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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. Noisily and stubbornly defiant
Obstreperous
myopic
curtail
prodigy
2. To place by side or enclose proximity
pundit
indignant
aloof
Juxtapose
3. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
Duplicitous
recalcitrant / obdurate
fiasco / debacle
strident
4. Promptly obedient - submissive - marked by or exhibiting fawning
bungler
indifferent / apathetic
Perfidious
Obsequious
5. Sad mournful - melancholic
nonchalant
cryptic
Lugubrious
spartan
6. Scientific study of insects
upbraid / reproach / castigate
Entomology
Extravagant
sonorous
7. A person who acts in a mechanical fashion; a mindless follower
automation
circumspect / prudent
extirpate
tenacious
8. A public declaration of beliefs - policies - or intentions
Manifesto
Virulent
temperate
spartan
9. Minor - everyday details
trivial / minutiae
tenacious
Timorous
thwart / stymie
10. Sharing an edge or boundary - or touching
Contiguous
itinerant
Inquisition
Extemporize - Improvise
11. Faultless; perfect
capricious / mercurial
impeccable
Dilapidated
Eschew
12. To give something back
relinquish
impetus
maverick
Catalyst
13. Ill-tempered; rude; lacking civility
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Marginal - Peripheral
itinerant
renovate
14. Outstanding
profundity
elusive
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
exemplary
15. To bounce back
juggernaut
Dilatory
resilient
galvanize
16. A sudden realization or insightful moment
Epiphany
Credulous
rebuff
Autocrat - Despot
17. Very brief; short lived
Slight
Sanguine
evocation
fleeting / ephemeral
18. Extremely complicated or devious
byzantine
equivocal
poignant
morose / despondent
19. Intentionally unclear or ambiguous; duplicitous; obscuring one's meaning - often in response to a question (unequivocal - equivocate)
subtle
Lurid
Furor
equivocal
20. Settled and therefore accustomed to sitting or doing little exercise
redundant
Chicanery
Sedentary
Incredulous
21. A young genius
Prescribe
recluse
multiplicity
prodigy
22. Trait peculiar to individual
Idiosyncrasy
Depreciation
Prolific
vindicate
23. Not in harmony - incompatible - at variance with - as in a discordant detail that doesn't fit a pattern
anachronism
Discordant
Superfluous - Extraneous
viable / feasible
24. Uneasy; in a state of embarrassment
provocative
Discomfited
Perfunctory
Guile
25. A complete failure
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Precedent
fiasco / debacle
Epiphany
26. Very small
Exacerbate
reprobate
dimunitive
pundit
27. To force or act by using pressure
Coerce
equanimity / unflappable
Cosmopolitan
pragmatic
28. Out of reach; difficult to catch
elusive
dimunitive
chimerical
tedious
29. Expressing strong disapproval; condemning; loudly decrying
momentous
Excoriating - Scathing
reaffirm
dismissive
30. Highly detailed
Dilapidated
fortuitous
pandemic
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
31. To assert again
Chicanery
anomaly / atypical
reaffirm
autonomous
32. A professional commentator
tedious
Chicanery
Marginal - Peripheral
pundit
33. Native to an area
Dessicated
Manifesto
Entrepreneur
indigenous / endemic
34. The highest point
polarize / divisive
occlusion
Affluent - Opulent
zenith / apex
35. To surrender
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
innocuous
naïve / gullible / credulous
Capitulate
36. Mobile; not sedentary
itinerant
gerrymander
Pernicious
wry / droll
37. Believable
Extravagant
plausible
Disheartening
chimerical
38. A disloyal person
Opaque
Perfidious
renegade
incontrovertible
39. A large number or amount
modicum
Catalyst
Spate
Craven
40. Indisputable; beyond doubt
Interloper
naïve / gullible / credulous
disparity
incontrovertible
41. An inequality; an imbalance
zenith / apex
disparity
Proliferate
Propitiate
42. Casual indifference
nonchalant
partisan
specious
Autocrat - Despot
43. Annoyingly talkative
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Depreciation
demise
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
44. An excuse - an alleged cause
rebuff
intrepid / undaunted
Pretext
Hiatus
45. Insightful - perceptive
Quiescent
conjecture / supposition
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
eccentric
46. A difficult problem; a dilemma with no easy solution
Conundrum
partisan
devoid
automation
47. Quarrelsome: argumentative: likely to provoke a controversy - disputatious
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
raze
Contentious - Cantankerous
convoluted
48. A subtle shade of meaning or feeling - a slight degree of difference
Nuance
pejorative
panache / verve / flamboyant
Prescribe
49. An imaginative recreation
serendipity
autonomous
Ineffable
evocation
50. Corrupt - dishonest - open to bribery
deride
rejuvenate
Avarice - Cupidity
Venal