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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. Express grief for; mourn
cryptic
narrative
lament
venerated
2. Freed from blame
decorous
malfeasance
vindicated
fluid
3. Easily flowing
fluid
exculpate
disparage
idealize
4. Practical
cordial
theoretical
pragmatic
disparity
5. Dine by secretive means
sanction
cordial
innate
surreptitiously
6. Not straightforward; crafty
decorous
rhetoric
fractious
disingenuous
7. On guard; watchful
reclamation
heinous
compelling
wary
8. Quarrelsome; unruly
lucid
fractious
incorrigible
surreptitiously
9. Subdued; kept from being circulated
comprehensive
suppressed
objectivity
emollient
10. Lacking sophistication
torpor
naive
implication
hackneyed
11. To leave one country or region and settle in another
substantiated
camaraderie
rational
emigrate
12. Strikingly new or unusual
notorious
novel
timorous
reclamation
13. Submissive; like a servant
incumbent
frenetic
exculpate
servile
14. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
gratuitous
idealize
insolent
reprehensible
15. To ease a pain or a burden
transient
alleviate
perspective
misconception
16. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
alienated
anthology
despotic
subdue
17. Dispersed throughout
assiduous
pervasive
heinous
contemporary
18. Cunning
implication
toxic
wily
brusque
19. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; difference
disparity
apparatus
deleterious
impede
20. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
rancorous
whimsical
parody
brusque
21. Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
listless
parody
stoic
proximity
22. Proper; marked by good taste
solvent
decorous
theoretical
incumbent
23. Domineering; oppressively overbearing
profound
dictatorial
mundane
pejorative
24. Secretive
replete
clandestine
listless
vindicated
25. Misconduct or wrongdoing - especially by a public official
malfeasance
vindicated
assimilation
permeated
26. Mutual hatred or ill-will
ample
enmity
sedentary
disdain
27. Arrogant; vainly proud
haughty
arbitrary
surreptitiously
listless
28. To avoid making a definite statement
inconsequential
replete
equivocate
notorious
29. Uninteresting; unchallenging
ornate
insipid
prodigious
surreptitiously
30. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
embellish
florid
ponderous
plagiarism
31. Friendly; sincere
quandary
incontrovertible
cordial
ruse
32. Treating in a condescending manner
caustic
obdurate
emigrate
patronizing
33. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
opulent
naive
notorious
propriety
34. Unable to be reformed
incorrigible
cordial
mural
poignant
35. A crafty trick
arbitrary
nocturnal
ruse
plausible
36. Courageous; fearless
intrepid
trivial
mollify
perception
37. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
arid
brusque
ambivalent
apprehension
38. Appropriateness of behavior
biased
brittle
propriety
harbinger
39. To give special attention to something - to stress
intuition
camaraderie
emphasize
compelling
40. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
elusive
superfluous
novice
capricious
41. Playfully humorous
facetious
sanction
coup
mural
42. Poisonous
incontrovertible
toxic
didactic
stratagem
43. Having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure - weak
ponderous
fastidious
impede
tenuous
44. The ability to form or understand an idea
deleterious
disdain
despotic
conception
45. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
ingrate
enmity
camouflage
malleable
46. Hateful; marked by deep seated ill-will
brittle
obdurate
rancorous
rational
47. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
discredit
incumbent
archaic
heinous
48. Biting sarcastic or witty
nocturnal
impartial
caustic
decorous
49. To calm or soothe
mollify
acquired
ostentatious
novice
50. Intense enthusiasm
novel
phenomenon
ebullience
emphasize