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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. Cautious; careful
austere
circumspect / prudent
odoriferous
profundity
2. A champion of a cause
impetus
Oblivious
proponent / advocate
Consternation
3. To surrender
Capitulate
Proscribe
nebulous
boorish / uncouth / crass
4. Plain; simple
Appeasement
Sedentary
autonomous
spartan
5. Very profitable
Egalitarian
punctilious
tacit
Lucrative
6. Overbearing; impertinently bold
galvanize
prognosticator
Underwrite
presumptuous
7. To grow rapidly; to expand
Burgeon
convoluted
maudlin
pragmatic
8. Lacking organization or logic
exemplary
superficial
incoherent
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
9. Sharing an edge or boundary - or touching
Censorious - Captious
Contiguous
mendacious
evocation
10. Careful; cautious
provocative
expunge / excise / expurgate
boorish / uncouth / crass
prudent
11. A wild uproar; tumult
diffident
Complicity
pandemonium
Pretext
12. An appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive
charlatan
Hiatus
aesthetic
Pernicious
13. A liar; deceiver
dissembler / prevaricator
Extravagant
innovator
Restitution
14. Excessive desire for wealth
Complicity
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Elan
Avarice - Cupidity
15. To reject; disreagard
dismissive
Juxtaposition
hedonist
antipathy / animosity / rancor
16. To strongly desire; to crave
temperate
covet
boorish / uncouth / crass
occlusion
17. Detestable; repulsive; extremely bad
Parsimonious
Munificent
Paranoia
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
18. Uneasy; in a state of embarrassment
Perfunctory
veracity
provocative
Discomfited
19. Agonizing physical or mental pain
conspicuous
anguish
tacit
indigenous / endemic
20. Not believable
indigenous / endemic
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
Complicity
implausible
21. Very determined; unwavering
austerity
beneficiary
Indomitable - Resolute
Indisputable
22. Highly critical; carping
Licentious
beneficiary
audacious
Censorious - Captious
23. Exercising moderation
gerrymander
Entomology
extirpate
temperate
24. Vague; lacking a fully developed form
Propitiate
Dilapidated
nebulous
zealot
25. A huge appetite; cannot be satisfied; insatiable
Autocrat - Despot
unconventional / unorthodox
veracity
voracious / ravenous
26. The lowest point
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
nadir
Juxtapose
relinquish
27. Joyous; sprightly; light; vivacious
Moribund
anguish
Blithe
Depreciation
28. To give a definite form to an idea or plan
fleeting / ephemeral
dismissive
Ameliorate
Crystallize
29. Quarrelsome: argumentative: likely to provoke a controversy - disputatious
Opaque
Contentious - Cantankerous
malodorous
debunk
30. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
Timorous
zealot
Profligate
Brusque - Curt
31. Pompous - or pretentious in speech or writing; ostentatiously lofty in side
Bombastic
tedious
hilarity
auspicious / propitious
32. A person who behaves in a servile manner; a toady
morose / despondent
diffident
sycophant / obsequious
Triumvirate
33. A seeming contradiction that expresses a truth
thwart / stymie
acrimonious
paradox
Remunerate
34. Very strict laws and rules
draconian
Exacerbate
Petulant
Consternation
35. Native to an area
indigenous / endemic
polarize / divisive
Chagrin
Prolific
36. Great bitterness
Opaque
acrimonious
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Nullify
37. A sudden realization or insightful moment
Extemporize - Improvise
draconian
rebuff
Epiphany
38. To make a situation better
curtail
Ameliorate
fortuitous
Nullify
39. The act of blocking
Ineffable
maverick
Caustic
occlusion
40. Happening or moving extremely slowly
trivial / minutiae
glacial
Precedent
Flummox
41. To list; to tick off
disparage
enumerate
reprobate
elusive
42. Many - numerous
Myriad
dearth / paucity
insinuate
strident
43. To break into opposing factions
innovator
polarize / divisive
pejorative
Prescribe
44. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
demagogue
boon
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
Duplicitous
45. Flexible; easily shaped especially by outside influence/ force
Depreciation
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
enumerate
amalgam
46. Formal proposal
multiplicity
partisan
prospectus
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
47. Foolishly impractical
quixotic
Empirical
Fecund
Flotsam
48. Intellectually productive or inventive - fertile
Indomitable - Resolute
Fecund
Profligate
Prescribe
49. The property of being prompt and efficient
ostracize
dispatch
Affluent - Opulent
auspicious / propitious
50. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
Cacophony
Vertiginous
voracious / ravenous
peremptory