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SAT Vocab 2010 2011

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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. Intemperate
Honor; honesty
Wavered; hesitated
Faithfulness; loyalty
Not moderate; excessive

2. Integrity
Disasters
Gloomy
Honor; honesty
In a commanding manner

3. Advocate
Support
Generous
Ordinary
Fair and equal

4. Inscrutable
Divided into two extremes
Not easy to comprehend
Strong and sturdy
Not moderate; excessive

5. Convivial
Of great importance
Sociable
An equal
Worship; great praise

6. Adulation
Sad - yearning; longing in a thoughtful way
Worship; great praise
Supremely good
Rudeness; ill-mannered behavior

7. Dalliance
Fair; wise
Non-serious involvement; toying or playing with something
In a commanding manner
Blame; criticize

8. Animosity
Blame; criticize
Superficial
Hostility; hatred
Dedicated; made holy

9. Steadfastness
Expressing care and concern
Loyalty; firmness of purpose
Compulsory
Shortage

10. Polarized
Shortage
Divided into two extremes
Blame; criticize
Experts with good taste/judgment

11. Sedulous
Harmful
Joining - speaking
Thorough; eager
Lack of transparency; being opaque

12. Toadies
Sycophants; flatterers; boot-lickers
Fate - doom
To cover
Shortage

13. Demonstrative
Fate - doom
Cannot be tolerated
Expressing emotion freely
Strong and sturdy

14. Robust
Strong and sturdy
An equal
Narrow-minded
Sulky

15. Petulant
Sulky
Disasters
Wavered; hesitated
Non-serious involvement; toying or playing with something

16. Disparaging
Critical
Moving backwards (literal or metaphoric)
Prevented
Sociable

17. Insufferable
Juicy
Seeking legal remedies
Presumed
Cannot be tolerated

18. Vindication
Sycophants; flatterers; boot-lickers
Not moderate; excessive
Useless; waste of time and effort
Proving right

19. Regressive
Moving backwards (literal or metaphoric)
Loyalty; firmness of purpose
Gloomy
In a commanding manner

20. Temporize
Fair and equal
Lack of transparency; being opaque
Put off; procrastinate
Sycophants; flatterers; boot-lickers

21. Thwarted
Inspiring awe
Prevented
Joining - speaking
Practicality

22. Fastidious
Expressing care and concern
Support
Containing a lot in a small space/few words
Very fussy; excessively concerned (esp. about cleanliness)

23. Histrionic
Prevented
Expensive
Melodramatic; expressing exaggerated emotion
Juicy

24. Mercenary
Tendency; leaning' predilection
Wavered; hesitated
Seeking money above all else
Seeking revenge

25. Meticulous
Thorough; taking care of details
An equal
Sociable
Kindly; pampering

26. Insular
Generous minded; big-hearted (merciful; forgiving)
Moving backwards (literal or metaphoric)
Seeking revenge
Narrow-minded

27. Articulation
Seeking legal remedies
Joining - speaking
Expensive
Wavered; hesitated

28. Floridity
Redness
Divided into two extremes
Fate - doom
Tendency; leaning' predilection

29. Presumptive
Suppressed
Presumed
Not moderate; excessive
Expressing care and concern

30. Cursory
Support
Agreement
Superficial
Gave moral lecture

31. Therapeutic
Honor; honesty
Moving backwards (literal or metaphoric)
Medicinal
Cruel; hard and unfeeling

32. Quelled
Suppressed
Divided into two extremes
Devaluing; criticizing
Joining - speaking

33. Facile
Something that makes better but does not cure
Gave moral lecture
Dictator
Over-simplified

34. Connoisseurs
Attacking verbally
Experts with good taste/judgment
Suppressed
Seeking money above all else

35. Nemesis
Dictator
Cannot be tolerated
Redness
Fate - doom

36. Deleterious
Harmful
Redness
Gave moral lecture
Agreement

37. Vacillated
Seeking legal remedies
Practicality
Wavered; hesitated
Very fussy; excessively concerned (esp. about cleanliness)

38. Propensity

39. Shroud
Being fat
Thorough; taking care of details
To cover
Very bad

40. Fidelity
Faithfulness; loyalty
Superficial
Attacking verbally
To make legal; give approval to

41. Equitable
Worship; great praise
Fair and equal
Not moderate; excessive
Hostility; hatred

42. Eulogy
Annoy
Vague
Redness
Praise

43. Opacity
Sociable
Annoy
Thick and sticky
Lack of transparency; being opaque

44. Consummate
Fate - doom
Cruel; hard and unfeeling
Supremely good
To make legal; give approval to

45. Imperious
Containing a lot in a small space/few words
Can't be expressed in words
Experts with good taste/judgment
In a commanding manner

46. Solicitous
Critical
Can't be expressed in words
Dictator
Expressing care and concern

47. Viscous
Superficial
Thick and sticky
Juicy
Sulky

48. Conciliatory
Bringing together; ending a dispute
Tone of voice
Very bad
Persuasive language

49. Vindictive
Seeking revenge
Juicy
Prevented
Can't be expressed in words

50. Idiosyncratic
Concerned with thinking
Ordinary
Quirky; eccentric; unique to an individual
Thorough; eager