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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. Having a harmful effect; injurious
egregious
fluid
deleterious
pugnacious
2. Not straightforward; crafty
disingenuous
acquired
benevolent
staid
3. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
futile
obscure
ambivalent
dilettante
4. A judge who decides a disputed issue
camaraderie
wary
laudatory
arbiter
5. The philosophy or science of law
replete
jurisprudence
impression
disdain
6. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
alliance
compelling
despotic
sedentary
7. Developed or learned; not naturally occurring
imperious
acquired
omnipotent
obstinate
8. Worn-out through overuse; trite
affable
maverick
hackneyed
frank
9. Describing a dry - rainless climate
wary
arid
ostentatious
sedentary
10. An occupation or profession
rhetoric
vocation
hierarchy
surreptitiously
11. A collection of literary pieces
integrity
inconsequential
conflagration
anthology
12. Elaborately decorated
dogged
malfeasance
ornate
ominous
13. Exhibiting a display of great wealth
mundane
eclectic
opulent
prodigious
14. Unable to be reformed
apparatus
disparage
incorrigible
suppressed
15. The power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight
permeated
intuition
paramount
egregious
16. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family or homeland)
contemporary
egregious
alienated
consensus
17. Courageous; fearless
intrepid
sanction
melancholy
aesthetic
18. Arrogant; vainly proud
haughty
obscure
cryptic
catalog
19. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
maverick
lucid
florid
tenuous
20. A place of retreat or security
emigrate
asylum
fractious
assimilation
21. Practical
mollify
pragmatic
egregious
benevolent
22. (adj.) relatively unknown (v.) to conceal or make indistinct
malice
dogmatic
obscure
alleviate
23. Sadness; depression
melancholy
incontrovertible
egregious
superfluous
24. To calm or soothe
cordial
medieval
quandary
mollify
25. Closeness
assiduous
proximity
serene
catalog
26. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
assiduous
incumbent
arid
abstract
27. Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
pugnacious
surreptitiously
effusive
embellish
28. An ungrateful person
malfeasance
transitory
embellish
ingrate
29. Of chief concern or importance
paramount
conviction
alleviate
decorous
30. Unemotional; serious
ample
fabricated
staid
hierarchy
31. Describing a showy or pretentious display
lament
medieval
impression
ostentatious
32. Without decoration; strict
inveterate
paramount
austere
perception
33. Producing a deep or full sound
trivial
sonorous
replete
enmity
34. Current - modern; from the same time
contemporary
conception
pragmatic
incontrovertible
35. Certain to happen - unavoidable
condemn
indifferent
inevitable
listless
36. To consider perfect
cohesive
disparity
idealize
pragmatic
37. Made up of a variety of sources or styles
embellish
eclectic
dubious
ingrate
38. Friendly; sincere
patronizing
cordial
malice
discourse
39. Easily understood; clear
lucid
trivial
incorrigible
serene
40. Shortened; cut off
toxic
truncated
disdain
disparage
41. Possessed at birth; inborn
plagiarism
innate
novel
impression
42. Dispersed throughout
putrid
harbinger
pervasive
condemn
43. The ability to form or understand an idea
conception
cartographer
genre
serene
44. Coming into existence; emerging
nascent
substantiated
equanimity
poignant
45. Conspicuously bad or offensive
apprehension
novice
maverick
egregious
46. The state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality
assertion
intuition
mediocrity
dogged
47. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
superfluous
condemn
insipid
lament
48. Appropriateness of behavior
ponderous
propriety
idealize
apathetic
49. To put up with to survive a hardship
incumbent
malice
coherent
endure
50. Lacking energy
solvent
alliance
copious
listless