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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. A champion of a cause
Venerate - Revere
jovial and jocular
implausible
proponent / advocate
2. Readily taking on various forms and meanings
Preclude
Imperious
Protean
magnanimous
3. Immoral - debauched
Prescribe
Licentious
profundity
recalcitrant / obdurate
4. Possible
Flippant - Facetious
viable / feasible
Paranoia
audacious
5. Empty - lacking serious purpose
wry / droll
Vacuous - Inane
mellifluous
morose / despondent
6. A person who leads a secluded - solitary life
recluse
aesthetic
Redolent
digress
7. Doing or saying something again and again
redundant
demise
Discomfited
capricious / mercurial
8. Very small
penchant / predilection
gratuitous
dimunitive
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
9. Characterized by elaborate and expensive decorations; lavish
callous
galvanize
Vituperative
Ornate
10. Boring and tiresome
Unprecedented
altruistic
tedious
Solicitous
11. Indisputable; beyond doubt
incontrovertible
temperate
Discomfited
Manifesto
12. Twisted; intricate
prudent
clandestine / surreptitious
exorbitant
convoluted
13. To forbid; to prohibit; to outlaw
Pertinent
vindicate
Proscribe
Egalitarian
14. To make impossible - to rule out - to prevent
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
Preclude
Convivial
procure
15. To give a false impression
Imperious
Appeasement
abstemious
belie
16. Misconduct/wrongdoing - especially by a public official
prodigy
Malfeasance
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Accord
17. Native to an area
indigenous / endemic
draconian
Licentious
Guile
18. Habitually quiet; uncommunicative
Epiphany
Taciturn
relinquish
Fawn
19. A timely benefit
boon
rejuvenate
Appeasement
Pristine
20. Foul smelling
malodorous
Munificent
Pristine
Guile
21. Mysterious; baffling
enigmatic / inscrutable
Demography
Blithe
automation
22. Extremely complicated or devious
viable / feasible
Entomology
byzantine
Pertinent
23. To assume financial responsibility
Underwrite
Sinecure
prognosticator
Juxtaposition
24. Lax in attending to duty; negligent
Beleaguer
remiss
Entrepreneur
vindictive
25. A person who excels in telling anecdotes
Superfluous - Extraneous
raconteur
incoherent
byzantine
26. Faultless; perfect
impeccable
Unprecedented
Discomfited
Rampant
27. Doomed to failure
Visceral
futile
Dessicated
Incredulous
28. Disturbing; upsetting; vexing; causing unease; worrisome
aural
serendipity
Disquieting
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
29. Habitually late; tardy
Dilapidated
remiss
Exonerate - Exculpate
Dilatory
30. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
Contiguous
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
conjecture / supposition
acquiesce
31. Vulgar; crude
Underwrite
Egalitarian
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
boorish / uncouth / crass
32. A teacher; a guide; an advisor
Pretext
demise
remiss
mentor
33. Behaving in an obsequious manner
Proscribe
Fawn
Excoriating - Scathing
Furor
34. Awkwardly; clumsy - not graceful
Affluent - Opulent
Aplomb
Ungainly
glacial
35. Lying; untrustful
mendacious
paradox
Tepid
occlusion
36. A person with biased beliefs
Flippant - Facetious
partisan
Forbearance
polarize / divisive
37. Lacking conscious awareness - unmindful - unaware
reprieve
Oblivious
indigenous / endemic
Indomitable - Resolute
38. To list; to tick off
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
enumerate
Aphorism - Axiom
provocative
39. To make young again
Quiescent
myopic
Eclectic
rejuvenate
40. Mixed feelings
Gestate
belie
impeccable
ambivalent
41. Characterized by verbal abuse and bitter criticism
Crystallize
Vituperative
diffident
debunk
42. Agonizing physical or mental pain
anguish
Credulous
innuendo
Cerebral
43. Bare - not ornate
autonomous
austere
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
Idyllic
44. Corrupt - dishonest - open to bribery
Venal
Ungainly
Sedentary
ambiguous
45. To cut short or reduce
implacable
curtail
Chicanery
ascetic
46. A young genius
ostracize
Crystallize
prodigy
trivial / minutiae
47. To beset; to surround with problems
Beleaguer
Venerate - Revere
Blithe
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
48. Dying - on the way out - approaching that
byzantine
Moribund
Forbearance
incontrovertible
49. Limited in perspective; narrow; restricted in scope and outlook
deride
demagogue
morose / despondent
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
50. Harmless
innocuous
Sedentary
Affluent - Opulent
Timorous