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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. A feeling about the future
alleviate
vitality
malfeasance
premonition
2. A beginner
novice
brusque
rational
cordial
3. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
malfeasance
discredit
elusive
haughty
4. Profoundly moving; touching
poignant
equanimity
capricious
lucid
5. Hinder; interfere with
coherent
equivocate
impinge
venerated
6. Convincing; reasonable
deleterious
ominous
cogent
maverick
7. Uninteresting; unchallenging
phenomenon
fabricated
inevitable
insipid
8. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
eloquence
vitality
embellish
disparity
9. Timid; fearful about the future
arid
intrepid
timorous
profound
10. A declaration or statement
replete
ominous
decorous
assertion
11. Responsive; agreeable
ostentatious
implication
context
amenable
12. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
misconception
trepidation
impartial
rational
13. Abundantly supplied; filled to capacity
caustic
replete
innate
diligent
14. (v.) to make an itemized list of
notorious
malfeasance
catalog
ominous
15. Open to more than one interpretation
ambiguous
mollify
flagrant
camaraderie
16. Arrogant; vainly proud
affable
imperious
haughty
comprehensive
17. Lazy
florid
ambiguous
indolent
pragmatic
18. Quarrelsome; unruly
decorous
arbiter
clandestine
fractious
19. Without decoration; strict
obsolete
assiduous
elusive
austere
20. Proper; marked by good taste
decorous
cryptic
contemptuous
flagrant
21. Closeness
abstract
proximity
stratagem
medley
22. To put up with to survive a hardship
endure
embellish
catalog
surreptitiously
23. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
cryptic
rational
plagiarism
sanction
24. Introducing something new
inconsequential
fastidious
innovative
nascent
25. Commonplace; ordinary
mundane
acquired
ebullience
affable
26. A brilliantly executed plan
coup
lucid
spurious
camaraderie
27. Secretive
profound
clandestine
flagrant
brusque
28. General agreement
melancholy
naive
compelling
consensus
29. Habitually late
patronizing
disparage
tenacity
dilatory
30. Stubborn; inflexible
alienated
enmity
obdurate
slander
31. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
camaraderie
candor
slander
malleable
32. To restrain; to hold back
incorrigible
disparity
pragmatic
subdue
33. Extremely dull
ponderous
integrity
brittle
dictatorial
34. (n.) an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
opulent
ponderous
innate
sanction
35. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
cryptic
imperious
coherent
benign
36. (adj.) relatively unknown (v.) to conceal or make indistinct
spurious
effusive
dogmatic
obscure
37. Made up of a variety of sources or styles
compelling
fractious
harbinger
eclectic
38. Condition of sticking together
truncated
whimsical
notorious
cohesive
39. Calm
indifferent
serene
despotic
trivial
40. A selected part of a passage or scene
excerpt
transient
suppressed
obsolete
41. Shortened; cut off
virtuoso
omnipotent
truncated
pejorative
42. Of or occurring in the night
fluid
dictatorial
ostentatious
nocturnal
43. Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
austere
ornate
pejorative
substantiated
44. Feeling hatred; scornful
contemptuous
objectivity
transitory
discourse
45. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
hypocrisy
profound
whimsical
venerated
46. Current - modern; from the same time
inveterate
fractious
contemporary
emigrate
47. Freed from blame
amenable
prudent
alliance
vindicated
48. Unable to be reformed
catalog
malleable
incorrigible
derived
49. Persistence
impinge
tenacity
malfeasance
diligent
50. Hatefully evil; abominable
innovative
hackneyed
heinous
idealize