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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. Logically connected
novel
candor
coherent
malice
2. (adj.) characterized by the telling of a story (n.) a story
anthology
timorous
spurious
narrative
3. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
imperious
perspective
excerpt
affable
4. Inborn; built-in
innate
proximity
apparatus
inherent
5. Easily understood; clear
indifferent
lucid
stoic
feral
6. Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
eloquence
frenetic
paradigm
dubious
7. To grow or increase rapidly
paradigm
proliferate
clandestine
nascent
8. An ungrateful person
ingrate
dilatory
alleviate
hypocrisy
9. Exhibiting a display of great wealth
emollient
discredit
opulent
aesthetic
10. No longer in use; old-fashioned
trepidation
indifferent
obsolete
diligent
11. An example or model
prudent
dubious
paradigm
ominous
12. Open to more than one interpretation
exemplary
condescending
ambiguous
rancorous
13. Convincing; reasonable
insolent
maverick
incumbent
cogent
14. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
misconception
ruse
sonorous
mediocrity
15. (n.) an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
spurious
sanction
emphasize
cohesive
16. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
emphasize
cohesive
eclectic
elusive
17. To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
disparage
archaic
harbinger
misconception
18. (v.) to make an itemized list of
dogged
reprehensible
contemporary
catalog
19. Submissive; like a servant
malleable
servile
exemplary
alienated
20. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
alliance
obdurate
notorious
despotic
21. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
comprehensive
omnipotent
impartial
benign
22. Subdued; kept from being circulated
diligent
toxic
nascent
suppressed
23. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
caustic
inveterate
putrid
stratagem
24. An occupation or profession
impinge
melancholy
lament
vocation
25. Unimportant
flagrant
inconsequential
affable
narrative
26. The act of suggesting or hinting
mural
omnipotent
effusive
implication
27. Timid; fearful about the future
tenacity
timorous
dogmatic
asylum
28. Poisonous
incontrovertible
toxic
florid
prodigious
29. Without decoration; strict
ample
derived
realism
austere
30. Easy-going; friendly
servile
pervasive
affable
prodigious
31. To calm or soothe
objectivity
pragmatic
ample
mollify
32. A state of uncertainty or perplexity
mundane
quandary
insipid
disparity
33. Commonplace; ordinary
hackneyed
apprehension
mundane
implication
34. Short-lived or temporary
profound
transitory
wary
fluid
35. Combative; belligerent
deleterious
notorious
pugnacious
genre
36. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
hackneyed
modest
medley
ambivalent
37. Arrogant; vainly proud
haughty
heinous
tenuous
archaic
38. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
wily
condemn
obscure
context
39. Shortened; cut off
impression
pervasive
embellish
truncated
40. Treating people as weak or inferior
insipid
hierarchy
equanimity
condescending
41. To put up with to survive a hardship
clarity
endure
sonorous
haughty
42. Uncertainty; apprehension
enlightening
exculpate
trepidation
objectivity
43. Responsive; agreeable
ambiguous
amenable
truncated
obsolete
44. General agreement
alienated
nascent
consensus
assertion
45. (adj.) softening and soothing (n.) something that softens or soothes
heinous
staid
emollient
pervasive
46. On guard; watchful
wary
asylum
ruse
timorous
47. Easily flowing
inconsequential
egregious
fluid
laudatory
48. The act of making something useful again
feral
assiduous
reclamation
narrative
49. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
archaic
jurisprudence
frank
sedentary
50. Intended to instruct
tenuous
compelling
didactic
premonition