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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. Worldly; sophisticated; open-minded and aware of the big picture
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
Cosmopolitan
Rampant
repudiate / recant / renounce
2. To make a situation worse
nonchalant
Exacerbate
aural
Cosmopolitan
3. Ill-tempered; rude; lacking civility
ostracize
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Aplomb
provocative
4. Relevant - to the point
Disquieting
morose / despondent
Pertinent
mellifluous
5. To compensate - to make payment for - to pay a person
Remunerate
prognosticator
Extravagant
devoid
6. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
exorbitant
intrepid / undaunted
Duplicitous
tacit
7. To deprive of some privilege - especially the right to vote
specious
Disenfranchise
incisive
Discomfited
8. An eloquent writer or speaker
elusive
Watershed
Malfeasance
rhetorican
9. To babble incessantly
clandestine / surreptitious
prattle
Beleaguer
Solicitous
10. Habitually late; tardy
clairvoyant
Dilatory
Oblivious
innocuous
11. Lack of interest or concern
magnanimous
Osmosis
indifferent / apathetic
pandemic
12. To avoid by artful maneuvering
Nuance
circumvent
raze
Disheartening
13. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
Unfettered
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
ubiquitous
Perfidious
14. To make young again
Prescribe
Proliferate
rejuvenate
equanimity / unflappable
15. The final ending of something; the downfall
curtail
demise
decry
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
16. Promptly obedient - submissive - marked by or exhibiting fawning
profundity
draconian
Obsequious
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
17. A preference for something; an inclination
Bombastic
Aphorism - Axiom
Obstreperous
penchant / predilection
18. Abstaining from the enforcement of a right; the act of refraining from acting on a desire or impulse
Moribund
Ameliorate
Remunerate
Forbearance
19. Enforced economy
austerity
Consensus
draconian
Underwrite
20. Foolishly impractical
misanthrope
intemperate
quixotic
Histrionic - Overwrought
21. An interruption in time or continuity; a break
Hiatus
impetus
boon
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
22. A deviation from the norm
pompous
implacable
Imperious
anomaly / atypical
23. The floating wreckage of a ship; debris
Rampant
automation
fastidious
Flotsam
24. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
stoic
Extravagant
Sinecure
Consensus
25. To deliberately confuse; to make something so confusing it's hard to understand
Obfuscate
strident
morose / despondent
voracious / ravenous
26. Extremely wicked; vile
nefarious
Burgeon
dismissive
Lugubrious
27. A person who is impassive and emotionless
stoic
Esoteric - Arcane
clandestine / surreptitious
evocation
28. To be guided by practical experience - not theory
prognosticator
reprehensible
Empirical
clairvoyant
29. Great in depth of feeling - intellect or meaning
Spate
profundity
stoic
bowdlerize
30. To require; to order; to direct
Prescribe
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
squelch
Gestate
31. Showing haughty disdain or arrogant superiority
maverick
Crystallize
veracity
Supercilious
32. To grow rapidly; to expand
Discordant
Burgeon
Depreciation
anguish
33. Harsh - clashing - jarring - grating sounds; disharmony
Cacophony
devoid
Consensus
admonish
34. Calmness; composure
Enfranchise
Sanguine
equanimity / unflappable
Idyllic
35. Disparaging - belittling - insulting
Entomology
pejorative
Moribund
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
36. A devoted student
erroneous
exemplary
acolyte
Lambaste
37. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false.
tenacious
specious
impecunious
Proscribe
38. To give something back
Insidious
relinquish
Capitulate
Caustic
39. Cowardly - faint hearted
anomaly / atypical
squelch
tacit
Craven
40. Not in harmony - incompatible - at variance with - as in a discordant detail that doesn't fit a pattern
Unfettered
Discordant
extirpate
punctilious
41. To express strong disapproval
Manifesto
decry
automation
penchant / predilection
42. Insensitive
callous
rebuff
Contiguous
exemplary
43. An intruder: a gate-crasher
Entrepreneur
Contentious - Cantankerous
vapid
Interloper
44. A professional commentator
strident
pundit
auspicious / propitious
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
45. A speaker who appeals to emotions - fears or prejudices
demagogue
demise
maudlin
paradox
46. A teacher; a guide; an advisor
affectation
odoriferous
mentor
boon
47. An independent person
incontrovertible
diatribe / tirade
Ostentatious
maverick
48. Unreasonable expensive
Juxtaposition
Sinecure
Virulent
exorbitant
49. Vague; lacking a fully developed form
Refractory
nebulous
quixotic
Eclectic
50. An inference
exorbitant
conjecture / supposition
Ameliorate
Prolific