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SAT Vocab - 2
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. To level to the ground; demolish
raze
demagogue
penchant / predilection
deride
2. Casual indifference
Vacuous - Inane
squelch
nonchalant
martinet
3. Disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful.
halcyon
vindictive
prognosticator
Placate
4. To forbid; to prohibit; to outlaw
Proscribe
Oblivious
Bombastic
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
5. A complete failure
Supercilious
fiasco / debacle
Depreciation
Ignominious
6. Secretive; not aboveboard; covert
clandestine / surreptitious
reticent
circumscribe
Flotsam
7. Excessively sentimental
maudlin
amalgam
Incredulous
Capitulate
8. Fickle; constantly shifting moods
enigmatic / inscrutable
Fawn
reticent
capricious / mercurial
9. Overly tolerant
Venal
amalgam
oracle
indulgent
10. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
Extravagant
capricious / mercurial
sonorous
fleeting / ephemeral
11. Very poor - lacking resources
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Taciturn
Licentious
Cosmopolitan
12. Sparkling; shining; brilliantly clever
Scintillating
repudiate / recant / renounce
cryptic
proponent / advocate
13. Mysterious; baffling
impasse
Inquisition
incoherent
enigmatic / inscrutable
14. Easily noticed
exorbitant
conspicuous
myopic
Epiphany
15. Pompous - or pretentious in speech or writing; ostentatiously lofty in side
prodigy
Bombastic
Nonplus - Confounded
glacial
16. To conceive and develop in the mind
Gestate
skeptic
Contentious - Cantankerous
insolvent
17. An intruder: a gate-crasher
Interloper
Fecund
Provisional
modicum
18. Denounce or strongly criticize
Underwrite
Lambaste
Watershed
innocuous
19. Intellectual rather than emotional
ambivalent
Cerebral
Ignominious
nostalgia
20. Unsophisticated
circumscribe
resilient
naïve / gullible / credulous
exemplary
21. No longer in use
exemplary
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
Juxtapose
Empirical
22. The lowest point
anomaly / atypical
multiplicity
Discomfited
nadir
23. Disbelieving - skeptical
zealot
extirpate
acrimonious
Incredulous
24. To avoid by artful maneuvering
Contentious - Cantankerous
circumvent
analogy / analagous
debunk
25. Great in depth of feeling - intellect or meaning
Osmosis
Burgeon
profundity
Extravagant
26. Very determined; unwavering
Indomitable - Resolute
gratuitous
panache / verve / flamboyant
Paranoia
27. Unrestrained: unchecked
jovial and jocular
Didactic
synergy
Rampant
28. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
Craven
ubiquitous
vicarious
Pernicious
29. Scientific study of insects
fortuitous
chimerical
Entomology
enigmatic / inscrutable
30. Failure to reach an agreement
Provisional
Manifesto
impasse
ominous
31. Causing hard in a subtle or stealthy manner; devious
voracious / ravenous
futile
Insidious
disparage
32. Sharing an edge or boundary - or touching
Sedentary
Credulous
tactile
Contiguous
33. Producing a sensation of touch
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
tactile
prattle
viable / feasible
34. Lacking liveliness - animation or interest; dull.
Chagrin
vapid
demagogue
Moribund
35. Too overwhelming to be put into words; indescribable; inexpressible
juggernaut
Dilatory
Nullify
Ineffable
36. The act of making good or compensating for a loss - damage - or injury
Restitution
Incredulous
admonish
aesthetic
37. Insincere; not straightforward; not candid
dearth / paucity
curtail
Disingenuous
Precedent
38. Dry humor
Proliferate
wry / droll
hilarity
bowdlerize
39. Agreeable; marked by a pleasing personality
Complaisant
Parsimonious
prototype
auspicious / propitious
40. Indisputable; beyond doubt
incontrovertible
occlusion
Hiatus
Demarcation
41. The floating wreckage of a ship; debris
pejorative
insurmountable
tumultuous
Flotsam
42. To reject; disreagard
dismissive
digress
flag
circuitous
43. To free from guilt or blame
incontrovertible
Demarcation
Venal
Exonerate - Exculpate
44. A very enthusiastic person
expunge / excise / expurgate
zealot
reprieve
Cosmopolitan
45. An imaginative recreation
erroneous
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
Proliferate
evocation
46. A severe interrogation or a systematic questioning
acrimonious
Inquisition
insurmountable
austerity
47. To give a false impression
Crystallize
anachronism
belie
distend
48. Instinctive rather than irrational
enigmatic / inscrutable
Refractory
Visceral
Complaisant
49. A strict disciplinarian
Petulant
Duplicitous
martinet
Caustic
50. Cowardly - faint hearted
Craven
sycophant / obsequious
indulgent
zenith / apex