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SAT Vocab - 2
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. A small - moderate - or token amount
demagogue
odoriferous
amalgam
modicum
2. Threatening and menacing
cryptic
Didactic
ominous
automation
3. To scold; rebuke
Propitiate
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
upbraid / reproach / castigate
4. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
Flippant - Facetious
strident
Propitiate
bane
5. A formal concurrence or agreement or harmony of minds
Hiatus
Idiosyncrasy
Accord
devoid
6. To cut short or reduce
Petulant
curtail
zealot
repudiate / recant / renounce
7. Smooth and sweet flowing
bowdlerize
demagogue
digress
mellifluous
8. A strict disciplinarian
incontrovertible
repudiate / recant / renounce
Quiescent
martinet
9. State of being various or manifold; a great number
Effusive
pandemic
Propitiate
multiplicity
10. Empty - lacking serious purpose
Indomitable - Resolute
Vacuous - Inane
Spate
Sinecure
11. Relevant - to the point
acquiesce
repudiate / recant / renounce
Pertinent
viable / feasible
12. Vague; lacking a fully developed form
nebulous
maverick
circumvent
bane
13. Sharing an edge or boundary - or touching
Taciturn
Contiguous
Obsequious
Vituperative
14. A similarity or likeness
analogy / analagous
Craven
tactile
thwart / stymie
15. An excuse - an alleged cause
Pretext
sonorous
draconian
misanthrope
16. Causing hard in a subtle or stealthy manner; devious
Venerate - Revere
insurmountable
Insidious
juggernaut
17. Cowardly - faint hearted
despoiled
Duplicitous
Provisional
Craven
18. Mixed feelings
ambivalent
zenith / apex
impasse
Solicitous
19. Very stubborn; inflexible
Obdurate - Intransigent
Brusque - Curt
ubiquitous
viable / feasible
20. Out of reach; difficult to catch
recluse
innocuous
elusive
Interloper
21. A liar; deceiver
Perfunctory
martinet
dissembler / prevaricator
Nullify
22. Happening or moving extremely slowly
odoriferous
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
glacial
23. A statement universally accepted as true - a maxim
Aphorism - Axiom
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
fortitude
indigenous / endemic
24. The act of blocking
occlusion
fortitude
Nullify
malodorous
25. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
Ameliorate
Unfettered
Contentious - Cantankerous
boon
26. A person who behaves in a servile manner; a toady
sycophant / obsequious
subtle
Empirical
denounce
27. To make clear or plain - especially by explanation
Disingenuous
Elucidate
Ignominious
Quiescent
28. A funeral hymn; mournful music
pejorative
Chagrin
Flotsam
dirge
29. Very concise; brief
laconic / succint / terse
Fecund
glacial
circumscribe
30. Association or participation in a wrongful act
deleterious
cryptic
Venerate - Revere
Complicity
31. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
Obfuscate
ubiquitous
Superfluous - Extraneous
dissembler / prevaricator
32. To get out of a difficult situation
malodorous
extricate
Appeasement
mentor
33. Lax in attending to duty; negligent
remiss
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
Nonplus - Confounded
jaded
34. Behaving in an obsequious manner
Fawn
inexorable
Flummox
ostracize
35. Scientific study of insects
Entomology
Consensus
Aplomb
anguish
36. Very brief; short lived
Taciturn
fleeting / ephemeral
indignant
Underwrite
37. Dry humor
wry / droll
strident
ambiguous
Catalyst
38. Someone who attacks cherished ideas and institutions
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
iconoclast
Supercilious
Contiguous
39. A teacher; a guide; an advisor
antipathy / animosity / rancor
mentor
Affluent - Opulent
procure
40. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
Eschew
ubiquitous
ambiguous
Ignominious
41. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
byzantine
Sinecure
Florid
repudiate / recant / renounce
42. To conceive and develop in the mind
Prescribe
Gestate
byzantine
Magisterial
43. Too overwhelming to be put into words; indescribable; inexpressible
demise
Ineffable
Extravagant
aloof
44. Insightful - perceptive
Autocrat - Despot
penchant / predilection
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Affluent - Opulent
45. To lecture or speak without notes
anomaly / atypical
Extemporize - Improvise
pragmatic
modicum
46. Annoyingly talkative
innuendo
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
anguish
futile
47. To declare invalid
equanimity / unflappable
prospectus
quixotic
Nullify
48. A morally unprincipled person
reprobate
expunge / excise / expurgate
Entrepreneur
ambiguous
49. Characterized by knowledge that is known only to a small group of specialists; obscure; recondite
Esoteric - Arcane
Stopgap
pandemonium
Convivial
50. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
peremptory
Accord
Harbinger - Portent - Presage