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SAT Vocab - 2
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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1. A beginner
amalgam
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
Insidious
Exacerbate
2. Sad mournful - melancholic
Flippant - Facetious
Lugubrious
Remunerate
rhetorican
3. Sharp; clear; clever; keen; perceptive; discriminating; astute
Manifesto
incisive
Eschew
pandemic
4. A funeral hymn; mournful music
evocation
Provisional
dirge
Obstreperous
5. Lying; untrustful
Lurid
indulgent
prospectus
mendacious
6. To take back; disavow
Precedent
Demography
decry
repudiate / recant / renounce
7. Not believable
bane
implausible
Redolent
Pretext
8. The study of characteristics of human population
tacit
impecunious
Furor
Demography
9. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
Venerate - Revere
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
antipathy / animosity / rancor
chimerical
10. Failure to reach an agreement
punctilious
impasse
rhetorican
hedonist
11. Defiantly aggressive - eager to fight
Taciturn
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
Consternation
Extemporize - Improvise
12. Uneasy; in a state of embarrassment
Aphorism - Axiom
Discomfited
Opaque
Consternation
13. Learned and authoritative
futile
Magisterial
Disquieting
impetus
14. Treating serious manners with light-hearted humor or lack of respect
bane
Provisional
tacit
Flippant - Facetious
15. Very poor - lacking resources
Quiescent
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Perfunctory
Licentious
16. To deliberately confuse; to make something so confusing it's hard to understand
Sedentary
Obfuscate
acolyte
raze
17. To forbid; to prohibit; to outlaw
renegade
polarize / divisive
auspicious / propitious
Proscribe
18. Careful; cautious
Imperious
prudent
nefarious
Sinecure
19. Thoroughly dried out
Histrionic - Overwrought
Dessicated
Propitiate
Appeasement
20. To drive away; scatter
dispel
fleeting / ephemeral
fortuitous
resilient
21. Pretentious; filled with excessive self-importance
pompous
Chagrin
despoiled
prospectus
22. Given freely; unearned; unnecessary
pundit
sophistry
Chicanery
gratuitous
23. To bounce back
Lurid
Scintillating
resilient
Slight
24. Disparaging - belittling - insulting
incisive
pejorative
Disheartening
Complaisant
25. Gaudy and cheap
punctilious
tawdry
Profligate
prodigy
26. Practical. sensible
incontrovertible
Lugubrious
pragmatic
Guile
27. Praise; applaud
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
Cacophony
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
vindicate
28. A similarity or likeness
analogy / analagous
exemplary
Vertiginous
Proscribe
29. Derisive mocking comments
ostracize
felicitous
Preclude
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
30. Possible
Entrepreneur
fleeting / ephemeral
viable / feasible
raconteur
31. A deviation from the norm
anomaly / atypical
presumptuous
bowdlerize
tenacious
32. Great vigor and energy - dash
tacit
panache / verve / flamboyant
fleeting / ephemeral
Accord
33. Circular and therefore indirect
circuitous
curtail
nebulous
anomaly / atypical
34. To put down by exposing false claims
debunk
Extemporize - Improvise
Exonerate - Exculpate
Obsequious
35. Enforced economy
austerity
Affluent - Opulent
recluse
exhort
36. Insensitive
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
callous
Redolent
recluse
37. Noisy and disorderly
nefarious
prattle
tumultuous
Crystallize
38. A speaker who appeals to emotions - fears or prejudices
demagogue
Exacerbate
laconic / succint / terse
Remunerate
39. Denounce or strongly criticize
equanimity / unflappable
Lambaste
Demarcation
Redolent
40. To swell out or expand from internal pressure (overly full)
distend
reaffirm
Propitiate
Entrepreneur
41. Expressing strong disapproval; condemning; loudly decrying
stoic
Lucrative
tactile
Excoriating - Scathing
42. An amateur or dabbler
Obstreperous
dilettante
indigenous / endemic
profundity
43. To electrify; to stir into action
Interloper
Flippant - Facetious
despoiled
galvanize
44. Showing great determination
tenacious
vapid
Prescribe
martinet
45. The highest point
zenith / apex
Excoriating - Scathing
Flippant - Facetious
digress
46. Easily noticed
conspicuous
resilient
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
Ostentatious
47. To narrowly restrict; to limit action; to draw a line around
incontrovertible
Magisterial
Guile
circumscribe
48. To regard with great respect - to hold in high esteem
Censorious - Captious
byzantine
Forbearance
Venerate - Revere
49. Not in harmony - incompatible - at variance with - as in a discordant detail that doesn't fit a pattern
Discordant
placid / serence
quixotic
Indisputable
50. A bitter denunciation
diatribe / tirade
enigmatic / inscrutable
fortuitous
proponent / advocate
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