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SAT Vocab High Frequency Words
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sat
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english
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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
archaic
enhance
resolve
exuberance
2. Unchangeable
immutable
credulity
stagnant
intimidate
3. Suitable; practical; politic
presumptuous
acknowledge
expedient
indiscriminate
4. Easily approachable; warmly friendly
hierarchy
composure
appease
affable
5. Object made by human beings - either handmade or mass-produced
divergent
concise
artifact
affable
6. Slow; lazy; lethargic
disseminate
incisive
linger
sluggish
7. One opposed to force; anti-militarist
esoteric
redundant
pragmatic
pacifist
8. Critical
censorious
aversion
concede
exonerate
9. Imitate; rival
miserly
calculated
emulate
ominous
10. Lack of seriousness; lightness
diminution
levity
exacerbate
decorum
11. Overjoyed; in high spirits
sanction
criterion
elated
affirmation
12. Depressed; gloomy
redundant
erroneous
despondent
exonerate
13. Settle down; descend; grow quiet
skeptic
susceptible
erudite
subside
14. Momentary; temporary; staying for a short time
recluse
remorse
transient
authoritarian
15. Teachings - in general; particular principle (religious - legal - etc.) taught
rectify
doctrine
endorse
orator
16. Establish by evidence; verify; support
appease
discount
composure
substantiate
17. Hackneyed; commonplace
commemorate
comprehensive
presumptuous
trite
18. Turn upside down or inside out
archaic
invert
astute
superficial
19. Slavish; cringing
furtive
servile
hedonist
intervene
20. Opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal
bolster
dogmatic
recount
optimist
21. Hinder; block; delay
eclectic
immutable
impede
phenomena
22. Moderation of self-control; controlling force; restriction
restraint
frivolous
oblivion
preclude
23. Compress or shrink; make a pledge; catch a disease
contract
augment
servile
esoteric
24. Person who seeks to overturn the established government; advocate of abolishing authority
lofty
anarchist
pessimism
intervene
25. Narrate or tell; count over again
cryptic
recount
depravity
hardy
26. Censure; rebuke
superfluous
preclude
reprove
apprehension
27. Indifference; lack of concern; composure
emulate
nonchalance
confound
ephemeral
28. Difference; condition of inequality
disparity
capricious
concur
somber
29. Dilemma
quandary
cryptic
redundant
consensus
30. Shorten; reduce
presumptuous
curtail
innocuous
authoritarian
31. Medicine to counteract a poison or disease
doctrine
prodigal
antidote
exemplary
32. Capricious; randomly chosen; tyrannical
notoriety
ratify
detached
arbitrary
33. Reveal
notoriety
elusive
disclose
altruistic
34. Unlikely; unbelievable
pervasive
implausible
accessible
listless
35. Acquit; exculpate
indiscriminate
stagnant
hardy
exonerate
36. Please
gravity
glutton
archaic
gratify
37. Insignificant; unimportant
oblivion
levity
prolific
inconsequential
38. Flattery; admiration
proliferation
heresy
adulation
fanaticism
39. Conscientious; extremely thorough
scrupulous
feasible
belie
pretentious
40. Belief that life is basically bad or evil; gloominess
euphemism
explicit
opaque
pessimism
41. Lacking in flavor; dull
dogmatic
exhilarating
insipid
prolific
42. Propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners
enhance
depravity
decorum
erroneous
43. Sameness; monotony
fervor
servile
stagnant
uniformity
44. Brief; tense; compact
sustain
succinct
censorious
prevalent
45. Recognize; admit
acknowledge
fallacious
embellish
candor
46. Someone who eats too much
glutton
prudent
adulation
composure
47. Casual; hastily done
cursory
sporadic
lofty
comprehensive
48. Compulsion; repression of feelings
inane
precocious
constraint
exonerate
49. Deep; not superficial; complete
profound
abstract
inane
heresy
50. State of violent agitation
inclusive
repel
cryptic
turbulence