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SAT Vocab Most Important Words
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sat
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english
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1. To give official authorization or approval
dictatorial
parody
apparatus
sanction
2. Proper; marked by good taste
disparage
venerated
conflagration
decorous
3. (n.) an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
aesthetic
ornate
sanction
disparity
4. Sadness; depression
conception
melancholy
servile
pugnacious
5. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action
fractious
abstract
obstinate
nocturnal
6. Express grief for; mourn
reclamation
modest
lament
superfluous
7. Supported with proof or evidence; verified
substantiated
ingrate
emigrate
integrity
8. Introducing something new
putrid
pejorative
innovative
vocation
9. Lacking sophistication
tenuous
conflagration
naive
indolent
10. An occupation or profession
embellish
vocation
substantiated
spontaneous
11. Inborn; built-in
alleviate
arbiter
contemporary
inherent
12. Uncertainty; apprehension
pundit
astute
trepidation
haughty
13. Lacking energy
listless
proximity
disparity
disingenuous
14. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
opulent
discourse
trivial
obscure
15. Able to pay one's debts
vindicated
prodigious
solvent
gratuitous
16. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
substantiated
gratuitous
incorrigible
ambivalent
17. Not migratory; settled
sedentary
medieval
dubious
novel
18. Stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
transient
meticulous
benign
dogmatic
19. Coming into existence; emerging
nascent
consensus
insolent
conflagration
20. Habitually late
incumbent
putrid
dilatory
exculpate
21. A judge who decides a disputed issue
didactic
arbiter
vindicated
trepidation
22. To slow the progress of
facile
incorrigible
exculpate
impede
23. Quarrelsome; unruly
impede
fractious
gratuitous
superficial
24. Practical
innate
pragmatic
embellish
rhetoric
25. An unusual - observable event
diligent
eloquence
sedentary
phenomenon
26. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
incumbent
superfluous
notorious
despotic
27. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
archaic
rational
tenuous
prudent
28. Unimaginative; dull
premonition
eclectic
ambiguous
prosaic
29. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
inveterate
alienated
virtuoso
alleviate
30. (adj.) characterized by the telling of a story (n.) a story
perception
emigrate
misconception
narrative
31. Highly respected
insipid
dictatorial
innate
venerated
32. An ungrateful person
dilatory
condemn
novice
ingrate
33. Impulsive and unpredictable
fluid
capricious
patronizing
contemporary
34. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
perspective
fluid
equanimity
cordial
35. On guard; watchful
elusive
wary
mural
candor
36. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
genre
realism
indolent
abstract
37. A selected part of a passage or scene
proximity
obstinate
excerpt
enlightening
38. Easily understood; clear
pervasive
lucid
perspective
heinous
39. Abundantly supplied; filled to capacity
brusque
spontaneous
replete
heinous
40. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
vindicated
prudent
impartial
stratagem
41. Without decoration; strict
austere
theoretical
biased
sonorous
42. Intended to instruct
paramount
ambivalent
didactic
emollient
43. A widespread fire
decorous
toxic
conflagration
alliance
44. Extremely dull
caustic
ponderous
premonition
prodigious
45. Current - modern; from the same time
wary
contemporary
imperious
exemplary
46. Point of view
perspective
melancholy
venerated
phenomenon
47. To ease a pain or a burden
alleviate
vindicated
pundit
ruse
48. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
plagiarism
cogent
gratuitous
naive
49. Persistence
contemporary
coup
tenacity
impartial
50. An authority who expresses his/her opinions
jurisprudence
pundit
obdurate
dictatorial