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SAT Vocab - 2
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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. Marked by precise accordance with details
poignant
punctilious
Paradigm
despondent / forlorn
2. Harsh - clashing - jarring - grating sounds; disharmony
Placate
Fawn
Pretext
Cacophony
3. Lacking proper respect; disrepectful
Petulant
irreverent
fortitude
Blithe
4. To give a definite form to an idea or plan
equanimity / unflappable
Crystallize
Pretext
Complaisant
5. Unable to pay; out of money (solvent - solvency - soluble - insoluble)
Propitiate
dispel
insolvent
impasse
6. An accidental but fortunate discovery
serendipity
fiasco / debacle
Chicanery
Exacerbate
7. Tentative - temporary - not lasting
Ungainly
incoherent
martinet
Provisional
8. Lacking foresight or scope
expunge / excise / expurgate
Oblivious
myopic
acrimonious
9. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
Cerebral
modicum
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
tumultuous
10. To give a false impression
belie
Remunerate
intrepid / undaunted
profundity
11. Great vigor and energy - dash
renegade
panache / verve / flamboyant
Juxtapose
prudent
12. A teacher; a guide; an advisor
Obsequious
mentor
despoiled
Consternation
13. The study of characteristics of human population
admonish
Ungainly
Demography
Enfranchise
14. Formal proposal
prospectus
benefactor
exorbitant
tawdry
15. Policy of granting concessions to maintain peace
profundity
Obstreperous
Appeasement
Euphony
16. Person who organizes a business/enterprise
Entrepreneur
Aplomb
Discomfited
Propitiate
17. To fall off in vigor - energy - activity - interest - etc
denounce
stoic
Vertiginous
flag
18. To give something back
relinquish
fiasco / debacle
antipathy / animosity / rancor
dispel
19. Very rich - having abundant resources
Indisputable
Affluent - Opulent
bowdlerize
martinet
20. To surrender
resilient
Flotsam
Profligate
Capitulate
21. To strongly desire; to crave
pandemonium
insolvent
covet
Lucrative
22. Unreasonable expensive
exorbitant
Proliferate
Placate
mellifluous
23. Characterized by verbal abuse and bitter criticism
temperate
Vituperative
callous
reticent
24. Behaving in an obsequious manner
placid / serence
Fawn
benefactor
Juxtaposition
25. Defiantly aggressive - eager to fight
rejuvenate
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
serendipity
renegade
26. A person who behaves in a servile manner; a toady
sycophant / obsequious
Cosmopolitan
galvanize
auspicious / propitious
27. A similarity or likeness
Prescribe
analogy / analagous
Appeasement
Vituperative
28. Showy; intended to attract notice; pretentious
circumscribe
Ostentatious
extricate
nonchalant
29. To scold; rebuke
Censorious - Captious
conspicuous
Proliferate
upbraid / reproach / castigate
30. Feeling downcast; dejected
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
despondent / forlorn
reprehensible
Rampant
31. Lacking organization or logic
incoherent
Refractory
Unfettered
spartan
32. Showing haughty disdain or arrogant superiority
tedious
prodigy
morbid
Supercilious
33. A clumsy or inept person
digress
abstemious
bungler
futile
34. Bare - not ornate
Enlighten - Edify
rejuvenate
austere
Moribund
35. Learned and authoritative
Magisterial
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
ubiquitous
Venal
36. An irresistible force
juggernaut
Munificent
Consensus
Inquisition
37. Strong dislike
Unfettered
Dessicated
iconoclast
antipathy / animosity / rancor
38. Not believable
implausible
Lugubrious
Affluent - Opulent
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
39. An eloquent writer or speaker
ambiguous
Complaisant
rhetorican
wry / droll
40. Expressing excessive emotion in an unrestrained manner; gushing
Convivial
Effusive
prudent
vacillate
41. To strongly encourage
reprehensible
insurmountable
fiasco / debacle
exhort
42. To soothe or calm; to appease
elusive
Placate
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
austerity
43. Abstaining from the enforcement of a right; the act of refraining from acting on a desire or impulse
Restitution
Forbearance
Underwrite
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
44. Hard to understand - impenetrably dense and obscure
Catalyst
Aphorism - Axiom
Opaque
auspicious / propitious
45. Sparkling; shining; brilliantly clever
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
Visceral
Capitulate
Scintillating
46. Not ordinary or typical
Autocrat - Despot
unconventional / unorthodox
eccentric
Didactic
47. A stimulus or encouragement
Quiescent
disparity
ambiguous
impetus
48. Admirably suited; apt.
Sinecure
Craven
felicitous
subtle
49. A complete failure
Contiguous
Spate
presumptuous
fiasco / debacle
50. An amateur or dabbler
veracity
erroneous
dilettante
Extravagant