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SAT Vocab Most Important Words
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sat
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english
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Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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1. Misconduct or wrongdoing - especially by a public official
benign
condescending
malfeasance
solvent
2. To give official authorization or approval
inveterate
vocation
sanction
obsolete
3. To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
disparage
hierarchy
apparatus
intuition
4. To avoid making a definite statement
ebullience
fractious
slander
equivocate
5. The ability to form or understand an idea
genre
disparage
conception
rational
6. No longer in use; old-fashioned
mural
mediocrity
plagiarism
obsolete
7. Logically connected
effusive
disdain
plagiarism
coherent
8. Unimaginative; dull
obdurate
prosaic
ingrate
dilatory
9. Wildly excited or active
aesthetic
indifferent
caustic
frenetic
10. The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
hypocrisy
lucid
benevolent
equivocate
11. One who designs or makes maps
frenetic
cartographer
convoluted
venerated
12. Practical
propriety
obstinate
pragmatic
catalog
13. To give special attention to something - to stress
brusque
apparatus
emphasize
catalog
14. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
diligent
facile
excerpt
discourse
15. A union of two or more groups
alliance
imperious
naive
feral
16. A declaration or statement
flagrant
assertion
ample
fluid
17. Of little importance or significance
nascent
trivial
staid
egregious
18. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
premonition
maverick
novel
gratuitous
19. A place of retreat or security
eclectic
integrity
asylum
decorous
20. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
whimsical
rational
cogent
caustic
21. Copied or adapted from a source
enmity
derived
brittle
gratuitous
22. To leave one country or region and settle in another
vindicated
emigrate
pragmatic
replete
23. Stubbornly persevering
cohesive
egregious
rhetoric
dogged
24. A judge who decides a disputed issue
idealize
flagrant
notorious
arbiter
25. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
coherent
frenetic
florid
rational
26. Exhibiting a display of great wealth
pundit
ominous
opulent
serene
27. Large in scope or content
wary
comprehensive
benevolent
hackneyed
28. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
condemn
apparatus
staid
florid
29. A crafty trick
malice
prosaic
ruse
coherent
30. Having a harmful effect; injurious
ornate
deleterious
wily
imperious
31. Appropriateness of behavior
propriety
insolent
malfeasance
solvent
32. Impulsive and unpredictable
objectivity
obsolete
insolent
capricious
33. Unemotional; serious
stoic
staid
dogged
innovative
34. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
novice
emigrate
narrative
maverick
35. A tremendously skilled artist
virtuoso
inevitable
ambivalent
propriety
36. Coming into existence; emerging
lament
nascent
mural
disparage
37. Exercising good judgment or common sense
elusive
consensus
prudent
condescending
38. Certain to happen - unavoidable
inevitable
excerpt
prodigious
ebullience
39. Freed from blame
ambiguous
malfeasance
vindicated
amenable
40. Having great depth or seriousness
discourse
putrid
profound
exculpate
41. Not migratory; settled
contemporary
context
sedentary
proliferate
42. (adj.) characterized by the telling of a story (n.) a story
narrative
exculpate
penitent
dictatorial
43. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
vocation
suppressed
despotic
plagiarism
44. Domineering; oppressively overbearing
poignant
brittle
auspicious
dictatorial
45. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
misconception
clandestine
brittle
reclamation
46. Favorable; promising
auspicious
intuition
sedentary
condescending
47. Describing a dry - rainless climate
arid
frenetic
malleable
brusque
48. Profoundly moving; touching
poignant
facile
nocturnal
ebullience
49. A group organized by rank
ostentatious
permeated
hierarchy
impinge
50. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
condescending
despotic
assiduous
disparage