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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. A complete failure
digress
Obsequious
fiasco / debacle
punctilious
2. Policy of granting concessions to maintain peace
Insidious
Appeasement
Sedentary
Extemporize - Improvise
3. Independent
rhetorican
renovate
ominous
autonomous
4. Empty - lacking serious purpose
covet
procure
Vacuous - Inane
Consternation
5. Sparkling; shining; brilliantly clever
Prolific
clandestine / surreptitious
Scintillating
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
6. Lax in attending to duty; negligent
Preclude
bane
remiss
gratuitous
7. A stimulus or encouragement
Flippant - Facetious
presumptuous
innuendo
impetus
8. A person who gives gifts
Unfettered
benefactor
impecunious
Contentious - Cantankerous
9. Scientific study of insects
clandestine / surreptitious
fleeting / ephemeral
Entomology
indigenous / endemic
10. Sociable; fond of feasting - drinking - and good company
analogy / analagous
indigenous / endemic
exemplary
Convivial
11. Agonizing physical or mental pain
equanimity / unflappable
anguish
Munificent
nadir
12. Characterized by verbal abuse and bitter criticism
Vituperative
subtle
Lambaste
dilettante
13. To regard with great respect - to hold in high esteem
Venerate - Revere
prattle
Empirical
Coerce
14. Ill-tempered; rude; lacking civility
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Dessicated
diffident
Ostentatious
15. An eloquent writer or speaker
recalcitrant / obdurate
Pertinent
rhetorican
profundity
16. Misconduct/wrongdoing - especially by a public official
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Malfeasance
prospectus
Unfettered
17. An inequality; an imbalance
intemperate
disparity
circumvent
Conundrum
18. A mixture; combination of different elements
futile
amalgam
Timorous
Contiguous
19. An appreciation of what is beautiful or attractive
Contiguous
misanthrope
aesthetic
bungler
20. A person who makes predictions based on data
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
tacit
Epiphany
prognosticator
21. Corrupt - dishonest - open to bribery
Venal
itinerant
impeccable
vapid
22. To surrender
Obstreperous
Capitulate
Scintillating
Complaisant
23. Adherence to the truth; truthfulness
zenith / apex
veracity
Stopgap
Taciturn
24. To be guided by practical experience - not theory
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Magisterial
benefactor
Empirical
25. State of great dismay & confusion
Consternation
sycophant / obsequious
impetus
Scintillating
26. Awkwardly; clumsy - not graceful
Vacuous - Inane
Histrionic - Overwrought
Inquisition
Ungainly
27. Exercising moderation
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
temperate
strident
admonish
28. To force or act by using pressure
magnanimous
Fecund
Coerce
galvanize
29. Provokes controversy
provocative
prattle
Obsequious
sophistry
30. Unrestrained: unchecked
Appeasement
Rampant
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
decry
31. Shallow; lacking depth
disparity
Coerce
misanthrope
superficial
32. State of being various or manifold; a great number
placid / serence
multiplicity
fastidious
diatribe / tirade
33. To place by side or enclose proximity
Interloper
viable / feasible
Juxtapose
upbraid / reproach / castigate
34. Unselfish concern for others
skeptic
gerrymander
remiss
altruistic
35. Readily taking on various forms and meanings
raconteur
Protean
Euphony
Sinecure
36. A gradual almost imperceptible change
presumptuous
malodorous
Lucrative
subtle
37. Feelings of sincere and deep regret
morose / despondent
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
maudlin
Perfunctory
38. Peevish - irritable
magnanimous
Effusive
Petulant
cryptic
39. A person who uses intuition to see into the future; a seer
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
clairvoyant
indigenous / endemic
naïve / gullible / credulous
40. Seeker of pleasure
beneficiary
hedonist
dispatch
reprobate
41. Disbelieving - skeptical
fortuitous
Incredulous
Chicanery
subtle
42. Very depressed
proponent / advocate
Venerate - Revere
Avarice - Cupidity
morose / despondent
43. An excuse - an alleged cause
Pretext
Placate
Flummox
implacable
44. Admirably suited; apt.
Interloper
Consensus
felicitous
pejorative
45. Deserving great blame; wicked; evil
Contentious - Cantankerous
skeptic
reprehensible
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
46. A person who leads a secluded - solitary life
Manifesto
Censorious - Captious
recluse
equanimity / unflappable
47. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
Perfidious
audacious
Profligate
48. To narrowly restrict; to limit action; to draw a line around
recluse
Profligate
subtle
circumscribe
49. To strongly desire; to crave
covet
Juxtaposition
Perfidious
Consternation
50. Excluding fragrance - full of a specified smell; suggestive of; reminiscent
Redolent
Unprecedented
Demography
irreverent