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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. Flowery in style - very ornate
remiss
Florid
momentous
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
2. Abstaining from the enforcement of a right; the act of refraining from acting on a desire or impulse
vindicate
implausible
jovial and jocular
Forbearance
3. Intentionally unclear or ambiguous; duplicitous; obscuring one's meaning - often in response to a question (unequivocal - equivocate)
equivocal
Obsequious
insurmountable
auspicious / propitious
4. Exercising moderation
temperate
audacious
impasse
Complaisant
5. To declare invalid
bungler
Nullify
prototype
temperate
6. Sad mournful - melancholic
zealot
Lugubrious
specious
pandemic
7. Great bitterness
clairvoyant
temperate
acrimonious
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
8. A vigorous spirit or great enthusiasm
unconventional / unorthodox
Avarice - Cupidity
Spate
Elan
9. Relevant - to the point
Pertinent
Credulous
rejuvenate
amalgam
10. Happening or moving extremely slowly
glacial
Contiguous
Demography
ostracize
11. A liar; deceiver
Proscribe
Eclectic
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
dissembler / prevaricator
12. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit
diatribe / tirade
momentous
vacillate
Guile
13. Skillful
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
mentor
implausible
extricate
14. Detached; reserved
Slight
Entrepreneur
aloof
tawdry
15. The highest point
zenith / apex
demagogue
Effusive
pragmatic
16. To place by side or enclose proximity
dirge
Sanguine
Disquieting
Juxtapose
17. Casual indifference
nonchalant
spartan
renovate
Hiatus
18. A person who makes predictions based on data
prognosticator
Paranoia
Depreciation
Enfranchise
19. Admirably suited; apt.
felicitous
affectation
resurgent
incontrovertible
20. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
Enfranchise
dearth / paucity
Indisputable
dimunitive
21. Vulgar; crude
Capitulate
Euphony
inexorable
boorish / uncouth / crass
22. To reject; disreagard
Quiescent
Effusive
dismissive
insinuate
23. A person who is a source of wise counsel and prophetic advice
Sanguine
Caustic
oracle
circumscribe
24. Bossy; tending to cut others off; dismissive; officious (peremptorily - preempt)
Epiphany
Noxious
reprobate
peremptory
25. Relentless - unstoppable
Exacerbate
inexorable
resilient
extricate
26. To speak against
Forbearance
nostalgia
denounce
Interloper
27. A similarity or likeness
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
aloof
analogy / analagous
disparity
28. A general agreement
malodorous
Consensus
reprehensible
Perfunctory
29. A complete failure
fiasco / debacle
profundity
Marginal - Peripheral
Cacophony
30. To obtain or get by care - effort - or the use of special means
hedonist
procure
reprehensible
Disquieting
31. Having fallen in a state of disrepair; broken-down condition
hedonist
conjecture / supposition
Dilapidated
provocative
32. The act of blocking
hedonist
tenacious
Juxtapose
occlusion
33. To make a situation worse
Caustic
Exacerbate
Disquieting
denounce
34. Disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful.
tawdry
distend
Obfuscate
vindictive
35. Carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
poignant
remiss
Eclectic
fastidious
36. To fall off in vigor - energy - activity - interest - etc
panache / verve / flamboyant
Fecund
abstemious
flag
37. An imaginative recreation
Sedentary
Aphorism - Axiom
nadir
evocation
38. A sentimental longing for the past
beneficiary
nostalgia
Juxtaposition
fortuitous
39. To conceive and develop in the mind
Sinecure
Gestate
nebulous
sonorous
40. Noisy and disorderly
dirge
disparage
tumultuous
amalgam
41. Tentative - temporary - not lasting
Provisional
resurgent
Gestate
Coerce
42. Lacking liveliness - animation or interest; dull.
vapid
Perfunctory
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
odoriferous
43. Expressing excessive emotion in an unrestrained manner; gushing
fiasco / debacle
Effusive
Nullify
anguish
44. Agreeable; marked by a pleasing personality
Complaisant
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
elusive
prattle
45. To make new again
renovate
Caustic
reprobate
resilient
46. Derisive mocking comments
convoluted
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
peremptory
partisan
47. Belittle;slight
tedious
skeptic
disparage
Quiescent
48. To strongly desire; to crave
Gestate
covet
gratuitous
equanimity / unflappable
49. Dry humor
wry / droll
Elucidate
intrepid / undaunted
Flippant - Facetious
50. A beginner
galvanize
austerity
gerrymander
neophyte / novice / greenhorn