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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. Circular and therefore indirect
jaded
voracious / ravenous
acquiesce
circuitous
2. Not ordinary or typical
unconventional / unorthodox
repudiate / recant / renounce
Capitulate
Superfluous - Extraneous
3. Habitually quiet; uncommunicative
proponent / advocate
intrepid / undaunted
evocation
Taciturn
4. Showing great determination
Sinecure
tenacious
wry / droll
galvanize
5. A public declaration of beliefs - policies - or intentions
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
tactile
Manifesto
Imperious
6. Easily noticed
disparage
conspicuous
Licentious
Refractory
7. Not open to question
Vacuous - Inane
Demography
Beleaguer
Indisputable
8. A beginner
Spate
Entomology
Triumvirate
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
9. Lacking conscious awareness - unmindful - unaware
Oblivious
reticent
magnanimous
redundant
10. A person who behaves in a servile manner; a toady
impetus
Excoriating - Scathing
sycophant / obsequious
demagogue
11. Commonplace
Ornate
abstemious
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
repudiate / recant / renounce
12. Awkwardly; clumsy - not graceful
Apocryphal
Ungainly
byzantine
Flummox
13. Disbelieving - skeptical
Entrepreneur
Incredulous
Propitiate
wry / droll
14. Gaudy and cheap
Extemporize - Improvise
incoherent
tawdry
charlatan
15. To conceive and develop in the mind
charlatan
Gestate
Placate
Furor
16. Lacking liveliness - animation or interest; dull.
Histrionic - Overwrought
pompous
Malfeasance
vapid
17. Practical. sensible
bowdlerize
admonish
pragmatic
vindicate
18. To divide a district so as to give one side an advantage
ubiquitous
Disheartening
picayune
gerrymander
19. Excessive desire for wealth
Solicitous
ubiquitous
Avarice - Cupidity
Consternation
20. A morally unprincipled person
reprobate
Lambaste
dismissive
Rampant
21. A person who makes predictions based on data
prognosticator
punctilious
exorbitant
debunk
22. Delete; remove
expunge / excise / expurgate
reaffirm
innocuous
Propitiate
23. A liar; deceiver
nefarious
denounce
dissembler / prevaricator
sophistry
24. Calmness; composure
equanimity / unflappable
Pristine
reprehensible
Coerce
25. To force or act by using pressure
Interloper
boorish / uncouth / crass
Coerce
upbraid / reproach / castigate
26. An original model
polarize / divisive
intemperate
prototype
Dessicated
27. Policy of granting concessions to maintain peace
spartan
prodigy
Appeasement
Ineffable
28. Characterized by verbal abuse and bitter criticism
auspicious / propitious
Vituperative
Virulent
diffident
29. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
Ornate
Vertiginous
Ameliorate
procure
30. To fall off in vigor - energy - activity - interest - etc
flag
iconoclast
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
Conundrum
31. Very poor - lacking resources
Burgeon
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
disparage
gerrymander
32. Strong dislike
Enlighten - Edify
automation
Petulant
antipathy / animosity / rancor
33. Quarrelsome: argumentative: likely to provoke a controversy - disputatious
glacial
Contentious - Cantankerous
galvanize
erroneous
34. A tendency toward or irrational suspiciousness; irrational fear; delusions of persecution
sophistry
Paranoia
panache / verve / flamboyant
Proliferate
35. To babble incessantly
Spate
prospectus
ambiguous
prattle
36. A very enthusiastic person
austerity
vindicate
zealot
Munificent
37. Hard to understand - impenetrably dense and obscure
Opaque
mentor
Appeasement
vapid
38. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
skeptic
galvanize
Unfettered
austere
39. The final ending of something; the downfall
strident
circuitous
demise
Imperious
40. Boring and tiresome
reaffirm
tedious
auspicious / propitious
Gestate
41. Any decrease or loss in value caused by age - wear - or market conditions
Indisputable
indignant
Depreciation
Timorous
42. Remaining in a pure state: uncorrupted by civilization
Brusque - Curt
Pristine
Taciturn
Juxtapose
43. Instinctive rather than irrational
austere
Visceral
Unfettered
Catalyst
44. Noisily and stubbornly defiant
provocative
Obstreperous
reprehensible
Taciturn
45. Pompous - or pretentious in speech or writing; ostentatiously lofty in side
Bombastic
rebuff
Placate
fiasco / debacle
46. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
disparity
tawdry
Sinecure
impecunious
47. To treat as unimportant; ignore deliberately; disrespect
Contentious - Cantankerous
laconic / succint / terse
Eschew
Slight
48. Expressing strong disapproval; condemning; loudly decrying
Enfranchise
repudiate / recant / renounce
pundit
Excoriating - Scathing
49. To assume financial responsibility
Underwrite
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
Timorous
Complicity
50. Completely lacking in something
Perfunctory
devoid
renovate
impeccable