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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. Of or occurring in the night
nocturnal
incumbent
proliferate
perception
2. Closeness
insolent
dilatory
elusive
proximity
3. Treating people as weak or inferior
candor
toxic
condescending
mural
4. Lacking application or practical application
genre
facetious
theoretical
conflagration
5. The ability to form or understand an idea
compelling
conception
melancholy
plagiarism
6. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
apathetic
embellish
melancholy
emphasize
7. To calm or soothe
mollify
dogmatic
sonorous
didactic
8. (n.) an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
trepidation
sanction
servile
realism
9. Elaborately decorated
ornate
excerpt
listless
mediocrity
10. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
idealize
incontrovertible
rational
exculpate
11. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
modest
perspective
affable
genre
12. Not applied to actual objects
truncated
conviction
prudent
abstract
13. To give official authorization or approval
alleviate
perspective
sanction
incontrovertible
14. A feeling about the future
premonition
heinous
prosaic
listless
15. Anxiety or fear about the future
propriety
austere
obstinate
apprehension
16. The art of using language effectively and persuasively
putrid
rhetoric
frenetic
obdurate
17. Arrogant; vainly proud
sonorous
haughty
condescending
copious
18. Commendable; worthy of imitation
idealize
consensus
exemplary
torpor
19. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
novel
compelling
emigrate
camouflage
20. The power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight
mural
contemptuous
ingrate
intuition
21. Conspicuously bad or offensive
stoic
toxic
pugnacious
egregious
22. Possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please
fastidious
contemptuous
ornate
paradigm
23. Playfully humorous
condescending
facetious
paramount
dogged
24. Inborn; built-in
pugnacious
consensus
insipid
inherent
25. Something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
harbinger
transitory
benign
trepidation
26. Extra; unnecessary
transient
superfluous
arid
disparage
27. Large in scope or content
comprehensive
coherent
mediocrity
vilify
28. Combative; belligerent
facile
incumbent
rhetoric
pugnacious
29. Insulting in manner or speech
poignant
insolent
ingrate
disparage
30. Lazy
dilettante
dubious
ingrate
indolent
31. Of little importance or significance
clandestine
impression
trivial
timorous
32. (adj.) relatively unknown (v.) to conceal or make indistinct
apprehension
omnipotent
obscure
dilatory
33. Able to pay one's debts
despotic
effusive
solvent
patronizing
34. Open to more than one interpretation
reclamation
aesthetic
ambiguous
stoic
35. Shortened; cut off
ingrate
brittle
truncated
abstract
36. Difficult to comprehend
discredit
cryptic
dictatorial
sanction
37. To restrain; to hold back
spontaneous
rhetoric
subdue
futile
38. Wildly excited or active
lucid
frenetic
quandary
alliance
39. Dine by secretive means
pragmatic
servile
surreptitiously
contemptuous
40. The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
replete
alienated
dilettante
hypocrisy
41. Submissive; like a servant
rhetoric
servile
equanimity
catalog
42. Easily flowing
misconception
convoluted
solvent
fluid
43. Uncertainty; apprehension
contemptuous
trepidation
notorious
convoluted
44. Certain to happen - unavoidable
inevitable
opulent
vitality
arid
45. Lacking energy
fastidious
listless
patronizing
proliferate
46. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
imperious
opulent
incontrovertible
arid
47. Easily understood; clear
archaic
copious
lucid
malice
48. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
impartial
abstract
surreptitiously
disparage
49. Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
equivocate
stoic
trepidation
facile
50. Determined by impulse rather than reason
putrid
arbitrary
ambivalent
impression