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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. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
analogy / analagous
Extravagant
Inquisition
expunge / excise / expurgate
2. A person who introduces something new
vapid
Ungainly
innovator
Vertiginous
3. A public declaration of beliefs - policies - or intentions
digress
Manifesto
Licentious
Obstreperous
4. Uneasy; in a state of embarrassment
iconoclast
Discomfited
skeptic
debunk
5. To bounce back
resilient
Conundrum
unconventional / unorthodox
Restitution
6. To surrender
Timorous
proponent / advocate
Capitulate
vacillate
7. To babble incessantly
dissembler / prevaricator
unconventional / unorthodox
prattle
Apocryphal
8. Showing haughty disdain or arrogant superiority
temperate
abstemious
evocation
Supercilious
9. An eloquent writer or speaker
insurmountable
Nonplus - Confounded
Extemporize - Improvise
rhetorican
10. Strength of mind
impecunious
tactile
mendacious
fortitude
11. Derisive mocking comments
Refractory
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
Guile
Unfettered
12. Something performed in a spiritless - mechanical - and routine manner
Prolific
Perfunctory
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Virulent
13. A gradual almost imperceptible change
subtle
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
Contentious - Cantankerous
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
14. Agreeable; marked by a pleasing personality
Remunerate
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Complaisant
15. W/o previous example - never known before
beneficiary
exemplary
Unprecedented
dearth / paucity
16. A group or association of three leaders
Magisterial
Triumvirate
pandemonium
Chicanery
17. To conceive and develop in the mind
denounce
Extemporize - Improvise
Gestate
convoluted
18. Settled and therefore accustomed to sitting or doing little exercise
plausible
insurmountable
Sedentary
deleterious
19. Commonplace
Esoteric - Arcane
Pristine
Apocryphal
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
20. To get out of a difficult situation
extricate
antipathy / animosity / rancor
jaded
Sedentary
21. A beginner
mentor
Discomfited
incontrovertible
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
22. Instinctive rather than irrational
ascetic
insinuate
Visceral
Incredulous
23. Idyllically calm and tranquil
halcyon
vacillate
penchant / predilection
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
24. A doubter
boorish / uncouth / crass
skeptic
equivocal
Appeasement
25. Of great importance
momentous
Taciturn
intemperate
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
26. Unclear; not definitive
audacious
ambiguous
Capitulate
Caustic
27. A person who leads a secluded - solitary life
juggernaut
reprieve
Spate
recluse
28. Lying; untrustful
circumvent
mendacious
Autocrat - Despot
amalgam
29. An inequality; an imbalance
recluse
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
Effusive
disparity
30. Cheerfully confident; optimistic
prudent
Flotsam
Sanguine
Superfluous - Extraneous
31. Excessively cheap with money - stingy
Watershed
Parsimonious
Lugubrious
Dessicated
32. Delete; remove
expunge / excise / expurgate
tenacious
Flotsam
disparity
33. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
incisive
renegade
Duplicitous
Flippant - Facetious
34. Joyous; sprightly; light; vivacious
ubiquitous
Redolent
Blithe
circumvent
35. A mixture; combination of different elements
amalgam
fleeting / ephemeral
proponent / advocate
ominous
36. To lecture or speak without notes
reprieve
stoic
dispatch
Extemporize - Improvise
37. Enforced economy
Prolific
jaded
Censorious - Captious
austerity
38. Great vigor and energy - dash
despondent / forlorn
indigenous / endemic
panache / verve / flamboyant
modicum
39. Sensational - shocking - or ghastly
Dessicated
multiplicity
Lurid
impasse
40. To confuse or perplex; utterly dumbfounded
Flummox
Interloper
vindictive
nostalgia
41. Not in harmony - incompatible - at variance with - as in a discordant detail that doesn't fit a pattern
Propitiate
Discordant
exemplary
punctilious
42. To repel or drive back; to reject
felicitous
Venal
paradox
rebuff
43. To deprive of some privilege - especially the right to vote
acquiesce
Contiguous
dismissive
Disenfranchise
44. Very poor - lacking resources
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
malodorous
Effusive
tawdry
45. Trait peculiar to individual
audacious
clandestine / surreptitious
Lurid
Idiosyncrasy
46. Charmingly rural
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
diatribe / tirade
subtle
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
47. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
Unfettered
circumspect / prudent
curtail
Hiatus
48. Any respite or temporary relief.
reprieve
clairvoyant
nebulous
superficial
49. An original model
prototype
plausible
Munificent
deride
50. Careful; cautious
tumultuous
Demography
prudent
Vituperative