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SAT Vocab Most Important 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. Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
capricious
flagrant
theoretical
plagiarism
2. Enormous
prodigious
idealize
arbiter
obscure
3. Plentiful; having a large quantity
coup
laudatory
affable
copious
4. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
misconception
fluid
acquired
cryptic
5. Commendable; worthy of imitation
dogmatic
exemplary
servile
superficial
6. Submissive; like a servant
facile
austere
servile
compelling
7. Quarrelsome; unruly
fractious
superficial
biased
arid
8. An authority who expresses his/her opinions
pervasive
pundit
surreptitiously
impede
9. Possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please
conflagration
dictatorial
fastidious
obstinate
10. Rudely abrupt
paramount
assimilation
brusque
lucid
11. Sincerity; openness
conviction
candor
aesthetic
vilify
12. Clearness in thought or expression
clarity
cartographer
proximity
alliance
13. Worn-out through overuse; trite
exculpate
vilify
ornate
hackneyed
14. Unemotional; serious
insolent
inveterate
staid
vitality
15. Appropriateness of behavior
reclamation
disparity
intrepid
propriety
16. Easy-going; friendly
ostentatious
contemporary
affable
capricious
17. Friendly; sincere
incumbent
impede
cordial
emphasize
18. Prejudiced
replete
premonition
florid
biased
19. Express grief for; mourn
emigrate
aesthetic
lament
spurious
20. Freed from blame
camaraderie
capricious
vindicated
conflagration
21. The philosophy or science of law
tenuous
jurisprudence
dogged
assimilation
22. Kind and gentle
flagrant
benign
endure
discredit
23. Lacking application or practical application
malice
theoretical
deleterious
heinous
24. Point of view
toxic
intuition
slander
perspective
25. One who designs or makes maps
proliferate
cartographer
benevolent
hierarchy
26. A union of two or more groups
contemptuous
plagiarism
vindicated
alliance
27. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
notorious
contemporary
nocturnal
inveterate
28. To put up with to survive a hardship
abstract
endure
superfluous
obscure
29. Conspicuously bad or offensive
fractious
transitory
egregious
suppressed
30. Made; concocted in order to deceive
fabricated
subdue
cogent
genre
31. The act of making something useful again
reclamation
anthology
torpor
melancholy
32. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
deleterious
slander
insolent
despotic
33. Hateful; marked by deep seated ill-will
clandestine
rancorous
integrity
auspicious
34. Condition of sticking together
prudent
cohesive
dilettante
futile
35. To give special attention to something - to stress
propriety
capricious
diligent
emphasize
36. Sadness; depression
melancholy
malfeasance
pejorative
mediocrity
37. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
conviction
replete
florid
haughty
38. An example or model
harbinger
paradigm
virtuoso
acquired
39. To ease a pain or a burden
phenomenon
alleviate
replete
impede
40. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
gratuitous
plausible
putrid
effusive
41. Not genuine; false - counterfeit
frank
spurious
cohesive
substantiated
42. Persistence
alliance
insolent
tenacity
premonition
43. Commonplace; ordinary
camouflage
impartial
plausible
mundane
44. Anxiety or fear about the future
arbiter
apprehension
condescending
acquired
45. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
maverick
inveterate
convoluted
narrative
46. Having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure - weak
indolent
tenuous
facile
impartial
47. Abundantly supplied; filled to capacity
paradigm
emigrate
replete
austere
48. Open to more than one interpretation
dilettante
cryptic
equanimity
ambiguous
49. Treating people as weak or inferior
patronizing
ingrate
condescending
haughty
50. Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
effusive
obscure
dubious
inherent