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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. To lecture or speak without notes
Underwrite
itinerant
tenacious
Extemporize - Improvise
2. An appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive
Oblivious
aesthetic
indigenous / endemic
futile
3. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Ignominious
Cerebral
conjecture / supposition
4. To conceive and develop in the mind
Vertiginous
Gestate
tedious
intemperate
5. Habitually late; tardy
Incredulous
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
viable / feasible
Dilatory
6. Skillful
austere
redundant
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
Duplicitous
7. Admirably suited; apt.
ostracize
anguish
Timorous
felicitous
8. Choosing or using a variety of sources
bane
Eclectic
nefarious
acolyte
9. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
Spate
Petulant
Conundrum
affectation
10. Highly critical; carping
Censorious - Captious
magnanimous
viable / feasible
Elan
11. Foul smelling
Parsimonious
pundit
malodorous
charlatan
12. Shallow; lacking depth
punctilious
admonish
Entrepreneur
superficial
13. Empty - lacking serious purpose
disparage
Vacuous - Inane
vindictive
dispel
14. To make new again
Convivial
tedious
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
renovate
15. A remark that is hurtful or burning
trivial / minutiae
ostracize
Hiatus
Caustic
16. Very stubborn; inflexible
sycophant / obsequious
Obdurate - Intransigent
capricious / mercurial
Consternation
17. To deprive of some privilege - especially the right to vote
altruistic
Disenfranchise
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Craven
18. To place by side or enclose proximity
modicum
Juxtapose
squelch
Caustic
19. Direct opposite
resurgent
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Esoteric - Arcane
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
20. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
Esoteric - Arcane
Appeasement
ubiquitous
reaffirm
21. Marked by inactivity OR in a state of quiet repose
Conundrum
altruistic
reaffirm
Quiescent
22. Any respite or temporary relief.
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
reprieve
Superfluous - Extraneous
nonchalant
23. Idyllically calm and tranquil
Magisterial
halcyon
jovial and jocular
Remunerate
24. Touching; heartrending
Remunerate
nebulous
poignant
stoic
25. An imaginative recreation
Ornate
Affluent - Opulent
evocation
Ostentatious
26. Instinctive rather than irrational
exhort
Dilatory
conspicuous
Visceral
27. A preceding event
Remunerate
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Ineffable
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
28. Charmingly rural
Virulent
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
chimerical
sycophant / obsequious
29. Carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
reaffirm
impasse
fastidious
Exonerate - Exculpate
30. A person who acts in a mechanical fashion; a mindless follower
jovial and jocular
halcyon
automation
enumerate
31. Noisily and stubbornly defiant
fiasco / debacle
Lambaste
Obstreperous
Affluent - Opulent
32. A young genius
prodigy
Proscribe
gratuitous
Underwrite
33. The position of putting close together or side by side
Superfluous - Extraneous
Juxtaposition
hilarity
redundant
34. Act/instance used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances
strident
Precedent
prodigy
synergy
35. Abrupt in manner or speech: discourteously blunt
expunge / excise / expurgate
Brusque - Curt
unconventional / unorthodox
Dessicated
36. A morally unprincipled person
reprobate
Convivial
Fawn
boon
37. Worn out; wearied.
Vituperative
hilarity
strident
jaded
38. A person who is a source of wise counsel and prophetic advice
Proscribe
fleeting / ephemeral
elusive
oracle
39. The act of blocking
occlusion
pandemic
reprobate
Aphorism - Axiom
40. The highest point
Idyllic
zenith / apex
Esoteric - Arcane
mentor
41. Plain; simple
vindicate
Unfettered
spartan
eccentric
42. Very favorable
anomaly / atypical
strident
auspicious / propitious
erroneous
43. Harmless
nefarious
strident
Nuance
innocuous
44. Quarrelsome: argumentative: likely to provoke a controversy - disputatious
Contentious - Cantankerous
Slight
indignant
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
45. Bossy; tending to cut others off; dismissive; officious (peremptorily - preempt)
peremptory
bowdlerize
evocation
nefarious
46. Belittle;slight
Coerce
disparage
benefactor
maverick
47. To deliberately exclude from a group
Prescribe
momentous
renegade
ostracize
48. Abstaining from the enforcement of a right; the act of refraining from acting on a desire or impulse
halcyon
glacial
Forbearance
covet
49. Very generous
occlusion
Munificent
Licentious
Ornate
50. Showing great determination
Venal
tenacious
boorish / uncouth / crass
partisan