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SAT Vocab - 2
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. To electrify; to stir into action
equivocal
Lambaste
devoid
galvanize
2. Foolishly impractical
dissembler / prevaricator
hilarity
quixotic
voracious / ravenous
3. Highly detailed
denounce
Profligate
Indisputable
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
4. Sharing an edge or boundary - or touching
Contiguous
Convivial
Avarice - Cupidity
Hiatus
5. To rise again; surge back
Juxtapose
Blithe
resurgent
enumerate
6. To take back; disavow
Dilatory
denounce
momentous
repudiate / recant / renounce
7. Language that is bitterly hostile or hateful
vindictive
Euphony
Enfranchise
Virulent
8. A formal concurrence or agreement or harmony of minds
Accord
Juxtaposition
Triumvirate
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
9. To grow rapidly; to expand
oracle
circumscribe
reticent
Burgeon
10. An intruder: a gate-crasher
Interloper
Demarcation
Precedent
Eclectic
11. Cheerfully confident; optimistic
insurmountable
Visceral
bowdlerize
Sanguine
12. A fantastic scheme; unchecked imagination
intemperate
chimerical
plausible
Extravagant
13. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
viable / feasible
Supercilious
Entomology
Ignominious
14. Remaining in a pure state: uncorrupted by civilization
indignant
Pristine
aloof
Beleaguer
15. Empty - lacking serious purpose
ambivalent
Vacuous - Inane
renegade
Fecund
16. A wild uproar; tumult
chimerical
morbid
pandemonium
Crystallize
17. Mobile; not sedentary
itinerant
trivial / minutiae
maverick
morbid
18. An independent person
Perfidious
maverick
martinet
Sinecure
19. A source of harm
remiss
Elucidate
Interloper
bane
20. Calmness; composure
austere
equanimity / unflappable
charlatan
Cosmopolitan
21. Unselfish concern for others
Beleaguer
altruistic
felicitous
prognosticator
22. Too overwhelming to be put into words; indescribable; inexpressible
enigmatic / inscrutable
Ineffable
Bombastic
Flummox
23. Charmingly rural
multiplicity
Profligate
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
austerity
24. Misconduct/wrongdoing - especially by a public official
voracious / ravenous
Malfeasance
Discomfited
fiasco / debacle
25. An accidental but fortunate occurence
fortuitous
skeptic
squelch
placid / serence
26. A large number or amount
Spate
Perfidious
austere
enumerate
27. Direct opposite
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
malodorous
Prescribe
Profligate
28. Indisputable; beyond doubt
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Obdurate - Intransigent
incontrovertible
juggernaut
29. To avoid by artful maneuvering
galvanize
juggernaut
rejuvenate
circumvent
30. Harmless
innocuous
despoiled
Myriad
Idyllic
31. Harmful; injurious
Sedentary
resilient
Pernicious
deleterious
32. A group or association of three leaders
Exonerate - Exculpate
bowdlerize
Triumvirate
enumerate
33. To confuse or perplex; utterly dumbfounded
fastidious
Flummox
Pristine
partisan
34. Peevish - irritable
reaffirm
proponent / advocate
Petulant
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
35. A stimulus or encouragement
acolyte
Lugubrious
renegade
impetus
36. A remark that is hurtful or burning
Caustic
felicitous
fortuitous
convoluted
37. Learned and authoritative
Magisterial
polarize / divisive
fastidious
redundant
38. Sensational - shocking - or ghastly
Lurid
Underwrite
fortitude
Sedentary
39. Having a natural fragrance
superficial
odoriferous
pejorative
equanimity / unflappable
40. Disturbing; upsetting; vexing; causing unease; worrisome
Convivial
Slight
Disquieting
felicitous
41. A morally unprincipled person
austerity
tumultuous
halcyon
reprobate
42. Excessively dramatic or melodramatic; theatrical; overacted
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Histrionic - Overwrought
Restitution
dilettante
43. A person who leads a secluded - solitary life
serendipity
recluse
Lurid
Flotsam
44. State of great dismay & confusion
Consternation
Ornate
Superfluous - Extraneous
Redolent
45. Showing great determination
prudent
resilient
pragmatic
tenacious
46. Failure to reach an agreement
impasse
gerrymander
unconventional / unorthodox
synergy
47. Practical. sensible
pragmatic
audacious
Disquieting
Prescribe
48. Tending to give instruction or advice; inclined to teach others too much; containing a political/moral lesson
quixotic
callous
relinquish
Didactic
49. Very stubborn - defiant
prototype
Perfunctory
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
recalcitrant / obdurate
50. Noisily and stubbornly defiant
Demography
Obstreperous
Virulent
pejorative