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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. Something of small value; petty; trifling
Esoteric - Arcane
Florid
rejuvenate
picayune
2. Robbed - ruined - pillaged - looted
jaded
Demarcation
Refractory
despoiled
3. Combined action or operation
dilettante
poignant
synergy
vicarious
4. A person who gives gifts
cryptic
benefactor
reprieve
acolyte
5. Producing a deep or full sound
Obfuscate
sonorous
curtail
impecunious
6. Very concise; brief
recluse
laconic / succint / terse
Ameliorate
relinquish
7. To bounce back
Scintillating
resilient
fortitude
Quiescent
8. A general agreement
Consensus
martinet
Obdurate - Intransigent
fortitude
9. Insensitive
Cosmopolitan
zenith / apex
callous
Preclude
10. A clumsy or inept person
bungler
Depreciation
innovator
subtle
11. Vulgar; crude
boorish / uncouth / crass
Prolific
Prescribe
halcyon
12. Highly injurious - destructive - deadly
disparity
polarize / divisive
ubiquitous
Pernicious
13. Unrestrained: unchecked
Rampant
Furor
presumptuous
fortitude
14. A statement universally accepted as true - a maxim
Pretext
Paradigm
Aphorism - Axiom
Beleaguer
15. A devoted student
juggernaut
Watershed
Scintillating
acolyte
16. Marked by inactivity OR in a state of quiet repose
impasse
temperate
Supercilious
Quiescent
17. Insincere; not straightforward; not candid
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
Disingenuous
Caustic
reprobate
18. A temporary solution designed to meet an urgent need
Stopgap
flag
mentor
jovial and jocular
19. Felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another
vicarious
amalgam
resurgent
elusive
20. Agonizing physical or mental pain
Moribund
Licentious
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
anguish
21. Gradual - often unconscious - process of assimilation
morbid
Osmosis
Inquisition
Flummox
22. Lacking conscious awareness - unmindful - unaware
Slight
Oblivious
Disenfranchise
odoriferous
23. A gradual almost imperceptible change
subtle
affectation
Ungainly
deride
24. Characterized by verbal abuse and bitter criticism
dispel
glacial
ominous
Vituperative
25. Having the ring of truth or plausibility but actually false.
Effusive
Exacerbate
placid / serence
specious
26. A person who behaves in a servile manner; a toady
sycophant / obsequious
nonchalant
Consensus
Disheartening
27. To make clear or plain - especially by explanation
Elucidate
Contiguous
innuendo
Affluent - Opulent
28. Misconduct/wrongdoing - especially by a public official
Refractory
equanimity / unflappable
Enlighten - Edify
Malfeasance
29. Lax in attending to duty; negligent
Marginal - Peripheral
temperate
remiss
Aplomb
30. A huge appetite; cannot be satisfied; insatiable
voracious / ravenous
Petulant
occlusion
Malfeasance
31. A source of harm
Ungainly
insurmountable
bane
conspicuous
32. Unselfish concern for others
altruistic
quixotic
Chicanery
Didactic
33. A preference for something; an inclination
Burgeon
penchant / predilection
Flummox
insinuate
34. Habitually quiet; uncommunicative
callous
Brusque - Curt
Taciturn
Sanguine
35. A group or association of three leaders
Ameliorate
Triumvirate
Ornate
Proliferate
36. Something performed in a spiritless - mechanical - and routine manner
Perfunctory
aesthetic
Licentious
ambivalent
37. Calmness; composure
eccentric
belie
equanimity / unflappable
tactile
38. To electrify; to stir into action
prudent
galvanize
evocation
Demarcation
39. Threatening and menacing
ominous
vindictive
diffident
Supercilious
40. Very strict laws and rules
Pristine
exhort
draconian
circumspect / prudent
41. A person who hates humankind
Incredulous
prototype
misanthrope
Capitulate
42. To confuse or perplex; utterly dumbfounded
Consensus
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Preclude
Flummox
43. Insightful - perceptive
tenacious
analogy / analagous
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
picayune
44. The position of putting close together or side by side
circuitous
demise
impetus
Juxtaposition
45. Not in harmony - incompatible - at variance with - as in a discordant detail that doesn't fit a pattern
Discordant
Ignominious
Complaisant
viable / feasible
46. Very generous
Indisputable
Munificent
vapid
dearth / paucity
47. Very rich - having abundant resources
malodorous
Solicitous
Affluent - Opulent
Restitution
48. To reject; disreagard
procure
dismissive
tawdry
distend
49. A sudden realization or insightful moment
Epiphany
Noxious
Superfluous - Extraneous
Licentious
50. Learned and authoritative
Flippant - Facetious
Marginal - Peripheral
antipathy / animosity / rancor
Magisterial