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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. Generous nad forgiving
veracity
magnanimous
pandemonium
austerity
2. A person who uses intuition to see into the future; a seer
demagogue
clairvoyant
Unfettered
Duplicitous
3. Practical. sensible
pragmatic
dissembler / prevaricator
demise
Idyllic
4. No longer in use
Ignominious
austerity
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
pompous
5. A liar; deceiver
dissembler / prevaricator
pundit
demise
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
6. Framework or model of thought
Propitiate
Juxtaposition
Watershed
Paradigm
7. Feelings of sincere and deep regret
Gestate
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
altruistic
Chicanery
8. Very small
raze
curtail
Enfranchise
dimunitive
9. Lacking liveliness - animation or interest; dull.
vapid
Placate
Sanguine
pragmatic
10. Limited in perspective; narrow; restricted in scope and outlook
mentor
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Virulent
misanthrope
11. To treat as unimportant; ignore deliberately; disrespect
Guile
diffident
Conundrum
Slight
12. Ill-tempered; rude; lacking civility
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Imperious
Opaque
anguish
13. Detached; reserved
aloof
Exonerate - Exculpate
chimerical
capricious / mercurial
14. Too overwhelming to be put into words; indescribable; inexpressible
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
Ineffable
pejorative
nefarious
15. Lacking restraint; excessive
dispel
Ostentatious
austerity
intemperate
16. A seeming contradiction that expresses a truth
Parsimonious
impasse
innuendo
paradox
17. Idyllically calm and tranquil
flag
Disquieting
Disenfranchise
halcyon
18. To hold back one's thoughts and feelings
Consensus
pandemonium
ambivalent
reticent
19. Believable
Venerate - Revere
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
plausible
presumptuous
20. Excessively dramatic or melodramatic; theatrical; overacted
jovial and jocular
intrepid / undaunted
Histrionic - Overwrought
Consensus
21. Shallow; lacking depth
flag
zenith / apex
deleterious
superficial
22. Disparaging - belittling - insulting
pejorative
impasse
Ignominious
pandemonium
23. To level to the ground; demolish
Preclude
specious
raze
enumerate
24. To declare invalid
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
poignant
Nullify
incisive
25. To make new again
renovate
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
poignant
automation
26. Lacking organization or logic
aesthetic
pandemic
recalcitrant / obdurate
incoherent
27. Feeling downcast; dejected
juggernaut
recalcitrant / obdurate
despondent / forlorn
prognosticator
28. Something of small value; petty; trifling
Lurid
picayune
Extemporize - Improvise
indifferent / apathetic
29. Fickle; constantly shifting moods
Disingenuous
jovial and jocular
capricious / mercurial
Apocryphal
30. Possible
nadir
Juxtapose
viable / feasible
jovial and jocular
31. Cautious; careful
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
circumspect / prudent
Avarice - Cupidity
Forbearance
32. Circular and therefore indirect
circuitous
Craven
convoluted
procure
33. Skillful
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
pundit
raze
circumscribe
34. To grow rapidly; to expand
debunk
Burgeon
Profligate
evocation
35. To put down by exposing false claims
Excoriating - Scathing
debunk
Epiphany
Interloper
36. Someone who attacks cherished ideas and institutions
vacillate
Placate
iconoclast
Taciturn
37. Trait peculiar to individual
Idiosyncrasy
Nullify
Magisterial
odoriferous
38. Habitually late; tardy
incoherent
Dilatory
subtle
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
39. Scientific study of insects
diffident
Entomology
extricate
tumultuous
40. Vague; lacking a fully developed form
callous
nebulous
myopic
disparity
41. To strongly desire; to crave
Autocrat - Despot
Venal
covet
equanimity / unflappable
42. Abundant; a great amount
insinuate
boorish / uncouth / crass
copious
synergy
43. Lacking proper respect; disrepectful
rhetorican
fiasco / debacle
Juxtapose
irreverent
44. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
tedious
Ostentatious
Marginal - Peripheral
ubiquitous
45. Noisily and stubbornly defiant
Obstreperous
innovator
Pernicious
placid / serence
46. Gruesome (repugnant) ; grisly.
anomaly / atypical
reticent
morbid
devoid
47. Great merriment
despoiled
Apocryphal
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
hilarity
48. Not in harmony - incompatible - at variance with - as in a discordant detail that doesn't fit a pattern
Discordant
Parsimonious
Disquieting
Cosmopolitan
49. Worn out; wearied.
jaded
plausible
remiss
automation
50. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
prattle
Unfettered
ubiquitous
Appeasement