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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. Habitually quiet; uncommunicative
sophistry
hedonist
Empirical
Taciturn
2. To remove or delete objectionable parts of a book
Restitution
Autocrat - Despot
bowdlerize
amalgam
3. Easily convinced; tending to - believe to readily - gullible
Ineffable
Credulous
impeccable
Taciturn
4. A general agreement
Proscribe
demise
Paranoia
Consensus
5. Combined action or operation
synergy
denounce
Convivial
wry / droll
6. To take back; disavow
repudiate / recant / renounce
reprieve
inexorable
incoherent
7. Any decrease or loss in value caused by age - wear - or market conditions
Empirical
dissembler / prevaricator
Depreciation
punctilious
8. Lukewarm; mild; half-hearted
Tepid
Prolific
tumultuous
Caustic
9. Habitually late; tardy
polarize / divisive
dissembler / prevaricator
Dilatory
Disingenuous
10. An inference
conjecture / supposition
Cosmopolitan
demagogue
recluse
11. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
Supercilious
Lugubrious
Hiatus
Extravagant
12. To deprive of some privilege - especially the right to vote
Disenfranchise
Incredulous
despoiled
repudiate / recant / renounce
13. Annoyingly talkative
Juxtapose
Vituperative
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
renegade
14. Carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
Noxious
Pernicious
maverick
fastidious
15. Great bitterness
Quiescent
acrimonious
Placate
galvanize
16. Lack of interest or concern
equivocal
indifferent / apathetic
renegade
Lugubrious
17. Careful; cautious
Visceral
Fawn
prudent
Spate
18. An accidental but fortunate discovery
superficial
Ignominious
eccentric
serendipity
19. Plain; simple
spartan
relinquish
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
Myriad
20. Casual indifference
digress
nonchalant
acquiesce
rebuff
21. A disloyal person
malodorous
renegade
Duplicitous
vacillate
22. Pompous - or pretentious in speech or writing; ostentatiously lofty in side
exorbitant
Entrepreneur
Bombastic
Pristine
23. Lacking organization or logic
Ostentatious
Autocrat - Despot
incoherent
superficial
24. Obstinately resistant to authority or control
Caustic
Refractory
analogy / analagous
despoiled
25. A person who acts in a mechanical fashion; a mindless follower
circumspect / prudent
Vertiginous
Idiosyncrasy
automation
26. Agreeable; marked by a pleasing personality
tumultuous
Slight
Juxtapose
Complaisant
27. Showing great determination
aural
belie
dispatch
tenacious
28. Failure to reach an agreement
Eclectic
byzantine
auspicious / propitious
impasse
29. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
belie
Enfranchise
sycophant / obsequious
tenacious
30. Very depressed
Malfeasance
morose / despondent
intrepid / undaunted
Disheartening
31. A champion of a cause
odoriferous
proponent / advocate
Slight
fleeting / ephemeral
32. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly
Blithe
Consternation
tacit
morbid
33. Excessively dramatic or melodramatic; theatrical; overacted
aloof
Venal
Histrionic - Overwrought
Forbearance
34. To confuse or perplex; utterly dumbfounded
extirpate
boorish / uncouth / crass
Flummox
chimerical
35. Learned and authoritative
diatribe / tirade
Magisterial
strident
Insidious
36. Happening or moving extremely slowly
glacial
pragmatic
mendacious
maudlin
37. A person who gives gifts
remiss
nadir
benefactor
anguish
38. A beginner
gerrymander
voracious / ravenous
proponent / advocate
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
39. Foolishly impractical
resilient
circumvent
quixotic
Rampant
40. To compensate - to make payment for - to pay a person
byzantine
Remunerate
innocuous
aural
41. To beset; to surround with problems
indulgent
decry
Supercilious
Beleaguer
42. Circular and therefore indirect
Excoriating - Scathing
circuitous
devoid
indignant
43. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
ubiquitous
Cacophony
Disingenuous
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
44. Scientific study of insects
Entomology
Solicitous
Fecund
Affluent - Opulent
45. To drive away; scatter
dispel
fortitude
Obfuscate
pragmatic
46. Commonplace
indulgent
Capitulate
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
subtle
47. Very stubborn - defiant
recalcitrant / obdurate
covet
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Perfunctory
48. Very bold; daring
Euphony
Provisional
audacious
Esoteric - Arcane
49. An eloquent writer or speaker
rhetorican
elusive
Flippant - Facetious
Moribund
50. To regard with great respect - to hold in high esteem
gratuitous
hilarity
Enfranchise
Venerate - Revere