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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. Having a natural fragrance
circumvent
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
odoriferous
Appeasement
2. A vigorous spirit or great enthusiasm
Elan
nebulous
autonomous
Myriad
3. Language that is bitterly hostile or hateful
convoluted
ubiquitous
Virulent
Propitiate
4. A remark that is hurtful or burning
disparity
Caustic
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
indifferent / apathetic
5. Surplus or excess of something
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Provisional
draconian
Dessicated
6. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
reprobate
Accord
Bombastic
strident
7. To level to the ground; demolish
zenith / apex
raze
naïve / gullible / credulous
rejuvenate
8. State of being various or manifold; a great number
Florid
multiplicity
Dilatory
Imperious
9. Causing hard in a subtle or stealthy manner; devious
dearth / paucity
oracle
felicitous
Insidious
10. Adherence to the truth; truthfulness
quixotic
veracity
circumspect / prudent
Nuance
11. Direct opposite
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
subtle
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Ignominious
12. Easily convinced; tending to - believe to readily - gullible
Perfidious
Epiphany
Duplicitous
Credulous
13. A young genius
anachronism
intrepid / undaunted
Apocryphal
prodigy
14. To make clear or plain - especially by explanation
Marginal - Peripheral
morose / despondent
Elucidate
myopic
15. An accidental but fortunate occurence
irreverent
indifferent / apathetic
reticent
fortuitous
16. To take back; disavow
strident
repudiate / recant / renounce
Catalyst
tumultuous
17. Unable to pay; out of money (solvent - solvency - soluble - insoluble)
malodorous
peremptory
Consternation
insolvent
18. To cut short or reduce
Nonplus - Confounded
Entrepreneur
curtail
Chicanery
19. Harmful; injurious
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Paradigm
Pernicious
deleterious
20. Robbed - ruined - pillaged - looted
spartan
Pertinent
despoiled
Precedent
21. Delete; remove
martinet
Sinecure
Pristine
expunge / excise / expurgate
22. Lacking foresight or scope
Epiphany
myopic
Exonerate - Exculpate
Perfunctory
23. Strong dislike
circumvent
antipathy / animosity / rancor
punctilious
occlusion
24. Expressing strong disapproval; condemning; loudly decrying
debunk
Prescribe
Proscribe
Excoriating - Scathing
25. To confuse or perplex; utterly dumbfounded
Flummox
Ornate
trivial / minutiae
Ungainly
26. Great vigor and energy - dash
panache / verve / flamboyant
placid / serence
vindicate
picayune
27. To avoid; shun; to stay clear of
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
Elan
Eschew
elusive
28. Person who organizes a business/enterprise
Fecund
Consternation
irreverent
Entrepreneur
29. Disbelieving - skeptical
thwart / stymie
demagogue
Perfunctory
Incredulous
30. To lecture or speak without notes
skeptic
Extemporize - Improvise
Pristine
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
31. Very favorable
beneficiary
Pristine
auspicious / propitious
irreverent
32. A stimulus or encouragement
dispel
impetus
myopic
galvanize
33. An imaginative recreation
Autocrat - Despot
Licentious
evocation
bowdlerize
34. A ruler or other person with unlimited authority
Gestate
stoic
boorish / uncouth / crass
Autocrat - Despot
35. Good-humored; cheerful
Underwrite
Profligate
clairvoyant
jovial and jocular
36. Something performed in a spiritless - mechanical - and routine manner
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
quixotic
Discordant
Perfunctory
37. Lack of interest or concern
morbid
Convivial
diatribe / tirade
indifferent / apathetic
38. A wild uproar; tumult
strident
intrepid / undaunted
pandemonium
Proscribe
39. Overbearing; impertinently bold
bowdlerize
fortuitous
presumptuous
Nuance
40. A person with biased beliefs
partisan
zenith / apex
circumscribe
enigmatic / inscrutable
41. Soothing or pleasant sounds; harmony
Euphony
procure
Quiescent
Nonplus - Confounded
42. Practical. sensible
insinuate
pandemic
Discordant
pragmatic
43. Great bitterness
sophistry
Accord
acrimonious
zealot
44. Lacking organization or logic
Cerebral
Noxious
incoherent
reaffirm
45. To drive away; scatter
dispel
Discomfited
redundant
amalgam
46. To break into opposing factions
Dessicated
incoherent
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
polarize / divisive
47. Something of small value; petty; trifling
deride
picayune
maudlin
Nonplus - Confounded
48. Fickle; constantly shifting moods
capricious / mercurial
exorbitant
tumultuous
nadir
49. Settled and therefore accustomed to sitting or doing little exercise
mellifluous
innocuous
Triumvirate
Sedentary
50. The position of putting close together or side by side
Idyllic
Petulant
Consensus
Juxtaposition