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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. Able to pay one's debts
torpor
solvent
sanction
notorious
2. Extremely dull
imperious
listless
ponderous
copious
3. Informative; contributing the one's awareness
sanction
cartographer
lucid
enlightening
4. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
arid
ambivalent
trivial
prudent
5. To cause to be doubted
disparage
asylum
brusque
discredit
6. Developed or learned; not naturally occurring
abstract
superficial
gratuitous
acquired
7. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
parody
substantiated
timorous
emphasize
8. Not applied to actual objects
florid
fractious
timorous
abstract
9. Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
obdurate
penitent
notorious
malleable
10. Exhibiting a display of great wealth
despotic
frank
truncated
opulent
11. Dine by secretive means
flagrant
malice
notorious
surreptitiously
12. A union of two or more groups
alliance
assiduous
hackneyed
vocation
13. Hateful; marked by deep seated ill-will
objectivity
archaic
dictatorial
rancorous
14. Hinder; interfere with
asylum
impinge
impede
indolent
15. Treating in a condescending manner
patronizing
novice
rancorous
superficial
16. Lazy
brittle
indolent
dictatorial
hierarchy
17. Of or occurring in the night
incumbent
toxic
nocturnal
obdurate
18. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
fluid
malfeasance
florid
ponderous
19. Energy; power to survive
ebullience
vitality
dilatory
ingrate
20. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
pugnacious
rational
imperious
frenetic
21. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
affable
modest
catalog
venerated
22. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
impression
slander
clarity
perception
23. Open and sincere in expression; straightforward
vitality
frank
sanction
eclectic
24. Lacking sophistication
alienated
naive
austere
tenuous
25. Easily flowing
meticulous
fluid
indolent
inevitable
26. Awareness; insight
perception
dilatory
enmity
compelling
27. The ability to form or understand an idea
trepidation
conception
inveterate
objectivity
28. Describing a dry - rainless climate
enlightening
mollify
incorrigible
arid
29. A feeling about the future
premonition
conflagration
putrid
slander
30. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
medley
enlightening
laudatory
obscure
31. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
inconsequential
conception
genre
obscure
32. To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
derived
disparage
compelling
eclectic
33. Seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
solvent
obscure
plausible
benign
34. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
eloquence
embellish
didactic
novel
35. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
tenacity
derived
objectivity
apparatus
36. An occupation or profession
reclamation
impinge
naive
vocation
37. Favorable; promising
pejorative
sonorous
auspicious
assertion
38. Rudely abrupt
stratagem
assertion
obscure
brusque
39. Responsive; agreeable
amenable
medieval
solvent
serene
40. A selected part of a passage or scene
florid
excerpt
context
truncated
41. Anxiety or fear about the future
intuition
nascent
prosaic
apprehension
42. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
aesthetic
decorous
consensus
arbitrary
43. Possessed at birth; inborn
derived
innate
disparity
sedentary
44. Possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please
impinge
paradigm
haughty
fastidious
45. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
notorious
equanimity
plausible
superfluous
46. Equipment; a group of machines
profound
indifferent
apparatus
camouflage
47. A group organized by rank
decorous
indifferent
hierarchy
comprehensive
48. One who designs or makes maps
quandary
cartographer
facile
intrepid
49. Poisonous
toxic
arid
lament
alleviate
50. Copied or adapted from a source
inconsequential
dilatory
derived
acquired