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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. Gaudy and cheap
zenith / apex
aesthetic
proponent / advocate
tawdry
2. An appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive
repudiate / recant / renounce
acquiesce
aesthetic
punctilious
3. To obtain or get by care - effort - or the use of special means
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Consensus
procure
4. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
Ostentatious
diatribe / tirade
belie
Ignominious
5. An excuse - an alleged cause
prudent
nonchalant
Pretext
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
6. To conceive and develop in the mind
Gestate
Empirical
Propitiate
enumerate
7. Tending to give instruction or advice; inclined to teach others too much; containing a political/moral lesson
bowdlerize
Manifesto
Didactic
exhort
8. Lack of interest or concern
indifferent / apathetic
resilient
myopic
raze
9. To repel or drive back; to reject
Parsimonious
rebuff
dispel
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
10. Very concise; brief
circuitous
gerrymander
laconic / succint / terse
diffident
11. Association or participation in a wrongful act
devoid
erroneous
Juxtaposition
Complicity
12. The floating wreckage of a ship; debris
veracity
Fawn
Flotsam
Visceral
13. Great in depth of feeling - intellect or meaning
tedious
profundity
Bombastic
despondent / forlorn
14. To electrify; to stir into action
impeccable
galvanize
extirpate
hilarity
15. Lying; untrustful
Ornate
Censorious - Captious
mendacious
prospectus
16. Flexible; easily shaped especially by outside influence/ force
flag
Watershed
Complicity
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
17. Peevish - irritable
Nonplus - Confounded
fortuitous
Petulant
Rampant
18. Circular and therefore indirect
Licentious
equivocal
debunk
circuitous
19. Felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another
Gestate
vicarious
Exacerbate
veracity
20. Cheerfully confident; optimistic
poignant
boorish / uncouth / crass
Cosmopolitan
Sanguine
21. A strict disciplinarian
Scintillating
ambivalent
martinet
Eclectic
22. Good-humored; cheerful
despoiled
irreverent
reaffirm
jovial and jocular
23. Praise; applaud
insurmountable
Brusque - Curt
Pertinent
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
24. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
Supercilious
Sinecure
Ameliorate
devoid
25. A person who hates humankind
misanthrope
temperate
nadir
Malfeasance
26. Of great importance
Censorious - Captious
magnanimous
strident
momentous
27. A devoted student
Extemporize - Improvise
anguish
Licentious
acolyte
28. Annoyingly talkative
boon
plausible
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Dessicated
29. To divide a district so as to give one side an advantage
inexorable
Sinecure
tedious
gerrymander
30. To grow rapidly; to expand
Burgeon
polarize / divisive
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
ostracize
31. An interruption in time or continuity; a break
acrimonious
Hiatus
Apocryphal
Profligate
32. Carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
fastidious
Spate
resurgent
naïve / gullible / credulous
33. Treacherous - traitorous - deceitful
Bombastic
Perfidious
impetus
raconteur
34. Vulgar; crude
iconoclast
boorish / uncouth / crass
pandemic
vindictive
35. Of secondary importance; not central;on the perimeter
Pristine
despoiled
Brusque - Curt
Marginal - Peripheral
36. Unnecessary; extra
Refractory
Superfluous - Extraneous
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
conspicuous
37. Great vigor and energy - dash
panache / verve / flamboyant
implausible
Nullify
Slight
38. A remark that is hurtful or burning
Appeasement
Caustic
myopic
pejorative
39. A deviation from the norm
ominous
Avarice - Cupidity
anomaly / atypical
circumspect / prudent
40. Formal proposal
draconian
prospectus
Fawn
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
41. Agreeable; friendly
reticent
Virulent
Prolific
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
42. To rise again; surge back
proponent / advocate
circumvent
dimunitive
resurgent
43. An imaginative recreation
devoid
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
evocation
boon
44. A tendency toward or irrational suspiciousness; irrational fear; delusions of persecution
Paranoia
chimerical
despoiled
dearth / paucity
45. A timely benefit
boon
Indisputable
Obsequious
denounce
46. Very small
dimunitive
rhetorican
altruistic
Moribund
47. To increase rapidly
Apocryphal
ambivalent
Demarcation
Proliferate
48. State of great dismay & confusion
Consternation
Aplomb
fastidious
placid / serence
49. Insensitive
Censorious - Captious
callous
Juxtapose
Discomfited
50. To deliberately confuse; to make something so confusing it's hard to understand
Obfuscate
exemplary
Contiguous
incisive