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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. Large in scope or content
modest
enlightening
sedentary
comprehensive
2. Easy-going; friendly
affable
exemplary
medley
disparage
3. Passing away with time; passing from one place to another
decorous
anthology
transient
dubious
4. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
realism
indifferent
enlightening
pragmatic
5. Having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure - weak
tenuous
diligent
emollient
apparatus
6. Clearness in thought or expression
gratuitous
clarity
mollify
dilettante
7. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
embellish
fractious
spontaneous
notorious
8. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
profound
equivocate
compelling
mediocrity
9. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family or homeland)
alienated
futile
ostentatious
dictatorial
10. Favorable; promising
astute
pundit
auspicious
apathetic
11. Of or occurring in the night
transient
arbiter
nocturnal
substantiated
12. Conspicuously bad or offensive
quandary
egregious
catalog
novel
13. Playfully humorous
indolent
patronizing
facetious
surreptitiously
14. Goodwill between friends
listless
rhetoric
permeated
camaraderie
15. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
hypocrisy
aesthetic
stratagem
perspective
16. Not migratory; settled
wary
sedentary
intrepid
sanction
17. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
acquired
mediocrity
malice
maverick
18. Habitually late
perspective
dilatory
camouflage
acquired
19. Awareness; insight
dilatory
perception
sedentary
astute
20. Lacking sophistication
putrid
fractious
naive
novice
21. An occupation or profession
auspicious
sanction
coup
vocation
22. Easily broken when subjected to pressure
torpor
ambiguous
brittle
indolent
23. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
rational
trepidation
replete
modest
24. Not genuine; false - counterfeit
clandestine
spurious
pugnacious
sedentary
25. Producing a deep or full sound
sonorous
enmity
gratuitous
emollient
26. Stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
dogmatic
medley
innovative
cohesive
27. Without decoration; strict
arid
austere
brittle
contemporary
28. Supported with proof or evidence; verified
acquired
sonorous
substantiated
malfeasance
29. To leave one country or region and settle in another
transitory
novice
virtuoso
emigrate
30. To free from guilt or blame
penitent
harbinger
enlightening
exculpate
31. Strikingly new or unusual
ambiguous
novel
ingrate
equanimity
32. To cause to be doubted
novel
assiduous
discredit
condescending
33. To give official authorization or approval
sanction
obsolete
perspective
wily
34. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
truncated
elusive
caustic
facile
35. Dispersed throughout
equivocate
pervasive
gratuitous
jurisprudence
36. Sadness; depression
melancholy
acquired
malice
profound
37. Intense enthusiasm
dictatorial
ebullience
heinous
wary
38. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; difference
prosaic
caustic
dogmatic
disparity
39. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
equivocate
copious
disdain
inveterate
40. Intended to instruct
didactic
medley
effusive
toxic
41. To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
cordial
caustic
superficial
disparage
42. Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
trivial
archaic
superficial
facetious
43. Describing a showy or pretentious display
flagrant
stratagem
ostentatious
inherent
44. Elaborately decorated
reclamation
reprehensible
ornate
candor
45. Subdued; kept from being circulated
suppressed
auspicious
paradigm
reprehensible
46. Easily flowing
assimilation
conflagration
fluid
dilettante
47. Exercising good judgment or common sense
mollify
capricious
conviction
prudent
48. A state of uncertainty or perplexity
sanction
proliferate
arid
quandary
49. Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
pundit
penitent
premonition
realism
50. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
sanction
benign
misconception
penitent