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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. Something that measures duration
hour
urban
expostulate
portend
2. To cherish; to make sacred
recapitulate
resolute
solipsism
enshrine
3. Skillful
crass
restitution
chivalrous
deft
4. Causing great harm; destructive; deadly; dangerous
solecism
pernicious
stanch
pellucid
5. Closeness
contiguity
caper
fop
infidel
6. Commonplace
deviate
altercation
banal
umbrage
7. Sluggish; unemotional
wend
dearth
testy
phlegmatic
8. Lacking speed
assertion
laggardly
clemency
pernicious
9. Highlighted; extremely expressive
holistic
emphatic
nuptial
expendable
10. Unbeliever
infidel
awry
incongruous
entice
11. A component or aspect
superlative
envisage
furlough
facet
12. To put in isolation
abscond
stalemate
plausible
quarantine
13. To cause
puerile
paralysis
oscillate
engender
14. Seasoned; racy; lively; exciting
lascivious
piquant
inherent
resolute
15. Careful - cautious
genteel
prudent
amortize
rebuff
16. Likely; fit; skillful
abbreviate
apt
volatile
nabob
17. To ponder or consider deeply
pusillanimous
debauchery
draft
cogitate
18. Sorry for sin
opine
daunt
inarticulate
penance
19. Fluent and articulate (speech)
fetish
eloquent
incontrovertible
miscreant
20. Belittle; to speak ill of; to criticize
disparage
tenure
covetous
bugaboo
21. Disappointment
carnal
discerning
bipartisanship
chagrin
22. Not belonging to a religious order
vivacious
androgynous
secular
circumspect
23. To bring back from the dead
resurrect
linguist
necromancy
diaphanous
24. Motionless
inert
inexorable
quip
iridescent
25. To give ('bestow on you three wishes')
novice
bestow
atrophy
liturgy
26. To hypnotize
brine
mesmerize
asperity
charlatan
27. Packed close
hyperbole
circuitous
gazelle
serried
28. An unconvincing substitute ('an ersatz diamond')
protean
patch
mirage
ersatz
29. Radiant
vernacular
proclivity
ingrate
lambent
30. To sound loudly and stridently: a stereo blaring in the next
disquiet
fictitious
blaring
dilapidated
31. Baby horse
detergent
foal
serendipity
extricating
32. Clearly expressed
discord
ecclesiastical
swamp
explicit
33. To misinterpret
misconstrue
cronies
bevy
gallantry
34. Agree in time ('synchronize our watches')
synchronize
degenerate
precocious
geochronologist
35. To be moderate - especially in eating and drinking
abstemious
conducive
altruistic
hone
36. Destroy utterly
fastidious
strident
obliterate
vindicate
37. To wander in a aimless manner
missive
nugatory
diurnal
meander
38. Nose
amiable
proboscis
convergence
livid
39. To give up
equanimity
troupe
relinquish
emulate
40. No longer existing
telekinesis
pinnacle
extinct
fawn
41. To support; to prop up
posterity
bizarre
effigy
buttress
42. Brilliantly shining
rabid
despondency
jettison
resplendent
43. A collection of stories
superficial
gestation
anthology
convivial
44. To make unnecessary
ascertain
putative
exigency
obviate
45. Person whose work is collecting public opinion polls
bygone
pollster
barrage
qualm
46. Highly immodest; lustful
decadence
licentious
disparate
reclusive
47. A copy of a document
facsimile
culpable
cleavage
mawkish
48. Study of languages
philology
nirvana
sanguine
fledgling
49. Strict
stringent
emanate
pejorative
opine
50. To suggest or foretell
malady
amorous
portend
mordant