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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. Loquacious; wordy; talkative
impede
garrulous
nonchalance
indict
2. Hesitant; not fully worked out or developed; experimental; not definite or positive
tentative
erroneous
obscure
accessible
3. Systematic
methodical
egoism
resigned
integrity
4. Drive away; disgust
braggart
repel
constraint
compile
5. Lacking in flavor; dull
prodigal
insipid
exploit
pessimism
6. Disrepute; ill fame
notoriety
disclose
frivolous
equivocal
7. Recognize; admit
mitigate
equivocal
incorrigible
acknowledge
8. Fear
disparage
guile
trite
apprehension
9. Seize another power or rank
extricate
invert
usurp
exacerbate
10. Damaged; disfigured
marred
incisive
ratify
rigor
11. Marginal; outer
comprehensive
qualified
insularity
peripheral
12. Quarrelsome
curtail
accessible
aversion
contentious
13. Lacking in seriousness; self-indulgently carefree; relatively unimportant
comprehensive
depravity
frivolous
nonchalance
14. Confirm; support
capricious
confound
corroborate
aloof
15. Puzzle; mystery
fastidious
enigma
lofty
digression
16. Differing; deviating
relegate
divergent
reprove
refute
17. Overwhelm; flood; submerge
reverent
insularity
discerning
inundate
18. Establish by evidence; verify; support
substantiate
negate
fervor
condone
19. Contradict; give a false impression
belie
rhetorical
enigma
hardy
20. Lacking in spirit or energy
dissent
inadvertent
gratuitous
listless
21. Set right; correct
austere
rectify
sluggish
despondent
22. Creature that seizes and devours another animal; person who robs or exploits others
venerate
extraneous
predator
discrepancy
23. Advanced in development
precocious
appease
rebuttal
usurp
24. Portray; depict; sketch
prevalent
dogmatic
relegate
delineate
25. Positive assertion; confirmation; solemn pledge by one who refuses to take an oath
inadvertent
undermine
sanction
affirmation
26. Belief on slight evidence; gullibility; naivete
credulity
belie
insularity
exonerate
27. Provide written evidence
instigate
coercion
document
brevity
28. Active enmity
anarchist
enhance
animosity
renounce
29. Waver; fluctuate
vacillate
idiosyncrasy
disparage
turbulence
30. Observable facts; subjects of scientific investigation
discordant
volatile
impeccable
phenomena
31. Hackneyed; commonplace
trite
belie
intervene
detached
32. Habitually silent; talking little
taciturn
antidote
deride
malicious
33. Momentary; temporary; staying for a short time
diminution
fanaticism
transient
intimidate
34. Serve as an example of; embody
exemplify
rigor
profusion
trite
35. Arrangements by rank or standing; authoritarian body divided into ranks
exhilarating
repel
digression
hierarchy
36. Glowing ardor; intensity of feeling
frivolous
concede
articulate
fervor
37. yielding; timid
opaque
commemorate
submissive
sustain
38. Relieve
laud
alleviate
intervene
peripheral
39. Former occupant of a post
venerate
acknowledge
predecessor
bolster
40. Boaster
braggart
deference
arbitrary
obstinate
41. Unfavorable fortune; hardship; a calamitous event
lofty
idiosyncrasy
pervasive
adversity
42. Approve; support
inert
devious
endorse
pervasive
43. Brief; tense; compact
insularity
succinct
exacerbate
credulity
44. Overjoyed; in high spirits
elated
devise
zealot
diminution
45. Darken; make unclear
decorum
criterion
obscure
censorious
46. Opinion contrary to popular belief; opinion contrary to accepted religion
predecessor
transient
heresy
marred
47. Expression of praise - often on the occasion of someone's death
detached
calculated
capricious
eulogy
48. Of the same kind
diligence
gratuitous
homogeneous
sustain
49. Unoriginal; derived from another source
reverent
derivative
sanction
augment
50. Wander aimlessly (physically or mentally)
deterrent
ramble
acclaim
acknowledge