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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. To swell out or expand from internal pressure (overly full)
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
distend
demagogue
Lucrative
2. Having fallen in a state of disrepair; broken-down condition
Dilapidated
admonish
Interloper
Flotsam
3. A similarity or likeness
dispatch
Blithe
analogy / analagous
prodigy
4. Harmful - injurious to physical - mental - or moral health
ostracize
Noxious
autonomous
prodigy
5. Strong dislike
Myriad
equivocal
indigenous / endemic
antipathy / animosity / rancor
6. To treat as unimportant; ignore deliberately; disrespect
Florid
nostalgia
Slight
Incredulous
7. Deception by subterfuge; deliberate trickery
futile
neophyte / novice / greenhorn
Chicanery
demagogue
8. Language that is bitterly hostile or hateful
zenith / apex
aural
thwart / stymie
Virulent
9. An original model
Insidious
Apocryphal
Euphony
prototype
10. The position of putting close together or side by side
Caustic
Discordant
Provisional
Juxtaposition
11. A disloyal person
renegade
Taciturn
Magisterial
itinerant
12. Characterized by elaborate and expensive decorations; lavish
Malfeasance
Precedent
Ornate
indulgent
13. To avoid; shun; to stay clear of
dissembler / prevaricator
Eschew
procure
Chagrin
14. Lacking conscious awareness - unmindful - unaware
fortuitous
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
dearth / paucity
Oblivious
15. To get out of a difficult situation
extricate
austere
redundant
despondent / forlorn
16. An inference
antipathy / animosity / rancor
Excoriating - Scathing
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
conjecture / supposition
17. Settled and therefore accustomed to sitting or doing little exercise
Eschew
Prescribe
bane
Sedentary
18. Trait peculiar to individual
iconoclast
Idiosyncrasy
prudent
Duplicitous
19. Of secondary importance; not central;on the perimeter
Ignominious
futile
presumptuous
Marginal - Peripheral
20. A temporary solution designed to meet an urgent need
plausible
bane
Stopgap
subtle
21. To repel or drive back; to reject
eccentric
Obfuscate
rebuff
reprieve
22. A sentimental longing for the past
Histrionic - Overwrought
Beleaguer
glacial
nostalgia
23. Outstanding
impasse
Visceral
skeptic
exemplary
24. Surplus or excess of something
denounce
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
Unfettered
25. Joyous; sprightly; light; vivacious
Eschew
Blithe
demise
Ornate
26. Defiantly aggressive - eager to fight
incontrovertible
multiplicity
reaffirm
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
27. Not capable of being overcome
profundity
Interloper
Pristine
insurmountable
28. Extremely complicated or devious
Coerce
Consternation
tactile
byzantine
29. Deliberately deceptive in behavior or speech
Profligate
halcyon
Bombastic
Lambaste
30. No longer in use
oracle
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
pejorative
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
31. To level to the ground; demolish
clandestine / surreptitious
raze
galvanize
amalgam
32. Gradual - often unconscious - process of assimilation
Lambaste
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
diffident
Osmosis
33. A clumsy or inept person
bungler
antithesis / antithetical / antipodal
Entomology
Incredulous
34. A person who gives gifts
Churlish - Sullen - Surly
benefactor
Enfranchise
Interloper
35. W/o previous example - never known before
maverick
Exacerbate
Virulent
Unprecedented
36. Disturbing; upsetting; vexing; causing unease; worrisome
Pretext
Cerebral
Idyllic
Disquieting
37. Belittle;slight
rejuvenate
disparage
cryptic
bowdlerize
38. Lacking liveliness - animation or interest; dull.
Noxious
vapid
Vituperative
indulgent
39. Sociable; fond of feasting - drinking - and good company
Convivial
curtail
Flummox
Effusive
40. Enforced economy
Beleaguer
decry
evocation
austerity
41. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
evocation
Extravagant
equivocal
deride
42. To deliberately confuse; to make something so confusing it's hard to understand
Ineffable
fastidious
Obfuscate
Chicanery
43. To break into opposing factions
Precedent
polarize / divisive
boorish / uncouth / crass
exemplary
44. Highly injurious - destructive - deadly
anomaly / atypical
Pernicious
martinet
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
45. Hard to understand - impenetrably dense and obscure
Opaque
incisive
ambiguous
austere
46. Behaving in an obsequious manner
Cerebral
Fawn
remiss
Marginal - Peripheral
47. Tentative - temporary - not lasting
anachronism
myopic
profundity
Provisional
48. Limited in perspective; narrow; restricted in scope and outlook
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Obstreperous
fastidious
Duplicitous
49. Unable to pay; out of money (solvent - solvency - soluble - insoluble)
insolvent
Solicitous
Exonerate - Exculpate
quixotic
50. To stop; frustrate
Demarcation
deleterious
thwart / stymie
Dilatory