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SAT Vocab High Frequency Words
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Blame; criticize
candor
censure
depravity
reverent
2. Extreme wealth; luxuriousness; abundance
opulence
condone
consensus
prolific
3. Belief that life is basically bad or evil; gloominess
decorum
dubious
pessimism
conciliatory
4. Controlling influence; domination
exuberance
ascendancy
antidote
innocuous
5. Composed of elements drawn from disparate sources
scrupulous
egoism
detrimental
eclectic
6. Loiter or dawdle; continue or persist
anecdote
expedite
obscure
linger
7. Opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal
contentious
coercion
dogmatic
satirical
8. Unfavorable fortune; hardship; a calamitous event
adversity
dissent
incongruous
exploit
9. Stingy; mean
miserly
feasible
disperse
discriminating
10. Abandon; disown; repudiate
redundant
innate
insularity
renounce
11. Overabundance; lavish expenditure; excess
mitigate
profusion
vigor
instigate
12. Unnecessary; excessive; overabundant
scrutinize
disseminate
transient
superfluous
13. Firmly established by nature or habit
inherent
comprehensive
aspire
phenomena
14. Insignificant; unimportant
inconsequential
affable
prolific
analogous
15. View with scorn or contempt
impair
disdain
erudite
derivative
16. Compress or shrink; make a pledge; catch a disease
ingenious
trite
gratuitous
contract
17. Capricious; randomly chosen; tyrannical
servile
thrive
arbitrary
disparage
18. Suitable; practical; politic
expedient
reticence
turbulence
robust
19. Difficult to please; squeamish
artifact
idiosyncrasy
haughtiness
fastidious
20. Ostentatious; pompous; making unjustified claims; overly ambitious
obscure
hardy
accessible
pretentious
21. The state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes
oblivion
ambivalence
satirical
explicit
22. Person who looks on the good side
proximity
optimist
ephemeral
haughtiness
23. Guilt; self-reproach
turmoil
fervor
incisive
remorse
24. Destroy completely
hedonist
obliterate
inundate
conciliatory
25. Courteous regard for another's wish
precocious
pretentious
profound
deference
26. Of the same kind
homogeneous
cryptic
indifferent
refute
27. Not fitting; absurd
arbitrary
inadvertent
inane
incongruous
28. Appease; moderate
preclude
disinclination
mitigate
flagrant
29. Unlikely; unbelievable
seclusion
contend
implausible
mundane
30. Momentary; temporary; staying for a short time
incongruous
morose
tentative
transient
31. Impressionable; easily influenced; having little resistance - as to a disease; receptive to
ominous
deride
reprove
susceptible
32. Please
marred
document
gratify
commemorate
33. Threatening
squander
ominous
apathy
resolution
34. Very high
lofty
susceptible
brevity
concise
35. Banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign
relegate
disperse
analogous
inane
36. Individual who sacrifices principles for expediency by taking advantage of circumstances
exemplary
opportunist
glutton
discriminating
37. Severity
exalt
abstract
hedonist
rigor
38. Raise in rank or dignity; praise
exalt
sustain
braggart
phenomena
39. Questionable; filled with doubt
negate
ironic
dubious
reprimand
40. Abundantly fruitful
adulation
prolific
divergent
prodigal
41. Shorten; reduce
exhilarating
digression
resolution
curtail
42. Highly skilled artist
squander
adulation
temper
virtuoso
43. Great fire
inert
conflagration
peripheral
derivative
44. Puzzle; mystery
whimsical
enigma
exemplify
calculated
45. Prosper; flourish
candor
thrive
facilitate
induce
46. Distribute; spread; scatter
concur
erudite
discordant
disseminate
47. Active enmity
doctrine
hypothetical
animosity
fastidious
48. Obscurity; forgetfulness
hardy
articulate
consensus
oblivion
49. False; misleading
incite
fallacious
skeptic
vacillate
50. Applaud; announce with great approval
sustain
optimist
acclaim
rhetorical