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SAT Vocab Most Important 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. Extra; unnecessary
serene
superfluous
obsolete
facile
2. Informative; contributing the one's awareness
capricious
enlightening
brittle
intuition
3. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
florid
contemptuous
wily
tenuous
4. Conspicuously bad or offensive
egregious
cordial
elusive
emigrate
5. Introducing something new
inherent
innovative
vitality
pundit
6. Worn-out through overuse; trite
transitory
hackneyed
cartographer
nocturnal
7. Exhibiting a display of great wealth
trivial
obdurate
opulent
vitality
8. Giving praise
affable
narrative
torpor
laudatory
9. An ungrateful person
compelling
ingrate
melancholy
substantiated
10. Developed or learned; not naturally occurring
elusive
dubious
acquired
emigrate
11. Not straightforward; crafty
trivial
disingenuous
tenuous
dilatory
12. Clearness in thought or expression
clarity
whimsical
lucid
transitory
13. Describing a large amount of something
perspective
ample
fastidious
acquired
14. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
alleviate
astute
superfluous
condemn
15. Enormous
maverick
convoluted
stoic
prodigious
16. Misconduct or wrongdoing - especially by a public official
despotic
toxic
ambiguous
malfeasance
17. Intended to instruct
benign
vocation
realism
didactic
18. The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
hypocrisy
inveterate
eloquence
vindicated
19. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
insipid
impede
alliance
gratuitous
20. Unemotional; serious
ingrate
objectivity
coup
staid
21. (v.) to make an itemized list of
catalog
omnipotent
malleable
hackneyed
22. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
quandary
plagiarism
acquired
incumbent
23. Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
toxic
arbitrary
superficial
hackneyed
24. To put up with to survive a hardship
endure
hierarchy
paradigm
opulent
25. Abundantly supplied; filled to capacity
excerpt
candor
replete
omnipotent
26. Worthy of blame
compelling
inconsequential
reprehensible
dubious
27. A declaration or statement
comprehensive
nascent
inevitable
assertion
28. Difficult to comprehend
cogent
cryptic
alienated
modest
29. Domineering; oppressively overbearing
dictatorial
alienated
impression
penitent
30. Savage; untamed
feral
brusque
putrid
emollient
31. Not caring one way or the other
impression
conviction
indifferent
slander
32. Mutual hatred or ill-will
sonorous
enmity
cryptic
archaic
33. Elaborately decorated
ornate
meticulous
ruse
proliferate
34. Having no useful purpose; pointless
futile
mollify
endure
arbitrary
35. Biting sarcastic or witty
comprehensive
caustic
malleable
replete
36. To avoid making a definite statement
transitory
brusque
equivocate
archaic
37. Extremely careful and precise
feral
deleterious
timorous
meticulous
38. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
clandestine
perception
insolent
incumbent
39. Courageous; fearless
ebullience
intrepid
proximity
hackneyed
40. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
impartial
stratagem
trivial
brusque
41. Possessed at birth; inborn
contemptuous
archaic
innate
fractious
42. Wildly excited or active
heinous
dogmatic
venerated
frenetic
43. Certain to happen - unavoidable
compelling
inevitable
realism
archaic
44. General agreement
mundane
consensus
imperious
torpor
45. To make vicious statements about
spurious
coherent
mollify
vilify
46. An unusual - observable event
servile
phenomenon
novice
capricious
47. A collection of literary pieces
sedentary
brusque
convoluted
anthology
48. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
imperious
spontaneous
suppressed
replete
49. Feeling or showing little emotion
virtuoso
malleable
arbitrary
apathetic
50. Shortened; cut off
truncated
hackneyed
propriety
pragmatic