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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. Lacking proper respect; disrepectful
Lucrative
autonomous
Excoriating - Scathing
irreverent
2. Critical point that marks a change in course or turning event
profundity
Watershed
dimunitive
Nuance
3. Harmful; injurious
innovator
deleterious
Extemporize - Improvise
automation
4. To level to the ground; demolish
Ungainly
raze
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Nuance
5. Lacking restraint; excessive
Contiguous
Triumvirate
tenacious
intemperate
6. Poor; penniless; not affluent
Petulant
prognosticator
sycophant / obsequious
impecunious
7. To fall off in vigor - energy - activity - interest - etc
dismissive
flag
innuendo
Cosmopolitan
8. Extremely complicated or devious
abstemious
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
clairvoyant
byzantine
9. Faultless; perfect
impeccable
incontrovertible
Quiescent
Remunerate
10. A formal concurrence or agreement or harmony of minds
Crystallize
Effusive
Sanguine
Accord
11. Detestable; repulsive; extremely bad
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
bane
Eclectic
altruistic
12. Cautious; careful
circumspect / prudent
Credulous
tawdry
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
13. Native to an area
prospectus
indigenous / endemic
Cacophony
raze
14. Casual indifference
occlusion
nonchalant
rebuff
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
15. Enforced economy
irreverent
Opaque
austerity
eccentric
16. To strongly desire; to crave
covet
tawdry
Egalitarian
Flippant - Facetious
17. Vulgar; crude
Tepid
chimerical
resurgent
boorish / uncouth / crass
18. Lacking foresight or scope
aloof
Venerate - Revere
prognosticator
myopic
19. Adherence to the truth; truthfulness
veracity
rhetorican
callous
Virulent
20. A preference for something; an inclination
benefactor
antipathy / animosity / rancor
penchant / predilection
rebuff
21. Ill-tempered; rude; lacking civility
repudiate / recant / renounce
glacial
Oblivious
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
22. A person who is impassive and emotionless
Precedent
stoic
nonchalant
Capitulate
23. Not in the proper time period
anachronism
Obfuscate
intemperate
flag
24. Marked by inactivity OR in a state of quiet repose
Quiescent
Osmosis
pundit
Dilapidated
25. A person who introduces something new
Nonplus - Confounded
innovator
Vituperative
covet
26. Disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful.
Exacerbate
iconoclast
vindictive
reprobate
27. Sociable; fond of feasting - drinking - and good company
Convivial
acquiesce
upbraid / reproach / castigate
acolyte
28. To scold; rebuke
halcyon
Perfidious
Disenfranchise
upbraid / reproach / castigate
29. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
debunk
Bombastic
pejorative
Profligate
30. Deserving great blame; wicked; evil
reticent
vindicate
incoherent
reprehensible
31. Producing a deep or full sound
sonorous
insolvent
Enfranchise
Lambaste
32. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit
innocuous
Dessicated
intrepid / undaunted
Guile
33. An irresistible force
expunge / excise / expurgate
juggernaut
ambivalent
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
34. To depart from a subject
zenith / apex
quixotic
digress
deride
35. Awkwardly; clumsy - not graceful
Ungainly
cryptic
glacial
insinuate
36. To lecture or speak without notes
Extemporize - Improvise
anguish
diatribe / tirade
Flotsam
37. Skillful
maudlin
profundity
squelch
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
38. A person who receives benefits
iconoclast
circumscribe
beneficiary
analogy / analagous
39. Minor - everyday details
bane
Juxtapose
antipathy / animosity / rancor
trivial / minutiae
40. Commonplace
Pretext
Eschew
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
renegade
41. To list; to tick off
martinet
enumerate
Pristine
Idyllic
42. Remaining in a pure state: uncorrupted by civilization
misanthrope
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
aural
Pristine
43. To treat as unimportant; ignore deliberately; disrespect
Provisional
Ignominious
intrepid / undaunted
Slight
44. A young genius
dirge
prodigy
myopic
ambivalent
45. Easily noticed
denounce
conspicuous
Nuance
naïve / gullible / credulous
46. Great bitterness
Ostentatious
Burgeon
acrimonious
Unprecedented
47. To surrender
Euphony
Ostentatious
Capitulate
Inquisition
48. Lacking self-confidence
deleterious
panache / verve / flamboyant
specious
diffident
49. To take back; disavow
implacable
repudiate / recant / renounce
Watershed
Sanguine
50. The study of characteristics of human population
Demography
draconian
serendipity
insolvent