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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. Elaborately decorated
ornate
plagiarism
cryptic
caustic
2. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
malleable
ingrate
mundane
mediocrity
3. Made up of a variety of sources or styles
eclectic
fractious
profound
rhetoric
4. Biting sarcastic or witty
caustic
dilatory
modest
compelling
5. Commendable; worthy of imitation
caustic
futile
egregious
exemplary
6. Exhibiting a display of great wealth
gratuitous
acquired
opulent
virtuoso
7. A declaration or statement
realism
wily
obdurate
assertion
8. Misconduct or wrongdoing - especially by a public official
coup
malfeasance
ostentatious
clandestine
9. Current - modern; from the same time
contemporary
laudatory
caustic
paramount
10. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
harbinger
poignant
impression
aesthetic
11. Short-lived or temporary
premonition
coherent
innovative
transitory
12. To give official authorization or approval
cryptic
sanction
arbiter
enmity
13. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
serene
pragmatic
hierarchy
facile
14. Favorable; promising
egregious
auspicious
gratuitous
sanction
15. Kind and gentle
mediocrity
derived
benign
brittle
16. Extremely careful and precise
suppressed
meticulous
enlightening
putrid
17. Cunning
wily
fluid
asylum
arbitrary
18. An unusual - observable event
sanction
phenomenon
arid
biased
19. Seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
rational
gratuitous
alliance
plausible
20. Stubbornly persevering
penitent
plausible
incontrovertible
dogged
21. Giving praise
cogent
laudatory
pejorative
stoic
22. Extremely dull
ponderous
apathetic
camouflage
implication
23. The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
hypocrisy
ample
cohesive
obsolete
24. Informative; contributing the one's awareness
mediocrity
enlightening
emollient
incontrovertible
25. Proper; marked by good taste
wily
biased
decorous
listless
26. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
insolent
impinge
proliferate
inveterate
27. To avoid making a definite statement
novel
insolent
equivocate
eclectic
28. Rotten
apathetic
surreptitiously
putrid
capricious
29. To ease a pain or a burden
ruse
timorous
alleviate
didactic
30. Not genuine; false - counterfeit
amenable
diligent
timorous
spurious
31. Unemotional; serious
whimsical
emigrate
staid
melancholy
32. On guard; watchful
wary
ominous
listless
asylum
33. Stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
paradigm
medley
archaic
dogmatic
34. Playfully humorous
facetious
condescending
surreptitiously
cryptic
35. Commonplace; ordinary
despotic
nocturnal
tenuous
mundane
36. Appropriateness of behavior
consensus
decorous
propriety
alliance
37. Possessed at birth; inborn
cohesive
innate
frank
excerpt
38. Timid; fearful about the future
medley
timorous
ostentatious
hierarchy
39. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
disdain
ruse
nocturnal
dilettante
40. A clever trick used to deceive or outwit
enlightening
stratagem
fractious
permeated
41. Intricate; complex
convoluted
ominous
benevolent
apprehension
42. Of little importance or significance
cohesive
vocation
trivial
arbiter
43. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
notorious
despotic
opulent
ostentatious
44. To consider perfect
candor
asylum
idealize
objectivity
45. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
misconception
disdain
incumbent
torpor
46. Sadness; depression
ostentatious
melancholy
incontrovertible
camouflage
47. Having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure - weak
assertion
tenuous
obdurate
apprehension
48. No longer in use; old-fashioned
exemplary
hypocrisy
obsolete
fluid
49. Easily understood; clear
lucid
quandary
facetious
acquired
50. (v.) to make an itemized list of
brittle
caustic
catalog
nascent