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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. A disloyal person
dispatch
Timorous
renegade
Esoteric - Arcane
2. Widespread epidemic
Brusque - Curt
pandemic
malodorous
conspicuous
3. Characterized by or suffering from dizziness; having vertigo
Cosmopolitan
Virulent
Vertiginous
boorish / uncouth / crass
4. To make a situation worse
Unprecedented
Exacerbate
Dilapidated
evocation
5. To cut short or reduce
curtail
fastidious
Censorious - Captious
Pristine
6. Thoroughly dried out
extirpate
sophistry
vicarious
Dessicated
7. Highly injurious - destructive - deadly
Pernicious
Inquisition
Harbinger - Portent - Presage
Taciturn
8. Agent that provokes or triggers change
Taciturn
remiss
Catalyst
sonorous
9. A liar; deceiver
evocation
dissembler / prevaricator
Propitiate
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
10. A stimulus or encouragement
Sinecure
Gestate
impetus
Convivial
11. An inference
renovate
Flippant - Facetious
conjecture / supposition
itinerant
12. Great vigor and energy - dash
Plastic - Malleable - Pliable
squelch
adroit / deft / adept / dexterious
panache / verve / flamboyant
13. An accidental but fortunate discovery
serendipity
penchant / predilection
dismissive
paradox
14. Vulgar; crude
jovial and jocular
boorish / uncouth / crass
vindicate
Glut - Plethora - Surfeit
15. Unselfish concern for others
Obstreperous
Provisional
altruistic
Underwrite
16. A person who uses intuition to see into the future; a seer
Lugubrious
painstaking / meticulous / exacting
clairvoyant
Blithe
17. To force or act by using pressure
Coerce
Propitiate
Exacerbate
Extravagant
18. Sharing an edge or boundary - or touching
Solicitous
Contiguous
pandemonium
reaffirm
19. A huge appetite; cannot be satisfied; insatiable
expunge / excise / expurgate
voracious / ravenous
prognosticator
Histrionic - Overwrought
20. Shallow; lacking depth
tumultuous
superficial
bungler
Lugubrious
21. To soothe or calm; to appease
Idiosyncrasy
Placate
curtail
intrepid / undaunted
22. Any decrease or loss in value caused by age - wear - or market conditions
Taciturn
pragmatic
flag
Depreciation
23. Unsophisticated
nebulous
naïve / gullible / credulous
Sedentary
Appeasement
24. Soothing or pleasant sounds; harmony
Euphony
impetus
dearth / paucity
stoic
25. A fake; a fraud; a cheat
charlatan
Lucrative
profundity
Complaisant
26. Causing hard in a subtle or stealthy manner; devious
impetus
Insidious
circumspect / prudent
Triumvirate
27. Unreasonable expensive
Beleaguer
exorbitant
Venerate - Revere
Sinecure
28. A tendency toward or irrational suspiciousness; irrational fear; delusions of persecution
Proliferate
Juxtaposition
Paranoia
penchant / predilection
29. Characterized by knowledge that is known only to a small group of specialists; obscure; recondite
Esoteric - Arcane
felicitous
Discordant
trite / hackneyed / pedestrian / platitudinous / banal / insipid
30. A person who introduces something new
innovator
Depreciation
galvanize
disparity
31. A general agreement
exemplary
Consensus
antipathy / animosity / rancor
Elucidate
32. A source of harm
austerity
conspicuous
bane
Redolent
33. To put down with comtemptuous jeering
laconic / succint / terse
dilettante
Supercilious
deride
34. Charmingly simple and carefree
trivial / minutiae
Unfettered
quixotic
Idyllic
35. Cowardly - faint hearted
convoluted
Craven
Fawn
reprieve
36. Filled with errors; wrong
boorish / uncouth / crass
erroneous
Eclectic
vindicate
37. To regard with great respect - to hold in high esteem
mitigate / mollify / assuage / alleviate
Venerate - Revere
Complaisant
martinet
38. A wild uproar; tumult
pandemonium
Precedent
Forbearance
Lucrative
39. Denounce or strongly criticize
exemplary
Lambaste
wry / droll
Idiosyncrasy
40. Awkwardly; clumsy - not graceful
Visceral
Ungainly
Indisputable
Flummox
41. A large number or amount
vindictive
maudlin
Spate
naïve / gullible / credulous
42. Detached; reserved
pandemic
aloof
callous
Ignominious
43. Very generous
Demography
rhetorican
Indomitable - Resolute
Munificent
44. Empty - lacking serious purpose
Paradigm
acolyte
Vacuous - Inane
Elan
45. Annoyingly talkative
Garrulous - Verbose - Loquacious
Euphony
rebuff
Forbearance
46. To comply
occlusion
acquiesce
provocative
paradox
47. Something of small value; petty; trifling
innocuous
Consternation
picayune
Provisional
48. Lying; untrustful
Sanguine
Beleaguer
Venal
mendacious
49. The act of making good or compensating for a loss - damage - or injury
Restitution
eccentric
Indisputable
incisive
50. Person who organizes a business/enterprise
magnanimous
Entrepreneur
antipathy / animosity / rancor
Gestate