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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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1. (v.) to make an itemized list of
maverick
catalog
realism
notorious
2. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
ponderous
implication
impression
toxic
3. Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
idealize
reclamation
flagrant
penitent
4. Certain to happen - unavoidable
suppressed
obstinate
inevitable
lucid
5. Possessed at birth; inborn
innate
effusive
suppressed
assimilation
6. Condition of sticking together
frenetic
ornate
acquired
cohesive
7. To ease a pain or a burden
lament
modest
excerpt
alleviate
8. Describing a showy or pretentious display
archaic
ostentatious
implication
elusive
9. Savage; untamed
equanimity
excerpt
profound
feral
10. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
emphasize
mundane
cartographer
maverick
11. Enormous
camaraderie
conception
dictatorial
prodigious
12. Intense enthusiasm
ebullience
stoic
lucid
candor
13. Mutual hatred or ill-will
discourse
assertion
enmity
ambivalent
14. Without decoration; strict
austere
vilify
ponderous
apprehension
15. A fixed or strong belief
fabricated
conviction
rational
reprehensible
16. Energy; power to survive
vitality
perception
disdain
stratagem
17. Extremely careful and precise
meticulous
medley
solvent
ostentatious
18. Subdued; kept from being circulated
suppressed
context
malfeasance
listless
19. Intricate; complex
disingenuous
transitory
convoluted
stratagem
20. Lazy
cryptic
indolent
ornate
clandestine
21. Feeling or showing little emotion
vindicated
propriety
facetious
apathetic
22. Not straightforward; crafty
impression
phenomenon
transitory
disingenuous
23. Rudely abrupt
excerpt
transient
brusque
mediocrity
24. Arrogant; vainly proud
haughty
assimilation
replete
obdurate
25. Easily broken when subjected to pressure
surreptitiously
impinge
brittle
discourse
26. Menacing; threatening
paradigm
ominous
futile
clarity
27. Open and sincere in expression; straightforward
realism
parody
rhetoric
frank
28. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
camouflage
assiduous
eloquence
whimsical
29. To restrain; to hold back
frenetic
emigrate
subdue
asylum
30. Copied or adapted from a source
fluid
derived
malfeasance
ornate
31. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
alleviate
lucid
jurisprudence
diligent
32. Rotten
putrid
impartial
frenetic
catalog
33. Giving praise
paradigm
laudatory
ominous
prodigious
34. Closeness
permeated
proximity
equivocate
embellish
35. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
exemplary
brusque
realism
cryptic
36. Friendly; sincere
nascent
cordial
pragmatic
nocturnal
37. Point of view
perspective
maverick
enmity
incontrovertible
38. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
affable
servile
imperious
cohesive
39. Courageous; fearless
ingrate
wily
enmity
intrepid
40. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
spontaneous
gratuitous
rancorous
ebullience
41. Short-lived or temporary
permeated
transitory
vilify
whimsical
42. The act of making something useful again
tenacity
listless
reclamation
florid
43. A place of retreat or security
perception
asylum
indolent
arbiter
44. Sadness; depression
genre
melancholy
austere
compelling
45. Of or occurring in the night
nocturnal
laudatory
slander
parody
46. A collection of literary pieces
inevitable
solvent
anthology
pugnacious
47. (adj.) relatively unknown (v.) to conceal or make indistinct
impinge
mural
candor
obscure
48. (n.) an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
fluid
hackneyed
parody
sanction
49. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
assertion
plagiarism
contemporary
arid
50. Easily understood; clear
melancholy
effusive
lucid
transitory