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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. Feeling downcast; dejected
dispatch
spartan
Disquieting
despondent / forlorn
2. To conceive and develop in the mind
Demography
bowdlerize
ostracize
Gestate
3. Characterized by verbal abuse and bitter criticism
Cerebral
Vituperative
Consensus
Chicanery
4. Charmingly simple and carefree
thwart / stymie
Idyllic
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
tenacious
5. Seeker of pleasure
nebulous
hedonist
Hiatus
indifferent / apathetic
6. A seeming contradiction that expresses a truth
Extemporize - Improvise
panache / verve / flamboyant
paradox
ambiguous
7. Dying - on the way out - approaching that
Timorous
reaffirm
stoic
Moribund
8. Having fallen in a state of disrepair; broken-down condition
sophistry
Dessicated
Malfeasance
Dilapidated
9. To regard with great respect - to hold in high esteem
Venerate - Revere
punctilious
Obdurate - Intransigent
Nullify
10. To give something back
pejorative
exorbitant
relinquish
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
11. A person who hates humankind
Empirical
Chagrin
synergy
misanthrope
12. Not capable of being appeased
Flotsam
reprehensible
implacable
viable / feasible
13. The highest point
chimerical
zenith / apex
Perfidious
Venal
14. Believable
Egalitarian
copious
plausible
anachronism
15. Enforced economy
Refractory
eccentric
nebulous
austerity
16. Provokes controversy
provocative
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
multiplicity
Myriad
17. The floating wreckage of a ship; debris
morbid
Flotsam
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
18. To soothe or calm; to appease
Placate
ascetic
Beleaguer
iconoclast
19. Surplus or excess of something
exorbitant
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Magisterial
Munificent
20. An appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive
equanimity / unflappable
Effusive
aesthetic
Craven
21. Plain; simple
impetus
thwart / stymie
Ameliorate
spartan
22. Extremely complicated or devious
byzantine
Complicity
Consensus
Sedentary
23. A strict disciplinarian
indulgent
mendacious
fortitude
martinet
24. Peevish - irritable
anomaly / atypical
squelch
Petulant
Ameliorate
25. Charmingly rural
Dilatory
draconian
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
Blithe
26. The property of being prompt and efficient
Florid
insurmountable
dispatch
devoid
27. Very small
byzantine
Guile
Lurid
dimunitive
28. An independent person
maverick
Flippant - Facetious
aloof
Indomitable - Resolute
29. The act of blocking
Flotsam
occlusion
Sedentary
Hiatus
30. To reject; disreagard
tacit
jovial and jocular
dismissive
digress
31. Of or related to the ear or the sense of hearing
aural
Sedentary
Magisterial
prognosticator
32. An intruder: a gate-crasher
Interloper
incisive
quixotic
raconteur
33. To increase rapidly
deleterious
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
insolvent
Proliferate
34. To strongly encourage
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
exhort
eccentric
chimerical
35. Self-assurance - admirable ploys under pressure
Aplomb
synergy
circumvent
quixotic
36. Secretive; not aboveboard; covert
pompous
clandestine / surreptitious
superficial
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
37. Misconduct/wrongdoing - especially by a public official
Malfeasance
aesthetic
Sedentary
upbraid / reproach / castigate
38. Completely lacking in something
myopic
devoid
indignant
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
39. Lacking conscious awareness - unmindful - unaware
Triumvirate
impasse
exorbitant
Oblivious
40. A sentimental longing for the past
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
nostalgia
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
iconoclast
41. The act of making good or compensating for a loss - damage - or injury
Restitution
Avarice - Cupidity
Pertinent
sycophant / obsequious
42. Excluding fragrance - full of a specified smell; suggestive of; reminiscent
Unfettered
vapid
Redolent
dirge
43. To deliberately exclude from a group
Egalitarian
ostracize
Fecund
Juxtapose
44. Detached; reserved
zenith / apex
Hiatus
Cerebral
aloof
45. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
Pristine
Timorous
Profligate
superficial
46. To grow rapidly; to expand
Burgeon
Vituperative
Insidious
evocation
47. A very enthusiastic person
zealot
iconoclast
reprobate
despoiled
48. A person who receives benefits
impetus
beneficiary
vicarious
prudent
49. Annoyingly talkative
exhort
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Excoriating - Scathing
50. Lacking self-confidence
Ostentatious
diffident
despondent / forlorn
pandemic