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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. To hold back one's thoughts and feelings
reticent
jovial and jocular
vicarious
disparity
2. Framework or model of thought
Paradigm
thwart / stymie
Manifesto
Vertiginous
3. Harmful; injurious
fortitude
iconoclast
Paranoia
deleterious
4. Policy of granting concessions to maintain peace
resurgent
pragmatic
Prescribe
Appeasement
5. Very profitable
Lucrative
demise
impeccable
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
6. A sentimental longing for the past
Coerce
Ameliorate
innovator
nostalgia
7. To beset; to surround with problems
tacit
ominous
Entrepreneur
Beleaguer
8. Easily convinced; tending to - believe to readily - gullible
Credulous
Aplomb
prudent
impecunious
9. To make a situation worse
Ignominious
rhetorican
evocation
Exacerbate
10. Minor - everyday details
laconic / succint / terse
trivial / minutiae
fastidious
Prolific
11. To put down with comtemptuous jeering
deride
oracle
mendacious
Insidious
12. Touching; heartrending
poignant
partisan
Demography
dissembler / prevaricator
13. Behaving in an obsequious manner
Fawn
Magisterial
prudent
demagogue
14. An independent person
upbraid / reproach / castigate
maverick
Caustic
implacable
15. Lacking foresight or scope
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
reticent
Propitiate
myopic
16. Combined action or operation
synergy
indulgent
deleterious
extirpate
17. An imaginative recreation
evocation
Interloper
Triumvirate
Munificent
18. Not capable of being overcome
insurmountable
Crystallize
erroneous
acrimonious
19. A disloyal person
Precedent
equanimity / unflappable
renegade
ambiguous
20. To swell out or expand from internal pressure (overly full)
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
juggernaut
felicitous
distend
21. To remove or delete objectionable parts of a book
myopic
disparage
bowdlerize
Unprecedented
22. A person who receives benefits
circumspect / prudent
Watershed
beneficiary
rejuvenate
23. Moderate in eating and drinking
abstemious
trivial / minutiae
penchant / predilection
erroneous
24. Uneasy; in a state of embarrassment
tenacious
Discomfited
Proliferate
implausible
25. Lying; untrustful
thwart / stymie
mendacious
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
26. Sharp; clear; clever; keen; perceptive; discriminating; astute
Chagrin
fleeting / ephemeral
incisive
dimunitive
27. To grow rapidly; to expand
Burgeon
sycophant / obsequious
Watershed
quixotic
28. Expressing strong disapproval; condemning; loudly decrying
draconian
Complaisant
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Excoriating - Scathing
29. Flowery in style - very ornate
austerity
skeptic
Florid
Munificent
30. Doomed to failure
Timorous
insolvent
Manifesto
futile
31. Showing great determination
tenacious
Propitiate
Disheartening
disparage
32. A difficult problem; a dilemma with no easy solution
aural
viable / feasible
Conundrum
ominous
33. An excuse - an alleged cause
insolvent
Pretext
Proscribe
Vituperative
34. An accidental but fortunate occurence
Underwrite
fortuitous
Ineffable
prognosticator
35. An eloquent writer or speaker
Indisputable
dissembler / prevaricator
rhetorican
dilettante
36. To get out of a difficult situation
extricate
Gestate
Tepid
Obstreperous
37. An odd - unconventional person
squelch
Proliferate
vindictive
eccentric
38. To rise again; surge back
Chagrin
resurgent
automation
affectation
39. An intruder: a gate-crasher
inexorable
Lambaste
Interloper
Guile
40. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
strident
amalgam
boorish / uncouth / crass
Solicitous
41. W/o previous example - never known before
Unprecedented
nadir
futile
dirge
42. Highly critical; carping
Didactic
Disheartening
indulgent
Censorious - Captious
43. To divide a district so as to give one side an advantage
amalgam
pragmatic
gerrymander
Duplicitous
44. Belittle;slight
reprobate
eccentric
Sedentary
disparage
45. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit
anomaly / atypical
Guile
pandemic
prattle
46. Lacking organization or logic
impetus
despoiled
incoherent
evocation
47. To free from guilt or blame
Venal
Exonerate - Exculpate
morose / despondent
Crystallize
48. Marked by inactivity OR in a state of quiet repose
Quiescent
Vituperative
Egalitarian
equanimity / unflappable
49. Delete; remove
Dessicated
synergy
expunge / excise / expurgate
conspicuous
50. Unselfish concern for others
Interloper
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
altruistic
Obstreperous