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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. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
incontrovertible
subdue
consensus
inveterate
2. Rudely abrupt
condemn
brusque
ponderous
tenacity
3. Friendly; sincere
cordial
heinous
brittle
laudatory
4. Hatefully evil; abominable
heinous
archaic
capricious
benevolent
5. Easily understood; clear
laudatory
malfeasance
premonition
lucid
6. No longer in use; old-fashioned
obsolete
consensus
acquired
fluid
7. Having a harmful effect; injurious
torpor
brittle
convoluted
deleterious
8. Hard-working
insolent
lucid
assiduous
inherent
9. Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
rational
phenomenon
integrity
flagrant
10. Stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
excerpt
dogmatic
contemporary
prosaic
11. Lazy
contemporary
ambivalent
incumbent
indolent
12. (adj.) softening and soothing (n.) something that softens or soothes
conflagration
dilettante
emollient
biased
13. An occupation or profession
cohesive
sanction
vocation
acquired
14. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
profound
inevitable
imperious
torpor
15. Not applied to actual objects
reclamation
cryptic
abstract
ominous
16. Playfully humorous
vocation
excerpt
exemplary
facetious
17. To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
malfeasance
comprehensive
novel
disparage
18. Plentiful; having a large quantity
asylum
facetious
disparage
copious
19. The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
sanction
venerated
hypocrisy
impression
20. Extreme ill will or spite
malice
rancorous
enlightening
camouflage
21. Menacing; threatening
decorous
ominous
sanction
brusque
22. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
cryptic
objectivity
narrative
lucid
23. General agreement
equivocate
consensus
notorious
lament
24. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
condemn
aesthetic
omnipotent
paradigm
25. A brilliantly executed plan
integrity
spurious
coup
clandestine
26. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
mural
ostentatious
dilettante
conviction
27. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
integrity
fluid
melancholy
medley
28. Of little importance or significance
trivial
propriety
alienated
alliance
29. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
genre
spurious
equanimity
florid
30. Feeling or showing little emotion
apathetic
poignant
serene
fluid
31. A clever trick used to deceive or outwit
enmity
novel
incumbent
stratagem
32. (v.) to make an itemized list of
apathetic
benign
catalog
consensus
33. Energy; power to survive
vitality
toxic
paradigm
narrative
34. The ability to speak vividly or persuasively
eloquence
ruse
cohesive
malleable
35. Unimportant
harbinger
inconsequential
ingrate
conflagration
36. Calm
pugnacious
excerpt
sanction
serene
37. A selected part of a passage or scene
excerpt
inveterate
despotic
exculpate
38. Rotten
facile
brusque
putrid
candor
39. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action
truncated
contemptuous
poignant
obstinate
40. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
condescending
misconception
genre
maverick
41. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
equanimity
exemplary
disparage
exculpate
42. Having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure - weak
tenuous
ostentatious
consensus
vindicated
43. A large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface
benign
mural
truncated
imperious
44. Extra; unnecessary
superfluous
emphasize
disingenuous
dictatorial
45. Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
quandary
propriety
dubious
rancorous
46. Not migratory; settled
wily
proliferate
sedentary
assimilation
47. To avoid making a definite statement
naive
emphasize
archaic
equivocate
48. Current - modern; from the same time
contemporary
modest
obstinate
apathetic
49. The ability to form or understand an idea
rational
conception
narrative
penitent
50. Dine by secretive means
pragmatic
surreptitiously
derived
enlightening