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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 drive away; scatter
Beleaguer
Lucrative
dispel
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
2. A sudden realization or insightful moment
ambivalent
Epiphany
belie
mendacious
3. Highly injurious - destructive - deadly
bungler
Pernicious
elusive
vapid
4. A huge appetite; cannot be satisfied; insatiable
Euphony
Lambaste
plausible
voracious / ravenous
5. To regard with great respect - to hold in high esteem
disparage
trivial / minutiae
Venerate - Revere
intemperate
6. Act/instance used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances
Precedent
Credulous
Unprecedented
Affluent - Opulent
7. Intellectual rather than emotional
exemplary
Obfuscate
Cerebral
reprobate
8. Lacking restraint; excessive
Cosmopolitan
pejorative
rhetorican
intemperate
9. Excessively dramatic or melodramatic; theatrical; overacted
chimerical
Quiescent
incisive
Histrionic - Overwrought
10. To conceive and develop in the mind
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Watershed
Gestate
impeccable
11. Secretive; not aboveboard; covert
synergy
clandestine / surreptitious
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Disquieting
12. Independent
Furor
synergy
autonomous
vindictive
13. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
debunk
Depreciation
Enfranchise
iconoclast
14. Intellectually productive or inventive - fertile
misanthrope
provocative
Imperious
Fecund
15. The act of making good or compensating for a loss - damage - or injury
Vituperative
Restitution
Watershed
Rampant
16. Great in depth of feeling - intellect or meaning
jovial and jocular
extirpate
profundity
demagogue
17. To fall off in vigor - energy - activity - interest - etc
Aphorism - Axiom
Eclectic
Placate
flag
18. A deviation from the norm
anomaly / atypical
Conundrum
Aphorism - Axiom
insurmountable
19. A very enthusiastic person
zealot
Vituperative
admonish
Timorous
20. Pompous - or pretentious in speech or writing; ostentatiously lofty in side
Bombastic
pompous
fastidious
Manifesto
21. Trait peculiar to individual
fastidious
Idiosyncrasy
demise
Paranoia
22. To express strong disapproval
Prescribe
copious
decry
ubiquitous
23. A devoted student
dimunitive
acolyte
Empirical
despoiled
24. A disloyal person
intemperate
renegade
Licentious
futile
25. Good-humored; cheerful
jovial and jocular
Obstreperous
Perfidious
Consensus
26. A timely benefit
dearth / paucity
boon
Cacophony
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
27. To obtain or get by care - effort - or the use of special means
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
Empirical
procure
Profligate
28. Insensitive
implausible
Euphony
callous
Slight
29. Having fallen in a state of disrepair; broken-down condition
Dilapidated
sophistry
Cerebral
conspicuous
30. A morally unprincipled person
reprobate
deride
ominous
Censorious - Captious
31. Excessively cheap with money - stingy
conspicuous
altruistic
Parsimonious
Empirical
32. Too overwhelming to be put into words; indescribable; inexpressible
Entomology
recalcitrant / obdurate
panache / verve / flamboyant
Ineffable
33. Great merriment
hilarity
Fawn
Censorious - Captious
Perfidious
34. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
nadir
Watershed
Vertiginous
diatribe / tirade
35. Quarrelsome: argumentative: likely to provoke a controversy - disputatious
Timorous
Disingenuous
Contentious - Cantankerous
morbid
36. Provokes controversy
provocative
Precedent
despondent / forlorn
affectation
37. Very strict laws and rules
Furor
draconian
Censorious - Captious
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
38. A deliberately misleading argument
glacial
Osmosis
Remunerate
sophistry
39. Lacking self-confidence
ambivalent
Beleaguer
diffident
reaffirm
40. A person who is impassive and emotionless
stoic
Forbearance
copious
automation
41. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
Opaque
nonchalant
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Extravagant
42. Practical. sensible
Disenfranchise
pragmatic
quixotic
despoiled
43. Relevant - to the point
Superfluous - Extraneous
momentous
Pertinent
innocuous
44. A large number or amount
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
mentor
Ignominious
Spate
45. Not capable of being appeased
implacable
disparity
Eschew
Protean
46. Vague; lacking a fully developed form
Caustic
Juxtaposition
nebulous
abstemious
47. Skillful
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
Extravagant
nadir
itinerant
48. Commonplace
repudiate / recant / renounce
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
ascetic
dismissive
49. Adherence to the truth; truthfulness
dismissive
Preclude
Disquieting
veracity
50. Lack of interest or concern
Lurid
indifferent / apathetic
circumspect / prudent
expunge / excise / expurgate