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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. An intruder: a gate-crasher
Flippant - Facetious
Propitiate
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Interloper
2. To give a definite form to an idea or plan
eccentric
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Crystallize
peremptory
3. Noisy and disorderly
Restitution
impetus
tumultuous
prospectus
4. Showing great determination
Extemporize - Improvise
Moribund
tenacious
circumspect / prudent
5. To babble incessantly
Catalyst
prattle
Histrionic - Overwrought
superficial
6. Extremely complicated or devious
Virulent
ascetic
byzantine
Accord
7. Feelings of sincere and deep regret
reprobate
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
fleeting / ephemeral
covet
8. To narrowly restrict; to limit action; to draw a line around
Eschew
distend
circumscribe
ubiquitous
9. Very productive
benefactor
Prolific
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
odoriferous
10. A doubter
skeptic
eccentric
Restitution
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
11. Careful; cautious
prudent
malodorous
diffident
analogy / analagous
12. To swell out or expand from internal pressure (overly full)
charlatan
distend
digress
aural
13. Worldly; sophisticated; open-minded and aware of the big picture
affectation
Cosmopolitan
incisive
impecunious
14. Framework or model of thought
Paradigm
Guile
prospectus
Florid
15. A person who is impassive and emotionless
dispel
stoic
decry
Effusive
16. To conceive and develop in the mind
renovate
Unfettered
Gestate
incisive
17. Very profitable
Lucrative
Interloper
covet
raze
18. Feeling of distress caused by failure - distress - or embarrassment
reaffirm
Chagrin
pejorative
Ignominious
19. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
paradox
Florid
ubiquitous
enumerate
20. To treat as unimportant; ignore deliberately; disrespect
bungler
analogy / analagous
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Slight
21. To depart from a subject
Autocrat - Despot
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Redolent
digress
22. Scientific study of insects
analogy / analagous
dearth / paucity
Entomology
Malfeasance
23. An accidental but fortunate discovery
redundant
abstemious
serendipity
Complicity
24. A beginner
pandemic
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
voracious / ravenous
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
25. Mixed feelings
incisive
ambivalent
Didactic
Burgeon
26. Treating serious manners with light-hearted humor or lack of respect
reaffirm
conjecture / supposition
Flippant - Facetious
Craven
27. A similarity or likeness
punctilious
Enlighten - Edify
analogy / analagous
amalgam
28. Great merriment
equanimity / unflappable
Extravagant
multiplicity
hilarity
29. Disbelieving - skeptical
insinuate
stoic
Incredulous
ostracize
30. Lacking liveliness - animation or interest; dull.
vapid
Quiescent
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
Preclude
31. Minor - everyday details
ambivalent
ambiguous
trivial / minutiae
Magisterial
32. Very calm; quiet
Contiguous
placid / serence
equanimity / unflappable
Contentious - Cantankerous
33. Charmingly rural
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
Parsimonious
jovial and jocular
Malfeasance
34. Not capable of being appeased
Flummox
prudent
Perfunctory
implacable
35. Excluding fragrance - full of a specified smell; suggestive of; reminiscent
Proscribe
extricate
Precedent
Redolent
36. Failure to reach an agreement
Enfranchise
impasse
Flummox
dearth / paucity
37. Denounce or strongly criticize
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Opaque
Lambaste
Egalitarian
38. Showing great care and concern; attentive
Solicitous
Pernicious
iconoclast
relinquish
39. Strong dislike
exorbitant
Parsimonious
Convivial
antipathy / animosity / rancor
40. Lack of interest or concern
prattle
demise
relinquish
indifferent / apathetic
41. To remove or delete objectionable parts of a book
copious
Ornate
bowdlerize
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
42. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
Sinecure
Empirical
Venerate - Revere
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
43. A devoted student
affectation
Perfunctory
impasse
acolyte
44. A person who is a source of wise counsel and prophetic advice
beneficiary
prototype
Lucrative
oracle
45. A gradual almost imperceptible change
itinerant
Venerate - Revere
subtle
implacable
46. A person who receives benefits
beneficiary
Demarcation
Ostentatious
Vituperative
47. Producing a deep or full sound
Censorious - Captious
acolyte
galvanize
sonorous
48. To avoid by artful maneuvering
circumvent
prattle
picayune
anachronism
49. Highly critical; carping
Censorious - Captious
squelch
Demography
insurmountable
50. To stop; frustrate
thwart / stymie
Convivial
curtail
vindictive