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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Harmful - injurious to physical - mental - or moral health
Redolent
diatribe / tirade
presumptuous
Noxious
2. Of secondary importance; not central;on the perimeter
mentor
Interloper
Marginal - Peripheral
exorbitant
3. A person who introduces something new
hilarity
bane
innovator
bowdlerize
4. Sharp; clear; clever; keen; perceptive; discriminating; astute
redundant
incisive
superficial
exemplary
5. A wild uproar; tumult
pandemonium
Juxtaposition
renegade
Underwrite
6. An inference
felicitous
Convivial
conjecture / supposition
Consensus
7. An interruption in time or continuity; a break
Hiatus
bane
acrimonious
plausible
8. To increase rapidly
Proliferate
chimerical
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
pandemic
9. Showing great determination
upbraid / reproach / castigate
vindicate
nostalgia
tenacious
10. Deserving great blame; wicked; evil
prattle
reprehensible
nefarious
pandemonium
11. Great bitterness
acrimonious
Sedentary
redundant
galvanize
12. To forbid; to prohibit; to outlaw
Proscribe
Contentious - Cantankerous
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Contiguous
13. To grow rapidly; to expand
felicitous
Burgeon
Hiatus
Ineffable
14. A scarcity or shortage
stoic
Dilatory
Vacuous - Inane
dearth / paucity
15. An appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive
fortuitous
exhort
aesthetic
spartan
16. To put down with comtemptuous jeering
deride
fortuitous
disparage
rhetorican
17. A strict disciplinarian
martinet
Propitiate
Nonplus - Confounded
acolyte
18. Great vigor and energy - dash
prospectus
panache / verve / flamboyant
felicitous
Nonplus - Confounded
19. A doubter
panache / verve / flamboyant
fleeting / ephemeral
skeptic
punctilious
20. Not capable of being appeased
penchant / predilection
nostalgia
implacable
Tepid
21. To soothe or calm; to appease
Contiguous
implacable
Placate
fiasco / debacle
22. Sociable; fond of feasting - drinking - and good company
futile
Convivial
innocuous
Virulent
23. To inform or instruct to remove ignorance
Depreciation
Enlighten - Edify
zealot
incontrovertible
24. To stop; frustrate
Osmosis
fortuitous
clandestine / surreptitious
thwart / stymie
25. Excessive desire for wealth
Avarice - Cupidity
misanthrope
Convivial
relinquish
26. A champion of a cause
gratuitous
morose / despondent
spartan
proponent / advocate
27. To make new again
prodigy
punctilious
renovate
Chicanery
28. An accidental but fortunate discovery
resurgent
Accord
serendipity
provocative
29. Characterized by knowledge that is known only to a small group of specialists; obscure; recondite
affectation
demagogue
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Esoteric - Arcane
30. Bare - not ornate
Capitulate
Epiphany
austere
Euphony
31. Enforced economy
Credulous
anomaly / atypical
Slight
austerity
32. An intruder: a gate-crasher
Interloper
strident
Convivial
felicitous
33. An odd - unconventional person
Aplomb
eccentric
hilarity
debunk
34. Showing haughty disdain or arrogant superiority
Unfettered
Supercilious
Virulent
synergy
35. Tending to give instruction or advice; inclined to teach others too much; containing a political/moral lesson
Exonerate - Exculpate
indigenous / endemic
Didactic
nadir
36. Too overwhelming to be put into words; indescribable; inexpressible
indifferent / apathetic
Ineffable
vindictive
renegade
37. Producing a sensation of touch
halcyon
Guile
Ameliorate
tactile
38. Doing or saying something again and again
strident
dissembler / prevaricator
redundant
galvanize
39. A temporary solution designed to meet an urgent need
prototype
Sedentary
Stopgap
pundit
40. A sentimental longing for the past
nostalgia
Bombastic
synergy
Pristine
41. The study of characteristics of human population
Vertiginous
Underwrite
exhort
Demography
42. Unsophisticated
incisive
naïve / gullible / credulous
reprieve
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
43. Harmless
Catalyst
abstemious
vicarious
innocuous
44. Any decrease or loss in value caused by age - wear - or market conditions
altruistic
nostalgia
Depreciation
Incredulous
45. An inequality; an imbalance
disparity
Consternation
Contiguous
aural
46. Abstaining from the enforcement of a right; the act of refraining from acting on a desire or impulse
indignant
Eschew
Forbearance
nebulous
47. Lying; untrustful
Pertinent
mendacious
Entrepreneur
tawdry
48. An accidental but fortunate occurence
expunge / excise / expurgate
bowdlerize
conspicuous
fortuitous
49. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
serendipity
prudent
affectation
oracle
50. Feeling of distress caused by failure - distress - or embarrassment
Consternation
sonorous
pragmatic
Chagrin