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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. Possessed at birth; inborn
solvent
intuition
innate
coherent
2. Sadness; depression
benevolent
pervasive
stratagem
melancholy
3. The ability to speak vividly or persuasively
frank
malleable
eloquence
emollient
4. Something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
innovative
haughty
harbinger
arid
5. Uncertainty; apprehension
trepidation
malleable
context
despotic
6. Of or occurring in the night
affable
nocturnal
pervasive
futile
7. Submissive; like a servant
feral
servile
haughty
timorous
8. Commonplace; ordinary
mundane
trivial
lament
prudent
9. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
timorous
modest
poignant
obstinate
10. Informative; contributing the one's awareness
permeated
benevolent
listless
enlightening
11. Savage; untamed
brittle
ingrate
feral
intuition
12. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
suppressed
harbinger
hackneyed
genre
13. Profoundly moving; touching
poignant
prosaic
apprehension
naive
14. Lacking application or practical application
objectivity
pragmatic
elusive
theoretical
15. Difficult to comprehend
cryptic
coherent
vindicated
proliferate
16. Easily broken when subjected to pressure
premonition
imperious
brittle
insolent
17. Dine by secretive means
dilettante
surreptitiously
cogent
incorrigible
18. Worn-out through overuse; trite
nocturnal
toxic
hackneyed
alliance
19. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
embellish
serene
mundane
effusive
20. Lacking sophistication
quandary
superficial
didactic
naive
21. Enormous
proliferate
camouflage
prodigious
premonition
22. Exhibiting a display of great wealth
opulent
pundit
notorious
obscure
23. Unplanned; naturally occurring
astute
venerated
fastidious
spontaneous
24. Spread or flowing throughout
indifferent
intrepid
permeated
maverick
25. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; difference
opulent
condemn
truncated
disparity
26. A beginner
trivial
rhetoric
stoic
novice
27. To restrain; to hold back
pervasive
frank
subdue
conviction
28. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
emphasize
melancholy
spontaneous
facile
29. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family or homeland)
astute
sonorous
alienated
gratuitous
30. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
ominous
inveterate
insolent
modest
31. Treating in a condescending manner
patronizing
medieval
obscure
candor
32. Favorable; promising
ominous
cogent
auspicious
derived
33. Intended to instruct
sedentary
contemporary
clarity
didactic
34. Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
perception
premonition
insipid
stoic
35. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action
obstinate
mural
incontrovertible
innovative
36. A place of retreat or security
meticulous
fabricated
novel
asylum
37. Uninteresting; unchallenging
insipid
dilatory
maverick
auspicious
38. Energy; power to survive
vitality
hypocrisy
asylum
mural
39. Able to pay one's debts
conception
reclamation
objectivity
solvent
40. Combative; belligerent
ebullience
eclectic
egregious
pugnacious
41. A group organized by rank
hierarchy
vocation
staid
endure
42. (n.) an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
sanction
benign
compelling
meticulous
43. A crafty trick
mediocrity
ruse
aesthetic
rancorous
44. A declaration or statement
cohesive
incorrigible
suppressed
assertion
45. Extra; unnecessary
equanimity
wary
egregious
superfluous
46. Practical
idealize
condemn
propriety
pragmatic
47. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
obsolete
plagiarism
fractious
maverick
48. Responsive; agreeable
discredit
amenable
nascent
prosaic
49. Well-meaning; generous
vitality
fabricated
benevolent
impartial
50. A selected part of a passage or scene
equanimity
excerpt
whimsical
staid