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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. Controlling influence; domination
dismiss
acknowledge
ascendancy
apathy
2. Unintentional; by oversight; careless
inadvertent
attribute
ratify
incisive
3. Banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign
preclude
artifact
relegate
abstract
4. Nourish; educate; foster
rigor
enhance
nurture
robust
5. Artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciation of the beautiful
conciliatory
contract
aesthetic
malicious
6. Clever; resourceful
ingenious
satirical
artifact
remorse
7. Unchangeable
reticence
immutable
cordial
morose
8. Struggle; compete; assert earnestly
contend
precocious
profusion
predator
9. Approve; ratify
inundate
diligence
sanction
sporadic
10. Threatening
inconsequential
ominous
despondent
guile
11. Clear from blame; exonerate; justify or support
vindicate
recount
profound
vilify
12. Obscure; profound; difficult to understand
exuberance
discrepancy
abstruse
implausible
13. yielding; timid
enigma
submissive
precocious
hedonist
14. Change; introduction of something new
opportunist
pervasive
concise
innovation
15. Hostility; active resistance
optimist
notoriety
ostentatious
antagonism
16. Manually skilled worker; craftsman - as opposed to artist
digression
expedite
artisan
instigate
17. Fearless
expedite
gratuitous
ambivalence
intrepid
18. Lack of consistency; difference
devious
discrepancy
sluggish
intimidate
19. Generous; charitable
benevolent
innocuous
levity
adulation
20. Drowsy; dull
brevity
lethargic
thrive
coercion
21. Generous; openhanded; extravagant; wasteful
lavish
indiscriminate
placate
ambiguous
22. Acquit; exculpate
subside
deprecate
exonerate
resolve
23. Put away from consideration; reject
degradation
placate
corroborate
dismiss
24. Standard used in judging
criterion
venerate
incorrigible
thrive
25. Excessive interest in one's self; belief that one should be interested in one's self rather than in others
opportunist
profound
egoism
confound
26. Religious devotion; godliness
piety
vigor
orator
innovation
27. Censure; rebuke
reprove
corroborate
altruistic
scrupulous
28. Please
haughtiness
taciturn
cryptic
gratify
29. Not fitting; absurd
miserly
incongruous
cordial
benevolent
30. Honor the memory of
commemorate
levity
concur
resolve
31. One-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party
substantiate
partisan
inclusive
analogous
32. Praise
laud
ambiguous
coercion
exhilarating
33. Slander
ominous
obscure
vilify
listless
34. Thrift; economy
enigma
dismiss
frugality
exuberance
35. Puzzle; mystery
concise
enigma
inane
abstruse
36. Conciseness
gratify
brevity
feasible
malicious
37. Former occupant of a post
commemorate
dismiss
predecessor
verbose
38. Lack of seriousness; lightness
optimist
predecessor
perpetuate
levity
39. Grieve; express sorrow
ascendancy
lament
expedient
ponderous
40. Advanced in development
calculated
archaic
precocious
incisive
41. Raise in rank or dignity; praise
pacifist
exalt
obscure
concise
42. Active strength
vigor
undermine
insularity
composure
43. Hermit; loner
impede
confound
predecessor
recluse
44. Subordinating the individual to the state; completely dominating another's will
concede
glutton
authoritarian
ambiguous
45. Overabundance; lavish expenditure; excess
aspire
fallacious
profusion
cursory
46. Lacking in spirit or energy
concise
listless
rancor
disparage
47. Harmful; damaging
detrimental
affable
exhilarating
analogous
48. Silly; senseless
endorse
robust
vacillate
inane
49. Person who seeks to overturn the established government; advocate of abolishing authority
disinclination
precocious
anarchist
cajole
50. Isolation; solitude
contend
seclusion
adversary
opaque