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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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1. Biting sarcastic or witty
malleable
caustic
intuition
auspicious
2. The ability to form or understand an idea
spurious
insipid
conception
enlightening
3. Introducing something new
innovative
comprehensive
harbinger
realism
4. An ungrateful person
medieval
proliferate
ingrate
meticulous
5. Producing a deep or full sound
solvent
sonorous
patronizing
convoluted
6. Not applied to actual objects
wily
jurisprudence
abstract
hypocrisy
7. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
spontaneous
plagiarism
integrity
sanction
8. A crafty trick
laudatory
genre
capricious
ruse
9. Referring to the Middle Ages - old-fashioned
incontrovertible
copious
malleable
medieval
10. To slow the progress of
florid
cartographer
frank
impede
11. Enormous
florid
prodigious
clarity
notorious
12. Menacing; threatening
ominous
impression
notorious
frank
13. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
conflagration
parody
ambiguous
brusque
14. The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
melancholy
cohesive
dogged
hypocrisy
15. Rudely abrupt
capricious
wily
brusque
virtuoso
16. Lacking application or practical application
impartial
camaraderie
ponderous
theoretical
17. Intense enthusiasm
lament
ebullience
alienated
dubious
18. A union of two or more groups
fluid
timorous
alliance
sanction
19. Profoundly moving; touching
impinge
dictatorial
emollient
poignant
20. Of little importance or significance
transient
disparage
trivial
intuition
21. Lazy
inconsequential
pejorative
despotic
indolent
22. To cause to be doubted
discredit
apathetic
listless
rhetoric
23. The ability to speak vividly or persuasively
coherent
propriety
dilatory
eloquence
24. Extra; unnecessary
perspective
aesthetic
embellish
superfluous
25. Treating people as weak or inferior
condescending
hackneyed
rancorous
ebullience
26. Open to more than one interpretation
disingenuous
ambiguous
archaic
meticulous
27. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
assimilation
gratuitous
equanimity
pejorative
28. To consider perfect
poignant
propriety
idealize
incontrovertible
29. The philosophy or science of law
arid
camaraderie
jurisprudence
insolent
30. Proper; marked by good taste
subdue
decorous
facile
dilettante
31. Domineering; oppressively overbearing
excerpt
insolent
dictatorial
dilatory
32. Unimportant
inconsequential
slander
conception
diligent
33. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
phenomenon
clarity
compelling
benign
34. Possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please
indifferent
fastidious
fabricated
ornate
35. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
permeated
obdurate
ostentatious
misconception
36. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
malfeasance
inconsequential
realism
idealize
37. Without decoration; strict
impression
fluid
tenacity
austere
38. Mutual hatred or ill-will
consensus
intrepid
dilatory
enmity
39. (n.) an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
insipid
excerpt
ambiguous
sanction
40. Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
vindicated
listless
effusive
candor
41. Trustworthiness; completeness
ambiguous
patronizing
equivocate
integrity
42. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
solvent
dubious
objectivity
brusque
43. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
incumbent
discourse
fractious
insipid
44. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
modest
frenetic
permeated
futile
45. Commonplace; ordinary
mundane
enlightening
endure
inevitable
46. To grow or increase rapidly
medley
servile
proliferate
venerated
47. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
implication
trivial
genre
deleterious
48. The power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight
amenable
clarity
prosaic
intuition
49. Calm
diligent
alliance
serene
propriety
50. Awareness; insight
naive
meticulous
perception
penitent