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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. A huge appetite; cannot be satisfied; insatiable
Bombastic
voracious / ravenous
Disheartening
prototype
2. Adherence to the truth; truthfulness
veracity
boorish / uncouth / crass
maudlin
gerrymander
3. Gradual - often unconscious - process of assimilation
dearth / paucity
Munificent
Osmosis
Imperious
4. Highly detailed
placid / serence
modicum
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
covet
5. To put down with comtemptuous jeering
hedonist
amalgam
deride
Petulant
6. Annoyingly talkative
innuendo
Sedentary
ascetic
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
7. Charmingly simple and carefree
provocative
expunge / excise / expurgate
jovial and jocular
Idyllic
8. Of doubtful authenticity; false; spurious
stoic
specious
raze
Apocryphal
9. An inequality; an imbalance
disparity
Forbearance
insurmountable
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
10. Delete; remove
occlusion
curtail
Elucidate
expunge / excise / expurgate
11. Strong dislike
incontrovertible
innocuous
rebuff
antipathy / animosity / rancor
12. Unable to pay; out of money (solvent - solvency - soluble - insoluble)
irreverent
skeptic
disparage
insolvent
13. Deception by subterfuge; deliberate trickery
sycophant / obsequious
denounce
Euphony
Chicanery
14. The study of characteristics of human population
Demography
austerity
spartan
Enlighten - Edify
15. Practical. sensible
conspicuous
pragmatic
Obstreperous
Entomology
16. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
amalgam
polarize / divisive
capricious / mercurial
Profligate
17. Readily taking on various forms and meanings
Euphony
Accord
Protean
expunge / excise / expurgate
18. A general commotion; an uproar
evocation
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
Furor
Incredulous
19. Showy; intended to attract notice; pretentious
naïve / gullible / credulous
Ostentatious
Interloper
magnanimous
20. Cheerfully confident; optimistic
Dilapidated
relinquish
Sanguine
Bombastic
21. An eloquent writer or speaker
indignant
rhetorican
Rampant
Crystallize
22. Remaining in a pure state: uncorrupted by civilization
Nullify
austere
Pristine
Watershed
23. An original model
Perfidious
prototype
bowdlerize
insurmountable
24. An inference
Epiphany
conjecture / supposition
Contentious - Cantankerous
equivocal
25. Policy of granting concessions to maintain peace
juggernaut
Appeasement
specious
occlusion
26. A ruler or other person with unlimited authority
Autocrat - Despot
Elucidate
curtail
Proliferate
27. Happening or moving extremely slowly
glacial
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
exorbitant
Visceral
28. Very depressed
extirpate
altruistic
Pristine
morose / despondent
29. Promptly obedient - submissive - marked by or exhibiting fawning
mellifluous
circumspect / prudent
Caustic
Obsequious
30. Lack of interest or concern
peremptory
galvanize
indifferent / apathetic
morbid
31. Poor; penniless; not affluent
cryptic
Convivial
impecunious
Ineffable
32. Mobile; not sedentary
procure
demise
itinerant
malodorous
33. Great in depth of feeling - intellect or meaning
profundity
clairvoyant
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
boorish / uncouth / crass
34. To compensate - to make payment for - to pay a person
benefactor
innuendo
Remunerate
Propitiate
35. Feelings of sincere and deep regret
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
itinerant
bane
Oblivious
36. Flowery in style - very ornate
innuendo
Ignominious
Juxtapose
Florid
37. Doomed to failure
vindictive
futile
dissembler / prevaricator
Ungainly
38. Sad mournful - melancholic
Juxtapose
redundant
Convivial
Lugubrious
39. Scientific study of insects
Obfuscate
Ornate
flag
Entomology
40. To regard with great respect - to hold in high esteem
Venerate - Revere
bungler
aloof
Idyllic
41. A beginner
Manifesto
prognosticator
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
Inquisition
42. Showing haughty disdain or arrogant superiority
placid / serence
Beleaguer
Supercilious
circumspect / prudent
43. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
Sinecure
Venal
renegade
Avarice - Cupidity
44. Of or related to the ear or the sense of hearing
Protean
Ignominious
aural
occlusion
45. An intruder: a gate-crasher
Interloper
Beleaguer
Consensus
Furor
46. To hold back one's thoughts and feelings
Proscribe
antipathy / animosity / rancor
reticent
provocative
47. Outstanding
exemplary
aural
callous
rhetorican
48. Very small
hilarity
dimunitive
Guile
abstemious
49. Out of reach; difficult to catch
elusive
Propitiate
indulgent
Manifesto
50. Possible
viable / feasible
penchant / predilection
Cerebral
raze