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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 deliberately exclude from a group
ostracize
Discordant
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
2. To deliberately confuse; to make something so confusing it's hard to understand
intrepid / undaunted
Obfuscate
Aplomb
circumspect / prudent
3. Out of reach; difficult to catch
prognosticator
voracious / ravenous
elusive
Duplicitous
4. A person who behaves in a servile manner; a toady
inexorable
sycophant / obsequious
trivial / minutiae
Tepid
5. A liar; deceiver
Proscribe
aloof
superficial
dissembler / prevaricator
6. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
juggernaut
Sanguine
Ungainly
strident
7. Calmness; composure
Preclude
equanimity / unflappable
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
vicarious
8. Generous nad forgiving
Flotsam
magnanimous
rebuff
Coerce
9. Failure to reach an agreement
tedious
clandestine / surreptitious
pompous
impasse
10. Expressing strong disapproval; condemning; loudly decrying
intemperate
Excoriating - Scathing
Nonplus - Confounded
disparage
11. To make new again
dispel
Fecund
Magisterial
renovate
12. Worn out; wearied.
Flotsam
Affluent - Opulent
jaded
Slight
13. A fantastic scheme; unchecked imagination
Quiescent
demagogue
chimerical
Caustic
14. A person who leads a secluded - solitary life
multiplicity
implacable
recluse
indifferent / apathetic
15. No longer in use
cryptic
laconic / succint / terse
superficial
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
16. Deception by subterfuge; deliberate trickery
vicarious
Chicanery
elusive
incoherent
17. Secretive; not aboveboard; covert
pundit
clandestine / surreptitious
Noxious
denounce
18. An accidental but fortunate discovery
Munificent
provocative
serendipity
covet
19. Promptly obedient - submissive - marked by or exhibiting fawning
presumptuous
sycophant / obsequious
Obsequious
profundity
20. To free from guilt or blame
Pretext
Discomfited
Exonerate - Exculpate
diffident
21. Carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
Idiosyncrasy
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
fastidious
nostalgia
22. Detached; reserved
Flippant - Facetious
dimunitive
aloof
circumspect / prudent
23. Sad mournful - melancholic
Exacerbate
Gestate
Lugubrious
exorbitant
24. A funeral hymn; mournful music
Dessicated
sonorous
specious
dirge
25. Dry humor
dilettante
wry / droll
modicum
draconian
26. To sway from once side to the other; oscillate.
despondent / forlorn
odoriferous
tumultuous
vacillate
27. To treat as unimportant; ignore deliberately; disrespect
Coerce
byzantine
Slight
Obdurate - Intransigent
28. To lecture or speak without notes
Proscribe
incontrovertible
enumerate
Extemporize - Improvise
29. Indisputable; beyond doubt
reprehensible
Proliferate
resurgent
incontrovertible
30. Misconduct/wrongdoing - especially by a public official
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
prognosticator
reprehensible
Malfeasance
31. Very productive
Credulous
Prolific
Enfranchise
innovator
32. To get out of a difficult situation
quixotic
Crystallize
extricate
Idyllic
33. To destroy.
rejuvenate
extirpate
sophistry
demise
34. Doomed to failure
fleeting / ephemeral
Capitulate
futile
prudent
35. To regard with great respect - to hold in high esteem
diatribe / tirade
Venal
remiss
Venerate - Revere
36. Many - numerous
Myriad
Complaisant
halcyon
Oblivious
37. Relevant - to the point
Indisputable
Pertinent
paradox
Elucidate
38. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false.
bane
anomaly / atypical
specious
Venal
39. A young genius
prodigy
Protean
futile
Eclectic
40. Sensational - shocking - or ghastly
Cacophony
Unprecedented
vapid
Lurid
41. Very bold; daring
Lurid
multiplicity
audacious
Demarcation
42. Too overwhelming to be put into words; indescribable; inexpressible
Venerate - Revere
Ineffable
Vertiginous
impeccable
43. Lacking foresight or scope
myopic
evocation
prudent
Manifesto
44. Commonplace
prospectus
Juxtaposition
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
autonomous
45. To babble incessantly
exhort
prattle
Guile
distend
46. Someone who attacks cherished ideas and institutions
diatribe / tirade
Preclude
iconoclast
penchant / predilection
47. Excluding fragrance - full of a specified smell; suggestive of; reminiscent
plausible
Complaisant
indifferent / apathetic
Redolent
48. A large number or amount
analogy / analagous
Spate
Esoteric - Arcane
cryptic
49. Defiantly aggressive - eager to fight
curtail
Crystallize
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
Superfluous - Extraneous
50. Dying - on the way out - approaching that
tacit
momentous
prototype
Moribund