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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. Showing great determination
tenacious
Blithe
Exacerbate
Malfeasance
2. Lacking liveliness - animation or interest; dull.
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Superfluous - Extraneous
vapid
nefarious
3. Possible
viable / feasible
Vituperative
jovial and jocular
Proliferate
4. Favoring social equality - believing in an equal society
Demarcation
Pernicious
Egalitarian
incontrovertible
5. Unnecessary; extra
incontrovertible
Furor
Superfluous - Extraneous
Manifesto
6. Very depressed
Venerate - Revere
Guile
Elucidate
morose / despondent
7. Insensitive
convoluted
dimunitive
callous
innovator
8. To make young again
prattle
ubiquitous
recluse
rejuvenate
9. To deliberately exclude from a group
Venal
ostracize
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
prodigy
10. Utterly perplexed - completely puzzled - totally bewildered
acolyte
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
circumvent
Nonplus - Confounded
11. Moderate in eating and drinking
iconoclast
abstemious
aloof
Conundrum
12. Carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
dispatch
Marginal - Peripheral
fastidious
Obstreperous
13. Trait peculiar to individual
Idiosyncrasy
proponent / advocate
despoiled
circuitous
14. Plain; simple
spartan
Effusive
sycophant / obsequious
Chicanery
15. A scarcity or shortage
benefactor
Manifesto
pundit
dearth / paucity
16. Smooth and sweet flowing
naïve / gullible / credulous
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
mellifluous
Unfettered
17. To make a situation better
pejorative
wry / droll
charlatan
Ameliorate
18. A fantastic scheme; unchecked imagination
draconian
indigenous / endemic
vindictive
chimerical
19. Lacking self-confidence
Myriad
diffident
panache / verve / flamboyant
Prolific
20. To increase rapidly
dissembler / prevaricator
circuitous
Proliferate
upbraid / reproach / castigate
21. Soothing or pleasant sounds; harmony
Indomitable - Resolute
Euphony
trivial / minutiae
Aplomb
22. Unreasonable expensive
redundant
exorbitant
Elan
boon
23. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly
iconoclast
tacit
modicum
indigenous / endemic
24. A person who behaves in a servile manner; a toady
sycophant / obsequious
reprehensible
exhort
pandemic
25. Characterized by knowledge that is known only to a small group of specialists; obscure; recondite
Idiosyncrasy
Esoteric - Arcane
occlusion
incontrovertible
26. To put down by exposing false claims
Capitulate
debunk
Obfuscate
dismissive
27. Abundant; a great amount
Empirical
Stopgap
copious
anguish
28. Very calm; quiet
Elucidate
placid / serence
momentous
vacillate
29. A person who makes predictions based on data
pejorative
anachronism
sycophant / obsequious
prognosticator
30. A deliberately misleading argument
Accord
ostracize
resilient
sophistry
31. Not capable of being appeased
Entrepreneur
quixotic
implacable
Precedent
32. Agent that provokes or triggers change
incontrovertible
innuendo
Catalyst
boon
33. Cheerfully confident; optimistic
pragmatic
Sanguine
conspicuous
Remunerate
34. To make clear or plain - especially by explanation
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Elucidate
Fawn
demagogue
35. State of being various or manifold; a great number
Slight
multiplicity
diffident
ubiquitous
36. To make new again
wry / droll
despoiled
renovate
Complicity
37. A complete failure
fiasco / debacle
trivial / minutiae
bowdlerize
serendipity
38. Indisputable; beyond doubt
aural
Indomitable - Resolute
circuitous
incontrovertible
39. Detached; reserved
Exonerate - Exculpate
aloof
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
altruistic
40. Vague; lacking a fully developed form
quixotic
austere
rhetorican
nebulous
41. Overbearing; impertinently bold
Consensus
presumptuous
byzantine
Florid
42. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
gratuitous
reprobate
vindicate
affectation
43. Worldly; sophisticated; open-minded and aware of the big picture
Virulent
Imperious
Cosmopolitan
Elucidate
44. Unrestrained: unchecked
Dilatory
Imperious
Epiphany
Rampant
45. To force or act by using pressure
devoid
Coerce
conjecture / supposition
thwart / stymie
46. Relentless - unstoppable
Protean
indigenous / endemic
inexorable
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
47. Cautious; careful
Flippant - Facetious
boon
Euphony
circumspect / prudent
48. Strong dislike
unconventional / unorthodox
zenith / apex
antipathy / animosity / rancor
Disenfranchise
49. To repel or drive back; to reject
Refractory
Vertiginous
rebuff
maverick
50. An excuse - an alleged cause
Exonerate - Exculpate
Pretext
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
poignant