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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. Believable
antipathy / animosity / rancor
Paradigm
plausible
eccentric
2. Joyous; sprightly; light; vivacious
indignant
stoic
remiss
Blithe
3. Readily taking on various forms and meanings
Protean
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
galvanize
Stopgap
4. Learned and authoritative
skeptic
chimerical
Magisterial
sycophant / obsequious
5. To crush as if by trampling; squash
Tepid
procure
anguish
squelch
6. Not open to question
Juxtapose
Prescribe
inexorable
Indisputable
7. Favoring social equality - believing in an equal society
prototype
Craven
innovator
Egalitarian
8. Independent
autonomous
superficial
glacial
dispel
9. Failure to reach an agreement
Osmosis
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
impasse
expunge / excise / expurgate
10. To appease - conciliate - or regain the good will of
innovator
Superfluous - Extraneous
circumscribe
Propitiate
11. To strongly desire; to crave
hilarity
Provisional
covet
altruistic
12. Lacking restraint; excessive
resilient
intemperate
Complaisant
naïve / gullible / credulous
13. Surplus or excess of something
quixotic
trivial / minutiae
raconteur
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
14. Insightful - perceptive
reprieve
prospectus
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
automation
15. Doing or saying something again and again
Proscribe
redundant
deride
nebulous
16. Boring and tiresome
hilarity
indifferent / apathetic
Lambaste
tedious
17. A young genius
ostracize
prodigy
Flippant - Facetious
polarize / divisive
18. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
magnanimous
Propitiate
Duplicitous
vapid
19. A fake; a fraud; a cheat
charlatan
belie
enumerate
Guile
20. Of or related to the ear or the sense of hearing
Sanguine
capricious / mercurial
Disenfranchise
aural
21. Harmless
Fawn
veracity
vacillate
innocuous
22. A person who excels in telling anecdotes
altruistic
raconteur
Ungainly
Timorous
23. A preceding event
circumscribe
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
incontrovertible
Censorious - Captious
24. A wild uproar; tumult
dissembler / prevaricator
Underwrite
Appeasement
pandemonium
25. Instinctive rather than irrational
Disingenuous
auspicious / propitious
Visceral
autonomous
26. A very enthusiastic person
zealot
Licentious
vindicate
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
27. Abundant; a great amount
Malfeasance
Histrionic - Overwrought
insolvent
copious
28. Having fallen in a state of disrepair; broken-down condition
Spate
Dilapidated
Munificent
demise
29. A teacher; a guide; an advisor
Excoriating - Scathing
Ignominious
mentor
reprobate
30. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
poignant
rejuvenate
Enfranchise
innuendo
31. To break into opposing factions
Disquieting
Euphony
polarize / divisive
redundant
32. Characterized by elaborate and expensive decorations; lavish
Ornate
Complaisant
Cerebral
despoiled
33. Not capable of being appeased
implacable
Unprecedented
Refractory
covet
34. Bossy; tending to cut others off; dismissive; officious (peremptorily - preempt)
pragmatic
Ornate
deleterious
peremptory
35. Producing a sensation of touch
innuendo
tactile
Ostentatious
maudlin
36. Easily noticed
profundity
conspicuous
autonomous
Indisputable
37. Person who organizes a business/enterprise
Lugubrious
Entrepreneur
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
Incredulous
38. A remark that is hurtful or burning
Caustic
Lugubrious
Ignominious
sophistry
39. Relentless - unstoppable
inexorable
Bombastic
peremptory
ambiguous
40. Disparaging - belittling - insulting
Rampant
pejorative
audacious
Chicanery
41. A liar; deceiver
mellifluous
Euphony
dissembler / prevaricator
Watershed
42. Worn out; wearied.
raze
vicarious
jaded
demise
43. Agent that provokes or triggers change
incoherent
Egalitarian
Catalyst
Rampant
44. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
Duplicitous
Sanguine
Extravagant
Disquieting
45. Expressing strong disapproval; condemning; loudly decrying
Excoriating - Scathing
voracious / ravenous
dissembler / prevaricator
disparity
46. Showing great determination
Obdurate - Intransigent
tenacious
placid / serence
diatribe / tirade
47. Marked by inactivity OR in a state of quiet repose
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
intemperate
stoic
Quiescent
48. Faultless; perfect
impeccable
bungler
Contiguous
Gestate
49. Praise; applaud
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
partisan
Quiescent
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
50. Sharp; clear; clever; keen; perceptive; discriminating; astute
quixotic
nebulous
Proscribe
incisive