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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. Deception by subterfuge; deliberate trickery
exorbitant
deride
Chicanery
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
2. Failure to reach an agreement
impasse
implausible
Vertiginous
aural
3. Vulgar; crude
boorish / uncouth / crass
Proliferate
dilettante
occlusion
4. Sharing an edge or boundary - or touching
Contiguous
irreverent
Brusque - Curt
Cosmopolitan
5. An imaginative recreation
Tepid
Proliferate
tawdry
evocation
6. To remove or delete objectionable parts of a book
bowdlerize
Obdurate - Intransigent
insurmountable
innocuous
7. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
Indisputable
superficial
Duplicitous
nostalgia
8. To scold; rebuke
Disquieting
fastidious
upbraid / reproach / castigate
Vacuous - Inane
9. Relevant - to the point
Pertinent
Guile
audacious
evocation
10. A temporary solution designed to meet an urgent need
Florid
Ostentatious
convoluted
Stopgap
11. Seeker of pleasure
hedonist
Malfeasance
eccentric
Didactic
12. Circular and therefore indirect
superficial
circuitous
incontrovertible
specious
13. Shallow; lacking depth
evocation
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
superficial
curtail
14. Joyous; sprightly; light; vivacious
charlatan
Watershed
Blithe
hilarity
15. Extremely wicked; vile
Visceral
nefarious
clairvoyant
Virulent
16. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
Ignominious
austere
austerity
Preclude
17. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
Nuance
Provisional
altruistic
Enfranchise
18. Formal proposal
Crystallize
Prescribe
prospectus
galvanize
19. Treacherous - traitorous - deceitful
intemperate
vindictive
Elan
Perfidious
20. To repel or drive back; to reject
rebuff
impeccable
intemperate
Dessicated
21. A person who leads a secluded - solitary life
recluse
mendacious
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
Bombastic
22. Charmingly rural
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
zenith / apex
stoic
exhort
23. To give something back
relinquish
Appeasement
Fawn
disparity
24. The property of being prompt and efficient
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
inexorable
incoherent
dispatch
25. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
Sinecure
deleterious
Avarice - Cupidity
antipathy / animosity / rancor
26. To beset; to surround with problems
Idiosyncrasy
tedious
Beleaguer
Lucrative
27. A deliberately misleading argument
Underwrite
Pertinent
ubiquitous
sophistry
28. To cut short or reduce
maverick
Prolific
Profligate
curtail
29. Skillful
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
Precedent
clandestine / surreptitious
renegade
30. A bitter denunciation
Pertinent
diatribe / tirade
rebuff
Convivial
31. Careful; cautious
conspicuous
Triumvirate
irreverent
prudent
32. Uneasy; in a state of embarrassment
conjecture / supposition
Exacerbate
Discomfited
Fawn
33. Native to an area
exhort
indigenous / endemic
Placate
futile
34. Agonizing physical or mental pain
charlatan
draconian
anguish
Pristine
35. A wild uproar; tumult
Marginal - Peripheral
Prolific
pandemonium
circumscribe
36. Outrage at something that is unjust
vacillate
eccentric
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
indignant
37. The final ending of something; the downfall
Chicanery
sycophant / obsequious
demise
prattle
38. Of great importance
curtail
momentous
analogy / analagous
Scintillating
39. Very stubborn; inflexible
profundity
Chicanery
resurgent
Obdurate - Intransigent
40. A seeming contradiction that expresses a truth
acolyte
paradox
Profligate
Timorous
41. Exercising moderation
Euphony
temperate
sophistry
admonish
42. A general commotion; an uproar
Disingenuous
Elan
Stopgap
Furor
43. Foolishly impractical
upbraid / reproach / castigate
quixotic
draconian
inexorable
44. To make a situation better
Flotsam
vapid
Ameliorate
mendacious
45. Easily noticed
Esoteric - Arcane
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
conspicuous
Complicity
46. A strict disciplinarian
impasse
irreverent
wry / droll
martinet
47. Very calm; quiet
Beleaguer
Conundrum
placid / serence
morbid
48. An irresistible force
subtle
belie
juggernaut
hedonist
49. To break into opposing factions
Contiguous
Sedentary
Supercilious
polarize / divisive
50. Tending to give instruction or advice; inclined to teach others too much; containing a political/moral lesson
martinet
Didactic
Prolific
chimerical