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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. Head of a tribe or family
clandestine
obese
patriarch
analogy
2. Dried up - shriveled
encomium
neophyte
titillate
parched
3. To reason earnestly with
expeditious
apolitical
presage
expostulate
4. Prone to quarrels or fights
gird
nonentity
expeditious
pugnacious
5. The incarnation of a given thing or idea ('she is the
embodiment
subjective
tort
presentment
6. Very bad; wretched
deplorable
emissary
discount
indelible
7. To sift through
antagonist
reclusive
winnow
febrile
8. Speaking with many words; very wordy
impassive
telekinesis
verbose
assuage
9. To intrude into other people's affairs or business; interfere
gratuitous
meddle
boorish
effrontery
10. Appealing to the emotions; touching
fashion
debase
poignant
murky
11. Being a mutually beneficial relationship
travesty
misconstrue
emanate
symbiotic
12. Not easily pacified
hoax
implacable
pejorative
constellation
13. To depart secretly - especially to avoid criminal charges
exasperation
desultory
approbation
abscond
14. Unchangeable
immutable
misanthropic
capricious
savant
15. The firing of a number of weapons at the same time
salvo
barbaric
sagacity
misnomer
16. Lacking restraint
rueful
headstrong
antiquity
preemptive
17. Gruesome; shocking
belated
vehement
patch
lurid
18. A daydream
panacea
renovation
reverie
interim
19. An opponent motivated by revenge
trajectory
nemesis
syllogism
profundity
20. To waver between options
intercession
stringent
citadel
vacillate
21. Harsh sounding; shrill
bereaved
voluptuous
itinerant
raucous
22. To take place
putative
transpire
rabid
jocund
23. Nobody; of little importance
entourage
profundity
nonentity
demise
24. Happy - elated
buoyant
malady
deescalate
emolument
25. Common; relating to the common people
virulent
plebeian
amiable
garret
26. Decrease
culinary
ignominious
wane
intuitive
27. To blame or censure
havoc
reprove
prologue
nonentity
28. Soften; alleviate
assuage
niggardly
ingenuous
thespian
29. Vote by the people
defection
dudgeon
polyglot
plebiscite
30. Radiant
candid
obeisance
paroxysm
lambent
31. A distinctive event
pragmatic
relegate
hallmark
undermine
32. Outstanding bravery or skill
avian
recreant
prowess
caprice
33. Unintelligible or nonsensical talk or writing.
eschew
avail
gibberish
dynamic
34. An occurrence that took place in the past
bygone
animosity
ambient
fain
35. To give credit for
lampoon
ascribe
martyrdom
episodic
36. Showy; gay
denigrate
estrange
jaunty
bigoted
37. Accuse; attack as false or questionable; challenge in argument
cynosure
trepidation
propinquity
impugn
38. Routine; boring
despotism
ingratiate
perfunctory
providence
39. To reject; to turn down
rebuff
agnostic
melodious
marshy
40. To stop a flow
tandem
stanch
stringent
lackey
41. Examining oneself
introspective
onus
bilateral
cull
42. Coin collecting
plague
envisage
bludgeon
numismatics
43. To surpass; to exceed
saturnine
recalcitrant
transcend
sententious
44. A stronghold
effervesce
noxious
propitiate
citadel
45. Made up of two parts; double
binary
ennui
intruder
bromide
46. Center of attention
cynosure
penance
indigenous
captious
47. Milky
ubiquitous
connive
ribald
lacteal
48. Cajole; entice
ostracize
appraise
wheedle
retrospect
49. Something falling apart or run down
dilapidated
fruition
fallow
ecumenical
50. The act of dissolving into parts
corporeal
saw
inherent
dissolution