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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. Approve formally; confirm; verify
ratify
discerning
renounce
euphemism
2. Generous; openhanded; extravagant; wasteful
obliterate
cajole
lavish
dubious
3. Free; disentangle
robust
exhilarating
extricate
restraint
4. Hard to understand; known only to the chosen few
affable
esoteric
expedient
diffuse
5. Compulsion; repression of feelings
constraint
confound
censure
vigor
6. Destroy completely
redundant
innate
reserve
obliterate
7. Stingy; mean
miserly
detached
cursory
acclaim
8. Wander aimlessly (physically or mentally)
ramble
superficial
miserly
altruistic
9. Servile flatterer; bootlicker; yes man
levity
sycophant
cordial
aloof
10. Condemn; criticize
dissent
denounce
renounce
ambiguous
11. Cautious; careful
reserve
extricate
rigor
prudent
12. Imitate; rival
hedonist
preclude
emulate
aesthetic
13. Person who looks on the good side
optimist
reprove
laud
belie
14. Religious devotion; godliness
euphemism
piety
hierarchy
consensus
15. Abundantly fruitful
aesthetic
prolific
abridge
prevalent
16. Guilt; self-reproach
indifferent
terse
impeccable
remorse
17. Increase; add to
augment
notoriety
decorum
erudite
18. Mocking
satirical
abstruse
confound
vindicate
19. Establish by evidence; verify; support
dubious
resigned
substantiate
gregarious
20. Recognize; admit
advocate
acknowledge
uniformity
precocious
21. Appease; moderate
implement
gullible
mitigate
detached
22. Great commotion and confusion
dogmatic
guile
turmoil
arbitrary
23. Arrangements by rank or standing; authoritarian body divided into ranks
deterrent
pretentious
implausible
hierarchy
24. yielding; timid
expedient
submissive
euphemism
document
25. Capricious; fanciful
seclusion
whimsical
verbose
sporadic
26. Cancel out; nullify; deny
negate
reprove
complacency
conciliatory
27. Think up; invent; plan
antagonism
exemplify
devise
denounce
28. Totally clear; definite; outspoken
susceptible
explicit
opaque
bolster
29. Sparing in eating and drinking; temperate
antiquated
endorse
abstemious
ambivalence
30. Positive assertion; confirmation; solemn pledge by one who refuses to take an oath
marred
preclude
qualified
affirmation
31. Help bring about; make less difficult
marred
astute
exuberance
facilitate
32. Please
depravity
aversion
gratify
renounce
33. Scatter
intervene
inundate
ambiguous
disperse
34. Inactive; lacking power to move
inert
adulation
braggart
hypocritical
35. Difference; condition of inequality
prolific
disparity
analogous
submissive
36. Pervading; spread throughout every part
pervasive
austere
cajole
profane
37. Pacify; conciliate
disclose
placate
inert
idiosyncrasy
38. Injure; hurt
ingenious
impair
explicit
turmoil
39. Calmness; peace
enmity
tranquility
ingenious
intrepid
40. Opponent
intimidate
retract
adversary
materialism
41. Belief on slight evidence; gullibility; naivete
antiquated
credulity
hypothetical
lofty
42. Boaster
braggart
facilitate
equivocal
compile
43. Reprove severely; rebuke
benevolent
zealot
preclude
reprimand
44. Cutting; sharp
vigor
incisive
pessimism
meticulous
45. Expression of praise - often on the occasion of someone's death
indiscriminate
subside
eulogy
egoism
46. Not correctable
doctrine
pacifist
incorrigible
advocate
47. Pacify or sooth; relieve
expedient
provincial
transient
appease
48. Ridicule; make fun of
doctrine
resolution
exemplify
deride
49. Drive away; disgust
conciliatory
repel
concede
criterion
50. Harmful; damaging
scrupulous
fallacious
expedite
detrimental