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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. Wildly excited or active
impinge
frenetic
convoluted
vilify
2. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
egregious
objectivity
ornate
maverick
3. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
brittle
apparatus
modest
spurious
4. A selected part of a passage or scene
opulent
heinous
alliance
excerpt
5. Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
laudatory
condescending
penitent
obstinate
6. Habitually late
prodigious
permeated
comprehensive
dilatory
7. Point of view
perspective
malleable
frank
intuition
8. Unemotional; serious
idealize
disparage
incumbent
staid
9. Menacing; threatening
facile
ominous
sanction
replete
10. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
diligent
pugnacious
obscure
ample
11. Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
ample
slander
pejorative
profound
12. Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
slander
pervasive
innate
stoic
13. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
realism
emigrate
apathetic
conception
14. A fixed or strong belief
conviction
hypocrisy
paradigm
parody
15. Current - modern; from the same time
ponderous
condescending
tenuous
contemporary
16. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
candor
auspicious
futile
rational
17. To make vicious statements about
fabricated
arid
vilify
condemn
18. Unplanned; naturally occurring
spontaneous
solvent
cohesive
facile
19. Intricate; complex
vocation
listless
incorrigible
convoluted
20. Shrewd; clever
rhetoric
candor
astute
vitality
21. Intense enthusiasm
putrid
obsolete
heinous
ebullience
22. Something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
innovative
harbinger
laudatory
reclamation
23. Describing a showy or pretentious display
superfluous
ostentatious
biased
truncated
24. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
harbinger
fastidious
objectivity
florid
25. Easily broken when subjected to pressure
ponderous
vindicated
brittle
comprehensive
26. Commonplace; ordinary
insipid
genre
mundane
solvent
27. Anxiety or fear about the future
conflagration
apprehension
fastidious
comprehensive
28. Stubborn; inflexible
impede
genre
assertion
obdurate
29. Cunning
wily
futile
profound
dubious
30. The state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality
haughty
sonorous
mediocrity
trivial
31. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
despotic
discourse
diligent
emigrate
32. Extreme ill will or spite
suppressed
ebullience
rancorous
malice
33. On guard; watchful
fluid
pervasive
wary
dilatory
34. The act of suggesting or hinting
timorous
arid
rational
implication
35. Mutual hatred or ill-will
ingrate
enmity
coherent
hierarchy
36. Submissive; like a servant
paradigm
proliferate
servile
excerpt
37. Responsive; agreeable
amenable
venerated
nocturnal
consensus
38. (adj.) characterized by the telling of a story (n.) a story
hackneyed
asylum
narrative
affable
39. A large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface
pragmatic
mural
medieval
sanction
40. A crafty trick
florid
stoic
ruse
superficial
41. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
catalog
obsolete
condemn
disparity
42. Of little importance or significance
trivial
ornate
dubious
sonorous
43. Not applied to actual objects
clandestine
abstract
disparity
fluid
44. Introducing something new
laudatory
arid
innovative
tenacity
45. Easily understood; clear
anthology
discredit
lucid
conviction
46. Clearness in thought or expression
ambiguous
vilify
tenuous
clarity
47. Difficult to comprehend
cryptic
vitality
integrity
florid
48. Easily flowing
surreptitiously
opulent
hackneyed
fluid
49. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
aesthetic
perception
plagiarism
ambivalent
50. Dine by secretive means
assimilation
impartial
surreptitiously
notorious