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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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1. Very strict laws and rules
Noxious
Oblivious
Aphorism - Axiom
draconian
2. Mysterious; having a hidden meaning
Paranoia
cryptic
picayune
martinet
3. Worn out; wearied.
mellifluous
pandemic
disparage
jaded
4. Uneasy; in a state of embarrassment
Virulent
magnanimous
Discomfited
Egalitarian
5. An eloquent writer or speaker
thwart / stymie
Ornate
rhetorican
Burgeon
6. Disturbing; upsetting; vexing; causing unease; worrisome
equanimity / unflappable
Petulant
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
Disquieting
7. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
impecunious
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
strident
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
8. Domineering and arrogant; haughty
Imperious
galvanize
Cosmopolitan
nostalgia
9. Deception by subterfuge; deliberate trickery
Restitution
Indisputable
Chicanery
Vacuous - Inane
10. Gradual - often unconscious - process of assimilation
Osmosis
Oblivious
Flippant - Facetious
Excoriating - Scathing
11. To be guided by practical experience - not theory
nostalgia
strident
Empirical
deride
12. Sociable; fond of feasting - drinking - and good company
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Convivial
insurmountable
dirge
13. Admirably suited; apt.
Superfluous - Extraneous
felicitous
Marginal - Peripheral
galvanize
14. Bare - not ornate
austere
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Gestate
15. A huge appetite; cannot be satisfied; insatiable
Paranoia
voracious / ravenous
iconoclast
Contiguous
16. Expressing excessive emotion in an unrestrained manner; gushing
fleeting / ephemeral
disparity
Effusive
Extemporize - Improvise
17. An original model
expunge / excise / expurgate
prototype
indignant
Dilapidated
18. Unreasonable expensive
exhort
exorbitant
vacillate
implausible
19. Policy of granting concessions to maintain peace
morbid
extirpate
magnanimous
Appeasement
20. Sparkling; shining; brilliantly clever
ostracize
skeptic
Scintillating
Proscribe
21. Very productive
implausible
Extravagant
Prolific
Lambaste
22. To make clear or plain - especially by explanation
Extravagant
skeptic
Elucidate
Furor
23. To free from blame
myopic
Nuance
Chicanery
vindicate
24. To give a false impression
Consensus
Virulent
belie
relinquish
25. Good-humored; cheerful
squelch
reaffirm
jovial and jocular
laconic / succint / terse
26. Language that is bitterly hostile or hateful
partisan
Slight
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Virulent
27. To divide a district so as to give one side an advantage
Oblivious
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
Imperious
gerrymander
28. An intruder: a gate-crasher
Venal
Watershed
Osmosis
Interloper
29. Unclear; not definitive
Vituperative
Ungainly
vindicate
ambiguous
30. Very bold; daring
hilarity
Perfidious
audacious
resurgent
31. Tending to give instruction or advice; inclined to teach others too much; containing a political/moral lesson
Beleaguer
Didactic
Elan
rhetorican
32. Twisted; intricate
intrepid / undaunted
convoluted
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Perfidious
33. Quarrelsome: argumentative: likely to provoke a controversy - disputatious
Contentious - Cantankerous
diatribe / tirade
Nullify
Fecund
34. Shallow; lacking depth
Profligate
Ornate
despoiled
superficial
35. Indisputable; beyond doubt
implausible
incontrovertible
indigenous / endemic
innuendo
36. W/o previous example - never known before
Ameliorate
Euphony
Unprecedented
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
37. Flexible; easily shaped especially by outside influence/ force
audacious
procure
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
capricious / mercurial
38. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
Indisputable
Vertiginous
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
auspicious / propitious
39. Secretive; not aboveboard; covert
fiasco / debacle
malodorous
Accord
clandestine / surreptitious
40. A group or association of three leaders
Cacophony
Virulent
Triumvirate
dirge
41. To soothe or calm; to appease
Placate
misanthrope
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
provocative
42. A formal concurrence or agreement or harmony of minds
Accord
erroneous
admonish
Exacerbate
43. The highest point
Consternation
bungler
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
zenith / apex
44. Noisily and stubbornly defiant
admonish
exemplary
Extravagant
Obstreperous
45. Independent
autonomous
boorish / uncouth / crass
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Excoriating - Scathing
46. To crush as if by trampling; squash
Elan
squelch
Flummox
Solicitous
47. Lacking restraint; excessive
Eclectic
Provisional
prospectus
intemperate
48. Lacking proper respect; disrepectful
bungler
irreverent
provocative
fiasco / debacle
49. Believable
Demarcation
plausible
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Placate
50. A small - moderate - or token amount
boorish / uncouth / crass
modicum
Venerate - Revere
malodorous