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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. Accuse; attack as false or questionable; challenge in argument
impugn
commiserate
vacillate
nonpartisan
2. Overwrought or decorated elaborately
argot
ornate
expeditious
plutocracy
3. Dilemma; a perplexing situation that lacks resolution
benign
quandary
commodious
simile
4. To defeat or conquer in battle
cognition
vanquish
condescending
avarice
5. A pier
eschew
conducive
noxious
quay
6. Fiendish; devilish
infernal
elicit
stentorian
resonate
7. A mark of acknowledgement or expression of praise
diurnal
gauntlet
brine
accolade
8. Violently critical
heresy
scathing
insurgence
potentate
9. Opening
orifice
blight
concatenation
prevaricate
10. Blessing
benison
impervious
deviate
cleavage
11. Wicked; evil
nefarious
sartorial
monograph
undulate
12. To multiply quickly
mushroom
vitriolic
irrevocable
truncheon
13. Tending to produce a response - e.g. - anger
ejaculate
provocative
hapless
marshy
14. Hindsight
discern
decorum
kibosh
retrospect
15. Lecturer - speaker
proximity
rebuff
coveted
orator
16. Very bad; wretched
deplorable
pretentious
feasible
hackneyed
17. Superfluous
retinue
tactile
redundant
displace
18. Reminiscent of a funeral
funereal
relentless
senile
deign
19. Grasping
jostle
prehensile
resplendent
cymbal
20. To establish the limits of
demarcate
miry
solicitous
defection
21. A means by which prophetic wisdom is imparted
abet
coin
hortatory
oracle
22. Uncultivated
fallow
abstinence
lithe
dialectic
23. Appearance; manner
mien
dissipate
cumbersome
wanton
24. Pleasant or appealing (tasty)
dissipate
tirade
gale
toothsome
25. To assume forcibly and or without right
imperceptible
treatise
usurp
predilection
26. A major work (or art or literature)
invigorate
quagmire
aesthetic
opus
27. Lying
caper
histrionic
astute
mendacity
28. Approval; praise
recondite
tantrum
plaudit
enmity
29. To beg
serendipity
haphazard
auspicious
beseech
30. The opposite; highest possible contrast
circuitous
millennium
doleful
antithesis
31. Routine; boring
integral
brandish
simulacrum
perfunctory
32. Support; encouragement; patronage
tether
auspices
vacuous
innate
33. To settle a debt by means of installment payments
amortize
annul
dalliance
aridity
34. A clique; a circle
diffident
affluent
facade
coterie
35. The act of drawing to a close
modulate
alluvial
rogue
cessation
36. Having a harmful effect; injurious
phlegmatic
superlative
maladaptive
deleterious
37. Humorous
eminent
mesmerize
precedent
jocose
38. To reveal; to disclose
divulge
prototype
abhor
oracle
39. Wealthy
opulent
gesticulate
egalitarian
ornate
40. Transparent
diaphanous
secular
ungainly
comport
41. A bad thing; something that can hurt you
liability
delinquent
mordant
inconspicuous
42. Deep-seated malice
rancor
supplanted
abbreviate
progeny
43. Highly indecent; provocative (pictures or writing)
autocrat
salacious
piquant
erratic
44. Red-colored - flushed; gaudy - ornate
equitable
lustrous
endemic
florid
45. Brotherly
fraternal
transient
pedagogue
buffer
46. Cool; indifferent
vituperative
aloof
resurgence
callous
47. Explanation resulting from a careful study of facts
diagnosis
truculent
exonerate
exasperation
48. Speed - swiftness of action or motion
celerity
calumny
alacrity
talisman
49. Instructive; related to teaching
jocular
predilection
didactic
tumultuous
50. Relating to marriage; connubial
nuptial
exude
scrutinize
judicature