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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. Direct opposite
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
Entrepreneur
antipathy / animosity / rancor
indifferent / apathetic
2. Characterized by verbal abuse and bitter criticism
distend
spartan
Vituperative
nefarious
3. To compensate - to make payment for - to pay a person
Opaque
rebuff
iconoclast
Remunerate
4. Surplus or excess of something
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
enigmatic / inscrutable
Interloper
spartan
5. A champion of a cause
Empirical
proponent / advocate
superficial
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
6. Immoral - debauched
Licentious
Sanguine
Inquisition
Sedentary
7. To lecture or speak without notes
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
polarize / divisive
Extemporize - Improvise
Hiatus
8. Not capable of being appeased
vacillate
capricious / mercurial
curtail
implacable
9. Very generous
dearth / paucity
Munificent
morbid
raze
10. A liar; deceiver
dissembler / prevaricator
polarize / divisive
Triumvirate
reticent
11. Disturbing; upsetting; vexing; causing unease; worrisome
Disquieting
Lambaste
erroneous
Complaisant
12. Behaving in an obsequious manner
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
ambiguous
panache / verve / flamboyant
Fawn
13. A small - moderate - or token amount
ubiquitous
modicum
circumscribe
rejuvenate
14. Admirably suited; apt.
flag
Prescribe
felicitous
demise
15. Excessive desire for wealth
tumultuous
recluse
Avarice - Cupidity
circumspect / prudent
16. A person with biased beliefs
Obfuscate
insinuate
Disquieting
partisan
17. Circular and therefore indirect
circuitous
reprehensible
innuendo
beneficiary
18. Hard to understand - impenetrably dense and obscure
Opaque
enumerate
renegade
futile
19. Utterly perplexed - completely puzzled - totally bewildered
Aphorism - Axiom
Nonplus - Confounded
Dilapidated
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
20. A person who receives benefits
Idyllic
sonorous
beneficiary
Autocrat - Despot
21. To electrify; to stir into action
galvanize
resilient
demise
fastidious
22. A fake; a fraud; a cheat
prototype
Didactic
Parsimonious
charlatan
23. Unclear; not definitive
Nonplus - Confounded
Virulent
ambiguous
Avarice - Cupidity
24. Showing great determination
tenacious
ascetic
reprehensible
austere
25. A person who excels in telling anecdotes
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
raconteur
enumerate
Eclectic
26. An original model
ambivalent
aural
prototype
tumultuous
27. Skillful
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
modicum
equivocal
mendacious
28. Producing a sensation of touch
magnanimous
flag
Slight
tactile
29. The floating wreckage of a ship; debris
Flotsam
hedonist
deleterious
felicitous
30. Something of small value; petty; trifling
picayune
extricate
pompous
malodorous
31. Agreeable; marked by a pleasing personality
strident
abstemious
Complaisant
pejorative
32. A deliberately misleading argument
sophistry
thwart / stymie
unconventional / unorthodox
Pretext
33. Showy; intended to attract notice; pretentious
nefarious
Ostentatious
Indisputable
Indomitable - Resolute
34. Disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful.
Marginal - Peripheral
vindictive
ostracize
procure
35. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
sycophant / obsequious
Slight
Unfettered
Enfranchise
36. Excessively sentimental
Euphony
malodorous
penchant / predilection
maudlin
37. Very concise; brief
incoherent
prattle
laconic / succint / terse
Sinecure
38. To swell out or expand from internal pressure (overly full)
recluse
Vituperative
subtle
distend
39. Lax in attending to duty; negligent
Marginal - Peripheral
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
remiss
Proliferate
40. Native to an area
Refractory
Lugubrious
indigenous / endemic
Supercilious
41. To comply
diffident
acquiesce
Conundrum
Venerate - Revere
42. Any respite or temporary relief.
nostalgia
reprieve
affectation
beneficiary
43. Sociable; fond of feasting - drinking - and good company
anomaly / atypical
Slight
morose / despondent
Convivial
44. Unselfish concern for others
thwart / stymie
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
altruistic
fortitude
45. Soothing or pleasant sounds; harmony
Flippant - Facetious
Euphony
Furor
hilarity
46. An appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive
altruistic
circuitous
aesthetic
Quiescent
47. Overbearing; impertinently bold
presumptuous
Imperious
Hiatus
circumvent
48. Very strict laws and rules
Obsequious
itinerant
Remunerate
draconian
49. Pretentious; filled with excessive self-importance
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
pompous
Ornate
penchant / predilection
50. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
bungler
clandestine / surreptitious
Venal
Harbinger - Portent - Presage