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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. Easily flowing
fluid
maverick
capricious
disparage
2. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
notorious
discourse
astute
arid
3. Kind and gentle
discredit
benign
innate
surreptitiously
4. Hateful; marked by deep seated ill-will
rancorous
stoic
assertion
acquired
5. Awareness; insight
prudent
permeated
perception
rational
6. A state of uncertainty or perplexity
cogent
decorous
quandary
permeated
7. Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
penitent
inevitable
trepidation
abstract
8. Prejudiced
inconsequential
biased
context
melancholy
9. To make vicious statements about
sonorous
vilify
sedentary
cogent
10. Appropriateness of behavior
pragmatic
propriety
arbitrary
cohesive
11. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
benign
transitory
dilettante
alienated
12. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action
obstinate
cryptic
astute
cogent
13. The power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight
malleable
intuition
effusive
impartial
14. A large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface
catalog
mural
apparatus
substantiated
15. Well-meaning; generous
malfeasance
benevolent
emigrate
derived
16. A tremendously skilled artist
pundit
virtuoso
elusive
embellish
17. Insulting in manner or speech
insolent
obsolete
contemporary
pervasive
18. No longer in use; old-fashioned
obsolete
assertion
clarity
meticulous
19. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
astute
reclamation
feral
malleable
20. Short-lived or temporary
transitory
arbiter
endure
contemporary
21. To hide by blending in with surroundings
vilify
obstinate
camouflage
toxic
22. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
amenable
pragmatic
slander
coherent
23. Determined by impulse rather than reason
reclamation
malice
impartial
arbitrary
24. Unimaginative; dull
poignant
malleable
phenomenon
prosaic
25. Easily broken when subjected to pressure
pejorative
lament
brittle
egregious
26. Favorable; promising
proliferate
effusive
auspicious
misconception
27. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
realism
medley
integrity
disparage
28. Trustworthiness; completeness
aesthetic
stratagem
integrity
obscure
29. Shrewd; clever
idealize
astute
brusque
hypocrisy
30. Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
poignant
effusive
abstract
ambiguous
31. Secretive
proliferate
clandestine
mural
disparity
32. To absorb; to make similar
mural
tenuous
toxic
assimilation
33. Certain to happen - unavoidable
slander
inevitable
frenetic
perception
34. Coming into existence; emerging
nascent
exemplary
substantiated
ingrate
35. An authority who expresses his/her opinions
disingenuous
trepidation
misconception
pundit
36. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
intuition
gratuitous
tenuous
genre
37. A clever trick used to deceive or outwit
heinous
arid
stratagem
sedentary
38. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
futile
reclamation
genre
stratagem
39. Lacking sophistication
naive
paramount
venerated
prudent
40. Lacking application or practical application
patronizing
truncated
malleable
theoretical
41. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
modest
intrepid
intuition
alienated
42. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
archaic
torpor
contemptuous
egregious
43. A crafty trick
contemporary
poignant
ruse
emigrate
44. To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
disparage
discredit
assertion
astute
45. To give official authorization or approval
sanction
disparage
benevolent
camouflage
46. Highly respected
listless
alliance
flagrant
venerated
47. Strikingly new or unusual
austere
novel
profound
ambivalent
48. Indisputable; not open to question
flagrant
incontrovertible
pervasive
compelling
49. Abundantly supplied; filled to capacity
facetious
austere
replete
paramount
50. Stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
realism
dogmatic
reclamation
acquired