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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Hard to understand - impenetrably dense and obscure
redundant
Spate
unconventional / unorthodox
Opaque
2. A sentimental longing for the past
serendipity
rebuff
reprehensible
nostalgia
3. A person who excels in telling anecdotes
autonomous
vapid
chimerical
raconteur
4. Unreasonable expensive
prudent
Extravagant
exorbitant
nefarious
5. Calmness; composure
equanimity / unflappable
Quiescent
conspicuous
Hiatus
6. Language that is bitterly hostile or hateful
Complaisant
Virulent
dirge
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
7. Detached; reserved
equivocal
despoiled
futile
aloof
8. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
prudent
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
dispel
9. Noisy and disorderly
erroneous
indigenous / endemic
tumultuous
innuendo
10. To place by side or enclose proximity
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Coerce
Juxtapose
plausible
11. To make impossible - to rule out - to prevent
anachronism
Preclude
inexorable
placid / serence
12. Highly critical; carping
Censorious - Captious
autonomous
superficial
clandestine / surreptitious
13. To free from blame
Extemporize - Improvise
fiasco / debacle
Precedent
vindicate
14. Very generous
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
Munificent
multiplicity
subtle
15. To take back; disavow
repudiate / recant / renounce
Lurid
Egalitarian
decry
16. The setting or marking of boundaries or limits
vacillate
Demarcation
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
insolvent
17. A disloyal person
laconic / succint / terse
Obfuscate
renegade
circumspect / prudent
18. A veiled reference
tawdry
Munificent
fastidious
innuendo
19. Thoroughly dried out
Dessicated
felicitous
skeptic
indigenous / endemic
20. Native to an area
picayune
Elucidate
Opaque
indigenous / endemic
21. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
felicitous
placid / serence
Vertiginous
Indomitable - Resolute
22. Lacking self-confidence
belie
diffident
Empirical
maverick
23. An imaginative recreation
bungler
exhort
evocation
zealot
24. The final ending of something; the downfall
Visceral
Exonerate - Exculpate
galvanize
demise
25. Not capable of being appeased
Noxious
implacable
Nuance
Crystallize
26. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
Unfettered
ubiquitous
Disenfranchise
morbid
27. Utterly perplexed - completely puzzled - totally bewildered
Nonplus - Confounded
spartan
impecunious
Flippant - Facetious
28. Lacking proper respect; disrepectful
irreverent
viable / feasible
modicum
iconoclast
29. Great in depth of feeling - intellect or meaning
placid / serence
profundity
analogy / analagous
Histrionic - Overwrought
30. Many - numerous
Blithe
Myriad
jovial and jocular
demagogue
31. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
strident
bungler
dissembler / prevaricator
dilettante
32. Very concise; brief
admonish
laconic / succint / terse
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
Excoriating - Scathing
33. Adherence to the truth; truthfulness
Eclectic
veracity
dispel
Convivial
34. To avoid; shun; to stay clear of
acolyte
Eschew
Taciturn
Dilatory
35. To inform or instruct to remove ignorance
Epiphany
Enlighten - Edify
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
unconventional / unorthodox
36. Misconduct/wrongdoing - especially by a public official
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
circuitous
Malfeasance
nebulous
37. Lacking conscious awareness - unmindful - unaware
Dessicated
Nonplus - Confounded
Tepid
Oblivious
38. To narrowly restrict; to limit action; to draw a line around
Chicanery
circumscribe
Discordant
nadir
39. State of great dismay & confusion
Epiphany
Consternation
Disheartening
provocative
40. Vulgar; crude
reaffirm
prognosticator
boorish / uncouth / crass
Appeasement
41. Provokes controversy
quixotic
provocative
erroneous
Insidious
42. The act of making good or compensating for a loss - damage - or injury
Juxtaposition
Restitution
Rampant
Didactic
43. Domineering and arrogant; haughty
Discomfited
anguish
subtle
Imperious
44. Independent
autonomous
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
Appeasement
malodorous
45. A morally unprincipled person
Precedent
reprobate
maverick
Inquisition
46. Unrestrained: unchecked
panache / verve / flamboyant
intrepid / undaunted
Rampant
curtail
47. Producing a deep or full sound
Flotsam
sonorous
impeccable
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
48. Any decrease or loss in value caused by age - wear - or market conditions
Depreciation
disparity
Ineffable
Cerebral
49. Very profitable
Lucrative
Malfeasance
squelch
distend
50. Lax in attending to duty; negligent
remiss
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
synergy
Empirical