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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. Unselfish concern for others
insinuate
Juxtapose
spartan
altruistic
2. To break into opposing factions
Manifesto
prognosticator
tawdry
polarize / divisive
3. A huge appetite; cannot be satisfied; insatiable
thwart / stymie
voracious / ravenous
odoriferous
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
4. To avoid by artful maneuvering
Proliferate
Apocryphal
circumvent
squelch
5. Completely lacking in something
Empirical
devoid
clandestine / surreptitious
Redolent
6. Worn out; wearied.
zealot
zenith / apex
jaded
renegade
7. Admirably suited; apt.
Noxious
subtle
felicitous
poignant
8. Unable to pay; out of money (solvent - solvency - soluble - insoluble)
insolvent
belie
relinquish
erroneous
9. The highest point
Entrepreneur
Watershed
partisan
zenith / apex
10. To earnestly caution
admonish
Bombastic
fiasco / debacle
mentor
11. Utterly perplexed - completely puzzled - totally bewildered
Nonplus - Confounded
exhort
Pristine
plausible
12. Instinctive rather than irrational
Visceral
Capitulate
Coerce
Provisional
13. Intellectual rather than emotional
Cerebral
nadir
prattle
Ineffable
14. Highly critical; carping
Empirical
Censorious - Captious
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Sanguine
15. To stop; frustrate
pompous
Apocryphal
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
thwart / stymie
16. Causing hard in a subtle or stealthy manner; devious
maverick
Insidious
anachronism
nostalgia
17. A temporary solution designed to meet an urgent need
Discomfited
bungler
Paradigm
Stopgap
18. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
Ignominious
Craven
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Disingenuous
19. A general commotion; an uproar
Furor
audacious
morose / despondent
diatribe / tirade
20. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
Unfettered
wry / droll
Extravagant
placid / serence
21. Very bold; daring
Capitulate
pundit
Stopgap
audacious
22. Defiantly aggressive - eager to fight
curtail
Ornate
Juxtaposition
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
23. Obstinately resistant to authority or control
Sinecure
Osmosis
Refractory
Venal
24. Lacking restraint; excessive
Elan
mentor
intemperate
Osmosis
25. Commonplace
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Idiosyncrasy
Nullify
Pernicious
26. To assume financial responsibility
resurgent
draconian
Eschew
Underwrite
27. Insincere; not straightforward; not candid
dilettante
spartan
Parsimonious
Disingenuous
28. Very profitable
Lucrative
Unprecedented
Osmosis
squelch
29. A fantastic scheme; unchecked imagination
resilient
prognosticator
Sedentary
chimerical
30. Of or related to the ear or the sense of hearing
convoluted
aural
relinquish
rejuvenate
31. Not ordinary or typical
aural
occlusion
indulgent
unconventional / unorthodox
32. A source of harm
bane
Vacuous - Inane
Precedent
clairvoyant
33. Uneasy; in a state of embarrassment
Euphony
Gestate
audacious
Discomfited
34. An imaginative recreation
Avarice - Cupidity
Obfuscate
Catalyst
evocation
35. A subtle shade of meaning or feeling - a slight degree of difference
Burgeon
Triumvirate
spartan
Nuance
36. A stimulus or encouragement
prodigy
Gestate
impetus
Tepid
37. Of doubtful authenticity; false; spurious
multiplicity
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Apocryphal
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
38. Not in the proper time period
dilettante
anachronism
spartan
stoic
39. To avoid; shun; to stay clear of
Protean
Eschew
elusive
Chicanery
40. Hard to understand - impenetrably dense and obscure
ambiguous
Opaque
Moribund
jovial and jocular
41. Pompous - or pretentious in speech or writing; ostentatiously lofty in side
intemperate
Bombastic
rhetorican
Dessicated
42. Marked by inactivity OR in a state of quiet repose
Quiescent
enigmatic / inscrutable
mellifluous
vicarious
43. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
Effusive
ubiquitous
Juxtaposition
erroneous
44. A liar; deceiver
diatribe / tirade
Fecund
dissembler / prevaricator
Stopgap
45. Careful; cautious
prudent
Capitulate
affectation
incontrovertible
46. To regard with great respect - to hold in high esteem
Ornate
enumerate
indifferent / apathetic
Venerate - Revere
47. Out of reach; difficult to catch
Flummox
Affluent - Opulent
elusive
Ineffable
48. A vigorous spirit or great enthusiasm
glacial
Marginal - Peripheral
nadir
Elan
49. A person who behaves in a servile manner; a toady
Elan
nefarious
Capitulate
sycophant / obsequious
50. Sparkling; shining; brilliantly clever
Scintillating
remiss
Slight
incisive