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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. Treacherous - traitorous - deceitful
Perfidious
Disheartening
Obstreperous
Disingenuous
2. Tending to give instruction or advice; inclined to teach others too much; containing a political/moral lesson
Didactic
Watershed
Disquieting
innovator
3. Of great importance
admonish
benefactor
momentous
Censorious - Captious
4. A preceding event
partisan
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
felicitous
Spate
5. Happening or moving extremely slowly
Munificent
implausible
Ungainly
glacial
6. An eloquent writer or speaker
Nullify
Beleaguer
insolvent
rhetorican
7. Dying - on the way out - approaching that
Vertiginous
synergy
Moribund
Complicity
8. Remaining in a pure state: uncorrupted by civilization
Perfunctory
Pristine
iconoclast
acolyte
9. To declare invalid
Nullify
extirpate
Effusive
digress
10. To deliberately exclude from a group
demise
convoluted
tenacious
ostracize
11. Unnecessary; extra
raconteur
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Crystallize
Superfluous - Extraneous
12. Agreeable; friendly
modicum
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
Blithe
Flotsam
13. Out of reach; difficult to catch
raze
viable / feasible
Beleaguer
elusive
14. To repel or drive back; to reject
inexorable
presumptuous
rebuff
exhort
15. Peevish - irritable
Petulant
Underwrite
spartan
Pertinent
16. A person who uses intuition to see into the future; a seer
clairvoyant
Nullify
copious
Obfuscate
17. An original model
Furor
prototype
Fawn
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
18. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
Conundrum
affectation
Accord
redundant
19. A funeral hymn; mournful music
dirge
acolyte
quixotic
Craven
20. Scientific study of insects
penchant / predilection
Entomology
Placate
Ungainly
21. To forbid; to prohibit; to outlaw
clairvoyant
sycophant / obsequious
Proscribe
Parsimonious
22. Delete; remove
demise
Flippant - Facetious
expunge / excise / expurgate
gerrymander
23. A huge appetite; cannot be satisfied; insatiable
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
reprobate
multiplicity
voracious / ravenous
24. Boring and tiresome
expunge / excise / expurgate
tedious
demise
Epiphany
25. To speak against
placid / serence
denounce
Demography
Remunerate
26. A very enthusiastic person
Precedent
zealot
Opaque
altruistic
27. Characterized by verbal abuse and bitter criticism
Vituperative
placid / serence
Extravagant
Provisional
28. Dry humor
wry / droll
gerrymander
Discordant
indulgent
29. To sway from once side to the other; oscillate.
vacillate
partisan
demise
austere
30. Having a natural fragrance
Lugubrious
decry
dirge
odoriferous
31. Detached; reserved
Stopgap
Inquisition
aloof
benefactor
32. Habitually quiet; uncommunicative
Taciturn
Stopgap
Indisputable
implausible
33. Derisive mocking comments
anguish
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
audacious
34. The lowest point
nadir
clairvoyant
Idiosyncrasy
Bombastic
35. Not in the proper time period
Elucidate
jovial and jocular
anachronism
Superfluous - Extraneous
36. Behaving in an obsequious manner
Timorous
Fawn
Vertiginous
Tepid
37. Very stubborn; inflexible
convoluted
Obdurate - Intransigent
Disingenuous
Ostentatious
38. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
Petulant
bungler
Cerebral
Extravagant
39. Excessively cheap with money - stingy
impasse
Ineffable
austerity
Parsimonious
40. To conceive and develop in the mind
Obsequious
veracity
Gestate
indulgent
41. Failure to reach an agreement
Watershed
impasse
modicum
dismissive
42. Lacking organization or logic
incoherent
insolvent
Ungainly
jaded
43. Excessive desire for wealth
juggernaut
Marginal - Peripheral
pandemic
Avarice - Cupidity
44. An amateur or dabbler
Epiphany
dilettante
nonchalant
multiplicity
45. To increase rapidly
Ameliorate
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
Proliferate
Provisional
46. Detestable; repulsive; extremely bad
hilarity
Flippant - Facetious
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Propitiate
47. Unrestrained: unchecked
Rampant
malodorous
Consternation
Cerebral
48. Strength of mind
Stopgap
admonish
sonorous
fortitude
49. To strongly encourage
disparity
exhort
intemperate
zenith / apex
50. Soothing or pleasant sounds; harmony
denounce
digress
Euphony
recalcitrant / obdurate