SAT Vocabulary List #2

Question 1

Before cold weather begins a squirrel is most assiduous in gathering food, then closes its home

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hard working

Question 2

His condescending tone was as annoying as the words.

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patronizing

Question 3

Have you been too nonchalant about your own legacy?

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calm; caual

Question 4

The trick was to enhance her looks without being obvious that she was wearing it.

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improve; augment

Question 5

If school wasn't as prosaic as watching paint dry I would have been less truant.

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run of the mill

Question 6

The extenuating circumstances proved her innocence.

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guilt diminishing

Question 7

That laptop charger is incompatible with your computer.

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unable to work together

Question 8

I have a great disdain for people who lie to get their homework done for them.

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to regard with scorn

Question 9

I'm impressed by their abstinence from clauses such as "your soul is ours for all eternity".

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refraining from

Question 10

He was, however, possessed of a logical rather than an intuitive mind.

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instinctive; untaught

Question 11

I dislike roundabouts. In my opinion, they make you take a circuitous route to your destination

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indirect; roundabout

Question 12

How could the ground be so parched when the air was so waterlogged?

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dried up

Question 13

Travelling via horse and carriage is so anachronistic, everybody drives cars now!

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out of date

Question 14

The effects of smoking and chewing tobacco are deleterious to a person's health

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harmful

Question 15

The haughty ways she displayed her work turned off her peers.

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arrogant; condescending

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