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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. Lacking conscious awareness - unmindful - unaware
hilarity
Oblivious
tawdry
nebulous
2. Readily taking on various forms and meanings
Protean
gratuitous
Parsimonious
Remunerate
3. To lecture or speak without notes
Extemporize - Improvise
renegade
benefactor
austerity
4. Very rich - having abundant resources
boorish / uncouth / crass
equivocal
Capitulate
Affluent - Opulent
5. Very poor - lacking resources
Protean
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Imperious
quixotic
6. To stop; frustrate
thwart / stymie
erroneous
equivocal
pompous
7. Great merriment
Inquisition
hilarity
Unprecedented
Disquieting
8. An odd - unconventional person
implausible
clandestine / surreptitious
rejuvenate
eccentric
9. Highly detailed
Indisputable
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
demise
Malfeasance
10. To destroy.
extirpate
Excoriating - Scathing
Oblivious
Eclectic
11. Surplus or excess of something
extirpate
recalcitrant / obdurate
Beleaguer
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
12. Mysterious; baffling
enigmatic / inscrutable
zenith / apex
recluse
Forbearance
13. Very generous
fortitude
laconic / succint / terse
Munificent
beneficiary
14. Habitually late; tardy
maudlin
Dilatory
disparity
Appeasement
15. A bitter denunciation
impasse
diatribe / tirade
Complicity
Myriad
16. Very depressed
Lurid
sophistry
morose / despondent
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
17. A very enthusiastic person
relinquish
intrepid / undaunted
admonish
zealot
18. Native to an area
Triumvirate
devoid
Egalitarian
indigenous / endemic
19. To reject; disreagard
Histrionic - Overwrought
vicarious
polarize / divisive
dismissive
20. Indisputable; beyond doubt
subtle
insolvent
incontrovertible
pandemonium
21. Filled with errors; wrong
demagogue
erroneous
prognosticator
momentous
22. Widespread epidemic
morbid
Spate
pandemic
reticent
23. To hold back one's thoughts and feelings
reticent
deride
pompous
Venal
24. To put down with comtemptuous jeering
Gestate
procure
deride
pandemic
25. To forbid; to prohibit; to outlaw
ubiquitous
Proscribe
momentous
proponent / advocate
26. A ruler or other person with unlimited authority
Ameliorate
Autocrat - Despot
Unprecedented
jaded
27. Mixed feelings
ambivalent
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
placid / serence
Protean
28. A person who gives gifts
Lugubrious
vapid
covet
benefactor
29. Detached; reserved
Chagrin
Oblivious
aloof
incoherent
30. Uneasy; in a state of embarrassment
nadir
dispel
Discomfited
insinuate
31. To give a definite form to an idea or plan
nebulous
Fawn
Flummox
Crystallize
32. Excessively cheap with money - stingy
Manifesto
Parsimonious
tacit
Consternation
33. Independent
autonomous
indignant
relinquish
poignant
34. Not ordinary or typical
Brusque - Curt
autonomous
austerity
unconventional / unorthodox
35. Very stubborn - defiant
paradox
recalcitrant / obdurate
bungler
reprieve
36. To assert again
reaffirm
veracity
nebulous
despoiled
37. Utterly perplexed - completely puzzled - totally bewildered
Flippant - Facetious
squelch
Pertinent
Nonplus - Confounded
38. Immoral - debauched
belie
temperate
Licentious
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
39. A sentimental longing for the past
irreverent
nostalgia
Ameliorate
Credulous
40. Not capable of being appeased
innuendo
implacable
incoherent
vindicate
41. To beset; to surround with problems
strident
covet
Beleaguer
bungler
42. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
Opaque
Insidious
Ignominious
convoluted
43. The setting or marking of boundaries or limits
equivocal
Excoriating - Scathing
Demarcation
Petulant
44. Hard to understand - impenetrably dense and obscure
impecunious
Exonerate - Exculpate
Opaque
reprehensible
45. Sensational - shocking - or ghastly
Lurid
penchant / predilection
Fecund
Dilatory
46. Insincere; not straightforward; not candid
Prolific
Disingenuous
Burgeon
dissembler / prevaricator
47. Many - numerous
Affluent - Opulent
Myriad
ostracize
Avarice - Cupidity
48. To inform or instruct to remove ignorance
Unprecedented
iconoclast
Enlighten - Edify
Inquisition
49. Noisy and disorderly
hedonist
tumultuous
devoid
anguish
50. An imaginative recreation
expunge / excise / expurgate
evocation
vicarious
presumptuous