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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. Ill-tempered; rude; lacking civility
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
fortuitous
Elan
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
2. Relevant - to the point
devoid
felicitous
tumultuous
Pertinent
3. An excuse - an alleged cause
austere
Pretext
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Censorious - Captious
4. Very discouraging
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
Enfranchise
Disheartening
Appeasement
5. A huge appetite; cannot be satisfied; insatiable
voracious / ravenous
Demography
gerrymander
unconventional / unorthodox
6. A person who gives gifts
benefactor
Obsequious
conjecture / supposition
Blithe
7. Delete; remove
incoherent
Ostentatious
expunge / excise / expurgate
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
8. Bossy; tending to cut others off; dismissive; officious (peremptorily - preempt)
Prescribe
Propitiate
Myriad
peremptory
9. Agreeable; friendly
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
iconoclast
exemplary
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
10. Highly injurious - destructive - deadly
Lucrative
Pernicious
affectation
exorbitant
11. To drive away; scatter
nostalgia
dispel
incoherent
equanimity / unflappable
12. A seeming contradiction that expresses a truth
Accord
paradox
unconventional / unorthodox
upbraid / reproach / castigate
13. To give something back
unconventional / unorthodox
impecunious
vapid
relinquish
14. Detached; reserved
aloof
Exonerate - Exculpate
disparity
nadir
15. Highly detailed
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
clandestine / surreptitious
gratuitous
relinquish
16. Very poor - lacking resources
Flippant - Facetious
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Remunerate
Unprecedented
17. Sensational - shocking - or ghastly
reprieve
Lurid
temperate
Avarice - Cupidity
18. Good-humored; cheerful
iconoclast
prudent
jovial and jocular
tawdry
19. Remaining in a pure state: uncorrupted by civilization
glacial
Pristine
Ignominious
Magisterial
20. Independent
sonorous
autonomous
rejuvenate
ominous
21. A funeral hymn; mournful music
Incredulous
vapid
dirge
Discordant
22. Immoral - debauched
extirpate
Nuance
Licentious
wry / droll
23. Cowardly - faint hearted
Craven
Entrepreneur
austere
cryptic
24. Calmness; composure
equanimity / unflappable
Obfuscate
temperate
despoiled
25. Practical. sensible
circuitous
pragmatic
Nonplus - Confounded
nefarious
26. Lukewarm; mild; half-hearted
Conundrum
wry / droll
Tepid
Flummox
27. Policy of granting concessions to maintain peace
Scintillating
Appeasement
Extravagant
temperate
28. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
Apocryphal
evocation
incisive
Sinecure
29. To level to the ground; demolish
Complicity
jovial and jocular
raze
upbraid / reproach / castigate
30. The act of blocking
Provisional
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
occlusion
indulgent
31. Harmless
indignant
innocuous
audacious
cryptic
32. A person with biased beliefs
Ineffable
Convivial
partisan
Inquisition
33. A person who behaves in a servile manner; a toady
sycophant / obsequious
Moribund
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Forbearance
34. Excluding fragrance - full of a specified smell; suggestive of; reminiscent
panache / verve / flamboyant
pandemonium
acquiesce
Redolent
35. Very rich - having abundant resources
Affluent - Opulent
maverick
bane
Malfeasance
36. Fickle; constantly shifting moods
affectation
Consensus
picayune
capricious / mercurial
37. Easily convinced; tending to - believe to readily - gullible
evocation
Credulous
diffident
vapid
38. A person who makes predictions based on data
vindicate
prognosticator
strident
nefarious
39. To avoid; shun; to stay clear of
momentous
beneficiary
recalcitrant / obdurate
Eschew
40. Gaudy and cheap
deride
tawdry
incisive
Sinecure
41. Doing or saying something again and again
dissembler / prevaricator
pandemonium
boon
redundant
42. Minor - everyday details
trivial / minutiae
Opaque
Manifesto
multiplicity
43. A disloyal person
juggernaut
renegade
modicum
Flummox
44. Agonizing physical or mental pain
anguish
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
nefarious
modicum
45. Mysterious; having a hidden meaning
vicarious
cryptic
intemperate
anguish
46. Believable
procure
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
plausible
Ineffable
47. Formal proposal
prospectus
Excoriating - Scathing
Nonplus - Confounded
autonomous
48. Utterly perplexed - completely puzzled - totally bewildered
impetus
Slight
Nonplus - Confounded
digress
49. Very calm; quiet
Epiphany
aesthetic
Slight
placid / serence
50. Pretentious; filled with excessive self-importance
pompous
abstemious
bungler
distend