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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. Occurring every three years
clairvoyance
overhaul
rancorous
triennial
2. To wear away or rub off; to wear down in spirit
probity
abrade
hackneyed
demise
3. young or inexperienced
balmy
fledgling
superannuated
philistine
4. To plot; to conspire
insouciant
connive
circumspect
scourge
5. The written words for an actor
bog
peripatetic
script
rectitude
6. An evergreen tree
fir
strident
travesty
bequeath
7. Cheap or showy
pernicious
coveted
brassy
deleterious
8. Very bad; wretched
fallacy
inane
deplorable
sanction
9. To soften; to appease
mollify
synthesis
tribulation
onerous
10. Grand; lofty; splendid
teetotaler
hypothesis
adamant
sublime
11. Pertaining to the night
bipartisanship
ascetic
ruminate
nocturnal
12. Flood
castigate
deluge
germane
plight
13. Contributing to a result
kaleidoscopic
conducive
approbation
melancholy
14. Filthy
squalid
hegemony
dispossess
fortify
15. To give up (rights); to deny
supplanted
eminent
biogenesis
abjure
16. Someone who watches an event
charmer
itinerant
spectator
berate
17. To diminish in size - intensity - or extent (opposite of escalate)
repudiate
deescalate
compounded
retribution
18. To ooze out
tenable
ossified
oblique
exude
19. Being illegally married to two people simultaneously
bigamy
incarnate
transitory
anarchy
20. Baby horse
juxtapose
rigid
celerity
foal
21. Something worthy of contempt
despicable
decrepit
probity
irrevocable
22. Guess
conjecture
cabal
construe
euphony
23. Capable of holding much; roomy
impassive
miserly
vacillation
capacious
24. Skillful
ingratiate
deft
lethal
augment
25. Redistribution
reapportionment
invigorate
sycophant
sensationalism
26. A commonplace or useless remark
platitude
ravenous
hot-spur
lucrative
27. Humorous
canonical
facetious
callow
tenebrous
28. To thwart; to stump; stand in the way
promiscuous
stymie
febrile
foible
29. To go forward
eulogy
wend
wastrel
bilateral
30. Beautiful
maelstrom
impeccable
pedantic
aesthetic
31. A group of islands
deluge
archipelago
pervasive
domicile
32. Having a harmful effect; injurious
succinct
impediment
deleterious
castigate
33. Indigenous; characteristic of a certain place or people
rudimentary
endemic
fleet
hot-spur
34. Regretful
pugnacious
expedient
symmetry
rueful
35. To completely revise
abrade
yahoo
overhaul
flout
36. The firing of a number of weapons at the same time
autonomous
ribald
beseech
salvo
37. Reappearance or revival; rising again
acculturation
undermine
resurgence
ecstasy
38. Accidental discoveries
abscond
presage
serendipity
coterie
39. Alert; watchful (n. vigilance)
tactile
judge
ascribe
vigilant
40. Study of group relationships
blather
voluminous
sociometry
ostracize
41. Mass of varied elements
balmy
facade
missive
conglomeration
42. To share in another's sorrow or disappointment
embezzle
commiserate
jurisprudence
contumely
43. Indifferent; lacking liveliness
ecumenical
muse
lackadaisical
flippant
44. Abusive criticism
obloquy
accrue
repression
sonnet
45. Shrewd; very smart; clever
diaphanous
astute
inculcate
adroit
46. Strange; foreign
adept
laureate
exotic
gullible
47. To be moderate - especially in eating and drinking
deviate
accede
abstemious
transmute
48. To hypnotize
sleuth
nominal
mesmerize
ascetic
49. Reason earnestly with; to protest; to complain
pristine
discredited
remonstrate
telepathy
50. Wasteful or extravagant
prodigal
platitude
staid
august