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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. Informative; contributing the one's awareness
incontrovertible
enlightening
insolent
modest
2. Not migratory; settled
intrepid
dictatorial
catalog
sedentary
3. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
benign
modest
genre
clarity
4. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
superfluous
capricious
inveterate
pervasive
5. Rotten
vocation
misconception
brittle
putrid
6. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
cordial
cogent
brittle
incumbent
7. Lacking sophistication
sanction
didactic
naive
dogmatic
8. Well-meaning; generous
benevolent
conviction
naive
embellish
9. Shortened; cut off
truncated
cohesive
staid
patronizing
10. Without decoration; strict
profound
ingrate
austere
notorious
11. Kind and gentle
penitent
alleviate
arid
benign
12. Energy; power to survive
vitality
pragmatic
equanimity
benign
13. Cunning
reclamation
gratuitous
wily
emphasize
14. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
archaic
malfeasance
emollient
eclectic
15. To leave one country or region and settle in another
assertion
diligent
idealize
emigrate
16. Shrewd; clever
astute
coherent
omnipotent
medieval
17. Biting sarcastic or witty
modest
incumbent
caustic
patronizing
18. Hard-working
pejorative
equivocate
assiduous
intuition
19. Submissive; like a servant
torpor
opulent
servile
heinous
20. Unimaginative; dull
prosaic
amenable
rhetoric
prudent
21. Giving praise
laudatory
meticulous
quandary
facile
22. To give special attention to something - to stress
futile
impede
emphasize
ruse
23. Logically connected
rancorous
sedentary
enmity
coherent
24. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
poignant
discredit
modest
plagiarism
25. Made up of a variety of sources or styles
malfeasance
dogmatic
eclectic
serene
26. To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
diligent
disparage
replete
incorrigible
27. A collection of literary pieces
fractious
conviction
anthology
proximity
28. Exhibiting a display of great wealth
vocation
obstinate
innate
opulent
29. Subdued; kept from being circulated
discredit
disparity
dubious
suppressed
30. Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
condemn
flagrant
biased
austere
31. (n.) contempt - scorn (v.) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
obdurate
disdain
elusive
ingrate
32. Strikingly new or unusual
arid
embellish
superficial
novel
33. Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
disparage
effusive
apathetic
prosaic
34. Difficult to comprehend
premonition
embellish
excerpt
cryptic
35. Lacking energy
slander
venerated
listless
condemn
36. Hinder; interfere with
excerpt
cohesive
impinge
tenuous
37. Developed or learned; not naturally occurring
subdue
modest
harbinger
acquired
38. (adj.) softening and soothing (n.) something that softens or soothes
emollient
fabricated
novice
staid
39. Appropriateness of behavior
consensus
equanimity
propriety
biased
40. (adj.) relatively unknown (v.) to conceal or make indistinct
integrity
obscure
modest
nocturnal
41. The ability to form or understand an idea
condescending
derived
obdurate
conception
42. Feeling hatred; scornful
surreptitiously
contemptuous
naive
arid
43. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
dilettante
aesthetic
tenuous
spurious
44. To restrain; to hold back
egregious
fabricated
indifferent
subdue
45. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
medley
impression
poignant
trepidation
46. Goodwill between friends
camaraderie
medieval
obdurate
obsolete
47. Of little importance or significance
rancorous
trivial
inevitable
mundane
48. Having a harmful effect; injurious
elusive
benevolent
imperious
deleterious
49. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family or homeland)
emollient
staid
alienated
apparatus
50. Supported with proof or evidence; verified
austere
torpor
substantiated
medley