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SAT Vocab - 2
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Subjects
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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. Unreasonable expensive
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
Indisputable
skeptic
exorbitant
2. Producing a sensation of touch
viable / feasible
zenith / apex
raze
tactile
3. To hold back one's thoughts and feelings
polarize / divisive
Inquisition
reticent
cryptic
4. Foul smelling
vicarious
exorbitant
malodorous
recalcitrant / obdurate
5. Easily noticed
Myriad
Stopgap
Accord
conspicuous
6. To electrify; to stir into action
galvanize
Demarcation
Bombastic
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
7. Domineering and arrogant; haughty
quixotic
Watershed
Imperious
Eclectic
8. Detestable; repulsive; extremely bad
Gestate
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
impetus
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
9. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
indignant
Entomology
reprieve
Extravagant
10. Showing nervousness or fear
Timorous
Myriad
Nonplus - Confounded
Sanguine
11. Very rich - having abundant resources
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Affluent - Opulent
prattle
Indomitable - Resolute
12. To speak against
resilient
denounce
deride
disparity
13. Great merriment
Refractory
synergy
hilarity
nonchalant
14. Excessive desire for wealth
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
Avarice - Cupidity
squelch
skeptic
15. Of doubtful authenticity; false; spurious
cryptic
Disheartening
Apocryphal
aesthetic
16. A general agreement
Remunerate
pandemonium
Forbearance
Consensus
17. Abstaining from the enforcement of a right; the act of refraining from acting on a desire or impulse
extirpate
Forbearance
Idyllic
ostracize
18. Disparaging - belittling - insulting
fastidious
Slight
pejorative
indifferent / apathetic
19. Adherence to the truth; truthfulness
anachronism
veracity
panache / verve / flamboyant
vicarious
20. Limited in perspective; narrow; restricted in scope and outlook
prototype
quixotic
equanimity / unflappable
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
21. Not open to question
impeccable
dearth / paucity
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Indisputable
22. Independent
abstemious
irreverent
autonomous
byzantine
23. Skillful
felicitous
Consensus
Disingenuous
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
24. Having fallen in a state of disrepair; broken-down condition
Venal
Flippant - Facetious
Dilapidated
Pristine
25. A professional commentator
renovate
Obsequious
implausible
pundit
26. Great bitterness
Beleaguer
Licentious
acrimonious
extirpate
27. Praise; applaud
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
amalgam
insinuate
Affluent - Opulent
28. Easily convinced; tending to - believe to readily - gullible
Aphorism - Axiom
Credulous
Brusque - Curt
Autocrat - Despot
29. A very enthusiastic person
Aplomb
Nullify
Rampant
zealot
30. Outstanding
nefarious
exemplary
prodigy
Capitulate
31. Settled and therefore accustomed to sitting or doing little exercise
Duplicitous
Gestate
Oblivious
Sedentary
32. To avoid; shun; to stay clear of
Euphony
Eschew
Fecund
Epiphany
33. Unselfish concern for others
Enlighten - Edify
nostalgia
altruistic
tawdry
34. State of great dismay & confusion
Sinecure
halcyon
placid / serence
Consternation
35. Abundant; a great amount
specious
Demography
copious
Empirical
36. Something performed in a spiritless - mechanical - and routine manner
diffident
tedious
Nonplus - Confounded
Perfunctory
37. A deliberately misleading argument
inexorable
antipathy / animosity / rancor
Juxtapose
sophistry
38. Sociable; fond of feasting - drinking - and good company
Ungainly
halcyon
Excoriating - Scathing
Convivial
39. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
ominous
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Incredulous
Enfranchise
40. Highly detailed
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
Contentious - Cantankerous
dimunitive
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
41. Bossy; tending to cut others off; dismissive; officious (peremptorily - preempt)
peremptory
boorish / uncouth / crass
reticent
anachronism
42. A huge appetite; cannot be satisfied; insatiable
byzantine
Consternation
voracious / ravenous
Obsequious
43. A difficult problem; a dilemma with no easy solution
Discomfited
implacable
Conundrum
Accord
44. To strongly desire; to crave
covet
insinuate
Contiguous
Pretext
45. To appease - conciliate - or regain the good will of
Propitiate
Elucidate
reticent
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
46. To repel or drive back; to reject
benefactor
rebuff
Sedentary
innovator
47. Not capable of being appeased
pompous
benefactor
momentous
implacable
48. Quarrelsome: argumentative: likely to provoke a controversy - disputatious
ambiguous
equanimity / unflappable
Contentious - Cantankerous
nadir
49. An intruder: a gate-crasher
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Interloper
Vituperative
Beleaguer
50. Intellectual rather than emotional
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
squelch
Cerebral
raconteur