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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. Unusually advanced or talented at an early age
precocious
holistic
portentous
derelict
2. Possessed by self-love
deify
asylum
keynote
narcissistic
3. A type of preservative
infidel
fiat
brine
wistful
4. To harden; to become accustomed to
inure
defamation
stanch
grandiose
5. To expunge; to cancel
delete
concatenation
multifarious
inchoate
6. Acting on a prior right
accessory
garner
malignant
preemptive
7. Novice; young assistant
astute
acolyte
malleable
scurrilous
8. To give up (rights); to deny
raze
chicanery
con
abjure
9. To settle a dispute by terms agreeable to both sides
respite
odyssey
impunity
compromise
10. To blame or scold severely
inordinate
excoriate
amorphous
deride (adj. derisive)
11. A sauce - relish - or spice used to season food
mawkish
condiment
tertiary
tumultuous
12. Incomplete; just beginning
gauntlet
illusory
introspective
inchoate
13. To distract attention from
upstage
extraneous
inert
hyperbole
14. Pertaining to the body
swamp
corporeal
hot-spur
aberration
15. Overly inclined to engage in lawsuits
bungler
litigious
nonfeasance
heresy
16. To multiply quickly
fecund
drastic
mushroom
synopsis
17. Lament; to really regret
cumbersome
pacifistic
deplore
malignant
18. To induce tranquility
axiomatic
gape
miserly
soothe
19. Incompetent (n. ineptitude)
loquacious
trifling
fabricate
inept
20. Dreadfully powerful
sardonic
formidable
cynical
expendable
21. Something foreshadowing a future event
harbinger
stalemate
interim
acrimonious
22. A company or group - esp. of touring actors - singers - or
troupe
chagrin
meddle
solemnity
23. Punishment (as from God) for past wrongdoing
progressive
retribution
posterity
gelid
24. Strong influence
hegemony
commandeer
specious
berate
25. To lie in wait for
accrue
waylay
contiguity
vignette
26. Smelly
presently
buoyant
captious
mephitic
27. Lavishly overabundant
conflict
disgruntled
apathy
profuse
28. A warning
premonition
seethe
benign
caricature
29. To ooze out
exude
verbose
nonfeasance
commendable
30. Customs
mores
esoteric
harbinger
timorous
31. Impenetrable to light; not transparent
conditional
rotund
conducive
opaque
32. Of lower quality or ability
marginal
trajectory
cumbersome
elusive
33. Without money
cognition
flaunt
impecunious
sidle
34. Agreeable; consistent
compatible
complicity
arbitrary
murky
35. Showy; tasteless
amenity
posterity
gaudy
ovoid
36. Great happiness; bliss.
loquacious
indoctrinate
apathy
felicity
37. Condemn severely
upbraid
fruition
cohort
alleviate
38. A group of companies trying to control a market ('oil cartel')
abet
cartel
discount
proxy
39. Nonsensically complicated procedure
punctilious
rigmarole
contumely
hyperbole
40. To specify a condition (n. stipulation - condition)
tureen
adjure
dais
stipulate
41. Unbiased; not taking sides
nonpartisan
obligatory
tractable
chagrin
42. To make a fake painting
delineate
forge
parched
refurbish
43. Inclination; tendency
propensity
pellucid
capacious
felicitous
44. Vague; not understandable
impalpable
retrospect
impassive
lenient
45. Destruction
havoc
palpable
dissipate
abide
46. Kept or done in secret
obliterate
clandestine
asylum
impunity
47. Changing sides
tergiversation
bestow
cliche
quarry
48. Turned to one side
intangible
awry
kibosh
tort
49. A civil misdeed requiring compensation (law)
turgid
carp
tort
brevity
50. Assumption; guess or theory requiring proof
headstrong
effulgent
coruscate
hypothesis