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SAT Reasoning Common Words
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logic-and-reasoning
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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. At risk of suffering physical or emotional attack or harm
scrutinize
vulnerable
vacuous
ossify
2. A person or thing that comes before another; a forerunner
appease
defer
precursor
flag
3. Feeling or appearing casually calm and relaxed
nonchalant
elude
rhetoric
perplexing
4. Suave - courteous - and refined in manner; sophisticated
culpable
synthesize
urbane
unwieldy
5. Perfect; most suitable
acute
stratagem
ideal
implacable
6. Feeling or showing sorrow and regret for having done wrong; repentant
penitent
awe
foreboding
to be resigned
7. To engage in plots and intrigues; to scheme
collegial
machinate
urbane
callous
8. To show (someone) to be involved in a crime
monotonous
trenchant
implicate
prohibitive
9. An inability to deal with or understand something complicated or unaccountable
perplexity
disdain
portray
homogeneous
10. To repeat for emphasis or clarity
whimsy
reiterate
exemplify
laconic
11. Relating to economics or the economy
naïvete
superb
economic
precipitous
12. Vigorous or incisive; penetrating
haughty
presumptive
trenchant
audible
13. To remember (something); to call to mind
robust
unpalatable
recollect
tacit
14. To prevent (someone) from accomplishing something; to foil
quarrelsome
thwart
anecdote
regale
15. A person who promotes the welfare of others - especially by the generous donation of money to good causes
fervent
perceive
philanthropist
haughty
16. To feel deep respect or admiration for (something); to honor
incisive
revere
mediate
contempt
17. So delicate or precise as to be difficult to analyze or describe
inundate
partisan
subtle
politicize
18. More important than anything else; supreme
paramount
rousing
antagonize
legitimize
19. Carried out with a minimum of effort or reflection; cursory
perfunctory
penchant
plastic
rancor
20. A person who believes that people are motivated purely by self-interest rather than acting for honorable or unselfish reasons
antiquated
cynic
grounded
tractable
21. Only barely touching or related to (something); peripheral
charismatic
simplistic
phenomenon
tangential
22. Showing a lack of experience - wisdom - or judgment; innocent
naïve
linguistic
prose
irreproachable
23. Unexpected; unanticipated
zealous
hypothesis
consequence
unforeseen
24. Unnecessary - especially through being more than enough; surplus
estrange
contemptuous
intimacy
superfluous
25. To cause (someone) to be no longer close or affectionate; to alienate
estrange
rudimentary
derivative
inducement
26. The action - process - or result of combining or uniting
equivocal
plastic
eccentric
amalgamation
27. To express the meaning of (the writer or speaker) using different words - especially to achieve greater clarity; to reword
perplexing
paraphrase
foresee
constitute
28. Not revealing one's thoughts or feelings readily; reserved
reticent
vindicate
stimulate
autonomy
29. Open to more than one interpretation; ambiguous
defiance
insight
peevish
equivocal
30. Wanting or devouring great quantities of food
voracious
condone
appropriate
effusive
31. A feature regarded as a characteristic part of something; a trait
attribute
ebullient
revere
prescribe
32. A basic building block of something; an elementary or primitive form of something
apathy
arrogant
rudiment
demur
33. Related to the sense of hearing
borne
qualify
auditory
plight
34. A mistaken belief - especially one based on unsound argument
proliferate
illusionist
radical
fallacy
35. A supporter of an ideology or system of beliefs - especially someone who is uncompromising and dogmatic
perseverance
phlegmatic
radical
ideologue
36. To rise in value or price
analogy
subvert
appreciate
hackneyed
37. To express disapproval of; to criticize
tout
indelible
deprecate
provincial
38. Impossible to perceive; unnoticeable
symbolism
imperceptible
sedulous
adherent
39. Hesitant; indecisive
reminisce
irresolute
temperamental
tangential
40. Showing deference
levity
perseverance
allegory
deferential
41. To make or declare (something - typically a church) sacred
provocation
laud
confident
consecrate
42. Enough; adequate
peruse
sufficient
eulogy
ornate
43. Leaving no doubt; unambiguous
dispassionate
conjecture
pugnacious
unequivocal
44. Feeling opposition or hostility toward something
acquire
complicit
pervasive
antagonistic
45. A real or imagined wrong or other cause for complaint or protest - especially unfair treatment; an injustice
regal
grievance
apprehensive
depreciate
46. Limited to basic principles; primitive
exhaust
rudimentary
perplex
solicitous
47. Intended to do harm; malign
malicious
despondent
intransigence
coherent
48. Preventing success or development; harmful
adverse
digress
diplomatic
disingenuous
49. To tell someone about a secret or private matter while trusting them not to repeat it to others
complicity
confide
unmitigated
consummate
50. Full of energy and enthusiasm
vibrant
felicitous
insubordinate
obsolete