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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. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
tenacity
ambivalent
inveterate
eloquence
2. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
spurious
reclamation
gratuitous
sanction
3. Condition of sticking together
archaic
naive
catalog
cohesive
4. Exhibiting a display of great wealth
serene
brittle
opulent
paradigm
5. Persistence
austere
insolent
tenacity
brittle
6. Unemotional; serious
stoic
staid
poignant
intuition
7. Seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
austere
plausible
apprehension
frenetic
8. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
misconception
vilify
paradigm
dogmatic
9. A place of retreat or security
asylum
incorrigible
ruse
flagrant
10. To cause to be doubted
copious
quandary
comprehensive
discredit
11. To restrain; to hold back
impression
perception
virtuoso
subdue
12. Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
nascent
subdue
transitory
superficial
13. Calm
timorous
fabricated
idealize
serene
14. To put up with to survive a hardship
assimilation
endure
opulent
ponderous
15. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
torpor
phenomenon
wary
modest
16. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
camouflage
insipid
notorious
florid
17. Express grief for; mourn
tenuous
omnipotent
lament
catalog
18. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
innovative
facile
discourse
dubious
19. Exercising good judgment or common sense
timorous
didactic
prudent
inherent
20. Anxiety or fear about the future
rancorous
apprehension
obscure
embellish
21. Favorable; promising
transitory
clarity
auspicious
derived
22. Strikingly new or unusual
profound
novel
patronizing
hackneyed
23. Giving praise
archaic
coup
sanction
laudatory
24. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
despotic
assertion
condescending
deleterious
25. Goodwill between friends
eloquence
slander
camaraderie
servile
26. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
ostentatious
heinous
jurisprudence
notorious
27. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; difference
emphasize
facile
vitality
disparity
28. Responsive; agreeable
innate
condescending
amenable
mural
29. Kind and gentle
alienated
mundane
incumbent
benign
30. Introducing something new
impartial
innovative
incorrigible
mundane
31. An example or model
arbiter
clarity
paradigm
theoretical
32. Stubborn; inflexible
meticulous
virtuoso
inveterate
obdurate
33. To give official authorization or approval
sanction
wary
equanimity
subdue
34. Submissive; like a servant
florid
stoic
servile
lucid
35. Equipment; a group of machines
fractious
intuition
apparatus
malice
36. Intricate; complex
hackneyed
diligent
transitory
convoluted
37. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
hierarchy
condescending
naive
parody
38. Stubbornly persevering
dogged
contemptuous
decorous
abstract
39. Practical
fractious
cohesive
pragmatic
comprehensive
40. Friendly; sincere
cordial
didactic
discredit
obscure
41. Current - modern; from the same time
biased
contemporary
egregious
alliance
42. To give special attention to something - to stress
consensus
malleable
proximity
emphasize
43. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
affable
venerated
maverick
abstract
44. Extra; unnecessary
sanction
superfluous
benign
dubious
45. A group organized by rank
pugnacious
mediocrity
discourse
hierarchy
46. A judge who decides a disputed issue
copious
emigrate
arbiter
quandary
47. To calm or soothe
auspicious
conviction
exemplary
mollify
48. Of chief concern or importance
caustic
servile
impede
paramount
49. The ability to form or understand an idea
opulent
conception
maverick
ponderous
50. Enormous
futile
prodigious
rational
phenomenon