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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. Self-assurance - admirable ploys under pressure
capricious / mercurial
pandemic
Aplomb
prospectus
2. Lacking conscious awareness - unmindful - unaware
Oblivious
Restitution
erroneous
admonish
3. To divide a district so as to give one side an advantage
Juxtaposition
raze
gerrymander
Rampant
4. Abrupt in manner or speech: discourteously blunt
Brusque - Curt
Protean
ascetic
polarize / divisive
5. A person who excels in telling anecdotes
hilarity
dispatch
raconteur
Apocryphal
6. Casual indifference
nonchalant
Fecund
bungler
Demarcation
7. To cut short or reduce
curtail
gratuitous
abstemious
Disheartening
8. Unrestrained: unchecked
magnanimous
implausible
Remunerate
Rampant
9. Peevish - irritable
Obsequious
Flummox
Petulant
myopic
10. Excessively cheap with money - stingy
acquiesce
picayune
Parsimonious
strident
11. Cowardly - faint hearted
Craven
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
Florid
Capitulate
12. Disturbing; upsetting; vexing; causing unease; worrisome
Moribund
innocuous
Furor
Disquieting
13. To deliberately confuse; to make something so confusing it's hard to understand
anomaly / atypical
vicarious
Credulous
Obfuscate
14. Act/instance used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances
Precedent
Brusque - Curt
Ignominious
Didactic
15. Very discouraging
dispel
Disheartening
impasse
incisive
16. A person who receives benefits
maverick
renovate
beneficiary
Virulent
17. Lacking liveliness - animation or interest; dull.
Eclectic
prodigy
vapid
halcyon
18. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
Sinecure
reprieve
autonomous
prattle
19. Calmness; composure
Cerebral
tumultuous
Ineffable
equanimity / unflappable
20. Sad mournful - melancholic
Lugubrious
itinerant
impeccable
Didactic
21. Outrage at something that is unjust
Petulant
indignant
Complaisant
pundit
22. Completely lacking in something
Parsimonious
devoid
Noxious
dimunitive
23. Happening or moving extremely slowly
zealot
glacial
Pretext
Brusque - Curt
24. To lecture or speak without notes
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
evocation
tedious
Extemporize - Improvise
25. Exercising moderation
Quiescent
disparage
Rampant
temperate
26. Treating serious manners with light-hearted humor or lack of respect
inexorable
partisan
Empirical
Flippant - Facetious
27. To assert again
reaffirm
laconic / succint / terse
renovate
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
28. A teacher; a guide; an advisor
mentor
Precedent
Obstreperous
Paranoia
29. A deviation from the norm
Sanguine
admonish
galvanize
anomaly / atypical
30. Causing hard in a subtle or stealthy manner; devious
resurgent
audacious
partisan
Insidious
31. To take back; disavow
repudiate / recant / renounce
tacit
despoiled
Cosmopolitan
32. A morally unprincipled person
Indomitable - Resolute
rebuff
reprobate
dissembler / prevaricator
33. A temporary solution designed to meet an urgent need
Stopgap
acrimonious
ambiguous
clairvoyant
34. A devoted student
ostracize
acolyte
bungler
vicarious
35. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
reprobate
pundit
Enfranchise
exorbitant
36. A person with biased beliefs
Lucrative
Magisterial
raze
partisan
37. A mixture; combination of different elements
Ignominious
Effusive
dimunitive
amalgam
38. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
dismissive
Duplicitous
Discomfited
Solicitous
39. Showing nervousness or fear
Timorous
serendipity
Appeasement
Venal
40. A preference for something; an inclination
diffident
Depreciation
penchant / predilection
Malfeasance
41. Great in depth of feeling - intellect or meaning
Craven
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Proscribe
profundity
42. Marked by inactivity OR in a state of quiet repose
anomaly / atypical
Epiphany
itinerant
Quiescent
43. Indisputable; beyond doubt
charlatan
incontrovertible
Affluent - Opulent
Demarcation
44. Relentless - unstoppable
prudent
fleeting / ephemeral
inexorable
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
45. Showing haughty disdain or arrogant superiority
Supercilious
impeccable
Extravagant
zenith / apex
46. To level to the ground; demolish
Sanguine
raze
hedonist
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
47. Harmful - injurious to physical - mental - or moral health
Noxious
momentous
partisan
Dilapidated
48. A sentimental longing for the past
tacit
audacious
abstemious
nostalgia
49. Noisily and stubbornly defiant
pandemonium
Obstreperous
sonorous
Forbearance
50. To free from guilt or blame
Exonerate - Exculpate
quixotic
Ignominious
fleeting / ephemeral