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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. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
repudiate / recant / renounce
quixotic
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
2. A vigorous spirit or great enthusiasm
Venerate - Revere
belie
mendacious
Elan
3. Very favorable
callous
auspicious / propitious
innocuous
Indisputable
4. A strict disciplinarian
impasse
austere
voracious / ravenous
martinet
5. Sociable; fond of feasting - drinking - and good company
exorbitant
Convivial
Myriad
deride
6. Minor - everyday details
trivial / minutiae
Entrepreneur
Discomfited
covet
7. To electrify; to stir into action
galvanize
abstemious
Provisional
presumptuous
8. To comply
anguish
Underwrite
acquiesce
rebuff
9. Unsophisticated
Prolific
naïve / gullible / credulous
tawdry
pragmatic
10. Mysterious; baffling
Timorous
synergy
enigmatic / inscrutable
Disingenuous
11. To free from guilt or blame
sophistry
Exonerate - Exculpate
nonchalant
impetus
12. Expressing strong disapproval; condemning; loudly decrying
Excoriating - Scathing
repudiate / recant / renounce
felicitous
Consternation
13. Idyllically calm and tranquil
rebuff
halcyon
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
indifferent / apathetic
14. Agreeable; friendly
draconian
Vacuous - Inane
Florid
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
15. Widespread epidemic
pandemic
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Cosmopolitan
Magisterial
16. A seeming contradiction that expresses a truth
Nonplus - Confounded
paradox
profundity
Pretext
17. Very concise; brief
laconic / succint / terse
Lugubrious
Pristine
callous
18. Independent
autonomous
Propitiate
provocative
despoiled
19. Characterized by elaborate and expensive decorations; lavish
Ornate
automation
impecunious
Brusque - Curt
20. Completely lacking in something
devoid
Disheartening
austere
acolyte
21. Agent that provokes or triggers change
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
dispatch
naïve / gullible / credulous
Catalyst
22. Unable to pay; out of money (solvent - solvency - soluble - insoluble)
audacious
insolvent
Munificent
Extemporize - Improvise
23. Formal proposal
prospectus
Capitulate
dismissive
Marginal - Peripheral
24. An excuse - an alleged cause
rebuff
Pretext
gerrymander
laconic / succint / terse
25. Noisily and stubbornly defiant
audacious
Obstreperous
nostalgia
recalcitrant / obdurate
26. The act of blocking
occlusion
anachronism
distend
debunk
27. Any respite or temporary relief.
Osmosis
reprieve
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
expunge / excise / expurgate
28. A complete failure
draconian
demise
fiasco / debacle
diffident
29. Great merriment
incisive
Virulent
hilarity
nebulous
30. Unnecessary; extra
aural
Superfluous - Extraneous
Disheartening
Fawn
31. Treating serious manners with light-hearted humor or lack of respect
poignant
ambiguous
demagogue
Flippant - Facetious
32. A gradual almost imperceptible change
Refractory
subtle
implausible
fortitude
33. A subtle shade of meaning or feeling - a slight degree of difference
jovial and jocular
austerity
Nuance
Aphorism - Axiom
34. To strongly encourage
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
exhort
panache / verve / flamboyant
Excoriating - Scathing
35. Vague; lacking a fully developed form
Demarcation
draconian
nebulous
presumptuous
36. A fake; a fraud; a cheat
Gestate
picayune
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
charlatan
37. To depart from a subject
digress
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
audacious
aural
38. Joyous; sprightly; light; vivacious
Unprecedented
Blithe
Disingenuous
capricious / mercurial
39. Highly detailed
Noxious
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
hilarity
ambiguous
40. Many - numerous
morbid
Ostentatious
incontrovertible
Myriad
41. Choosing or using a variety of sources
Eclectic
nadir
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
provocative
42. Disturbing; upsetting; vexing; causing unease; worrisome
Disquieting
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
Obsequious
analogy / analagous
43. A bitter denunciation
Entrepreneur
diatribe / tirade
mellifluous
paradox
44. Great vigor and energy - dash
poignant
panache / verve / flamboyant
Osmosis
Placate
45. The floating wreckage of a ship; debris
Flotsam
Refractory
Solicitous
punctilious
46. Doomed to failure
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Censorious - Captious
plausible
futile
47. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
sycophant / obsequious
Ignominious
extricate
Disenfranchise
48. Excessively sentimental
multiplicity
impetus
presumptuous
maudlin
49. Very productive
inexorable
Prolific
dismissive
Juxtapose
50. To speak against
dispel
denounce
evocation
fastidious