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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. Minor - everyday details
abstemious
indigenous / endemic
thwart / stymie
trivial / minutiae
2. Utterly perplexed - completely puzzled - totally bewildered
oracle
Nonplus - Confounded
incisive
extirpate
3. A remark that is hurtful or burning
nadir
circumscribe
Caustic
Disenfranchise
4. A similarity or likeness
Consternation
Supercilious
analogy / analagous
jaded
5. Fearless; courageous
Caustic
Spate
Forbearance
intrepid / undaunted
6. To strongly encourage
Venal
exhort
Coerce
indigenous / endemic
7. Tending to give instruction or advice; inclined to teach others too much; containing a political/moral lesson
stoic
innocuous
Consternation
Didactic
8. Producing a deep or full sound
sonorous
picayune
analogy / analagous
naïve / gullible / credulous
9. Lying; untrustful
Ungainly
Triumvirate
subtle
mendacious
10. Producing a sensation of touch
rebuff
audacious
tactile
Quiescent
11. Annoyingly talkative
redundant
panache / verve / flamboyant
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
vicarious
12. Person who organizes a business/enterprise
Ostentatious
squelch
copious
Entrepreneur
13. Relentless - unstoppable
Duplicitous
voracious / ravenous
inexorable
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
14. An irresistible force
quixotic
juggernaut
Brusque - Curt
exemplary
15. Independent
iconoclast
sycophant / obsequious
autonomous
Ineffable
16. Pompous - or pretentious in speech or writing; ostentatiously lofty in side
deleterious
Visceral
vapid
Bombastic
17. Failure to reach an agreement
Virulent
Demography
impasse
Discomfited
18. To declare invalid
Lambaste
Nullify
draconian
Contiguous
19. A complete failure
fiasco / debacle
Obfuscate
specious
Blithe
20. Lacking proper respect; disrepectful
callous
disparity
Beleaguer
irreverent
21. Unreasonable expensive
Slight
exorbitant
Perfunctory
Brusque - Curt
22. Too overwhelming to be put into words; indescribable; inexpressible
distend
Ineffable
Taciturn
Coerce
23. To inform or instruct to remove ignorance
hedonist
Enlighten - Edify
provocative
raze
24. Formal proposal
procure
indigenous / endemic
Disheartening
prospectus
25. To make a situation better
Scintillating
ubiquitous
zenith / apex
Ameliorate
26. Adherence to the truth; truthfulness
Obfuscate
despondent / forlorn
indulgent
veracity
27. Very stubborn - defiant
Bombastic
Lambaste
recalcitrant / obdurate
Entrepreneur
28. Sensational - shocking - or ghastly
ubiquitous
Lurid
callous
iconoclast
29. To conceive and develop in the mind
Burgeon
Complaisant
Gestate
impeccable
30. Excessive desire for wealth
Avarice - Cupidity
Enlighten - Edify
Flotsam
Quiescent
31. The property of being prompt and efficient
dispatch
Florid
Nullify
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
32. To hold back one's thoughts and feelings
magnanimous
Burgeon
Tepid
reticent
33. Idyllically calm and tranquil
Demography
Petulant
thwart / stymie
halcyon
34. Strong dislike
antipathy / animosity / rancor
clandestine / surreptitious
Accord
Hiatus
35. Hard to understand - impenetrably dense and obscure
Opaque
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
circuitous
maverick
36. To make young again
pandemonium
rejuvenate
Ostentatious
acrimonious
37. To deliberately confuse; to make something so confusing it's hard to understand
Consensus
Censorious - Captious
Obfuscate
Placate
38. W/o previous example - never known before
remiss
Disquieting
penchant / predilection
Unprecedented
39. A bitter denunciation
dearth / paucity
irreverent
impetus
diatribe / tirade
40. The study of characteristics of human population
dilettante
anomaly / atypical
Conundrum
Demography
41. Agonizing physical or mental pain
Histrionic - Overwrought
anguish
incontrovertible
automation
42. Any decrease or loss in value caused by age - wear - or market conditions
picayune
Depreciation
Prescribe
eccentric
43. A person who introduces something new
innovator
Chagrin
Elucidate
iconoclast
44. Very rich - having abundant resources
Contentious - Cantankerous
Affluent - Opulent
austerity
hilarity
45. Outrage at something that is unjust
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
indignant
circumspect / prudent
Ostentatious
46. Uneasy; in a state of embarrassment
Profligate
Discomfited
deleterious
Empirical
47. Harmful; injurious
impecunious
Fecund
autonomous
deleterious
48. To confuse or perplex; utterly dumbfounded
insinuate
deride
subtle
Flummox
49. Native to an area
Didactic
Lucrative
indigenous / endemic
Affluent - Opulent
50. Lacking organization or logic
Flippant - Facetious
poignant
altruistic
incoherent