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SAT Vocab - 2
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Of secondary importance; not central;on the perimeter
demise
Marginal - Peripheral
acquiesce
Quiescent
2. A vigorous spirit or great enthusiasm
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Elan
Munificent
Caustic
3. Fickle; constantly shifting moods
veracity
procure
capricious / mercurial
rhetorican
4. Casual indifference
nonchalant
morose / despondent
Florid
Consensus
5. A person who leads a secluded - solitary life
incoherent
Depreciation
sycophant / obsequious
recluse
6. Favoring social equality - believing in an equal society
Complaisant
Lugubrious
Egalitarian
galvanize
7. To destroy.
distend
extirpate
vindictive
Dilatory
8. Abundant; a great amount
copious
Proscribe
clandestine / surreptitious
Coerce
9. Excessively dramatic or melodramatic; theatrical; overacted
impecunious
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
skeptic
Histrionic - Overwrought
10. An imaginative recreation
pandemonium
tawdry
hedonist
evocation
11. The floating wreckage of a ship; debris
Marginal - Peripheral
benefactor
Convivial
Flotsam
12. A timely benefit
serendipity
Gestate
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
boon
13. Corrupt - dishonest - open to bribery
placid / serence
Opaque
Venal
deleterious
14. Feeling of distress caused by failure - distress - or embarrassment
Chagrin
admonish
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
distend
15. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
Underwrite
Vertiginous
Pristine
Duplicitous
16. Utterly perplexed - completely puzzled - totally bewildered
incisive
Nullify
Nonplus - Confounded
Disheartening
17. Any respite or temporary relief.
reprieve
Proliferate
aesthetic
Paradigm
18. Intellectual rather than emotional
wry / droll
Demarcation
Dilapidated
Cerebral
19. Limited in perspective; narrow; restricted in scope and outlook
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
sycophant / obsequious
Spate
Nonplus - Confounded
20. A mixture; combination of different elements
Idyllic
insinuate
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
amalgam
21. Secretive; not aboveboard; covert
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
amalgam
nadir
clandestine / surreptitious
22. Enforced economy
austerity
Furor
zealot
exemplary
23. To make impossible - to rule out - to prevent
prospectus
Stopgap
halcyon
Preclude
24. Commonplace
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Redolent
circumvent
charlatan
25. To free from guilt or blame
Exonerate - Exculpate
Indomitable - Resolute
disparage
Contiguous
26. Learned and authoritative
veracity
Stopgap
Magisterial
Flummox
27. Out of reach; difficult to catch
elusive
affectation
impasse
Venal
28. Touching; heartrending
prognosticator
circuitous
poignant
ominous
29. To babble incessantly
Extemporize - Improvise
equanimity / unflappable
prattle
tenacious
30. Annoyingly talkative
anomaly / atypical
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
cryptic
Insidious
31. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
Sinecure
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
Ornate
austere
32. Insightful - perceptive
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
innocuous
ubiquitous
pandemic
33. Mysterious; baffling
impecunious
enigmatic / inscrutable
halcyon
anguish
34. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
Vertiginous
Insidious
pragmatic
peremptory
35. Robbed - ruined - pillaged - looted
Lugubrious
despoiled
Effusive
Dilatory
36. Framework or model of thought
Paradigm
squelch
Discomfited
thwart / stymie
37. Strength of mind
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
ubiquitous
fortitude
incontrovertible
38. A ruler or other person with unlimited authority
reprobate
Autocrat - Despot
Censorious - Captious
implacable
39. Something of small value; petty; trifling
picayune
decry
Redolent
Marginal - Peripheral
40. Disturbing; upsetting; vexing; causing unease; worrisome
oracle
Disquieting
Obstreperous
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
41. Seeker of pleasure
peremptory
resurgent
Beleaguer
hedonist
42. To give a definite form to an idea or plan
mellifluous
Chagrin
Crystallize
Manifesto
43. To inform or instruct to remove ignorance
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
myopic
Burgeon
Enlighten - Edify
44. To require; to order; to direct
Prescribe
dismissive
circumspect / prudent
austerity
45. Lying; untrustful
Aphorism - Axiom
Cerebral
Manifesto
mendacious
46. To drive away; scatter
Conundrum
Histrionic - Overwrought
dispel
Opaque
47. To strongly encourage
Apocryphal
fastidious
Petulant
exhort
48. A person who excels in telling anecdotes
raconteur
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
incontrovertible
Venerate - Revere
49. Showing great determination
Demarcation
tenacious
reticent
maudlin
50. Any decrease or loss in value caused by age - wear - or market conditions
Depreciation
autonomous
Superfluous - Extraneous
implacable