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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. Of little importance or significance
perception
flagrant
dictatorial
trivial
2. Worthy of blame
reprehensible
pugnacious
lament
theoretical
3. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
discourse
notorious
ample
arbiter
4. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
incorrigible
ominous
sonorous
facile
5. Easily understood; clear
pragmatic
lucid
indifferent
anthology
6. Cunning
wily
mediocrity
dictatorial
insipid
7. Developed or learned; not naturally occurring
frenetic
acquired
biased
naive
8. Sadness; depression
melancholy
truncated
brittle
novel
9. Difficult to comprehend
lament
ample
cryptic
consensus
10. To put up with to survive a hardship
impede
endure
stoic
consensus
11. Impulsive and unpredictable
capricious
endure
vocation
pragmatic
12. Intense enthusiasm
capricious
archaic
ebullience
sonorous
13. Open to more than one interpretation
wary
patronizing
ambiguous
rhetoric
14. Copied or adapted from a source
derived
impartial
frenetic
virtuoso
15. Introducing something new
nocturnal
lament
innovative
context
16. The ability to form or understand an idea
innate
comprehensive
conception
vitality
17. Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
gratuitous
quandary
superficial
vitality
18. General agreement
surreptitiously
ruse
consensus
profound
19. Short-lived or temporary
objectivity
vindicated
transitory
rational
20. Secretive
wily
equanimity
inevitable
clandestine
21. An occupation or profession
ambiguous
vocation
ingrate
penitent
22. Referring to the Middle Ages - old-fashioned
camaraderie
apprehension
medieval
coup
23. Made up of a variety of sources or styles
naive
eclectic
compelling
surreptitiously
24. Habitually late
dilatory
ornate
mural
astute
25. A group organized by rank
anthology
aesthetic
assertion
hierarchy
26. Insulting in manner or speech
conception
insolent
laudatory
assiduous
27. Informative; contributing the one's awareness
malfeasance
propriety
enlightening
conflagration
28. Point of view
implication
incumbent
perspective
astute
29. Wildly excited or active
wary
insipid
frenetic
sanction
30. Determined by impulse rather than reason
sanction
novel
servile
arbitrary
31. Having great depth or seriousness
profound
indolent
obdurate
pugnacious
32. Having a harmful effect; injurious
prodigious
deleterious
cordial
innate
33. To cause to be doubted
medieval
condescending
exemplary
discredit
34. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
catalog
enmity
prosaic
modest
35. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
ponderous
acquired
obdurate
florid
36. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
vocation
objectivity
prodigious
lucid
37. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action
obstinate
archaic
camouflage
endure
38. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
impinge
ambivalent
conception
capricious
39. Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
penitent
fractious
dogged
harbinger
40. A beginner
sanction
stoic
misconception
novice
41. Coming into existence; emerging
novel
nascent
jurisprudence
austere
42. Shrewd; clever
obstinate
modest
inevitable
astute
43. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
whimsical
notorious
impartial
apparatus
44. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family or homeland)
clandestine
alienated
hackneyed
imperious
45. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
exculpate
arbitrary
facile
torpor
46. The philosophy or science of law
jurisprudence
biased
conflagration
pugnacious
47. Lacking application or practical application
medieval
haughty
feral
theoretical
48. Producing a deep or full sound
sonorous
spurious
mediocrity
equanimity
49. Equipment; a group of machines
apparatus
frenetic
nascent
insipid
50. Not caring one way or the other
incumbent
indifferent
phenomenon
consensus