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SAT Vocab - 2
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1. A champion of a cause
proponent / advocate
Elucidate
Pretext
circuitous
2. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit
Guile
squelch
Fawn
ascetic
3. W/o previous example - never known before
reprobate
Unprecedented
skeptic
Petulant
4. A preceding event
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
analogy / analagous
Exacerbate
5. Choosing or using a variety of sources
ominous
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
Censorious - Captious
Eclectic
6. Circular and therefore indirect
Idyllic
Lucrative
circuitous
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
7. Skillful
renegade
Triumvirate
elusive
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
8. To avoid by artful maneuvering
incontrovertible
Stopgap
prototype
circumvent
9. Habitually late; tardy
Dilatory
Accord
Rampant
innuendo
10. Doomed to failure
thwart / stymie
morbid
futile
benefactor
11. Lacking organization or logic
placid / serence
incoherent
circumspect / prudent
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
12. To speak against
Idyllic
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
Egalitarian
denounce
13. Showing nervousness or fear
renovate
Timorous
aural
malodorous
14. Unselfish concern for others
Remunerate
Unprecedented
altruistic
mentor
15. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
indifferent / apathetic
Furor
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
Vertiginous
16. Smooth and sweet flowing
Capitulate
tawdry
presumptuous
mellifluous
17. To drive away; scatter
fleeting / ephemeral
Juxtaposition
dispel
trivial / minutiae
18. To narrowly restrict; to limit action; to draw a line around
byzantine
sophistry
occlusion
circumscribe
19. Mobile; not sedentary
dispatch
itinerant
Proscribe
Apocryphal
20. To stop; frustrate
Restitution
Taciturn
thwart / stymie
dismissive
21. Praise; applaud
incontrovertible
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
Complicity
Spate
22. Intellectual rather than emotional
diffident
expunge / excise / expurgate
Cerebral
Coerce
23. Threatening and menacing
Appeasement
disparity
ominous
Juxtapose
24. To comply
enumerate
Vituperative
Ameliorate
acquiesce
25. Unable to pay; out of money (solvent - solvency - soluble - insoluble)
Visceral
insolvent
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
indignant
26. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
felicitous
Perfunctory
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
enumerate
27. To divide a district so as to give one side an advantage
Didactic
insurmountable
gerrymander
Flippant - Facetious
28. To deprive of some privilege - especially the right to vote
Disenfranchise
exemplary
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
partisan
29. Enforced economy
austerity
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
Complaisant
digress
30. Agonizing physical or mental pain
rejuvenate
Coerce
anguish
auspicious / propitious
31. Promptly obedient - submissive - marked by or exhibiting fawning
equivocal
Licentious
Perfunctory
Obsequious
32. Poor; penniless; not affluent
Hiatus
impecunious
digress
Crystallize
33. Behaving in an obsequious manner
Fawn
serendipity
Inquisition
disparity
34. To strongly desire; to crave
covet
benefactor
incisive
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
35. Unnecessary; extra
Superfluous - Extraneous
anachronism
tactile
fortitude
36. Lying; untrustful
Disheartening
mendacious
charlatan
Virulent
37. Mixed feelings
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
Dilatory
ambivalent
Cosmopolitan
38. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
Ignominious
felicitous
Obfuscate
maverick
39. An independent person
Discordant
veracity
Histrionic - Overwrought
maverick
40. Thoroughly dried out
Dessicated
ambiguous
prototype
unconventional / unorthodox
41. Too overwhelming to be put into words; indescribable; inexpressible
Chicanery
Chagrin
Ineffable
skeptic
42. Showing great care and concern; attentive
Blithe
Aphorism - Axiom
Solicitous
intemperate
43. To make young again
Imperious
rejuvenate
Magisterial
reaffirm
44. Expressing excessive emotion in an unrestrained manner; gushing
superficial
Effusive
myopic
Dilapidated
45. A person who excels in telling anecdotes
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Paradigm
raconteur
Contiguous
46. To babble incessantly
sycophant / obsequious
Extravagant
prospectus
prattle
47. A funeral hymn; mournful music
redundant
Disheartening
Fawn
dirge
48. A difficult problem; a dilemma with no easy solution
Conundrum
raconteur
nefarious
Underwrite
49. Delete; remove
expunge / excise / expurgate
vacillate
Prolific
Parsimonious
50. To introduce or communicate stealthily
Nonplus - Confounded
insinuate
Hiatus
circumspect / prudent
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