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SSAT Vocab
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ssat
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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. (adj.) - sacred - holy
sacrosanct
ostracize
surfeit
physiognomy
2. (adj.) - ghostly - spectral
soothsayer
apparitional
fabricate
formidable
3. (adj.) - stormy - bad - severe
inclement
limpid
domicile
wax
4. (adj.) - overly sweet
retract
flux
saccharine
obsequious
5. (n.) - compliments - sycophancy
chastise
bourgeois
sympathy
flattery
6. (adj.) - compassionate
volition
amorphous
sympathetic
allay
7. (n.) - vengeance - revenge - payback
pacify
retribution
irascible
repulse
8. (n.) - marriage
innocuous
clairvoyant
inquisitor
matrimony
9. (v.) - to guess - infer - suppose
surmise
Zeitgeist
malleable
abbreviate
10. (adj.) - relating to country life
enervated
rustic
brumal
battery
11. (adj.) - succinctly meaningful
ameliorate
fetter
predestination
pithy
12. (n.) - anger due to an unfair situation
spurious
ruse
sanguine
indignation
13. (adj.) - lacking in quality stature
meager
licentious
abridge
gay
14. (v.) - to examine carefully
peruse
quaint
abhor
inquisitor
15. (adj.) - of the most miserable or contemptible kind
abject
subsist
collusion
penchant
16. (v.) - to ease - pacify
weather
vivacious
clairvoyant
assuage
17. (v.) - to revise - edit
lethargic
accentuate
discreet
redact
18. (v.) - to inject
infuse
preponderance
atone
redact
19. (n.) - a sleight of hand
apparitional
austere
prestidigitation
fabulist
20. (n.) - rhythm
alacrity
polygamy
defunct
cadence
21. (adj.) - rotten - rancid - foul
putrid
lithe
hierarchy
vivacious
22. (v.) - to cause disgust or distaste - or to drive back - repel
noxious
presumptuous
repulse
acumen
23. (v.) - to frustrate
physiognomy
confound
bide
coalesce
24. (adj.) - equivalent in value or significance
ethereal
irascible
tantamount
limber
25. (n.) - a statement that gives an unjust or unfavorable representation of a person or thing
bilk
malaise
somnolent
libel
26. (adj.) - causing conflict - opposition
unilateral
buffet
divisive
obsequious
27. (n.) - one who practices restraint as a means of self-discipline - usually religious
fabulist
tantamount
timorous
ascetic
28. (adj.) - frenzied - hectic - frantic
frenetic
antechamber
recapitulate
gourmand
29. (n.) - a common saying of advice or virtue
diminish
veracious
maxim
protean
30. (adj.) - amoral - lawless - lewd
tortuous
ascetic
voluminous
licentious
31. (adj.) - graceful - flexible - supple
allay
lithe
propriety
gay
32. (adj.) - loud - energetic
boisterous
exorbitant
retaliation
sate
33. (adj.) - relating to the land
cajole
metamorphosis
terrestrial
salutation
34. (adj.) - enormous - immense
austere
vast
gay
colossus
35. (adj.) - impoverished
surmise
cogent
destitute
verbose
36. (adj.) - vulgar - offensive - rude
nefarious
brash
lewd
pulchritude
37. (v.) - to sooth - ease
exorbitant
pulchritude
pacify
fickle
38. (v.) - to be idle - to be still
infuse
fortify
stagnate
sybarite
39. (adj.) - miniature - small
soothsayer
abundant
diminutive
erect
40. (adj.) - easily yielding to authority
tragedy
divisive
punctilious
submissive
41. (adj.) - frigid - cold
algid
accommodating
lachrymose
accentuate
42. (adj.) - relating to or showing love
uniform
vicissitudes
histrionic
amorous
43. (adj.) - abrupt - short - brief
terse
stupefy
gluttonous
sanguine
44. (v.) - to tell a story
narrate
sympathy
claustrophobia
serendipity
45. (adj.) - not inclined to talk
lavish
taciturn
mediate
harrowing
46. (v.) - to repeat - reiterate
recapitulate
rustic
augment
spectral
47. (adj.) - able to see things that others cannot
abundant
clairvoyant
luminescence
tragedy
48. (n.) - a state of constant change or a flow
malleable
mercurial
spurious
flux
49. (adj.) - required - not optional
myriad
mandatory
sympathetic
seer
50. (v.) - to hit or strike
foster
benevolent
buffet
submissive