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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 scold; rebuke
upbraid / reproach / castigate
impeccable
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
tumultuous
2. Detached; reserved
penchant / predilection
aloof
dearth / paucity
diatribe / tirade
3. Possible
viable / feasible
Apocryphal
futile
nefarious
4. To assert again
zenith / apex
reaffirm
Complaisant
subtle
5. A funeral hymn; mournful music
tumultuous
Supercilious
dirge
Extravagant
6. Insightful - perceptive
Taciturn
Depreciation
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
remiss
7. Immoral - debauched
dilettante
Licentious
sycophant / obsequious
Petulant
8. Out of reach; difficult to catch
elusive
Cosmopolitan
aural
affectation
9. No longer in use
Flummox
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
Exonerate - Exculpate
reprehensible
10. Peevish - irritable
Petulant
Flippant - Facetious
hedonist
disparity
11. A scarcity or shortage
Perspicacious - Prescient - Discerning
dearth / paucity
bowdlerize
acquiesce
12. To break into opposing factions
polarize / divisive
fortuitous
ostracize
tawdry
13. Mixed feelings
insurmountable
Empirical
Petulant
ambivalent
14. Felt or undergone as if one were taking part in the experience or feelings of another
dissembler / prevaricator
vicarious
Apocryphal
repudiate / recant / renounce
15. Unsophisticated
sycophant / obsequious
naïve / gullible / credulous
Propitiate
irreverent
16. Indicated by necessary connotation though not expressed directly
peremptory
Myriad
tacit
Empirical
17. Producing a deep or full sound
Disheartening
sonorous
Consensus
Inquisition
18. Admirably suited; apt.
chimerical
mentor
Watershed
felicitous
19. Highly detailed
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
Demography
rhetorican
fortuitous
20. Noisy and disorderly
anachronism
zenith / apex
draconian
tumultuous
21. Settled and therefore accustomed to sitting or doing little exercise
beneficiary
Sedentary
fleeting / ephemeral
expunge / excise / expurgate
22. Very strict laws and rules
draconian
circumspect / prudent
Rampant
Supercilious
23. A group or association of three leaders
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Unprecedented
aural
Triumvirate
24. Worldly; sophisticated; open-minded and aware of the big picture
indignant
dismissive
Cosmopolitan
relinquish
25. A person who hates humankind
misanthrope
Aphorism - Axiom
placid / serence
fastidious
26. To conceive and develop in the mind
Gestate
Guile
malodorous
recluse
27. Doomed to failure
futile
Capitulate
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
draconian
28. Cautious; careful
circumspect / prudent
extricate
exemplary
indignant
29. Very brief; short lived
Ornate
remiss
acquiesce
fleeting / ephemeral
30. To confuse or perplex; utterly dumbfounded
Flummox
momentous
copious
Disenfranchise
31. Very depressed
morose / despondent
Sanguine
bane
picayune
32. Readily taking on various forms and meanings
oracle
Protean
insurmountable
halcyon
33. A person who gives gifts
Accord
viable / feasible
benefactor
abstemious
34. Not in harmony - incompatible - at variance with - as in a discordant detail that doesn't fit a pattern
Discordant
Epiphany
provocative
Complaisant
35. Carefully attentive to detail; difficult to please
fastidious
Disheartening
Esoteric - Arcane
rejuvenate
36. Vague; lacking a fully developed form
charlatan
nebulous
superficial
Pristine
37. Gruesome (repugnant) ; grisly.
Unprecedented
Exacerbate
demagogue
morbid
38. Failure to reach an agreement
recluse
spartan
impasse
anachronism
39. Feelings of sincere and deep regret
laconic / succint / terse
nebulous
Compunction - Contrition - Remorse - Penitence
Convivial
40. A tendency toward or irrational suspiciousness; irrational fear; delusions of persecution
Petulant
Paranoia
Vertiginous
modicum
41. Commonplace
despondent / forlorn
Aphorism - Axiom
enumerate
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
42. A morally unprincipled person
belie
reprobate
Interloper
Idiosyncrasy
43. Skillful
Extravagant
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
aloof
Egalitarian
44. To remove or delete objectionable parts of a book
bowdlerize
extricate
Appeasement
malodorous
45. A professional commentator
pundit
Moribund
Discomfited
implausible
46. Flowery in style - very ornate
dispatch
Autocrat - Despot
Ungainly
Florid
47. Corrupt - dishonest - open to bribery
spartan
Venal
redundant
viable / feasible
48. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
Manifesto
misanthrope
anguish
Vertiginous
49. Very rich - having abundant resources
modicum
Affluent - Opulent
Fecund
implausible
50. An odd - unconventional person
odoriferous
eccentric
innuendo
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate