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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. Strength of mind
fortitude
panache / verve / flamboyant
antipathy / animosity / rancor
halcyon
2. Very determined; unwavering
dismissive
Indomitable - Resolute
enigmatic / inscrutable
Nonplus - Confounded
3. Widespread epidemic
boon
pandemic
zealot
belie
4. Gradual - often unconscious - process of assimilation
Osmosis
deride
Demography
benefactor
5. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
ubiquitous
Interloper
plausible
exhort
6. Not ordinary or typical
Virulent
Profligate
multiplicity
unconventional / unorthodox
7. State of great dismay & confusion
halcyon
Consternation
Triumvirate
exemplary
8. Feeling downcast; dejected
despondent / forlorn
Complaisant
bowdlerize
pandemic
9. A person who gives gifts
Aphorism - Axiom
dissembler / prevaricator
benefactor
Dessicated
10. An interruption in time or continuity; a break
Spate
Scintillating
subtle
Hiatus
11. To be guided by practical experience - not theory
Empirical
veracity
resilient
callous
12. Hard to understand - impenetrably dense and obscure
Opaque
circumvent
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
Cerebral
13. Too overwhelming to be put into words; indescribable; inexpressible
intrepid / undaunted
Ineffable
Nullify
Histrionic - Overwrought
14. Something of small value; petty; trifling
picayune
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
hedonist
Burgeon
15. To free from guilt or blame
Ameliorate
Exonerate - Exculpate
partisan
Refractory
16. Promptly obedient - submissive - marked by or exhibiting fawning
Obsequious
Lucrative
Obdurate - Intransigent
peremptory
17. Adherence to the truth; truthfulness
flag
Blithe
relinquish
veracity
18. A ruler or other person with unlimited authority
proponent / advocate
martinet
Autocrat - Despot
Disquieting
19. Lack of interest or concern
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
indifferent / apathetic
eccentric
20. Carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
fastidious
tenacious
redundant
21. An excuse - an alleged cause
Sanguine
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
Ameliorate
Pretext
22. The highest point
impetus
Contentious - Cantankerous
zenith / apex
Indisputable
23. Agreeable; friendly
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
ascetic
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Nuance
24. Very profitable
prodigy
Timorous
renegade
Lucrative
25. Very productive
Discomfited
Prolific
gratuitous
anachronism
26. To forbid; to prohibit; to outlaw
denounce
Proscribe
partisan
Venal
27. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
Obfuscate
Vertiginous
Chagrin
pandemonium
28. Mysterious; having a hidden meaning
mendacious
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Paranoia
cryptic
29. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
convoluted
dismissive
Unfettered
innovator
30. A mixture; combination of different elements
ambiguous
Dilapidated
abstemious
amalgam
31. Producing a deep or full sound
sonorous
equivocal
Crystallize
Triumvirate
32. Commonplace
renovate
Disingenuous
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Placate
33. Vague; lacking a fully developed form
circumvent
Cerebral
nebulous
Pernicious
34. A public declaration of beliefs - policies - or intentions
innovator
Manifesto
Proliferate
Venerate - Revere
35. Deserving great blame; wicked; evil
reprehensible
disparage
Indomitable - Resolute
acquiesce
36. An independent person
boon
Chagrin
maverick
exemplary
37. Framework or model of thought
Paradigm
bungler
synergy
eccentric
38. To place by side or enclose proximity
Juxtapose
boorish / uncouth / crass
indigenous / endemic
Pristine
39. Seeker of pleasure
hedonist
raconteur
Ineffable
futile
40. Utterly perplexed - completely puzzled - totally bewildered
acquiesce
Nonplus - Confounded
enigmatic / inscrutable
intrepid / undaunted
41. Lacking restraint; excessive
Credulous
intemperate
ambiguous
morbid
42. Harmful - injurious to physical - mental - or moral health
Noxious
Unfettered
exemplary
dismissive
43. A person who hates humankind
recluse
misanthrope
incontrovertible
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
44. Gruesome (repugnant) ; grisly.
morbid
boorish / uncouth / crass
Flippant - Facetious
belie
45. Behaving in an obsequious manner
spartan
punctilious
Fawn
ostracize
46. Marked by inactivity OR in a state of quiet repose
Preclude
vicarious
Quiescent
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
47. Delete; remove
juggernaut
Proliferate
indulgent
expunge / excise / expurgate
48. A sentimental longing for the past
Provisional
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
pragmatic
nostalgia
49. Very strict laws and rules
Visceral
draconian
exemplary
belie
50. A disloyal person
rejuvenate
futile
circumvent
renegade