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SAT Vocab - 2
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. To speak against
Solicitous
denounce
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
temperate
2. A seeming contradiction that expresses a truth
covet
paradox
procure
tactile
3. To compensate - to make payment for - to pay a person
Remunerate
presumptuous
Excoriating - Scathing
bowdlerize
4. To make new again
renovate
Pernicious
indignant
Obsequious
5. To take back; disavow
clandestine / surreptitious
repudiate / recant / renounce
antipathy / animosity / rancor
Obdurate - Intransigent
6. Very strict laws and rules
abstemious
draconian
raconteur
Enlighten - Edify
7. An amateur or dabbler
oracle
intrepid / undaunted
dilettante
Lucrative
8. A morally unprincipled person
reprobate
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
rejuvenate
Affluent - Opulent
9. Overly tolerant
indulgent
Complicity
distend
altruistic
10. Filled with errors; wrong
laconic / succint / terse
erroneous
cryptic
Stopgap
11. A public declaration of beliefs - policies - or intentions
Interloper
Indomitable - Resolute
Manifesto
prospectus
12. Carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
pundit
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
fastidious
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
13. To put down with comtemptuous jeering
cryptic
deride
tumultuous
Affluent - Opulent
14. Charmingly rural
Effusive
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
pragmatic
conjecture / supposition
15. Excluding fragrance - full of a specified smell; suggestive of; reminiscent
Redolent
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Remunerate
Dessicated
16. To break into opposing factions
synergy
raze
Discordant
polarize / divisive
17. Harmful; injurious
deleterious
resilient
Lucrative
decry
18. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
fortuitous
Lurid
Vertiginous
circuitous
19. State of being various or manifold; a great number
nostalgia
draconian
distend
multiplicity
20. A very enthusiastic person
Inquisition
pandemonium
zealot
despoiled
21. To sway from once side to the other; oscillate.
impetus
Venal
vacillate
austere
22. Failure to reach an agreement
Duplicitous
impasse
extirpate
Contiguous
23. Intellectually productive or inventive - fertile
Inquisition
Fecund
aloof
Prolific
24. A source of harm
bane
Demarcation
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Interloper
25. To ease; relieve; lessen
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
clandestine / surreptitious
austerity
autonomous
26. To beset; to surround with problems
morose / despondent
dearth / paucity
circuitous
Beleaguer
27. The floating wreckage of a ship; debris
nebulous
Complaisant
Flotsam
hilarity
28. Very small
antipathy / animosity / rancor
dimunitive
nebulous
Gestate
29. Plain; simple
nefarious
spartan
vicarious
conjecture / supposition
30. To regard with great respect - to hold in high esteem
charlatan
diffident
ubiquitous
Venerate - Revere
31. Insensitive
indigenous / endemic
gratuitous
Disingenuous
callous
32. To obtain or get by care - effort - or the use of special means
automation
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
procure
33. A person who is impassive and emotionless
Lucrative
oracle
abstemious
stoic
34. Practical. sensible
pragmatic
vapid
prototype
audacious
35. Commonplace
Marginal - Peripheral
convoluted
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
reticent
36. To deprive of some privilege - especially the right to vote
Disenfranchise
Blithe
Capitulate
draconian
37. Unreasonable expensive
laconic / succint / terse
exorbitant
elusive
Unprecedented
38. The property of being prompt and efficient
Stopgap
voracious / ravenous
irreverent
dispatch
39. An inference
conjecture / supposition
Interloper
innovator
Incredulous
40. A large number or amount
Extemporize - Improvise
raconteur
Flotsam
Spate
41. A person who uses intuition to see into the future; a seer
analogy / analagous
clairvoyant
Malfeasance
austere
42. Tentative - temporary - not lasting
disparage
Depreciation
Provisional
quixotic
43. Generous nad forgiving
Prolific
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
magnanimous
denounce
44. To hold back one's thoughts and feelings
reticent
demagogue
equanimity / unflappable
aesthetic
45. Careful; cautious
Vituperative
prudent
sycophant / obsequious
convoluted
46. State of great dismay & confusion
Lurid
Consternation
fiasco / debacle
Ignominious
47. Vague; lacking a fully developed form
nebulous
ominous
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Tepid
48. Completely lacking in something
enumerate
Parsimonious
devoid
austere
49. Harsh - clashing - jarring - grating sounds; disharmony
Cacophony
anomaly / atypical
Demarcation
pundit
50. Not ordinary or typical
jaded
unconventional / unorthodox
raconteur
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal