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SAT Vocab - 2
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1. Self-assurance - admirable ploys under pressure
Egalitarian
pandemonium
Aplomb
fortuitous
2. An odd - unconventional person
Extemporize - Improvise
eccentric
Autocrat - Despot
Perfunctory
3. To sway from once side to the other; oscillate.
relinquish
Opaque
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
vacillate
4. Quarrelsome: argumentative: likely to provoke a controversy - disputatious
Contentious - Cantankerous
plausible
aesthetic
strident
5. Careful; cautious
dilettante
Spate
prudent
Excoriating - Scathing
6. Gradual - often unconscious - process of assimilation
affectation
circumvent
Osmosis
Excoriating - Scathing
7. Widespread epidemic
vicarious
gerrymander
pandemic
Disheartening
8. Formal proposal
dilettante
prospectus
antipathy / animosity / rancor
gerrymander
9. Habitually quiet; uncommunicative
Provisional
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
Taciturn
equivocal
10. A subtle shade of meaning or feeling - a slight degree of difference
copious
Nuance
Obfuscate
Opaque
11. Commonplace
Oblivious
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Disingenuous
dissembler / prevaricator
12. A person who gives gifts
renegade
benefactor
Spate
Euphony
13. Instinctive rather than irrational
irreverent
Obstreperous
ascetic
Visceral
14. Showy; intended to attract notice; pretentious
Ostentatious
Spate
rejuvenate
voracious / ravenous
15. Highly injurious - destructive - deadly
vindictive
Pernicious
Nonplus - Confounded
Empirical
16. The final ending of something; the downfall
nonchalant
demise
Flummox
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
17. A person who is impassive and emotionless
stoic
juggernaut
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
byzantine
18. Unnecessary; extra
fastidious
Superfluous - Extraneous
evocation
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
19. Harmful; injurious
Obsequious
presumptuous
deleterious
juggernaut
20. To force or act by using pressure
Solicitous
viable / feasible
Coerce
affectation
21. A stimulus or encouragement
Vertiginous
Manifesto
distend
impetus
22. An intruder: a gate-crasher
squelch
unconventional / unorthodox
Interloper
innuendo
23. Treacherous - traitorous - deceitful
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
Perfidious
Obdurate - Intransigent
distend
24. Mobile; not sedentary
Duplicitous
Complicity
itinerant
Pernicious
25. To put down by exposing false claims
debunk
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
decry
reprehensible
26. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
Catalyst
Redolent
Vertiginous
tenacious
27. Misconduct/wrongdoing - especially by a public official
indigenous / endemic
belie
Malfeasance
Aphorism - Axiom
28. Agonizing physical or mental pain
anguish
Fecund
Perfidious
Histrionic - Overwrought
29. Native to an area
trivial / minutiae
naïve / gullible / credulous
indigenous / endemic
ubiquitous
30. Abrupt in manner or speech: discourteously blunt
upbraid / reproach / castigate
Brusque - Curt
fleeting / ephemeral
debunk
31. To avoid by artful maneuvering
ambiguous
bowdlerize
circumvent
raze
32. Delete; remove
ominous
Contiguous
synergy
expunge / excise / expurgate
33. A person who hates humankind
zealot
bowdlerize
Extravagant
misanthrope
34. A temporary solution designed to meet an urgent need
skeptic
Stopgap
anomaly / atypical
autonomous
35. To beset; to surround with problems
Beleaguer
Unprecedented
laconic / succint / terse
draconian
36. To crush as if by trampling; squash
squelch
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
Unprecedented
Cosmopolitan
37. To grow rapidly; to expand
resurgent
viable / feasible
Pernicious
Burgeon
38. A person who receives benefits
beneficiary
tumultuous
Redolent
Caustic
39. A preceding event
Ameliorate
Ostentatious
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
sonorous
40. Any decrease or loss in value caused by age - wear - or market conditions
Depreciation
Apocryphal
copious
voracious / ravenous
41. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
Elan
Flotsam
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
profundity
42. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
gerrymander
capricious / mercurial
Superfluous - Extraneous
Sinecure
43. Casual indifference
Entrepreneur
Excoriating - Scathing
nonchalant
spartan
44. Very discouraging
Restitution
Disheartening
nefarious
stoic
45. Felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another
equanimity / unflappable
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
vicarious
skeptic
46. Lacking proper respect; disrepectful
decry
irreverent
rejuvenate
bowdlerize
47. Easily convinced; tending to - believe to readily - gullible
Demography
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
redundant
Credulous
48. A fake; a fraud; a cheat
charlatan
Elucidate
intrepid / undaunted
Esoteric - Arcane
49. An imaginative recreation
Coerce
Prolific
Juxtaposition
evocation
50. Relentless - unstoppable
antipathy / animosity / rancor
malodorous
dearth / paucity
inexorable
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