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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Think up; invent; plan
compile
mitigate
devise
candor
2. Servile flatterer; bootlicker; yes man
corroborate
retract
cajole
sycophant
3. Compress or shrink; make a pledge; catch a disease
censure
contract
prolific
cordial
4. Thorough; comprehensive
rectify
perpetuate
homogeneous
exhaustive
5. Adorn; ornament
embellish
discerning
resolve
enmity
6. The state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes
contentious
ambivalence
impair
compliance
7. Settle down; descend; grow quiet
explicit
erroneous
subside
hypocritical
8. Depressed; gloomy
calculated
despondent
rebuttal
affirmation
9. Withdraw; take back
curtail
retract
corroborate
miserly
10. Unwillingness
dubious
disinclination
fastidious
disparity
11. General agreement
consensus
censorious
linger
contentious
12. Impressionable; easily influenced; having little resistance - as to a disease; receptive to
repudiate
erroneous
phenomena
susceptible
13. Choosing at random; confused
indiscriminate
robust
frivolous
conciliatory
14. Lacking in spirit or energy
braggart
listless
dismiss
precocious
15. Please
robust
restraint
gratify
pragmatic
16. Firmly established by nature or habit
inherent
frivolous
nonchalance
sporadic
17. Ascribe; explain
criterion
recount
commemorate
attribute
18. Nearness
concur
piety
morose
proximity
19. Approve formally; confirm; verify
incisive
predator
ratify
concise
20. Sameness; monotony
proliferation
redundant
elated
uniformity
21. Regret; disapprove of
guile
deplore
authoritarian
repudiate
22. Revere
adversity
impeccable
venerate
reprehensible
23. Composed of elements drawn from disparate sources
authoritarian
inundate
inadvertent
eclectic
24. Person who looks on the good side
denounce
sanction
optimist
resolve
25. Put into effect; carry out
execute
negate
immutable
dubious
26. Lack of consistency; difference
discrepancy
aloof
commemorate
predator
27. Accepting one's fate; unresisting; patiently submissive
resigned
morose
impair
candor
28. Unselfishly generous; concerned for others
aspire
altruistic
hedonist
robust
29. Deliberately planned; likely
feasible
calculated
bolster
profusion
30. Lack of seriousness; lightness
credulity
levity
aspire
digression
31. Great fire
conflagration
apathy
degradation
placate
32. Agree
deride
advocate
cursory
concur
33. Ambiguous; intentionally misleading
pretentious
discerning
disputatious
equivocal
34. Seek to attain; long for
aspire
ponderous
augment
vindicate
35. Worldly as opposed to spiritual; everyday
mundane
impair
exhilarating
lethargic
36. Roundabout; erratic; not straightforward
document
scrupulous
hierarchy
devious
37. Inborn
mundane
deplore
hypothetical
innate
38. Observable facts; subjects of scientific investigation
erudite
phenomena
exhaustive
eloquence
39. Quarrelsome
relegate
artifact
reprehensible
contentious
40. Imitate; rival
tentative
emulate
aversion
retract
41. Dilemma
quandary
pervasive
condone
rancor
42. Controlling influence; domination
incite
discordant
opaque
ascendancy
43. Hostility; active resistance
austere
antagonism
negate
inherent
44. Short-lived; fleeting
ephemeral
venerate
erudite
autonomous
45. Motionless; stale; dull
whimsical
stagnant
redundant
censure
46. Blame; criticize
aesthetic
censure
frivolous
linger
47. Banish to an inferior position; delegate; assign
cordial
discordant
relegate
glutton
48. Mistaken; wrong
erroneous
credulity
gratuitous
incorrigible
49. Disagree
vindicate
archaic
opaque
dissent
50. Examine closely and critically
verbose
scrutinize
feasible
vacillate