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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. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
Enfranchise
Lucrative
Censorious - Captious
decry
2. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
affectation
auspicious / propitious
Eclectic
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
3. Domineering and arrogant; haughty
quixotic
Idiosyncrasy
Imperious
Pertinent
4. A person who acts in a mechanical fashion; a mindless follower
pompous
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
automation
aural
5. To appease - conciliate - or regain the good will of
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
galvanize
Propitiate
Provisional
6. Vulgar; crude
boorish / uncouth / crass
jovial and jocular
Triumvirate
Cacophony
7. Many - numerous
Entrepreneur
Timorous
Myriad
Unprecedented
8. Excessive desire for wealth
Avarice - Cupidity
Venal
Marginal - Peripheral
demise
9. Harmless
Aplomb
conspicuous
innocuous
Forbearance
10. The setting or marking of boundaries or limits
Vertiginous
Demarcation
Remunerate
profundity
11. To deliberately exclude from a group
ostracize
enumerate
upbraid / reproach / castigate
momentous
12. Easily convinced; tending to - believe to readily - gullible
prodigy
Credulous
relinquish
voracious / ravenous
13. To list; to tick off
demise
pejorative
superficial
enumerate
14. The act of making good or compensating for a loss - damage - or injury
Contiguous
Lucrative
Dilapidated
Restitution
15. Praise; applaud
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
pompous
Obdurate - Intransigent
serendipity
16. A vigorous spirit or great enthusiasm
Effusive
ambivalent
specious
Elan
17. Joyous; sprightly; light; vivacious
Blithe
wry / droll
itinerant
Catalyst
18. To strongly encourage
exhort
dispatch
Crystallize
resilient
19. An interruption in time or continuity; a break
prudent
Hiatus
copious
Lurid
20. Very brief; short lived
fleeting / ephemeral
Slight
vindicate
Enlighten - Edify
21. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly
malodorous
Elan
repudiate / recant / renounce
tacit
22. To comply
felicitous
Taciturn
acquiesce
placid / serence
23. Boring and tiresome
tedious
tactile
Flippant - Facetious
Affluent - Opulent
24. Tentative - temporary - not lasting
Timorous
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
Provisional
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
25. Bare - not ornate
austere
Euphony
anachronism
Blithe
26. To give something back
relinquish
Ameliorate
Insidious
Flotsam
27. A person who is impassive and emotionless
Esoteric - Arcane
stoic
reprobate
Refractory
28. A scarcity or shortage
Inquisition
distend
nadir
dearth / paucity
29. Gradual - often unconscious - process of assimilation
acolyte
wry / droll
draconian
Osmosis
30. A ruler or other person with unlimited authority
aloof
remiss
iconoclast
Autocrat - Despot
31. Mixed feelings
Affluent - Opulent
Remunerate
ambivalent
exemplary
32. An imaginative recreation
unconventional / unorthodox
evocation
innovator
Disenfranchise
33. Fickle; constantly shifting moods
Fawn
Conundrum
capricious / mercurial
rhetorican
34. To avoid; shun; to stay clear of
vindictive
Eschew
mentor
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
35. A person who uses intuition to see into the future; a seer
multiplicity
clairvoyant
mellifluous
dispel
36. Showing great care and concern; attentive
Furor
Complaisant
Osmosis
Solicitous
37. Feeling of distress caused by failure - distress - or embarrassment
felicitous
charlatan
dilettante
Chagrin
38. To break into opposing factions
copious
polarize / divisive
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
jovial and jocular
39. Deception by subterfuge; deliberate trickery
raze
morose / despondent
impetus
Chicanery
40. An accidental but fortunate occurence
deleterious
fortuitous
Insidious
halcyon
41. Mysterious; having a hidden meaning
decry
pragmatic
cryptic
austere
42. Instinctive rather than irrational
odoriferous
Cosmopolitan
Visceral
Profligate
43. A remark that is hurtful or burning
Quiescent
enumerate
Esoteric - Arcane
Caustic
44. Having a natural fragrance
Unfettered
aesthetic
nebulous
odoriferous
45. Sad mournful - melancholic
Lugubrious
Timorous
Affluent - Opulent
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
46. A deviation from the norm
anomaly / atypical
fastidious
innovator
Provisional
47. Unreasonable expensive
deleterious
Petulant
exorbitant
prudent
48. A funeral hymn; mournful music
wry / droll
draconian
intrepid / undaunted
dirge
49. A stimulus or encouragement
impetus
nadir
Disheartening
renegade
50. Marked by inactivity OR in a state of quiet repose
prototype
Quiescent
Ameliorate
acrimonious