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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. Very profitable
Lucrative
circumscribe
callous
affectation
2. Very brief; short lived
Craven
debunk
conjecture / supposition
fleeting / ephemeral
3. Policy of granting concessions to maintain peace
Censorious - Captious
Appeasement
Nullify
acquiesce
4. Disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful.
unconventional / unorthodox
Gestate
diffident
vindictive
5. Overbearing; impertinently bold
Indomitable - Resolute
glacial
Fecund
presumptuous
6. Causing hard in a subtle or stealthy manner; devious
Insidious
prodigy
Bombastic
enumerate
7. An odd - unconventional person
diatribe / tirade
evocation
eccentric
ostracize
8. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
Perfidious
Inquisition
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
anachronism
9. Unreasonable expensive
Proliferate
Elan
exorbitant
Aphorism - Axiom
10. A subtle shade of meaning or feeling - a slight degree of difference
Nuance
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Cosmopolitan
inexorable
11. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
bowdlerize
ubiquitous
extricate
mendacious
12. A wild uproar; tumult
rhetorican
pandemonium
momentous
poignant
13. Unselfish concern for others
altruistic
Unfettered
Demography
Elan
14. Dry humor
Tepid
Brusque - Curt
wry / droll
Esoteric - Arcane
15. To drive away; scatter
Censorious - Captious
indifferent / apathetic
demagogue
dispel
16. Delete; remove
ambiguous
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Supercilious
expunge / excise / expurgate
17. A deviation from the norm
indignant
anomaly / atypical
elusive
enigmatic / inscrutable
18. An amateur or dabbler
Extravagant
Insidious
dilettante
Empirical
19. An imaginative recreation
evocation
Guile
Indisputable
Exonerate - Exculpate
20. Intellectually productive or inventive - fertile
Fecund
Consternation
tedious
Contiguous
21. Remaining in a pure state: uncorrupted by civilization
renovate
hedonist
Pristine
prattle
22. A young genius
enumerate
prognosticator
prodigy
Disingenuous
23. To put down with comtemptuous jeering
deride
pompous
picayune
partisan
24. To ease; relieve; lessen
plausible
Euphony
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
Entomology
25. Very calm; quiet
dilettante
Eclectic
halcyon
placid / serence
26. Highly critical; carping
peremptory
despondent / forlorn
Inquisition
Censorious - Captious
27. Carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
reprehensible
aesthetic
fastidious
clandestine / surreptitious
28. The lowest point
Watershed
repudiate / recant / renounce
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
nadir
29. Abrupt in manner or speech: discourteously blunt
raconteur
Credulous
Brusque - Curt
Coerce
30. To place by side or enclose proximity
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Indomitable - Resolute
Juxtapose
reprehensible
31. Deserving great blame; wicked; evil
Furor
callous
reprehensible
Craven
32. Insightful - perceptive
extricate
dissembler / prevaricator
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Empirical
33. Easily noticed
conspicuous
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
Coerce
intrepid / undaunted
34. To rise again; surge back
Autocrat - Despot
resurgent
modicum
incontrovertible
35. To free from blame
vindicate
Demography
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
felicitous
36. Independent
rejuvenate
debunk
autonomous
felicitous
37. Practical. sensible
boon
impecunious
pragmatic
anguish
38. Mobile; not sedentary
itinerant
placid / serence
Credulous
Flotsam
39. To remove or delete objectionable parts of a book
circumspect / prudent
impasse
beneficiary
bowdlerize
40. To soothe or calm; to appease
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
mentor
indulgent
Placate
41. Defiantly aggressive - eager to fight
Flotsam
Magisterial
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
dismissive
42. Of great importance
ambivalent
circuitous
momentous
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
43. To make new again
Interloper
mellifluous
implausible
renovate
44. Given freely; unearned; unnecessary
reprehensible
gratuitous
Placate
exhort
45. The highest point
zenith / apex
Malfeasance
picayune
beneficiary
46. Great in depth of feeling - intellect or meaning
tacit
profundity
Munificent
conspicuous
47. Fickle; constantly shifting moods
laconic / succint / terse
Malfeasance
Venerate - Revere
capricious / mercurial
48. Extremely complicated or devious
Noxious
byzantine
Chagrin
disparage
49. An appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive
aesthetic
Redolent
Esoteric - Arcane
vicarious
50. State of being various or manifold; a great number
Juxtaposition
dissembler / prevaricator
Prescribe
multiplicity