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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. Giving praise
laudatory
consensus
virtuoso
permeated
2. Favorable; promising
auspicious
fluid
cordial
hypocrisy
3. Menacing; threatening
dubious
ambivalent
eclectic
ominous
4. Treating people as weak or inferior
nascent
condescending
naive
innovative
5. Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
pervasive
pugnacious
dubious
incorrigible
6. Calm
serene
sanction
disdain
vocation
7. Playfully humorous
facetious
poignant
subdue
notorious
8. Dispersed throughout
nocturnal
decorous
pervasive
impinge
9. A selected part of a passage or scene
surreptitiously
listless
nocturnal
excerpt
10. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
alliance
futile
aesthetic
mural
11. Circumstances of a situation; environment
assertion
austere
context
meticulous
12. Seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
truncated
conviction
inevitable
plausible
13. Copied or adapted from a source
torpor
astute
pragmatic
derived
14. (adj.) characterized by the telling of a story (n.) a story
inherent
embellish
mollify
narrative
15. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
slander
ambivalent
genre
ornate
16. To restrain; to hold back
subdue
mundane
discourse
suppressed
17. Determined by impulse rather than reason
arbitrary
sanction
patronizing
insipid
18. An ungrateful person
diligent
proliferate
inconsequential
ingrate
19. Prejudiced
coup
abstract
mollify
biased
20. Uncertainty; apprehension
arid
trepidation
dilettante
biased
21. Introducing something new
innovative
paradigm
novel
substantiated
22. Indisputable; not open to question
disparage
incontrovertible
sedentary
maverick
23. Without decoration; strict
austere
reprehensible
alliance
malleable
24. (v.) to make an itemized list of
catalog
rhetoric
rancorous
discredit
25. Shortened; cut off
slander
truncated
cogent
catalog
26. Hard-working
copious
assiduous
inevitable
brittle
27. Lazy
jurisprudence
indolent
condescending
reprehensible
28. Elaborately decorated
spurious
transitory
objectivity
ornate
29. Having great depth or seriousness
transitory
profound
medieval
despotic
30. Submissive; like a servant
servile
subdue
medieval
innovative
31. Inborn; built-in
rhetoric
inherent
ingrate
alleviate
32. Commendable; worthy of imitation
lucid
phenomenon
indolent
exemplary
33. An occupation or profession
slander
abstract
vocation
listless
34. Arrogant; vainly proud
consensus
facetious
haughty
impede
35. To make vicious statements about
fractious
transitory
surreptitiously
vilify
36. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
feral
incumbent
elusive
propriety
37. To calm or soothe
surreptitiously
conviction
realism
mollify
38. Insulting in manner or speech
ambiguous
substantiated
mediocrity
insolent
39. Lacking sophistication
incorrigible
profound
naive
melancholy
40. Rotten
patronizing
deleterious
opulent
putrid
41. Subdued; kept from being circulated
suppressed
incontrovertible
opulent
intrepid
42. Unimaginative; dull
torpor
sanction
prosaic
alienated
43. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
benevolent
incumbent
theoretical
florid
44. To absorb; to make similar
assimilation
parody
nocturnal
impinge
45. Logically connected
apprehension
malleable
coherent
ominous
46. Not straightforward; crafty
integrity
truncated
indifferent
disingenuous
47. Passing away with time; passing from one place to another
conflagration
misconception
incorrigible
transient
48. The ability to form or understand an idea
conception
inconsequential
sanction
plausible
49. A tremendously skilled artist
slander
virtuoso
obsolete
inevitable
50. A fixed or strong belief
conviction
emphasize
perspective
alleviate