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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. Rudely abrupt
brusque
medieval
pragmatic
benevolent
2. Informative; contributing the one's awareness
acquired
sanction
pundit
enlightening
3. A tremendously skilled artist
reprehensible
arbitrary
listless
virtuoso
4. Clearness in thought or expression
timorous
innovative
abstract
clarity
5. Strikingly new or unusual
novel
paramount
obstinate
fluid
6. Rotten
putrid
impartial
toxic
ominous
7. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
emigrate
ponderous
gratuitous
impartial
8. Well-meaning; generous
alliance
indifferent
fastidious
benevolent
9. To put up with to survive a hardship
endure
pejorative
toxic
suppressed
10. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
genre
prosaic
diligent
haughty
11. Dispersed throughout
disdain
mediocrity
pervasive
hackneyed
12. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
flagrant
jurisprudence
incumbent
hypocrisy
13. Exercising good judgment or common sense
trepidation
obsolete
eclectic
prudent
14. Possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please
alliance
wary
frenetic
fastidious
15. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
archaic
inevitable
deleterious
misconception
16. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
apathetic
discourse
proliferate
sedentary
17. To grow or increase rapidly
paradigm
florid
proliferate
modest
18. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
sanction
dilettante
novel
malleable
19. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
torpor
ambivalent
impression
ornate
20. Commonplace; ordinary
camouflage
sanction
mundane
endure
21. Domineering; oppressively overbearing
futile
ingrate
integrity
dictatorial
22. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
substantiated
ambiguous
elusive
apparatus
23. Profoundly moving; touching
poignant
dogged
nocturnal
brittle
24. Describing a dry - rainless climate
acquired
contemporary
arid
opulent
25. The power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight
alleviate
intuition
transitory
solvent
26. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
compelling
medley
trepidation
perspective
27. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
hierarchy
embellish
parody
alleviate
28. A crafty trick
auspicious
ruse
insipid
transient
29. Subdued; kept from being circulated
suppressed
egregious
impede
fluid
30. Giving praise
ostentatious
assiduous
laudatory
caustic
31. (n.) an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
solvent
sanction
permeated
ample
32. Trustworthiness; completeness
penitent
affable
innovative
integrity
33. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
equanimity
spurious
camaraderie
torpor
34. Unimportant
jurisprudence
inconsequential
indifferent
pejorative
35. Submissive; like a servant
servile
endure
phenomenon
coup
36. To avoid making a definite statement
apparatus
mural
arid
equivocate
37. Something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
insolent
harbinger
compelling
reclamation
38. Introducing something new
exemplary
innovative
conception
melancholy
39. A clever trick used to deceive or outwit
stratagem
ostentatious
obstinate
arbiter
40. Goodwill between friends
brusque
cryptic
camaraderie
cogent
41. Lacking application or practical application
eloquence
theoretical
biased
listless
42. Playfully humorous
exemplary
facetious
gratuitous
tenuous
43. Enormous
apathetic
acquired
sanction
prodigious
44. Lazy
subdue
incumbent
indolent
innate
45. Mutual hatred or ill-will
enmity
pragmatic
context
incontrovertible
46. Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
brittle
eloquence
superficial
dubious
47. Made up of a variety of sources or styles
flagrant
egregious
perspective
eclectic
48. Uncertainty; apprehension
vindicated
trepidation
incorrigible
inveterate
49. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
quandary
florid
convoluted
arbiter
50. Condition of sticking together
astute
virtuoso
cohesive
laudatory