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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Describing a showy or pretentious display
ostentatious
conviction
sanction
prosaic
2. Stubbornly persevering
dogged
disparity
phenomenon
sanction
3. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
paradigm
dilettante
enmity
inconsequential
4. A beginner
exemplary
transient
vitality
novice
5. Worthy of blame
laudatory
reprehensible
florid
torpor
6. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
camaraderie
plagiarism
reprehensible
genre
7. Hinder; interfere with
impinge
pejorative
inconsequential
astute
8. Describing a large amount of something
comprehensive
reclamation
ample
benign
9. Inborn; built-in
inherent
impinge
servile
tenacity
10. Insulting in manner or speech
insolent
exemplary
misconception
ruse
11. Persistence
toxic
tenacity
ponderous
conviction
12. Highly respected
modest
tenacity
sonorous
venerated
13. Prejudiced
ebullience
transitory
trivial
biased
14. Responsive; agreeable
amenable
paramount
arid
indifferent
15. Menacing; threatening
incontrovertible
conviction
cogent
ominous
16. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
discredit
amenable
discourse
despotic
17. Describing a dry - rainless climate
arid
brittle
excerpt
conception
18. Shrewd; clever
implication
astute
ample
perspective
19. Feeling or showing little emotion
sanction
arbitrary
vocation
apathetic
20. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
aesthetic
substantiated
prosaic
cohesive
21. Lacking sophistication
surreptitiously
malice
obsolete
naive
22. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
impression
inveterate
penitent
clarity
23. Extra; unnecessary
mediocrity
prudent
superfluous
plausible
24. Elaborately decorated
amenable
novel
ornate
incorrigible
25. Dispersed throughout
poignant
pervasive
feral
deleterious
26. Poisonous
melancholy
toxic
innovative
servile
27. Savage; untamed
prodigious
feral
vocation
inconsequential
28. Practical
flagrant
novel
pragmatic
suppressed
29. Hateful; marked by deep seated ill-will
consensus
obdurate
rancorous
transitory
30. Dine by secretive means
brittle
paramount
surreptitiously
eloquence
31. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
imperious
innovative
discourse
consensus
32. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; difference
disparity
ambivalent
frenetic
genre
33. To grow or increase rapidly
nascent
disingenuous
proliferate
obdurate
34. Possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please
toxic
servile
fastidious
integrity
35. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
servile
archaic
asylum
fabricated
36. A group organized by rank
haughty
hierarchy
inveterate
anthology
37. Calm
impinge
serene
amenable
indifferent
38. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
objectivity
ornate
malice
derived
39. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
integrity
facile
mural
torpor
40. Rotten
apparatus
impinge
putrid
naive
41. Favorable; promising
suppressed
catalog
auspicious
impression
42. Stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
dogmatic
feral
whimsical
elusive
43. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
tenacity
spontaneous
servile
facile
44. Of or occurring in the night
pundit
nocturnal
catalog
fabricated
45. Lacking application or practical application
ponderous
asylum
consensus
theoretical
46. Not caring one way or the other
indifferent
diligent
anthology
disingenuous
47. Clearness in thought or expression
clarity
coup
objectivity
patronizing
48. Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
proximity
meticulous
vocation
stoic
49. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action
reprehensible
quandary
obstinate
integrity
50. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
dictatorial
rhetoric
rational
aesthetic