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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. To get out of a difficult situation
austere
diffident
extricate
Quiescent
2. Act/instance used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances
Brusque - Curt
Precedent
anomaly / atypical
Obfuscate
3. A public declaration of beliefs - policies - or intentions
diffident
Manifesto
Profligate
wry / droll
4. Disbelieving - skeptical
expunge / excise / expurgate
Incredulous
gerrymander
Obstreperous
5. Expressing excessive emotion in an unrestrained manner; gushing
Effusive
Flummox
despoiled
prodigy
6. To break into opposing factions
Extravagant
dearth / paucity
Consternation
polarize / divisive
7. A disloyal person
charlatan
renegade
impecunious
redundant
8. Very calm; quiet
voracious / ravenous
clandestine / surreptitious
intemperate
placid / serence
9. A subtle shade of meaning or feeling - a slight degree of difference
Nuance
incontrovertible
ostracize
Rampant
10. Flexible; easily shaped especially by outside influence/ force
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Affluent - Opulent
raconteur
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
11. Detestable; repulsive; extremely bad
Perfidious
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Idiosyncrasy
conjecture / supposition
12. The floating wreckage of a ship; debris
Disenfranchise
Cerebral
Censorious - Captious
Flotsam
13. Policy of granting concessions to maintain peace
remiss
Appeasement
Exonerate - Exculpate
Unprecedented
14. Boring and tiresome
denounce
partisan
bowdlerize
tedious
15. Commonplace
fiasco / debacle
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
16. Not ordinary or typical
Complaisant
bowdlerize
Malfeasance
unconventional / unorthodox
17. Unsophisticated
Marginal - Peripheral
felicitous
naïve / gullible / credulous
Dessicated
18. Admirably suited; apt.
felicitous
Autocrat - Despot
clairvoyant
vindictive
19. Obstinately resistant to authority or control
Conundrum
Refractory
hedonist
Contiguous
20. W/o previous example - never known before
Unprecedented
Noxious
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
glacial
21. A preceding event
Euphony
Histrionic - Overwrought
vapid
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
22. To put down with comtemptuous jeering
Autocrat - Despot
Sanguine
Ungainly
deride
23. Agreeable; marked by a pleasing personality
dirge
upbraid / reproach / castigate
Complaisant
reprobate
24. To earnestly caution
mentor
skeptic
admonish
exhort
25. Showing great determination
tenacious
juggernaut
equanimity / unflappable
Precedent
26. Plain; simple
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
affectation
spartan
27. Learned and authoritative
Disingenuous
Magisterial
serendipity
ostracize
28. A gradual almost imperceptible change
Consternation
subtle
Idiosyncrasy
odoriferous
29. Very concise; brief
laconic / succint / terse
myopic
Venal
Myriad
30. Treacherous - traitorous - deceitful
dismissive
Perfidious
ostracize
Opaque
31. Poor; penniless; not affluent
Propitiate
specious
Dessicated
impecunious
32. Excessively sentimental
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
Unfettered
maudlin
repudiate / recant / renounce
33. Not capable of being appeased
implacable
ubiquitous
debunk
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
34. Foolishly impractical
profundity
quixotic
Paranoia
Enfranchise
35. A general agreement
Consensus
Chicanery
Prolific
Furor
36. To make new again
renovate
Furor
sycophant / obsequious
incisive
37. Seeker of pleasure
Timorous
rebuff
hilarity
hedonist
38. A formal concurrence or agreement or harmony of minds
Idiosyncrasy
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Appeasement
Accord
39. Surplus or excess of something
incontrovertible
Manifesto
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Fawn
40. The setting or marking of boundaries or limits
Insidious
Demarcation
Obsequious
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
41. Carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
admonish
Dilatory
fastidious
Ornate
42. A funeral hymn; mournful music
Esoteric - Arcane
occlusion
pragmatic
dirge
43. To make a situation better
Contentious - Cantankerous
Ameliorate
raconteur
Visceral
44. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
Enfranchise
morbid
Extemporize - Improvise
deleterious
45. Characterized by verbal abuse and bitter criticism
Catalyst
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Egalitarian
Vituperative
46. A preference for something; an inclination
Discordant
plausible
impeccable
penchant / predilection
47. Of doubtful authenticity; false; spurious
Incredulous
misanthrope
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
Apocryphal
48. Utterly perplexed - completely puzzled - totally bewildered
Nonplus - Confounded
enigmatic / inscrutable
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
deleterious
49. The study of characteristics of human population
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
Demography
indigenous / endemic
Ostentatious
50. An accidental but fortunate discovery
serendipity
recalcitrant / obdurate
prototype
admonish