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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. Shrewd; clever
fastidious
diligent
astute
ominous
2. The ability to form or understand an idea
proximity
sanction
conception
malfeasance
3. Lacking sophistication
clarity
dogged
propriety
naive
4. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
theoretical
excerpt
disparage
rational
5. A union of two or more groups
fractious
alliance
reprehensible
suppressed
6. Calm
emollient
serene
slander
malleable
7. Of chief concern or importance
anthology
paramount
ornate
context
8. (v.) to make an itemized list of
endure
toxic
fractious
catalog
9. Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
malfeasance
trivial
effusive
tenuous
10. Short-lived or temporary
transitory
hypocrisy
lucid
biased
11. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
patronizing
aesthetic
superficial
clarity
12. The state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality
mediocrity
ominous
apprehension
harbinger
13. Rotten
benevolent
putrid
superfluous
reprehensible
14. Able to pay one's debts
solvent
ambiguous
implication
timorous
15. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
despotic
assiduous
conception
embellish
16. Worthy of blame
auspicious
incontrovertible
reprehensible
malice
17. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
opulent
suppressed
despotic
mediocrity
18. An ungrateful person
cryptic
ingrate
capricious
discredit
19. Circumstances of a situation; environment
camaraderie
context
apathetic
sanction
20. Coming into existence; emerging
brusque
sanction
nascent
opulent
21. (adj.) characterized by the telling of a story (n.) a story
premonition
perspective
poignant
narrative
22. Elaborately decorated
proximity
subdue
ornate
staid
23. Uncertainty; apprehension
hierarchy
penitent
trepidation
modest
24. Playfully humorous
clandestine
putrid
proximity
facetious
25. Prejudiced
disingenuous
biased
permeated
discredit
26. Describing a showy or pretentious display
ponderous
mural
ostentatious
meticulous
27. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
elusive
obdurate
fastidious
mollify
28. Proper; marked by good taste
decorous
disdain
trivial
enmity
29. Not genuine; false - counterfeit
integrity
substantiated
superfluous
spurious
30. Habitually late
servile
narrative
cordial
dilatory
31. Extremely careful and precise
meticulous
exculpate
impression
harbinger
32. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
compelling
modest
discourse
penitent
33. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
caustic
realism
affable
lament
34. An authority who expresses his/her opinions
pundit
timorous
asylum
equanimity
35. To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
biased
disparage
caustic
indolent
36. Commendable; worthy of imitation
cordial
despotic
caustic
exemplary
37. Intended to instruct
despotic
didactic
impede
innate
38. The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
superficial
hypocrisy
camaraderie
feral
39. Hinder; interfere with
dogmatic
lucid
apparatus
impinge
40. Subdued; kept from being circulated
context
frenetic
suppressed
substantiated
41. (adj.) relatively unknown (v.) to conceal or make indistinct
theoretical
emigrate
obscure
proliferate
42. Point of view
incumbent
auspicious
perspective
obstinate
43. Menacing; threatening
timorous
hierarchy
amenable
ominous
44. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; difference
insolent
pundit
disparity
cogent
45. (n.) contempt - scorn (v.) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
equivocate
rhetoric
elusive
disdain
46. The ability to speak vividly or persuasively
apathetic
eloquence
spurious
brusque
47. Unimaginative; dull
paramount
spurious
prosaic
dogged
48. Rudely abrupt
brusque
mollify
egregious
sanction
49. Persistence
effusive
biased
tenacity
astute
50. Condition of sticking together
impartial
cohesive
comprehensive
prodigious