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SAT Vocab Most Important Words
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sat
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english
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1. (n.) contempt - scorn (v.) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
disdain
insipid
cryptic
perception
2. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
ambivalent
listless
sedentary
elusive
3. Hard-working
assiduous
impede
convoluted
superfluous
4. Of little importance or significance
biased
trivial
endure
affable
5. Something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
integrity
harbinger
disdain
conflagration
6. Convincing; reasonable
tenuous
cogent
acquired
innovative
7. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
narrative
archaic
subdue
compelling
8. Without decoration; strict
austere
quandary
abstract
pundit
9. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
malleable
abstract
propriety
innate
10. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
staid
haughty
idealize
dilettante
11. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; difference
indolent
facile
ample
disparity
12. Stubborn; inflexible
discourse
indolent
obdurate
pervasive
13. Hatefully evil; abominable
assertion
malfeasance
heinous
impinge
14. Inborn; built-in
naive
nascent
inherent
indifferent
15. Hinder; interfere with
impinge
camouflage
timorous
effusive
16. Made up of a variety of sources or styles
eclectic
ebullience
pervasive
decorous
17. The act of making something useful again
solvent
reclamation
discourse
equanimity
18. Circumstances of a situation; environment
phenomenon
innate
context
fastidious
19. A brilliantly executed plan
copious
coup
melancholy
enlightening
20. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
diligent
endure
intuition
perspective
21. Large in scope or content
condescending
pugnacious
comprehensive
auspicious
22. A large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface
mural
obscure
rhetoric
imperious
23. To hide by blending in with surroundings
staid
jurisprudence
despotic
camouflage
24. (adj.) softening and soothing (n.) something that softens or soothes
enmity
emollient
rhetoric
ornate
25. Copied or adapted from a source
derived
reprehensible
apathetic
proximity
26. An example or model
fabricated
vocation
paradigm
ornate
27. To make vicious statements about
alleviate
cohesive
apprehension
vilify
28. Mutual hatred or ill-will
acquired
reclamation
enmity
disparage
29. Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
dubious
opulent
naive
spontaneous
30. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
vocation
emphasize
discourse
disingenuous
31. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
hypocrisy
disingenuous
imperious
ominous
32. A state of uncertainty or perplexity
substantiated
fluid
quandary
eclectic
33. Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
inconsequential
inveterate
condemn
penitent
34. Worn-out through overuse; trite
hackneyed
biased
serene
eloquence
35. A selected part of a passage or scene
surreptitiously
excerpt
futile
fastidious
36. Subdued; kept from being circulated
derived
integrity
suppressed
clarity
37. Of chief concern or importance
rhetoric
embellish
intuition
paramount
38. The art of using language effectively and persuasively
pejorative
tenuous
feral
rhetoric
39. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
impartial
transient
plausible
implication
40. (n.) an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
trepidation
brittle
arid
sanction
41. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
arbitrary
slander
narrative
poignant
42. Playfully humorous
facetious
perception
obscure
pervasive
43. One who designs or makes maps
conviction
fluid
suppressed
cartographer
44. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
mediocrity
modest
dubious
coherent
45. All-powerful
replete
omnipotent
staid
pugnacious
46. Persistence
stoic
tenacity
novel
acquired
47. Stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
dogmatic
contemporary
integrity
fluid
48. To leave one country or region and settle in another
assimilation
emigrate
incorrigible
auspicious
49. Having a harmful effect; injurious
insolent
implication
catalog
deleterious
50. To free from guilt or blame
exculpate
realism
candor
obdurate