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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Responsive; agreeable
arid
incumbent
amenable
clandestine
2. To grow or increase rapidly
proliferate
wily
impinge
contemptuous
3. A tremendously skilled artist
biased
virtuoso
timorous
paramount
4. Biting sarcastic or witty
listless
ambivalent
caustic
sanction
5. One who designs or makes maps
cartographer
theoretical
indifferent
genre
6. (adj.) relatively unknown (v.) to conceal or make indistinct
obscure
notorious
anthology
vilify
7. Enormous
hypocrisy
prodigious
alleviate
insipid
8. Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
frenetic
notorious
stoic
sonorous
9. An ungrateful person
ingrate
mundane
futile
surreptitiously
10. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
acquired
notorious
conception
subdue
11. Shortened; cut off
truncated
candor
benign
asylum
12. Strikingly new or unusual
jurisprudence
novel
benign
permeated
13. Hatefully evil; abominable
heinous
deleterious
ebullience
dubious
14. Having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure - weak
tenuous
haughty
ruse
enmity
15. Hateful; marked by deep seated ill-will
rancorous
amenable
heinous
laudatory
16. To free from guilt or blame
exculpate
penitent
ponderous
insolent
17. Having a harmful effect; injurious
spurious
objectivity
prodigious
deleterious
18. Having great depth or seriousness
profound
haughty
naive
sanction
19. Possessed at birth; inborn
intrepid
innate
brusque
parody
20. Kind and gentle
benign
pragmatic
frenetic
eloquence
21. Rotten
truncated
harbinger
putrid
vilify
22. Goodwill between friends
hypocrisy
amenable
diligent
camaraderie
23. Dispersed throughout
discredit
realism
pervasive
penitent
24. Poisonous
permeated
toxic
ebullience
flagrant
25. No longer in use; old-fashioned
convoluted
capricious
obsolete
endure
26. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
plagiarism
capricious
imperious
didactic
27. Made up of a variety of sources or styles
indolent
alliance
eclectic
truncated
28. Open to more than one interpretation
objectivity
rhetoric
ambiguous
incontrovertible
29. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
discredit
incumbent
anthology
genre
30. The art of using language effectively and persuasively
subdue
camaraderie
rhetoric
emollient
31. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family or homeland)
alienated
vitality
clarity
superficial
32. Hard-working
assiduous
emphasize
arbitrary
alliance
33. A group organized by rank
misconception
whimsical
hierarchy
harbinger
34. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
context
vindicated
realism
parody
35. Exhibiting a display of great wealth
opulent
brittle
solvent
substantiated
36. Uncertainty; apprehension
trepidation
idealize
cartographer
assimilation
37. Unable to be reformed
incorrigible
theoretical
alienated
lament
38. Lacking energy
cogent
sonorous
paradigm
listless
39. Submissive; like a servant
jurisprudence
servile
sanction
fastidious
40. Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
flagrant
candor
eclectic
endure
41. Commonplace; ordinary
diligent
mundane
lament
ambivalent
42. A brilliantly executed plan
rational
coup
cogent
lament
43. Not caring one way or the other
exculpate
indifferent
derived
heinous
44. Not genuine; false - counterfeit
substantiated
consensus
spurious
malleable
45. Anxiety or fear about the future
cordial
disparity
apprehension
compelling
46. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
disdain
ostentatious
misconception
condemn
47. Freed from blame
prudent
superfluous
reprehensible
vindicated
48. Commendable; worthy of imitation
haughty
integrity
exemplary
convoluted
49. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
narrative
capricious
jurisprudence
objectivity
50. Appropriateness of behavior
prosaic
propriety
equivocate
misconception