The answer key to the 10th grade SAT Vocabulary Exercise

1. countenance

2. negligence

3. lucid

4. rudimentary

5. discourse

6. ravaged- sorry, I used the verb rather than noun form for this one!

7. rhetoric

8. abstruse

9. sentiment

10. affirmative

11. acumen

12. callous

13. eminently

14. loathing

15. adroit

16. convoluted

17. austere

18. apocryphal

19. ascertain

20. enigma

21. mortify

22. detestable

23. astute

24. inscrutable

25. inclined

26. deformed, deformity

27. circumspect

28. reticent

29. reproved

30. sullenness

31. disseminated

32. staid

33. demeanor

34. pedantically

35. erudition

36. catholicity

37. candid

38. husbandry

39. singularly

40. conjecture

41. pedantic

42. surplus

43. didactic

44. perspicacious

45. coquetry

46. euphemism

47. pragmatic

48. florid

49. extrapolated

50. precocious

51. sordid

52. incoherent

53. prospectus

54. insinuated