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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. Overly tolerant
Unprecedented
indulgent
abstemious
Dilapidated
2. Joyous; sprightly; light; vivacious
Blithe
pragmatic
zealot
rejuvenate
3. Fearless; courageous
maverick
reaffirm
nostalgia
intrepid / undaunted
4. To compensate - to make payment for - to pay a person
Euphony
Remunerate
Chagrin
Provisional
5. Great in depth of feeling - intellect or meaning
Obstreperous
equanimity / unflappable
profundity
benefactor
6. A person with biased beliefs
expunge / excise / expurgate
partisan
aesthetic
ascetic
7. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
Nonplus - Confounded
Exonerate - Exculpate
Unfettered
extirpate
8. A scarcity or shortage
conjecture / supposition
dearth / paucity
flag
reaffirm
9. Failure to reach an agreement
impasse
Superfluous - Extraneous
gerrymander
Censorious - Captious
10. Strength of mind
Superfluous - Extraneous
incoherent
anguish
fortitude
11. Any respite or temporary relief.
glacial
reprieve
Stopgap
strident
12. An inequality; an imbalance
disparity
Flummox
prodigy
Aphorism - Axiom
13. Doing or saying something again and again
Crystallize
redundant
vapid
dismissive
14. A bitter denunciation
Juxtapose
diatribe / tirade
Complaisant
Ornate
15. Unclear; not definitive
ambiguous
Idyllic
Consternation
admonish
16. A professional commentator
Demarcation
Pristine
Munificent
pundit
17. Empty - lacking serious purpose
Idiosyncrasy
Provisional
Vacuous - Inane
Beleaguer
18. Intentionally unclear or ambiguous; duplicitous; obscuring one's meaning - often in response to a question (unequivocal - equivocate)
byzantine
acquiesce
equivocal
serendipity
19. To make impossible - to rule out - to prevent
dispel
partisan
Preclude
Quiescent
20. Detached; reserved
aloof
panache / verve / flamboyant
reprieve
recalcitrant / obdurate
21. Idyllically calm and tranquil
halcyon
callous
convoluted
poignant
22. Intellectually productive or inventive - fertile
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
Fecund
prodigy
23. A young genius
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
fastidious
Juxtaposition
prodigy
24. To destroy.
impecunious
Venal
panache / verve / flamboyant
extirpate
25. A subtle shade of meaning or feeling - a slight degree of difference
rejuvenate
Nuance
deride
prattle
26. Very brief; short lived
Myriad
Venerate - Revere
fortuitous
fleeting / ephemeral
27. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false.
Fecund
indignant
specious
Interloper
28. Ill-tempered; rude; lacking civility
fiasco / debacle
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
incisive
despondent / forlorn
29. To narrowly restrict; to limit action; to draw a line around
diffident
circumscribe
charlatan
iconoclast
30. Characterized by verbal abuse and bitter criticism
Vituperative
Rampant
Aphorism - Axiom
intrepid / undaunted
31. Calmness; composure
equanimity / unflappable
benefactor
Oblivious
Placate
32. Unsophisticated
despoiled
ambivalent
naïve / gullible / credulous
recluse
33. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
expunge / excise / expurgate
Enfranchise
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
pandemic
34. A complete failure
pandemonium
oracle
repudiate / recant / renounce
fiasco / debacle
35. To earnestly caution
admonish
aural
Caustic
antipathy / animosity / rancor
36. Highly detailed
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Lucrative
Dilatory
paradox
37. Unreasonable expensive
Florid
exorbitant
impecunious
copious
38. A seeming contradiction that expresses a truth
myopic
Eclectic
aural
paradox
39. A sudden realization or insightful moment
Epiphany
Autocrat - Despot
affectation
repudiate / recant / renounce
40. Trait peculiar to individual
Censorious - Captious
ambiguous
Idiosyncrasy
Petulant
41. A remark that is hurtful or burning
Caustic
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
affectation
glacial
42. Detestable; repulsive; extremely bad
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
panache / verve / flamboyant
diffident
nonchalant
43. An appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive
prognosticator
aesthetic
skeptic
remiss
44. Very profitable
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
renegade
Lucrative
Accord
45. Abundant; a great amount
boon
Nonplus - Confounded
Placate
copious
46. Given freely; unearned; unnecessary
Proliferate
gratuitous
Accord
ominous
47. Many - numerous
Craven
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
impeccable
Myriad
48. To increase rapidly
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Precedent
Proliferate
Indomitable - Resolute
49. Moderate in eating and drinking
abstemious
Furor
benefactor
Paradigm
50. Lacking self-confidence
indigenous / endemic
punctilious
Timorous
diffident