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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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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Unable to pay; out of money (solvent - solvency - soluble - insoluble)
insolvent
Paradigm
indignant
curtail
2. A young genius
Quiescent
prodigy
Appeasement
Caustic
3. Fickle; constantly shifting moods
capricious / mercurial
Quiescent
chimerical
Scintillating
4. Excessively sentimental
pandemonium
Placate
Propitiate
maudlin
5. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
strident
Hiatus
Cacophony
anomaly / atypical
6. To place by side or enclose proximity
Juxtapose
Euphony
Demography
viable / feasible
7. Harmless
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
fastidious
innocuous
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
8. Any respite or temporary relief.
unconventional / unorthodox
veracity
polarize / divisive
reprieve
9. To appease - conciliate - or regain the good will of
Propitiate
Euphony
inexorable
zealot
10. Causing hard in a subtle or stealthy manner; devious
Insidious
naïve / gullible / credulous
paradox
indifferent / apathetic
11. Critical point that marks a change in course or turning event
Watershed
Esoteric - Arcane
nonchalant
Contiguous
12. A general commotion; an uproar
expunge / excise / expurgate
Furor
sonorous
itinerant
13. A ruler or other person with unlimited authority
prospectus
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Autocrat - Despot
reticent
14. Unclear; not definitive
Venal
ambiguous
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
15. A complete failure
fiasco / debacle
morose / despondent
Excoriating - Scathing
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
16. Very favorable
ubiquitous
austerity
auspicious / propitious
Insidious
17. An imaginative recreation
evocation
Profligate
Visceral
mellifluous
18. Believable
Proliferate
clandestine / surreptitious
plausible
tawdry
19. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly
inexorable
tacit
vicarious
boon
20. Enforced economy
punctilious
austerity
Licentious
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
21. The floating wreckage of a ship; debris
stoic
Elucidate
Flotsam
Ameliorate
22. A preceding event
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
jovial and jocular
nadir
pragmatic
23. To assume financial responsibility
nonchalant
Underwrite
Oblivious
Lucrative
24. Intellectual rather than emotional
Restitution
Cerebral
circumspect / prudent
ambiguous
25. Formal proposal
Aplomb
circumspect / prudent
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
prospectus
26. Feeling of distress caused by failure - distress - or embarrassment
fleeting / ephemeral
exorbitant
Chagrin
Dilapidated
27. Very calm; quiet
pejorative
Complicity
placid / serence
Vacuous - Inane
28. Uneasy; in a state of embarrassment
Triumvirate
Discomfited
belie
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
29. Insightful - perceptive
Indisputable
Underwrite
Obdurate - Intransigent
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
30. Instinctive rather than irrational
Empirical
evocation
clandestine / surreptitious
Visceral
31. Highly injurious - destructive - deadly
ominous
Provisional
Pernicious
abstemious
32. Hard to understand - impenetrably dense and obscure
anomaly / atypical
remiss
Enlighten - Edify
Opaque
33. Any decrease or loss in value caused by age - wear - or market conditions
enumerate
Depreciation
Virulent
plausible
34. Characterized by knowledge that is known only to a small group of specialists; obscure; recondite
Munificent
Visceral
Crystallize
Esoteric - Arcane
35. Joyous; sprightly; light; vivacious
Solicitous
Blithe
jovial and jocular
Convivial
36. Commonplace
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
reaffirm
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
relinquish
37. To ease; relieve; lessen
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
Obdurate - Intransigent
Marginal - Peripheral
Supercilious
38. A professional commentator
Oblivious
Malfeasance
pundit
Dilapidated
39. Not believable
Crystallize
dispatch
Obdurate - Intransigent
implausible
40. Extremely wicked; vile
clandestine / surreptitious
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Indisputable
nefarious
41. State of great dismay & confusion
Indomitable - Resolute
austerity
Indisputable
Consternation
42. To require; to order; to direct
equanimity / unflappable
Prescribe
despoiled
temperate
43. A person who is a source of wise counsel and prophetic advice
oracle
Capitulate
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Redolent
44. To strongly desire; to crave
covet
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
Unfettered
admonish
45. Feeling downcast; dejected
despondent / forlorn
despoiled
dimunitive
strident
46. A small - moderate - or token amount
modicum
Obdurate - Intransigent
Ineffable
maudlin
47. Faultless; perfect
itinerant
raconteur
exemplary
impeccable
48. A statement universally accepted as true - a maxim
Contiguous
Esoteric - Arcane
Osmosis
Aphorism - Axiom
49. Dying - on the way out - approaching that
Quiescent
circumscribe
Moribund
relinquish
50. Cautious; careful
circumspect / prudent
prattle
trivial / minutiae
quixotic