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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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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. To give official authorization or approval
egregious
sanction
superfluous
assertion
2. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
rancorous
biased
nascent
elusive
3. Calm
quandary
exculpate
venerated
serene
4. Introducing something new
elusive
catalog
innovative
malleable
5. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
despotic
cordial
stoic
equivocate
6. To ease a pain or a burden
meticulous
mediocrity
austere
alleviate
7. Extreme ill will or spite
exculpate
despotic
malice
impinge
8. A place of retreat or security
asylum
mural
auspicious
disdain
9. Savage; untamed
fastidious
feral
whimsical
diligent
10. Difficult to comprehend
indifferent
theoretical
cryptic
virtuoso
11. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
enmity
solvent
virtuoso
impression
12. Intricate; complex
convoluted
obscure
dubious
arbiter
13. Conspicuously bad or offensive
egregious
torpor
obstinate
eloquence
14. Sincerity; openness
ostentatious
candor
mural
decorous
15. Having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure - weak
plagiarism
tenuous
facile
apathetic
16. Having no useful purpose; pointless
asylum
jurisprudence
futile
disparage
17. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
genre
affable
conviction
context
18. Shrewd; clever
astute
alleviate
torpor
theoretical
19. Closeness
wily
rational
impinge
proximity
20. Treating in a condescending manner
derived
spontaneous
servile
patronizing
21. Easily broken when subjected to pressure
arbitrary
camouflage
genre
brittle
22. Uncertainty; apprehension
trepidation
propriety
inherent
disdain
23. (adj.) characterized by the telling of a story (n.) a story
astute
narrative
rational
benevolent
24. To free from guilt or blame
didactic
exculpate
permeated
gratuitous
25. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
reprehensible
haughty
malleable
florid
26. Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
implication
florid
candor
effusive
27. Current - modern; from the same time
contemporary
astute
emigrate
consensus
28. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
imperious
florid
heinous
despotic
29. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
intrepid
medley
pragmatic
coherent
30. Favorable; promising
whimsical
heinous
auspicious
camaraderie
31. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
misconception
truncated
cartographer
brusque
32. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
plagiarism
florid
dilettante
conviction
33. Able to pay one's debts
staid
lament
solvent
phenomenon
34. Without decoration; strict
apprehension
biased
austere
dogged
35. Seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
nascent
plausible
objectivity
emphasize
36. Unimportant
inconsequential
proliferate
hackneyed
replete
37. Hard-working
exemplary
assiduous
frenetic
venerated
38. Subdued; kept from being circulated
arbiter
frenetic
suppressed
mundane
39. Stubbornly persevering
dogged
brusque
cordial
phenomenon
40. Open to more than one interpretation
ambiguous
plausible
context
imperious
41. Worn-out through overuse; trite
notorious
ambivalent
replete
hackneyed
42. Arrogant; vainly proud
replete
archaic
laudatory
haughty
43. To put up with to survive a hardship
intrepid
apparatus
fluid
endure
44. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
impression
virtuoso
inevitable
ambivalent
45. A union of two or more groups
excerpt
pragmatic
medley
alliance
46. Describing a dry - rainless climate
trepidation
heinous
arid
consensus
47. Made; concocted in order to deceive
plagiarism
fabricated
brittle
dilatory
48. Producing a deep or full sound
sonorous
caustic
arid
florid
49. (adj.) softening and soothing (n.) something that softens or soothes
emollient
insolent
fluid
contemptuous
50. Rudely abrupt
brusque
capricious
affable
realism