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SAT Vocab Most Important Words
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sat
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english
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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. Misconduct or wrongdoing - especially by a public official
harbinger
malfeasance
virtuoso
assimilation
2. A state of uncertainty or perplexity
transient
flagrant
quandary
prodigious
3. Describing a dry - rainless climate
arid
frank
rhetoric
equanimity
4. To leave one country or region and settle in another
emigrate
premonition
ominous
clarity
5. Enormous
sedentary
obdurate
prodigious
timorous
6. Spread or flowing throughout
decorous
permeated
enmity
abstract
7. Secretive
consensus
clandestine
perception
incorrigible
8. Made; concocted in order to deceive
emphasize
fabricated
emigrate
cordial
9. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
insolent
misconception
abstract
inveterate
10. Playfully humorous
cryptic
assertion
facetious
facile
11. Stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
dogmatic
malleable
quandary
derived
12. Strikingly new or unusual
notorious
novel
mediocrity
timorous
13. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
malice
plausible
impede
parody
14. Goodwill between friends
context
camaraderie
harbinger
spontaneous
15. Feeling or showing little emotion
quandary
alliance
apathetic
superfluous
16. A place of retreat or security
ruse
proximity
meticulous
asylum
17. Clearness in thought or expression
lucid
caustic
opulent
clarity
18. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
compelling
fastidious
spurious
naive
19. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
equanimity
rancorous
rational
effusive
20. Commonplace; ordinary
trepidation
putrid
conception
mundane
21. Developed or learned; not naturally occurring
acquired
imperious
emigrate
anthology
22. Producing a deep or full sound
sonorous
auspicious
idealize
facetious
23. The act of making something useful again
pundit
affable
misconception
reclamation
24. Commendable; worthy of imitation
servile
perception
exemplary
discredit
25. Not straightforward; crafty
disingenuous
ruse
dogmatic
archaic
26. Introducing something new
benign
propriety
innovative
vindicated
27. Habitually late
amenable
ample
spurious
dilatory
28. Stubborn; inflexible
medieval
imperious
lament
obdurate
29. Profoundly moving; touching
alleviate
feral
inconsequential
poignant
30. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
eloquence
replete
profound
despotic
31. A large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface
mural
timorous
conviction
wily
32. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
wary
pragmatic
mediocrity
whimsical
33. Sincerity; openness
mundane
candor
sanction
phenomenon
34. Prejudiced
sanction
coup
biased
discredit
35. Hard-working
ebullience
toxic
malleable
assiduous
36. Equipment; a group of machines
brusque
incumbent
apparatus
ominous
37. An example or model
tenacity
paradigm
sanction
subdue
38. (adj.) softening and soothing (n.) something that softens or soothes
discredit
emollient
elusive
alienated
39. Shortened; cut off
superficial
sanction
truncated
equivocate
40. Practical
asylum
capricious
frank
pragmatic
41. Treating in a condescending manner
context
decorous
ominous
patronizing
42. To avoid making a definite statement
abstract
equivocate
pervasive
insolent
43. Of or occurring in the night
biased
toxic
nocturnal
prosaic
44. Without decoration; strict
austere
apathetic
mundane
surreptitiously
45. Current - modern; from the same time
ostentatious
astute
proximity
contemporary
46. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
dilettante
omnipotent
obsolete
emollient
47. Something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
harbinger
disparage
paramount
equivocate
48. Plentiful; having a large quantity
copious
conflagration
deleterious
archaic
49. Not applied to actual objects
disparity
fabricated
abstract
assertion
50. Rudely abrupt
coherent
integrity
brusque
whimsical