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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. To put up with to survive a hardship
heinous
patronizing
subdue
endure
2. To ease a pain or a burden
alleviate
reprehensible
melancholy
imperious
3. Lazy
genre
vilify
indolent
proximity
4. Determined by impulse rather than reason
arbitrary
enlightening
effusive
dogmatic
5. (adj.) relatively unknown (v.) to conceal or make indistinct
auspicious
pervasive
sonorous
obscure
6. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family or homeland)
obstinate
obsolete
alienated
plagiarism
7. Sincerity; openness
candor
torpor
integrity
wary
8. Not migratory; settled
sedentary
truncated
dogmatic
exculpate
9. The state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality
pejorative
ingrate
mediocrity
benign
10. Describing a showy or pretentious display
consensus
ostentatious
realism
sedentary
11. Biting sarcastic or witty
caustic
brusque
assimilation
context
12. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
dilettante
prudent
reclamation
cartographer
13. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
comprehensive
emigrate
austere
malleable
14. Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
impartial
dubious
melancholy
solvent
15. An authority who expresses his/her opinions
comprehensive
reclamation
pundit
hackneyed
16. To make vicious statements about
truncated
ebullience
cogent
vilify
17. Lacking sophistication
clarity
excerpt
naive
frank
18. Equipment; a group of machines
disdain
lucid
ostentatious
apparatus
19. A collection of literary pieces
pugnacious
laudatory
elusive
anthology
20. Large in scope or content
stoic
truncated
comprehensive
suppressed
21. Not genuine; false - counterfeit
spurious
sanction
flagrant
pundit
22. To hide by blending in with surroundings
malice
exemplary
melancholy
camouflage
23. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
medley
derived
serene
reprehensible
24. Having a harmful effect; injurious
naive
torpor
deleterious
consensus
25. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
dogged
condemn
implication
naive
26. To consider perfect
idealize
frank
sanction
narrative
27. A tremendously skilled artist
benign
virtuoso
indolent
clarity
28. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
discredit
futile
assiduous
parody
29. Possessed at birth; inborn
flagrant
medley
innate
excerpt
30. Clearness in thought or expression
replete
catalog
meticulous
clarity
31. The philosophy or science of law
perception
medley
ambivalent
jurisprudence
32. Extremely careful and precise
facile
haughty
profound
meticulous
33. Commonplace; ordinary
discourse
suppressed
discredit
mundane
34. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
incumbent
phenomenon
nocturnal
trivial
35. Freed from blame
assiduous
superficial
spontaneous
vindicated
36. Copied or adapted from a source
diligent
derived
novice
trepidation
37. Exercising good judgment or common sense
equivocate
sanction
prudent
reprehensible
38. A union of two or more groups
dilatory
alliance
listless
ponderous
39. An ungrateful person
ingrate
deleterious
facile
emphasize
40. Domineering; oppressively overbearing
patronizing
dictatorial
rhetoric
serene
41. A declaration or statement
assertion
florid
rhetoric
exemplary
42. Convincing; reasonable
cogent
eclectic
equivocate
florid
43. Worthy of blame
ample
serene
apprehension
reprehensible
44. Courageous; fearless
alienated
emigrate
intrepid
arbiter
45. Appropriateness of behavior
propriety
phenomenon
endure
discourse
46. To give official authorization or approval
frenetic
realism
sanction
nocturnal
47. Not caring one way or the other
indifferent
obscure
alleviate
compelling
48. Combative; belligerent
catalog
notorious
pugnacious
sanction
49. A clever trick used to deceive or outwit
stratagem
wily
truncated
timorous
50. Strikingly new or unusual
novel
pervasive
apprehension
cordial