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SAT Vocab - 2
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Subjects
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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. An intruder: a gate-crasher
profundity
fiasco / debacle
felicitous
Interloper
2. Smooth and sweet flowing
mellifluous
Moribund
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
disparage
3. Doomed to failure
futile
reticent
eccentric
Extemporize - Improvise
4. An excuse - an alleged cause
demagogue
peremptory
Brusque - Curt
Pretext
5. To strongly desire; to crave
covet
anachronism
Supercilious
remiss
6. The study of characteristics of human population
chimerical
trivial / minutiae
Demography
nonchalant
7. Of secondary importance; not central;on the perimeter
Nonplus - Confounded
Marginal - Peripheral
incoherent
circumscribe
8. A morally unprincipled person
Exacerbate
procure
Sanguine
reprobate
9. Lax in attending to duty; negligent
unconventional / unorthodox
remiss
Obdurate - Intransigent
Cacophony
10. The floating wreckage of a ship; debris
sonorous
Craven
despondent / forlorn
Flotsam
11. Happening or moving extremely slowly
glacial
Beleaguer
Aphorism - Axiom
pejorative
12. Gruesome (repugnant) ; grisly.
morbid
stoic
recluse
Crystallize
13. Derisive mocking comments
innocuous
Dessicated
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
flag
14. Someone who attacks cherished ideas and institutions
Supercilious
conspicuous
iconoclast
impetus
15. Not ordinary or typical
dispel
maudlin
unconventional / unorthodox
felicitous
16. Widespread epidemic
pandemic
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
implacable
proponent / advocate
17. Lacking liveliness - animation or interest; dull.
Appeasement
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Scintillating
vapid
18. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
aural
Unfettered
Timorous
unconventional / unorthodox
19. To assume financial responsibility
glacial
Underwrite
Dilapidated
autonomous
20. To make a situation worse
naïve / gullible / credulous
indifferent / apathetic
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
Exacerbate
21. Boring and tiresome
Obdurate - Intransigent
tedious
synergy
ominous
22. Characterized by elaborate and expensive decorations; lavish
reticent
ambivalent
Juxtapose
Ornate
23. Filled with errors; wrong
Supercilious
erroneous
intrepid / undaunted
Propitiate
24. To regard with great respect - to hold in high esteem
tenacious
Venerate - Revere
covet
fastidious
25. To lecture or speak without notes
Extemporize - Improvise
iconoclast
Scintillating
indulgent
26. A doubter
beneficiary
skeptic
curtail
indifferent / apathetic
27. Out of reach; difficult to catch
indifferent / apathetic
elusive
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
Lambaste
28. Self-assurance - admirable ploys under pressure
unconventional / unorthodox
deride
mendacious
Aplomb
29. Very determined; unwavering
nostalgia
Indisputable
reprehensible
Indomitable - Resolute
30. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
affectation
raconteur
Insidious
Perfidious
31. Lacking self-confidence
misanthrope
Ameliorate
admonish
diffident
32. Doing or saying something again and again
Imperious
aloof
redundant
Disenfranchise
33. To divide a district so as to give one side an advantage
gerrymander
myopic
Pernicious
Nuance
34. Excessively sentimental
insinuate
Nonplus - Confounded
maudlin
Watershed
35. Trait peculiar to individual
incontrovertible
dearth / paucity
Idiosyncrasy
Vacuous - Inane
36. Defiantly aggressive - eager to fight
Bombastic
Disquieting
wry / droll
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
37. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
evocation
Superfluous - Extraneous
Beleaguer
Extravagant
38. Lacking organization or logic
dismissive
punctilious
incoherent
fiasco / debacle
39. Not in harmony - incompatible - at variance with - as in a discordant detail that doesn't fit a pattern
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Discordant
Paradigm
naïve / gullible / credulous
40. Circular and therefore indirect
covet
Capitulate
circuitous
partisan
41. Sad mournful - melancholic
reticent
Lugubrious
erroneous
demise
42. A deliberately misleading argument
Esoteric - Arcane
extricate
Munificent
sophistry
43. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
Coerce
Solicitous
ubiquitous
demise
44. Many - numerous
boon
Myriad
audacious
tactile
45. Delete; remove
Catalyst
inexorable
procure
expunge / excise / expurgate
46. A person who introduces something new
innovator
ominous
multiplicity
impeccable
47. Very generous
Munificent
Nonplus - Confounded
Exonerate - Exculpate
copious
48. Insensitive
gerrymander
callous
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
oracle
49. Dying - on the way out - approaching that
amalgam
Obdurate - Intransigent
Idyllic
Moribund
50. Mysterious; having a hidden meaning
procure
Quiescent
cryptic
laconic / succint / terse