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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. Lacking self-confidence
diffident
Aplomb
Convivial
disparity
2. Habitually late; tardy
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Dilatory
nefarious
Pristine
3. Great in depth of feeling - intellect or meaning
conjecture / supposition
Virulent
profundity
Nuance
4. Signs/ omens that something important or calamitous is about to occur
audacious
Vituperative
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
charlatan
5. A doubter
Proscribe
Triumvirate
skeptic
covet
6. Many - numerous
automation
Myriad
dilettante
Flotsam
7. Thoroughly dried out
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
Dessicated
Inquisition
8. Indisputable; beyond doubt
innuendo
reprieve
incontrovertible
Forbearance
9. A devoted student
affectation
acolyte
panache / verve / flamboyant
innovator
10. To force or act by using pressure
dismissive
Coerce
intemperate
ubiquitous
11. Behaving in an obsequious manner
Fawn
fleeting / ephemeral
admonish
repudiate / recant / renounce
12. Having fallen in a state of disrepair; broken-down condition
pandemonium
Dilapidated
Histrionic - Overwrought
Taciturn
13. Good-humored; cheerful
Avarice - Cupidity
jovial and jocular
Idyllic
acolyte
14. Mysterious; having a hidden meaning
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Refractory
Disheartening
cryptic
15. Derisive mocking comments
penchant / predilection
sophistry
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
16. Lukewarm; mild; half-hearted
Tepid
Florid
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
Esoteric - Arcane
17. Ill-tempered; rude; lacking civility
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Petulant
Disenfranchise
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
18. Overly tolerant
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
automation
halcyon
indulgent
19. To soothe or calm; to appease
enumerate
Noxious
Placate
dilettante
20. A bitter denunciation
Complicity
diatribe / tirade
incisive
Dilapidated
21. Unselfish concern for others
despondent / forlorn
Ostentatious
digress
altruistic
22. Gradual - often unconscious - process of assimilation
Conundrum
Blithe
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Osmosis
23. Expressing excessive emotion in an unrestrained manner; gushing
boorish / uncouth / crass
Effusive
prototype
anachronism
24. Excessively dramatic or melodramatic; theatrical; overacted
Spate
Histrionic - Overwrought
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
altruistic
25. Trait peculiar to individual
analogy / analagous
Sanguine
Indisputable
Idiosyncrasy
26. To make impossible - to rule out - to prevent
circumvent
hedonist
Slight
Preclude
27. Twisted; intricate
exhort
convoluted
futile
pompous
28. Quarrelsome: argumentative: likely to provoke a controversy - disputatious
Contentious - Cantankerous
tawdry
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
renovate
29. To divide a district so as to give one side an advantage
gerrymander
Triumvirate
expunge / excise / expurgate
zealot
30. A subtle shade of meaning or feeling - a slight degree of difference
exemplary
auspicious / propitious
sonorous
Nuance
31. Agonizing physical or mental pain
anguish
reprehensible
raze
Spate
32. A person who receives benefits
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
despondent / forlorn
Duplicitous
beneficiary
33. Expressing strong disapproval; condemning; loudly decrying
Paradigm
Excoriating - Scathing
Visceral
eccentric
34. Vague; lacking a fully developed form
nebulous
equivocal
Paradigm
pandemonium
35. To avoid; shun; to stay clear of
Cacophony
automation
Proliferate
Eschew
36. Relentless - unstoppable
recalcitrant / obdurate
inexorable
mendacious
insinuate
37. Characterized by knowledge that is known only to a small group of specialists; obscure; recondite
Manifesto
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
conjecture / supposition
Esoteric - Arcane
38. An intruder: a gate-crasher
extirpate
Interloper
rhetorican
Moribund
39. Charmingly simple and carefree
Ameliorate
Idyllic
proponent / advocate
Stopgap
40. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
impetus
laconic / succint / terse
Ignominious
Pertinent
41. Surplus or excess of something
Licentious
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
callous
Ostentatious
42. Feelings of sincere and deep regret
dirge
plausible
denounce
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
43. To destroy.
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
aural
extirpate
raze
44. Harmful; injurious
Dilatory
Taciturn
deleterious
peremptory
45. Treacherous cunning; skillful deceit
Guile
capricious / mercurial
thwart / stymie
Opaque
46. Charmingly rural
prospectus
Elan
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
equivocal
47. Of great importance
Disenfranchise
Pristine
momentous
Craven
48. Deserving great blame; wicked; evil
Disheartening
bowdlerize
Paranoia
reprehensible
49. An eloquent writer or speaker
Contentious - Cantankerous
rhetorican
ambiguous
nebulous
50. To be guided by practical experience - not theory
Contentious - Cantankerous
Empirical
enigmatic / inscrutable
Aplomb