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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 small - moderate - or token amount
flag
modicum
remiss
Profligate
2. Poor; penniless; not affluent
indulgent
Proliferate
Rampant
impecunious
3. To conceive and develop in the mind
Gestate
serendipity
wry / droll
Fecund
4. To strongly desire; to crave
covet
prognosticator
Spate
inexorable
5. Exercising moderation
indulgent
hilarity
Egalitarian
temperate
6. Highly detailed
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Consternation
Proliferate
renovate
7. To beset; to surround with problems
Beleaguer
vapid
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
Nuance
8. Overbearing; impertinently bold
Conundrum
presumptuous
ambiguous
exemplary
9. To rise again; surge back
upbraid / reproach / castigate
extirpate
Dilatory
resurgent
10. Showing great care and concern; attentive
Solicitous
despoiled
austerity
Furor
11. To avoid by artful maneuvering
Preclude
Nonplus - Confounded
punctilious
circumvent
12. Having fallen in a state of disrepair; broken-down condition
mendacious
Furor
reaffirm
Dilapidated
13. The highest point
punctilious
callous
zenith / apex
futile
14. Feeling of distress caused by failure - distress - or embarrassment
Chagrin
Contentious - Cantankerous
Empirical
Osmosis
15. Doomed to failure
Capitulate
futile
diffident
gerrymander
16. Defiantly aggressive - eager to fight
insurmountable
tacit
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
17. Gaudy and cheap
Moribund
tawdry
extricate
Avarice - Cupidity
18. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
Didactic
strident
convoluted
clandestine / surreptitious
19. Characterized by knowledge that is known only to a small group of specialists; obscure; recondite
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
Esoteric - Arcane
multiplicity
Autocrat - Despot
20. Fickle; constantly shifting moods
nadir
aloof
capricious / mercurial
equanimity / unflappable
21. Easily noticed
Lambaste
veracity
Cosmopolitan
conspicuous
22. To drive away; scatter
dismissive
dispel
flag
Flummox
23. Mysterious; having a hidden meaning
nostalgia
cryptic
unconventional / unorthodox
reprehensible
24. An irresistible force
prattle
juggernaut
Contiguous
beneficiary
25. To grow rapidly; to expand
Burgeon
Vacuous - Inane
reprehensible
nonchalant
26. A person who makes predictions based on data
audacious
Proscribe
modicum
prognosticator
27. Casual indifference
Indisputable
Florid
nonchalant
Quiescent
28. Bossy; tending to cut others off; dismissive; officious (peremptorily - preempt)
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
decry
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
peremptory
29. Producing a deep or full sound
spartan
sonorous
Pernicious
ascetic
30. Very brief; short lived
Pretext
Supercilious
Affluent - Opulent
fleeting / ephemeral
31. Noisy and disorderly
elusive
Ostentatious
dispatch
tumultuous
32. Very poor - lacking resources
Ungainly
conjecture / supposition
disparage
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
33. Boring and tiresome
poignant
vindicate
tedious
Accord
34. Lack of interest or concern
Beleaguer
Affluent - Opulent
indifferent / apathetic
Profligate
35. To strongly encourage
Manifesto
enumerate
jovial and jocular
exhort
36. Promptly obedient - submissive - marked by or exhibiting fawning
Obsequious
Duplicitous
Protean
circumspect / prudent
37. To electrify; to stir into action
galvanize
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
elusive
Hiatus
38. No longer in use
nefarious
charlatan
chimerical
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
39. To make a situation worse
Stopgap
synergy
Exacerbate
Enfranchise
40. Favoring social equality - believing in an equal society
automation
Slight
Egalitarian
provocative
41. Very favorable
auspicious / propitious
Placate
rejuvenate
Lambaste
42. Too overwhelming to be put into words; indescribable; inexpressible
impecunious
Perfidious
Ineffable
Depreciation
43. Adherence to the truth; truthfulness
veracity
Precedent
Flummox
insolvent
44. Smooth and sweet flowing
mellifluous
dilettante
Crystallize
Perfidious
45. Of or related to the ear or the sense of hearing
Watershed
altruistic
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
aural
46. Causing hard in a subtle or stealthy manner; devious
resilient
Insidious
nadir
Pretext
47. Very stubborn - defiant
glacial
acquiesce
insolvent
recalcitrant / obdurate
48. To deliberately confuse; to make something so confusing it's hard to understand
gratuitous
vindicate
Contentious - Cantankerous
Obfuscate
49. Ill-tempered; rude; lacking civility
Ignominious
extirpate
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Pristine
50. An inference
Forbearance
conjecture / supposition
Vertiginous
insurmountable