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SAT Vocab - 2
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english
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1. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
Bombastic
strident
Osmosis
Nullify
2. An odd - unconventional person
Proliferate
eccentric
fastidious
elusive
3. A person who excels in telling anecdotes
nostalgia
innuendo
tacit
raconteur
4. Relevant - to the point
Vituperative
Pertinent
raze
acolyte
5. To swell out or expand from internal pressure (overly full)
hilarity
audacious
distend
Complicity
6. Lacking self-confidence
aesthetic
diffident
equivocal
convoluted
7. Provokes controversy
Disheartening
Cosmopolitan
provocative
juggernaut
8. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
zealot
Unfettered
Capitulate
Discordant
9. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
picayune
vacillate
capricious / mercurial
ubiquitous
10. Something of small value; petty; trifling
panache / verve / flamboyant
bane
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
picayune
11. Immoral - debauched
magnanimous
nebulous
Licentious
impasse
12. A vigorous spirit or great enthusiasm
devoid
demise
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Elan
13. Shallow; lacking depth
superficial
maverick
inexorable
Disingenuous
14. Tentative - temporary - not lasting
Provisional
diffident
ascetic
Appeasement
15. Cowardly - faint hearted
Paranoia
Craven
specious
Sanguine
16. To put down with comtemptuous jeering
prototype
deride
Cosmopolitan
Stopgap
17. To scold; rebuke
Vituperative
skeptic
Idyllic
upbraid / reproach / castigate
18. Association or participation in a wrongful act
Complicity
Convivial
Stopgap
Spate
19. Flowery in style - very ornate
martinet
trivial / minutiae
Florid
Malfeasance
20. A general agreement
clairvoyant
indifferent / apathetic
Consensus
Dilapidated
21. To regard with great respect - to hold in high esteem
Venerate - Revere
reprobate
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
byzantine
22. Worldly; sophisticated; open-minded and aware of the big picture
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Craven
Cosmopolitan
Prescribe
23. A preceding event
deleterious
fortitude
Cosmopolitan
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
24. To fall off in vigor - energy - activity - interest - etc
byzantine
fortitude
flag
dimunitive
25. Deception by subterfuge; deliberate trickery
Nonplus - Confounded
implausible
Chicanery
byzantine
26. To stop; frustrate
Pretext
thwart / stymie
Triumvirate
Flummox
27. An irresistible force
Nullify
juggernaut
Chicanery
fortitude
28. Favoring social equality - believing in an equal society
Egalitarian
Redolent
bungler
sonorous
29. A very enthusiastic person
synergy
partisan
dilettante
zealot
30. Very depressed
Imperious
Pretext
morose / despondent
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
31. Secretive; not aboveboard; covert
Parsimonious
ominous
clandestine / surreptitious
Perfidious
32. Unable to pay; out of money (solvent - solvency - soluble - insoluble)
Appeasement
relinquish
Dessicated
insolvent
33. Bossy; tending to cut others off; dismissive; officious (peremptorily - preempt)
Forbearance
peremptory
maudlin
analogy / analagous
34. The property of being prompt and efficient
Fecund
dispatch
dilettante
Moribund
35. Lying; untrustful
Insidious
mendacious
erroneous
specious
36. To treat as unimportant; ignore deliberately; disrespect
Forbearance
misanthrope
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
Slight
37. Admirably suited; apt.
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
ascetic
Vertiginous
felicitous
38. Failure to reach an agreement
cryptic
mentor
impasse
recalcitrant / obdurate
39. A similarity or likeness
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
analogy / analagous
Refractory
Manifesto
40. A stimulus or encouragement
decry
impetus
Burgeon
fastidious
41. Insightful - perceptive
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Credulous
Petulant
placid / serence
42. State of being various or manifold; a great number
oracle
bowdlerize
hedonist
multiplicity
43. Expressing excessive emotion in an unrestrained manner; gushing
Effusive
vindictive
Profligate
Propitiate
44. Carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
fastidious
Malfeasance
nostalgia
Avarice - Cupidity
45. Habitually quiet; uncommunicative
beneficiary
Unprecedented
Consensus
Taciturn
46. Harmful; injurious
digress
stoic
deleterious
Apocryphal
47. Bare - not ornate
thwart / stymie
amalgam
indifferent / apathetic
austere
48. Abstaining from the enforcement of a right; the act of refraining from acting on a desire or impulse
dimunitive
Forbearance
Juxtapose
demise
49. The setting or marking of boundaries or limits
Fecund
fiasco / debacle
Munificent
Demarcation
50. A temporary solution designed to meet an urgent need
ambivalent
Stopgap
vapid
Credulous
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