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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Treacherous - traitorous - deceitful
provocative
Perfidious
Restitution
tenacious
2. To give a false impression
Cosmopolitan
Crystallize
myopic
belie
3. To stop; frustrate
thwart / stymie
erroneous
elusive
sonorous
4. To declare invalid
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Nullify
Eschew
impeccable
5. Awkwardly; clumsy - not graceful
Ungainly
gerrymander
specious
ominous
6. Harmful; injurious
deleterious
deride
chimerical
amalgam
7. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
circumscribe
deride
Taciturn
affectation
8. Very stubborn; inflexible
equivocal
Preclude
Obdurate - Intransigent
vindictive
9. A speaker who appeals to emotions - fears or prejudices
Extemporize - Improvise
demagogue
cryptic
Censorious - Captious
10. Relevant - to the point
Disingenuous
Pertinent
Profligate
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
11. Fickle; constantly shifting moods
nonchalant
capricious / mercurial
tumultuous
Conundrum
12. Of doubtful authenticity; false; spurious
Apocryphal
reprobate
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Entrepreneur
13. Obstinately resistant to authority or control
Furor
indifferent / apathetic
Refractory
Extravagant
14. Very stubborn - defiant
Effusive
insurmountable
recalcitrant / obdurate
sycophant / obsequious
15. Commonplace
Venerate - Revere
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Avarice - Cupidity
Chicanery
16. A person who leads a life of self-denial
reprieve
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
convoluted
ascetic
17. Self-assurance - admirable ploys under pressure
Hiatus
Contentious - Cantankerous
Aplomb
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
18. Gradual - often unconscious - process of assimilation
morbid
callous
Osmosis
maudlin
19. Excessively sentimental
Precedent
renegade
maudlin
ambiguous
20. Bossy; tending to cut others off; dismissive; officious (peremptorily - preempt)
dearth / paucity
recalcitrant / obdurate
peremptory
Demarcation
21. A sudden realization or insightful moment
Opaque
Didactic
Epiphany
Caustic
22. The property of being prompt and efficient
despondent / forlorn
dispatch
Visceral
Paranoia
23. A tendency toward or irrational suspiciousness; irrational fear; delusions of persecution
Interloper
Paranoia
Obstreperous
Obdurate - Intransigent
24. An appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive
Pertinent
aesthetic
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Excoriating - Scathing
25. A mixture; combination of different elements
amalgam
disparage
Fawn
Pretext
26. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
Apocryphal
repudiate / recant / renounce
demagogue
Ignominious
27. Admirably suited; apt.
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
felicitous
copious
28. Carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
pompous
Disingenuous
demise
fastidious
29. Noisy and disorderly
Flummox
tumultuous
Superfluous - Extraneous
deleterious
30. Empty - lacking serious purpose
Vacuous - Inane
innovator
Elan
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
31. A person with biased beliefs
panache / verve / flamboyant
Enfranchise
partisan
Juxtaposition
32. Noisily and stubbornly defiant
Idiosyncrasy
Obstreperous
Rampant
Juxtapose
33. To introduce or communicate stealthily
multiplicity
insinuate
Catalyst
dismissive
34. Act/instance used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances
acquiesce
innovator
Precedent
Redolent
35. Excessively cheap with money - stingy
Myriad
Parsimonious
plausible
Enfranchise
36. Cautious; careful
circumspect / prudent
Demography
conjecture / supposition
equanimity / unflappable
37. Behaving in an obsequious manner
Fawn
Proliferate
Oblivious
gratuitous
38. A public declaration of beliefs - policies - or intentions
flag
Obstreperous
Manifesto
impetus
39. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
nefarious
Munificent
dispel
Duplicitous
40. Filled with errors; wrong
aloof
Entomology
bungler
erroneous
41. Insightful - perceptive
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
vindictive
demise
Demarcation
42. Boring and tiresome
Propitiate
Solicitous
Scintillating
tedious
43. A bitter denunciation
dispel
penchant / predilection
diatribe / tirade
proponent / advocate
44. Great vigor and energy - dash
Triumvirate
momentous
panache / verve / flamboyant
evocation
45. To put down by exposing false claims
Hiatus
debunk
Epiphany
austere
46. To drive away; scatter
insurmountable
dispel
synergy
trivial / minutiae
47. Joyous; sprightly; light; vivacious
Blithe
Juxtapose
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
veracity
48. To take back; disavow
repudiate / recant / renounce
austerity
impeccable
Fecund
49. Lax in attending to duty; negligent
remiss
veracity
punctilious
implacable
50. Misconduct/wrongdoing - especially by a public official
Exacerbate
Malfeasance
Perfidious
morose / despondent