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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. Noisily and stubbornly defiant
audacious
Obstreperous
Fecund
specious
2. An interruption in time or continuity; a break
futile
Hiatus
Propitiate
Contiguous
3. Insightful - perceptive
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
distend
ambiguous
martinet
4. Feeling of distress caused by failure - distress - or embarrassment
Chagrin
flag
laconic / succint / terse
Solicitous
5. The final ending of something; the downfall
nonchalant
prudent
demise
raze
6. Hard to understand - impenetrably dense and obscure
Opaque
redundant
myopic
trivial / minutiae
7. A morally unprincipled person
reprobate
reticent
misanthrope
demagogue
8. Careful; cautious
prudent
Opaque
Complaisant
Tepid
9. Strength of mind
fortitude
thwart / stymie
Disingenuous
Cosmopolitan
10. Not ordinary or typical
unconventional / unorthodox
nefarious
Consensus
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
11. A teacher; a guide; an advisor
strident
Perfidious
mentor
disparage
12. A deliberately misleading argument
Didactic
sophistry
boorish / uncouth / crass
Opaque
13. Robbed - ruined - pillaged - looted
Catalyst
Eschew
despoiled
Beleaguer
14. Policy of granting concessions to maintain peace
Appeasement
Superfluous - Extraneous
expunge / excise / expurgate
gerrymander
15. Agreeable; marked by a pleasing personality
callous
Superfluous - Extraneous
serendipity
Complaisant
16. A preference for something; an inclination
penchant / predilection
superficial
Affluent - Opulent
juggernaut
17. Any respite or temporary relief.
Eschew
Discomfited
vindictive
reprieve
18. Unreasonable expensive
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
amalgam
exorbitant
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
19. Soothing or pleasant sounds; harmony
Parsimonious
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
Euphony
Opaque
20. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
incisive
Ignominious
remiss
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
21. Gaudy and cheap
Obsequious
partisan
tawdry
proponent / advocate
22. Sparkling; shining; brilliantly clever
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
Scintillating
gerrymander
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
23. To make a situation worse
Ornate
Venerate - Revere
Exacerbate
Ostentatious
24. To deliberately confuse; to make something so confusing it's hard to understand
occlusion
Obfuscate
anachronism
dimunitive
25. Twisted; intricate
convoluted
dirge
Flotsam
Remunerate
26. Overbearing; impertinently bold
evocation
curtail
presumptuous
nonchalant
27. Sharp; clear; clever; keen; perceptive; discriminating; astute
Demarcation
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Venerate - Revere
incisive
28. To narrowly restrict; to limit action; to draw a line around
convoluted
austerity
circumscribe
callous
29. To make new again
renovate
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
impetus
Precedent
30. Casual indifference
nonchalant
Venerate - Revere
Avarice - Cupidity
Juxtaposition
31. To introduce or communicate stealthily
stoic
insinuate
curtail
dispel
32. Charmingly rural
innovator
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
deleterious
33. Mobile; not sedentary
renovate
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
itinerant
Furor
34. Remaining in a pure state: uncorrupted by civilization
Rampant
dirge
Pristine
presumptuous
35. Lacking foresight or scope
myopic
digress
debunk
incontrovertible
36. Intellectually productive or inventive - fertile
Flotsam
Obsequious
Fecund
sycophant / obsequious
37. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
Solicitous
ubiquitous
ambiguous
Tepid
38. Harsh - clashing - jarring - grating sounds; disharmony
recluse
Cacophony
superficial
Credulous
39. Lukewarm; mild; half-hearted
Flummox
Ignominious
Tepid
plausible
40. Of or related to the ear or the sense of hearing
Esoteric - Arcane
Obfuscate
aural
paradox
41. A person who gives gifts
mentor
voracious / ravenous
Indisputable
benefactor
42. An irresistible force
Caustic
juggernaut
resurgent
mendacious
43. Direct opposite
Capitulate
Incredulous
ambiguous
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
44. A formal concurrence or agreement or harmony of minds
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
Accord
Inquisition
malodorous
45. W/o previous example - never known before
Furor
nonchalant
Unprecedented
byzantine
46. A devoted student
acolyte
Extravagant
juggernaut
aural
47. Expressing strong disapproval; condemning; loudly decrying
repudiate / recant / renounce
Excoriating - Scathing
Elucidate
Chagrin
48. An amateur or dabbler
Brusque - Curt
altruistic
dilettante
impasse
49. Independent
despondent / forlorn
autonomous
diatribe / tirade
intrepid / undaunted
50. Mysterious; baffling
nostalgia
Beleaguer
enigmatic / inscrutable
prudent