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SAT Vocab Most Important 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. Savage; untamed
suppressed
feral
camouflage
sedentary
2. Wildly excited or active
narrative
frenetic
camaraderie
acquired
3. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
novice
modest
conception
imperious
4. To hide by blending in with surroundings
emollient
camouflage
vilify
condescending
5. (adj.) characterized by the telling of a story (n.) a story
tenuous
narrative
ample
permeated
6. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
innovative
acquired
malfeasance
florid
7. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; difference
context
disparity
assimilation
premonition
8. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
realism
assimilation
contemporary
decorous
9. To leave one country or region and settle in another
emigrate
slander
pundit
brittle
10. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
mollify
venerated
medley
perception
11. Express grief for; mourn
lament
rancorous
dilettante
ambivalent
12. Quarrelsome; unruly
intuition
condescending
parody
fractious
13. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
auspicious
despotic
harbinger
conception
14. Hard-working
staid
assiduous
paramount
serene
15. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
ambivalent
paradigm
ornate
apprehension
16. To slow the progress of
apathetic
eclectic
impede
modest
17. Combative; belligerent
pervasive
quandary
pugnacious
facile
18. Supported with proof or evidence; verified
despotic
alliance
cordial
substantiated
19. Stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
futile
impartial
disparage
dogmatic
20. Arrogant; vainly proud
arbitrary
replete
trivial
haughty
21. Anxiety or fear about the future
incumbent
cartographer
ample
apprehension
22. (v.) to make an itemized list of
cryptic
incumbent
catalog
tenuous
23. Conspicuously bad or offensive
clarity
conflagration
cryptic
egregious
24. Having great depth or seriousness
profound
patronizing
torpor
archaic
25. Describing a showy or pretentious display
ostentatious
benign
arbitrary
spontaneous
26. Lacking application or practical application
abstract
theoretical
emigrate
exemplary
27. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
malice
exculpate
impression
archaic
28. Courageous; fearless
prosaic
assimilation
intrepid
nascent
29. Exercising good judgment or common sense
ambiguous
prudent
genre
ominous
30. Having no useful purpose; pointless
futile
penitent
deleterious
acquired
31. To free from guilt or blame
novice
surreptitiously
apparatus
exculpate
32. Unable to be reformed
incorrigible
suppressed
substantiated
capricious
33. Extreme ill will or spite
ambivalent
subdue
malice
discourse
34. Dispersed throughout
reprehensible
meticulous
pervasive
discredit
35. Favorable; promising
elusive
caustic
innovative
auspicious
36. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
elusive
truncated
naive
ruse
37. Timid; fearful about the future
inconsequential
harbinger
timorous
amenable
38. Proper; marked by good taste
indifferent
decorous
putrid
lament
39. Inborn; built-in
ruse
inherent
biased
brittle
40. Cunning
dogmatic
incorrigible
wily
profound
41. Describing a dry - rainless climate
realism
theoretical
ambivalent
arid
42. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
coherent
anthology
embellish
trivial
43. Having a harmful effect; injurious
assiduous
deleterious
stoic
impede
44. Uncertainty; apprehension
condescending
stratagem
ingrate
trepidation
45. A feeling about the future
penitent
catalog
premonition
apparatus
46. An occupation or profession
dilatory
embellish
vocation
sanction
47. Made up of a variety of sources or styles
eclectic
hypocrisy
catalog
malleable
48. The act of making something useful again
florid
jurisprudence
caustic
reclamation
49. Friendly; sincere
theoretical
spontaneous
cordial
heinous
50. Having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure - weak
obdurate
alienated
substantiated
tenuous