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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. Giving praise
trepidation
ornate
laudatory
omnipotent
2. Conspicuously bad or offensive
profound
perspective
egregious
hypocrisy
3. Current - modern; from the same time
sonorous
lucid
whimsical
contemporary
4. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
medieval
aesthetic
embellish
reclamation
5. Proper; marked by good taste
candor
effusive
decorous
vocation
6. Worthy of blame
putrid
cartographer
ominous
reprehensible
7. Exercising good judgment or common sense
wily
ample
prudent
truncated
8. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
assiduous
medley
inconsequential
timorous
9. Profoundly moving; touching
poignant
assiduous
impede
sanction
10. Not straightforward; crafty
surreptitiously
listless
disingenuous
cryptic
11. Rotten
equivocate
caustic
ebullience
putrid
12. Easily understood; clear
lucid
disparage
conviction
suppressed
13. Passing away with time; passing from one place to another
inevitable
insolent
proliferate
transient
14. Of chief concern or importance
maverick
tenacity
paramount
ambivalent
15. Possessed at birth; inborn
eloquence
innate
hypocrisy
dogmatic
16. Introducing something new
innovative
misconception
paramount
comprehensive
17. Exhibiting a display of great wealth
opulent
meticulous
hypocrisy
enmity
18. Dine by secretive means
flagrant
assimilation
surreptitiously
contemptuous
19. Having no useful purpose; pointless
arbitrary
brittle
decorous
futile
20. Prejudiced
dogmatic
profound
cohesive
biased
21. Extremely dull
condescending
jurisprudence
spontaneous
ponderous
22. (adj.) softening and soothing (n.) something that softens or soothes
obdurate
florid
emollient
dilettante
23. Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
penitent
imperious
diligent
modest
24. Treating in a condescending manner
arbitrary
compelling
clarity
patronizing
25. (v.) to make an itemized list of
elusive
dilettante
catalog
notorious
26. To cause to be doubted
camouflage
proximity
equivocate
discredit
27. A collection of literary pieces
notorious
spurious
anthology
intuition
28. A group organized by rank
proliferate
hierarchy
dubious
pugnacious
29. A brilliantly executed plan
coup
whimsical
ponderous
discredit
30. Persistence
penitent
tenacity
venerated
subdue
31. To give official authorization or approval
trepidation
opulent
sanction
reclamation
32. Plentiful; having a large quantity
proximity
copious
endure
superficial
33. Indisputable; not open to question
incontrovertible
disparage
derived
mundane
34. Uninteresting; unchallenging
discredit
substantiated
eclectic
insipid
35. General agreement
catalog
parody
consensus
egregious
36. Unemotional; serious
superficial
feral
staid
idealize
37. To ease a pain or a burden
malice
obdurate
sedentary
alleviate
38. Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
fastidious
effusive
benign
conviction
39. Open to more than one interpretation
ambiguous
mural
pugnacious
asylum
40. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
incumbent
despotic
cohesive
apathetic
41. Describing a dry - rainless climate
candor
realism
arid
subdue
42. Secretive
slander
clandestine
camouflage
putrid
43. To put up with to survive a hardship
endure
novice
heinous
ebullience
44. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
contemporary
egregious
excerpt
aesthetic
45. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family or homeland)
inveterate
frank
alienated
inevitable
46. To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
equivocate
replete
hackneyed
disparage
47. Lacking application or practical application
mundane
theoretical
nascent
brusque
48. Commonplace; ordinary
stoic
indolent
mundane
malleable
49. Stubborn; inflexible
copious
caustic
malfeasance
obdurate
50. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
staid
dilatory
ambivalent
coherent