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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 make new again
renovate
Sanguine
digress
Duplicitous
2. Showing great care and concern; attentive
enumerate
iconoclast
Solicitous
morbid
3. Fearless; courageous
despondent / forlorn
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
austere
intrepid / undaunted
4. Cautious; careful
Imperious
tactile
circumspect / prudent
clairvoyant
5. Agreeable; friendly
Restitution
Cerebral
jaded
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
6. Great bitterness
Preclude
Appeasement
acrimonious
vindicate
7. Very rich - having abundant resources
Affluent - Opulent
Solicitous
sycophant / obsequious
Eclectic
8. Touching; heartrending
veracity
Effusive
poignant
Myriad
9. Enforced economy
Fecund
debunk
byzantine
austerity
10. A source of harm
veracity
bane
occlusion
Enfranchise
11. A public declaration of beliefs - policies - or intentions
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Manifesto
intemperate
vindictive
12. Skillful
dimunitive
occlusion
indignant
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
13. Given freely; unearned; unnecessary
audacious
Incredulous
gratuitous
vacillate
14. Mobile; not sedentary
odoriferous
prattle
demagogue
itinerant
15. Showing nervousness or fear
martinet
circumscribe
Cosmopolitan
Timorous
16. To place by side or enclose proximity
anachronism
partisan
Furor
Juxtapose
17. Pompous - or pretentious in speech or writing; ostentatiously lofty in side
insinuate
Bombastic
nonchalant
Watershed
18. Intellectually productive or inventive - fertile
Fecund
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Placate
mentor
19. Very poor - lacking resources
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Complaisant
Pernicious
iconoclast
20. A disloyal person
intemperate
inexorable
vindictive
renegade
21. To swell out or expand from internal pressure (overly full)
mellifluous
prototype
distend
enumerate
22. Sensational - shocking - or ghastly
Lurid
Superfluous - Extraneous
Flummox
exorbitant
23. A person who leads a secluded - solitary life
expunge / excise / expurgate
recluse
magnanimous
Nuance
24. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
Entrepreneur
digress
affectation
zenith / apex
25. Of doubtful authenticity; false; spurious
analogy / analagous
antipathy / animosity / rancor
Apocryphal
irreverent
26. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
picayune
anguish
Duplicitous
nebulous
27. Flowery in style - very ornate
Florid
maverick
vacillate
Avarice - Cupidity
28. Unreasonable expensive
hedonist
exorbitant
tacit
insinuate
29. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
Chagrin
Extravagant
austerity
profundity
30. Unnecessary; extra
Superfluous - Extraneous
Obfuscate
viable / feasible
ominous
31. To repel or drive back; to reject
hilarity
rebuff
Contiguous
resurgent
32. Felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another
cryptic
Apocryphal
reticent
vicarious
33. A person who receives benefits
implausible
Eclectic
naïve / gullible / credulous
beneficiary
34. An irresistible force
dissembler / prevaricator
morbid
juggernaut
tedious
35. Belittle;slight
curtail
disparage
Nonplus - Confounded
Blithe
36. Readily taking on various forms and meanings
Craven
exorbitant
Protean
Licentious
37. Circular and therefore indirect
circuitous
momentous
reprieve
Lugubrious
38. Highly detailed
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
anguish
Licentious
Affluent - Opulent
39. Treating serious manners with light-hearted humor or lack of respect
intrepid / undaunted
Aphorism - Axiom
ubiquitous
Flippant - Facetious
40. A strict disciplinarian
martinet
covet
implausible
Perfunctory
41. Harmful - injurious to physical - mental - or moral health
Craven
sycophant / obsequious
Noxious
Oblivious
42. Not capable of being appeased
Protean
distend
implacable
extirpate
43. To earnestly caution
admonish
Oblivious
audacious
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
44. Robbed - ruined - pillaged - looted
insinuate
diffident
despoiled
Obdurate - Intransigent
45. To comply
Flotsam
acquiesce
Nullify
punctilious
46. A funeral hymn; mournful music
indigenous / endemic
Lucrative
dirge
byzantine
47. To grow rapidly; to expand
irreverent
Burgeon
relinquish
autonomous
48. No longer in use
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
debunk
felicitous
Sanguine
49. A person who hates humankind
laconic / succint / terse
skeptic
Capitulate
misanthrope
50. Feeling of distress caused by failure - distress - or embarrassment
Chagrin
Parsimonious
Sinecure
naïve / gullible / credulous