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 Test Questions
SAT Vocabulary: Level 2
abortive     Speak
 
(1)
a. or ad.  
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difficult to use or handle because of size or weight, or shape; lacking grace in movement or posture
easily managed or controlled; governable; easily handled or worked; docile
sky blue; light purplish-blue
unsuccessful; failing to accomplish an intended objective; fruitless
marked by energy and vigor; manly; able to copulate, as for male
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assimilate     Speak
 
(2)
v.  
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attack from all sides; trouble persistently; hem in
avoid cleverly; escape the perception of
incorporate and absorb into mind; make similar; cause to resemble
disable or disqualify; deprive of capacity or natural power
extinguish; put down forcibly; suppress;  pacify or quiet
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blunder     Speak
 
(3)
n.  
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huge creature; something enormous in size or power
serious mistake typically caused by ignorance or confusion
enthusiastic, prolonged applause; show of public homage or welcome
a person who seeks to overturn established government; advocate of abolishing authority
cause to lean, slant, or slope; deviate from the horizontal or vertical
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chastise     Speak
 
(4)
v.  
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irritate; stir to anger; stir up liquid; muddy
force to leave; remove from office
punish, as by beating; criticize severely; rebuke
border upon; adjoin; touch or end at one end or side; lie adjacent
destroy completely; reduce to nonexistence
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consternation     Speak
 
(5)
n.  
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beginning of something; taking in, as by swallowing; the process of receiving within
highest point; vertex; summit; climax
intense state of fear or dismay; astonishment combined with terror
introduction, usually to a poem or play
entire range; all notes in musical scale
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devout     Speak
 
(6)
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gray or white with or as if with age; covered with grayish hair
dull, unimaginative, and commonplace; old-fashioned; stuffy
in or into a high place; high or higher up
fit for growing crops, as by plowing
expressing devotion or piety; earnest in the religious field
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dogmatic     Speak
 
(7)
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suggesting puzzlement; mocking; curious
not able to be traveled or crossed
detestable; extremely unpleasant; very bad
stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proven beliefs; inflexible, rigid
leading a life of self-discipline and self-denial; austere
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fawning     Speak
 
(8)
a. or ad.  
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attempting to win favor by flattering; flattering
suggesting puzzlement; mocking; curious
brief or compact; by clear, precise expression in few words
echoing; strong and deep in tone; resounding; having lasting presence or effect
plowed but left unseeded during a growing season; uncultivated
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fop     Speak
 
(9)
n.  
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vain man; one who wants to get admiration by dress; man excessively concerned with his clothes and appearance
willingness to carry out the wishes of others; great respect
mental calmness; calm or tranquil state of mind
leave of absence; vacation granted a soldier or civil servant
condition of balance among various forces; inactivity resulting from a static balance
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impassable     Speak
 
(10)
a. or ad.  
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gay in manner, appearance, or action; easy and carefree
moved by sexual love; loving
not able to be traveled or crossed
done or achieved with little effort or difficulty; ready or fluent
excessively greedy; predatory; taking by force; plundering
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interloper     Speak
 
(11)
n.  
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common person, or one of the common of the first or most respectable class; freeholder; man free born
central or vital part; most material and central part; grain or seed as of corn
intruder; one that interferes with affairs of others, often for selfish reasons
flowing into; mass arrival or incoming
fame; quality of being widely honored and acclaimed
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lofty     Speak
 
(12)
a. or ad.  
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concerning each of two or more persons or things; exchangeable; interacting
deep-rooted; firmly and long-established; habitual
repeated too often; overfamiliar through overuse
impressive from inherent grandeur; large and impressive, in size, scope, or extent
high, tall, having great height; idealistic, implying over-optimism
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metropolis     Speak
 
(13)
n.  
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cheat; one who defrauds or does a practice of defrauding others
enthusiastic, prolonged applause; show of public homage or welcome
small rounded hill or mound; top or crown of a hill
a major city, especially the chief city of country or region
tube in which patterns made by reflection in mirrors of colored pieces of glass; produce interesting symmetrical effects
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ostensible     Speak
 
(14)
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green; full of juice in vegetation
being or seeming to be without an end; endless; tedious; continual
impossible or difficult to perceive by the mind or senses
put forth or held out as real, actual, or intended; proper or intended to be shown
all-powerful; having unlimited or universal power, authority, or force
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phlegmatic     Speak
 
(15)
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obscure; profound; difficult to understand
done or achieved with little effort or difficulty; ready or fluent
calm; not easily disturbed; not easily excited to action or passion
inharmonious; impossible to coexist; not easy to combine harmoniously
deprived of; lacking; desolate because of loss
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redress     Speak
 
(16)
n.  
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act of supposing; something supposed; assumption
remedy; compensation; an act of correcting error or fault
medieval chemistry; magical or mysterious power or process of transforming
formal investigation, often held before a jury;  judicial inquiry
popular fashion; current state or style of general acceptance and use
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resolute     Speak
 
(17)
a. or ad.  
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firm, unyielding,  or determined; having decided purpose
complex or bizarre, especially in ornamentation; irregular in shape
impenetrable; incapable of being damaged or distressed
closely and firmly united or packed together; briefly giving a gist of something
widespread; widely or commonly occurring, existing, accepted
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spartan     Speak
 
(18)
a. or ad.  
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lacking stylishness or neatness; shabby; old-fashioned
light as air; heavenly; unusually refined
avoiding luxury and comfort; sternly disciplined
by a small amount at a time; in stages; gradually
determined by chance or impulse or whim rather than by necessity or reason; capricious
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terminus     Speak
 
(19)
n.  
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pretense; something intended to misrepresent
ideally perfect place, especially in its social, political, and moral aspects
last stop of a railroad; final point or end; boundary or border
rectangular frame attached  working parts, as of an automobile
a tendency to keep together
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unimpeachable     Speak
 
(20)
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warm and extremely humid; moist; damp; moldy
dull; impassive; having or revealing little emotion or sensibility
full of pores; able to absorb fluids; full of tiny pores that allow fluids or gasses to pass through
dull and unimaginative; matter-of-fact; factual
free of guilt; not subject to blame; completely acceptable
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