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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. Poor; penniless; not affluent
draconian
Supercilious
impecunious
Petulant
2. Extremely wicked; vile
diatribe / tirade
nefarious
Enfranchise
implacable
3. To deliberately exclude from a group
Stopgap
ostracize
redundant
insinuate
4. Treating serious manners with light-hearted humor or lack of respect
impecunious
Crystallize
Flippant - Facetious
automation
5. Good-humored; cheerful
despondent / forlorn
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
jovial and jocular
Ineffable
6. Indisputable; beyond doubt
galvanize
Pernicious
incontrovertible
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
7. Language that is bitterly hostile or hateful
Virulent
nostalgia
Flummox
Esoteric - Arcane
8. Mysterious; baffling
enigmatic / inscrutable
specious
felicitous
Appeasement
9. To beset; to surround with problems
Incredulous
enumerate
Beleaguer
morbid
10. A funeral hymn; mournful music
dirge
Magisterial
Vituperative
acquiesce
11. To give a false impression
Proscribe
belie
irreverent
incisive
12. Agreeable; friendly
Preclude
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
Interloper
Eclectic
13. To repel or drive back; to reject
spartan
equanimity / unflappable
prudent
rebuff
14. A mixture; combination of different elements
Excoriating - Scathing
Accord
plausible
amalgam
15. Belittle;slight
Indomitable - Resolute
disparage
clandestine / surreptitious
Myriad
16. Agonizing physical or mental pain
expunge / excise / expurgate
Petulant
anguish
Precedent
17. Vulgar; crude
Imperious
boorish / uncouth / crass
Paradigm
altruistic
18. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit
Eclectic
Guile
Rampant
Nullify
19. Cowardly - faint hearted
Epiphany
multiplicity
Craven
sycophant / obsequious
20. Gruesome (repugnant) ; grisly.
myopic
morbid
Obsequious
Beleaguer
21. A source of harm
Enlighten - Edify
dismissive
bane
Remunerate
22. The lowest point
nostalgia
odoriferous
nadir
spartan
23. To assume financial responsibility
Underwrite
ambiguous
nadir
Craven
24. Showing haughty disdain or arrogant superiority
Supercilious
Eclectic
Didactic
Elan
25. Excessively sentimental
voracious / ravenous
rejuvenate
Ineffable
maudlin
26. A tendency toward or irrational suspiciousness; irrational fear; delusions of persecution
bane
automation
Paranoia
innovator
27. Abundant; a great amount
anachronism
Excoriating - Scathing
copious
Stopgap
28. Not open to question
tawdry
reprehensible
pandemic
Indisputable
29. Lacking self-confidence
Discomfited
diffident
convoluted
polarize / divisive
30. An independent person
raze
maverick
intrepid / undaunted
tawdry
31. Believable
plausible
Eschew
tactile
Parsimonious
32. Very generous
Burgeon
Munificent
impasse
cryptic
33. A champion of a cause
Prescribe
proponent / advocate
digress
Enlighten - Edify
34. Act/instance used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances
Paradigm
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
anguish
Precedent
35. No longer in use
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
resilient
pompous
36. Touching; heartrending
morbid
plausible
poignant
Discordant
37. Expressing strong disapproval; condemning; loudly decrying
denounce
Excoriating - Scathing
Solicitous
beneficiary
38. Worldly; sophisticated; open-minded and aware of the big picture
flag
intrepid / undaunted
Cosmopolitan
reticent
39. Robbed - ruined - pillaged - looted
presumptuous
reticent
despoiled
beneficiary
40. To bounce back
Vituperative
punctilious
Superfluous - Extraneous
resilient
41. A disloyal person
bungler
Magisterial
renegade
sycophant / obsequious
42. Someone who attacks cherished ideas and institutions
indignant
nebulous
iconoclast
rebuff
43. Boring and tiresome
Complaisant
tacit
charlatan
tedious
44. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
proponent / advocate
Restitution
Furor
ubiquitous
45. Not in harmony - incompatible - at variance with - as in a discordant detail that doesn't fit a pattern
Discordant
insolvent
dilettante
byzantine
46. A difficult problem; a dilemma with no easy solution
rhetorican
Proscribe
clairvoyant
Conundrum
47. To electrify; to stir into action
analogy / analagous
Avarice - Cupidity
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
galvanize
48. Overbearing; impertinently bold
rebuff
presumptuous
Burgeon
acquiesce
49. Very depressed
morose / despondent
Catalyst
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
subtle
50. An interruption in time or continuity; a break
Fawn
Nullify
audacious
Hiatus