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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. One who says that man cannot understand the nature of men
agnostic
invocation
promulgate
adroit
2. A mark of acknowledgement or expression of praise
palpable
morass
accolade
cite
3. The firing of a number of weapons at the same time
salvo
discount
propitiate
bluster
4. Haughty; urgent
desecrate
imperious
sundry
nonpartisan
5. A big fire
pallid
resolute
conflagration
philistine
6. A despotic ruler; a mean ruler
deviate
autocrat
desiccant
garret
7. Destroy effectiveness
vitiate
imbibe
rogue
pulchritude
8. Aimless
desultory
ambivalent
abdicate
imperceptible
9. Unceasingly harsh
superficial
lamentation
circumlocutory
relentless
10. Unconquerable
indomitable
injunction
savanna
impassive
11. An implication beyond literal meaning; an unspoken suggestion
delete
traitorous
connotation
analogy
12. To fasten; to encircle; to empower
gird
incontrovertible
devious
monolithic
13. Overused - trite
grandiloquence
avowal
profuse
hackneyed
14. To steal
pseudo
aridity
occult
embezzle
15. On the subject
discord
denizen
depravity
relevant
16. Lavishly overabundant
taurine
oblique
profuse
pernicious
17. To discourage
fervent
herculean
hoodwink
daunt
18. Unmethodical; aimless
marshy
desultory
quarantine
resonate
19. Stately; majestic
dictum
august
occlude
excoriate
20. Worldly; ordinary; everyday
piety
mundane
replete
castigate
21. Highest point
comely
zenith
vulpine
goad
22. Various
sundry
clamorous
occidental
eminent
23. Inciting rebellion
incubus
condescending
seditious
burnish
24. To incriminate
discombobulate
blatant
inert
inculpate
25. Fill to excess
protract
opprobrium
prodigal
surfeit
26. Agreed to by most people; by reputation
upbraid
avian
corporeal
putative
27. Pale
plagiarism
wan
plebeian
peremptory
28. The capturing of prey as a means of maintaining life.
lacteal
predation
estrange
upbraid
29. Lacking emotion
daunting
impassive
pastoral
tyro
30. Lack of temperance - especially with alcohol
matriarchal
blatant
intemperance
braggart
31. Vague; not understandable
anonymous
affect
impalpable
liturgy
32. Happening by chance; incidental; accidental
circumspect
adventitious
efflorescent
exacerbate
33. Nickname
efficacious
contravene
enunciate
sobriquet
34. The desire to commit harmful or unfair acts
allude
carp
malice
entity
35. To give up
paroxysm
relinquish
vanquish
atrophy
36. Characterization
salient
voracious
feign
epithet
37. Sharp; shrewd; severe
defamation
supple
prerogative
acute
38. Sharp in analysis; keen; penetrating
vicariously
undermine
confabulate
incisive
39. To raid
didactic
refractory
renounce
maraud
40. Strong and powerful
blithe
vigilant
herculean
expendable
41. Speech in which an actor talks only to himself
inhibit
meddle
nubile
soliloquy
42. Optical illusion
doleful
mirage
concomitant
trifling
43. Sneering; sarcastic
cynical
implicit
criterion
decry
44. Sound made by a bell
perpetuate
nefarious
script
chime
45. Cleansing agent
intuitive
bedraggled
perpetuate
detergent
46. Injustice; immoral action
confrontation
iniquity
enigma
patronize
47. Incomprehensible; difficult to decipher
obfuscate
inscrutable
laconic
pyrrhic
48. Learned; having extensive knowledge
debacle
parlance
erudite
frugal
49. Incompetent (n. ineptitude)
tractable
masochist
inept
trove
50. To prove conclusively; to demonstrate
induce
nepotism
evince
arbiter