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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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1. To give special attention to something - to stress
emphasize
benevolent
enlightening
patronizing
2. The art of using language effectively and persuasively
discredit
rhetoric
emigrate
trepidation
3. An example or model
inherent
conflagration
innate
paradigm
4. Large in scope or content
wary
inherent
dogged
comprehensive
5. Profoundly moving; touching
eloquence
insolent
obstinate
poignant
6. Not caring one way or the other
affable
frank
conviction
indifferent
7. Something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
harbinger
ornate
fluid
condescending
8. Savage; untamed
feral
trivial
truncated
conception
9. A brilliantly executed plan
coup
anthology
listless
ambiguous
10. To consider perfect
didactic
indolent
idealize
inveterate
11. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
proliferate
ponderous
impression
ample
12. Rotten
clarity
pundit
astute
putrid
13. Feeling or showing little emotion
apathetic
phenomenon
deleterious
despotic
14. Energy; power to survive
impinge
phenomenon
benevolent
vitality
15. A tremendously skilled artist
naive
virtuoso
nascent
pundit
16. (adj.) relatively unknown (v.) to conceal or make indistinct
obscure
phenomenon
acquired
inherent
17. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
stoic
camouflage
discourse
imperious
18. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
compelling
cartographer
emollient
fluid
19. A fixed or strong belief
conviction
inevitable
penitent
equivocate
20. Worn-out through overuse; trite
toxic
discredit
hackneyed
asylum
21. Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
diligent
biased
emphasize
stoic
22. Easily flowing
eloquence
fluid
rational
lament
23. Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
effusive
incumbent
ponderous
superfluous
24. Having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure - weak
tenuous
enmity
vilify
toxic
25. Treating in a condescending manner
patronizing
hierarchy
timorous
benign
26. Practical
novel
apparatus
pragmatic
incorrigible
27. Express grief for; mourn
lament
mollify
toxic
dilettante
28. To hide by blending in with surroundings
arbiter
timorous
condescending
camouflage
29. Friendly; sincere
cartographer
cordial
emigrate
implication
30. To make vicious statements about
harbinger
coherent
vocation
vilify
31. Extremely careful and precise
coup
subdue
meticulous
naive
32. Able to pay one's debts
lament
conception
discredit
solvent
33. An occupation or profession
innate
profound
vocation
inherent
34. To calm or soothe
medieval
mollify
florid
arid
35. (v.) to make an itemized list of
ingrate
catalog
trivial
proliferate
36. Stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
coup
dogmatic
narrative
fractious
37. Stubborn; inflexible
decorous
obdurate
indifferent
anthology
38. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
arbitrary
medley
proliferate
parody
39. Describing a showy or pretentious display
dubious
consensus
ostentatious
dilatory
40. A group organized by rank
emigrate
putrid
hierarchy
conception
41. Insulting in manner or speech
insolent
propriety
rational
candor
42. Habitually late
paradigm
dilatory
hackneyed
emollient
43. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
facile
sonorous
gratuitous
clarity
44. A union of two or more groups
alliance
servile
rational
novel
45. Not straightforward; crafty
emollient
disingenuous
endure
context
46. All-powerful
inveterate
deleterious
omnipotent
naive
47. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
diligent
fluid
cogent
timorous
48. Lacking application or practical application
theoretical
laudatory
archaic
paramount
49. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
ingrate
narrative
ambivalent
alliance
50. Equipment; a group of machines
replete
inevitable
apparatus
trepidation