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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. To ease a pain or a burden
jurisprudence
alleviate
fabricated
comprehensive
2. Possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please
inevitable
inveterate
fastidious
inherent
3. Difficult to comprehend
discourse
disparage
candor
cryptic
4. Easily understood; clear
rational
modest
lucid
haughty
5. Open and sincere in expression; straightforward
proximity
enlightening
frank
disdain
6. A tremendously skilled artist
exemplary
contemptuous
vitality
virtuoso
7. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
ruse
condescending
sonorous
realism
8. Lacking sophistication
hierarchy
intrepid
lucid
naive
9. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
parody
incontrovertible
flagrant
florid
10. Proper; marked by good taste
truncated
clandestine
prudent
decorous
11. Playfully humorous
facetious
arid
sanction
dogmatic
12. Arrogant; vainly proud
proliferate
haughty
medley
inevitable
13. Intense enthusiasm
trivial
proximity
ebullience
eclectic
14. Goodwill between friends
notorious
vindicated
camaraderie
parody
15. To free from guilt or blame
exculpate
emphasize
inherent
astute
16. Lacking energy
listless
elusive
endure
emphasize
17. Submissive; like a servant
comprehensive
nocturnal
servile
ruse
18. A feeling about the future
premonition
emigrate
hypocrisy
biased
19. A judge who decides a disputed issue
heinous
arbiter
ruse
dogmatic
20. Extremely dull
impede
egregious
ponderous
tenuous
21. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
conflagration
misconception
enlightening
caustic
22. Shrewd; clever
astute
cartographer
tenuous
reprehensible
23. The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
cogent
parody
innovative
hypocrisy
24. Kind and gentle
staid
obsolete
benign
patronizing
25. Commendable; worthy of imitation
exemplary
wily
perspective
decorous
26. The act of making something useful again
reclamation
premonition
cryptic
disparity
27. Combative; belligerent
pugnacious
hierarchy
insipid
sanction
28. A group organized by rank
didactic
torpor
hierarchy
malfeasance
29. (adj.) relatively unknown (v.) to conceal or make indistinct
premonition
conception
disingenuous
obscure
30. Of little importance or significance
plagiarism
pugnacious
rational
trivial
31. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
cogent
cohesive
endure
genre
32. Habitually late
transient
obsolete
pejorative
dilatory
33. The ability to speak vividly or persuasively
arid
eloquence
incorrigible
gratuitous
34. The power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight
florid
penitent
despotic
intuition
35. Calm
consensus
serene
deleterious
replete
36. Not applied to actual objects
astute
incorrigible
abstract
pragmatic
37. To give official authorization or approval
inconsequential
staid
assiduous
sanction
38. Unimaginative; dull
apparatus
prosaic
discourse
trivial
39. An unusual - observable event
propriety
phenomenon
decorous
suppressed
40. Determined by impulse rather than reason
derived
vindicated
arbitrary
enlightening
41. Supported with proof or evidence; verified
copious
assiduous
substantiated
futile
42. Sincerity; openness
disdain
dilettante
archaic
candor
43. Enormous
clarity
prodigious
prosaic
narrative
44. Lazy
medieval
incorrigible
indolent
prudent
45. A clever trick used to deceive or outwit
stratagem
conviction
prodigious
eloquence
46. Lacking application or practical application
theoretical
biased
context
camouflage
47. Persistence
ambiguous
mediocrity
tenacity
jurisprudence
48. Insulting in manner or speech
coherent
insolent
conflagration
obsolete
49. Elaborately decorated
emollient
premonition
haughty
ornate
50. Subdued; kept from being circulated
suppressed
prudent
camouflage
jurisprudence