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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. Tending to give instruction or advice; inclined to teach others too much; containing a political/moral lesson
Didactic
relinquish
anguish
punctilious
2. To rise again; surge back
resurgent
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
conjecture / supposition
Furor
3. Deserving great blame; wicked; evil
Empirical
ubiquitous
Visceral
reprehensible
4. Carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
polarize / divisive
fastidious
Credulous
Aphorism - Axiom
5. Favoring social equality - believing in an equal society
upbraid / reproach / castigate
altruistic
Egalitarian
mendacious
6. An independent person
pejorative
tumultuous
maverick
reaffirm
7. A person who hates humankind
misanthrope
pragmatic
clairvoyant
erroneous
8. A beginner
Magisterial
analogy / analagous
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
Elucidate
9. The act of making good or compensating for a loss - damage - or injury
byzantine
debunk
Restitution
malodorous
10. Lacking conscious awareness - unmindful - unaware
resurgent
Cosmopolitan
Fawn
Oblivious
11. Showing nervousness or fear
stoic
Timorous
nostalgia
polarize / divisive
12. Felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another
vicarious
Protean
momentous
curtail
13. Relevant - to the point
penchant / predilection
Pertinent
Demarcation
Extemporize - Improvise
14. Skillful
occlusion
ostracize
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
15. A sudden realization or insightful moment
autonomous
presumptuous
Epiphany
nefarious
16. A formal concurrence or agreement or harmony of minds
Accord
Enfranchise
pragmatic
Prolific
17. A devoted student
acolyte
pejorative
Sedentary
Egalitarian
18. Joyous; sprightly; light; vivacious
bowdlerize
Blithe
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
Ameliorate
19. To break into opposing factions
polarize / divisive
wry / droll
tedious
tacit
20. To give a definite form to an idea or plan
Crystallize
evocation
Proscribe
dispel
21. Lacking self-confidence
Histrionic - Overwrought
Depreciation
incisive
diffident
22. Feelings of sincere and deep regret
Chicanery
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
Sedentary
misanthrope
23. Utterly perplexed - completely puzzled - totally bewildered
exemplary
bowdlerize
relinquish
Nonplus - Confounded
24. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
Oblivious
Vertiginous
Extravagant
Solicitous
25. Bare - not ornate
temperate
austere
Histrionic - Overwrought
Craven
26. Very small
dimunitive
Cerebral
dearth / paucity
Beleaguer
27. Of great importance
renegade
momentous
aloof
jovial and jocular
28. To give something back
Pertinent
Sinecure
zealot
relinquish
29. To level to the ground; demolish
benefactor
exorbitant
raze
Catalyst
30. Very favorable
auspicious / propitious
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
paradox
Flummox
31. To remove or delete objectionable parts of a book
punctilious
Juxtaposition
Taciturn
bowdlerize
32. Secretive; not aboveboard; covert
Indisputable
clandestine / surreptitious
Enlighten - Edify
equanimity / unflappable
33. Very rich - having abundant resources
polarize / divisive
Affluent - Opulent
bane
Lambaste
34. A funeral hymn; mournful music
dirge
Lugubrious
Watershed
circumvent
35. Charmingly rural
intemperate
Pertinent
boon
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
36. Habitually late; tardy
Fawn
distend
Dilatory
Lugubrious
37. Calmness; composure
equanimity / unflappable
morose / despondent
clandestine / surreptitious
Triumvirate
38. Person who organizes a business/enterprise
Conundrum
despoiled
Idiosyncrasy
Entrepreneur
39. Intentionally unclear or ambiguous; duplicitous; obscuring one's meaning - often in response to a question (unequivocal - equivocate)
Ornate
insolvent
equivocal
ambiguous
40. A ruler or other person with unlimited authority
chimerical
Autocrat - Despot
equivocal
pragmatic
41. Learned and authoritative
Parsimonious
Censorious - Captious
despoiled
Magisterial
42. Awkwardly; clumsy - not graceful
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
Magisterial
Ungainly
Caustic
43. Instinctive rather than irrational
Visceral
Imperious
raze
tenacious
44. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
Nuance
redundant
Profligate
Accord
45. Loud - harsh - grating - or shrill
hedonist
Burgeon
enigmatic / inscrutable
strident
46. A stimulus or encouragement
demise
copious
impetus
clairvoyant
47. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
ambivalent
Enfranchise
Myriad
elusive
48. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit
Guile
morose / despondent
Aplomb
irreverent
49. State of being various or manifold; a great number
incisive
circumspect / prudent
exorbitant
multiplicity
50. To divide a district so as to give one side an advantage
Obfuscate
gerrymander
renovate
Complicity