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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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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. Extremely complicated or devious
Spate
byzantine
raze
stoic
2. To destroy.
panache / verve / flamboyant
extirpate
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
diatribe / tirade
3. To free from blame
vindicate
ubiquitous
Pristine
Noxious
4. The study of characteristics of human population
Demography
Slight
impetus
reprobate
5. Characterized by knowledge that is known only to a small group of specialists; obscure; recondite
Prolific
Esoteric - Arcane
beneficiary
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
6. Agreeable; friendly
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
Timorous
morbid
Extravagant
7. Belittle;slight
disparage
reaffirm
mendacious
strident
8. Annoyingly talkative
Venal
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Munificent
sophistry
9. An accidental but fortunate occurence
Quiescent
reprobate
fortuitous
intrepid / undaunted
10. Foul smelling
impecunious
Cacophony
malodorous
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
11. Sensational - shocking - or ghastly
Lurid
implausible
prospectus
picayune
12. Defiantly aggressive - eager to fight
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
Moribund
Excoriating - Scathing
anguish
13. W/o previous example - never known before
Unprecedented
Pretext
anachronism
recluse
14. Of doubtful authenticity; false; spurious
Apocryphal
Profligate
anguish
vindictive
15. Praise; applaud
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
Dessicated
Ostentatious
anomaly / atypical
16. Lacking self-confidence
diffident
Paranoia
procure
Precedent
17. Very rich - having abundant resources
Conundrum
Censorious - Captious
Affluent - Opulent
Restitution
18. A similarity or likeness
analogy / analagous
Opaque
Sedentary
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
19. State of being various or manifold; a great number
multiplicity
Complicity
Pernicious
Ornate
20. Good-humored; cheerful
jovial and jocular
nadir
flag
strident
21. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
Remunerate
Duplicitous
Sinecure
bowdlerize
22. Pompous - or pretentious in speech or writing; ostentatiously lofty in side
intrepid / undaunted
Effusive
renovate
Bombastic
23. An intruder: a gate-crasher
Complaisant
Myriad
Interloper
Indomitable - Resolute
24. Something performed in a spiritless - mechanical - and routine manner
reprobate
Perfunctory
reprehensible
Underwrite
25. An original model
Perfunctory
pompous
audacious
prototype
26. Lacking restraint; excessive
circumscribe
intemperate
Timorous
conjecture / supposition
27. To be guided by practical experience - not theory
ascetic
Myriad
Empirical
occlusion
28. Learned and authoritative
autonomous
Vacuous - Inane
aloof
Magisterial
29. Very bold; daring
dirge
audacious
mendacious
enigmatic / inscrutable
30. Great in depth of feeling - intellect or meaning
innovator
impecunious
Convivial
profundity
31. Dry humor
wry / droll
callous
dismissive
futile
32. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
Disenfranchise
strident
Effusive
extirpate
33. To require; to order; to direct
Propitiate
Ungainly
Prescribe
Ignominious
34. To narrowly restrict; to limit action; to draw a line around
Redolent
vacillate
circumscribe
pragmatic
35. To make impossible - to rule out - to prevent
penchant / predilection
impeccable
Slight
Preclude
36. To appease - conciliate - or regain the good will of
Magisterial
Entrepreneur
diffident
Propitiate
37. To swell out or expand from internal pressure (overly full)
demise
fiasco / debacle
distend
tedious
38. Sparkling; shining; brilliantly clever
Entomology
indigenous / endemic
Scintillating
disparity
39. Smooth and sweet flowing
Disingenuous
mellifluous
Brusque - Curt
Appeasement
40. To remove or delete objectionable parts of a book
Osmosis
bowdlerize
Forbearance
stoic
41. Act/instance used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances
Noxious
covet
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Precedent
42. Sociable; fond of feasting - drinking - and good company
magnanimous
renegade
Convivial
Underwrite
43. Easily noticed
aloof
conspicuous
remiss
recalcitrant / obdurate
44. Noisily and stubbornly defiant
Obstreperous
ascetic
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
disparity
45. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
Petulant
penchant / predilection
ubiquitous
Effusive
46. Sharp; clear; clever; keen; perceptive; discriminating; astute
Incredulous
incisive
Vacuous - Inane
exhort
47. Generous nad forgiving
conjecture / supposition
picayune
jovial and jocular
magnanimous
48. Lacking conscious awareness - unmindful - unaware
Oblivious
hedonist
Watershed
ubiquitous
49. Too overwhelming to be put into words; indescribable; inexpressible
maverick
morose / despondent
diffident
Ineffable
50. A statement universally accepted as true - a maxim
Aphorism - Axiom
insurmountable
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
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