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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. Combative; belligerent
pugnacious
alliance
futile
jurisprudence
2. To give official authorization or approval
sanction
pundit
apparatus
haughty
3. Unimaginative; dull
prosaic
prodigious
rhetoric
rancorous
4. A crafty trick
disparity
ornate
rational
ruse
5. Poisonous
toxic
premonition
alliance
consensus
6. Worn-out through overuse; trite
impression
emphasize
hackneyed
facile
7. Treating people as weak or inferior
obscure
vilify
condescending
servile
8. Stubborn; inflexible
conviction
disparity
obdurate
cordial
9. A group organized by rank
reclamation
hierarchy
prodigious
dubious
10. A selected part of a passage or scene
excerpt
vilify
benevolent
context
11. Determined by impulse rather than reason
arbitrary
effusive
cohesive
reprehensible
12. Able to pay one's debts
solvent
inherent
suppressed
poignant
13. Open to more than one interpretation
ambiguous
cryptic
vilify
meticulous
14. Proper; marked by good taste
novel
proximity
decorous
nascent
15. Describing a dry - rainless climate
arid
fabricated
caustic
modest
16. Point of view
perspective
imperious
frank
clarity
17. Calm
rational
serene
impartial
objectivity
18. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
realism
notorious
inconsequential
wary
19. Not migratory; settled
embellish
sedentary
innovative
amenable
20. A large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface
mundane
truncated
mural
alleviate
21. Possessed at birth; inborn
innate
naive
rhetoric
prosaic
22. Condition of sticking together
narrative
exculpate
ample
cohesive
23. One who designs or makes maps
cartographer
conflagration
indifferent
disingenuous
24. Giving praise
laudatory
insipid
wily
realism
25. Closeness
dogmatic
proximity
perspective
pejorative
26. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; difference
disparity
consensus
emphasize
obdurate
27. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
dilettante
naive
copious
apathetic
28. Something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
proliferate
trivial
harbinger
comprehensive
29. An occupation or profession
didactic
vocation
malfeasance
naive
30. The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
heinous
staid
hypocrisy
impinge
31. Hinder; interfere with
futile
replete
impinge
maverick
32. Producing a deep or full sound
disingenuous
dogmatic
substantiated
sonorous
33. Unable to be reformed
incorrigible
indifferent
context
imperious
34. To hide by blending in with surroundings
camouflage
cogent
premonition
subdue
35. A declaration or statement
assertion
naive
decorous
abstract
36. Shrewd; clever
astute
dictatorial
superficial
vilify
37. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
decorous
ambivalent
amenable
caustic
38. To avoid making a definite statement
substantiated
asylum
staid
equivocate
39. Lacking sophistication
apprehension
naive
apathetic
pejorative
40. (adj.) characterized by the telling of a story (n.) a story
consensus
impression
feral
narrative
41. Dine by secretive means
notorious
idealize
surreptitiously
transient
42. A clever trick used to deceive or outwit
profound
malfeasance
frenetic
stratagem
43. Responsive; agreeable
paramount
amenable
coherent
austere
44. A place of retreat or security
asylum
ingrate
trivial
insipid
45. Logically connected
coherent
reclamation
listless
lament
46. Abundantly supplied; filled to capacity
replete
discourse
stoic
clandestine
47. Open and sincere in expression; straightforward
frank
caustic
endure
alienated
48. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
cohesive
torpor
auspicious
cogent
49. To free from guilt or blame
perspective
exculpate
truncated
vilify
50. (v.) to make an itemized list of
condemn
objectivity
theoretical
catalog