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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. Language that is bitterly hostile or hateful
reprobate
Virulent
implacable
tactile
2. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
affectation
Prescribe
superficial
penchant / predilection
3. A complete failure
Juxtaposition
Esoteric - Arcane
occlusion
fiasco / debacle
4. Moderate in eating and drinking
Affluent - Opulent
abstemious
gratuitous
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
5. Habitually late; tardy
itinerant
bowdlerize
Pristine
Dilatory
6. Framework or model of thought
Paradigm
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
vicarious
Spate
7. Flowery in style - very ornate
Florid
tenacious
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
enigmatic / inscrutable
8. To give a definite form to an idea or plan
Crystallize
Spate
aesthetic
beneficiary
9. Many - numerous
modicum
ambiguous
Ornate
Myriad
10. Very poor - lacking resources
prognosticator
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Conundrum
Solicitous
11. A statement universally accepted as true - a maxim
Manifesto
autonomous
Aphorism - Axiom
Discordant
12. Formal proposal
Ornate
prospectus
nefarious
indifferent / apathetic
13. Very stubborn; inflexible
unconventional / unorthodox
Elan
Obdurate - Intransigent
beneficiary
14. Mysterious; baffling
enigmatic / inscrutable
vapid
austerity
equanimity / unflappable
15. Deception by subterfuge; deliberate trickery
dilettante
Chicanery
redundant
pandemic
16. A beginner
superficial
devoid
Capitulate
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
17. To divide a district so as to give one side an advantage
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
gerrymander
Contentious - Cantankerous
Parsimonious
18. Annoyingly talkative
Furor
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
skeptic
Flippant - Facetious
19. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
Conundrum
Incredulous
Vertiginous
wry / droll
20. A person who is a source of wise counsel and prophetic advice
automation
oracle
stoic
naïve / gullible / credulous
21. Showing great determination
Caustic
tenacious
Nuance
Blithe
22. Given freely; unearned; unnecessary
malodorous
boorish / uncouth / crass
subtle
gratuitous
23. Good-humored; cheerful
jovial and jocular
enumerate
Propitiate
Conundrum
24. Praise; applaud
plausible
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
despondent / forlorn
Disenfranchise
25. Intellectually productive or inventive - fertile
Fecund
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
morose / despondent
Crystallize
26. Tentative - temporary - not lasting
Provisional
Superfluous - Extraneous
Imperious
Timorous
27. Excessively cheap with money - stingy
conspicuous
Parsimonious
Apocryphal
boorish / uncouth / crass
28. Excessively sentimental
maudlin
Idyllic
remiss
tumultuous
29. A scarcity or shortage
dearth / paucity
Craven
Redolent
Dilapidated
30. Deserving great blame; wicked; evil
Cerebral
misanthrope
paradox
reprehensible
31. Showy; intended to attract notice; pretentious
subtle
raze
extricate
Ostentatious
32. No longer in use
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
vindicate
Ameliorate
Extravagant
33. To take back; disavow
Egalitarian
Ignominious
repudiate / recant / renounce
circumspect / prudent
34. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
implacable
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
debunk
Preclude
35. Agreeable; friendly
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
Aplomb
Egalitarian
peremptory
36. Indisputable; beyond doubt
Florid
incontrovertible
Nonplus - Confounded
deride
37. To grow rapidly; to expand
procure
Burgeon
Flummox
Exacerbate
38. Showing haughty disdain or arrogant superiority
Ostentatious
innovator
Precedent
Supercilious
39. Detached; reserved
aloof
reticent
Caustic
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
40. Failure to reach an agreement
placid / serence
diatribe / tirade
amalgam
impasse
41. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
prattle
pompous
resurgent
Enfranchise
42. Combined action or operation
Manifesto
incontrovertible
synergy
Exacerbate
43. Lying; untrustful
mendacious
peremptory
Manifesto
Eclectic
44. Not in harmony - incompatible - at variance with - as in a discordant detail that doesn't fit a pattern
Florid
beneficiary
Underwrite
Discordant
45. Behaving in an obsequious manner
Fawn
callous
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
Entomology
46. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
vacillate
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Ignominious
Tepid
47. The lowest point
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
superficial
nadir
placid / serence
48. A person who acts in a mechanical fashion; a mindless follower
automation
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Fawn
synergy
49. An eloquent writer or speaker
incisive
rhetorican
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
Imperious
50. To confuse or perplex; utterly dumbfounded
Proscribe
Flummox
elusive
belie