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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. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; difference
lament
venerated
nascent
disparity
2. Uncertainty; apprehension
alliance
trepidation
listless
objectivity
3. Well-meaning; generous
pervasive
benevolent
anthology
trepidation
4. Open to more than one interpretation
insipid
meticulous
context
ambiguous
5. Intricate; complex
penitent
reprehensible
jurisprudence
convoluted
6. Exhibiting a display of great wealth
wary
jurisprudence
opulent
permeated
7. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
affable
flagrant
innovative
maverick
8. All-powerful
eclectic
superfluous
harbinger
omnipotent
9. Worthy of blame
obsolete
reprehensible
frenetic
enlightening
10. Giving praise
laudatory
arbitrary
obscure
affable
11. Mutual hatred or ill-will
medieval
enlightening
sanction
enmity
12. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
condemn
theoretical
meticulous
replete
13. Able to pay one's debts
superficial
solvent
derived
vocation
14. Rotten
prudent
putrid
pejorative
plausible
15. Goodwill between friends
camaraderie
pundit
proliferate
indolent
16. To make vicious statements about
cartographer
ostentatious
vilify
assimilation
17. Without decoration; strict
mundane
austere
pejorative
pugnacious
18. Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
dubious
caustic
venerated
transient
19. Submissive; like a servant
dogged
subdue
medieval
servile
20. Wildly excited or active
endure
equivocate
imperious
frenetic
21. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
biased
apparatus
contemporary
ambivalent
22. The act of making something useful again
reclamation
vocation
dictatorial
insolent
23. Lacking application or practical application
alienated
theoretical
substantiated
indolent
24. (adj.) relatively unknown (v.) to conceal or make indistinct
wily
stoic
flagrant
obscure
25. Lazy
alleviate
insolent
emollient
indolent
26. Describing a large amount of something
ample
anthology
nascent
austere
27. Stubborn; inflexible
rancorous
stratagem
ambivalent
obdurate
28. Describing a showy or pretentious display
fluid
impinge
ornate
ostentatious
29. To free from guilt or blame
parody
innate
exculpate
flagrant
30. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
fractious
despotic
lucid
spontaneous
31. Menacing; threatening
arid
prosaic
spurious
ominous
32. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
arbitrary
disdain
gratuitous
modest
33. Treating in a condescending manner
patronizing
facetious
listless
innovative
34. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
enlightening
parody
ingrate
staid
35. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
slander
camouflage
dogged
prosaic
36. To consider perfect
hackneyed
idealize
assimilation
harbinger
37. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
modest
assiduous
disdain
maverick
38. (v.) to make an itemized list of
conviction
austere
catalog
replete
39. The philosophy or science of law
coherent
timorous
jurisprudence
opulent
40. Not straightforward; crafty
hypocrisy
effusive
permeated
disingenuous
41. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
fastidious
reprehensible
rational
embellish
42. Passing away with time; passing from one place to another
contemporary
equivocate
transient
cordial
43. To cause to be doubted
discredit
ample
prodigious
whimsical
44. A place of retreat or security
impression
cryptic
vitality
asylum
45. Impulsive and unpredictable
capricious
cryptic
lament
acquired
46. A fixed or strong belief
convoluted
conviction
phenomenon
dogmatic
47. Freed from blame
naive
vindicated
putrid
ruse
48. Extremely dull
ponderous
condemn
astute
assiduous
49. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
deleterious
hackneyed
lament
dilettante
50. An example or model
equivocate
intuition
sanction
paradigm