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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. Many - numerous
Myriad
reprehensible
dearth / paucity
tenacious
2. Worn out; wearied.
jaded
Excoriating - Scathing
Placate
indulgent
3. Gruesome (repugnant) ; grisly.
diffident
Capitulate
morbid
Extemporize - Improvise
4. Disbelieving - skeptical
auspicious / propitious
digress
Incredulous
elusive
5. Very small
ambiguous
dimunitive
antipathy / animosity / rancor
Moribund
6. A wild uproar; tumult
Crystallize
Complaisant
pandemonium
impeccable
7. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit
Lugubrious
Guile
Caustic
quixotic
8. To earnestly caution
admonish
exorbitant
dirge
Enfranchise
9. Fearless; courageous
intrepid / undaunted
sonorous
Venerate - Revere
Ornate
10. Having fallen in a state of disrepair; broken-down condition
sonorous
prattle
Dilapidated
Opaque
11. Mobile; not sedentary
itinerant
Myriad
Obdurate - Intransigent
benefactor
12. A person who behaves in a servile manner; a toady
sycophant / obsequious
Noxious
innovator
exemplary
13. Pretentious; filled with excessive self-importance
equivocal
exhort
rejuvenate
pompous
14. Very profitable
Pernicious
raconteur
Lucrative
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
15. Sharp; clear; clever; keen; perceptive; discriminating; astute
Paranoia
incisive
extirpate
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
16. Dry humor
Demarcation
dearth / paucity
wry / droll
plausible
17. Delete; remove
expunge / excise / expurgate
halcyon
Enlighten - Edify
Pristine
18. The setting or marking of boundaries or limits
dimunitive
martinet
Demarcation
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
19. Filled with errors; wrong
Lugubrious
pejorative
erroneous
Petulant
20. Very generous
Munificent
pandemonium
peremptory
laconic / succint / terse
21. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
skeptic
procure
Extravagant
paradox
22. Having a natural fragrance
odoriferous
procure
synergy
bane
23. Worldly; sophisticated; open-minded and aware of the big picture
Cosmopolitan
glacial
presumptuous
Florid
24. Agreeable; marked by a pleasing personality
Complaisant
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
sophistry
raze
25. Defiantly aggressive - eager to fight
Timorous
stoic
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
quixotic
26. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
ubiquitous
reprehensible
naïve / gullible / credulous
27. A disloyal person
innocuous
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
renegade
Indomitable - Resolute
28. Mixed feelings
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
acquiesce
Autocrat - Despot
ambivalent
29. Someone who attacks cherished ideas and institutions
iconoclast
Quiescent
Demography
debunk
30. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
Osmosis
Profligate
ubiquitous
Ineffable
31. Feelings of sincere and deep regret
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
clandestine / surreptitious
stoic
myopic
32. To get out of a difficult situation
indifferent / apathetic
extricate
Contentious - Cantankerous
Histrionic - Overwrought
33. The property of being prompt and efficient
Coerce
dispatch
momentous
jovial and jocular
34. The act of blocking
Chicanery
anachronism
modicum
occlusion
35. A person who leads a life of self-denial
Disheartening
futile
vindictive
ascetic
36. Disparaging - belittling - insulting
boon
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
pejorative
Brusque - Curt
37. To deliberately exclude from a group
prospectus
ostracize
multiplicity
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
38. To be guided by practical experience - not theory
clandestine / surreptitious
naïve / gullible / credulous
Empirical
ominous
39. Gaudy and cheap
dissembler / prevaricator
exorbitant
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
tawdry
40. A source of harm
Slight
bane
Ostentatious
Aphorism - Axiom
41. Joyous; sprightly; light; vivacious
Blithe
Lucrative
diatribe / tirade
resilient
42. To put down with comtemptuous jeering
deride
prodigy
Contentious - Cantankerous
partisan
43. A temporary solution designed to meet an urgent need
bane
Stopgap
clandestine / surreptitious
mendacious
44. Deception by subterfuge; deliberate trickery
bane
Chicanery
reprehensible
Egalitarian
45. A stimulus or encouragement
gratuitous
Vacuous - Inane
impetus
indignant
46. To declare invalid
magnanimous
Nullify
indifferent / apathetic
dirge
47. Generous nad forgiving
magnanimous
veracity
Fecund
Bombastic
48. Excessive desire for wealth
spartan
stoic
Avarice - Cupidity
nostalgia
49. An inequality; an imbalance
Duplicitous
disparity
Vertiginous
indulgent
50. Harmful; injurious
deleterious
Entomology
remiss
Accord