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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. Threatening and menacing
Furor
ominous
ostracize
vicarious
2. Fickle; constantly shifting moods
boorish / uncouth / crass
capricious / mercurial
Superfluous - Extraneous
Paradigm
3. Denounce or strongly criticize
implausible
curtail
Lambaste
Cacophony
4. Sharing an edge or boundary - or touching
Contiguous
Cacophony
Duplicitous
peremptory
5. Cowardly - faint hearted
resurgent
indifferent / apathetic
Craven
jovial and jocular
6. To give something back
relinquish
rebuff
Visceral
upbraid / reproach / castigate
7. To make clear or plain - especially by explanation
Convivial
dismissive
Elucidate
Petulant
8. Lukewarm; mild; half-hearted
Tepid
intrepid / undaunted
Indomitable - Resolute
copious
9. Agreeable; marked by a pleasing personality
pompous
bungler
Complaisant
spartan
10. A person who makes predictions based on data
Complicity
Entrepreneur
prognosticator
Demography
11. Robbed - ruined - pillaged - looted
presumptuous
Coerce
redundant
despoiled
12. A person who is impassive and emotionless
devoid
stoic
Myriad
Censorious - Captious
13. A deliberately misleading argument
sophistry
thwart / stymie
Conundrum
Proscribe
14. Very strict laws and rules
pejorative
draconian
dissembler / prevaricator
iconoclast
15. Flexible; easily shaped especially by outside influence/ force
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
convoluted
prospectus
relinquish
16. Admirably suited; apt.
enumerate
Avarice - Cupidity
polarize / divisive
felicitous
17. A timely benefit
reprieve
Idiosyncrasy
boon
gratuitous
18. To treat as unimportant; ignore deliberately; disrespect
anachronism
penchant / predilection
Slight
Demarcation
19. Very profitable
Nuance
clairvoyant
Lucrative
ostracize
20. Insightful - perceptive
tenacious
halcyon
Visceral
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
21. Belittle;slight
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
bowdlerize
disparage
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
22. Seeker of pleasure
hedonist
anguish
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
nebulous
23. Believable
plausible
gerrymander
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
Superfluous - Extraneous
24. Outrage at something that is unjust
indignant
reaffirm
convoluted
specious
25. To drive away; scatter
Appeasement
dispel
Complaisant
nefarious
26. Disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful.
Exonerate - Exculpate
Moribund
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
vindictive
27. To fall off in vigor - energy - activity - interest - etc
flag
Didactic
Nuance
dearth / paucity
28. A sentimental longing for the past
synergy
callous
impecunious
nostalgia
29. Tentative - temporary - not lasting
Supercilious
Provisional
Quiescent
Idyllic
30. Many - numerous
Coerce
Myriad
amalgam
Conundrum
31. An irresistible force
juggernaut
provocative
dilettante
sonorous
32. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
circumspect / prudent
Sinecure
spartan
Idiosyncrasy
33. Of doubtful authenticity; false; spurious
Apocryphal
Ostentatious
Disenfranchise
Preclude
34. Unrestrained: unchecked
evocation
Didactic
Rampant
zenith / apex
35. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
Ignominious
morose / despondent
Protean
Oblivious
36. Something of small value; petty; trifling
picayune
pandemonium
Vacuous - Inane
Dilapidated
37. Instinctive rather than irrational
Visceral
Depreciation
circuitous
squelch
38. A statement universally accepted as true - a maxim
Aphorism - Axiom
distend
upbraid / reproach / castigate
Didactic
39. A group or association of three leaders
Triumvirate
fortuitous
strident
pejorative
40. Great in depth of feeling - intellect or meaning
squelch
Cosmopolitan
profundity
itinerant
41. Quarrelsome: argumentative: likely to provoke a controversy - disputatious
Capitulate
irreverent
Contentious - Cantankerous
fastidious
42. To stop; frustrate
indigenous / endemic
malodorous
thwart / stymie
deride
43. Detestable; repulsive; extremely bad
Lucrative
magnanimous
Remunerate
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
44. Sociable; fond of feasting - drinking - and good company
quixotic
Aplomb
prodigy
Convivial
45. Outstanding
Entomology
Obstreperous
malodorous
exemplary
46. To sway from once side to the other; oscillate.
vacillate
tedious
Profligate
fortitude
47. A beginner
Idiosyncrasy
innocuous
hilarity
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
48. A person who introduces something new
innovator
flag
diatribe / tirade
equanimity / unflappable
49. Unable to pay; out of money (solvent - solvency - soluble - insoluble)
paradox
Brusque - Curt
circumvent
insolvent
50. To be guided by practical experience - not theory
Empirical
Nuance
Dilatory
Taciturn