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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. Causing dissension; divisive
catharsis
abortive
factious
parlance
2. A desirable thing
desideratum
demagogue
sanguine
ascribe
3. To estimate by examining unknown values
venerable
extrapolate
gape
pecuniary
4. Pleasant; delicious
sedulous
confabulate
delectable
stigma
5. To ruin one's reputation
coterie
modicum
incontrovertible
denigrate
6. Pertaining to the body
harangue
corporeal
adjure
stentorian
7. To completely revise
avian
fulminate
profundity
overhaul
8. A servile attendant
consecrate
lackey
dilapidated
ancillary
9. Incompetent (n. ineptitude)
corporeal
inept
discursive
invocation
10. To cause irritation or festering resentment
soothe
rapacious
rankle
incredible
11. Waver; undulate
purport
provincial
sanguine
oscillate
12. Dull or empty
overhaul
divergent
valiant
jejune
13. Radiant
brandish
lambent
inexorable
dilemma
14. Fill to excess
surfeit
phlegmatic
tuft
hubris
15. A liar
condone
fabulist
irrefutable
impediment
16. To denounce loudly or forcefully
lambaste
lackadaisical
fulminate
morass
17. Correct spelling
guile
derisive
orthography
emanate
18. Having to do with an uncle
somatic
genial
avuncular
impromptu
19. Tip over
peruse
discriminating
envisage
careen
20. To blend into a coherent single unit
puerile
graceful
specious
amalgamate
21. Science of word origins
dubious
etymology
venerable
cumbrous
22. Lecture
demagogue
sundry
discourse
ostentatious
23. Freedom from punishment or penalty
impunity
euphemism
perennial
quarry
24. To harden; to become accustomed to
inure
decadence
impassive
matriarch
25. To be moderate - especially in eating and drinking
propitiate
abstemious
sundry
grandeur
26. Bending to the will of another
subservient
lugubrious
travesty
deleterious
27. Effective back to a stated point in time
retroactive
philology
fawn
culpable
28. Thrifty - not wasteful
dolorous
pretense
frugal
fickle
29. Commonplace
debilitate
stipulate
doggerel
banal
30. Shy; given to flirting
inoculate
euphony
coquettish
cohort
31. A distinctive event
hallmark
haughty
tort
parched
32. Happy; satisfied
complacent
auspicious
celerity
modulate
33. Offensive - lacking manners
sophistry
rhetoric
prototype
boorish
34. Inherited right
ardent
bereaved
patrimony
domicile
35. Deadly; evil
noxious
baleful
avian
bravado
36. Support; encouragement; patronage
regimen
auspices
bane
mortify
37. To slowly drink
testator
rhetoric
sip
amorphous
38. Attentive
rococo
hibernal
sedulous
curtail
39. Paradise
culminate
auspicious
compromise
utopia
40. Outwardly reasonable
sleazy
capricious
misnomer
specious
41. Honesty
malignant
acumen
probity
bogus
42. Producing wealth; profitable
neophyte
canonical
lucrative
orthography
43. To blame; criticize
nuptial
zenith
reproach
cymbal
44. Not mindful
nocturnal
aesthetic
oblivious
sidle
45. On one's back
supine
myopic
strident
celibate
46. Powerful
camaraderie
potent
verbose
impecunious
47. Accuse; attack as false or questionable; challenge in argument
impugn
effect
cache
prodigal
48. Submission
obeisance
impinge
caricature
meander
49. Death
demise
castigate
braggart
concourse
50. Harmful - injurious
desecrate
noxious
impetuous
credulous