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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. Smooth and sweet flowing
draconian
mellifluous
bowdlerize
poignant
2. Harmful - injurious to physical - mental - or moral health
audacious
futile
aural
Noxious
3. Failure to reach an agreement
Watershed
nonchalant
bowdlerize
impasse
4. Out of reach; difficult to catch
elusive
skeptic
Osmosis
Venal
5. Characterized by knowledge that is known only to a small group of specialists; obscure; recondite
Munificent
Aphorism - Axiom
Empirical
Esoteric - Arcane
6. Casual indifference
cryptic
indigenous / endemic
amalgam
nonchalant
7. The lowest point
nadir
reticent
Consternation
ominous
8. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
Triumvirate
Unfettered
tawdry
Fawn
9. To grow rapidly; to expand
Burgeon
reprieve
bucolic / rustic / pastoral
jovial and jocular
10. Very productive
punctilious
Prolific
Rampant
rhetorican
11. Highly injurious - destructive - deadly
Pernicious
Refractory
reaffirm
proponent / advocate
12. An accidental but fortunate occurence
momentous
Marginal - Peripheral
fortuitous
aural
13. Fearless; courageous
dimunitive
distend
intrepid / undaunted
Fecund
14. Feeling downcast; dejected
Moribund
sophistry
superficial
despondent / forlorn
15. The highest point
despondent / forlorn
zenith / apex
partisan
Pristine
16. A preceding event
expunge / excise / expurgate
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
quixotic
anachronism
17. Highly critical; carping
prattle
Censorious - Captious
ambiguous
denounce
18. Enforced economy
Oblivious
bungler
austerity
synergy
19. An inequality; an imbalance
provocative
intrepid / undaunted
Egalitarian
disparity
20. To rise again; surge back
nonchalant
resurgent
insurmountable
prospectus
21. The study of characteristics of human population
fastidious
Perfunctory
Demography
reaffirm
22. Admirably suited; apt.
felicitous
procure
Demarcation
convoluted
23. Lacking conscious awareness - unmindful - unaware
reprehensible
Oblivious
Disheartening
Craven
24. To make young again
reprieve
Propitiate
proponent / advocate
rejuvenate
25. Agreeable; marked by a pleasing personality
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
Complaisant
nadir
Complicity
26. Tending to give instruction or advice; inclined to teach others too much; containing a political/moral lesson
specious
Didactic
Venal
Esoteric - Arcane
27. Sharing an edge or boundary - or touching
anomaly / atypical
Perfunctory
Contiguous
Eschew
28. Very strict laws and rules
Blithe
draconian
Fawn
amalgam
29. To place by side or enclose proximity
fleeting / ephemeral
Entrepreneur
Juxtapose
dilettante
30. A liar; deceiver
admonish
aural
pragmatic
dissembler / prevaricator
31. Lacking proper respect; disrepectful
irreverent
Quiescent
proponent / advocate
Manifesto
32. To hold back one's thoughts and feelings
spartan
Lugubrious
reticent
resurgent
33. Harmful; injurious
deleterious
Nullify
devoid
Crystallize
34. Overly tolerant
Eclectic
indulgent
flag
Supercilious
35. Deserving great blame; wicked; evil
Oblivious
reprehensible
placid / serence
Demography
36. Mixed feelings
ambivalent
sonorous
Restitution
exorbitant
37. A person who is a source of wise counsel and prophetic advice
Munificent
draconian
tacit
oracle
38. Gaudy and cheap
tawdry
resilient
indignant
Credulous
39. Harmless
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
exhort
conjecture / supposition
innocuous
40. To make new again
renovate
Enfranchise
deride
innuendo
41. Any decrease or loss in value caused by age - wear - or market conditions
Depreciation
austere
profundity
clairvoyant
42. Something performed in a spiritless - mechanical - and routine manner
sarcastic / sardonic / snide
enumerate
veracity
Perfunctory
43. Flowery in style - very ornate
Obstreperous
Florid
laud / extol / tout / acclaim
circuitous
44. Unable to pay; out of money (solvent - solvency - soluble - insoluble)
vacillate
ubiquitous
insolvent
plausible
45. A veiled reference
innuendo
circuitous
Empirical
halcyon
46. Foolishly impractical
quixotic
Slight
Proscribe
demise
47. A preference for something; an inclination
affectation
penchant / predilection
Refractory
disparage
48. Filled with errors; wrong
erroneous
Avarice - Cupidity
voracious / ravenous
Superfluous - Extraneous
49. To inform or instruct to remove ignorance
Dessicated
Enlighten - Edify
incisive
vacillate
50. A general agreement
impasse
analogy / analagous
Consensus
Provincial - Parochial - Insular