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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. Peevish - irritable
specious
Affluent - Opulent
Petulant
laconic / succint / terse
2. Circular and therefore indirect
circuitous
distend
Unfettered
boon
3. Very concise; brief
prognosticator
Oblivious
pompous
laconic / succint / terse
4. Deserving great blame; wicked; evil
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
demagogue
reprehensible
Vacuous - Inane
5. Very discouraging
Nullify
procure
dilettante
Disheartening
6. Possible
Protean
denounce
viable / feasible
ostracize
7. Producing a sensation of touch
tactile
Exonerate - Exculpate
Obstreperous
pundit
8. To declare invalid
Nullify
vapid
exemplary
Triumvirate
9. Completely lacking in something
extirpate
conspicuous
Demarcation
devoid
10. To put down with comtemptuous jeering
deride
Vertiginous
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Cerebral
11. Adherence to the truth; truthfulness
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
vacillate
veracity
Avarice - Cupidity
12. To list; to tick off
debunk
Lucrative
convoluted
enumerate
13. Charmingly rural
poignant
Prolific
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
14. To inform or instruct to remove ignorance
Entomology
Enlighten - Edify
boon
superficial
15. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
intrepid / undaunted
Complaisant
affectation
Remunerate
16. A severe interrogation or a systematic questioning
sophistry
Inquisition
despoiled
Cerebral
17. A clumsy or inept person
bungler
Vacuous - Inane
circumscribe
ubiquitous
18. Faultless; perfect
resurgent
tacit
itinerant
impeccable
19. Great vigor and energy - dash
panache / verve / flamboyant
Credulous
disparity
anomaly / atypical
20. Unnecessary; extra
pejorative
Triumvirate
clandestine / surreptitious
Superfluous - Extraneous
21. Not open to question
eccentric
squelch
Indisputable
pandemonium
22. A preference for something; an inclination
Propitiate
penchant / predilection
innuendo
martinet
23. Having a natural fragrance
bungler
relinquish
odoriferous
Contiguous
24. Trait peculiar to individual
bane
Idiosyncrasy
Demarcation
Indisputable
25. Association or participation in a wrongful act
innuendo
Complicity
austere
Parsimonious
26. Producing a deep or full sound
sonorous
Obdurate - Intransigent
Paranoia
Forbearance
27. Sad mournful - melancholic
Lugubrious
Esoteric - Arcane
Tepid
innuendo
28. A deviation from the norm
Venal
ubiquitous
nebulous
anomaly / atypical
29. To force or act by using pressure
Sanguine
diatribe / tirade
Coerce
profundity
30. A disloyal person
renegade
ambivalent
Histrionic - Overwrought
Pertinent
31. Doing or saying something again and again
fastidious
redundant
circuitous
Empirical
32. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit
Underwrite
Histrionic - Overwrought
Guile
impecunious
33. Of doubtful authenticity; false; spurious
Apocryphal
panache / verve / flamboyant
Bombastic
Protean
34. Charmingly simple and carefree
eccentric
circumvent
Idyllic
irreverent
35. Twisted; intricate
Complaisant
misanthrope
convoluted
vicarious
36. To narrowly restrict; to limit action; to draw a line around
circumscribe
acquiesce
peremptory
stoic
37. Expressing excessive emotion in an unrestrained manner; gushing
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
boorish / uncouth / crass
Effusive
presumptuous
38. Detestable; repulsive; extremely bad
subtle
punctilious
reprehensible
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
39. To free from blame
fastidious
vindicate
Contentious - Cantankerous
Chicanery
40. A public declaration of beliefs - policies - or intentions
Timorous
itinerant
Manifesto
circumscribe
41. Casual indifference
nonchalant
Sinecure
mendacious
wry / droll
42. Native to an area
penchant / predilection
indigenous / endemic
dimunitive
dismissive
43. Abstaining from the enforcement of a right; the act of refraining from acting on a desire or impulse
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
paradox
Imperious
Forbearance
44. A person who excels in telling anecdotes
glacial
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
austerity
raconteur
45. A person who gives gifts
Coerce
benefactor
relinquish
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
46. Extremely complicated or devious
paradox
byzantine
modicum
Noxious
47. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
Sinecure
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
aloof
Entomology
48. A bitter denunciation
paradox
ostracize
diatribe / tirade
beneficiary
49. The act of making good or compensating for a loss - damage - or injury
Restitution
affectation
amalgam
aesthetic
50. Minor - everyday details
Brusque - Curt
trivial / minutiae
copious
thwart / stymie