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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. Tending to produce a response - e.g. - anger
provocative
eulogy
wool
episodic
2. Indecisiveness
vacillation
enshrine
extrapolate
repression
3. Beauty
placid
pulchritude
utopia
vulnerable
4. To stare with open mouth
gape
fluctuate
punctilious
middling
5. Having to do with an uncle
avuncular
dispossess
alleviate
pacify
6. Mutual hatred
enmity
promiscuous
renovation
ersatz
7. Dishonorable in nature
despondency
contrive
ignoble
enmity
8. To raid
premise
maraud
annunciate
surcease
9. Stupid or silly
asinine
genteel
concerted
deplete
10. Easily shaped; flexible
conflagration
acolyte
hierarchy
malleable
11. Rotting
aridity
travail
fetid
putrid
12. Dangerously uncertain; insecure; lacking stability
precarious
qualm
veracity
episodic
13. Bitterly scathing; caustic; acidic
vitriolic
matriarchal
err
surreptitious
14. Move sideways
maelstrom
linguist
sidle
abbreviate
15. To expand
reparation
retroactive
deleterious
dilate
16. A perplexing situation
eminent
dilemma
phlegmatic
animosity
17. To threaten
bluster
demote
sundry
abscond
18. To bring back from the dead
disparity
encomium
resurrect
taurine
19. (adj.) perfect; (verb) to complete or finalize
unwonted
consummate
retinue
diurnal
20. A facial expression - usually of disgust
sip
grimace
salient
engender
21. Waver
desultory
fluctuate
martial
derision
22. Offensive - lacking manners
palatable
ardent
vanguard
boorish
23. Of or pertaining to plant life; the study of plants
premise
infinitesimal
botanical
vapid
24. Being an important part
integral
ovoid
salient
enunciate
25. To think hard; to ponder (n. rumination)
inadvertent
transcend
hibernal
ruminate
26. Wandering
peripatetic
hyperbole
ineluctable
laity
27. Conquerable
esteemed
vulnerable
proboscis
profuse
28. Very cold
gelid
sedentary
restitution
atrophy
29. Made up of two parts; double
binary
interment
nomadic
bilk
30. Unintelligible or nonsensical talk or writing.
antipathy
aphorism
revile
gibberish
31. Free from sexual desire
curator
platonic
schematic
apocalyptic
32. To be moderate - especially in eating and drinking
presage
abstemious
laity
choreography
33. Inborn; intrinsic; basic
hackneyed
immaculate
inherent
blandishment
34. To tear roughly
precursor
exacerbate
lacerate
gale
35. To multiply quickly
mushroom
sensationalism
anomalous
intrepid
36. Exile
bowdlerize
cursory
affluent
expatriate
37. A lowland region saturated with water.
stigmatize
swamp
replicate
dalliance
38. A reward
dirge
bounty
homonym
braggart
39. Unruly; troublemaking
lacteal
virtuoso
fractious
tumultuous
40. The absence of government; a disordered and uncontrolled
anarchy
duress
hyperbole
cartel
41. Excessive oversupply
reciprocate
orthography
plethora
concatenation
42. Cool; indifferent
discriminating
prowess
convince
aloof
43. The path of flight followed by a projectile
beatitude
supple
pulchritude
trajectory
44. Easily convinced
anecdote
proliferate
gullible
fatuous
45. To reach about blindly
aggrandize
grope
aeon
conditional
46. Prone to quarrels or fights
compunction
pugnacious
havoc
cartel
47. Not respected
haggard
redolent
discredited
staid
48. Not belonging to a religious order
inception
cogent
resonate
secular
49. To reproduce (an event or action)
replicate
adept
inevitable
nefarious
50. Cowardly
recreant
poignant
rusticate
blandish