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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. Enforced economy
austerity
admonish
Caustic
Virulent
2. Something performed in a spiritless - mechanical - and routine manner
Didactic
Pertinent
Perfunctory
Venal
3. To list; to tick off
panache / verve / flamboyant
Perfunctory
enumerate
Cacophony
4. To earnestly caution
Supercilious
admonish
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
5. A public declaration of beliefs - policies - or intentions
Manifesto
fortitude
exhort
proponent / advocate
6. Formal proposal
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
dispel
renovate
prospectus
7. A timely benefit
dissembler / prevaricator
Unfettered
boon
Marginal - Peripheral
8. An intruder: a gate-crasher
Interloper
Nonplus - Confounded
halcyon
Disingenuous
9. Very rich - having abundant resources
Affluent - Opulent
magnanimous
Vertiginous
Indomitable - Resolute
10. Lukewarm; mild; half-hearted
inexorable
exhort
Tepid
covet
11. Very calm; quiet
denounce
indigenous / endemic
placid / serence
Ungainly
12. Great vigor and energy - dash
Exacerbate
intemperate
Chagrin
panache / verve / flamboyant
13. Association or participation in a wrongful act
Virulent
Complicity
covet
dismissive
14. Treacherous - traitorous - deceitful
strident
Solicitous
Perfidious
redundant
15. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
Moribund
capricious / mercurial
Enfranchise
superficial
16. Very favorable
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
auspicious / propitious
exorbitant
17. To free from blame
vindicate
Pertinent
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
acquiesce
18. Soothing or pleasant sounds; harmony
equanimity / unflappable
Euphony
conjecture / supposition
Disingenuous
19. An independent person
implausible
renovate
maverick
Visceral
20. Immoral - debauched
tedious
paradox
impecunious
Licentious
21. Indisputable; beyond doubt
incontrovertible
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Rampant
Perfidious
22. Person who organizes a business/enterprise
diffident
Disheartening
Entrepreneur
squelch
23. Annoyingly talkative
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Licentious
halcyon
despoiled
24. Out of reach; difficult to catch
chimerical
autonomous
Proscribe
elusive
25. To avoid by artful maneuvering
circumvent
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
altruistic
Ineffable
26. Very brief; short lived
innocuous
Lurid
fleeting / ephemeral
Scintillating
27. To lecture or speak without notes
austerity
pragmatic
Extemporize - Improvise
Nonplus - Confounded
28. A young genius
ominous
prodigy
Ameliorate
quixotic
29. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
pragmatic
veracity
Vertiginous
prospectus
30. To get out of a difficult situation
extricate
anomaly / atypical
Lucrative
Discomfited
31. Uneasy; in a state of embarrassment
denounce
Discomfited
altruistic
Inquisition
32. An amateur or dabbler
Manifesto
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
dilettante
Redolent
33. Showing great care and concern; attentive
irreverent
Dilapidated
Solicitous
Provisional
34. Scientific study of insects
tacit
Entomology
Eschew
impasse
35. Agreeable; marked by a pleasing personality
Craven
Prescribe
tenacious
Complaisant
36. To babble incessantly
acquiesce
prattle
Spate
capricious / mercurial
37. An appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive
aesthetic
zenith / apex
Contentious - Cantankerous
Pristine
38. Critical point that marks a change in course or turning event
Esoteric - Arcane
Watershed
conjecture / supposition
devoid
39. To fall off in vigor - energy - activity - interest - etc
occlusion
Venal
wry / droll
flag
40. Worldly; sophisticated; open-minded and aware of the big picture
picayune
Cosmopolitan
vicarious
dearth / paucity
41. Showy; intended to attract notice; pretentious
Ostentatious
Ornate
penchant / predilection
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
42. Choosing or using a variety of sources
morose / despondent
Parsimonious
Eclectic
Autocrat - Despot
43. To strongly encourage
exhort
aesthetic
skeptic
Pertinent
44. Poor; penniless; not affluent
impecunious
fastidious
Propitiate
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
45. A bitter denunciation
diatribe / tirade
Petulant
proponent / advocate
irreverent
46. Gruesome (repugnant) ; grisly.
specious
incoherent
Manifesto
morbid
47. Lacking self-confidence
Scintillating
diffident
tactile
maverick
48. Ill-tempered; rude; lacking civility
Entrepreneur
Virulent
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
altruistic
49. Detestable; repulsive; extremely bad
Discordant
Censorious - Captious
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
intemperate
50. To crush as if by trampling; squash
subtle
fortuitous
squelch
occlusion