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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. Rotten
coherent
ponderous
hackneyed
putrid
2. A group organized by rank
hierarchy
conviction
catalog
discredit
3. Unemotional; serious
staid
mollify
premonition
vitality
4. Made; concocted in order to deceive
candor
sonorous
brusque
fabricated
5. Indisputable; not open to question
candor
incontrovertible
indolent
patronizing
6. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
slander
benign
conflagration
frank
7. Sincerity; openness
hackneyed
transitory
candor
ruse
8. Menacing; threatening
omnipotent
malice
ominous
indolent
9. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
pundit
imperious
florid
ebullience
10. Awareness; insight
toxic
austere
perception
jurisprudence
11. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
vocation
proximity
genre
theoretical
12. Conspicuously bad or offensive
servile
hackneyed
genre
egregious
13. Introducing something new
innovative
elusive
staid
proximity
14. Favorable; promising
anthology
auspicious
pervasive
transitory
15. Biting sarcastic or witty
penitent
arbiter
caustic
integrity
16. (adj.) relatively unknown (v.) to conceal or make indistinct
obscure
indifferent
intuition
frank
17. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
tenuous
prodigious
paradigm
diligent
18. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
assimilation
whimsical
ambivalent
tenuous
19. Appropriateness of behavior
patronizing
venerated
rancorous
propriety
20. Spread or flowing throughout
toxic
excerpt
aesthetic
permeated
21. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
diligent
deleterious
capricious
plagiarism
22. Subdued; kept from being circulated
suppressed
excerpt
perspective
lucid
23. Producing a deep or full sound
derived
sonorous
inherent
solvent
24. Developed or learned; not naturally occurring
auspicious
acquired
apprehension
trepidation
25. A tremendously skilled artist
equanimity
excerpt
copious
virtuoso
26. Trustworthiness; completeness
elusive
medieval
integrity
candor
27. To grow or increase rapidly
proliferate
surreptitiously
laudatory
assiduous
28. Easily understood; clear
haughty
assimilation
brusque
lucid
29. Dine by secretive means
insipid
dilettante
coup
surreptitiously
30. Stubbornly persevering
cohesive
excerpt
disparity
dogged
31. A judge who decides a disputed issue
embellish
arbiter
prudent
ruse
32. Energy; power to survive
medieval
vitality
harbinger
rhetoric
33. Easily flowing
rancorous
fluid
consensus
disingenuous
34. To ease a pain or a burden
alleviate
rhetoric
jurisprudence
arid
35. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
nascent
reclamation
whimsical
abstract
36. (n.) contempt - scorn (v.) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
auspicious
disdain
integrity
indifferent
37. On guard; watchful
wary
rancorous
laudatory
impartial
38. Lacking application or practical application
intrepid
theoretical
discredit
emigrate
39. Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
permeated
endure
dubious
sonorous
40. Domineering; oppressively overbearing
serene
egregious
enlightening
dictatorial
41. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
putrid
impede
disdain
maverick
42. Friendly; sincere
cordial
patronizing
trivial
disdain
43. A beginner
medieval
biased
perception
novice
44. Easy-going; friendly
archaic
ebullience
hierarchy
affable
45. Able to pay one's debts
perspective
solvent
genre
ambivalent
46. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
contemporary
ample
brusque
despotic
47. Without decoration; strict
nascent
incumbent
reprehensible
austere
48. To free from guilt or blame
incontrovertible
exculpate
cogent
assiduous
49. Rudely abrupt
pundit
penitent
brusque
clandestine
50. Timid; fearful about the future
prosaic
timorous
sedentary
arbitrary