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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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1. Holiness
charlatan
sanctity
slovenly
commandeer
2. The way in which a speech is delivered
elocution
amalgamate
adaptation
acrid
3. Dark
convergence
tenebrous
assuage
emulate
4. To steal
disdain
conflict
discern
filch
5. Occurring every three years
profuse
fanciful
opaque
triennial
6. Timely
opportune
nonfeasance
revamp
interlude
7. To curse or use abusive language
revile
emanate
imperative
travail
8. Carefree; merry
blithe
enigma
ignoble
occlude
9. Waver
vernacular
fluctuate
culpable
bumptious
10. Gloomy
lambaste
hierarchy
candid
saturnine
11. Hard to control
console
rambunctious
disconcerting
delectable
12. Silly; stupid or foolish
embodiment
tactful
fatuous
besmirch
13. Deadly
lethal
peremptory
persnickety
ameliorate
14. Make known; to advocate
acrimonious
promulgate
pusillanimous
esteemed
15. To blame; criticize
decipher
catharsis
apathy
reproach
16. Permanently frozen subsoil - occurring throughout the
hubris
permafrost
interment
veritable
17. Very harmful
gaudy
scintillate
malignant
palaver
18. Scent; smell
aroma
incessant
yahoo
roster
19. Original
paraphernalia
harlequin
primordial
suave
20. Outburst of emotion
slovenly
tuft
paroxysm
euphony
21. Great happiness; bliss.
psychosomatic
felicity
confederation
condiment
22. Stealing another's ideas
plagiarism
simulacrum
germane
compatible
23. Mournful in the extreme
lugubrious
dearth
boorish
licentious
24. Authoritarian rule
ossify
defamation
anomalous
despotism
25. Inherited right
pulchritude
germane
con
patrimony
26. A decree
asinine
logistics
gourmet
fiat
27. Someone who captivates
canard
burnish
charmer
troglodyte
28. To multiply quickly
reconciliation
convoluted
mushroom
labyrinthine
29. A big fire
emancipate
conflagration
opine
tractable
30. Okay to lose
progeny
furtive
expendable
despotism
31. Sharp; shrewd; severe
acute
lethargic
hibernal
troglodyte
32. The act of kissing up
befuddle
torpid
nexus
sycophancy
33. Acting on a prior right
holistic
elusive
degenerate
preemptive
34. Prone to quarrels or fights
pugnacious
impetuous
rankle
culminate
35. Manly
upstage
virile
espouse
purlieus
36. To seize for military use; confiscate
commandeer
extenuate
wrangle
emollient
37. To swindle; to cheat
vignette
distrait
trajectory
bilk
38. A ceremony that inducts a monarch
mendicant
coronation
redress
rarefied
39. Absent-minded
charismatic
distrait
perilous
expiate
40. Evil; harmful
maleficent
botanical
expatiate
simile
41. To idolize
redolent
deify
chastise
grisly
42. Experimental; provisional
fealty
fabulist
cantankerous
tentative
43. False - malicious accusation
amalgamate
gaunt
banish
calumny
44. Feeblemindedness
redress
patronize
canter
dotage
45. Secret
ulterior
waylay
anthology
balderdash
46. A composition that has been recast into a new form
adaptation
melange
expletive
mollify
47. Angled; indirect
oblique
pacify
intangible
turpitude
48. To chat or talk informally
insular
soliloquy
confabulate
trepidation
49. To do away with utterly; wipe out
eradicate
gustatory
coruscate
perverse
50. One that furnishes provisions - especially food
frenzy
intuitive
purveyor
wastrel