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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 flowery or elaborate speech
ambivalent
florid
indolent
incontrovertible
2. Having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure - weak
inveterate
novel
insipid
tenuous
3. To grow or increase rapidly
eclectic
proliferate
ingrate
arbiter
4. Point of view
substantiated
elusive
perspective
rhetoric
5. (v.) to make an itemized list of
catalog
dogged
obdurate
facile
6. (n.) contempt - scorn (v.) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
disdain
subdue
aesthetic
arid
7. Closeness
feral
sanction
objectivity
proximity
8. The state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality
mediocrity
virtuoso
conviction
despotic
9. All-powerful
premonition
ambivalent
omnipotent
objectivity
10. Energy; power to survive
maverick
suppressed
reprehensible
vitality
11. Giving praise
laudatory
sonorous
benevolent
ruse
12. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
elusive
frenetic
fastidious
assiduous
13. Intense enthusiasm
eloquence
aesthetic
listless
ebullience
14. The power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight
indolent
trepidation
theoretical
intuition
15. Copied or adapted from a source
timorous
innate
derived
cordial
16. Exhibiting a display of great wealth
cordial
objectivity
prudent
opulent
17. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
vocation
embellish
condescending
objectivity
18. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
impinge
obstinate
genre
rhetoric
19. Commonplace; ordinary
parody
impression
malice
mundane
20. An unusual - observable event
mediocrity
coherent
amenable
phenomenon
21. Equipment; a group of machines
ample
apparatus
consensus
insolent
22. To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
ruse
disparage
trivial
effusive
23. Playfully humorous
inherent
impinge
mediocrity
facetious
24. To leave one country or region and settle in another
affable
diligent
vilify
emigrate
25. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
despotic
suppressed
ponderous
opulent
26. Enormous
arbitrary
prodigious
imperious
benign
27. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
stoic
capricious
perception
modest
28. Current - modern; from the same time
trivial
tenuous
dubious
contemporary
29. Made; concocted in order to deceive
fabricated
realism
slander
tenuous
30. A beginner
cohesive
novice
dilettante
eloquence
31. The art of using language effectively and persuasively
ample
rhetoric
consensus
conviction
32. Producing a deep or full sound
contemptuous
alienated
sonorous
harbinger
33. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
apparatus
alienated
facetious
malleable
34. Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
poignant
discredit
pejorative
reclamation
35. Timid; fearful about the future
timorous
impede
pundit
plausible
36. To give special attention to something - to stress
emphasize
sanction
permeated
novel
37. Easily understood; clear
incorrigible
prudent
lucid
emphasize
38. Awareness; insight
enlightening
perception
wary
camaraderie
39. A state of uncertainty or perplexity
timorous
quandary
cartographer
vilify
40. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
impression
serene
effusive
copious
41. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
medley
impartial
insipid
cartographer
42. Open to more than one interpretation
ponderous
paradigm
ambiguous
rancorous
43. Introducing something new
innovative
hierarchy
paradigm
surreptitiously
44. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
servile
paradigm
impartial
indolent
45. Intended to instruct
embellish
florid
didactic
obdurate
46. Anxiety or fear about the future
ample
reclamation
apprehension
meticulous
47. Seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
intuition
harbinger
superficial
plausible
48. A clever trick used to deceive or outwit
modest
disparity
biased
stratagem
49. Mutual hatred or ill-will
perception
timorous
effusive
enmity
50. Impulsive and unpredictable
condescending
benign
capricious
biased