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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. Twisted; intricate
Proscribe
upbraid / reproach / castigate
convoluted
halcyon
2. A timely benefit
Autocrat - Despot
morbid
boon
nadir
3. Policy of granting concessions to maintain peace
Appeasement
Fecund
circumvent
Munificent
4. To speak against
Elucidate
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
denounce
decry
5. Doing or saying something again and again
redundant
serendipity
stoic
Flippant - Facetious
6. Overly tolerant
pejorative
Cacophony
indulgent
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
7. Critical point that marks a change in course or turning event
Watershed
Triumvirate
belie
Obstreperous
8. Language that is bitterly hostile or hateful
mendacious
automation
Paranoia
Virulent
9. Sad mournful - melancholic
Lugubrious
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Protean
Venerate - Revere
10. Too overwhelming to be put into words; indescribable; inexpressible
Didactic
Ineffable
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
recalcitrant / obdurate
11. Characterized by elaborate and expensive decorations; lavish
panache / verve / flamboyant
dirge
nonchalant
Ornate
12. The lowest point
strident
nadir
Catalyst
synergy
13. Abundant; a great amount
ambiguous
nefarious
copious
oracle
14. Intentionally unclear or ambiguous; duplicitous; obscuring one's meaning - often in response to a question (unequivocal - equivocate)
Myriad
intemperate
equivocal
Fecund
15. The position of putting close together or side by side
picayune
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
eccentric
Juxtaposition
16. Gradual - often unconscious - process of assimilation
Osmosis
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
placid / serence
Vacuous - Inane
17. Pompous - or pretentious in speech or writing; ostentatiously lofty in side
Bombastic
Ostentatious
viable / feasible
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
18. Many - numerous
placid / serence
incoherent
Myriad
fiasco / debacle
19. Agonizing physical or mental pain
incoherent
Enfranchise
anguish
conjecture / supposition
20. Characterized by knowledge that is known only to a small group of specialists; obscure; recondite
Disenfranchise
beneficiary
Esoteric - Arcane
deleterious
21. Defiantly aggressive - eager to fight
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
Slight
sonorous
thwart / stymie
22. Corrupt - dishonest - open to bribery
Venal
covet
Dilapidated
Burgeon
23. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
odoriferous
ubiquitous
Inquisition
24. Excluding fragrance - full of a specified smell; suggestive of; reminiscent
Sanguine
reaffirm
Guile
Redolent
25. To express strong disapproval
Prolific
decry
Empirical
Preclude
26. Very brief; short lived
fleeting / ephemeral
vindictive
exorbitant
Malfeasance
27. Disparaging - belittling - insulting
Crystallize
pejorative
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
Supercilious
28. A sudden realization or insightful moment
jovial and jocular
Beleaguer
temperate
Epiphany
29. Abstaining from the enforcement of a right; the act of refraining from acting on a desire or impulse
rhetorican
Forbearance
polarize / divisive
jovial and jocular
30. Foul smelling
Unfettered
malodorous
mendacious
Quiescent
31. Utterly perplexed - completely puzzled - totally bewildered
Nonplus - Confounded
superficial
Unprecedented
tumultuous
32. To destroy.
extirpate
auspicious / propitious
demise
Scintillating
33. Annoyingly talkative
Beleaguer
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
gratuitous
Unprecedented
34. Very small
Lambaste
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Unprecedented
dimunitive
35. Commonplace
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
presumptuous
deride
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
36. Cheerfully confident; optimistic
Aphorism - Axiom
Sanguine
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
curtail
37. To put down with comtemptuous jeering
Fawn
audacious
profundity
deride
38. To assume financial responsibility
reprobate
Underwrite
Manifesto
Lurid
39. Very rich - having abundant resources
zealot
Affluent - Opulent
Venal
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
40. Any decrease or loss in value caused by age - wear - or market conditions
Depreciation
Appeasement
superficial
Demarcation
41. Soothing or pleasant sounds; harmony
Euphony
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
nonchalant
occlusion
42. Not ordinary or typical
vindicate
unconventional / unorthodox
Forbearance
ambivalent
43. Intellectually productive or inventive - fertile
Demarcation
Dilapidated
Fecund
Fawn
44. Treating serious manners with light-hearted humor or lack of respect
Flippant - Facetious
nebulous
mendacious
mentor
45. To get out of a difficult situation
panache / verve / flamboyant
extricate
Disingenuous
Unprecedented
46. Of great importance
momentous
despondent / forlorn
impeccable
bowdlerize
47. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit
draconian
Guile
amalgam
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
48. Disturbing; upsetting; vexing; causing unease; worrisome
jovial and jocular
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
Disquieting
rhetorican
49. A person who uses intuition to see into the future; a seer
maudlin
Underwrite
mendacious
clairvoyant
50. A person who introduces something new
innovator
vapid
Dilatory
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant