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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. Felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another
vicarious
Idiosyncrasy
panache / verve / flamboyant
myopic
2. An intruder: a gate-crasher
Extemporize - Improvise
Interloper
raconteur
remiss
3. Unselfish concern for others
Opaque
Extemporize - Improvise
altruistic
impeccable
4. Extremely complicated or devious
boon
Lugubrious
byzantine
draconian
5. To regard with great respect - to hold in high esteem
Unprecedented
tenacious
Venerate - Revere
hilarity
6. To soothe or calm; to appease
reprobate
Craven
Placate
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
7. Hard to understand - impenetrably dense and obscure
Bombastic
vindictive
Opaque
Forbearance
8. An accidental but fortunate occurence
sophistry
squelch
fortuitous
Prolific
9. Minor - everyday details
trivial / minutiae
wry / droll
enigmatic / inscrutable
deleterious
10. An independent person
ambivalent
Demarcation
maverick
autonomous
11. Agreeable; friendly
vicarious
Convivial
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
Venerate - Revere
12. A clumsy or inept person
bungler
decry
Extravagant
debunk
13. Something of small value; petty; trifling
Pernicious
peremptory
picayune
squelch
14. Twisted; intricate
ambivalent
Inquisition
Scintillating
convoluted
15. To introduce or communicate stealthily
maudlin
Cerebral
Histrionic - Overwrought
insinuate
16. Threatening and menacing
ominous
Pretext
plausible
Supercilious
17. Unnecessary; extra
recalcitrant / obdurate
Entrepreneur
ambivalent
Superfluous - Extraneous
18. To scold; rebuke
upbraid / reproach / castigate
renovate
byzantine
mendacious
19. To conceive and develop in the mind
hedonist
Accord
Gestate
viable / feasible
20. Agent that provokes or triggers change
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
prognosticator
Catalyst
Pernicious
21. A temporary solution designed to meet an urgent need
Stopgap
Ineffable
renegade
jovial and jocular
22. To increase rapidly
Proliferate
demise
curtail
covet
23. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
Florid
Duplicitous
Malfeasance
vindictive
24. State of great dismay & confusion
enigmatic / inscrutable
dirge
Consternation
placid / serence
25. Very stubborn; inflexible
Obdurate - Intransigent
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
diatribe / tirade
despondent / forlorn
26. An odd - unconventional person
prototype
Pretext
eccentric
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
27. To appease - conciliate - or regain the good will of
Propitiate
ostracize
Ameliorate
dirge
28. To bounce back
Ignominious
byzantine
resilient
resurgent
29. Denounce or strongly criticize
reticent
audacious
Lambaste
vindicate
30. Filled with errors; wrong
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
malodorous
Convivial
erroneous
31. Settled and therefore accustomed to sitting or doing little exercise
Extemporize - Improvise
nebulous
Sedentary
Fawn
32. Lukewarm; mild; half-hearted
Tepid
polarize / divisive
sophistry
Pertinent
33. Sharp; clear; clever; keen; perceptive; discriminating; astute
Discomfited
veracity
incisive
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
34. Very productive
draconian
magnanimous
deleterious
Prolific
35. To surrender
Consensus
cryptic
curtail
Capitulate
36. Not believable
implausible
diffident
Stopgap
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
37. Showing great determination
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
tenacious
hedonist
implausible
38. An interruption in time or continuity; a break
despoiled
nonchalant
tedious
Hiatus
39. Overly tolerant
demagogue
Visceral
indulgent
bowdlerize
40. Scientific study of insects
Blithe
byzantine
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
Entomology
41. To electrify; to stir into action
dearth / paucity
Crystallize
galvanize
decry
42. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
Contiguous
Sinecure
anomaly / atypical
multiplicity
43. Having a natural fragrance
Opaque
boorish / uncouth / crass
Unfettered
odoriferous
44. Commonplace
Consensus
Discomfited
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Pretext
45. To strongly encourage
exhort
Noxious
anomaly / atypical
Didactic
46. Excessively sentimental
maudlin
Idiosyncrasy
Perfidious
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
47. To depart from a subject
Spate
covet
digress
pejorative
48. Surplus or excess of something
digress
serendipity
rejuvenate
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
49. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
extirpate
Profligate
laconic / succint / terse
Fawn
50. Detestable; repulsive; extremely bad
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
diffident
Depreciation
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant