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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. Cheap like someone who won't let you borrow money
amorphous
contemptuous
judge
miserly
2. To assign to an inferior position
implausible
preemptive
aberration
relegate
3. A suspension or delay
peripheral
blandishment
asylum
reprieve
4. A quick-tempered - impulsive person
paucity
impunity
hot-spur
obfuscate
5. To weaken
voluptuous
extricating
lampoon
enervate
6. Merciless; harsh
venerable
perilous
inclement
quay
7. To use gestures
prudent
pilfer
lithe
gesticulate
8. Pale
synthesis
incongruous
mollify
pallid
9. A natural attraction between two things
holistic
affinity
nonpareil
avert
10. Considerate - skillful in acting to avoid offense to others
quip
grisly
doggerel
tactful
11. To entertain
ossified
daunting
regale
dossier
12. One who is ungrateful
ingrate
fallow
relegate
collaborate
13. Hidden; secret
sordid
morsel
covert
imperious
14. To beat
bludgeon
brash
graft
execration
15. A warning
inarticulate
premonition
necrology
reapportionment
16. Fierce
refurbish
truculent
chronicle
decrepit
17. The act of compensating for a past misdeed; to put back
restitution
proxy
perspicuity
obsequious
18. The first for an example; tradition established by time
precedent
relentless
rebut
middling
19. Just; fair
expatiate
grovel
approbation
equitable
20. Of or pertaining to plant life; the study of plants
botanical
lugubrious
emphatic
vicissitudes
21. Agreed to by most people; by reputation
pandemic
fabulist
pontificate
putative
22. Indirect; crooked
raucous
recalcitrant
vestige
devious
23. Strong inclination; partiality
plight
predilection
pragmatic
unearth
24. Revolt; uprising
cumbrous
reproach
insurgence
swelter
25. The absence of government; a disordered and uncontrolled
empathize
anarchy
oracle
truncheon
26. Essential; very necessary
murky
imperative
extenuate
lampoon
27. A dummy of a hated person
effigy
tenable
compulsory
anesthetic
28. Stealing another's ideas
trove
vehement
plagiarism
acolyte
29. Continuous
incessant
imbibe
filch
precarious
30. To verify - confirm - provide supporting evidence
ravenous
cleavage
abstinence
substantiate
31. Cool; indifferent
aloof
blasphemy
demote
arbiter
32. Effective back to a stated point in time
strident
perspicuity
fictitious
retroactive
33. A scolding - especially a lengthy one delivered in public
animosity
perfidious
peripheral
harangue
34. Lacking concentration
deplore
diffuse
occult
scurrilous
35. Pertaining to taste
stigma
gustatory
temporize
stalemate
36. To evade by means of deception
circumvent
serendipity
missile
hapless
37. A minor fault
raze
peccadillo
tempest
quelled
38. To command or prohibit
jaunty
enjoin
naive
protuberant
39. Soon
presently
amoral
foot
funereal
40. Friendly - agreeable
avian
amicable
solace
dissolution
41. Quick to find petty fault; extra critical
cardinal
captious
savant
reciprocate
42. The state or quality of being ferocious; fierceness.
anathema
expunge
ferocity
doleful
43. To make impure or tainted
fashion
adulterate
eclogue
chivalrous
44. Complicated and twisted
archipelago
pecuniary
convoluted
overhaul
45. Various
polarize
sundry
tyro
bereaved
46. Unyielding in determination
encomium
disconcerting
resolute
multifarious
47. To wear away or rub off; to wear down in spirit
voluminous
abrade
perquisites
chaos
48. To make holy; to hallow
cumbrous
haphazard
consecrate
copious
49. Sharp reply
consecrate
raze
chafe
retort
50. Authoritative command
eclectic
mandate
banal
debacle