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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. Increase; improve
invert
pessimism
acknowledge
enhance
2. Doubter; person who suspends judgment until the evidence supporting a point of view has been examined
orator
skeptic
gregarious
divergent
3. Insignificant; unimportant
vilify
inconsequential
deterrent
optimist
4. Superfluous; repetitious; excessively wordy
coercion
trite
redundant
cordial
5. Pretending to be virtuous; deceiving
aspire
hypocritical
repudiate
subside
6. Serving as a model; outstanding
rigor
contentious
furtive
exemplary
7. Harmless
innocuous
redundant
impeccable
virtuoso
8. Please
calculated
innate
conciliatory
gratify
9. Practicing self-denial; austere
ascetic
enigma
augment
ominous
10. Approve; support
seclusion
repudiate
incisive
endorse
11. Grieve; express sorrow
ingenious
inconsequential
resolution
lament
12. Conscientious; extremely thorough
undermine
deplore
hedonist
scrupulous
13. Portray; depict; sketch
exacerbate
delineate
tentative
gratify
14. Impertinence; insolence
benevolent
impudence
curtail
retract
15. Active strength
bolster
vigor
concise
despondent
16. Impressionable; easily influenced; having little resistance - as to a disease; receptive to
susceptible
frugality
sanction
divergent
17. Coax; wheedle
indiscriminate
cajole
affable
subordinate
18. One-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party
partisan
linger
erudite
commemorate
19. Deliberately planned; likely
squander
calculated
prolific
lavish
20. Serve as an example of; embody
censorious
exemplify
discordant
deprecate
21. Conciseness
philanthropist
opulence
divergent
brevity
22. Extreme corruption; wickedness
remorse
depravity
austere
superfluous
23. Evasive; baffling; hard to grasp
idiosyncrasy
brevity
disseminate
elusive
24. Flattery; admiration
detrimental
repel
adulation
innate
25. Suitable; practical; politic
expedient
recluse
extraneous
vacillate
26. Threatening
ominous
augment
animosity
lethargic
27. Fear
apprehension
austere
flagrant
gregarious
28. Guilt; self-reproach
frugality
abstemious
unwarranted
remorse
29. Pertaining to effective communication; insincere in language
comprehensive
susceptible
rhetorical
reverent
30. Narrow-mindedness; isolation
exemplify
document
insularity
zealot
31. Based on assumptions or hypotheses; supposed
conciliatory
incorrigible
sluggish
hypothetical
32. Worldly as opposed to spiritual; everyday
concise
mundane
elated
impair
33. Deep; not superficial; complete
profound
venerate
coercion
detached
34. Destroy completely
scrupulous
implausible
reverent
obliterate
35. Blame; criticize
volatile
censure
exemplary
submissive
36. Sameness; monotony
pessimism
alleviate
uniformity
levity
37. Unfavorable fortune; hardship; a calamitous event
frivolous
indifferent
reverent
adversity
38. Frankness; open honesty
candor
gravity
philanthropist
erudite
39. Approve formally; confirm; verify
calculated
conflagration
illusory
ratify
40. Unwillingness
diminution
meticulous
disinclination
laud
41. Belief that life is basically bad or evil; gloominess
pessimism
intimidate
optimist
concede
42. Easy to approach; obtainable
ominous
stagnant
accessible
confound
43. Appease; moderate
mitigate
materialism
incisive
vilify
44. Bitterness; hatred
rancor
contentious
deference
cajole
45. Injure; hurt
ostentatious
sustain
discordant
impair
46. Momentary; temporary; staying for a short time
transient
exhaustive
repel
profusion
47. Learned; scholarly
erudite
incorrigible
abstruse
appease
48. Clever; resourceful
ingenious
arbitrary
abstract
dogmatic
49. Prosper; flourish
thrive
ambivalence
calculated
deterrent
50. Slow; lazy; lethargic
restraint
sluggish
expedient
explicit