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SAT Critical Reading Vocab 2
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Subjects
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sat
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logic-and-reasoning
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Rapid growth
ominous
proliferation
pessimism
objective
2. Gloomy
melancholy
lament
remorse
relish
3. Creature that seizes and devours another animal
orator
poignancy
pitfall
predator
4. Impression produced by reputation
prestige
invert
resolve
ratify
5. Harmful
plausible
initiate
optional
injurious
6. Marvelous
irrational
prodigious
precarious
mundane
7. Favorable
magnanimous
propitious
martinet
lethargic
8. Interested in money or gain
intuition
repel
melancholy
mercenary
9. Inattentive
rancor
rudimentary
innovation
oblivious
10. Sharp in taste or smell
pungent
listlessness
integrity
peripheral
11. Looking within oneself
introspective
repress
prestige
malign
12. Something new
laud
ominous
pungent
novelty
13. Dilemma
propriety
painstaking
justification
quandary
14. Very destructive
pernicious
lament
recount
paltry
15. Turn upside down
querulous
naivete
invert
nonchalance
16. Appease
pivotal
insinuate
mitigate
rigorous
17. Openly confess error
recant
marred
sagacious
pretentious
18. Fretful; whining
querulous
integrity
prudent
pensive
19. Uncertain
instigate
inopportune
precarious
jargon
20. Abandon
infinitesimal
irresolute
renounce
methodical
21. Observable facts
pugnacity
predecessor
phenomena
loathe
22. Tilt
resigned
platitude
marred
list
23. Full of pores
miserly
profane
porous
malign
24. Showing hard work
lofty
predator
painstaking
listlessness
25. Extreme wealth
provocative
polemical
notoriety
opulence
26. Joking
jocular
raze
qualified
intuition
27. Condition
insuperable
propitious
relinquish
plight
28. Bankrupt
insolvent
objective
lethargic
opportunist
29. Spread throughout every part
pervasive
rant
prologue
insuperable
30. Willing to receive suggestions
obsequious
porous
methodical
receptive
31. Greedy
infinitesimal
levity
insatiable
laud
32. Complex
nonchalance
peripheral
paltry
intricate
33. Stubborn
nostalgia
rectify
infer
obdurate
34. Excessively decorative
prolific
loathe
ornate
intuition
35. Changing
ponderous
relish
mercurial
recluse
36. Showy
objective
parsimony
precedent
ostentatious
37. Urge
ominous
preclude
instigate
petulant
38. Bitterness; hatred
rancor
lassitude
nostalgia
negate
39. Individual who sacrifices principles for expediency by taking advantage of circumstances
opportunist
inexorable
pensive
profusion
40. Quality of being deeply moving
prestige
quell
replete
poignancy
41. Necessary for completeness
integral
qualified
preclude
partial
42. Person who looks on the good side
pretentious
perturb
petty
optimist
43. Rebuke
linger
reprove
intransigence
meander
44. Melancholy
morose
infinitesimal
objective
intimidate
45. Inclination
provisional
irascible
proclivity
magnate
46. Incomplete; biased
reticent
relish
paragon
partial
47. Praise
proliferation
perceptive
inopportune
laud
48. Drowsy and dull
martinet
lethargic
momentous
lavish
49. Not developed
marred
rudimentary
ingrate
profligate
50. Prolong; delay
protract
preclude
lurid
inert