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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. To slow the progress of
impede
camaraderie
vindicated
vocation
2. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
acquired
timorous
embellish
inconsequential
3. Made up of a variety of sources or styles
pejorative
conflagration
elusive
eclectic
4. Describing a dry - rainless climate
venerated
arid
auspicious
cogent
5. Dine by secretive means
incumbent
prudent
inherent
surreptitiously
6. Friendly; sincere
cordial
pervasive
inveterate
wary
7. Unplanned; naturally occurring
idealize
eloquence
laudatory
spontaneous
8. Coming into existence; emerging
nascent
mundane
melancholy
caustic
9. (v.) to make an itemized list of
transient
catalog
profound
assertion
10. Hinder; interfere with
ambiguous
sanction
impression
impinge
11. Stubbornly persevering
conflagration
didactic
haughty
dogged
12. Stubborn; inflexible
emollient
toxic
rhetoric
obdurate
13. Closeness
austere
proximity
conflagration
context
14. A large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface
mediocrity
mural
inevitable
hierarchy
15. Spread or flowing throughout
permeated
vitality
poignant
alleviate
16. Worn-out through overuse; trite
hackneyed
prodigious
misconception
cogent
17. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family or homeland)
alienated
plagiarism
facile
dubious
18. A beginner
trivial
novice
ruse
vindicated
19. Poisonous
cordial
lament
toxic
disparage
20. Hard-working
rancorous
assiduous
modest
timorous
21. Intricate; complex
arid
premonition
cohesive
convoluted
22. Easily understood; clear
indolent
trepidation
pragmatic
lucid
23. (n.) an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
ponderous
cryptic
dubious
sanction
24. Mutual hatred or ill-will
enmity
wary
transitory
slander
25. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
torpor
emphasize
clandestine
pundit
26. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
biased
assiduous
medley
disdain
27. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
pervasive
impede
listless
plagiarism
28. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
novel
convoluted
ambivalent
anthology
29. Persistence
tenacity
alliance
fractious
ruse
30. Having no useful purpose; pointless
inveterate
candor
paramount
futile
31. Well-meaning; generous
wily
torpor
whimsical
benevolent
32. Impulsive and unpredictable
aesthetic
substantiated
capricious
surreptitiously
33. (adj.) softening and soothing (n.) something that softens or soothes
emollient
alleviate
acquired
perspective
34. Submissive; like a servant
cogent
assiduous
surreptitiously
servile
35. Producing a deep or full sound
sonorous
ostentatious
apprehension
maverick
36. To ease a pain or a burden
reclamation
embellish
cogent
alleviate
37. Responsive; agreeable
egregious
laudatory
amenable
dogmatic
38. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
profound
conviction
jurisprudence
impartial
39. Able to pay one's debts
solvent
apparatus
contemporary
hierarchy
40. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
impartial
subdue
gratuitous
genre
41. Lazy
indolent
surreptitiously
arid
pragmatic
42. Uncertainty; apprehension
assiduous
caustic
trepidation
insolent
43. Intended to instruct
intrepid
didactic
suppressed
spurious
44. Awareness; insight
paradigm
inherent
rhetoric
perception
45. Prejudiced
ebullience
biased
pugnacious
obdurate
46. Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
paramount
pejorative
endure
coup
47. The ability to speak vividly or persuasively
idealize
assertion
amenable
eloquence
48. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
notorious
virtuoso
perception
eclectic
49. Profoundly moving; touching
rational
poignant
fabricated
ebullience
50. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action
notorious
malleable
obstinate
paramount