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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. A clever trick used to deceive or outwit
cartographer
stratagem
exculpate
sedentary
2. Intense enthusiasm
ebullience
capricious
haughty
torpor
3. Stubborn; inflexible
obdurate
mollify
incumbent
disingenuous
4. Having a harmful effect; injurious
ostentatious
prosaic
brusque
deleterious
5. Friendly; sincere
jurisprudence
medley
venerated
cordial
6. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
amenable
archaic
condescending
surreptitiously
7. Not caring one way or the other
inconsequential
indifferent
plausible
dilatory
8. Unplanned; naturally occurring
spontaneous
premonition
servile
contemptuous
9. To absorb; to make similar
transient
assimilation
disdain
arbitrary
10. Convincing; reasonable
conflagration
emollient
prosaic
cogent
11. Having great depth or seriousness
innate
emphasize
tenuous
profound
12. Easily understood; clear
rational
lucid
proliferate
malleable
13. Certain to happen - unavoidable
trivial
inevitable
diligent
tenacity
14. Producing a deep or full sound
alliance
apathetic
astute
sonorous
15. Stubbornly persevering
fractious
dogged
mundane
discredit
16. Domineering; oppressively overbearing
spontaneous
dictatorial
fluid
notorious
17. To give special attention to something - to stress
toxic
emphasize
endure
jurisprudence
18. Misconduct or wrongdoing - especially by a public official
venerated
condescending
haughty
malfeasance
19. A large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface
mural
dogged
brusque
cryptic
20. Uninteresting; unchallenging
despotic
insipid
malice
genre
21. Habitually late
didactic
inherent
dilatory
incorrigible
22. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
conviction
whimsical
deleterious
staid
23. Secretive
clandestine
impinge
misconception
incumbent
24. To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
realism
novel
disparage
listless
25. Courageous; fearless
impartial
haughty
indolent
intrepid
26. Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
patronizing
quandary
consensus
superficial
27. Exercising good judgment or common sense
equanimity
emphasize
prudent
ominous
28. Kind and gentle
benign
naive
enlightening
dubious
29. Responsive; agreeable
elusive
suppressed
amenable
malice
30. A place of retreat or security
asylum
plausible
harbinger
derived
31. Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
stoic
intrepid
equivocate
vilify
32. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
assimilation
emphasize
florid
cryptic
33. Dispersed throughout
frank
pervasive
coup
apathetic
34. A declaration or statement
eclectic
assertion
emollient
ostentatious
35. Quarrelsome; unruly
feral
fractious
fastidious
reprehensible
36. Elaborately decorated
ample
transient
insolent
ornate
37. Open to more than one interpretation
ambiguous
rancorous
serene
toxic
38. Prejudiced
flagrant
sanction
biased
timorous
39. Playfully humorous
facetious
arid
sanction
jurisprudence
40. A brilliantly executed plan
obstinate
coup
obsolete
dictatorial
41. Not migratory; settled
pundit
nascent
sedentary
putrid
42. Abundantly supplied; filled to capacity
mediocrity
arid
phenomenon
replete
43. Awareness; insight
frenetic
profound
perception
nascent
44. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
incontrovertible
incorrigible
insolent
modest
45. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
incumbent
objectivity
arbiter
profound
46. Freed from blame
derived
vindicated
dubious
pragmatic
47. A group organized by rank
assertion
hierarchy
elusive
slander
48. Worthy of blame
despotic
reprehensible
intuition
endure
49. An occupation or profession
condemn
vilify
vocation
virtuoso
50. To calm or soothe
facile
equanimity
mollify
maverick