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SAT Vocab - 2
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english
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1. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
itinerant
sycophant / obsequious
Vertiginous
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
2. To force or act by using pressure
Perfunctory
despoiled
Coerce
Precedent
3. Vague; lacking a fully developed form
Dilapidated
nebulous
intemperate
impecunious
4. Showing haughty disdain or arrogant superiority
enigmatic / inscrutable
Supercilious
Affluent - Opulent
incontrovertible
5. To crush as if by trampling; squash
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
remiss
odoriferous
squelch
6. A general agreement
trivial / minutiae
Consensus
pundit
Catalyst
7. Not open to question
Indisputable
altruistic
modicum
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
8. Very calm; quiet
picayune
placid / serence
Triumvirate
recluse
9. A young genius
Egalitarian
prodigy
aural
prototype
10. Seeker of pleasure
provocative
hedonist
Preclude
Vituperative
11. An original model
demagogue
prototype
upbraid / reproach / castigate
pandemonium
12. Delete; remove
expunge / excise / expurgate
Timorous
Oblivious
upbraid / reproach / castigate
13. Showing great determination
tenacious
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Provisional
14. A funeral hymn; mournful music
Lurid
Noxious
dirge
poignant
15. Promptly obedient - submissive - marked by or exhibiting fawning
Obsequious
Pernicious
circumspect / prudent
Crystallize
16. An imaginative recreation
mellifluous
disparity
evocation
chimerical
17. Skillful
indulgent
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
Vacuous - Inane
Bombastic
18. A general commotion; an uproar
Furor
Disheartening
indigenous / endemic
analogy / analagous
19. To put down with comtemptuous jeering
iconoclast
deride
proponent / advocate
Esoteric - Arcane
20. To make a situation worse
Flippant - Facetious
Exacerbate
Complicity
Interloper
21. Empty - lacking serious purpose
Nullify
Vacuous - Inane
Dessicated
iconoclast
22. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
Ignominious
wry / droll
pandemic
Chicanery
23. Mysterious; having a hidden meaning
bowdlerize
cryptic
Blithe
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
24. Enforced economy
Bombastic
provocative
rejuvenate
austerity
25. A deviation from the norm
Rampant
distend
anomaly / atypical
Sedentary
26. A public declaration of beliefs - policies - or intentions
benefactor
Manifesto
sophistry
jaded
27. Limited in perspective; narrow; restricted in scope and outlook
synergy
hedonist
insurmountable
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
28. Minor - everyday details
trivial / minutiae
Profligate
skeptic
itinerant
29. Happening or moving extremely slowly
admonish
impasse
cryptic
glacial
30. Indisputable; beyond doubt
Proliferate
incontrovertible
repudiate / recant / renounce
penchant / predilection
31. A seeming contradiction that expresses a truth
renovate
Empirical
paradox
exorbitant
32. A person who acts in a mechanical fashion; a mindless follower
nebulous
automation
Extemporize - Improvise
fortuitous
33. Of doubtful authenticity; false; spurious
prospectus
Extemporize - Improvise
naïve / gullible / credulous
Apocryphal
34. Treating serious manners with light-hearted humor or lack of respect
Provisional
Flippant - Facetious
jovial and jocular
redundant
35. Felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another
juggernaut
resurgent
impeccable
vicarious
36. Unreasonable expensive
ascetic
recluse
martinet
exorbitant
37. Excessively cheap with money - stingy
diatribe / tirade
Parsimonious
boon
halcyon
38. Poor; penniless; not affluent
impecunious
Demarcation
hilarity
Esoteric - Arcane
39. Agent that provokes or triggers change
Chicanery
abstemious
Catalyst
Entrepreneur
40. A similarity or likeness
analogy / analagous
Complicity
Dessicated
vindicate
41. Excluding fragrance - full of a specified smell; suggestive of; reminiscent
bungler
Redolent
Beleaguer
Flippant - Facetious
42. Readily taking on various forms and meanings
Protean
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
Disquieting
Solicitous
43. To scold; rebuke
draconian
curtail
upbraid / reproach / castigate
Gestate
44. To divide a district so as to give one side an advantage
Demography
upbraid / reproach / castigate
skeptic
gerrymander
45. Lacking liveliness - animation or interest; dull.
vapid
Paranoia
dirge
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
46. An inference
provocative
conjecture / supposition
proponent / advocate
Sanguine
47. Great in depth of feeling - intellect or meaning
profundity
renovate
Demarcation
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
48. To conceive and develop in the mind
Gestate
Excoriating - Scathing
Disheartening
analogy / analagous
49. Combined action or operation
synergy
wry / droll
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
Supercilious
50. Practical. sensible
Interloper
denounce
pragmatic
conjecture / supposition
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