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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. Certain to happen - unavoidable
alliance
ingrate
brusque
inevitable
2. Uninteresting; unchallenging
proximity
endure
insipid
mundane
3. A beginner
affable
camouflage
paradigm
novice
4. Favorable; promising
pejorative
auspicious
ingrate
conception
5. Conspicuously bad or offensive
egregious
cohesive
profound
ambiguous
6. Hard-working
egregious
reclamation
obsolete
assiduous
7. All-powerful
benevolent
mundane
omnipotent
vitality
8. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
facile
clarity
fastidious
trepidation
9. Extra; unnecessary
despotic
conviction
superfluous
timorous
10. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
notorious
frenetic
torpor
alienated
11. The act of suggesting or hinting
serene
omnipotent
implication
timorous
12. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
plagiarism
serene
ambiguous
derived
13. Inborn; built-in
eclectic
inherent
rhetoric
wary
14. Feeling or showing little emotion
apathetic
malice
mural
alienated
15. Not applied to actual objects
slander
abstract
compelling
tenuous
16. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
arbitrary
compelling
impression
contemptuous
17. Of chief concern or importance
paramount
brusque
harbinger
biased
18. Worn-out through overuse; trite
misconception
condemn
vilify
hackneyed
19. Well-meaning; generous
profound
ambiguous
benevolent
facile
20. Something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
perspective
inevitable
auspicious
harbinger
21. Determined by impulse rather than reason
fastidious
arbitrary
clandestine
insolent
22. Prejudiced
dogged
biased
innovative
egregious
23. Unimaginative; dull
ponderous
prosaic
arbitrary
exemplary
24. To grow or increase rapidly
perspective
condemn
reprehensible
proliferate
25. Easily understood; clear
derived
implication
condescending
lucid
26. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
didactic
ingrate
ruse
rational
27. Dine by secretive means
surreptitiously
vocation
opulent
emphasize
28. Plentiful; having a large quantity
copious
poignant
tenacity
apparatus
29. Submissive; like a servant
servile
laudatory
surreptitiously
disparity
30. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
discourse
torpor
ostentatious
fabricated
31. Exercising good judgment or common sense
perspective
sedentary
prudent
arbiter
32. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
reclamation
obstinate
misconception
pragmatic
33. Elaborately decorated
ostentatious
ornate
inveterate
subdue
34. Of or occurring in the night
feral
florid
theoretical
nocturnal
35. Domineering; oppressively overbearing
feral
notorious
alienated
dictatorial
36. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
didactic
arid
discourse
archaic
37. Intricate; complex
ebullience
dogmatic
convoluted
arbitrary
38. Unemotional; serious
malleable
disingenuous
laudatory
staid
39. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action
assertion
obstinate
fluid
toxic
40. Without decoration; strict
ambivalent
substantiated
sonorous
austere
41. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
torpor
meticulous
misconception
aesthetic
42. To restrain; to hold back
subdue
embellish
ostentatious
reclamation
43. Lazy
suppressed
indolent
paradigm
proximity
44. Supported with proof or evidence; verified
substantiated
inveterate
conflagration
melancholy
45. The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
whimsical
hypocrisy
condescending
poignant
46. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
equivocate
obsolete
modest
disparage
47. General agreement
prudent
impartial
consensus
brittle
48. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
plagiarism
apathetic
replete
diligent
49. Mutual hatred or ill-will
innate
opulent
enmity
mollify
50. The power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight
futile
servile
emigrate
intuition