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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. A union of two or more groups
trivial
impartial
melancholy
alliance
2. Favorable; promising
auspicious
effusive
acquired
cordial
3. Having a harmful effect; injurious
inherent
capricious
deleterious
fabricated
4. Not migratory; settled
obscure
insolent
sedentary
derived
5. All-powerful
omnipotent
disparage
contemptuous
frenetic
6. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
slander
medley
solvent
impression
7. Unemotional; serious
poignant
hackneyed
staid
solvent
8. The state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality
quandary
pragmatic
tenacity
mediocrity
9. Easily broken when subjected to pressure
amenable
dogmatic
meticulous
brittle
10. Circumstances of a situation; environment
context
premonition
ruse
feral
11. A tremendously skilled artist
melancholy
virtuoso
pervasive
plagiarism
12. Elaborately decorated
impinge
aesthetic
perception
ornate
13. Describing a showy or pretentious display
apathetic
ostentatious
mollify
hierarchy
14. (n.) contempt - scorn (v.) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
cohesive
emphasize
disdain
ebullience
15. Worthy of blame
vilify
patronizing
reprehensible
whimsical
16. (n.) an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
truncated
heinous
sanction
parody
17. A crafty trick
narrative
compelling
convoluted
ruse
18. Feeling hatred; scornful
assiduous
apprehension
whimsical
contemptuous
19. Inborn; built-in
inherent
superfluous
whimsical
decorous
20. Secretive
clandestine
paradigm
impression
abstract
21. The ability to form or understand an idea
conception
timorous
omnipotent
virtuoso
22. Unplanned; naturally occurring
apathetic
brittle
spontaneous
pugnacious
23. To give official authorization or approval
imperious
perspective
spurious
sanction
24. To restrain; to hold back
diligent
ornate
subdue
facile
25. Of or occurring in the night
nocturnal
reprehensible
quandary
biased
26. Awareness; insight
harbinger
condemn
perception
acquired
27. To free from guilt or blame
frank
exculpate
virtuoso
astute
28. To absorb; to make similar
assimilation
inevitable
solvent
feral
29. Insulting in manner or speech
inveterate
insolent
capricious
incontrovertible
30. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
rhetoric
objectivity
imperious
melancholy
31. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
despotic
apathetic
perception
parody
32. Conspicuously bad or offensive
brusque
alienated
ominous
egregious
33. Profoundly moving; touching
poignant
contemptuous
fabricated
obsolete
34. Practical
substantiated
indolent
pragmatic
pejorative
35. Point of view
inherent
realism
perspective
replete
36. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
feral
genre
copious
jurisprudence
37. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
stoic
emollient
impartial
dogged
38. Intended to instruct
hierarchy
didactic
egregious
conflagration
39. Poisonous
toxic
insipid
narrative
pundit
40. A large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface
diligent
mural
laudatory
fabricated
41. Treating people as weak or inferior
condescending
flagrant
ample
emphasize
42. Equipment; a group of machines
sonorous
apparatus
meticulous
astute
43. Current - modern; from the same time
hierarchy
contemporary
paradigm
imperious
44. To calm or soothe
parody
despotic
compelling
mollify
45. Shrewd; clever
idealize
astute
malice
spontaneous
46. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
whimsical
caustic
paramount
mundane
47. Savage; untamed
derived
staid
endure
feral
48. Trustworthiness; completeness
clandestine
perspective
benevolent
integrity
49. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
aesthetic
compelling
stratagem
vilify
50. Lacking application or practical application
replete
camaraderie
theoretical
dilettante