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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. Having a logical approach to things ('with dialectic thoroughness')
deplore
dialectic
denunciation
denigrate
2. Of lower quality or ability
deplore
stigma
marginal
expiate
3. Dangerous
aridity
palliate
salacious
perilous
4. Pertaining to cooking
culinary
saccharine
imposing
sublimate
5. Merciful; mild
fabricate
quay
lenient
florid
6. Disaster
androgynous
cataclysm
copious
compromise
7. Fearless - adventurous
intrepid
tribulation
decrepit
balmy
8. To lessen
abate
abhor
vituperative
reconciliation
9. To disclose from hiding
cabal
denigrate
unearth
viscous
10. A warning
sedulous
jocose
sundry
premonition
11. Public platform or pulpit
rostrum
demagogue
astute
slighting
12. To liberate
engender
insidious
emancipate
occlude
13. Relating to birds
abet
mendacity
affinity
avian
14. Chain
erode
vehement
fetter
discombobulate
15. To raid
maraud
supercilious
missive
insouciant
16. Inequality
destitute
affirmative
disparity
amiable
17. Neighborhood
dotage
purlieus
wayfaring
nether
18. Difficult to believe; not plausible.
implausible
provocative
prologue
adaptation
19. Whim; a capricious or eccentric idea or action
guileless
vagary
nonpartisan
affinity
20. Decrease
implicit
calumny
wane
avuncular
21. Lowest point
nadir
expurgate
denunciation
annunciate
22. Unpredictable; erratic or marked by unconventional behavior
inevitable
opus
eccentric
abstemious
23. To issue forth; to emit from a source
indemnify
emanate
delectable
encumbrance
24. A pause
respite
absolve
lucrative
melodramatic
25. Supreme
emolument
alluvial
paramount
therapeutic
26. Pompous speech or expression; bombast
envisage
havoc
surcease
grandiloquence
27. Decency - honesty - wholeness
precedent
integrity
tepid
cavalry
28. Strange; fantastic
bizarre
gesticulate
posthumous
odyssey
29. Of various colors
absolve
ornate
restive
piebald
30. Clear and easy to understand
ponderous
perspicuity
execration
largess
31. Greed
dispossess
avarice
expiate
restive
32. Haggard
syllogism
emaciated
commendable
delusion
33. Prejudiced
insolent
bigoted
retroactive
dissipate
34. Aware
indolent
cognizant
jeopardize
expatiate
35. A conniving plot
machination
rail
vociferous
vindictive
36. Sound made by a bell
gnash
chime
jettison
apocryphal
37. Stuff rope is made of
hemp
opulent
chronicle
adversity
38. An expression of praise
ravenous
panegyric
awry
tutelage
39. Pretender of knowledge; a fake
sidle
pedagogue
charlatan
effete
40. Perception; the process of knowing
cognition
blatant
excommunicate
gustatory
41. The full range or extent
verdant
bedraggled
gamut
grandeur
42. Return to a former condition
retrogress
guile
reprobate
nabob
43. Honored as a result of achievements
laureate
cogent
chimerical
reticent
44. Absent-minded
belie
aridity
distrait
onus
45. A poem about the country
emissary
bludgeon
somatic
eclogue
46. Soften; alleviate
assuage
conglomeration
hirsute
pillage
47. 1) resentment 2) shadow
impecunious
lamentable
umbrage
surmise
48. A harmless - phony medicine
prototype
vilify
placebo
sequester
49. To disclaim knowledge of
presently
vivacious
disavow
fortitude
50. Cowardly
fir
constellation
recreant
nether