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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. Next-to-last
chastise
avid
retrospect
penultimate
2. Hard work - especially work causing physical pain
inoculate
depose
travail
denunciation
3. The most perfect state of an essence
quintessence
purlieus
mandate
amalgamate
4. The act of kissing up
sycophancy
enmity
adaptation
adept
5. Change of one culture from interacting with another
acculturation
demise
pretense
coveted
6. Prediction
execration
scurrilous
augury
oracle
7. Sticky
traitorous
subjective
tutelage
viscous
8. The act of drawing to a close
cessation
salient
culpable
irascible
9. Uneasy; impatient with delay
restive
reaffirm
vicarious
rescind
10. Acts lacking virtue
valiant
neophyte
fallacy
debauchery
11. Dying
disparate
pyrrhic
grandeur
moribund
12. Irrelevant; not basic
expeditious
evoke
epithet
extraneous
13. Fluent and articulate (speech)
eloquent
permeate
quip
affluent
14. Alert; watchful (n. vigilance)
burnish
emphatic
vigilant
seditious
15. Sharp reply
accord
retort
palatable
laudatory
16. Foundation; underlying base
bovine
astral
blight
infrastructure
17. Frank; without cunning
retort
posterity
artless
consecrate
18. To imitate - follow an example
emulate
cogitate
suppress
sententious
19. Rude; uncultured; primitive; uncivilized
incisive
barbaric
hoax
diatribe
20. A formal chain of command
hierarchy
obstinate
dilate
factious
21. Level to the ground
raze
solemnity
ratiocinate
tepid
22. To arouse to awareness or action
impede
celerity
bigamy
galvanize
23. Steal
compulsory
ogle
pilfer
procure
24. Off to the side
apathy
valiant
susceptible
peripheral
25. Even-tempered; serene; steady; calm; not easily disturbed
paramount
tenacious
equable
dolorous
26. Vote by the people
raconteur
indelible
plebiscite
deign
27. A position not requiring much work
onus
sinecure
condign
expatriate
28. A composition that has been recast into a new form
moderator
adaptation
sleuth
desideratum
29. Luckless - unfortunate
hapless
estimable
upbraid
jingoist
30. To proclaim or announce
eclectic
rubicund
annunciate
amoral
31. Dilemma; a perplexing situation that lacks resolution
fruition
gape
propitiate
quandary
32. Someone who watches an event
virulent
spectator
incite
diaphanous
33. A conniving plot
perfidious
misanthrope
machination
desultory
34. Strong uneasiness caused by guilt; sorrow for sin
compunction
immaterial
heretic
missile
35. Nobody; of little importance
flippant
piebald
nonentity
incorporeal
36. To do away with utterly; wipe out
denigrate
maverick
eradicate
vexation
37. Strict
arbitrary
stringent
envisage
eradicate
38. Something of little importance
cogent
panegyric
specious
trifle
39. An introduction to a novel
opus
austere
destitute
prologue
40. Briefness; conciseness
brevity
simile
derivation
introspective
41. A large group
abdicate
ungainly
depravity
bevy
42. To pretend (to deceive)
feign
reprisal
modicum
colloquial
43. Inclination
filch
pliant
proclivity
innate
44. System of names for purposes of organization
mordant
fir
nomenclature
curtail
45. Inflammatory - insulting
benevolent
slighting
eschew
cupidity
46. To saunter or stroll
amble
adage
contumely
salivate
47. An object of irrational devotion
fetish
degenerate
impetus
liability
48. Loud
ancillary
trove
wastrel
stentorian
49. Careful - cautious
wary
retort
abash
interdict
50. To punish or criticize
excommunicate
rambunctious
castigate
derisive