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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. Skillful
Unprecedented
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
repudiate / recant / renounce
hilarity
2. Utterly perplexed - completely puzzled - totally bewildered
Pernicious
automation
Excoriating - Scathing
Nonplus - Confounded
3. Soothing or pleasant sounds; harmony
Esoteric - Arcane
anomaly / atypical
Euphony
Effusive
4. To babble incessantly
prattle
pundit
Petulant
Disheartening
5. Widespread epidemic
altruistic
pandemic
despondent / forlorn
Extravagant
6. An inequality; an imbalance
polarize / divisive
presumptuous
pompous
disparity
7. To make impossible - to rule out - to prevent
Preclude
equanimity / unflappable
tacit
panache / verve / flamboyant
8. Boring and tiresome
aesthetic
Elucidate
tedious
austerity
9. An accidental but fortunate occurence
fortuitous
Sedentary
halcyon
Appeasement
10. Pretentious; filled with excessive self-importance
pompous
Fecund
Redolent
Esoteric - Arcane
11. To increase rapidly
Stopgap
futile
Manifesto
Proliferate
12. Very discouraging
Parsimonious
Disheartening
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
Virulent
13. Doomed to failure
galvanize
ominous
futile
iconoclast
14. A person who makes predictions based on data
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
iconoclast
Lambaste
prognosticator
15. A disloyal person
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
renegade
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
16. A devoted student
Watershed
vacillate
acolyte
Petulant
17. To reject; disreagard
Ameliorate
squelch
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
dismissive
18. A timely benefit
charlatan
incisive
boon
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
19. Flexible; easily shaped especially by outside influence/ force
reticent
reprehensible
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Venal
20. To conceive and develop in the mind
renegade
remiss
Contiguous
Gestate
21. Very stubborn; inflexible
Unfettered
altruistic
Obdurate - Intransigent
conjecture / supposition
22. To free from blame
Empirical
Stopgap
covet
vindicate
23. Possible
Propitiate
viable / feasible
Discomfited
Flummox
24. To make clear or plain - especially by explanation
demise
Magisterial
digress
Elucidate
25. To swell out or expand from internal pressure (overly full)
draconian
distend
beneficiary
juggernaut
26. To assume financial responsibility
resurgent
Underwrite
poignant
Demarcation
27. Deserving great blame; wicked; evil
tedious
reprehensible
Ignominious
reprieve
28. Promptly obedient - submissive - marked by or exhibiting fawning
Obsequious
odoriferous
penchant / predilection
Opaque
29. A preference for something; an inclination
penchant / predilection
redundant
reprobate
anachronism
30. Enforced economy
austerity
Sanguine
intrepid / undaunted
thwart / stymie
31. A person who introduces something new
affectation
voracious / ravenous
Flippant - Facetious
innovator
32. To be guided by practical experience - not theory
Empirical
eccentric
laconic / succint / terse
Munificent
33. Abundant; a great amount
Accord
Obdurate - Intransigent
copious
pragmatic
34. Very strict laws and rules
maverick
draconian
Vituperative
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
35. Extremely wicked; vile
nefarious
itinerant
plausible
prattle
36. A gradual almost imperceptible change
Nullify
oracle
debunk
subtle
37. Vulgar; crude
iconoclast
stoic
boorish / uncouth / crass
zenith / apex
38. Lukewarm; mild; half-hearted
Eclectic
Proscribe
acquiesce
Tepid
39. Misconduct/wrongdoing - especially by a public official
Malfeasance
conspicuous
Supercilious
indigenous / endemic
40. Unnecessary; extra
reprobate
Superfluous - Extraneous
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Precedent
41. Not believable
implausible
Caustic
conjecture / supposition
tedious
42. Gruesome (repugnant) ; grisly.
indulgent
morbid
Munificent
circumvent
43. Formal proposal
equanimity / unflappable
Beleaguer
prospectus
Unfettered
44. To express strong disapproval
decry
proponent / advocate
disparage
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
45. Defiantly aggressive - eager to fight
acolyte
Blithe
charlatan
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
46. Not ordinary or typical
Crystallize
gratuitous
fortitude
unconventional / unorthodox
47. Bossy; tending to cut others off; dismissive; officious (peremptorily - preempt)
diffident
laconic / succint / terse
peremptory
galvanize
48. Self-assurance - admirable ploys under pressure
superficial
Aplomb
Discomfited
mendacious
49. Outrage at something that is unjust
equanimity / unflappable
cryptic
unconventional / unorthodox
indignant
50. Very depressed
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
pandemonium
Venal
morose / despondent