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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. Boring and tiresome
Supercilious
tedious
Juxtapose
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
2. Producing a sensation of touch
exorbitant
Obsequious
tactile
Ignominious
3. Joyous; sprightly; light; vivacious
rhetorican
implausible
Blithe
affectation
4. Marked by precise accordance with details
dispel
punctilious
copious
convoluted
5. Great in depth of feeling - intellect or meaning
misanthrope
vapid
profundity
Insidious
6. State of being various or manifold; a great number
resilient
multiplicity
Sinecure
Imperious
7. To avoid; shun; to stay clear of
Scintillating
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Eschew
ascetic
8. Casual indifference
nonchalant
peremptory
martinet
poignant
9. To make a situation worse
dilettante
Restitution
dearth / paucity
Exacerbate
10. Misconduct/wrongdoing - especially by a public official
Crystallize
Autocrat - Despot
Malfeasance
ambiguous
11. Agent that provokes or triggers change
Caustic
Catalyst
fastidious
copious
12. A wild uproar; tumult
pandemonium
Pertinent
aural
Noxious
13. Lacking restraint; excessive
Insidious
Licentious
intemperate
Lucrative
14. Remaining in a pure state: uncorrupted by civilization
Pristine
Appeasement
Ameliorate
Ornate
15. Gradual - often unconscious - process of assimilation
Osmosis
aloof
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant
Depreciation
16. To lecture or speak without notes
analogy / analagous
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
Extemporize - Improvise
Redolent
17. To strongly encourage
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
insurmountable
picayune
exhort
18. Sad mournful - melancholic
plausible
Unfettered
auspicious / propitious
Lugubrious
19. Agonizing physical or mental pain
fortitude
insurmountable
Osmosis
anguish
20. Intellectually productive or inventive - fertile
nonchalant
Fecund
panache / verve / flamboyant
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
21. Exercising moderation
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
Brusque - Curt
Credulous
temperate
22. A morally unprincipled person
Manifesto
implausible
reprobate
innuendo
23. To list; to tick off
cryptic
fortitude
Disenfranchise
enumerate
24. Readily taking on various forms and meanings
impeccable
jaded
expunge / excise / expurgate
Protean
25. A similarity or likeness
Fawn
dilettante
Refractory
analogy / analagous
26. To obtain or get by care - effort - or the use of special means
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
procure
Malfeasance
admonish
27. Skillful
Ungainly
Appeasement
intemperate
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
28. Not ordinary or typical
Juxtapose
halcyon
unconventional / unorthodox
Juxtaposition
29. A statement universally accepted as true - a maxim
Aphorism - Axiom
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
jaded
fortuitous
30. Very poor - lacking resources
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
vapid
Elucidate
deleterious
31. A preference for something; an inclination
dimunitive
profundity
penchant / predilection
Cerebral
32. To put down by exposing false claims
Esoteric - Arcane
tenacious
enigmatic / inscrutable
debunk
33. To give a definite form to an idea or plan
Crystallize
polarize / divisive
jaded
insolvent
34. Not in the proper time period
anachronism
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
rhetorican
maverick
35. To be guided by practical experience - not theory
Empirical
abstemious
Apocryphal
Florid
36. Tending to give instruction or advice; inclined to teach others too much; containing a political/moral lesson
bane
nadir
flag
Didactic
37. Sharing an edge or boundary - or touching
disparage
provocative
resilient
Contiguous
38. Expressing excessive emotion in an unrestrained manner; gushing
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
despondent / forlorn
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Effusive
39. Felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another
vicarious
quixotic
Indomitable - Resolute
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
40. To endow the rights of citizenship - especially the right to vote
Restitution
Venerate - Revere
deride
Enfranchise
41. Doing or saying something again and again
Munificent
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
redundant
voracious / ravenous
42. To declare invalid
Triumvirate
maverick
Nullify
Exacerbate
43. Flexible; easily shaped especially by outside influence/ force
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
pandemic
Propitiate
vindictive
44. Mysterious; having a hidden meaning
dimunitive
expunge / excise / expurgate
cryptic
clairvoyant
45. Showy; intended to attract notice; pretentious
Protean
auspicious / propitious
Ostentatious
nonchalant
46. To level to the ground; demolish
demise
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
Visceral
raze
47. Not capable of being overcome
Flotsam
exhort
equanimity / unflappable
insurmountable
48. Something performed in a spiritless - mechanical - and routine manner
Perfunctory
dismissive
Vacuous - Inane
ubiquitous
49. A person with biased beliefs
incontrovertible
partisan
pandemic
Prolific
50. A timely benefit
altruistic
boon
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Execrable - Odious - Repugnant