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SAT Vocab
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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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. Unnecessary words
epitome
brunt
lucrative
verbiage
2. Likely to cause delay; late
dilatory
lissome
primordial
fecund
3. Process of repairing or making amends; compensation
overture
reparation
relentless
odometer
4. To cite as an example or justification
adduce
exotic
supple
jurisprudence
5. Nearness
devious
bereaved
proximity
buoyant
6. To give up
hegemony
relinquish
tutelage
fanciful
7. Pale
nomenclature
cronies
analogy
pallid
8. Stately; majestic
august
chagrin
facetious
lithe
9. To make accustomed to home life
tautological
portentous
domesticate
licentious
10. Red-colored - flushed; gaudy - ornate
lissome
megalomania
acme
florid
11. Draw forth; to bring out ('to elicit a response')
elicit
prehensile
ferocity
incognito
12. To irritate
adjure
emeritus
litigious
chafe
13. Cunning; treacherous deceit
emphatic
proboscis
entourage
guile
14. Unorthodox doctrine
verbose
demur
heresy
thespian
15. A harsh or inharmonious combination - especially of sounds
dissonance
aloof
primordial
teetotaler
16. To worsen or aggravate
technocracy
exacerbate
incognito
patriarch
17. A great cook
gourmet
intrinsic
salutary
harbinger
18. A sauce - relish - or spice used to season food
saccharine
condiment
sleazy
adherent
19. Opposed in nature - not able to live or work together
intermittent
inception
ambivalent
incompatible
20. Sensually enjoyable
incessant
implacable
impalpable
voluptuous
21. Native - not foreign
indigenous
taurine
torrential
aphorism
22. Feverish
misogyny
febrile
deescalate
temerarious
23. Hatred of marriage
tort
contumacious
melodramatic
misogamy
24. The incarnation of a given thing or idea ('she is the
superlative
incipient
embodiment
miscreant
25. Detached; isolated
kudos
err
insular
circumvent
26. Being an important part
distraught
integral
fastidious
licentious
27. Pointless; foolish
visage
inane
abject
bounty
28. To avoid work by making up excuses
malinger
ungainly
grandeur
mendacity
29. Prevent; render ineffectual or impossible; forestall; impede
pragmatic
flaunt
refurbish
preclude
30. To observe carefully (n. scrutiny)
exigency
scrutinize
ratiocinate
analyst
31. Disaster
cataclysm
curative
calvary
inviolable
32. Incomprehensible; difficult to decipher
scion
avarice
platitude
inscrutable
33. To make a formal denial of (an earlier statement); to retract
chivalrous
recant
gentry
repartee
34. Failure to perform (a given duty)
augment
commandeer
nadir
nonfeasance
35. Quarrel
malediction
obese
wrangle
edify
36. Existing everywhere
feign
requisite
discord
ubiquitous
37. False bravery
slighting
bravado
incontrovertible
contrite
38. A little bit
buttress
smattering
drab
adroit
39. To create a word
refractory
foot
coin
potent
40. To cancel; to nullify
lambaste
abrogate
ribald
prodigious
41. A pause
impregnable
curtail
eccentric
respite
42. Sneering; sarcastic
adaptation
cynical
eradicate
acrid
43. To be subservient; to beg
grovel
homily
clump
venerable
44. The study of earthquakes
seismology
intrigue
magisterial
holocaust
45. Departure from the normal; abnormality
ancillary
eclogue
aberration
florid
46. Noisy fight
predilection
congenital
divergent
melee
47. Cheerful; genial
denigrate
quiescence
solipsism
jocund
48. Dark; gloomy; not clear
murky
paradigm
askew
inimical
49. Lying down
recreant
surfeit
ebb
recumbent
50. To annoy
badger
sociometry
facade
irascible