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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. Easily convinced; tending to - believe to readily - gullible
Credulous
innocuous
austere
austerity
2. Instinctive rather than irrational
circumscribe
denounce
Visceral
naïve / gullible / credulous
3. Agonizing physical or mental pain
Redolent
Duplicitous
anguish
modicum
4. To conceive and develop in the mind
Gestate
insolvent
Enfranchise
Interloper
5. Scientific study of insects
Entomology
fleeting / ephemeral
diffident
Cerebral
6. To be guided by practical experience - not theory
Idyllic
superficial
Obfuscate
Empirical
7. Trait peculiar to individual
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
Fawn
Noxious
Idiosyncrasy
8. To express strong disapproval
resurgent
Lugubrious
byzantine
decry
9. An odd - unconventional person
eccentric
Nuance
indignant
Venal
10. To babble incessantly
Empirical
Blithe
fastidious
prattle
11. Faultless; perfect
Idyllic
impeccable
placid / serence
Petulant
12. Charmingly simple and carefree
distend
Idyllic
Sinecure
galvanize
13. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
strident
Pernicious
nostalgia
Exonerate - Exculpate
14. Readily taking on various forms and meanings
Catalyst
Moribund
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
Protean
15. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
Extemporize - Improvise
Sinecure
expunge / excise / expurgate
Lurid
16. Mobile; not sedentary
itinerant
Euphony
dimunitive
pragmatic
17. Remaining in a pure state: uncorrupted by civilization
maudlin
Disquieting
Pristine
reprehensible
18. Secretive; not aboveboard; covert
demagogue
clandestine / surreptitious
tedious
Insidious
19. To make new again
aesthetic
covet
Cosmopolitan
renovate
20. Gaudy and cheap
tawdry
Proliferate
Idiosyncrasy
acrimonious
21. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
zealot
Protean
Duplicitous
22. A liar; deceiver
Contiguous
clairvoyant
dissembler / prevaricator
Obfuscate
23. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
remiss
copious
Extravagant
Cacophony
24. Noisily and stubbornly defiant
Quiescent
Obstreperous
Juxtaposition
Complaisant
25. Disposed to seek revenge; revengeful; spiteful.
Redolent
strident
flag
vindictive
26. Unable to pay; out of money (solvent - solvency - soluble - insoluble)
insolvent
plausible
provocative
admonish
27. Sad mournful - melancholic
Imperious
Lugubrious
Ungainly
Craven
28. To introduce or communicate stealthily
insinuate
spartan
partisan
pandemic
29. Habitually quiet; uncommunicative
clairvoyant
Ineffable
Taciturn
fastidious
30. Praise; applaud
Disenfranchise
Obfuscate
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
insinuate
31. Producing a sensation of touch
prototype
Furor
tactile
profundity
32. Act/instance used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances
Precedent
anachronism
itinerant
tawdry
33. Fickle; constantly shifting moods
Watershed
tenacious
capricious / mercurial
reprobate
34. A person who uses intuition to see into the future; a seer
Empirical
Idyllic
Incredulous
clairvoyant
35. The lowest point
nadir
autonomous
innuendo
Dilapidated
36. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
ubiquitous
nonchalant
upbraid / reproach / castigate
Tepid
37. Person who organizes a business/enterprise
Coerce
demise
Entrepreneur
Scintillating
38. An irresistible force
Parsimonious
Exonerate - Exculpate
Euphony
juggernaut
39. Very depressed
Convivial
morose / despondent
Complaisant
nefarious
40. Uneasy; in a state of embarrassment
Discomfited
aloof
demagogue
Refractory
41. Noisy and disorderly
prodigy
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Disheartening
tumultuous
42. Showing great determination
incontrovertible
flag
tenacious
Craven
43. Threatening and menacing
ominous
Pretext
irreverent
elusive
44. Mysterious; having a hidden meaning
Beleaguer
indigenous / endemic
vapid
cryptic
45. State of great dismay & confusion
Consternation
Refractory
indifferent / apathetic
impeccable
46. Lacking proper respect; disrepectful
irreverent
Affluent - Opulent
Sedentary
boorish / uncouth / crass
47. Having fallen in a state of disrepair; broken-down condition
Disenfranchise
occlusion
Dilapidated
Propitiate
48. Flowery in style - very ornate
Burgeon
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Florid
Excoriating - Scathing
49. A person who excels in telling anecdotes
raconteur
Euphony
anguish
insinuate
50. To stop; frustrate
circuitous
viable / feasible
thwart / stymie
admonish