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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. Happening or moving extremely slowly
circumspect / prudent
glacial
bungler
Convivial
2. A person who hates humankind
misanthrope
redundant
synergy
chimerical
3. Bare - not ornate
fiasco / debacle
futile
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
austere
4. Unclear; not definitive
ambiguous
Blithe
Crystallize
renovate
5. Sensational - shocking - or ghastly
Lurid
implacable
Disingenuous
malodorous
6. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
ubiquitous
gratuitous
Idiosyncrasy
Lucrative
7. Harmful - injurious to physical - mental - or moral health
circumscribe
Parsimonious
Noxious
Oblivious
8. Showing great determination
tenacious
sonorous
Ignominious
disparage
9. Vague; lacking a fully developed form
expunge / excise / expurgate
nebulous
chimerical
Depreciation
10. Very profitable
wry / droll
Lucrative
poignant
Censorious - Captious
11. Limited in perspective; narrow; restricted in scope and outlook
nebulous
Extemporize - Improvise
Fawn
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
12. Marked by inactivity OR in a state of quiet repose
Obfuscate
Apocryphal
Quiescent
Unprecedented
13. Empty - lacking serious purpose
Complaisant
extirpate
Effusive
Vacuous - Inane
14. A huge appetite; cannot be satisfied; insatiable
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
voracious / ravenous
plausible
digress
15. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
prudent
fleeting / ephemeral
Sinecure
Juxtaposition
16. A person who receives benefits
Inquisition
innuendo
affectation
beneficiary
17. Provokes controversy
ubiquitous
charlatan
sonorous
provocative
18. Agreeable; friendly
Opaque
Osmosis
belie
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
19. Detestable; repulsive; extremely bad
naïve / gullible / credulous
paradox
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
cryptic
20. To electrify; to stir into action
galvanize
mentor
boorish / uncouth / crass
polarize / divisive
21. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly
glacial
tacit
antipathy / animosity / rancor
belie
22. Threatening and menacing
copious
indifferent / apathetic
ominous
Florid
23. Producing a sensation of touch
indignant
tactile
Imperious
Aphorism - Axiom
24. To narrowly restrict; to limit action; to draw a line around
impasse
Ignominious
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
circumscribe
25. Unsophisticated
sycophant / obsequious
equivocal
Watershed
naïve / gullible / credulous
26. Extremely complicated or devious
Burgeon
Esoteric - Arcane
Lambaste
byzantine
27. Marked by precise accordance with details
subtle
punctilious
Discomfited
Complicity
28. Mobile; not sedentary
impeccable
itinerant
dismissive
tactile
29. Not ordinary or typical
belie
unconventional / unorthodox
Oblivious
Spate
30. Showing haughty disdain or arrogant superiority
temperate
Supercilious
Convivial
redundant
31. To introduce or communicate stealthily
insinuate
Manifesto
stoic
Nullify
32. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
Perfunctory
Vertiginous
Crystallize
Ameliorate
33. Having a natural fragrance
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
wry / droll
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
odoriferous
34. Intentionally unclear or ambiguous; duplicitous; obscuring one's meaning - often in response to a question (unequivocal - equivocate)
Entrepreneur
beneficiary
equivocal
Juxtaposition
35. A remark that is hurtful or burning
Caustic
Imperious
impetus
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
36. Framework or model of thought
callous
Watershed
Paradigm
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
37. A veiled reference
voracious / ravenous
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
innuendo
ambivalent
38. Great bitterness
Propitiate
Exonerate - Exculpate
itinerant
acrimonious
39. Derisive mocking comments
Petulant
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
itinerant
magnanimous
40. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
odoriferous
circuitous
despondent / forlorn
affectation
41. Very poor - lacking resources
circumspect / prudent
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
diffident
innuendo
42. Highly detailed
tumultuous
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
conspicuous
Eschew
43. A complete failure
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
fiasco / debacle
Guile
Duplicitous
44. To beset; to surround with problems
Taciturn
vapid
prototype
Beleaguer
45. A large number or amount
Profligate
nefarious
disparage
Spate
46. To reject; disreagard
disparage
Consternation
Ostentatious
dismissive
47. A person who uses intuition to see into the future; a seer
equanimity / unflappable
serendipity
circumvent
clairvoyant
48. Cautious; careful
Lambaste
circumspect / prudent
peremptory
Preclude
49. To place by side or enclose proximity
Juxtapose
raconteur
austerity
Ineffable
50. Expressing strong disapproval; condemning; loudly decrying
Excoriating - Scathing
Obdurate - Intransigent
prattle
Flummox