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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. On guard; watchful
feral
ostentatious
impinge
wary
2. A judge who decides a disputed issue
torpor
integrity
arbiter
pugnacious
3. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
sonorous
slander
alliance
virtuoso
4. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
slander
embellish
ample
dogged
5. Hatefully evil; abominable
intrepid
dilatory
heinous
intuition
6. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
equanimity
anthology
incorrigible
hackneyed
7. The ability to speak vividly or persuasively
eloquence
premonition
impede
tenacity
8. A union of two or more groups
mediocrity
alliance
convoluted
conception
9. A crafty trick
ruse
rhetoric
meticulous
putrid
10. Easily understood; clear
lucid
venerated
alienated
virtuoso
11. Savage; untamed
whimsical
maverick
feral
ebullience
12. Point of view
benign
paradigm
perspective
novel
13. To grow or increase rapidly
narrative
conflagration
insolent
proliferate
14. Wildly excited or active
apathetic
frenetic
sedentary
harbinger
15. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
aesthetic
gratuitous
convoluted
maverick
16. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
facetious
cordial
imperious
stratagem
17. Supported with proof or evidence; verified
notorious
substantiated
assimilation
apparatus
18. Extremely dull
substantiated
ponderous
profound
superficial
19. Made; concocted in order to deceive
excerpt
fabricated
paradigm
comprehensive
20. Indisputable; not open to question
realism
excerpt
incontrovertible
impression
21. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
excerpt
brusque
impression
implication
22. Lacking application or practical application
theoretical
whimsical
derived
integrity
23. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
alliance
inveterate
timorous
disparage
24. Treating people as weak or inferior
condescending
astute
facile
permeated
25. A selected part of a passage or scene
subdue
excerpt
despotic
dilatory
26. Express grief for; mourn
lament
acquired
conviction
conception
27. Extreme ill will or spite
lament
phenomenon
malice
propriety
28. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
rational
frenetic
toxic
equivocate
29. Possessed at birth; inborn
anthology
emollient
apprehension
innate
30. Having great depth or seriousness
prosaic
emphasize
penitent
profound
31. Plentiful; having a large quantity
profound
florid
copious
pervasive
32. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action
obstinate
discourse
novice
malice
33. Able to pay one's debts
brittle
hierarchy
solvent
candor
34. Unimportant
inconsequential
florid
parody
whimsical
35. One who designs or makes maps
derived
eclectic
decorous
cartographer
36. Uncertainty; apprehension
mural
spontaneous
trepidation
plagiarism
37. A widespread fire
enmity
transitory
conflagration
listless
38. Poisonous
cordial
astute
toxic
realism
39. Kind and gentle
benign
truncated
exemplary
plagiarism
40. Having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure - weak
haughty
transient
obscure
tenuous
41. All-powerful
despotic
omnipotent
pugnacious
elusive
42. The philosophy or science of law
mediocrity
deleterious
jurisprudence
idealize
43. Short-lived or temporary
clarity
conception
transitory
mundane
44. Unplanned; naturally occurring
spontaneous
arbitrary
sanction
trepidation
45. Easy-going; friendly
asylum
affable
timorous
emigrate
46. Favorable; promising
auspicious
capricious
pundit
theoretical
47. A feeling about the future
toxic
premonition
hierarchy
excerpt
48. Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
arid
penitent
trepidation
condemn
49. Unimaginative; dull
prosaic
malfeasance
incontrovertible
superfluous
50. Circumstances of a situation; environment
camaraderie
context
imperious
vilify