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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. Strength of mind
Flippant - Facetious
Provisional
fortitude
enigmatic / inscrutable
2. A deviation from the norm
Exonerate - Exculpate
incoherent
anomaly / atypical
Discordant
3. Possible
circuitous
oracle
viable / feasible
Coerce
4. A professional commentator
felicitous
acquiesce
pundit
Truculent - Pugnacious - Belligerent
5. Casual indifference
Ineffable
chimerical
Depreciation
nonchalant
6. Great in depth of feeling - intellect or meaning
tenacious
aural
profundity
abstemious
7. A seeming contradiction that expresses a truth
Nonplus - Confounded
prognosticator
paradox
extirpate
8. Disbelieving - skeptical
Incredulous
penchant / predilection
benefactor
tumultuous
9. A large number or amount
Inquisition
Contiguous
enumerate
Spate
10. Mysterious; having a hidden meaning
cryptic
Indisputable
erroneous
Redolent
11. Lacking conscious awareness - unmindful - unaware
Oblivious
specious
Disenfranchise
automation
12. The position of putting close together or side by side
erroneous
maverick
prodigy
Juxtaposition
13. No longer in use
obsolete / archaic / antiquated
gerrymander
innuendo
Consternation
14. A mixture; combination of different elements
Apocryphal
Rampant
Beleaguer
amalgam
15. A person who hates humankind
innuendo
Coerce
misanthrope
extirpate
16. A person with biased beliefs
naïve / gullible / credulous
Stopgap
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
partisan
17. A tendency toward or irrational suspiciousness; irrational fear; delusions of persecution
Paranoia
maverick
Triumvirate
fiasco / debacle
18. Great merriment
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
tedious
inexorable
hilarity
19. A person who uses intuition to see into the future; a seer
impeccable
clairvoyant
felicitous
oracle
20. Favoring social equality - believing in an equal society
Egalitarian
nefarious
Juxtaposition
Placate
21. Careful; cautious
prudent
Epiphany
Didactic
zenith / apex
22. Fearless; courageous
intrepid / undaunted
Propitiate
Paranoia
Crystallize
23. To drive away; scatter
dispel
Ignominious
autonomous
clandestine / surreptitious
24. Association or participation in a wrongful act
Unfettered
Osmosis
Complicity
Coerce
25. Excessive and therefore lacking restraint
tawdry
Perfidious
upbraid / reproach / castigate
Extravagant
26. Very poor - lacking resources
deleterious
circuitous
Destitute - Impoverished - Indigent
Extemporize - Improvise
27. An intruder: a gate-crasher
Restitution
Provincial - Parochial - Insular
Dilatory
Interloper
28. The highest point
raconteur
zenith / apex
sophistry
Discordant
29. An office or position that provides an income for little/ no work
Sinecure
Beleaguer
circumspect / prudent
dispel
30. To list; to tick off
nostalgia
Juxtaposition
Brusque - Curt
enumerate
31. Detached; reserved
aloof
denounce
Rampant
Eschew
32. Great vigor and energy - dash
naïve / gullible / credulous
Virulent
penchant / predilection
panache / verve / flamboyant
33. Excessively sentimental
Consensus
Nullify
maudlin
Paradigm
34. Great bitterness
acrimonious
dispel
exemplary
dissembler / prevaricator
35. Vulgar; crude
Furor
boorish / uncouth / crass
antecedent / forerunner / precursor
superficial
36. To make clear or plain - especially by explanation
pejorative
demagogue
Elucidate
Unfettered
37. Touching; heartrending
poignant
abstemious
fleeting / ephemeral
fortuitous
38. An accidental but fortunate occurence
raze
juggernaut
fortuitous
Convivial
39. A formal concurrence or agreement or harmony of minds
Accord
Exacerbate
Prescribe
incisive
40. A fake; a fraud; a cheat
evocation
charlatan
Ostentatious
spartan
41. Gradual - often unconscious - process of assimilation
nadir
Osmosis
rhetorican
vapid
42. Freed from restraint of any kind; liberated
bowdlerize
Unfettered
anomaly / atypical
impecunious
43. To require; to order; to direct
affable / amiable / genial / gregarious
Prescribe
belie
hilarity
44. Moderate in eating and drinking
naïve / gullible / credulous
Timorous
zealot
abstemious
45. A person who is impassive and emotionless
fiasco / debacle
stoic
Consensus
momentous
46. A gradual almost imperceptible change
quixotic
Propitiate
callous
subtle
47. To make a situation better
Ameliorate
Ineffable
oracle
fleeting / ephemeral
48. Choosing or using a variety of sources
austerity
rebuff
draconian
Eclectic
49. Very stubborn; inflexible
Refractory
sophistry
pandemic
Obdurate - Intransigent
50. Humiliating - shameful - disgraceful
Ignominious
amalgam
altruistic
rhetorican