SAT* #7 Definition MATCH Exercise

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18 vocabulary words from The Most Important SAT* #7 puzzles.
    Alphabetical list of 18 words:
    Acrimonious, Alacrity, Conjecture, Conspicuous,
    Deviate, Disparage, Erudite, Exonerate, Extricate,
    Incorrigible, Indolent, Judicious, Mitigate, Ostensible,
    Palpable, Pandemonium, Rectify, Surreptitious
  • 1. _____ Indolent

  • 2. _____ Alacrity

  • 3. _____ Ostensible

  • 4. _____ Erudite

  • 5. _____ Palpable

  • 6. _____ Conjecture

  • 7. _____ Judicious

  • 8. _____ Acrimonious

  • 9. _____ Deviate

  • 10. _____ Extricate

  • 11. _____ Mitigate

  • 12. _____ Surreptitious

  • 13. _____ Pandemonium

  • 14. _____ Disparage

  • 15. _____ Conspicuous

  • 16. _____ Incorrigible

  • 17. _____ Exonerate

  • 18. _____ Rectify
Match the 18 definitions below to the vocabulary words on the left.
  • a. -- representing or appearing in a certain way, but often not actually so; seeming

  • b. -- easily perceived by any of the senses or by the mind; obvious; noticeable

  • c. -- to free from a charge; to declare blameless

  • d. -- the act of forming an opinion from incomplete evidence; guesswork

  • e. -- speed and willingness in acting or responding; cheerful readiness; eagerness

  • f. -- to set right; to remedy

  • g. -- attracting attention by being unusual or remarkable

  • h. -- reluctant to exert oneself; habitually lazy

  • i. -- incapable of being corrected or reformed

  • j. -- to make less severe or intense; to moderate

  • k. -- to speak of as unimportant or inferior; belittle

  • l. -- bitter and ill-natured in language and tone

  • m. -- having or exhibiting sound judgment; sensible; wise

  • n. -- to differ or move away from a specified course or prescribed mode of behavior

  • o. -- Done or acting in secret; sneaky; stealthy; furtive; concealed

  • p. -- to free or release from entanglement or difficulty; to disengage

  • Q. -- Wild uproar or noise; tumult

  • r. -- possessing deep and extensive learning, esp. learning gotten from books; learned

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    ANSWERS:
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