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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. One who designs or makes maps
ponderous
opulent
cryptic
cartographer
2. The act of making something useful again
camouflage
conflagration
copious
reclamation
3. Unimportant
impede
effusive
inconsequential
astute
4. Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
benign
decorous
melancholy
penitent
5. Dispersed throughout
melancholy
pervasive
jurisprudence
austere
6. Of or occurring in the night
ponderous
profound
nocturnal
medley
7. Rudely abrupt
brusque
ambiguous
incumbent
impede
8. Circumstances of a situation; environment
modest
permeated
reclamation
context
9. Trustworthiness; completeness
integrity
alleviate
futile
fractious
10. Extreme ill will or spite
malice
discourse
prosaic
compelling
11. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; difference
fractious
disparity
incorrigible
incontrovertible
12. Stubborn; inflexible
ruse
obdurate
apathetic
disparity
13. Dine by secretive means
context
surreptitiously
timorous
arbitrary
14. The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
hypocrisy
reprehensible
malleable
servile
15. A widespread fire
capricious
conflagration
convoluted
benevolent
16. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
biased
penitent
diligent
sonorous
17. A group organized by rank
trivial
tenuous
camaraderie
hierarchy
18. Secretive
omnipotent
plausible
clandestine
wily
19. To give special attention to something - to stress
pervasive
benevolent
emphasize
cordial
20. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
ambivalent
intuition
trepidation
disdain
21. Combative; belligerent
pugnacious
cohesive
toxic
amenable
22. Wildly excited or active
fastidious
surreptitiously
frenetic
poignant
23. (n.) contempt - scorn (v.) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
theoretical
disdain
candor
contemporary
24. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
whimsical
pejorative
elusive
pervasive
25. To free from guilt or blame
facetious
trivial
exculpate
reprehensible
26. To grow or increase rapidly
sanction
superficial
proliferate
deleterious
27. Awareness; insight
eloquence
superfluous
contemptuous
perception
28. Not straightforward; crafty
aesthetic
assiduous
disingenuous
eloquence
29. Clearness in thought or expression
clarity
spurious
melancholy
dubious
30. Shrewd; clever
eloquence
obscure
astute
cohesive
31. Informative; contributing the one's awareness
cartographer
whimsical
innate
enlightening
32. Describing a showy or pretentious display
ostentatious
ponderous
obdurate
imperious
33. Favorable; promising
florid
auspicious
genre
spurious
34. Possessed at birth; inborn
inconsequential
malice
intuition
innate
35. A place of retreat or security
parody
asylum
modest
ambivalent
36. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
intrepid
emphasize
embellish
innate
37. Practical
meticulous
harbinger
pragmatic
obsolete
38. Lazy
naive
indolent
rancorous
pejorative
39. A state of uncertainty or perplexity
impartial
quandary
malice
tenuous
40. Shortened; cut off
indifferent
truncated
aesthetic
eclectic
41. Proper; marked by good taste
benign
deleterious
biased
decorous
42. A union of two or more groups
exemplary
theoretical
vilify
alliance
43. Easily broken when subjected to pressure
arbiter
emollient
narrative
brittle
44. Goodwill between friends
effusive
endure
biased
camaraderie
45. (n.) an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
mediocrity
ostentatious
assiduous
sanction
46. Impulsive and unpredictable
capricious
amenable
timorous
comprehensive
47. An authority who expresses his/her opinions
pundit
caustic
camaraderie
cohesive
48. The ability to form or understand an idea
apathetic
ostentatious
mediocrity
conception
49. Stubbornly persevering
premonition
torpor
apparatus
dogged
50. Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
flagrant
exculpate
archaic
embellish