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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. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
Perfunctory
naïve / gullible / credulous
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
galvanize
2. To hold back one's thoughts and feelings
reticent
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Insidious
circumspect / prudent
3. Easily convinced; tending to - believe to readily - gullible
curtail
Credulous
prattle
Florid
4. Characterized by elaborate and expensive decorations; lavish
Entrepreneur
Ornate
boorish / uncouth / crass
vindicate
5. To ease; relieve; lessen
myopic
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
nefarious
impasse
6. A person who is a source of wise counsel and prophetic advice
Didactic
prognosticator
oracle
zealot
7. To surrender
Avarice - Cupidity
Obstreperous
Capitulate
Conundrum
8. Quarrelsome: argumentative: likely to provoke a controversy - disputatious
Exacerbate
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
Contentious - Cantankerous
tacit
9. Intellectual rather than emotional
redundant
Cerebral
Consternation
Idyllic
10. Enforced economy
expunge / excise / expurgate
ambivalent
Epiphany
austerity
11. A person who receives benefits
beneficiary
naïve / gullible / credulous
Venal
resurgent
12. The setting or marking of boundaries or limits
deleterious
tactile
renovate
Demarcation
13. To swell out or expand from internal pressure (overly full)
Parsimonious
deleterious
distend
Egalitarian
14. Excessively dramatic or melodramatic; theatrical; overacted
Histrionic - Overwrought
anomaly / atypical
despoiled
pompous
15. Habitually late; tardy
Forbearance
sonorous
Brusque - Curt
Dilatory
16. Foolishly impractical
Licentious
Vacuous - Inane
Profligate
quixotic
17. A formal concurrence or agreement or harmony of minds
elusive
Accord
fleeting / ephemeral
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
18. Great vigor and energy - dash
implausible
incoherent
automation
panache / verve / flamboyant
19. To strongly encourage
Opaque
Depreciation
Hiatus
exhort
20. A person who leads a secluded - solitary life
recluse
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
resilient
remiss
21. A similarity or likeness
Guile
Florid
analogy / analagous
Demography
22. A source of harm
impasse
bane
peremptory
insurmountable
23. An imaginative recreation
Epiphany
Underwrite
dearth / paucity
evocation
24. Secretive; not aboveboard; covert
clandestine / surreptitious
aesthetic
procure
serendipity
25. Outrage at something that is unjust
indignant
pragmatic
Vertiginous
Munificent
26. Formal proposal
poignant
prospectus
serendipity
Prolific
27. Intellectually productive or inventive - fertile
Capitulate
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
Fecund
myopic
28. Self-assurance - admirable ploys under pressure
Inquisition
Fawn
indignant
Aplomb
29. Insensitive
Effusive
callous
spartan
vacillate
30. A huge appetite; cannot be satisfied; insatiable
raze
innuendo
voracious / ravenous
Manifesto
31. A general agreement
resurgent
Consensus
Taciturn
exhort
32. To beset; to surround with problems
Beleaguer
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
demagogue
Gestate
33. To make impossible - to rule out - to prevent
Preclude
Censorious - Captious
Depreciation
Convivial
34. Skillful
bowdlerize
deleterious
Cacophony
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
35. A complete failure
fiasco / debacle
Vituperative
affectation
demagogue
36. Cautious; careful
circumspect / prudent
fortuitous
abstemious
Perfidious
37. Any decrease or loss in value caused by age - wear - or market conditions
Nullify
Depreciation
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
Appeasement
38. Sensational - shocking - or ghastly
Propitiate
recalcitrant / obdurate
Lurid
vicarious
39. Learned and authoritative
conspicuous
Moribund
debunk
Magisterial
40. Indisputable; beyond doubt
Aphorism - Axiom
incontrovertible
momentous
Rampant
41. An accidental but fortunate occurence
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
fortuitous
galvanize
Redolent
42. Expressing excessive emotion in an unrestrained manner; gushing
Catalyst
Effusive
Indomitable - Resolute
thwart / stymie
43. Very rich - having abundant resources
implausible
Solicitous
mellifluous
Affluent - Opulent
44. Robbed - ruined - pillaged - looted
Lugubrious
sonorous
despoiled
Eschew
45. Too overwhelming to be put into words; indescribable; inexpressible
Ineffable
skeptic
resilient
Perfunctory
46. State of being various or manifold; a great number
Forbearance
Superfluous - Extraneous
multiplicity
impetus
47. Practical. sensible
Epiphany
Incredulous
pragmatic
boorish / uncouth / crass
48. To free from blame
Cosmopolitan
Nullify
impecunious
vindicate
49. Great bitterness
implacable
prodigy
implausible
acrimonious
50. Vague; lacking a fully developed form
exhort
nebulous
Dilapidated
jovial and jocular