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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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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. Smooth and sweet flowing
Accord
mellifluous
partisan
morose / despondent
2. A beginner
convoluted
tumultuous
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
Redolent
3. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
extirpate
Chicanery
affectation
indulgent
4. Not in harmony - incompatible - at variance with - as in a discordant detail that doesn't fit a pattern
Epiphany
Discordant
reprehensible
Bombastic
5. Intentionally unclear or ambiguous; duplicitous; obscuring one's meaning - often in response to a question (unequivocal - equivocate)
equivocal
tedious
raze
proponent / advocate
6. A person who is a source of wise counsel and prophetic advice
oracle
pragmatic
Consensus
Vituperative
7. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
Interloper
Perfidious
expunge / excise / expurgate
8. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
Extemporize - Improvise
Enfranchise
picayune
despondent / forlorn
9. The study of characteristics of human population
insinuate
audacious
Demography
impetus
10. To surrender
Blithe
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
Capitulate
Prolific
11. Disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful.
Restitution
itinerant
unconventional / unorthodox
vindictive
12. Very small
austerity
reaffirm
incisive
dimunitive
13. No longer in use
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
incontrovertible
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Interloper
14. A difficult problem; a dilemma with no easy solution
Extemporize - Improvise
Conundrum
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
redundant
15. Denounce or strongly criticize
iconoclast
Craven
Lambaste
disparage
16. Unreasonable expensive
exorbitant
insolvent
flag
Paranoia
17. Not ordinary or typical
Placate
unconventional / unorthodox
martinet
Cerebral
18. Casual indifference
nonchalant
Visceral
prototype
exhort
19. Very strict laws and rules
draconian
despoiled
ominous
intrepid / undaunted
20. Lacking proper respect; disrepectful
austerity
anguish
irreverent
Empirical
21. Abundant; a great amount
copious
Refractory
rebuff
poignant
22. Gradual - often unconscious - process of assimilation
indigenous / endemic
Juxtaposition
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Osmosis
23. To beset; to surround with problems
callous
Beleaguer
evocation
austerity
24. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
Perfunctory
Extravagant
presumptuous
mellifluous
25. Highly detailed
Blithe
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Ungainly
Capitulate
26. Deserving great blame; wicked; evil
Demarcation
reticent
reprehensible
prototype
27. Limited in perspective; narrow; restricted in scope and outlook
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
polarize / divisive
Fecund
placid / serence
28. An irresistible force
juggernaut
pundit
vicarious
Blithe
29. Overly tolerant
indulgent
prognosticator
extirpate
Cacophony
30. Person who organizes a business/enterprise
punctilious
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Disingenuous
Entrepreneur
31. To take back; disavow
odoriferous
repudiate / recant / renounce
analogy / analagous
gratuitous
32. Derisive mocking comments
Propitiate
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
diatribe / tirade
odoriferous
33. A wild uproar; tumult
Blithe
draconian
Obdurate - Intransigent
pandemonium
34. Act/instance used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances
Redolent
Watershed
Magisterial
Precedent
35. To crush as if by trampling; squash
pandemonium
Chicanery
fastidious
squelch
36. Someone who attacks cherished ideas and institutions
equivocal
Malfeasance
despondent / forlorn
iconoclast
37. Awkwardly; clumsy - not graceful
naïve / gullible / credulous
Ungainly
Apocryphal
Didactic
38. Unrestrained: unchecked
Epiphany
Rampant
innuendo
aural
39. A teacher; a guide; an advisor
nonchalant
vicarious
wry / droll
mentor
40. Any respite or temporary relief.
Pretext
reprieve
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
tumultuous
41. A young genius
sonorous
prodigy
diatribe / tirade
Extemporize - Improvise
42. To obtain or get by care - effort - or the use of special means
procure
enigmatic / inscrutable
Magisterial
Vituperative
43. An appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive
juggernaut
Manifesto
aesthetic
prattle
44. A huge appetite; cannot be satisfied; insatiable
polarize / divisive
Prolific
voracious / ravenous
momentous
45. To reject; disreagard
dismissive
exemplary
Noxious
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
46. Trait peculiar to individual
Ameliorate
Idiosyncrasy
momentous
relinquish
47. To rise again; surge back
Nullify
resurgent
reprehensible
Fecund
48. A person who behaves in a servile manner; a toady
Effusive
sycophant / obsequious
exemplary
Pretext
49. An intruder: a gate-crasher
prattle
Flippant - Facetious
Interloper
Craven
50. To bounce back
Depreciation
resilient
analogy / analagous
maudlin