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SAT Vocab High Frequency 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. Wise; shrewd; keen
exhilarating
exemplify
criterion
astute
2. Drive away; disgust
repel
provincial
rigor
hypocritical
3. One opposed to force; anti-militarist
pacifist
ponderous
disparage
obstinate
4. Wordy
depravity
digression
euphemism
verbose
5. Wandering away from the subject
digression
innate
obliterate
vindicate
6. Approve; ratify
credulity
virtuoso
sanction
authoritarian
7. Compress or shrink; make a pledge; catch a disease
skeptic
glutton
contract
rhetorical
8. Urge; start; provoke
instigate
abridge
impede
implement
9. Glowing ardor; intensity of feeling
illusory
proliferation
vilify
fervor
10. Seize another power or rank
aversion
compile
orator
usurp
11. Serve as an example of; embody
brevity
exemplify
despondent
rigor
12. Charge
haughtiness
enigma
scanty
indict
13. Great fire
sycophant
conflagration
presumptuous
gratify
14. Overlook; forgive; give tacit approval; excuse
prolific
condone
ironic
comprehensive
15. Appease; moderate
coercion
tentative
frugality
mitigate
16. Pretending to be virtuous; deceiving
abstruse
flagrant
eclectic
hypocritical
17. Marginal; outer
calculated
abstemious
peripheral
disclose
18. Excessive interest in one's self; belief that one should be interested in one's self rather than in others
disclose
egoism
discordant
abstruse
19. Invigorating and refreshing; cheering
embellish
stagnant
exhilarating
opulence
20. Self-governing
virtuoso
autonomous
intrepid
hamper
21. Reveal
reprove
disclose
contract
obstinate
22. Ambiguous; intentionally misleading
feasible
obscure
renounce
equivocal
23. Comparable
credulity
sporadic
analogous
insularity
24. Confuse; puzzle
confound
nonchalance
concur
ephemeral
25. Honor the memory of
skeptic
commemorate
apathy
incisive
26. Effective; distinct
articulate
erudite
rhetorical
elusive
27. Individual who sacrifices principles for expediency by taking advantage of circumstances
abridge
opportunist
deprecate
exhilarating
28. False; misleading
fallacious
aspire
affirmation
resolve
29. Critical
censorious
cajole
guile
recount
30. Learned; scholarly
erudite
lofty
squander
esoteric
31. Scatter
consensus
implement
disseminate
disperse
32. Advanced in development
precocious
virtuoso
proximity
subside
33. Unintentional; by oversight; careless
negate
inadvertent
divergent
somber
34. Rapid growth; spread; multiplication
uniformity
proliferation
quandary
lavish
35. Narrow-mindedness; isolation
perpetuate
redundant
insularity
affirmation
36. Capricious; fanciful
deterrent
divergent
whimsical
erroneous
37. Gloomy; depressing; dark; drab
somber
rectify
gregarious
obliterate
38. Mental calmness
composure
ascetic
superficial
disinclination
39. Habitually silent; talking little
eulogy
innate
taciturn
inherent
40. Shorten; reduce
trite
acclaim
submissive
curtail
41. Quarrelsome
contentious
impair
embellish
profound
42. Grieve; express sorrow
ponderous
servile
lament
gravity
43. Bitterness; hatred
astute
derivative
rancor
erroneous
44. Mentally quick and observant; having insight
reverent
discerning
deterrent
temper
45. Steadiness of effort; persistent hard work
profane
devious
diligence
disperse
46. Trivial; shallow
virtuoso
partisan
ominous
superficial
47. Seriousness
endorse
gravity
frugality
philanthropist
48. Opponent
emulate
adversary
frivolous
calculated
49. Concise; abrupt; pithy
temper
scanty
terse
articulate
50. Meager; insufficient
relegate
laud
miserly
scanty