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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. Open to more than one interpretation
conviction
ingrate
copious
ambiguous
2. The act of suggesting or hinting
replete
gratuitous
implication
pugnacious
3. Intended to instruct
clarity
reclamation
didactic
excerpt
4. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
notorious
camouflage
cohesive
imperious
5. Inborn; built-in
inherent
pugnacious
pundit
rancorous
6. Exercising good judgment or common sense
decorous
prudent
idealize
lucid
7. Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
caustic
insolent
pejorative
assimilation
8. Freed from blame
mediocrity
vindicated
disingenuous
ebullience
9. Commonplace; ordinary
mundane
meticulous
genre
plausible
10. Impulsive and unpredictable
tenuous
modest
catalog
capricious
11. Producing a deep or full sound
plausible
sonorous
convoluted
emollient
12. Dine by secretive means
misconception
prudent
naive
surreptitiously
13. Treating people as weak or inferior
pervasive
condescending
catalog
ambiguous
14. The state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality
mediocrity
ruse
inconsequential
emigrate
15. An unusual - observable event
emphasize
truncated
notorious
phenomenon
16. To avoid making a definite statement
dogmatic
plagiarism
equivocate
intuition
17. Awareness; insight
facile
perception
implication
disdain
18. Elaborately decorated
premonition
ornate
ominous
impinge
19. Of chief concern or importance
emollient
obsolete
vilify
paramount
20. Sincerity; openness
consensus
endure
listless
candor
21. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
cohesive
truncated
plagiarism
paramount
22. A place of retreat or security
condemn
benevolent
rational
asylum
23. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
effusive
discourse
camouflage
sanction
24. Extreme ill will or spite
arid
inevitable
malice
exemplary
25. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
ornate
austere
dilettante
cohesive
26. Point of view
trepidation
timorous
perspective
rancorous
27. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
modest
disingenuous
whimsical
dogged
28. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
equivocate
hypocrisy
fabricated
condemn
29. Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
disingenuous
flagrant
spontaneous
endure
30. Biting sarcastic or witty
caustic
insipid
innate
exculpate
31. Copied or adapted from a source
caustic
copious
disparage
derived
32. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
effusive
reclamation
imperious
toxic
33. Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
misconception
dubious
candor
facile
34. Lacking application or practical application
laudatory
theoretical
ominous
indolent
35. Feeling hatred; scornful
contemptuous
obdurate
asylum
effusive
36. To absorb; to make similar
decorous
cartographer
abstract
assimilation
37. Prejudiced
indifferent
cryptic
biased
exculpate
38. Dispersed throughout
omnipotent
feral
pervasive
incontrovertible
39. The art of using language effectively and persuasively
genre
rhetoric
emigrate
ponderous
40. Not caring one way or the other
solvent
anthology
indifferent
lucid
41. Quarrelsome; unruly
maverick
incumbent
novice
fractious
42. The power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight
intuition
surreptitiously
narrative
malfeasance
43. Unable to be reformed
dubious
virtuoso
pugnacious
incorrigible
44. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
eclectic
disparage
objectivity
camouflage
45. Rudely abrupt
sanction
brusque
acquired
intrepid
46. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
conviction
maverick
nocturnal
medley
47. (n.) an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
biased
plausible
insipid
sanction
48. Difficult to comprehend
lament
meticulous
consensus
cryptic
49. Made; concocted in order to deceive
inveterate
impinge
nascent
fabricated
50. Timid; fearful about the future
convoluted
timorous
catalog
feral