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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. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
elusive
dictatorial
insipid
misconception
2. Freed from blame
putrid
narrative
enmity
vindicated
3. (adj.) relatively unknown (v.) to conceal or make indistinct
deleterious
obscure
caustic
frenetic
4. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
vindicated
opulent
poignant
incumbent
5. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
sanction
hackneyed
despotic
slander
6. Misconduct or wrongdoing - especially by a public official
caustic
malfeasance
incumbent
disparage
7. To absorb; to make similar
hackneyed
coup
assimilation
archaic
8. Express grief for; mourn
hackneyed
disdain
lament
ponderous
9. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
ebullience
exemplary
jurisprudence
gratuitous
10. Unable to be reformed
incorrigible
camaraderie
obsolete
anthology
11. To cause to be doubted
discredit
endure
surreptitiously
medley
12. Current - modern; from the same time
poignant
intuition
contemporary
austere
13. A beginner
malice
subdue
novice
spurious
14. Convincing; reasonable
paradigm
cogent
proximity
benevolent
15. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
hierarchy
inveterate
clandestine
florid
16. Profoundly moving; touching
heinous
endure
poignant
conception
17. Favorable; promising
auspicious
modest
facile
condemn
18. General agreement
heinous
consensus
substantiated
eclectic
19. Uncertainty; apprehension
perspective
trepidation
jurisprudence
obdurate
20. Large in scope or content
torpor
realism
maverick
comprehensive
21. Open to more than one interpretation
innate
ambiguous
mural
camaraderie
22. Savage; untamed
stratagem
feral
novice
plagiarism
23. To give official authorization or approval
sanction
malleable
nascent
virtuoso
24. Practical
theoretical
pragmatic
plagiarism
listless
25. To free from guilt or blame
putrid
exculpate
ostentatious
perspective
26. The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
hypocrisy
heinous
dictatorial
eclectic
27. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
realism
impression
disingenuous
apparatus
28. Of little importance or significance
trivial
derived
obdurate
catalog
29. To leave one country or region and settle in another
incontrovertible
emigrate
malice
toxic
30. A collection of literary pieces
ebullience
anthology
stratagem
inevitable
31. A group organized by rank
whimsical
exculpate
hierarchy
elusive
32. Spread or flowing throughout
timorous
candor
enlightening
permeated
33. Kind and gentle
benign
fastidious
parody
cogent
34. Appropriateness of behavior
impinge
propriety
poignant
imperious
35. Commonplace; ordinary
mundane
conception
cartographer
ostentatious
36. Made; concocted in order to deceive
suppressed
novel
fabricated
rational
37. Intense enthusiasm
ebullience
torpor
inconsequential
prodigious
38. Seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
naive
impartial
truncated
plausible
39. Made up of a variety of sources or styles
objectivity
transient
indifferent
eclectic
40. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
incontrovertible
aesthetic
inherent
sanction
41. Submissive; like a servant
servile
notorious
ornate
indolent
42. A clever trick used to deceive or outwit
haughty
paramount
feral
stratagem
43. (v.) to make an itemized list of
catalog
astute
equivocate
truncated
44. Copied or adapted from a source
derived
alliance
coup
indolent
45. Arrogant; vainly proud
flagrant
clandestine
plausible
haughty
46. Easily understood; clear
lucid
intuition
clandestine
contemptuous
47. To put up with to survive a hardship
quandary
egregious
endure
ostentatious
48. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
equanimity
medley
condemn
benevolent
49. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
fluid
discourse
incumbent
whimsical
50. A selected part of a passage or scene
sanction
flagrant
excerpt
feral