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SAT Vocab - 2
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Harmful - injurious to physical - mental - or moral health
Noxious
Stopgap
Licentious
Moribund
2. Disparaging - belittling - insulting
Conundrum
Insidious
pejorative
tacit
3. A group or association of three leaders
poignant
Dessicated
digress
Triumvirate
4. A mixture; combination of different elements
Flippant - Facetious
oracle
amalgam
Contentious - Cantankerous
5. Critical point that marks a change in course or turning event
deride
Consensus
Watershed
sophistry
6. Showing great determination
tenacious
boorish / uncouth / crass
Extemporize - Improvise
Marginal - Peripheral
7. Flowery in style - very ornate
Consternation
Florid
Interloper
Contiguous
8. Dying - on the way out - approaching that
Moribund
nonchalant
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
indignant
9. Idyllically calm and tranquil
distend
halcyon
sonorous
Sanguine
10. Treating serious manners with light-hearted humor or lack of respect
redundant
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
Flippant - Facetious
Ostentatious
11. Sharp; clear; clever; keen; perceptive; discriminating; astute
Excoriating - Scathing
fastidious
fiasco / debacle
incisive
12. Of great importance
Proliferate
Vacuous - Inane
momentous
strident
13. To increase rapidly
martinet
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
Proliferate
deride
14. Many - numerous
Contentious - Cantankerous
extirpate
ambivalent
Myriad
15. A beginner
Venal
Histrionic - Overwrought
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
Dilatory
16. Calmness; composure
equanimity / unflappable
Censorious - Captious
Euphony
itinerant
17. Misconduct/wrongdoing - especially by a public official
Guile
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
raconteur
Malfeasance
18. To appease - conciliate - or regain the good will of
demagogue
jovial and jocular
Indisputable
Propitiate
19. Settled and therefore accustomed to sitting or doing little exercise
Vacuous - Inane
Sedentary
gratuitous
myopic
20. Not in the proper time period
Elan
Histrionic - Overwrought
fortitude
anachronism
21. An interruption in time or continuity; a break
Discordant
renovate
zealot
Hiatus
22. To make a situation worse
Excoriating - Scathing
partisan
Chagrin
Exacerbate
23. Of secondary importance; not central;on the perimeter
disparity
Eschew
Marginal - Peripheral
Paradigm
24. To crush as if by trampling; squash
enigmatic / inscrutable
auspicious / propitious
Juxtapose
squelch
25. Ill-tempered; rude; lacking civility
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Crystallize
Preclude
boorish / uncouth / crass
26. Not in harmony - incompatible - at variance with - as in a discordant detail that doesn't fit a pattern
exorbitant
Nullify
Complaisant
Discordant
27. Something of small value; petty; trifling
picayune
Obstreperous
copious
devoid
28. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
Caustic
audacious
austerity
Duplicitous
29. A source of harm
Propitiate
bane
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
belie
30. A scarcity or shortage
Enlighten - Edify
dearth / paucity
Extemporize - Improvise
Marginal - Peripheral
31. Awkwardly; clumsy - not graceful
Prescribe
Bombastic
Ungainly
Venal
32. Exercising moderation
temperate
reticent
penchant / predilection
ominous
33. Very depressed
morose / despondent
Contiguous
Complicity
plausible
34. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit
exhort
dissembler / prevaricator
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Guile
35. A remark that is hurtful or burning
squelch
Caustic
Credulous
rejuvenate
36. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false.
exorbitant
specious
fiasco / debacle
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
37. Gradual - often unconscious - process of assimilation
Lurid
Pertinent
Osmosis
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
38. Showing nervousness or fear
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Timorous
acquiesce
callous
39. The act of making good or compensating for a loss - damage - or injury
Moribund
Restitution
Dilatory
Affluent - Opulent
40. A deviation from the norm
anomaly / atypical
Exacerbate
Visceral
Interloper
41. A person who excels in telling anecdotes
austere
reprieve
charlatan
raconteur
42. Excluding fragrance - full of a specified smell; suggestive of; reminiscent
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
Redolent
Duplicitous
dimunitive
43. Extremely wicked; vile
Beleaguer
nefarious
presumptuous
Demography
44. To deprive of some privilege - especially the right to vote
Autocrat - Despot
Disenfranchise
Ornate
Affluent - Opulent
45. An intruder: a gate-crasher
Interloper
Consternation
Profligate
Enlighten - Edify
46. Highly critical; carping
pandemic
belie
Censorious - Captious
impecunious
47. A person who behaves in a servile manner; a toady
pundit
sycophant / obsequious
Cerebral
Malfeasance
48. W/o previous example - never known before
Unprecedented
covet
galvanize
erroneous
49. A sudden realization or insightful moment
Accord
Scintillating
Epiphany
Credulous
50. Excessively sentimental
vicarious
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
maudlin
vindicate