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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Kind and gentle
ambiguous
dogged
obdurate
benign
2. Unimportant
capricious
suppressed
inconsequential
ponderous
3. To free from guilt or blame
hierarchy
exculpate
sedentary
proliferate
4. Lazy
pejorative
inconsequential
superficial
indolent
5. Cunning
wily
apparatus
propriety
assiduous
6. Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
alienated
flagrant
propriety
gratuitous
7. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
torpor
profound
impartial
fractious
8. Not applied to actual objects
rancorous
consensus
abstract
nascent
9. To hide by blending in with surroundings
objectivity
decorous
camouflage
fractious
10. To slow the progress of
hackneyed
cartographer
misconception
impede
11. Freed from blame
innate
pundit
vindicated
frenetic
12. Not caring one way or the other
condescending
mundane
inconsequential
indifferent
13. A fixed or strong belief
conviction
condescending
dictatorial
capricious
14. One who designs or makes maps
spurious
cartographer
incontrovertible
gratuitous
15. Extra; unnecessary
ominous
whimsical
superfluous
contemporary
16. Passing away with time; passing from one place to another
transient
context
emollient
conflagration
17. A state of uncertainty or perplexity
dubious
mollify
quandary
omnipotent
18. Worn-out through overuse; trite
hackneyed
medieval
stratagem
conception
19. Sincerity; openness
incorrigible
candor
narrative
intrepid
20. A union of two or more groups
mollify
alliance
fluid
medieval
21. Favorable; promising
superfluous
obstinate
auspicious
didactic
22. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
assertion
naive
medieval
impartial
23. Worthy of blame
inveterate
implication
reprehensible
frenetic
24. The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
asylum
equivocate
assiduous
hypocrisy
25. Stubborn; inflexible
cryptic
venerated
obdurate
excerpt
26. Quarrelsome; unruly
superfluous
reprehensible
fractious
despotic
27. The art of using language effectively and persuasively
novel
prudent
rhetoric
poignant
28. Possessed at birth; inborn
innate
obdurate
camaraderie
disdain
29. Dine by secretive means
futile
pejorative
surreptitiously
amenable
30. Uncertainty; apprehension
novel
trepidation
narrative
harbinger
31. Timid; fearful about the future
opulent
ambiguous
profound
timorous
32. Feeling hatred; scornful
contemptuous
torpor
perception
feral
33. Sadness; depression
rhetoric
mundane
melancholy
dilettante
34. Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
coup
effusive
frank
wily
35. Hinder; interfere with
derived
vocation
impinge
arbiter
36. Intended to instruct
didactic
rational
innovative
ornate
37. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
naive
cartographer
lucid
parody
38. Unplanned; naturally occurring
ambiguous
exculpate
compelling
spontaneous
39. Extremely dull
archaic
replete
ponderous
biased
40. Proper; marked by good taste
decorous
idealize
prosaic
stoic
41. Made; concocted in order to deceive
apathetic
impartial
arbitrary
fabricated
42. All-powerful
intrepid
omnipotent
candor
exemplary
43. Shrewd; clever
astute
convoluted
clandestine
naive
44. Closeness
capricious
virtuoso
proximity
effusive
45. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
timorous
auspicious
ambivalent
prodigious
46. Condition of sticking together
dilatory
emollient
cohesive
wily
47. To calm or soothe
mollify
proximity
impinge
dilatory
48. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
impartial
florid
modest
impede
49. An unusual - observable event
medley
exemplary
inherent
phenomenon
50. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
hypocrisy
facile
listless
sedentary