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SAT Vocab - 2
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false.
unconventional / unorthodox
Pernicious
specious
jaded
2. A person with biased beliefs
partisan
nonchalant
peremptory
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
3. A disloyal person
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
renegade
renovate
Lugubrious
4. A deliberately misleading argument
relinquish
dispatch
sophistry
incisive
5. Excessively cheap with money - stingy
debunk
Parsimonious
indigenous / endemic
Cerebral
6. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
temperate
strident
Censorious - Captious
malodorous
7. An interruption in time or continuity; a break
Hiatus
vindictive
flag
raconteur
8. Intellectually productive or inventive - fertile
pundit
elusive
Fecund
indignant
9. Moderate in eating and drinking
abstemious
tumultuous
deride
Rampant
10. Very determined; unwavering
audacious
punctilious
Preclude
Indomitable - Resolute
11. Showing haughty disdain or arrogant superiority
Supercilious
Licentious
indignant
Refractory
12. A seeming contradiction that expresses a truth
sophistry
paradox
renovate
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
13. A statement universally accepted as true - a maxim
Fecund
boorish / uncouth / crass
Marginal - Peripheral
Aphorism - Axiom
14. Lacking organization or logic
Nuance
incoherent
resurgent
Conundrum
15. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
penchant / predilection
Burgeon
Enfranchise
16. Policy of granting concessions to maintain peace
Appeasement
tenacious
diatribe / tirade
Histrionic - Overwrought
17. Person who organizes a business/enterprise
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
anachronism
covet
Entrepreneur
18. Disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful.
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
vindictive
expunge / excise / expurgate
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
19. A general agreement
fortitude
wry / droll
Consensus
diffident
20. Empty - lacking serious purpose
Vacuous - Inane
bungler
charlatan
Taciturn
21. To narrowly restrict; to limit action; to draw a line around
circumscribe
Precedent
Extemporize - Improvise
enigmatic / inscrutable
22. Very discouraging
Disheartening
Osmosis
incisive
martinet
23. To lecture or speak without notes
Extemporize - Improvise
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
reaffirm
Prescribe
24. A teacher; a guide; an advisor
Osmosis
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
mentor
indifferent / apathetic
25. Denounce or strongly criticize
Lambaste
eccentric
Pertinent
Gestate
26. An accidental but fortunate discovery
bowdlerize
malodorous
mellifluous
serendipity
27. To divide a district so as to give one side an advantage
dispatch
Depreciation
specious
gerrymander
28. Readily taking on various forms and meanings
audacious
Pristine
Protean
temperate
29. A fake; a fraud; a cheat
Euphony
Discordant
charlatan
Guile
30. To make a situation worse
Myriad
thwart / stymie
antipathy / animosity / rancor
Exacerbate
31. A person who gives gifts
Lurid
benefactor
autonomous
Solicitous
32. A person who makes predictions based on data
prognosticator
Coerce
hedonist
Vertiginous
33. Highly injurious - destructive - deadly
extricate
Provisional
Pernicious
nebulous
34. Corrupt - dishonest - open to bribery
conjecture / supposition
punctilious
dissembler / prevaricator
Venal
35. A bitter denunciation
magnanimous
diatribe / tirade
rhetorican
Fecund
36. To grow rapidly; to expand
eccentric
tawdry
Burgeon
Effusive
37. To confuse or perplex; utterly dumbfounded
Flummox
dimunitive
proponent / advocate
prodigy
38. Relentless - unstoppable
inexorable
prattle
exorbitant
autonomous
39. Tending to give instruction or advice; inclined to teach others too much; containing a political/moral lesson
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Aphorism - Axiom
Didactic
hilarity
40. Very bold; daring
audacious
Taciturn
belie
cryptic
41. To give a false impression
Blithe
indifferent / apathetic
belie
Vituperative
42. Someone who attacks cherished ideas and institutions
iconoclast
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
morose / despondent
dilettante
43. Very favorable
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
clairvoyant
auspicious / propitious
Enlighten - Edify
44. Uneasy; in a state of embarrassment
Epiphany
Solicitous
pandemonium
Discomfited
45. Characterized by knowledge that is known only to a small group of specialists; obscure; recondite
Furor
rejuvenate
Contiguous
Esoteric - Arcane
46. Surplus or excess of something
disparage
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
momentous
Elan
47. Failure to reach an agreement
impasse
Proliferate
dispel
exemplary
48. A speaker who appeals to emotions - fears or prejudices
felicitous
demagogue
byzantine
Virulent
49. Expressing strong disapproval; condemning; loudly decrying
Entrepreneur
Excoriating - Scathing
renegade
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
50. Exercising moderation
temperate
implacable
circuitous
gratuitous