Vocabulary Vocabulary

ANSWER KEY Review 1 ANSWER KEY Review 2

SAT01A-COMPL01 SAT01B-COMPL02
Select the best answer for each blank, defintion or Select the best answer for each blank, defintion or
synonym. synonym.

1. He has a degree in landscape 5. What hurts us is an 1. The film's style is so 5. Levine told the nerds in
architecture and is
_________ about plants.
_________ of knowledge that
is empirically false.
A) din
1. E. passionate economical it seems almost
_________.
attendance not to hide from
the things they are
_________ about. 1. B. terse
A) quiescent A) acute
B) virulent B) allusion B) terse A) quiescent
C) concise
D) nefarious
E) passionate
C) acoustics
D) ingenious
E) illusion
2. B. terse C) illusion
D) fanatical
E) eloquence
B) virulent
C) concise
D) nefarious 2. D. ardent
E) passionate

2. In the past security officers 6. He is in a _________ or

3. D. prudent 2. As a result, they run the 6. If you are asked to
3. E. illusion
were usually _________ ex- quite confused. risk of coming across as participate in a role-playing
military types who wore
holsters and brush cuts.
A) cryptic
B) effervescent 4. E. din troublemakers or cranks
rather than as reformers or
situation, give short but
_________ answers.
4. D. rancorous
A) acute C) rancorous _________ advocates. A) concise
B) terse D) euphony B) taciturn
C) illusion
D) fanatical
E) quandary
5. E. illusion
A) quiescent
B) virulent
C) concise
C) ingenious
D) effervescent
5. E. passionate
E) eloquence D) ardent E) prattle
E) honorable
6. A. concise
3. In any case, it's _________
to limit your intake of high-
7. The eggs hatch into larvae
which spin cocoons and enter a
6. E. quandary 3. He gives you _________
that has the appearance of
7. And we'd like to thank you,
Scott, for being such an astute
sodium processed and _________ pupa stage. truth. reader and _________ student 7.. E. perspicacious
prepared food.
A) passionate
A) quiescent
B) concise 7. A. quiescent A) din
B) allusion
of the environment.
A) effervescent
B) acute
C) fanatical
C) perspicacious
D) taciturn
C) acoustics
D) ingenious
B) ingenious
C) euphony 8. A. pithy
D) prudent
E) honorable
E) quandary
8. E. euphony E) illusion D) rancorous
E) perspicacious

4. He is raising a _________ 8. Avoid the possessive unless 4. And, come to think of it, the 8. There is an excellent point in
of clanking pots and clumsy its omission destroys the play even begins to resemble that _________ excerpt you
feet, so loud you figure he _________ of the name or that _________ body for the chose.
must be doing it on purpose. changes its descriptive occasional clumsiness in its A) pithy
A) taciturn application. logic. B) terse
B) ominous A) pernicious A) terse C) acute
C) prattle B) cacophonous B) pernicious D) garrulous
D) ingenious C) deprecate C) garrulous E) passionate
E) din D) garrulous D) rancorous
E) euphony E) deprecate

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Vocabulary Vocabulary
ANSWER KEY Review 3 ANSWER KEY Review 6
SAT01C-MATCHDEF01 SAT01B-POS01
Select the best answer for each blank, defintion or For the term in ALL CAPITALS, select the Part of
synonym. Speech as used in the sentence.

1. uncommunicative 5. brief, short 1. C. taciturn 1. The typical safety office will

monitor biohazards produced
5. He was an ARDENT lover. 1. A. adjective
A) ingenious A) acute A) adjective
B) prattle B) terse from research on, say, a B) adverb
C) taciturn
D) euphony
E) rant
C) illusion
D) fanatical
E) eloquence
2. A. quiescent VIRULENT virus or bacterium.
A) adjective
C) noun
D) verb
E) other
2. A. adjective
B) adverb
C) noun

3. D. honorable D) verb
E) other 3. C. noun
2. inactive
A) quiescent
6. brief, to the point
A) pithy 4. D. pernicious 2. It is an astonishingly
RANCOROUS and controversial
debate, with far-reaching
6. Since a rainbow is an optical
ILLUSION, it doesn't have an
actual endpoint.
4. A. adjective
B) concise B) terse
C) perspicacious C) acute implications. A) adjective
D) taciturn
E) quandary
D) garrulous
E) passionate 5. B. terse A) adjective
B) adverb
C) noun
B) adverb
C) noun
D) verb
5. A. adjective
D) verb E) other

6. A. pithy E) other
6. C. noun
3. reputable 7. loud, continuous noise 3. He and his speechwriters 7. Mathematical signs and
A) quandary
B) perspicacious
A) taciturn
B) ominous 7. E. din deserve credit for using the
accident of EUPHONY to give
symbols are often CRYPTIC, but
the best of them offer visual 7. A. adjective
C) effervescent C) prattle the argument cohesiveness clues to their own meaning.
D) honorable D) ingenious and force. A) adjective
E) cryptic E) din
8. C. ominous A) adjective
B) adverb
B) adverb
C) noun
D) verb
8. A. adjective
C) noun
D) verb E) other
E) other

4. bad, hurtful 8. menacing, foreboding 4. Her reaction was so overtly 8. Working with the newspaper
A) garrulous A) prattle PRUDENT it sent the others and police, they squelched the
B) deprecate B) impugn into an unprecedented panic. NEFARIOUS goings-on in just
C) eloquence C) ominous A) adjective two months.
D) pernicious D) honorable B) adverb A) adjective
E) rebuff E) nefarious C) noun B) adverb
D) verb C) noun
E) other D) verb
E) other

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 Vocabulary Vocabulary
ANSWER KEY Review 7 ANSWER KEY Review 9
SAT01A-COMPL01 SAT01A-MATCHDEF01
Select the best answer for each blank, defintion or Select the best answer for each blank, defintion or
synonym. synonym.

1. He has a degree in landscape

architecture and is
5. There are a few _________
inscriptions on the wax discs
1. E. passionate 1. very enthusiastic 5. talkative 1. D. ardent
A) quiescent A) illusion
_________ about plants. and cylinders and some notes B) virulent B) garrulous
A) quiescent
B) virulent
from past curators.
A) pithy 2. A. pithy C) concise
D) ardent
E) honorable
C) allusion
D) din
E) voluble
2. D. ingenious
C) concise B) rancorous
D) nefarious C) cryptic
E) passionate D) pernicious
E) prudent 3. C. taciturn 3. D. honorable
2. Here's a particularly
_________ commentary
about printers.
6. Some of their survival
strategies are nothing short of
_________.
4. E. virulent 2. clever; brilliant
A) euphony
6. brief, to the point
A) pithy 4. D. rancorous
B) convalesce B) terse
A) pithy A) euphony C) cacophonous C) acute
B) terse
C) acute
D) garrulous
B) convalesce
C) cacophonous
D) ingenious
5. C. cryptic D) ingenious
E) ascetic
D) garrulous
E) passionate 5. B. garrulous
E) passionate E) ascetic

6. D. ingenious 6. A. pithy
3. The writer wants to learn 7. Birds, which had erupted into 3. reputable 7. loud, continuous noise
why, but does not tell his
story, hoping that the
a _________ evensong at the
first hints of the false twilight, 7. B. garrulous A) quandary
B) perspicacious
A) taciturn
B) ominous 7. E. din
_________ ex-leader will were abruptly silent. C) effervescent C) prattle
volunteer an explanation. A) illusion D) honorable D) ingenious
A) ingenious
B) prattle
B) garrulous
C) allusion
D) din
8. B. allusion E) cryptic E) din
8. C. ominous
C) taciturn
D) euphony E) voluble
E) rant

4. On good days, her 8. This was a startling 4. resentful 8. menacing, foreboding

_________ negativity was _________ to several bodies A) terse A) prattle
channeled into wit. of knowledge simultaneously. B) pernicious B) impugn
A) concise A) acoustics C) garrulous C) ominous
B) nefarious B) allusion D) rancorous D) honorable
C) taciturn C) acclaim E) deprecate E) nefarious
D) perspicacious D) honorable
E) virulent E) nefarious

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Vocabulary Vocabulary
ANSWER KEY Review 11 ANSWER KEY Review 15
SAT01C-MATCHSYN02 SAT01A-MATCHDEF01
Select the best answer for each blank, defintion or Select the best answer for each blank, defintion or
synonym. synonym.

1. aloof 5. ambiguous 1. C. taciturn 1. very enthusiastic 5. secret; obscure in meaning 1. D. ardent

A) ingenious A) pithy A) quiescent A) pithy
B) prattle B) rancorous B) virulent B) rancorous
C) taciturn
D) euphony
E) rant
C) cryptic
D) pernicious
E) prudent
2. D. ingenious C) concise
D) ardent
E) honorable
C) cryptic
D) pernicious
E) prudent
2. D. ingenious
3. E. euphony 3. D. honorable
2. inventive
A) euphony
6. deception
A) din 4. D. pernicious 2. clever; brilliant
A) euphony
6. false appearance; false belief
A) din 4. D. rancorous
B) convalesce B) allusion B) convalesce B) allusion
C) cacophonous C) acoustics C) cacophonous C) acoustics
D) ingenious
E) ascetic
D) ingenious
E) illusion 5. C. cryptic D) ingenious
E) ascetic
D) ingenious
E) illusion 5. C. cryptic
6. E. illusion 6. E. illusion
3. harmony 7. reasonable 3. reputable 7. loud, continuous noise
A) pernicious
B) cacophonous
A) passionate
B) acute 7. D. prudent A) quandary
B) perspicacious
A) taciturn
B) ominous 7. E. din
C) deprecate C) fanatical C) effervescent C) prattle
D) garrulous D) prudent D) honorable D) ingenious
E) euphony E) honorable
8. C. ominous E) cryptic E) din
8. E. passionate

4. noxious 8. prophetic 4. resentful 8. sensual, desirous

A) garrulous A) prattle A) terse A) quiescent
B) deprecate B) impugn B) pernicious B) virulent
C) eloquence C) ominous C) garrulous C) concise
D) pernicious D) honorable D) rancorous D) nefarious
E) rebuff E) nefarious E) deprecate E) passionate

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 Vocabulary
Name: ___________________ Review 1
Date: ____________________ SAT01A-COMPL01

Select the best answer for each blank, defintion or synonym.

1. He has a degree in landscape 5. What hurts us is an _________ of

architecture and is _________ about knowledge that is empirically false.
plants. A) din
A) quiescent B) allusion
B) virulent C) acoustics
C) concise D) ingenious
D) nefarious E) illusion
E) passionate

2. In the past security officers were 6. He is in a _________ or quite

usually _________ ex-military types confused.
who wore holsters and brush cuts. A) cryptic
A) acute B) effervescent
B) terse C) rancorous
C) illusion D) euphony
D) fanatical E) quandary
E) eloquence

3. In any case, it's _________ to limit 7. The eggs hatch into larvae which spin
your intake of high-sodium processed cocoons and enter a _________ pupa
and prepared food. stage.
A) passionate A) quiescent
B) acute B) concise
C) fanatical C) perspicacious
D) prudent D) taciturn
E) honorable E) quandary

4. He is raising a _________ of clanking 8. Avoid the possessive unless its

pots and clumsy feet, so loud you figure omission destroys the _________ of
he must be doing it on purpose. the name or changes its descriptive
A) taciturn application.
B) ominous A) pernicious
C) prattle B) cacophonous
D) ingenious C) deprecate
E) din D) garrulous
E) euphony

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 Vocabulary
Name: ___________________ Review 2
Date: ____________________ SAT01B-COMPL02

Select the best answer for each blank, defintion or synonym.

1. The film's style is so economical it 5. Levine told the nerds in attendance

seems almost _________. not to hide from the things they are
A) acute _________ about.
B) terse A) quiescent
C) illusion B) virulent
D) fanatical C) concise
E) eloquence D) nefarious
E) passionate

2. As a result, they run the risk of 6. If you are asked to participate in a

coming across as troublemakers or role-playing situation, give short but
cranks rather than as reformers or _________ answers.
_________ advocates. A) concise
A) quiescent B) taciturn
B) virulent C) ingenious
C) concise D) effervescent
D) ardent E) prattle
E) honorable

3. He gives you _________ that has the 7. And we'd like to thank you, Scott, for
appearance of truth. being such an astute reader and
A) din _________ student of the environment.
B) allusion A) effervescent
C) acoustics B) ingenious
D) ingenious C) euphony
E) illusion D) rancorous
E) perspicacious

4. And, come to think of it, the play even 8. There is an excellent point in that
begins to resemble that _________ _________ excerpt you chose.
body for the occasional clumsiness in its A) pithy
logic. B) terse
A) terse C) acute
B) pernicious D) garrulous
C) garrulous E) passionate
D) rancorous
E) deprecate

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 Vocabulary
Name: ___________________ Review 3
Date: ____________________ SAT01C-MATCHDEF01

Select the best answer for each blank, defintion or synonym.

1. uncommunicative 5. brief, short

A) ingenious A) acute
B) prattle B) terse
C) taciturn C) illusion
D) euphony D) fanatical
E) rant E) eloquence

2. inactive 6. brief, to the point

A) quiescent A) pithy
B) concise B) terse
C) perspicacious C) acute
D) taciturn D) garrulous
E) quandary E) passionate

3. reputable 7. loud, continuous noise

A) quandary A) taciturn
B) perspicacious B) ominous
C) effervescent C) prattle
D) honorable D) ingenious
E) cryptic E) din

4. bad, hurtful 8. menacing, foreboding

A) garrulous A) prattle
B) deprecate B) impugn
C) eloquence C) ominous
D) pernicious D) honorable
E) rebuff E) nefarious

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 Vocabulary
Name: ___________________ Review 6
Date: ____________________ SAT01B-POS01

For the term in ALL CAPITALS, select the Part of Speech as used in the sentence.

1. The typical safety office will monitor 5. He was an ARDENT lover.

biohazards produced from research on, A) adjective
say, a VIRULENT virus or bacterium. B) adverb
A) adjective C) noun
B) adverb D) verb
C) noun E) other
D) verb
E) other

2. It is an astonishingly RANCOROUS and 6. Since a rainbow is an optical ILLUSION,

controversial debate, with far-reaching it doesn't have an actual endpoint.
implications. A) adjective
A) adjective B) adverb
B) adverb C) noun
C) noun D) verb
D) verb E) other
E) other

3. He and his speechwriters deserve 7. Mathematical signs and symbols are

credit for using the accident of often CRYPTIC, but the best of them
EUPHONY to give the argument offer visual clues to their own meaning.
cohesiveness and force. A) adjective
A) adjective B) adverb
B) adverb C) noun
C) noun D) verb
D) verb E) other
E) other

4. Her reaction was so overtly PRUDENT 8. Working with the newspaper and
it sent the others into an unprecedented police, they squelched the NEFARIOUS
panic. goings-on in just two months.
A) adjective A) adjective
B) adverb B) adverb
C) noun C) noun
D) verb D) verb
E) other E) other

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 Vocabulary
Name: ___________________ Review 9
Date: ____________________ SAT01A-MATCHDEF01

Select the best answer for each blank, defintion or synonym.

1. very enthusiastic 5. talkative

A) quiescent A) illusion
B) virulent B) garrulous
C) concise C) allusion
D) ardent D) din
E) honorable E) voluble

2. clever; brilliant 6. brief, to the point

A) euphony A) pithy
B) convalesce B) terse
C) cacophonous C) acute
D) ingenious D) garrulous
E) ascetic E) passionate

3. reputable 7. loud, continuous noise

A) quandary A) taciturn
B) perspicacious B) ominous
C) effervescent C) prattle
D) honorable D) ingenious
E) cryptic E) din

4. resentful 8. menacing, foreboding

A) terse A) prattle
B) pernicious B) impugn
C) garrulous C) ominous
D) rancorous D) honorable
E) deprecate E) nefarious

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 Vocabulary
Name: ___________________ Review 11
Date: ____________________ SAT01C-MATCHSYN02

Select the best answer for each blank, defintion or synonym.

1. aloof 5. ambiguous
A) ingenious A) pithy
B) prattle B) rancorous
C) taciturn C) cryptic
D) euphony D) pernicious
E) rant E) prudent

2. inventive 6. deception
A) euphony A) din
B) convalesce B) allusion
C) cacophonous C) acoustics
D) ingenious D) ingenious
E) ascetic E) illusion

3. harmony 7. reasonable
A) pernicious A) passionate
B) cacophonous B) acute
C) deprecate C) fanatical
D) garrulous D) prudent
E) euphony E) honorable

4. noxious 8. prophetic
A) garrulous A) prattle
B) deprecate B) impugn
C) eloquence C) ominous
D) pernicious D) honorable
E) rebuff E) nefarious

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Name: ___________________ Review 15
Date: ____________________ SAT01A-MATCHDEF01

Select the best answer for each blank, defintion or synonym.

1. very enthusiastic 5. secret; obscure in meaning

A) quiescent A) pithy
B) virulent B) rancorous
C) concise C) cryptic
D) ardent D) pernicious
E) honorable E) prudent

2. clever; brilliant 6. false appearance; false belief

A) euphony A) din
B) convalesce B) allusion
C) cacophonous C) acoustics
D) ingenious D) ingenious
E) ascetic E) illusion

3. reputable 7. loud, continuous noise

A) quandary A) taciturn
B) perspicacious B) ominous
C) effervescent C) prattle
D) honorable D) ingenious
E) cryptic E) din

4. resentful 8. sensual, desirous

A) terse A) quiescent
B) pernicious B) virulent
C) garrulous C) concise
D) rancorous D) nefarious
E) deprecate E) passionate

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 Vocabulary
Name: ___________________ Review 7
Date: ____________________ SAT01A-COMPL01

Select the best answer for each blank, defintion or synonym.

1. He has a degree in landscape 5. There are a few _________

architecture and is _________ about inscriptions on the wax discs and
plants. cylinders and some notes from past
A) quiescent curators.
B) virulent A) pithy
C) concise B) rancorous
D) nefarious C) cryptic
E) passionate D) pernicious
E) prudent

2. Here's a particularly _________ 6. Some of their survival strategies are

commentary about printers. nothing short of _________.
A) pithy A) euphony
B) terse B) convalesce
C) acute C) cacophonous
D) garrulous D) ingenious
E) passionate E) ascetic

3. The writer wants to learn why, but 7. Birds, which had erupted into a
does not tell his story, hoping that the _________ evensong at the first hints
_________ ex-leader will volunteer an of the false twilight, were abruptly
explanation. silent.
A) ingenious A) illusion
B) prattle B) garrulous
C) taciturn C) allusion
D) euphony D) din
E) rant E) voluble

4. On good days, her _________ 8. This was a startling _________ to

negativity was channeled into wit. several bodies of knowledge
A) concise simultaneously.
B) nefarious A) acoustics
C) taciturn B) allusion
D) perspicacious C) acclaim
E) virulent D) honorable
E) nefarious

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