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SAT Vocab Most Important Words
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1. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
apathetic
pundit
benevolent
florid
2. Profoundly moving; touching
arbiter
disparity
aesthetic
poignant
3. An occupation or profession
comprehensive
frank
superfluous
vocation
4. Lacking application or practical application
theoretical
slander
dilettante
abstract
5. Describing a dry - rainless climate
ebullience
solvent
arid
inveterate
6. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
condemn
derived
implication
futile
7. A brilliantly executed plan
flagrant
rancorous
coup
venerated
8. Wildly excited or active
florid
condescending
frenetic
wary
9. Calm
modest
frenetic
rhetoric
serene
10. Describing a showy or pretentious display
incumbent
ostentatious
plagiarism
incorrigible
11. (v.) to make an itemized list of
catalog
prodigious
pundit
equanimity
12. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
modest
cryptic
prudent
serene
13. A tremendously skilled artist
lament
notorious
malfeasance
virtuoso
14. Of little importance or significance
ponderous
fastidious
cartographer
trivial
15. To give special attention to something - to stress
emphasize
alienated
superficial
disingenuous
16. (n.) contempt - scorn (v.) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
opulent
proliferate
ambiguous
disdain
17. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
clarity
ambivalent
quandary
embellish
18. Mutual hatred or ill-will
brusque
timorous
enmity
obstinate
19. Lazy
eclectic
elusive
ingrate
indolent
20. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
misconception
virtuoso
whimsical
compelling
21. A group organized by rank
disdain
obsolete
copious
hierarchy
22. To hide by blending in with surroundings
arbitrary
opulent
permeated
camouflage
23. Persistence
austere
servile
acquired
tenacity
24. To avoid making a definite statement
abstract
pervasive
equivocate
paradigm
25. (n.) an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
sanction
lucid
obscure
novice
26. Trustworthiness; completeness
clarity
integrity
malleable
rational
27. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
disingenuous
benign
imperious
embellish
28. Biting sarcastic or witty
eloquence
pragmatic
caustic
clandestine
29. A fixed or strong belief
plausible
equanimity
eloquence
conviction
30. To calm or soothe
incorrigible
benevolent
emphasize
mollify
31. Condition of sticking together
laudatory
cohesive
endure
dogmatic
32. Made; concocted in order to deceive
fabricated
surreptitiously
cohesive
inconsequential
33. The ability to form or understand an idea
meticulous
naive
conception
modest
34. (adj.) softening and soothing (n.) something that softens or soothes
emollient
endure
assiduous
elusive
35. The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
nascent
tenuous
haughty
hypocrisy
36. Unable to be reformed
incorrigible
catalog
equanimity
phenomenon
37. Playfully humorous
facetious
imperious
hierarchy
incorrigible
38. Rotten
dictatorial
premonition
putrid
ruse
39. Insulting in manner or speech
pugnacious
naive
insolent
frank
40. A widespread fire
transient
conflagration
timorous
replete
41. Stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
hierarchy
harbinger
dogmatic
tenacity
42. Highly respected
sanction
disdain
venerated
archaic
43. Worn-out through overuse; trite
quandary
superficial
hackneyed
parody
44. Hateful; marked by deep seated ill-will
alliance
ambiguous
rancorous
equanimity
45. Convincing; reasonable
nascent
coup
cogent
vilify
46. Not genuine; false - counterfeit
trepidation
coherent
ambivalent
spurious
47. Not caring one way or the other
transient
indifferent
venerated
obdurate
48. Not straightforward; crafty
disingenuous
ruse
copious
candor
49. Subdued; kept from being circulated
suppressed
contemporary
jurisprudence
emphasize
50. Coming into existence; emerging
nascent
nocturnal
brittle
convoluted
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