SAT Prep Vocab #2! (expanded)

Question 1

Prosaic means...

Accepted Answer

lacking imagination

Question 2

At sunset, the entomologists study the crepuscular insects as they move across the beach.

Accepted Answer

active at dawn and dusk

Question 3

What is the meaning of rapacity?

Accepted Answer

aggressive greed

Question 4

She endured her illness with great fortitude. What is fortitude?

Accepted Answer

courage

Question 5

Overly concerned with minute details or formalisms, especially in teaching.

Accepted Answer

pedantic

Question 6

She finished the race with great resolution! What is resolution?

Accepted Answer

determination

Question 7

If you will perambulate with me, I will present you to my friends.

Accepted Answer

to walk or travel; stroll

Question 8

a climate inimical to health.

Accepted Answer

unfavorable

Question 9

An audacious interpretation of her role.

Accepted Answer

uninhibited

Question 10

Abstemious means well-suited for the occasion.

Accepted Answer

False

Question 11

The long-term legal, political and diplomatic ramifications for Israel are incalculable.

Accepted Answer

uncertain; unsure

Question 12

A lachrymose interpretation of her role.

Accepted Answer

tearful

Question 13

She had excellent business acumen. What is acumen?

Accepted Answer

ability to make good judgments and quick decisions

Question 14

Ross Douthat wrote that the media coverage of the bill was mendacious and hysterical.

Accepted Answer

untruthful; false

Question 15

And he took her teeth out of her mouth so that she should not masticate food.

Accepted Answer

chew

Question 16

What is the meaning of Blighted?

Accepted Answer

damaged; destroyed

Question 17

Released from physical or mental bonds; unrestrained

Accepted Answer

unfettered

Question 18

I shall abstain from saying another word.

Accepted Answer

withdraw

Question 19

She was known as a hedonist. What is hedonist

Accepted Answer

pleasure seeker

Question 20

Felicitous means well-suited for the occasion.

Accepted Answer

True

Questions 20