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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. To give a false impression
Redolent
temperate
acquiesce
belie
2. To treat as unimportant; ignore deliberately; disrespect
Slight
Censorious - Captious
Precedent
vacillate
3. Joyous; sprightly; light; vivacious
futile
Blithe
modicum
gerrymander
4. To put down by exposing false claims
debunk
Propitiate
denounce
Pertinent
5. Framework or model of thought
Paradigm
mentor
mellifluous
Chicanery
6. Abrupt in manner or speech: discourteously blunt
Brusque - Curt
Enfranchise
Proscribe
charlatan
7. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
morose / despondent
Flummox
Entomology
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
8. Deception by subterfuge; deliberate trickery
anomaly / atypical
Paranoia
Egalitarian
Chicanery
9. Easily noticed
Sinecure
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
voracious / ravenous
conspicuous
10. To avoid; shun; to stay clear of
Inquisition
draconian
Eschew
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
11. Very productive
Extemporize - Improvise
Underwrite
Superfluous - Extraneous
Prolific
12. Any respite or temporary relief.
fiasco / debacle
reprieve
provocative
Demarcation
13. Detached; reserved
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
curtail
aloof
Duplicitous
14. To declare invalid
Myriad
Nullify
Apocryphal
Histrionic - Overwrought
15. Limited in perspective; narrow; restricted in scope and outlook
indifferent / apathetic
altruistic
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
erroneous
16. To strongly desire; to crave
eccentric
aloof
auspicious / propitious
covet
17. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
naïve / gullible / credulous
vacillate
Unfettered
fiasco / debacle
18. Great vigor and energy - dash
placid / serence
Vertiginous
panache / verve / flamboyant
Timorous
19. Mysterious; baffling
enumerate
enigmatic / inscrutable
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Obsequious
20. To deliberately confuse; to make something so confusing it's hard to understand
zenith / apex
cryptic
Entomology
Obfuscate
21. To free from guilt or blame
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
Exonerate - Exculpate
Solicitous
expunge / excise / expurgate
22. Behaving in an obsequious manner
auspicious / propitious
devoid
Fawn
austerity
23. Gradual - often unconscious - process of assimilation
circumspect / prudent
Osmosis
amalgam
vindictive
24. Having fallen in a state of disrepair; broken-down condition
reprehensible
Dilapidated
Discomfited
Malfeasance
25. Feelings of sincere and deep regret
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
Idiosyncrasy
Euphony
Entrepreneur
26. Abundant; a great amount
Sedentary
Extravagant
reprobate
copious
27. Doing or saying something again and again
Placate
tawdry
Dilatory
redundant
28. Producing a sensation of touch
Histrionic - Overwrought
tactile
belie
Nullify
29. Out of reach; difficult to catch
diatribe / tirade
elusive
polarize / divisive
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
30. Charmingly rural
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
impetus
fiasco / debacle
31. To destroy.
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
extirpate
acolyte
Euphony
32. An accidental but fortunate discovery
Flotsam
pandemic
trivial / minutiae
serendipity
33. A person who uses intuition to see into the future; a seer
Excoriating - Scathing
Obfuscate
clairvoyant
Credulous
34. Agreeable; friendly
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
indifferent / apathetic
tawdry
iconoclast
35. Unsophisticated
covet
naïve / gullible / credulous
amalgam
demise
36. A huge appetite; cannot be satisfied; insatiable
voracious / ravenous
impetus
Ameliorate
indigenous / endemic
37. Touching; heartrending
poignant
indignant
draconian
implausible
38. Of secondary importance; not central;on the perimeter
Solicitous
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Marginal - Peripheral
occlusion
39. Very brief; short lived
unconventional / unorthodox
gerrymander
decry
fleeting / ephemeral
40. Lack of interest or concern
prudent
Complaisant
multiplicity
indifferent / apathetic
41. Highly critical; carping
fleeting / ephemeral
Censorious - Captious
Crystallize
Venerate - Revere
42. A person who receives benefits
Cosmopolitan
aural
halcyon
beneficiary
43. Corrupt - dishonest - open to bribery
Avarice - Cupidity
Venal
Eclectic
recalcitrant / obdurate
44. Excessive desire for wealth
Avarice - Cupidity
Bombastic
tawdry
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
45. Association or participation in a wrongful act
Complicity
prospectus
Forbearance
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
46. Very calm; quiet
Blithe
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
boorish / uncouth / crass
placid / serence
47. The position of putting close together or side by side
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
circumvent
hilarity
Juxtaposition
48. Showing haughty disdain or arrogant superiority
Supercilious
abstemious
diatribe / tirade
Craven
49. Independent
squelch
innovator
Dilatory
autonomous
50. Marked by inactivity OR in a state of quiet repose
Enlighten - Edify
Duplicitous
provocative
Quiescent