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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. A clumsy or inept person
bungler
diffident
Remunerate
inexorable
2. A large number or amount
impasse
ambiguous
Spate
sonorous
3. An eloquent writer or speaker
diffident
rhetorican
penchant / predilection
convoluted
4. To avoid by artful maneuvering
laconic / succint / terse
draconian
aloof
circumvent
5. A fake; a fraud; a cheat
charlatan
decry
Sanguine
Accord
6. Great vigor and energy - dash
Bombastic
panache / verve / flamboyant
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
indigenous / endemic
7. To make a situation better
Cosmopolitan
callous
Ameliorate
Triumvirate
8. Too overwhelming to be put into words; indescribable; inexpressible
tawdry
aural
Ineffable
Obdurate - Intransigent
9. To electrify; to stir into action
Contentious - Cantankerous
incontrovertible
misanthrope
galvanize
10. Carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
Rampant
fastidious
austere
devoid
11. Sharp; clear; clever; keen; perceptive; discriminating; astute
Opaque
incisive
Marginal - Peripheral
affectation
12. To remove or delete objectionable parts of a book
presumptuous
bowdlerize
occlusion
pejorative
13. Excessively dramatic or melodramatic; theatrical; overacted
Histrionic - Overwrought
Precedent
nebulous
prospectus
14. A deliberately misleading argument
admonish
Munificent
unconventional / unorthodox
sophistry
15. A difficult problem; a dilemma with no easy solution
poignant
Elucidate
convoluted
Conundrum
16. The position of putting close together or side by side
callous
juggernaut
Juxtaposition
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
17. To assert again
implausible
Egalitarian
Beleaguer
reaffirm
18. A morally unprincipled person
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
dimunitive
Pretext
reprobate
19. Excessively sentimental
Sinecure
maudlin
Guile
Obfuscate
20. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
diffident
malodorous
acolyte
Profligate
21. Very concise; brief
Prescribe
laconic / succint / terse
zealot
provocative
22. A complete failure
quixotic
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
fiasco / debacle
Demarcation
23. Feeling of distress caused by failure - distress - or embarrassment
pandemic
polarize / divisive
Chagrin
unconventional / unorthodox
24. Lacking foresight or scope
insolvent
Enfranchise
anguish
myopic
25. Unable to pay; out of money (solvent - solvency - soluble - insoluble)
erroneous
diatribe / tirade
multiplicity
insolvent
26. Strong dislike
antipathy / animosity / rancor
odoriferous
bane
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
27. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
Unfettered
Disheartening
capricious / mercurial
convoluted
28. Awkwardly; clumsy - not graceful
serendipity
Ungainly
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
conspicuous
29. To take back; disavow
Euphony
nadir
Crystallize
repudiate / recant / renounce
30. Great merriment
Propitiate
hilarity
multiplicity
pundit
31. A strict disciplinarian
ambiguous
Flotsam
Affluent - Opulent
martinet
32. Denounce or strongly criticize
bowdlerize
Lambaste
Preclude
Oblivious
33. Not in the proper time period
anachronism
Excoriating - Scathing
Tepid
convoluted
34. A devoted student
acolyte
Forbearance
Chicanery
dirge
35. Not ordinary or typical
unconventional / unorthodox
Protean
itinerant
juggernaut
36. To speak against
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
multiplicity
denounce
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
37. Settled and therefore accustomed to sitting or doing little exercise
trivial / minutiae
Coerce
Superfluous - Extraneous
Sedentary
38. A public declaration of beliefs - policies - or intentions
Eclectic
Manifesto
implacable
Furor
39. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
Complaisant
indulgent
dilettante
affectation
40. Surplus or excess of something
clairvoyant
acrimonious
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
recluse
41. Lax in attending to duty; negligent
remiss
fortuitous
Nonplus - Confounded
Egalitarian
42. Given freely; unearned; unnecessary
despondent / forlorn
Elan
gratuitous
spartan
43. Excessive desire for wealth
Vituperative
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Avarice - Cupidity
Sedentary
44. Commonplace
copious
incoherent
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Excoriating - Scathing
45. Thoroughly dried out
Fecund
Dessicated
Conundrum
myopic
46. A person who leads a life of self-denial
evocation
ascetic
halcyon
Solicitous
47. Empty - lacking serious purpose
Exonerate - Exculpate
incisive
anachronism
Vacuous - Inane
48. To hold back one's thoughts and feelings
reticent
Pertinent
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Indisputable
49. To stop; frustrate
hedonist
austere
partisan
thwart / stymie
50. Lacking restraint; excessive
intemperate
incisive
poignant
conjecture / supposition