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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. To inform or instruct to remove ignorance
Vacuous - Inane
Preclude
Enlighten - Edify
Esoteric - Arcane
2. A small - moderate - or token amount
insurmountable
subtle
Magisterial
modicum
3. To remove or delete objectionable parts of a book
Underwrite
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
bowdlerize
panache / verve / flamboyant
4. An original model
Eclectic
impeccable
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
prototype
5. A person who hates humankind
misanthrope
Idyllic
remiss
Taciturn
6. Lacking conscious awareness - unmindful - unaware
Oblivious
Caustic
Ornate
vacillate
7. Extremely wicked; vile
indifferent / apathetic
nefarious
benefactor
provocative
8. To free from blame
Accord
Imperious
vindicate
sycophant / obsequious
9. Very concise; brief
laconic / succint / terse
Excoriating - Scathing
sycophant / obsequious
dispel
10. A severe interrogation or a systematic questioning
poignant
impecunious
Inquisition
Lugubrious
11. Belittle;slight
Flippant - Facetious
pandemonium
disparage
resurgent
12. Surplus or excess of something
enigmatic / inscrutable
viable / feasible
disparage
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
13. Flowery in style - very ornate
Juxtaposition
Florid
flag
aural
14. Faultless; perfect
skeptic
Lambaste
impeccable
plausible
15. Tentative - temporary - not lasting
Nuance
convoluted
Provisional
Blithe
16. Praise; applaud
inexorable
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
Munificent
affectation
17. A bitter denunciation
Epiphany
Licentious
panache / verve / flamboyant
diatribe / tirade
18. To cut short or reduce
autonomous
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
curtail
peremptory
19. Very depressed
Profligate
Depreciation
Discomfited
morose / despondent
20. Many - numerous
Myriad
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
Moribund
Prolific
21. To divide a district so as to give one side an advantage
voracious / ravenous
Cosmopolitan
gerrymander
unconventional / unorthodox
22. Boring and tiresome
magnanimous
tedious
squelch
Slight
23. Harmful; injurious
deleterious
upbraid / reproach / castigate
Appeasement
acolyte
24. An excuse - an alleged cause
Pretext
recalcitrant / obdurate
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
Placate
25. Unnecessary; extra
Hiatus
innuendo
Superfluous - Extraneous
callous
26. Independent
Chicanery
Empirical
autonomous
convoluted
27. Great bitterness
partisan
pandemonium
anomaly / atypical
acrimonious
28. Combined action or operation
synergy
prodigy
Scintillating
disparity
29. Lacking liveliness - animation or interest; dull.
vapid
relinquish
Manifesto
aesthetic
30. Poor; penniless; not affluent
anguish
Forbearance
impecunious
copious
31. An appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive
Sinecure
Burgeon
aesthetic
implausible
32. Very poor - lacking resources
elusive
Furor
benefactor
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
33. The study of characteristics of human population
exorbitant
partisan
Demography
Inquisition
34. Very determined; unwavering
diatribe / tirade
insinuate
Indomitable - Resolute
Ungainly
35. Pompous - or pretentious in speech or writing; ostentatiously lofty in side
Esoteric - Arcane
Bombastic
ambivalent
exemplary
36. A huge appetite; cannot be satisfied; insatiable
voracious / ravenous
Paranoia
dirge
naïve / gullible / credulous
37. To comply
acquiesce
vindictive
Restitution
prodigy
38. To make impossible - to rule out - to prevent
Preclude
Lambaste
Epiphany
voracious / ravenous
39. Any respite or temporary relief.
reprieve
iconoclast
exemplary
Perfidious
40. Behaving in an obsequious manner
Fawn
incontrovertible
Beleaguer
Esoteric - Arcane
41. To avoid by artful maneuvering
circumvent
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
ominous
Tepid
42. To make new again
relinquish
Juxtaposition
insurmountable
renovate
43. A morally unprincipled person
odoriferous
reprobate
vindictive
recluse
44. To deliberately exclude from a group
tedious
Histrionic - Overwrought
ostracize
anachronism
45. No longer in use
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
ostracize
reticent
bowdlerize
46. Excessively dramatic or melodramatic; theatrical; overacted
Prolific
Histrionic - Overwrought
Complaisant
myopic
47. A subtle shade of meaning or feeling - a slight degree of difference
extricate
Exonerate - Exculpate
Nuance
Unprecedented
48. Very discouraging
relinquish
Disheartening
Prolific
exorbitant
49. Any decrease or loss in value caused by age - wear - or market conditions
callous
Manifesto
Depreciation
ominous
50. Vulgar; crude
Sedentary
Vertiginous
Apocryphal
boorish / uncouth / crass