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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. Habitually late
dilatory
toxic
eclectic
inveterate
2. Possessed at birth; inborn
stoic
innate
egregious
assertion
3. An occupation or profession
reclamation
vocation
vindicated
decorous
4. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
futile
paradigm
impartial
tenuous
5. Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
timorous
whimsical
proximity
pejorative
6. Energy; power to survive
obscure
clarity
vitality
impede
7. A tremendously skilled artist
facile
pundit
virtuoso
pugnacious
8. The act of suggesting or hinting
pervasive
implication
premonition
camaraderie
9. Hard-working
misconception
assiduous
austere
pervasive
10. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
pejorative
incumbent
vilify
context
11. A union of two or more groups
dictatorial
alliance
serene
copious
12. Freed from blame
rational
facile
wary
vindicated
13. Commonplace; ordinary
hierarchy
mundane
copious
condemn
14. Describing a dry - rainless climate
arid
contemporary
decorous
vitality
15. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
haughty
paradigm
profound
parody
16. Enormous
impartial
cryptic
prodigious
modest
17. Shortened; cut off
truncated
sanction
hierarchy
pugnacious
18. A place of retreat or security
conception
ebullience
asylum
surreptitiously
19. General agreement
novice
ample
consensus
ambivalent
20. Informative; contributing the one's awareness
truncated
camaraderie
pundit
enlightening
21. Intricate; complex
stratagem
impinge
rhetoric
convoluted
22. Equipment; a group of machines
austere
haughty
apparatus
perspective
23. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
poignant
surreptitiously
wily
malleable
24. Coming into existence; emerging
jurisprudence
nascent
fabricated
haughty
25. Sadness; depression
melancholy
impartial
brusque
impression
26. Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
brittle
superficial
rhetoric
ruse
27. Copied or adapted from a source
assiduous
disingenuous
ominous
derived
28. To hide by blending in with surroundings
emollient
plagiarism
superficial
camouflage
29. Unemotional; serious
realism
dogmatic
staid
dogged
30. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
equanimity
innate
lament
austere
31. A large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface
mollify
mural
impinge
modest
32. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family or homeland)
venerated
alienated
trepidation
enlightening
33. Easily flowing
replete
ebullience
fluid
apprehension
34. Stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
alliance
comprehensive
dogmatic
abstract
35. A crafty trick
ruse
inveterate
laudatory
inconsequential
36. Favorable; promising
eclectic
slander
auspicious
plausible
37. One who designs or makes maps
wily
cartographer
condemn
superficial
38. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
maverick
dogged
putrid
alienated
39. Wildly excited or active
frenetic
torpor
fabricated
effusive
40. Having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure - weak
rhetoric
laudatory
tenuous
misconception
41. To give official authorization or approval
ponderous
sanction
contemptuous
eclectic
42. Courageous; fearless
superfluous
intrepid
vilify
equivocate
43. Passing away with time; passing from one place to another
phenomenon
transient
capricious
toxic
44. Extremely dull
excerpt
ponderous
camaraderie
derived
45. Dispersed throughout
pervasive
spurious
elusive
melancholy
46. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
stratagem
conviction
aesthetic
notorious
47. Exercising good judgment or common sense
permeated
ornate
pugnacious
prudent
48. Submissive; like a servant
cartographer
servile
realism
conflagration
49. Intended to instruct
didactic
contemporary
copious
trepidation
50. A fixed or strong belief
fractious
inconsequential
inevitable
conviction