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SAT Vocab - 2
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english
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1. Characterized by elaborate and expensive decorations; lavish
ambiguous
rebuff
Ornate
Entomology
2. Settled and therefore accustomed to sitting or doing little exercise
Depreciation
Sedentary
Prolific
unconventional / unorthodox
3. Promptly obedient - submissive - marked by or exhibiting fawning
Triumvirate
Ameliorate
specious
Obsequious
4. Many - numerous
Nullify
Myriad
Disenfranchise
incoherent
5. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
Ignominious
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
Brusque - Curt
Insidious
6. W/o previous example - never known before
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
Unprecedented
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
7. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly
tumultuous
tacit
strident
mellifluous
8. Worldly; sophisticated; open-minded and aware of the big picture
Cosmopolitan
Empirical
prodigy
Proliferate
9. Self-assurance - admirable ploys under pressure
Aplomb
pompous
serendipity
prognosticator
10. Extremely complicated or devious
byzantine
skeptic
Vertiginous
boon
11. The position of putting close together or side by side
pandemonium
Juxtaposition
digress
rebuff
12. Overly tolerant
Idiosyncrasy
oracle
superficial
indulgent
13. Not ordinary or typical
prognosticator
unconventional / unorthodox
Obstreperous
serendipity
14. To put down with comtemptuous jeering
deleterious
enigmatic / inscrutable
deride
iconoclast
15. Mobile; not sedentary
disparage
itinerant
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
Obstreperous
16. Highly critical; carping
Venerate - Revere
Indisputable
fastidious
Censorious - Captious
17. Gradual - often unconscious - process of assimilation
irreverent
Lambaste
Osmosis
dispatch
18. Noisily and stubbornly defiant
exhort
acrimonious
Obstreperous
anomaly / atypical
19. Combined action or operation
Entrepreneur
synergy
oracle
strident
20. To repel or drive back; to reject
partisan
Malfeasance
rebuff
raconteur
21. To make impossible - to rule out - to prevent
Osmosis
Taciturn
Preclude
impecunious
22. Disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful.
vindictive
Idiosyncrasy
Taciturn
Perfunctory
23. Foolishly impractical
tedious
pundit
quixotic
Solicitous
24. Thoroughly dried out
specious
decry
prudent
Dessicated
25. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
strident
naïve / gullible / credulous
Perfidious
demise
26. A clumsy or inept person
Extravagant
panache / verve / flamboyant
upbraid / reproach / castigate
bungler
27. Abrupt in manner or speech: discourteously blunt
elusive
momentous
strident
Brusque - Curt
28. Lacking liveliness - animation or interest; dull.
vapid
viable / feasible
vindicate
rhetorican
29. A similarity or likeness
martinet
Profligate
analogy / analagous
audacious
30. Producing a sensation of touch
mellifluous
tactile
prattle
Bombastic
31. Defiantly aggressive - eager to fight
prudent
raze
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
belie
32. A person who gives gifts
jaded
Avarice - Cupidity
benefactor
diffident
33. Surplus or excess of something
convoluted
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
spartan
chimerical
34. Praise; applaud
Scintillating
Forbearance
Dessicated
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
35. A bitter denunciation
diatribe / tirade
jovial and jocular
dispel
convoluted
36. Moderate in eating and drinking
relinquish
vicarious
abstemious
boon
37. A public declaration of beliefs - policies - or intentions
upbraid / reproach / castigate
Disquieting
eccentric
Manifesto
38. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false.
Stopgap
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
specious
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
39. A seeming contradiction that expresses a truth
Complaisant
paradox
dispel
sophistry
40. Framework or model of thought
laconic / succint / terse
circuitous
Paradigm
Empirical
41. Cowardly - faint hearted
polarize / divisive
Craven
Aphorism - Axiom
skeptic
42. A preference for something; an inclination
penchant / predilection
halcyon
recalcitrant / obdurate
momentous
43. An imaginative recreation
wry / droll
evocation
Beleaguer
dispel
44. Something performed in a spiritless - mechanical - and routine manner
fortuitous
Perfunctory
misanthrope
renegade
45. Behaving in an obsequious manner
Entomology
Flotsam
Excoriating - Scathing
Fawn
46. Unrestrained: unchecked
mellifluous
Rampant
upbraid / reproach / castigate
implausible
47. Smooth and sweet flowing
clairvoyant
mellifluous
raconteur
penchant / predilection
48. A person who leads a secluded - solitary life
recluse
Demarcation
Depreciation
amalgam
49. Tentative - temporary - not lasting
Provisional
Ignominious
viable / feasible
naïve / gullible / credulous
50. To reject; disreagard
dismissive
Demarcation
magnanimous
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