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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. A hint; an indirect statement; insinuation
innuendo
antagonist
luminary
itinerant
2. Someone who strongly believes in a cause
stalwart
trifling
disingenuous
dichotomy
3. Someone who does not drink alcohol under any circumstances
commodious
teetotaler
succulent
persnickety
4. To give up (rights); to deny
charlatan
abjure
heinous
raucous
5. Prone to quarrels or fights
pugnacious
terrestrial
impetus
morass
6. Famous
pique
emanate
eminent
jocose
7. Thin covering over wood; covering on furniture
fetish
tentative
veneer
ablution
8. To shorten - abridge
accessory
abrogate
abbreviate
cantankerous
9. Bitter and sharp in language or tone; mean-spirited;
acrimonious
imprecation
abjure
decipher
10. To greet; to address
undulate
postulate
tantamount
accost
11. In name only
coerce
candid
nominal
derivation
12. Pertaining to money
impregnable
episodic
pecuniary
solemnity
13. Strict disciplinarian
moderator
hiatus
invalidate
martinet
14. Not able to be erased; permanent
nadir
enigma
annul
indelible
15. Rule by rich
ecstasy
plutocracy
rueful
diurnal
16. A wreath
garland
pellucid
pensive
diatribe
17. To judge; to hear and decide a case in court
orator
clemency
adjudicate
mephitic
18. To polish
nubile
catalyst
burnish
disdain
19. To remove a ruler from office
condiment
depose
monochromatic
martyrdom
20. Prejudiced
bungler
elicit
infer
bigoted
21. Cowardly
malinger
catharsis
feckless
infallible
22. To raise the importance or make to appear great
placebo
aggrandize
viscous
androgynous
23. Nearsighted
narcissistic
grandeur
transitory
myopic
24. Irreverence
hubris
bestow
blasphemy
serried
25. Unhappy; angry
disgruntled
pugnacious
philology
altruistic
26. Egg-shaped
besmirch
multifaceted
ovoid
paraphernalia
27. Related by blood; of common lineage
consanguineous
stentorian
covetous
resplendent
28. Intrigue; a group plotting secretly
cabal
commiserate
serpentine
effulgent
29. Science of racial origins
mandate
befuddle
pliant
ethnology
30. Depending on a condition - e.g. - in a contract
conditional
dispossess
chaos
recrudescence
31. Arousing fear
putative
sully
proverbial
redoubtable
32. Showing grace of movement - form - or proportion
incredible
demise
graceful
eminent
33. Routine; boring
perfunctory
sleuth
caprice
benign
34. Hated
reviled
apprise
redundant
stigma
35. To pretend
volatile
monolithic
saturnine
simulate
36. To disprove
refute
compromise
assuage
magnanimous
37. Lecturer - speaker
orator
ingenious
feckless
jocund
38. Society run by women
bluster
fawn
obese
matriarchal
39. Fussy about small details; snobbish
aplomb
persnickety
disparity
fastidious
40. To go forward
wend
posthumous
chaos
nomenclature
41. To reach about blindly
grope
cant
dudgeon
occlude
42. A quarrel
tautological
altercation
morsel
inscrutable
43. A critical event or turning point
larceny
fervent
watershed
desultory
44. The most perfect state of an essence
quintessence
linguist
biogenesis
truculent
45. The state of separate elements joining
convergence
carrion
enshrine
filch
46. To put in isolation
fawn
quarantine
megalomania
emanate
47. Unselfish
adduce
vignette
altruistic
gullible
48. To reprimand sharply or attack verbally
palliate
lambaste
disparage
eschew
49. Genuine
impute
anecdote
authentic
libation
50. Powerful
obsequious
elocution
potent
belie