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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. Having great depth or seriousness
enmity
profound
sonorous
maverick
2. Habitually late
assimilation
indifferent
suppressed
dilatory
3. Extremely careful and precise
meticulous
phenomenon
sanction
impartial
4. A beginner
ominous
novice
inconsequential
inherent
5. Treating people as weak or inferior
nocturnal
emphasize
condescending
transitory
6. Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
penitent
vindicated
sedentary
obscure
7. (n.) contempt - scorn (v.) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
convoluted
coherent
impartial
disdain
8. Copied or adapted from a source
pervasive
effusive
ingrate
derived
9. Unplanned; naturally occurring
nocturnal
spontaneous
embellish
fractious
10. To give special attention to something - to stress
surreptitiously
sonorous
emphasize
dilettante
11. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
surreptitiously
integrity
subdue
notorious
12. Lazy
fastidious
aesthetic
indolent
decorous
13. A collection of literary pieces
amenable
impinge
anthology
prudent
14. Uncertainty; apprehension
trepidation
ebullience
patronizing
capricious
15. Something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
insolent
lament
harbinger
implication
16. Describing a large amount of something
ample
facetious
convoluted
dictatorial
17. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
flagrant
gratuitous
archaic
rancorous
18. Well-meaning; generous
effusive
benevolent
discredit
emigrate
19. Quarrelsome; unruly
rational
inherent
benevolent
fractious
20. To give official authorization or approval
haughty
mollify
sanction
replete
21. Biting sarcastic or witty
ingrate
gratuitous
caustic
maverick
22. Courageous; fearless
prosaic
superfluous
intrepid
ingrate
23. To cause to be doubted
premonition
ornate
catalog
discredit
24. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
notorious
objectivity
coup
caustic
25. Express grief for; mourn
contemporary
facetious
brittle
lament
26. Hard-working
assiduous
assimilation
condescending
indifferent
27. To put up with to survive a hardship
endure
contemptuous
obstinate
objectivity
28. Cunning
gratuitous
arbiter
camaraderie
wily
29. Timid; fearful about the future
plausible
ponderous
timorous
laudatory
30. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
assiduous
slander
maverick
intrepid
31. Having no useful purpose; pointless
futile
ostentatious
benign
inherent
32. Sadness; depression
melancholy
obsolete
tenacity
superfluous
33. Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
frenetic
flagrant
cohesive
hierarchy
34. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
parody
malleable
rancorous
surreptitiously
35. Intense enthusiasm
prodigious
ebullience
convoluted
dictatorial
36. The act of making something useful again
stratagem
frank
ponderous
reclamation
37. Inborn; built-in
dilatory
inherent
surreptitiously
proliferate
38. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
aesthetic
paradigm
asylum
discourse
39. A widespread fire
transitory
conflagration
surreptitiously
incumbent
40. A union of two or more groups
alliance
novel
pejorative
benign
41. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family or homeland)
suppressed
ingrate
coherent
alienated
42. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
lament
brittle
despotic
maverick
43. Closeness
fractious
alienated
proximity
disparity
44. Coming into existence; emerging
nascent
assertion
enlightening
parody
45. Open and sincere in expression; straightforward
wily
disdain
spurious
frank
46. Of little importance or significance
trivial
gratuitous
catalog
malice
47. A large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface
mural
pundit
objectivity
comprehensive
48. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
pejorative
suppressed
whimsical
aesthetic
49. A group organized by rank
despotic
hierarchy
laudatory
ominous
50. Sincerity; openness
imperious
hierarchy
candor
disingenuous