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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. Sparkling; shining; brilliantly clever
Scintillating
Excoriating - Scathing
Oblivious
covet
2. Joyous; sprightly; light; vivacious
picayune
Blithe
Guile
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
3. To regard with great respect - to hold in high esteem
Venerate - Revere
aesthetic
Sanguine
Flummox
4. To confuse or perplex; utterly dumbfounded
decry
auspicious / propitious
pragmatic
Flummox
5. To break into opposing factions
austere
vicarious
rebuff
polarize / divisive
6. Uneasy; in a state of embarrassment
Discomfited
Placate
Dilapidated
presumptuous
7. Utterly perplexed - completely puzzled - totally bewildered
Moribund
Profligate
Proscribe
Nonplus - Confounded
8. Skillful
Exacerbate
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
Superfluous - Extraneous
Precedent
9. Cautious; careful
circumspect / prudent
Apocryphal
sycophant / obsequious
exhort
10. An appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive
nebulous
relinquish
aesthetic
jovial and jocular
11. Insincere; not straightforward; not candid
Incredulous
Sinecure
Disingenuous
Gestate
12. To scold; rebuke
Proscribe
tedious
Tepid
upbraid / reproach / castigate
13. Widespread epidemic
pandemic
Depreciation
trivial / minutiae
fortuitous
14. Very discouraging
Disheartening
pandemic
indignant
juggernaut
15. Highly detailed
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Parsimonious
temperate
Entrepreneur
16. Intellectually productive or inventive - fertile
Prolific
Fecund
Unfettered
Nonplus - Confounded
17. Not capable of being appeased
strident
implacable
odoriferous
despondent / forlorn
18. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
synergy
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
superficial
Profligate
19. Showing great care and concern; attentive
Solicitous
Vertiginous
tedious
Caustic
20. Unrestrained: unchecked
Prescribe
mentor
Rampant
Catalyst
21. Awkwardly; clumsy - not graceful
Ungainly
reprobate
iconoclast
dissembler / prevaricator
22. Peevish - irritable
prospectus
polarize / divisive
Petulant
punctilious
23. To take back; disavow
subtle
conspicuous
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
repudiate / recant / renounce
24. Readily taking on various forms and meanings
Vituperative
Protean
unconventional / unorthodox
poignant
25. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit
Guile
disparity
Perfunctory
renovate
26. Feeling of distress caused by failure - distress - or embarrassment
demagogue
sycophant / obsequious
nefarious
Chagrin
27. Calmness; composure
Slight
Lugubrious
equanimity / unflappable
Demography
28. Plain; simple
spartan
innocuous
prudent
anguish
29. A person who acts in a mechanical fashion; a mindless follower
innuendo
automation
viable / feasible
vindictive
30. To babble incessantly
insinuate
Autocrat - Despot
Obstreperous
prattle
31. Very depressed
tacit
Euphony
fortitude
morose / despondent
32. Of secondary importance; not central;on the perimeter
incoherent
ascetic
Nonplus - Confounded
Marginal - Peripheral
33. Lukewarm; mild; half-hearted
Tepid
nonchalant
Insidious
Enfranchise
34. A complete failure
boon
Petulant
fiasco / debacle
Juxtapose
35. Insensitive
Profligate
profundity
Caustic
callous
36. To destroy.
extirpate
erroneous
Profligate
anguish
37. Many - numerous
prognosticator
Manifesto
Licentious
Myriad
38. Having fallen in a state of disrepair; broken-down condition
morose / despondent
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
Dilapidated
nefarious
39. Derisive mocking comments
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
prodigy
Ostentatious
voracious / ravenous
40. Highly critical; carping
Vituperative
Enfranchise
Censorious - Captious
dismissive
41. Casual indifference
laconic / succint / terse
multiplicity
nonchalant
felicitous
42. Enforced economy
callous
penchant / predilection
austerity
pompous
43. Circular and therefore indirect
draconian
Egalitarian
Flotsam
circuitous
44. Instinctive rather than irrational
modicum
Visceral
Placate
circumscribe
45. Harsh - clashing - jarring - grating sounds; disharmony
Placate
resurgent
Cacophony
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
46. Abrupt in manner or speech: discourteously blunt
Contentious - Cantankerous
prospectus
acolyte
Brusque - Curt
47. A large number or amount
Spate
skeptic
gratuitous
Visceral
48. Strong dislike
stoic
paradox
antipathy / animosity / rancor
flag
49. An interruption in time or continuity; a break
Hiatus
prognosticator
Idyllic
antipathy / animosity / rancor
50. A doubter
skeptic
gratuitous
insinuate
resurgent