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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 surrender
maverick
Remunerate
reprobate
Capitulate
2. To electrify; to stir into action
dilettante
Inquisition
galvanize
Indisputable
3. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
Obdurate - Intransigent
Profligate
Obsequious
nefarious
4. A beginner
boon
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
diatribe / tirade
Remunerate
5. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
dilettante
Unfettered
despondent / forlorn
Conundrum
6. To earnestly caution
Discordant
admonish
Disenfranchise
pundit
7. Person who organizes a business/enterprise
Demarcation
acrimonious
Gestate
Entrepreneur
8. Denounce or strongly criticize
implacable
Lambaste
Consensus
resilient
9. Not believable
Opaque
ominous
halcyon
implausible
10. Scientific study of insects
Entomology
convoluted
Credulous
Preclude
11. Sharp; clear; clever; keen; perceptive; discriminating; astute
paradox
rejuvenate
incisive
chimerical
12. A doubter
deride
serendipity
Disquieting
skeptic
13. An excuse - an alleged cause
Pretext
Perfidious
prudent
Caustic
14. To forbid; to prohibit; to outlaw
Remunerate
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Proscribe
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
15. Foolishly impractical
quixotic
charlatan
dispel
erroneous
16. Lax in attending to duty; negligent
Magisterial
Ornate
remiss
Lambaste
17. Lacking self-confidence
diffident
nefarious
tenacious
Flummox
18. An amateur or dabbler
gerrymander
Petulant
vacillate
dilettante
19. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
Ignominious
Esoteric - Arcane
nefarious
diffident
20. Mobile; not sedentary
ascetic
itinerant
dismissive
Petulant
21. Touching; heartrending
dispel
poignant
Chicanery
Nonplus - Confounded
22. Cheerfully confident; optimistic
Sanguine
dispatch
circumscribe
Exonerate - Exculpate
23. Disbelieving - skeptical
multiplicity
Incredulous
ambivalent
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
24. Highly detailed
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
Didactic
benefactor
25. To babble incessantly
Lurid
nebulous
prattle
prudent
26. Fearless; courageous
polarize / divisive
Myriad
thwart / stymie
intrepid / undaunted
27. Idyllically calm and tranquil
Visceral
Nullify
impasse
halcyon
28. Overbearing; impertinently bold
temperate
wry / droll
resilient
presumptuous
29. Enforced economy
austerity
irreverent
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
procure
30. Showing great care and concern; attentive
expunge / excise / expurgate
Opaque
Myriad
Solicitous
31. Practical. sensible
Watershed
Brusque - Curt
pragmatic
Incredulous
32. Detached; reserved
aloof
Paranoia
Munificent
nebulous
33. Twisted; intricate
acquiesce
Lugubrious
Ignominious
convoluted
34. A complete failure
Idyllic
callous
Sanguine
fiasco / debacle
35. No longer in use
Aphorism - Axiom
Licentious
circumvent
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
36. Awkwardly; clumsy - not graceful
Marginal - Peripheral
remiss
ascetic
Ungainly
37. A person who is impassive and emotionless
stoic
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Juxtapose
temperate
38. Provokes controversy
impetus
provocative
Complicity
Rampant
39. Thoroughly dried out
Entomology
Affluent - Opulent
Dessicated
Flummox
40. Moderate in eating and drinking
oracle
morbid
abstemious
myopic
41. Settled and therefore accustomed to sitting or doing little exercise
demagogue
Sedentary
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
capricious / mercurial
42. To place by side or enclose proximity
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
Juxtapose
insinuate
incoherent
43. To get out of a difficult situation
tenacious
extricate
anguish
Blithe
44. A severe interrogation or a systematic questioning
Inquisition
inexorable
Euphony
Consternation
45. To strongly encourage
exhort
Venerate - Revere
indifferent / apathetic
Forbearance
46. Showing nervousness or fear
Complicity
prudent
Timorous
quixotic
47. Agreeable; friendly
irreverent
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
equanimity / unflappable
fortuitous
48. To make young again
implacable
Histrionic - Overwrought
dearth / paucity
rejuvenate
49. A deviation from the norm
Discordant
anomaly / atypical
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
prudent
50. Lacking organization or logic
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
incoherent
charlatan
ascetic