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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. Profoundly moving; touching
poignant
lament
cogent
compelling
2. Informative; contributing the one's awareness
didactic
enlightening
implication
reclamation
3. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
notorious
whimsical
hierarchy
comprehensive
4. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
malleable
exculpate
despotic
premonition
5. Unable to be reformed
ruse
implication
disdain
incorrigible
6. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
impinge
embellish
frank
assertion
7. Feeling hatred; scornful
mollify
inherent
contemptuous
innate
8. Highly respected
trepidation
enmity
venerated
equivocate
9. Without decoration; strict
egregious
coup
diligent
austere
10. Cunning
derived
suppressed
wily
melancholy
11. The ability to speak vividly or persuasively
embellish
eloquence
narrative
truncated
12. Large in scope or content
mollify
jurisprudence
auspicious
comprehensive
13. Extreme ill will or spite
malice
dictatorial
condescending
melancholy
14. Dine by secretive means
cartographer
cordial
abstract
surreptitiously
15. Misconduct or wrongdoing - especially by a public official
facile
misconception
cordial
malfeasance
16. Playfully humorous
lament
clandestine
facetious
virtuoso
17. Extra; unnecessary
nascent
implication
auspicious
superfluous
18. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
arbiter
rational
equanimity
opulent
19. Well-meaning; generous
pugnacious
conception
implication
benevolent
20. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
serene
condemn
conviction
timorous
21. Having great depth or seriousness
effusive
profound
permeated
astute
22. To free from guilt or blame
impede
facetious
exculpate
parody
23. Hatefully evil; abominable
inherent
poignant
nascent
heinous
24. Current - modern; from the same time
imperious
novel
contemporary
premonition
25. Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
benign
subdue
stoic
discredit
26. Rotten
obsolete
disdain
ingrate
putrid
27. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
parody
inherent
quandary
melancholy
28. To put up with to survive a hardship
quandary
reclamation
endure
ornate
29. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
candor
compelling
medley
serene
30. Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
candor
superficial
fabricated
virtuoso
31. Kind and gentle
suppressed
benign
trepidation
arbitrary
32. A feeling about the future
subdue
staid
quandary
premonition
33. To cause to be doubted
condescending
assertion
discredit
sedentary
34. Not applied to actual objects
fastidious
abstract
apparatus
frank
35. Submissive; like a servant
servile
transient
whimsical
malice
36. Unemotional; serious
mollify
didactic
staid
ominous
37. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
novel
paramount
diligent
biased
38. Unimportant
flagrant
servile
imperious
inconsequential
39. A group organized by rank
alienated
naive
hierarchy
heinous
40. Condition of sticking together
trivial
camouflage
cohesive
trepidation
41. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
enmity
fabricated
ambivalent
obsolete
42. Hard-working
whimsical
assiduous
florid
cogent
43. A beginner
truncated
fractious
asylum
novice
44. Wildly excited or active
aesthetic
enlightening
equivocate
frenetic
45. A judge who decides a disputed issue
inevitable
arbiter
convoluted
diligent
46. Worn-out through overuse; trite
maverick
hackneyed
conception
cryptic
47. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
plagiarism
novel
surreptitiously
ingrate
48. Strikingly new or unusual
inveterate
arbitrary
novel
timorous
49. Poisonous
hypocrisy
innovative
benign
toxic
50. Biting sarcastic or witty
assiduous
caustic
capricious
decorous