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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. Introducing something new
tenuous
medieval
innovative
propriety
2. Exercising good judgment or common sense
embellish
malice
prudent
profound
3. Extremely careful and precise
imperious
permeated
fabricated
meticulous
4. To leave one country or region and settle in another
didactic
equivocate
emigrate
exculpate
5. Of little importance or significance
penitent
rhetoric
incorrigible
trivial
6. Highly respected
camouflage
venerated
gratuitous
equanimity
7. Well-meaning; generous
benevolent
novice
toxic
modest
8. To grow or increase rapidly
serene
laudatory
ambiguous
proliferate
9. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action
obstinate
frank
timorous
didactic
10. Trustworthiness; completeness
phenomenon
perspective
astute
integrity
11. General agreement
equanimity
consensus
benevolent
tenuous
12. Persistence
tenacity
fractious
astute
mediocrity
13. Stubborn; inflexible
despotic
obdurate
diligent
ebullience
14. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
incumbent
hierarchy
premonition
rational
15. The philosophy or science of law
jurisprudence
exemplary
comprehensive
fluid
16. A judge who decides a disputed issue
arbiter
fabricated
inherent
ambiguous
17. To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
torpor
disparage
frenetic
asylum
18. To consider perfect
idealize
poignant
nascent
camouflage
19. Unemotional; serious
apathetic
emigrate
staid
insolent
20. Describing a dry - rainless climate
arid
facetious
laudatory
impression
21. A widespread fire
conflagration
melancholy
indolent
arbitrary
22. (adj.) softening and soothing (n.) something that softens or soothes
caustic
emollient
reprehensible
paramount
23. A brilliantly executed plan
premonition
coup
narrative
vindicated
24. Informative; contributing the one's awareness
enlightening
meticulous
incumbent
truncated
25. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; difference
amenable
disparity
misconception
malleable
26. Energy; power to survive
capricious
vitality
vindicated
apparatus
27. Lacking sophistication
naive
disparity
pugnacious
nascent
28. Enormous
prodigious
plagiarism
disparity
ostentatious
29. (adj.) relatively unknown (v.) to conceal or make indistinct
obscure
mural
camaraderie
candor
30. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family or homeland)
obstinate
profound
alienated
feral
31. A place of retreat or security
insipid
asylum
suppressed
benign
32. Open to more than one interpretation
emigrate
ominous
ambiguous
assiduous
33. Timid; fearful about the future
toxic
exculpate
timorous
intuition
34. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
trivial
pejorative
objectivity
transient
35. (n.) contempt - scorn (v.) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
perception
vindicated
ebullience
disdain
36. Extreme ill will or spite
modest
ingrate
assertion
malice
37. Of or occurring in the night
virtuoso
nocturnal
obstinate
inevitable
38. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
integrity
embellish
slander
facile
39. Savage; untamed
wary
diligent
inveterate
feral
40. Worn-out through overuse; trite
astute
hackneyed
contemptuous
permeated
41. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
profound
nocturnal
ingrate
notorious
42. Treating people as weak or inferior
condescending
serene
penitent
alleviate
43. To give special attention to something - to stress
excerpt
hypocrisy
emphasize
lucid
44. Friendly; sincere
mediocrity
dilatory
cordial
emphasize
45. Not applied to actual objects
rhetoric
vindicated
malfeasance
abstract
46. Courageous; fearless
benign
harbinger
diligent
intrepid
47. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
dilettante
reclamation
malleable
realism
48. Biting sarcastic or witty
incontrovertible
elusive
replete
caustic
49. Calm
facile
serene
indolent
apparatus
50. Closeness
embellish
auspicious
proximity
vocation