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SAT Vocab
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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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1. Lacking refinement
philistine
cataclysm
enunciate
guile
2. Belief
con
exculpate
credence
harbinger
3. Depending on a condition - e.g. - in a contract
paralysis
choleric
conditional
malignant
4. Persistency
pertinacity
purlieus
prolix
trajectory
5. Insight
oblique
ebullition
discern
pugnacious
6. Marked by stubborn resistance to and defiance of authority
recalcitrant
frugal
hilarious
surreptitious
7. A comparison in speech or writing
simile
laggardly
moot
pontificate
8. Superfluous
redundant
accessory
covenant
script
9. Aromatic
redolent
esoteric
abate
necrology
10. Bending to the will of another
subservient
archaic
deign
defection
11. A cause of death - destruction - or ruin
cherubic
brassy
bane
vapid
12. Cleansing agent
detergent
marginal
sinister
conformist
13. Innumerable; of massive quantity
myriad
forensic
compatible
sensationalism
14. In common conversational use
maleficent
colloquial
matriarchal
effeminate
15. Fuse; merge
illustrious
hackneyed
coalesce
excommunicate
16. Curse
execration
nascent
defunct
abstruse
17. Overly attentive to trifling details
posthumous
lampoon
punctilious
perfunctory
18. To determine worth
appraise
labyrinthine
deride (adj. derisive)
stigma
19. Mutual hatred
enmity
asylum
accrue
protege
20. A clique; a circle
hot-spur
eulogy
megalomania
coterie
21. To denounce loudly or forcefully
eke
fulminate
torrential
promulgation
22. To offer (a theory) for review or consideration; to present
propound
scurrilous
curator
naive
23. To ridicule
squalid
implacable
melange
deride (adj. derisive)
24. To do away with utterly; wipe out
virtuoso
prodigious
boorish
eradicate
25. Something falling apart or run down
dilapidated
relevant
bovine
coronation
26. Effective back to a stated point in time
synthesis
jurisprudence
vertigo
retroactive
27. Outstanding; flagrantly incorrect or bad
cliche
dossier
argot
egregious
28. To formally alter from the original
mellifluous
salient
amend
secular
29. Uncultivated
fallow
abstinence
elan
divergent
30. To put into punishment
ablution
inhibit
equivocation
castigate
31. Aged
relinquish
vulnerable
laity
senile
32. Beginner; novice
tyro
palatable
compatible
vivid
33. Blameworthy
reprehensible
hackneyed
pensive
subvert
34. Not easily tired
quay
askance
hierarchy
indefatigable
35. 1) respected because of age 2) dignified and worthy of admiration
smattering
venerable
contiguity
albatross
36. Greed
junta
posterity
surfeit
cupidity
37. Old
taxonomy
splenetic
archaic
integral
38. Fearful
timorous
erode
haughty
infidel
39. Pertaining to the stars
lucrative
astral
emphatic
herbicide
40. 1) resentment 2) shadow
chivalrous
umbrage
entreaty
emollient
41. Depth of reasoning or insight
profundity
tenuous
surcease
evoke
42. To lessen the severity of; moderate; soften; lessen
mitigate
delete
carrion
sinuous
43. Necessary
pretense
tantamount
inoculate
requisite
44. To select
linguist
hegemony
cull
blasphemy
45. Beautiful
aesthetic
dearth
profundity
syllogism
46. To slowly drink
bluster
annul
redress
sip
47. Disgusting
saline
repugnant
balderdash
aggrandize
48. Deception (dupe - to deceive)
eradicate
pandemic
ascribe
duplicity
49. To proclaim or announce
maraud
annunciate
quandary
rebuff
50. Weighty
ponderous
tirade
presentiment
languid