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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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1. (n.) contempt - scorn (v.) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
ingrate
ebullience
consensus
disdain
2. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
egregious
impression
stoic
fastidious
3. Uninteresting; unchallenging
sanction
enmity
insipid
diligent
4. To hide by blending in with surroundings
prosaic
camouflage
alleviate
integrity
5. Enormous
prodigious
realism
pugnacious
excerpt
6. Friendly; sincere
cordial
enmity
wary
intuition
7. Combative; belligerent
pugnacious
plagiarism
austere
staid
8. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
gratuitous
objectivity
innovative
derived
9. Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
candor
pugnacious
penitent
serene
10. Easily flowing
fluid
alleviate
obscure
sedentary
11. To leave one country or region and settle in another
amenable
endure
spontaneous
emigrate
12. Shortened; cut off
context
brusque
prosaic
truncated
13. Not migratory; settled
pundit
inconsequential
vocation
sedentary
14. Hateful; marked by deep seated ill-will
rancorous
austere
paramount
ambivalent
15. Prejudiced
ostentatious
biased
brittle
feral
16. Stubborn; inflexible
assiduous
biased
obdurate
enlightening
17. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
genre
dogged
elusive
arbiter
18. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; difference
frenetic
rational
disparity
poignant
19. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
condemn
dubious
malleable
arid
20. Able to pay one's debts
solvent
rational
alleviate
frank
21. Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
apprehension
inevitable
dubious
lucid
22. A group organized by rank
hierarchy
emollient
truncated
dictatorial
23. Inborn; built-in
premonition
inherent
reclamation
brittle
24. Rudely abrupt
ominous
obstinate
prosaic
brusque
25. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
impartial
derived
copious
rhetoric
26. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
diligent
virtuoso
pugnacious
parody
27. A clever trick used to deceive or outwit
pundit
stratagem
impression
serene
28. A tremendously skilled artist
virtuoso
enmity
wary
assimilation
29. Condition of sticking together
acquired
cohesive
contemporary
indifferent
30. Awareness; insight
perception
comprehensive
trepidation
parody
31. To restrain; to hold back
alleviate
subdue
replete
wily
32. A fixed or strong belief
pervasive
conviction
slander
arid
33. A crafty trick
ruse
cryptic
dilatory
copious
34. To cause to be doubted
truncated
discredit
obscure
lament
35. Stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
rancorous
dogmatic
pundit
medley
36. Dine by secretive means
implication
ornate
surreptitiously
obstinate
37. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
sedentary
fastidious
transitory
despotic
38. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
omnipotent
enlightening
frenetic
incumbent
39. Determined by impulse rather than reason
arbitrary
naive
sanction
astute
40. Abundantly supplied; filled to capacity
anthology
penitent
replete
pervasive
41. Not straightforward; crafty
disingenuous
incontrovertible
spontaneous
endure
42. Practical
idealize
futile
elusive
pragmatic
43. To grow or increase rapidly
superficial
disingenuous
embellish
proliferate
44. Timid; fearful about the future
dictatorial
timorous
assertion
heinous
45. To calm or soothe
biased
mollify
perspective
modest
46. The act of making something useful again
reclamation
genre
catalog
decorous
47. Lacking sophistication
fabricated
naive
eclectic
staid
48. (v.) to make an itemized list of
sanction
ornate
catalog
serene
49. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
rhetoric
misconception
enmity
frank
50. Savage; untamed
excerpt
feral
jurisprudence
opulent