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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. A doubter
hilarity
Credulous
skeptic
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
2. Harmful; injurious
diatribe / tirade
pundit
deleterious
partisan
3. Lack of interest or concern
indifferent / apathetic
partisan
austere
Proscribe
4. To regard with great respect - to hold in high esteem
Venerate - Revere
wry / droll
demagogue
affectation
5. Favoring social equality - believing in an equal society
Egalitarian
repudiate / recant / renounce
sycophant / obsequious
pompous
6. Habitually late; tardy
Avarice - Cupidity
Obsequious
Dilatory
Osmosis
7. A very enthusiastic person
zealot
clairvoyant
dispatch
fortitude
8. Hard to understand - impenetrably dense and obscure
Opaque
Crystallize
prodigy
Capitulate
9. Act/instance used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances
boorish / uncouth / crass
Superfluous - Extraneous
Precedent
Consensus
10. Agreeable; marked by a pleasing personality
Juxtaposition
dilettante
impeccable
Complaisant
11. Quarrelsome: argumentative: likely to provoke a controversy - disputatious
Excoriating - Scathing
Craven
incontrovertible
Contentious - Cantankerous
12. Habitually quiet; uncommunicative
pompous
Refractory
Obstreperous
Taciturn
13. Strong dislike
prattle
abstemious
antipathy / animosity / rancor
conjecture / supposition
14. Intentionally unclear or ambiguous; duplicitous; obscuring one's meaning - often in response to a question (unequivocal - equivocate)
equivocal
despoiled
Pernicious
zenith / apex
15. An inequality; an imbalance
Enlighten - Edify
Crystallize
disparity
Dilapidated
16. To inform or instruct to remove ignorance
impeccable
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
Enlighten - Edify
prudent
17. Very stubborn - defiant
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
recalcitrant / obdurate
exhort
Discomfited
18. Relentless - unstoppable
conjecture / supposition
austere
inexorable
Slight
19. To hold back one's thoughts and feelings
reticent
dirge
mellifluous
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
20. Showing great determination
Duplicitous
plausible
Inquisition
tenacious
21. Behaving in an obsequious manner
Fawn
enigmatic / inscrutable
benefactor
circumvent
22. Framework or model of thought
Paradigm
Visceral
disparity
resurgent
23. An appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive
aesthetic
fleeting / ephemeral
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
24. Very small
Parsimonious
Idiosyncrasy
Quiescent
dimunitive
25. Agreeable; friendly
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
Forbearance
Quiescent
punctilious
26. A scarcity or shortage
dearth / paucity
Cosmopolitan
tumultuous
dilettante
27. Not in harmony - incompatible - at variance with - as in a discordant detail that doesn't fit a pattern
auspicious / propitious
Watershed
juggernaut
Discordant
28. An imaginative recreation
nostalgia
aesthetic
Incredulous
evocation
29. No longer in use
Oblivious
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
Taciturn
relinquish
30. A strict disciplinarian
Complaisant
innuendo
Apocryphal
martinet
31. Calmness; composure
equanimity / unflappable
pejorative
Epiphany
zenith / apex
32. Agonizing physical or mental pain
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
synergy
anguish
Idiosyncrasy
33. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
Eclectic
Sedentary
Blithe
affectation
34. Poor; penniless; not affluent
thwart / stymie
vindicate
clandestine / surreptitious
impecunious
35. To ease; relieve; lessen
Marginal - Peripheral
indifferent / apathetic
modicum
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
36. Tending to give instruction or advice; inclined to teach others too much; containing a political/moral lesson
Perfunctory
raconteur
Didactic
Ignominious
37. Twisted; intricate
viable / feasible
fortitude
capricious / mercurial
convoluted
38. Lacking restraint; excessive
intemperate
Disquieting
audacious
Obstreperous
39. To make impossible - to rule out - to prevent
Myriad
Preclude
ominous
copious
40. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
extricate
Coerce
Obsequious
Unfettered
41. A remark that is hurtful or burning
autonomous
Caustic
recluse
cryptic
42. Harsh - clashing - jarring - grating sounds; disharmony
Cacophony
ascetic
Perfidious
proponent / advocate
43. To repel or drive back; to reject
rhetorican
innovator
rebuff
vindicate
44. Secretive; not aboveboard; covert
flag
distend
Eclectic
clandestine / surreptitious
45. A clumsy or inept person
acolyte
bungler
Inquisition
Noxious
46. Possible
Underwrite
ostracize
circumspect / prudent
viable / feasible
47. Abstaining from the enforcement of a right; the act of refraining from acting on a desire or impulse
Unfettered
dispatch
spartan
Forbearance
48. A disloyal person
renegade
impetus
temperate
implausible
49. Mobile; not sedentary
itinerant
Venerate - Revere
voracious / ravenous
Superfluous - Extraneous
50. Not ordinary or typical
Osmosis
dispel
unconventional / unorthodox
Obdurate - Intransigent