetorican
circuitous
byzantine
Quiescent
11. To increase rapidly
hedonist
reprieve
erroneous
Proliferate
12. Causing hard in a subtle or stealthy manner; devious
Insidious
clairvoyant
prattle
picayune
13. Feeling of distress caused by failure - distress - or embarrassment
Nuance
Chagrin
Burgeon
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
14. Threatening and menacing
hedonist
devoid
deride
ominous
15. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
Ignominious
Pristine
denounce
exemplary
16. Characterized by knowledge that is known only to a small group of specialists; obscure; recondite
gratuitous
Esoteric - Arcane
clandestine / surreptitious
Obstreperous
17. To put down with comtemptuous jeering
Discomfited
deride
Aphorism - Axiom
Venal
18. State of being various or manifold; a great number
fortitude
multiplicity
Indisputable
Didactic
19. Widespread epidemic
insinuate
pandemic
placid / serence
Interloper
20. A seeming contradiction that expresses a truth
Petulant
Cacophony
paradox
Accord
21. To conceive and develop in the mind
Refractory
Credulous
Unfettered
Gestate
22. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
strident
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
Myriad
momentous
23. The property of being prompt and efficient
ubiquitous
dispatch
beneficiary
Virulent
24. Many - numerous
Imperious
Myriad
enumerate
Lucrative
25. Instinctive rather than irrational
viable / feasible
exhort
Sinecure
Visceral
26. Empty - lacking serious purpose
equanimity / unflappable
erroneous
Vacuous - Inane
Solicitous
27. Lacking foresight or scope
mellifluous
flag
halcyon
myopic
28. An original model
clandestine / surreptitious
innovator
bane
prototype
29. Annoyingly talkative
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Aphorism - Axiom
30. A timely benefit
Unprecedented
boon
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Taciturn
31. Habitually quiet; uncommunicative
erroneous
irreverent
equanimity / unflappable
Taciturn
32. Deserving great blame; wicked; evil
reprehensible
irreverent
Censorious - Captious
dispatch
33. To free from blame
Coerce
Flippant - Facetious
vindicate
Fawn
34. Moderate in eating and drinking
abstemious
clandestine / surreptitious
ambiguous
remiss
35. A large number or amount
Obdurate - Intransigent
Spate
Osmosis
Extemporize - Improvise
36. A preceding event
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
rhetorican
recluse
boorish / uncouth / crass
37. Adherence to the truth; truthfulness
veracity
pandemonium
dismissive
Triumvirate
38. A difficult problem; a dilemma with no easy solution
boorish / uncouth / crass
Discordant
Conundrum
peremptory
39. Of doubtful authenticity; false; spurious
mellifluous
sycophant / obsequious
Apocryphal
tacit
40. Given freely; unearned; unnecessary
gratuitous
enigmatic / inscrutable
myopic
acrimonious
41. Something performed in a spiritless - mechanical - and routine manner
Chicanery
Perfunctory
felicitous
equivocal
42. Ill-tempered; rude; lacking civility
poignant
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
erroneous
deleterious
43. Disbelieving - skeptical
picayune
Juxtapose
resilient
Incredulous
44. Gradual - often unconscious - process of assimilation
copious
Vertiginous
Disquieting
Osmosis
45. Strength of mind
fortitude
Elan
Idiosyncrasy
impeccable
46. A group or association of three leaders
vacillate
Triumvirate
rebuff
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
47. Showing great determination
insurmountable
Obsequious
charlatan
tenacious
48. Very generous
Munificent
Elucidate
sonorous
wry / droll
49. Insensitive
demise
callous
malodorous
dilettante
50. Intentionally unclear or ambiguous; duplicitous; obscuring one's meaning - often in response to a question (unequivocal - equivocate)
thwart / stymie
equivocal
distend
Chagrin