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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. Harsh - clashing - jarring - grating sounds; disharmony
morbid
Cacophony
Furor
galvanize
2. Showy; intended to attract notice; pretentious
Ostentatious
Pernicious
Avarice - Cupidity
benefactor
3. A temporary solution designed to meet an urgent need
Stopgap
proponent / advocate
boon
Restitution
4. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
Disquieting
equanimity / unflappable
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
covet
5. Unselfish concern for others
Venal
Placate
altruistic
Vituperative
6. Very profitable
skeptic
bungler
Lucrative
Excoriating - Scathing
7. Harmful - injurious to physical - mental - or moral health
Noxious
Elan
Dilapidated
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
8. Detached; reserved
aloof
fleeting / ephemeral
procure
intemperate
9. A deviation from the norm
recluse
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
beneficiary
anomaly / atypical
10. Mysterious; having a hidden meaning
circumscribe
cryptic
superficial
debunk
11. To remove or delete objectionable parts of a book
unconventional / unorthodox
fleeting / ephemeral
pundit
bowdlerize
12. To rise again; surge back
resurgent
proponent / advocate
Epiphany
Juxtapose
13. Lukewarm; mild; half-hearted
circumspect / prudent
vacillate
Tepid
aesthetic
14. A person who uses intuition to see into the future; a seer
oracle
Perfunctory
clairvoyant
anomaly / atypical
15. Twisted; intricate
Demarcation
Contentious - Cantankerous
Censorious - Captious
convoluted
16. Idyllically calm and tranquil
Pristine
Supercilious
Propitiate
halcyon
17. Dying - on the way out - approaching that
reprehensible
Coerce
Elan
Moribund
18. A bitter denunciation
Brusque - Curt
penchant / predilection
itinerant
diatribe / tirade
19. Bare - not ornate
austere
relinquish
multiplicity
Effusive
20. Policy of granting concessions to maintain peace
Rampant
Appeasement
Ignominious
dearth / paucity
21. To grow rapidly; to expand
Petulant
reticent
anomaly / atypical
Burgeon
22. Lacking self-confidence
diffident
prognosticator
Exacerbate
insurmountable
23. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
Flummox
inexorable
iconoclast
Profligate
24. Generous nad forgiving
serendipity
vapid
Entomology
magnanimous
25. To be guided by practical experience - not theory
Indisputable
ascetic
Empirical
felicitous
26. Excessive desire for wealth
autonomous
Juxtapose
draconian
Avarice - Cupidity
27. Insensitive
reprobate
callous
amalgam
capricious / mercurial
28. Doing or saying something again and again
Cacophony
Spate
redundant
beneficiary
29. To free from guilt or blame
Unprecedented
Exonerate - Exculpate
despondent / forlorn
proponent / advocate
30. A devoted student
acolyte
auspicious / propitious
Pertinent
specious
31. An inequality; an imbalance
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
Disquieting
disparity
Egalitarian
32. Intellectual rather than emotional
Florid
Cerebral
poignant
chimerical
33. Highly detailed
morbid
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
insinuate
strident
34. Immoral - debauched
Watershed
Tepid
Licentious
byzantine
35. A funeral hymn; mournful music
dirge
zealot
gerrymander
Flippant - Facetious
36. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
Flippant - Facetious
ubiquitous
benefactor
upbraid / reproach / castigate
37. Insincere; not straightforward; not candid
pundit
Disingenuous
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Didactic
38. Too overwhelming to be put into words; indescribable; inexpressible
acrimonious
Precedent
sycophant / obsequious
Ineffable
39. A disloyal person
covet
impecunious
Complaisant
renegade
40. Relentless - unstoppable
Pertinent
occlusion
inexorable
odoriferous
41. Not in harmony - incompatible - at variance with - as in a discordant detail that doesn't fit a pattern
itinerant
Obsequious
Discordant
indifferent / apathetic
42. Secretive; not aboveboard; covert
auspicious / propitious
Disquieting
clandestine / surreptitious
Censorious - Captious
43. Excessively dramatic or melodramatic; theatrical; overacted
Ineffable
Osmosis
Histrionic - Overwrought
erroneous
44. Person who organizes a business/enterprise
zealot
Obfuscate
Insidious
Entrepreneur
45. Limited in perspective; narrow; restricted in scope and outlook
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Contentious - Cantankerous
hilarity
covet
46. No longer in use
Ostentatious
Enlighten - Edify
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
mentor
47. Great merriment
Superfluous - Extraneous
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
hilarity
fiasco / debacle
48. Intellectually productive or inventive - fertile
Prescribe
despondent / forlorn
charlatan
Fecund
49. Cowardly - faint hearted
inexorable
Disheartening
Craven
Lucrative
50. Mixed feelings
Slight
Indomitable - Resolute
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
ambivalent