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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. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
dogged
plagiarism
eclectic
despotic
2. Having a harmful effect; injurious
lucid
deleterious
rhetoric
penitent
3. Hateful; marked by deep seated ill-will
rancorous
impede
patronizing
florid
4. Unplanned; naturally occurring
misconception
paramount
spontaneous
transient
5. One who designs or makes maps
exculpate
impinge
cartographer
putrid
6. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
effusive
mural
archaic
patronizing
7. Conspicuously bad or offensive
fractious
novice
suppressed
egregious
8. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
apathetic
impartial
embellish
arbiter
9. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
insipid
eclectic
alleviate
inveterate
10. Secretive
parody
camouflage
quandary
clandestine
11. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
truncated
assimilation
surreptitiously
genre
12. Proper; marked by good taste
obscure
facile
ominous
decorous
13. Large in scope or content
novice
equivocate
coup
comprehensive
14. To put up with to survive a hardship
ambivalent
alleviate
endure
diligent
15. Having great depth or seriousness
astute
profound
perception
indifferent
16. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
elusive
parody
incorrigible
inevitable
17. To consider perfect
tenacity
idealize
brittle
hackneyed
18. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
stratagem
condemn
acquired
auspicious
19. Stubbornly persevering
dogged
notorious
inconsequential
inveterate
20. To slow the progress of
impede
dilettante
anthology
jurisprudence
21. A beginner
novice
ponderous
indolent
wary
22. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action
brusque
obstinate
heinous
mollify
23. Clearness in thought or expression
biased
clarity
genre
narrative
24. Not applied to actual objects
facetious
abstract
impression
fabricated
25. Trustworthiness; completeness
integrity
melancholy
capricious
listless
26. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
reprehensible
heinous
implication
diligent
27. Hard-working
rancorous
parody
assiduous
rational
28. Stubborn; inflexible
biased
rancorous
enmity
obdurate
29. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
quandary
truncated
slander
vilify
30. Of chief concern or importance
dilatory
paramount
integrity
stoic
31. Convincing; reasonable
medieval
cogent
obstinate
fastidious
32. To grow or increase rapidly
servile
hackneyed
proliferate
condemn
33. To free from guilt or blame
premonition
sanction
exculpate
nocturnal
34. To absorb; to make similar
vilify
assimilation
incumbent
meticulous
35. Unimportant
inconsequential
camaraderie
ample
staid
36. Habitually late
dilatory
condemn
rancorous
equivocate
37. Condition of sticking together
copious
conception
cohesive
subdue
38. To give official authorization or approval
truncated
disparage
implication
sanction
39. Describing a dry - rainless climate
arid
tenuous
notorious
dogged
40. Hinder; interfere with
prosaic
frank
replete
impinge
41. Developed or learned; not naturally occurring
modest
spontaneous
acquired
comprehensive
42. An authority who expresses his/her opinions
phenomenon
didactic
pundit
ample
43. Open and sincere in expression; straightforward
frank
permeated
superfluous
realism
44. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
vocation
rational
discredit
maverick
45. Circumstances of a situation; environment
vilify
cryptic
context
insolent
46. Highly respected
emphasize
vindicated
venerated
coherent
47. Stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
dogmatic
candor
perception
insipid
48. Savage; untamed
alleviate
feral
vitality
incontrovertible
49. The power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight
mundane
intuition
vindicated
wary
50. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
realism
implication
contemporary
eloquence