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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. Of or related to the ear or the sense of hearing
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
aural
Obdurate - Intransigent
Complaisant
2. Very calm; quiet
Appeasement
itinerant
Dilapidated
placid / serence
3. Unable to pay; out of money (solvent - solvency - soluble - insoluble)
Aplomb
Disingenuous
evocation
insolvent
4. To declare invalid
digress
Autocrat - Despot
Venerate - Revere
Nullify
5. A beginner
temperate
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
relinquish
Extemporize - Improvise
6. Very rich - having abundant resources
Propitiate
Affluent - Opulent
Extemporize - Improvise
Aplomb
7. To babble incessantly
deleterious
Lambaste
misanthrope
prattle
8. Agonizing physical or mental pain
exemplary
anguish
Indisputable
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
9. Lack of interest or concern
Imperious
indifferent / apathetic
Demarcation
irreverent
10. To crush as if by trampling; squash
squelch
ostracize
Furor
Taciturn
11. Detached; reserved
aloof
Ungainly
erroneous
renegade
12. Intentionally unclear or ambiguous; duplicitous; obscuring one's meaning - often in response to a question (unequivocal - equivocate)
iconoclast
equivocal
momentous
Perfidious
13. To soothe or calm; to appease
Catalyst
Pernicious
Placate
incisive
14. Strength of mind
Gestate
fortitude
Noxious
admonish
15. Secretive; not aboveboard; covert
Cosmopolitan
clandestine / surreptitious
synergy
vacillate
16. Idyllically calm and tranquil
halcyon
Caustic
Ostentatious
gerrymander
17. Very generous
acrimonious
Munificent
nostalgia
misanthrope
18. A statement universally accepted as true - a maxim
Aphorism - Axiom
Stopgap
Triumvirate
trivial / minutiae
19. Outstanding
raze
Sinecure
exemplary
prospectus
20. Lacking liveliness - animation or interest; dull.
prattle
halcyon
Osmosis
vapid
21. To deliberately exclude from a group
Nullify
multiplicity
circuitous
ostracize
22. A vigorous spirit or great enthusiasm
tactile
quixotic
Elan
prototype
23. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
peremptory
Aphorism - Axiom
strident
Flippant - Facetious
24. A fake; a fraud; a cheat
Provisional
charlatan
Refractory
Disingenuous
25. A funeral hymn; mournful music
Ornate
dirge
disparity
exorbitant
26. To treat as unimportant; ignore deliberately; disrespect
ubiquitous
Slight
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
maudlin
27. Harmful; injurious
Paranoia
zenith / apex
Virulent
deleterious
28. Corrupt - dishonest - open to bribery
clandestine / surreptitious
nefarious
Consternation
Venal
29. Combined action or operation
synergy
vindicate
insinuate
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
30. Good-humored; cheerful
Excoriating - Scathing
nebulous
penchant / predilection
jovial and jocular
31. Dying - on the way out - approaching that
convoluted
Moribund
reticent
prospectus
32. Not capable of being overcome
magnanimous
insurmountable
innuendo
digress
33. Marked by precise accordance with details
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Virulent
gerrymander
punctilious
34. To give a definite form to an idea or plan
Noxious
Crystallize
misanthrope
expunge / excise / expurgate
35. Very productive
multiplicity
Prolific
Ungainly
Flummox
36. The final ending of something; the downfall
gratuitous
Complaisant
bowdlerize
demise
37. Great vigor and energy - dash
prattle
panache / verve / flamboyant
Convivial
zenith / apex
38. Mysterious; baffling
enigmatic / inscrutable
morbid
voracious / ravenous
Elan
39. Deception by subterfuge; deliberate trickery
Chicanery
Watershed
mentor
Perfunctory
40. Insightful - perceptive
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
malodorous
pandemonium
Superfluous - Extraneous
41. A very enthusiastic person
insolvent
Dessicated
zealot
glacial
42. Excessively sentimental
maudlin
polarize / divisive
strident
demise
43. An independent person
paradox
insolvent
maverick
Proscribe
44. To avoid; shun; to stay clear of
austerity
boon
pompous
Eschew
45. Very strict laws and rules
Florid
draconian
insinuate
Interloper
46. To introduce or communicate stealthily
insinuate
conjecture / supposition
Pristine
denounce
47. A deviation from the norm
anomaly / atypical
Provisional
Lurid
futile
48. To regard with great respect - to hold in high esteem
disparage
placid / serence
Venerate - Revere
Pertinent
49. Learned and authoritative
Magisterial
amalgam
Noxious
plausible
50. Lacking self-confidence
martinet
Osmosis
diffident
Florid