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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. To restrain; to hold back
fractious
subdue
austere
transient
2. Open to more than one interpretation
incumbent
integrity
ambiguous
comprehensive
3. Express grief for; mourn
lament
facile
apparatus
surreptitiously
4. To free from guilt or blame
nascent
exculpate
copious
obstinate
5. To give special attention to something - to stress
solvent
spurious
camouflage
emphasize
6. Anxiety or fear about the future
apprehension
putrid
alleviate
naive
7. Playfully humorous
plausible
facetious
impinge
propriety
8. Shrewd; clever
spontaneous
astute
realism
spurious
9. To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
vilify
disparage
gratuitous
solvent
10. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
listless
genre
vindicated
dictatorial
11. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
ornate
imperious
perception
incumbent
12. Awareness; insight
malleable
perception
impede
omnipotent
13. An ungrateful person
dilettante
coup
auspicious
ingrate
14. Wildly excited or active
equivocate
propriety
frenetic
austere
15. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
arbitrary
impede
maverick
plagiarism
16. Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
torpor
superficial
apprehension
notorious
17. Trustworthiness; completeness
alleviate
integrity
insipid
equivocate
18. Lacking application or practical application
impartial
camouflage
theoretical
proximity
19. The art of using language effectively and persuasively
rhetoric
sanction
vilify
rancorous
20. Having great depth or seriousness
emphasize
profound
penitent
facetious
21. To hide by blending in with surroundings
novice
obstinate
camouflage
gratuitous
22. Easy-going; friendly
affable
gratuitous
penitent
dictatorial
23. Worn-out through overuse; trite
hackneyed
fluid
ornate
slander
24. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
aesthetic
exculpate
assertion
effusive
25. Having a harmful effect; injurious
patronizing
serene
sonorous
deleterious
26. An example or model
medieval
paradigm
nocturnal
ruse
27. Dispersed throughout
servile
profound
sanction
pervasive
28. Abundantly supplied; filled to capacity
imperious
replete
decorous
contemptuous
29. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
parody
rhetoric
clarity
innate
30. Difficult to comprehend
brittle
aesthetic
emigrate
cryptic
31. The philosophy or science of law
dogmatic
archaic
assiduous
jurisprudence
32. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
modest
discourse
exculpate
plagiarism
33. Something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
dilatory
flagrant
harbinger
diligent
34. Of little importance or significance
meticulous
trivial
staid
discredit
35. Rudely abrupt
mollify
stoic
cartographer
brusque
36. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
embellish
suppressed
conviction
apparatus
37. Unable to be reformed
quandary
incorrigible
fabricated
deleterious
38. General agreement
consensus
emigrate
impartial
permeated
39. Elaborately decorated
indifferent
proliferate
superfluous
ornate
40. Made up of a variety of sources or styles
omnipotent
ostentatious
hypocrisy
eclectic
41. A group organized by rank
obscure
surreptitiously
caustic
hierarchy
42. Stubbornly persevering
archaic
dogged
proliferate
jurisprudence
43. Not straightforward; crafty
disingenuous
vilify
rational
malice
44. Prejudiced
effusive
biased
profound
putrid
45. (adj.) softening and soothing (n.) something that softens or soothes
misconception
emollient
alienated
innate
46. Coming into existence; emerging
nascent
archaic
indolent
profound
47. Friendly; sincere
fluid
cordial
fractious
intrepid
48. Misconduct or wrongdoing - especially by a public official
malfeasance
impinge
despotic
trepidation
49. Conspicuously bad or offensive
rhetoric
egregious
vitality
brittle
50. Strikingly new or unusual
candor
novel
trepidation
laudatory