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SAT Vocab - 2
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1. A group or association of three leaders
Triumvirate
anguish
voracious / ravenous
hedonist
2. A bitter denunciation
Imperious
Sedentary
recalcitrant / obdurate
diatribe / tirade
3. Too overwhelming to be put into words; indescribable; inexpressible
magnanimous
nebulous
Timorous
Ineffable
4. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
Conundrum
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
despoiled
tawdry
5. To sway from once side to the other; oscillate.
vacillate
insolvent
innovator
Aphorism - Axiom
6. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
affectation
automation
Gestate
Preclude
7. To make a situation worse
Flippant - Facetious
Exacerbate
equivocal
Accord
8. To make impossible - to rule out - to prevent
Preclude
morose / despondent
Epiphany
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
9. Showing nervousness or fear
Eschew
Timorous
galvanize
dearth / paucity
10. A deliberately misleading argument
incoherent
sophistry
conspicuous
Idyllic
11. A similarity or likeness
reticent
sycophant / obsequious
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
analogy / analagous
12. An accidental but fortunate discovery
ostracize
panache / verve / flamboyant
dissembler / prevaricator
serendipity
13. Moderate in eating and drinking
innovator
Pernicious
abstemious
Inquisition
14. Many - numerous
Unprecedented
Refractory
superficial
Myriad
15. A person who makes predictions based on data
prognosticator
Pristine
enigmatic / inscrutable
Contiguous
16. To conceive and develop in the mind
Accord
inexorable
Watershed
Gestate
17. A person who gives gifts
bowdlerize
Venal
incontrovertible
benefactor
18. A teacher; a guide; an advisor
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
mentor
vicarious
rejuvenate
19. Feeling downcast; dejected
despondent / forlorn
mellifluous
Effusive
superficial
20. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
picayune
strident
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
superficial
21. Insensitive
Complaisant
distend
prognosticator
callous
22. Outstanding
aesthetic
exemplary
Ineffable
fortuitous
23. A champion of a cause
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
glacial
Euphony
proponent / advocate
24. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Extravagant
Interloper
Nuance
25. Expressing excessive emotion in an unrestrained manner; gushing
insurmountable
innovator
quixotic
Effusive
26. Gruesome (repugnant) ; grisly.
Superfluous - Extraneous
morbid
Esoteric - Arcane
Quiescent
27. Excluding fragrance - full of a specified smell; suggestive of; reminiscent
Demography
audacious
Petulant
Redolent
28. Charmingly rural
ambivalent
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
Extemporize - Improvise
Lurid
29. A difficult problem; a dilemma with no easy solution
superficial
reticent
Conundrum
dispatch
30. Treating serious manners with light-hearted humor or lack of respect
Pernicious
Flippant - Facetious
peremptory
prodigy
31. To beset; to surround with problems
Vertiginous
Beleaguer
felicitous
distend
32. A scarcity or shortage
Entomology
impetus
dearth / paucity
circuitous
33. Faultless; perfect
impeccable
Empirical
innuendo
disparage
34. Sensational - shocking - or ghastly
myopic
Hiatus
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Lurid
35. Careful; cautious
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
circumspect / prudent
prudent
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
36. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
debunk
Furor
myopic
Sinecure
37. To stop; frustrate
thwart / stymie
resurgent
conspicuous
Fawn
38. To scold; rebuke
upbraid / reproach / castigate
Discomfited
draconian
Accord
39. A person who receives benefits
beneficiary
nonchalant
Inquisition
profundity
40. A deviation from the norm
anomaly / atypical
Guile
evocation
Disheartening
41. Expressing strong disapproval; condemning; loudly decrying
Excoriating - Scathing
Remunerate
plausible
flag
42. Harsh - clashing - jarring - grating sounds; disharmony
raze
sophistry
pragmatic
Cacophony
43. To give a false impression
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
momentous
belie
nadir
44. A source of harm
Discordant
penchant / predilection
extirpate
bane
45. To get out of a difficult situation
Underwrite
Nonplus - Confounded
extricate
felicitous
46. To put down by exposing false claims
Effusive
Obsequious
debunk
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
47. To increase rapidly
fiasco / debacle
paradox
wry / droll
Proliferate
48. Hard to understand - impenetrably dense and obscure
Taciturn
Gestate
Opaque
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
49. Very small
Empirical
dimunitive
Obdurate - Intransigent
Idyllic
50. Excessive desire for wealth
Avarice - Cupidity
equivocal
Convivial
Lucrative
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