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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. Mobile; not sedentary
itinerant
Moribund
thwart / stymie
copious
2. Very calm; quiet
Sanguine
placid / serence
analogy / analagous
dirge
3. Scientific study of insects
Entomology
Prescribe
fiasco / debacle
strident
4. To make new again
vindicate
renovate
glacial
Supercilious
5. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly
Obdurate - Intransigent
Caustic
dispel
tacit
6. A very enthusiastic person
fortitude
Egalitarian
Cosmopolitan
zealot
7. A person who introduces something new
punctilious
innovator
Scintillating
hilarity
8. Lying; untrustful
implacable
innocuous
placid / serence
mendacious
9. To strongly desire; to crave
Elucidate
covet
proponent / advocate
audacious
10. Gruesome (repugnant) ; grisly.
Sanguine
morbid
jaded
dissembler / prevaricator
11. Of doubtful authenticity; false; spurious
peremptory
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Apocryphal
devoid
12. Harsh - clashing - jarring - grating sounds; disharmony
Proscribe
Cacophony
sophistry
Nullify
13. Not capable of being overcome
insurmountable
maudlin
Capitulate
dimunitive
14. To assert again
reprieve
reaffirm
mentor
Redolent
15. Behaving in an obsequious manner
Fawn
Depreciation
tactile
Sinecure
16. Good-humored; cheerful
jovial and jocular
Ameliorate
impetus
Obfuscate
17. Dry humor
nefarious
Proliferate
peremptory
wry / droll
18. A source of harm
bane
amalgam
automation
Tepid
19. To deliberately confuse; to make something so confusing it's hard to understand
autonomous
pandemonium
Obfuscate
strident
20. A funeral hymn; mournful music
Slight
dirge
resurgent
Nuance
21. A remark that is hurtful or burning
vicarious
Licentious
Caustic
Brusque - Curt
22. Commonplace
benefactor
Coerce
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
reaffirm
23. Not capable of being appeased
Accord
Petulant
martinet
implacable
24. Extremely wicked; vile
nefarious
flag
Incredulous
squelch
25. A strict disciplinarian
Demography
extirpate
martinet
Epiphany
26. Very profitable
Dilapidated
naïve / gullible / credulous
Lucrative
devoid
27. Easily convinced; tending to - believe to readily - gullible
indulgent
anachronism
Protean
Credulous
28. To surrender
Ignominious
prudent
Capitulate
provocative
29. Indisputable; beyond doubt
incontrovertible
Paradigm
ubiquitous
clandestine / surreptitious
30. Intellectually productive or inventive - fertile
Vacuous - Inane
aloof
Fecund
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
31. Annoyingly talkative
bane
Consternation
enumerate
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
32. To make young again
vicarious
Incredulous
implacable
rejuvenate
33. Feeling of distress caused by failure - distress - or embarrassment
Fecund
Noxious
Watershed
Chagrin
34. Mysterious; baffling
Perfidious
fleeting / ephemeral
Dessicated
enigmatic / inscrutable
35. Awkwardly; clumsy - not graceful
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Flippant - Facetious
Eclectic
Ungainly
36. An inequality; an imbalance
benefactor
sophistry
disparity
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
37. Framework or model of thought
Idyllic
Unfettered
extricate
Paradigm
38. Sad mournful - melancholic
Lugubrious
Enfranchise
Dessicated
Lucrative
39. Relevant - to the point
Pertinent
boon
Moribund
Unfettered
40. The floating wreckage of a ship; debris
Flotsam
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Petulant
Extravagant
41. Very stubborn - defiant
Eclectic
Bombastic
recalcitrant / obdurate
Duplicitous
42. Great in depth of feeling - intellect or meaning
profundity
odoriferous
dismissive
renovate
43. Outrage at something that is unjust
fleeting / ephemeral
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Entomology
indignant
44. Harmless
devoid
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
tenacious
innocuous
45. A bitter denunciation
Contentious - Cantankerous
diatribe / tirade
magnanimous
misanthrope
46. Very stubborn; inflexible
relinquish
Obdurate - Intransigent
raconteur
circumspect / prudent
47. Showy; intended to attract notice; pretentious
eccentric
Ostentatious
Elan
innuendo
48. A severe interrogation or a systematic questioning
Eclectic
Didactic
Furor
Inquisition
49. To stop; frustrate
tawdry
inexorable
prototype
thwart / stymie
50. To make clear or plain - especially by explanation
Elucidate
abstemious
pandemonium
byzantine