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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
cordial
dilettante
premonition
mollify
2. A crafty trick
ruse
suppressed
harbinger
rhetoric
3. Responsive; agreeable
indolent
amenable
impinge
alliance
4. Unimportant
incumbent
exemplary
inconsequential
paradigm
5. General agreement
proliferate
consensus
innate
quandary
6. Persistence
imperious
tenacity
flagrant
mural
7. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
ornate
compelling
alliance
cohesive
8. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
discourse
substantiated
slander
exemplary
9. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
coup
affable
dilatory
slander
10. Abundantly supplied; filled to capacity
brittle
replete
reclamation
flagrant
11. To slow the progress of
impede
brittle
apprehension
exemplary
12. Spread or flowing throughout
context
omnipotent
nocturnal
permeated
13. Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
impede
dubious
theoretical
brittle
14. To hide by blending in with surroundings
mural
camouflage
serene
effusive
15. (adj.) relatively unknown (v.) to conceal or make indistinct
convoluted
obscure
incontrovertible
nocturnal
16. Supported with proof or evidence; verified
asylum
frank
substantiated
apparatus
17. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
archaic
meticulous
laudatory
spurious
18. Closeness
spontaneous
emigrate
proximity
capricious
19. An example or model
tenuous
paradigm
truncated
ebullience
20. A clever trick used to deceive or outwit
stratagem
poignant
torpor
objectivity
21. Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
fastidious
dilettante
putrid
pejorative
22. Clearness in thought or expression
clarity
reclamation
surreptitiously
harbinger
23. Easily understood; clear
lucid
decorous
facetious
heinous
24. Prejudiced
malice
stratagem
biased
hackneyed
25. The act of making something useful again
reclamation
catalog
trepidation
parody
26. (n.) an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
incumbent
poignant
sanction
eclectic
27. Easily flowing
frenetic
discourse
fluid
excerpt
28. Dispersed throughout
pervasive
impinge
alleviate
futile
29. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
ambivalent
sonorous
realism
novice
30. Goodwill between friends
camaraderie
prosaic
subdue
biased
31. A widespread fire
malleable
hierarchy
jurisprudence
conflagration
32. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
facile
notorious
ornate
omnipotent
33. Exhibiting a display of great wealth
prudent
hypocrisy
incontrovertible
opulent
34. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
egregious
malice
listless
dilettante
35. Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
superficial
trivial
realism
timorous
36. Appropriateness of behavior
laudatory
propriety
discredit
anthology
37. Hard-working
elusive
assiduous
incumbent
poignant
38. A judge who decides a disputed issue
arbiter
brittle
ponderous
slander
39. Copied or adapted from a source
didactic
derived
affable
equivocate
40. A tremendously skilled artist
virtuoso
dilettante
putrid
pugnacious
41. Not genuine; false - counterfeit
spurious
nascent
truncated
objectivity
42. A state of uncertainty or perplexity
ample
indolent
hypocrisy
quandary
43. Easily broken when subjected to pressure
clandestine
ebullience
arid
brittle
44. Sadness; depression
pejorative
ominous
harbinger
melancholy
45. Developed or learned; not naturally occurring
acquired
diligent
pragmatic
proximity
46. Freed from blame
maverick
flagrant
servile
vindicated
47. Awareness; insight
perception
mural
brusque
archaic
48. To calm or soothe
mollify
apathetic
plagiarism
solvent
49. Feeling hatred; scornful
naive
laudatory
contemptuous
conflagration
50. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
cordial
insipid
equivocate
objectivity