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SAT Vocab Most Important Words
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sat
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english
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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. Worn-out through overuse; trite
pejorative
hackneyed
emigrate
genre
2. An example or model
paradigm
apparatus
camaraderie
sanction
3. Cunning
wily
pugnacious
listless
exemplary
4. Appropriateness of behavior
spurious
propriety
benign
incorrigible
5. Courageous; fearless
integrity
copious
egregious
intrepid
6. Easily understood; clear
clandestine
lucid
compelling
apathetic
7. Exhibiting a display of great wealth
indolent
apathetic
opulent
clandestine
8. Treating people as weak or inferior
serene
condescending
modest
diligent
9. All-powerful
frank
camouflage
cohesive
omnipotent
10. (v.) to make an itemized list of
lament
incontrovertible
catalog
disdain
11. Dine by secretive means
biased
surreptitiously
plagiarism
slander
12. One who designs or makes maps
perspective
exemplary
discourse
cartographer
13. To make vicious statements about
hierarchy
vilify
truncated
aesthetic
14. Lazy
indolent
exemplary
austere
incontrovertible
15. Persistence
discourse
indifferent
surreptitiously
tenacity
16. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
mollify
gratuitous
benevolent
vitality
17. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
serene
intrepid
imperious
nocturnal
18. A selected part of a passage or scene
disingenuous
excerpt
innovative
enmity
19. Dispersed throughout
pragmatic
omnipotent
pervasive
caustic
20. Plentiful; having a large quantity
copious
contemporary
mural
pejorative
21. A tremendously skilled artist
trivial
virtuoso
hackneyed
lucid
22. Indisputable; not open to question
incontrovertible
parody
medieval
context
23. Not migratory; settled
eclectic
sedentary
auspicious
intrepid
24. (adj.) relatively unknown (v.) to conceal or make indistinct
fabricated
comprehensive
obscure
dilatory
25. Savage; untamed
feral
modest
diligent
compelling
26. Without decoration; strict
austere
trepidation
hackneyed
intrepid
27. Determined by impulse rather than reason
arbitrary
camouflage
mural
ruse
28. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
emigrate
diligent
copious
benign
29. A group organized by rank
hierarchy
poignant
abstract
heinous
30. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
compelling
alienated
sanction
incorrigible
31. Proper; marked by good taste
novice
deleterious
assiduous
decorous
32. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
contemporary
permeated
theoretical
florid
33. Responsive; agreeable
narrative
haughty
listless
amenable
34. To free from guilt or blame
parody
vilify
omnipotent
exculpate
35. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
amenable
dictatorial
inveterate
elusive
36. Having great depth or seriousness
substantiated
novel
venerated
profound
37. Having no useful purpose; pointless
spontaneous
impinge
equivocate
futile
38. Intense enthusiasm
ebullience
contemporary
hierarchy
reprehensible
39. Express grief for; mourn
putrid
lament
superficial
realism
40. Highly respected
incumbent
venerated
apathetic
pervasive
41. Awareness; insight
perception
ominous
enlightening
arbitrary
42. Large in scope or content
comprehensive
biased
prosaic
discredit
43. Misconduct or wrongdoing - especially by a public official
cogent
fractious
camouflage
malfeasance
44. Exercising good judgment or common sense
endure
propriety
prudent
compelling
45. Not applied to actual objects
abstract
proximity
superficial
arbitrary
46. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
inveterate
frenetic
slander
convoluted
47. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; difference
superficial
disparity
arbiter
dubious
48. To avoid making a definite statement
hierarchy
equivocate
truncated
equanimity
49. Sadness; depression
apprehension
heinous
alliance
melancholy
50. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
proliferate
embellish
plagiarism
truncated