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SAT Reasoning Vocab
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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. (adj.) subject to odd ideas - notions - or fancies; playful; unpredictable
ambiguous
obtrusive
mercurial
whimsical
2. Intended to teach or instruct
impugned
misnomer
dispersive
didactic
3. Very careful; diligent; requiring great care; meticulous
impetuous
antiquated
painstaking
cantankerous
4. Creating conflict
venerable
intuitive
edifying
divisive
5. Thin - slender - not dense; lacking clarity or sharpness; of slight importance or significance; lacking a sound basis - poorly supported
ossified
corrosive
intuitive
tenuous
6. Intended to deceive
retrenchment
dispersive
spurious
obtrusive
7. yearning; sadly longing
cantankerous
ephemeral
wistful
impetuous
8. Having authority or ascendancy or influence
obtrusive
authoritative
tenuous
remonstrance
9. Reluctant to draw attention to yourself
militant
reticent
candid
clandestine
10. Ordinary - common
dogmatic
reverence
obtrusive
mundane
11. Open to more than one interpretation
doctrinaire
ineffable
mundane
ambiguous
12. (adj.) neglectful in performance of one's duty - careless
autonomous
esoteric
ineffable
remiss
13. Incorrect - containing mistakes
erroneous
arduous
unmarred
hallowed
14. Sorry; showing regret
erroneous
self-effacing
apologetic
esoteric
15. Simultaneously feeling opposing feelings; uncertain
arduous
cryptic
spurious
ambivalent
16. your usual mood
disposition
disingenuous
enigma
ostentatious
17. (adj.) pompous or overblown in language; full of high-sounding words intended to conceal a lack of ideas
reverence
bombastic
fundamentalism
ostentatious
18. Perfectly clear; leaving no room for doubt or misunderstanding
unequivocal
eclectic
sustenance
edifying
19. Strict - severe; rigorously or urgently binding or compelling; sharp or bitter to the taste
authoritative
implacable
eclectic
stringent
20. Very talkative
phlegmatic
implacable
succinct
loquacious
21. An unsuitable or misleading name
misnomer
enigma
obscure
mundane
22. Brief - concise
tenuous
wrongheaded
succinct
ossified
23. Disagreement
decorous
dissent
sustenance
succinct
24. Challenged; called into question
sundry
impugned
incorrigible
didactic
25. Able to heal or cure
sanguine
disposition
curative
bucolic
26. Quick and skillful in movement
fabricated
erroneous
ambivalent
deft
27. Showing excessive emotion; overflowing
didactic
succinct
effusive
ossified
28. Existing as an independent entity
intuitive
succinct
autonomous
tenuous
29. Troubled; distressed
ambiguous
dismayed
flotsam
provocative
30. Literal interpretation and strict adherence to basic principles of a religion (or a religious branch - denomination - or sect).
cryptic
deft
fundamentalism
mundane
31. Containing or implying a slight or showing prejudice
invidious
impugned
callous
dispersive
32. Difficult to accomplish
preeminence
clandestine
arduous
decorous
33. Encouraged
intransigence
fostered
curative
arduous
34. Tending to spread; spread over
implacable
painstaking
dispersive
reconnaissance
35. Stubbornly insistent on theory without regard for practicality or suitability
doctrinaire
emphatic
bland
autonomous
36. Intended to attract notice and impress others
unsubstantiated
lugubrious
clandestine
ostentatious
37. Something that provides nourishment; food needed to live
sustenance
didactic
autonomous
antiquated
38. Characterized by arrogant assertion of unproved or unprovable principles
cryptic
dogmatic
pretentious
fabricated
39. A puzzle - mystery - or riddle
curative
impugned
eclectic
enigma
40. Made up of a variety of sources or styles
fostered
eclectic
laconic
irascible
41. Having a secret or hidden meaning
whimsical
remonstrance
bombastic
cryptic
42. Insincere
autonomous
tenable
disingenuous
rhetoric
43. Openly straightforward and direct without reserve or secretiveness
ineffable
sustenance
convoluted
candid
44. Refusal of any compromise; stubbornness
capricious
militant
misnomer
intransigence
45. Undamaged; uninjured
unmarred
ambiguous
prognosis
flotsam
46. Clothing - garments
raiment
effusive
sustenance
authoritative
47. Instinctive - untaught
unequivocal
intuitive
reverence
fostered
48. Defensible - justifiable - maintainable
languid
reconnaissance
stringent
tenable
49. Impartial; calm - free from emotion
dispassionate
ostentatious
retrenchment
capricious
50. The trait of being generous in behavior and temperament
painstaking
reconnaissance
omnipotent
liberality