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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 electrify; to stir into action
Watershed
impasse
galvanize
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
2. Robbed - ruined - pillaged - looted
Pristine
Triumvirate
despoiled
Rampant
3. A professional commentator
Juxtapose
pundit
Eclectic
nostalgia
4. Failure to reach an agreement
covet
Munificent
raconteur
impasse
5. To strongly encourage
Fecund
Brusque - Curt
covet
exhort
6. Very generous
demise
Munificent
Dessicated
Sedentary
7. Harmful - injurious to physical - mental - or moral health
incisive
Entrepreneur
Sanguine
Noxious
8. Charmingly rural
Provisional
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
demise
rhetorican
9. An original model
Hiatus
prototype
recluse
digress
10. To reject; disreagard
boorish / uncouth / crass
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
dismissive
skeptic
11. Defiantly aggressive - eager to fight
renegade
mellifluous
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
antipathy / animosity / rancor
12. To make new again
Incredulous
Imperious
aural
renovate
13. A person who uses intuition to see into the future; a seer
Consensus
Consternation
Cacophony
clairvoyant
14. Very calm; quiet
Extemporize - Improvise
antipathy / animosity / rancor
extricate
placid / serence
15. Policy of granting concessions to maintain peace
Magisterial
ambivalent
abstemious
Appeasement
16. An inference
panache / verve / flamboyant
Esoteric - Arcane
Perfidious
conjecture / supposition
17. To remove or delete objectionable parts of a book
Sedentary
Obsequious
bowdlerize
demagogue
18. Believable
Idiosyncrasy
plausible
reprehensible
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
19. Everywhere; widespread; prevalent
glacial
ubiquitous
profundity
Disheartening
20. Treacherous - traitorous - deceitful
Perfidious
tumultuous
Interloper
Ameliorate
21. Vulgar; crude
digress
boorish / uncouth / crass
nostalgia
bungler
22. Insightful - perceptive
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
anachronism
circuitous
23. A pretentious or inauthentic way of behaving; pretending to be something; not typical behavior (affected - unaffected)
Complicity
Apocryphal
Myriad
affectation
24. To deliberately confuse; to make something so confusing it's hard to understand
Obfuscate
Epiphany
cryptic
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
25. A person who introduces something new
austere
Opaque
innovator
deleterious
26. Framework or model of thought
Paradigm
Blithe
trivial / minutiae
Entomology
27. To list; to tick off
antipathy / animosity / rancor
disparage
itinerant
enumerate
28. A ruler or other person with unlimited authority
dimunitive
Autocrat - Despot
Obsequious
dispel
29. A temporary solution designed to meet an urgent need
remiss
penchant / predilection
nadir
Stopgap
30. An accidental but fortunate discovery
sonorous
rejuvenate
serendipity
Inquisition
31. Extremely wicked; vile
strident
wry / droll
nefarious
audacious
32. The floating wreckage of a ship; debris
circumspect / prudent
panache / verve / flamboyant
Flotsam
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
33. Mysterious; having a hidden meaning
mellifluous
Venal
odoriferous
cryptic
34. To inform or instruct to remove ignorance
Obsequious
Contiguous
capricious / mercurial
Enlighten - Edify
35. Smooth and sweet flowing
maudlin
mellifluous
Triumvirate
irreverent
36. Foul smelling
indulgent
malodorous
gerrymander
rhetorican
37. Minor - everyday details
trivial / minutiae
admonish
Disingenuous
Entrepreneur
38. To compensate - to make payment for - to pay a person
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
Egalitarian
relinquish
Remunerate
39. Act/instance used as an example in dealing with subsequent similar instances
Venerate - Revere
Disenfranchise
disparity
Precedent
40. Something performed in a spiritless - mechanical - and routine manner
Nullify
Remunerate
Ornate
Perfunctory
41. Flowery in style - very ornate
Florid
recluse
Bombastic
implausible
42. The final ending of something; the downfall
Depreciation
prodigy
demise
morbid
43. A champion of a cause
proponent / advocate
Extemporize - Improvise
Remunerate
Nuance
44. Sensational - shocking - or ghastly
Lurid
Ungainly
Elucidate
Cosmopolitan
45. The lowest point
morose / despondent
indulgent
nadir
aloof
46. Lax in attending to duty; negligent
Brusque - Curt
remiss
Moribund
Capitulate
47. To force or act by using pressure
Disheartening
recalcitrant / obdurate
Coerce
impecunious
48. Immoral - debauched
Preclude
abstemious
Licentious
plausible
49. Expressing strong disapproval; condemning; loudly decrying
Excoriating - Scathing
Remunerate
Indisputable
Disheartening
50. Detached; reserved
Parsimonious
nostalgia
aloof
Eschew