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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 deliberately exclude from a group
reprobate
despoiled
ostracize
dispel
2. Extremely complicated or devious
byzantine
disparage
Nuance
curtail
3. Joyous; sprightly; light; vivacious
Contiguous
iconoclast
myopic
Blithe
4. Hard to understand - impenetrably dense and obscure
juggernaut
Credulous
innocuous
Opaque
5. Very profitable
Provisional
Duplicitous
Supercilious
Lucrative
6. Intellectual rather than emotional
galvanize
Placate
Stopgap
Cerebral
7. Lacking proper respect; disrepectful
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Magisterial
dispel
irreverent
8. Learned and authoritative
Aplomb
Guile
automation
Magisterial
9. Marked by precise accordance with details
tactile
panache / verve / flamboyant
punctilious
antipathy / animosity / rancor
10. Mysterious; having a hidden meaning
cryptic
Superfluous - Extraneous
curtail
Bombastic
11. To put down with comtemptuous jeering
Unfettered
fleeting / ephemeral
deride
bowdlerize
12. A strict disciplinarian
martinet
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Triumvirate
squelch
13. To electrify; to stir into action
circuitous
Ineffable
galvanize
Watershed
14. An excuse - an alleged cause
Pretext
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
glacial
15. Not in harmony - incompatible - at variance with - as in a discordant detail that doesn't fit a pattern
Discordant
convoluted
plausible
Convivial
16. To assert again
reaffirm
Aphorism - Axiom
thwart / stymie
tenacious
17. Excessively cheap with money - stingy
indifferent / apathetic
Parsimonious
vindictive
Blithe
18. Lukewarm; mild; half-hearted
expunge / excise / expurgate
Obstreperous
Tepid
jaded
19. Easily convinced; tending to - believe to readily - gullible
Virulent
Lugubrious
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
Credulous
20. Policy of granting concessions to maintain peace
Slight
Appeasement
Convivial
boon
21. A bitter denunciation
Pristine
felicitous
diatribe / tirade
recalcitrant / obdurate
22. An odd - unconventional person
Enlighten - Edify
malodorous
Contiguous
eccentric
23. Worn out; wearied.
implausible
repudiate / recant / renounce
jaded
Marginal - Peripheral
24. Lacking organization or logic
incoherent
vindicate
recalcitrant / obdurate
tactile
25. Favoring social equality - believing in an equal society
Triumvirate
pandemonium
Nuance
Egalitarian
26. Great vigor and energy - dash
nadir
Noxious
abstemious
panache / verve / flamboyant
27. Foul smelling
vindictive
malodorous
prattle
fiasco / debacle
28. Harmless
innocuous
morbid
fleeting / ephemeral
Profligate
29. To stop; frustrate
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
remiss
thwart / stymie
Lucrative
30. To make a situation better
Ameliorate
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
penchant / predilection
implacable
31. The position of putting close together or side by side
Juxtaposition
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
extricate
convoluted
32. Habitually late; tardy
Timorous
Dilatory
iconoclast
flag
33. Seeker of pleasure
pejorative
inexorable
ambiguous
hedonist
34. Believable
pejorative
plausible
Nuance
Exacerbate
35. An amateur or dabbler
dilettante
Catalyst
laconic / succint / terse
Rampant
36. Causing hard in a subtle or stealthy manner; devious
Insidious
disparage
strident
Capitulate
37. A sentimental longing for the past
dispatch
Accord
nostalgia
boorish / uncouth / crass
38. A person who is impassive and emotionless
Ornate
Crystallize
Dilapidated
stoic
39. To babble incessantly
prattle
impeccable
Florid
Guile
40. Overbearing; impertinently bold
jovial and jocular
Forbearance
presumptuous
multiplicity
41. To cut short or reduce
recalcitrant / obdurate
curtail
Extemporize - Improvise
insinuate
42. Very concise; brief
Petulant
Blithe
naïve / gullible / credulous
laconic / succint / terse
43. To sway from once side to the other; oscillate.
Contiguous
dimunitive
Lurid
vacillate
44. Great merriment
Eclectic
Ungainly
resilient
hilarity
45. Enforced economy
austerity
auspicious / propitious
serendipity
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
46. Misconduct/wrongdoing - especially by a public official
Malfeasance
Apocryphal
implausible
Disenfranchise
47. Great bitterness
impeccable
dilettante
Effusive
acrimonious
48. An intruder: a gate-crasher
incoherent
vicarious
Interloper
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
49. To fall off in vigor - energy - activity - interest - etc
flag
Credulous
gerrymander
procure
50. Admirably suited; apt.
felicitous
thwart / stymie
Complaisant
innocuous