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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. Cancel out; nullify; deny
volatile
ominous
negate
incite
2. View with scorn or contempt
euphemism
disdain
credulity
somber
3. Applaud; announce with great approval
acclaim
uniformity
intrepid
decorum
4. Prosper; flourish
benevolent
conciliatory
calculated
thrive
5. Unnecessary; excessive; overabundant
superfluous
composure
intervene
esoteric
6. The state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes
ambivalence
autonomous
venerate
vindicate
7. Tending to include all
unwarranted
implausible
inclusive
cordial
8. Narrow-mindedness; isolation
venerate
commemorate
insularity
phenomena
9. Uprightness; wholeness
artisan
integrity
inherent
inane
10. Forbiddingly stern; severely simple and unornamented
austere
feasible
exhaustive
cursory
11. Urge; start; provoke
acknowledge
nurture
instigate
disparage
12. Wander aimlessly (physically or mentally)
ramble
depravity
discrepancy
repudiate
13. Extreme corruption; wickedness
furtive
intrepid
depravity
succinct
14. Advanced in development
precocious
scrupulous
digression
implement
15. Hinder; block; delay
diminution
discount
constraint
impede
16. Nearness
robust
proximity
nonchalance
disparage
17. Person who seeks to overturn the established government; advocate of abolishing authority
anarchist
expedite
optimist
affable
18. Worldly as opposed to spiritual; everyday
inadvertent
deterrent
mundane
insipid
19. Come between
retract
attribute
intervene
extol
20. Reconciling; soothing
explicit
conciliatory
concur
obstinate
21. Seriousness
exemplify
gravity
disputatious
extricate
22. Fanatic; person who shows excessive zeal
undermine
servile
zealot
homogeneous
23. Firm dislike
proliferation
aversion
archaic
repel
24. Unchangeable
constraint
incisive
immutable
meticulous
25. Serve as an example of; embody
invert
immutable
corroborate
exemplify
26. Waver; fluctuate
vacillate
inert
adversary
philanthropist
27. Unfavorable fortune; hardship; a calamitous event
adversity
gullible
peripheral
scanty
28. Severity
frugality
rancor
rigor
usurp
29. Capricious; fanciful
whimsical
discriminating
discerning
adulation
30. Systematic
doctrine
credulity
somber
methodical
31. Increase; improve
enhance
feasible
exonerate
scrupulous
32. Ill-humored; sullen; melancholy
renounce
disperse
scanty
morose
33. General agreement
incongruous
sustain
substantiate
consensus
34. Someone who eats too much
philanthropist
implement
glutton
profusion
35. Thorough; comprehensive
indiscriminate
diligence
exhaustive
vigor
36. Creature that seizes and devours another animal; person who robs or exploits others
ratify
predator
abstemious
whimsical
37. Limited; restricted
reprimand
compile
qualified
concur
38. Medicine to counteract a poison or disease
antidote
marred
abstruse
pervasive
39. Loiter or dawdle; continue or persist
linger
integrity
sporadic
erroneous
40. Withdraw; take back
opulence
uniformity
expedient
retract
41. Doubter; person who suspends judgment until the evidence supporting a point of view has been examined
ponderous
skeptic
diffuse
repel
42. Recognize; admit
malicious
acknowledge
astute
anecdote
43. Obstruct
alleviate
euphemism
hamper
notoriety
44. Rapid growth; spread; multiplication
commemorate
disperse
proliferation
hypothetical
45. Expression of praise - often on the occasion of someone's death
eulogy
censorious
obliterate
volatile
46. Overconfident; impertinently bold; taking liberties
restraint
servile
redundant
presumptuous
47. Appease; moderate
ironic
frivolous
mitigate
euphemism
48. Showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention
ostentatious
fastidious
contract
concede
49. Drive away; disgust
gregarious
fastidious
repel
reserve
50. Harmless
notoriety
innocuous
usurp
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