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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. A formal concurrence or agreement or harmony of minds
innocuous
occlusion
callous
Accord
2. Very poor - lacking resources
impeccable
Opaque
implacable
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
3. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
itinerant
penchant / predilection
insolvent
Extravagant
4. Misconduct/wrongdoing - especially by a public official
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
Indisputable
Malfeasance
covet
5. Lacking restraint; excessive
Juxtapose
intemperate
relinquish
paradox
6. Intellectual rather than emotional
dissembler / prevaricator
Cerebral
Caustic
Ameliorate
7. A group or association of three leaders
placid / serence
Malfeasance
equivocal
Triumvirate
8. To deliberately exclude from a group
acquiesce
dispel
impetus
ostracize
9. Extremely complicated or devious
byzantine
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
paradox
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
10. Adherence to the truth; truthfulness
Sedentary
mendacious
indifferent / apathetic
veracity
11. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
rebuff
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Ignominious
Empirical
12. Sad mournful - melancholic
Prescribe
Lugubrious
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
fortitude
13. To electrify; to stir into action
Consternation
aural
amalgam
galvanize
14. A funeral hymn; mournful music
vindictive
Demarcation
Redolent
dirge
15. Independent
autonomous
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Exonerate - Exculpate
disparity
16. A beginner
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
Visceral
Myriad
Incredulous
17. A bitter denunciation
Demarcation
diatribe / tirade
benefactor
clandestine / surreptitious
18. Native to an area
nonchalant
indigenous / endemic
Flotsam
exhort
19. Excessively cheap with money - stingy
Parsimonious
Elan
raze
Taciturn
20. Peevish - irritable
pejorative
Disquieting
Petulant
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
21. Deception by subterfuge; deliberate trickery
Egalitarian
indifferent / apathetic
Chicanery
superficial
22. A general commotion; an uproar
Entrepreneur
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Dilatory
Furor
23. Having a natural fragrance
Nullify
Guile
odoriferous
Noxious
24. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
Profligate
Parsimonious
bowdlerize
tactile
25. Flexible; easily shaped especially by outside influence/ force
equanimity / unflappable
picayune
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
glacial
26. To comply
Parsimonious
acquiesce
Caustic
deride
27. To beset; to surround with problems
incontrovertible
audacious
conspicuous
Beleaguer
28. Sharp; clear; clever; keen; perceptive; discriminating; astute
incisive
Cerebral
bowdlerize
exhort
29. Commonplace
despondent / forlorn
disparage
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
temperate
30. Feeling downcast; dejected
Extravagant
rhetorican
wry / droll
despondent / forlorn
31. Agreeable; friendly
Dessicated
Placate
analogy / analagous
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
32. Relentless - unstoppable
picayune
reprehensible
inexorable
Remunerate
33. Indisputable; beyond doubt
Lurid
incontrovertible
tedious
Proscribe
34. Limited in perspective; narrow; restricted in scope and outlook
veracity
Rampant
juggernaut
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
35. To put down with comtemptuous jeering
mendacious
deride
Flummox
prudent
36. Touching; heartrending
poignant
decry
Interloper
innovator
37. Excessive desire for wealth
redundant
Remunerate
Avarice - Cupidity
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
38. A teacher; a guide; an advisor
mentor
redundant
proponent / advocate
circumvent
39. Not capable of being overcome
insurmountable
clairvoyant
Indisputable
abstemious
40. Foul smelling
Enfranchise
malodorous
Ameliorate
admonish
41. To strongly desire; to crave
covet
analogy / analagous
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
picayune
42. Any respite or temporary relief.
reprieve
Disquieting
Extemporize - Improvise
equanimity / unflappable
43. An eloquent writer or speaker
inexorable
rhetorican
reprobate
Slight
44. Of or related to the ear or the sense of hearing
placid / serence
aural
peremptory
curtail
45. A subtle shade of meaning or feeling - a slight degree of difference
ambivalent
Nuance
Enfranchise
Effusive
46. To compensate - to make payment for - to pay a person
Perfidious
synergy
Remunerate
deleterious
47. A deliberately misleading argument
sophistry
despondent / forlorn
curtail
jaded
48. Insightful - perceptive
Moribund
veracity
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
aloof
49. A strict disciplinarian
punctilious
martinet
incontrovertible
Discomfited
50. Too overwhelming to be put into words; indescribable; inexpressible
polarize / divisive
altruistic
Ineffable
placid / serence