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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. Scientific study of insects
Entomology
Depreciation
Underwrite
Oblivious
2. Harmful - injurious to physical - mental - or moral health
Noxious
dilettante
Nuance
Slight
3. A teacher; a guide; an advisor
Didactic
mentor
myopic
fleeting / ephemeral
4. Unable to pay; out of money (solvent - solvency - soluble - insoluble)
Furor
audacious
Eclectic
insolvent
5. Given freely; unearned; unnecessary
reaffirm
gerrymander
Triumvirate
gratuitous
6. Native to an area
prudent
implausible
Provisional
indigenous / endemic
7. Very profitable
Fecund
Lucrative
Refractory
occlusion
8. A fake; a fraud; a cheat
voracious / ravenous
procure
Timorous
charlatan
9. Excessively cheap with money - stingy
Eclectic
pundit
Parsimonious
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
10. Person who organizes a business/enterprise
recalcitrant / obdurate
Entrepreneur
provocative
Contentious - Cantankerous
11. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
tedious
Craven
Elan
Extravagant
12. Lying; untrustful
Oblivious
prattle
mendacious
relinquish
13. A person with biased beliefs
jaded
partisan
auspicious / propitious
occlusion
14. Foul smelling
Visceral
malodorous
provocative
Supercilious
15. Dry humor
raze
Enfranchise
altruistic
wry / droll
16. Very discouraging
Disheartening
flag
conjecture / supposition
Duplicitous
17. A complete failure
pundit
Preclude
fiasco / debacle
Duplicitous
18. Sparkling; shining; brilliantly clever
Cerebral
Scintillating
Obfuscate
ostracize
19. Cautious; careful
circumspect / prudent
Fawn
Redolent
resurgent
20. Lacking foresight or scope
mellifluous
Lugubrious
myopic
autonomous
21. Carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
penchant / predilection
zealot
fastidious
Preclude
22. Possible
Credulous
Conundrum
halcyon
viable / feasible
23. A morally unprincipled person
reprobate
Elucidate
vacillate
Malfeasance
24. Tending to give instruction or advice; inclined to teach others too much; containing a political/moral lesson
boorish / uncouth / crass
temperate
Didactic
raze
25. A severe interrogation or a systematic questioning
demagogue
mentor
Inquisition
Craven
26. Disbelieving - skeptical
Virulent
Insidious
Incredulous
prodigy
27. Unrestrained: unchecked
Rampant
exorbitant
nadir
remiss
28. Very stubborn; inflexible
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
Obdurate - Intransigent
itinerant
deleterious
29. Excessive desire for wealth
Avarice - Cupidity
wry / droll
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
maudlin
30. No longer in use
odoriferous
Chicanery
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
Sinecure
31. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit
Florid
Nullify
Guile
reprieve
32. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
Euphony
naïve / gullible / credulous
Rampant
33. The lowest point
nadir
Ameliorate
sycophant / obsequious
impasse
34. To forbid; to prohibit; to outlaw
dearth / paucity
Proscribe
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
decry
35. Commonplace
Rampant
hedonist
Ostentatious
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
36. Secretive; not aboveboard; covert
myopic
Flotsam
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
clandestine / surreptitious
37. To ease; relieve; lessen
disparity
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
Venal
Lurid
38. Very generous
Empirical
pundit
Munificent
Blithe
39. To appease - conciliate - or regain the good will of
Oblivious
Propitiate
nonchalant
pompous
40. Minor - everyday details
Ostentatious
ambiguous
trivial / minutiae
prospectus
41. Dying - on the way out - approaching that
Moribund
deride
impetus
intemperate
42. Not in harmony - incompatible - at variance with - as in a discordant detail that doesn't fit a pattern
curtail
Cosmopolitan
Discordant
procure
43. Readily taking on various forms and meanings
admonish
intemperate
dispel
Protean
44. To depart from a subject
amalgam
digress
Opaque
Enfranchise
45. A funeral hymn; mournful music
dirge
Credulous
impasse
Apocryphal
46. An accidental but fortunate occurence
unconventional / unorthodox
Complaisant
fortuitous
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
47. To force or act by using pressure
Coerce
Burgeon
Paranoia
aloof
48. Foolishly impractical
ambivalent
Histrionic - Overwrought
quixotic
Supercilious
49. Choosing or using a variety of sources
Eclectic
Triumvirate
Imperious
occlusion
50. Joyous; sprightly; light; vivacious
Exacerbate
Blithe
Pernicious
eccentric