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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. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
objectivity
conception
compelling
paramount
2. To free from guilt or blame
notorious
toxic
exculpate
transitory
3. Courageous; fearless
cogent
intrepid
emollient
arbiter
4. Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
convoluted
stoic
listless
biased
5. To make vicious statements about
vilify
laudatory
embellish
cryptic
6. Having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure - weak
tenuous
dilatory
eloquence
trepidation
7. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
impartial
discourse
innovative
sanction
8. (v.) to make an itemized list of
catalog
conception
clandestine
virtuoso
9. Made; concocted in order to deceive
fabricated
caustic
contemptuous
eclectic
10. Current - modern; from the same time
omnipotent
theoretical
contemporary
proliferate
11. Arrogant; vainly proud
malice
acquired
mediocrity
haughty
12. A union of two or more groups
despotic
clandestine
alliance
derived
13. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
despotic
incontrovertible
insolent
ambiguous
14. Commendable; worthy of imitation
derived
consensus
exemplary
replete
15. Closeness
novice
dogmatic
hierarchy
proximity
16. Exercising good judgment or common sense
proximity
imperious
prudent
ambiguous
17. Point of view
florid
modest
sanction
perspective
18. Dine by secretive means
sanction
surreptitiously
tenuous
futile
19. An example or model
paradigm
obstinate
fastidious
futile
20. The ability to speak vividly or persuasively
anthology
cogent
eloquence
elusive
21. Prejudiced
biased
novice
sanction
obdurate
22. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
equanimity
slander
disingenuous
malleable
23. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
inveterate
alienated
equanimity
emigrate
24. Domineering; oppressively overbearing
torpor
incumbent
implication
dictatorial
25. Circumstances of a situation; environment
benign
disingenuous
context
perspective
26. Favorable; promising
malfeasance
obdurate
innate
auspicious
27. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
modest
intrepid
effusive
notorious
28. Rotten
excerpt
wary
putrid
fractious
29. A group organized by rank
discourse
hierarchy
ample
nocturnal
30. Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
solvent
equivocate
dilatory
dubious
31. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
rational
conflagration
staid
integrity
32. To absorb; to make similar
meticulous
putrid
imperious
assimilation
33. Unimportant
ambivalent
impede
inconsequential
inherent
34. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action
flagrant
objectivity
contemptuous
obstinate
35. A judge who decides a disputed issue
melancholy
frank
arbiter
naive
36. Easily flowing
ample
integrity
fluid
prosaic
37. Express grief for; mourn
lament
affable
fluid
coherent
38. The act of making something useful again
ambivalent
reclamation
fastidious
copious
39. Hinder; interfere with
despotic
impinge
suppressed
rational
40. Trustworthiness; completeness
diligent
integrity
proliferate
asylum
41. Hateful; marked by deep seated ill-will
equivocate
vindicated
rancorous
haughty
42. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
modest
contemptuous
transient
slander
43. Indisputable; not open to question
imperious
sonorous
incontrovertible
perspective
44. Menacing; threatening
prosaic
reclamation
nascent
ominous
45. Condition of sticking together
dogmatic
cohesive
idealize
ebullience
46. To cause to be doubted
innovative
discredit
austere
effusive
47. To grow or increase rapidly
modest
comprehensive
proliferate
rational
48. Proper; marked by good taste
melancholy
decorous
rhetoric
benevolent
49. Combative; belligerent
listless
brusque
pugnacious
dilettante
50. The art of using language effectively and persuasively
rhetoric
enlightening
inconsequential
rational