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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. To give a false impression
rebuff
punctilious
Proscribe
belie
2. A person who leads a life of self-denial
Redolent
impecunious
ascetic
eccentric
3. Intentionally unclear or ambiguous; duplicitous; obscuring one's meaning - often in response to a question (unequivocal - equivocate)
Brusque - Curt
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
equivocal
Egalitarian
4. Vulgar; crude
vapid
incoherent
boorish / uncouth / crass
hedonist
5. Annoyingly talkative
Noxious
curtail
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Prolific
6. Utterly perplexed - completely puzzled - totally bewildered
Proliferate
extricate
Nonplus - Confounded
jaded
7. Happening or moving extremely slowly
momentous
glacial
Paradigm
benefactor
8. Great bitterness
voracious / ravenous
upbraid / reproach / castigate
diffident
acrimonious
9. Noisy and disorderly
procure
tumultuous
extirpate
fortuitous
10. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
incontrovertible
affectation
denounce
11. Mixed feelings
Propitiate
Triumvirate
ambivalent
Insidious
12. A person who introduces something new
innovator
Pristine
pragmatic
renovate
13. Very strict laws and rules
Marginal - Peripheral
rebuff
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
draconian
14. A ruler or other person with unlimited authority
enigmatic / inscrutable
audacious
Autocrat - Despot
prodigy
15. Detestable; repulsive; extremely bad
aloof
Perfidious
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
voracious / ravenous
16. Any decrease or loss in value caused by age - wear - or market conditions
felicitous
dismissive
Depreciation
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
17. To hold back one's thoughts and feelings
ambiguous
reprehensible
enumerate
reticent
18. To babble incessantly
rejuvenate
prattle
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Consensus
19. Treacherous - traitorous - deceitful
Perfidious
evocation
Crystallize
implausible
20. A person who leads a secluded - solitary life
prudent
recluse
morbid
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
21. Feeling downcast; dejected
Imperious
gratuitous
eccentric
despondent / forlorn
22. Foolishly impractical
quixotic
Stopgap
dilettante
Furor
23. An excuse - an alleged cause
voracious / ravenous
Burgeon
Pretext
vacillate
24. Completely lacking in something
vacillate
Remunerate
devoid
partisan
25. Praise; applaud
auspicious / propitious
Ungainly
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
morbid
26. Unnecessary; extra
Nuance
Superfluous - Extraneous
Complaisant
nadir
27. Very determined; unwavering
impeccable
Indomitable - Resolute
recalcitrant / obdurate
Lurid
28. Very rich - having abundant resources
Affluent - Opulent
Entomology
fortuitous
callous
29. Lax in attending to duty; negligent
Imperious
Insidious
galvanize
remiss
30. Very favorable
oracle
auspicious / propitious
dissembler / prevaricator
Eschew
31. An inequality; an imbalance
Munificent
rejuvenate
Pristine
disparity
32. Immoral - debauched
Licentious
poignant
Vacuous - Inane
Florid
33. Very concise; brief
byzantine
equivocal
laconic / succint / terse
Brusque - Curt
34. A general agreement
Complaisant
Consensus
reticent
Demography
35. A similarity or likeness
auspicious / propitious
Virulent
Extemporize - Improvise
analogy / analagous
36. To rise again; surge back
resurgent
anachronism
Visceral
amalgam
37. To sway from once side to the other; oscillate.
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
dissembler / prevaricator
rhetorican
vacillate
38. Dry humor
pejorative
wry / droll
Supercilious
Effusive
39. Pretentious; filled with excessive self-importance
rebuff
Blithe
pompous
multiplicity
40. Characterized by elaborate and expensive decorations; lavish
unconventional / unorthodox
implausible
innocuous
Ornate
41. Delete; remove
Convivial
nostalgia
malodorous
expunge / excise / expurgate
42. To cut short or reduce
remiss
curtail
penchant / predilection
Nuance
43. Overbearing; impertinently bold
antipathy / animosity / rancor
iconoclast
presumptuous
Sinecure
44. A wild uproar; tumult
mentor
relinquish
Disingenuous
pandemonium
45. A person who makes predictions based on data
fleeting / ephemeral
prognosticator
voracious / ravenous
Idyllic
46. Showing nervousness or fear
jaded
Pertinent
momentous
Timorous
47. To ease; relieve; lessen
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
Discomfited
irreverent
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
48. A sudden realization or insightful moment
remiss
Epiphany
eccentric
Excoriating - Scathing
49. A sentimental longing for the past
nostalgia
Egalitarian
Juxtapose
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
50. Unselfish concern for others
anachronism
Ameliorate
Affluent - Opulent
altruistic