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SAT Vocab
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Subjects
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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Harsh accusation
invective
virtuoso
seemly
introspective
2. Worn out
tureen
ascetic
effete
magnanimous
3. Apprentice - beginner
indigenous
utilitarian
novice
vexation
4. A source
misnomer
derivation
histrionic
scintilla
5. A pause
dolorous
transitory
respite
derision
6. Commonplace
indispensable
fracas
meticulous
banal
7. Proficient; expert; highly skilled
patriarch
homonym
adept
graceful
8. Harsh-sounding
strident
gird
infidel
perquisites
9. The path of flight followed by a projectile
gesticulate
monograph
liturgy
trajectory
10. Horrible; gruesome; ghastly
codify
grisly
admonition
fruition
11. Hiding place
martinet
timorous
cache
utopia
12. Changes in fortune
vicissitudes
simulacrum
solemnity
phlegmatic
13. Lacking concentration
diffuse
chide
avian
recumbent
14. Unquestioned right
incarcerate
prerogative
impetuous
morbid
15. Not penetrable (by water)
perturb
impermeable
papal
lacteal
16. To pay back
avian
requite
brevity
elucidate
17. Clear; obvious
nirvana
penury
cantankerous
patent
18. Disagreement; lack of harmony
felicity
lassitude
discord
cadence
19. Inconsistent; inharmonious
titular
prescience
incongruous
symmetry
20. To go forward
laity
bungler
wend
acute
21. A group of companies trying to control a market ('oil cartel')
subjective
bombastic
brash
cartel
22. Rumor designed to deceive the public
chide
aesthetic
hoax
cessation
23. A fit of anger
perfidious
tantrum
intercession
noxious
24. Green with plant life
ungainly
verdant
monolithic
tenet
25. Someone who strongly believes in a cause
diplomacy
forge
vestige
stalwart
26. Distrustfully
nomadic
estrange
askance
culinary
27. Insulting
watershed
homily
pejorative
mirage
28. To make one's opinion known
physiognomy
craven
reprieve
opine
29. Narrow in interests
provincial
analyst
calvary
desultory
30. To end
rankle
surcease
reprehensible
exigency
31. A person possessing extraordinary skill or talent
prodigy
parlance
torrent
pedagogue
32. The first of its kind in a region
aboriginal
graceful
affirmative
dogmatic
33. Foreknowledge
rail
prescience
plebeian
gambol
34. To do away with utterly; wipe out
craven
eradicate
tome
prolix
35. Taking advantage of one's position for personal gain
pellucid
gambol
graft
disdain
36. Open; manifest
overt
abrade
preclude
dexterity
37. Very cold
gelid
apportion
epitome
vernacular
38. Light; thin; gauzy (cloth - cobweb)
fiasco
gossamer
probity
arduous
39. A bad thing; something that can hurt you
liability
surrogate
tether
contumely
40. To make holy; to hallow
rapacious
seethe
indefatigable
consecrate
41. To give credit for
ornate
vicarious
amorphous
ascribe
42. Beginner; novice
hapless
keynote
pedantic
tyro
43. To scold severely
overt
berate
scapegoat
substantiate
44. Supple; bending easily
felicity
philology
lissome
chicanery
45. To make everlasting
impasse
perpetuate
epitaph
bestow
46. To blame; criticize
reproach
intangible
asperity
perturb
47. Fluent
glib
captious
drab
posterity
48. One after another
rigid
tandem
ablution
beseech
49. A malicious saying; curse
multifarious
chagrin
malediction
endemic
50. To liberate
pallid
emancipate
relinquish
tantrum