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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. Boring and tiresome
tedious
Redolent
polarize / divisive
bowdlerize
2. To speak against
Flummox
Eschew
denounce
Disquieting
3. An imaginative recreation
sophistry
evocation
impasse
extricate
4. Great merriment
superficial
hilarity
boon
intrepid / undaunted
5. Promptly obedient - submissive - marked by or exhibiting fawning
futile
Inquisition
picayune
Obsequious
6. Surplus or excess of something
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
incoherent
Spate
dimunitive
7. Gradual - often unconscious - process of assimilation
partisan
Triumvirate
Osmosis
Pertinent
8. Mobile; not sedentary
nostalgia
itinerant
morbid
hedonist
9. Obstinately resistant to authority or control
quixotic
Florid
Refractory
nonchalant
10. Lack of interest or concern
demagogue
Nullify
indifferent / apathetic
Proliferate
11. Enforced economy
Discordant
Consternation
austerity
distend
12. Happening or moving extremely slowly
glacial
naïve / gullible / credulous
odoriferous
placid / serence
13. Lacking foresight or scope
affectation
Extravagant
tawdry
myopic
14. Dying - on the way out - approaching that
maverick
morose / despondent
Moribund
Hiatus
15. Gruesome (repugnant) ; grisly.
Pristine
Solicitous
morbid
indifferent / apathetic
16. Showing great determination
Catalyst
Cerebral
tenacious
distend
17. Not capable of being appeased
bowdlerize
dispatch
despoiled
implacable
18. Very calm; quiet
unconventional / unorthodox
placid / serence
Indomitable - Resolute
Juxtapose
19. An amateur or dabbler
intrepid / undaunted
mendacious
Solicitous
dilettante
20. A bitter denunciation
equanimity / unflappable
misanthrope
diatribe / tirade
viable / feasible
21. To electrify; to stir into action
galvanize
gerrymander
despoiled
diatribe / tirade
22. Peevish - irritable
reprehensible
charlatan
Petulant
pejorative
23. Causing hard in a subtle or stealthy manner; devious
Ungainly
penchant / predilection
dissembler / prevaricator
Insidious
24. To repel or drive back; to reject
rebuff
Chicanery
oracle
renovate
25. Formal proposal
prospectus
serendipity
Aplomb
indigenous / endemic
26. Worldly; sophisticated; open-minded and aware of the big picture
Oblivious
Solicitous
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
Cosmopolitan
27. An eloquent writer or speaker
morbid
Excoriating - Scathing
rhetorican
anguish
28. A source of harm
bane
anachronism
Ignominious
Venerate - Revere
29. Indisputable; beyond doubt
peremptory
incontrovertible
Craven
modicum
30. Self-assurance - admirable ploys under pressure
Aplomb
Nonplus - Confounded
Coerce
intrepid / undaunted
31. To divide a district so as to give one side an advantage
gerrymander
Visceral
Interloper
Petulant
32. To strongly desire; to crave
inexorable
innocuous
covet
Hiatus
33. Deserving great blame; wicked; evil
affectation
debunk
proponent / advocate
reprehensible
34. The final ending of something; the downfall
Paranoia
Sanguine
demise
Empirical
35. Disturbing; upsetting; vexing; causing unease; worrisome
recluse
Disquieting
nonchalant
jaded
36. Not capable of being overcome
capricious / mercurial
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Visceral
insurmountable
37. Noisily and stubbornly defiant
felicitous
pejorative
Obstreperous
bungler
38. An accidental but fortunate discovery
serendipity
Duplicitous
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
Exonerate - Exculpate
39. Lax in attending to duty; negligent
Burgeon
boorish / uncouth / crass
Indomitable - Resolute
remiss
40. Any respite or temporary relief.
repudiate / recant / renounce
renovate
Esoteric - Arcane
reprieve
41. The act of blocking
Myriad
incoherent
occlusion
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
42. Disparaging - belittling - insulting
Nonplus - Confounded
Catalyst
Myriad
pejorative
43. An independent person
Conundrum
austerity
rejuvenate
maverick
44. To put down with comtemptuous jeering
Forbearance
viable / feasible
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
deride
45. Tending to give instruction or advice; inclined to teach others too much; containing a political/moral lesson
Didactic
boon
Ignominious
veracity
46. Sensational - shocking - or ghastly
Lurid
tactile
martinet
Furor
47. Producing a sensation of touch
Excoriating - Scathing
tactile
Licentious
Dilatory
48. Completely lacking in something
devoid
Esoteric - Arcane
recluse
clandestine / surreptitious
49. Settled and therefore accustomed to sitting or doing little exercise
Sedentary
nostalgia
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Credulous
50. Idyllically calm and tranquil
analogy / analagous
Censorious - Captious
halcyon
Epiphany