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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. Difficult to comprehend
transitory
disparage
cryptic
archaic
2. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
obdurate
maverick
camaraderie
novice
3. Not caring one way or the other
egregious
mundane
incorrigible
indifferent
4. Easily broken when subjected to pressure
paramount
dilettante
brittle
permeated
5. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
mollify
dogged
despotic
contemporary
6. Describing a showy or pretentious display
sanction
modest
ostentatious
patronizing
7. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
fluid
pragmatic
embellish
superficial
8. Uncertainty; apprehension
auspicious
clandestine
parody
trepidation
9. Developed or learned; not naturally occurring
wily
emollient
acquired
innovative
10. Extremely careful and precise
facetious
meticulous
alleviate
misconception
11. Certain to happen - unavoidable
decorous
cordial
conflagration
inevitable
12. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
proximity
perspective
realism
effusive
13. Extreme ill will or spite
malice
consensus
frank
mollify
14. The act of suggesting or hinting
trepidation
flagrant
ominous
implication
15. Unplanned; naturally occurring
spontaneous
inconsequential
prodigious
sedentary
16. To free from guilt or blame
exculpate
notorious
wily
melancholy
17. Able to pay one's debts
solvent
intrepid
listless
eclectic
18. Extremely dull
ponderous
facetious
cordial
pundit
19. Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
impinge
penitent
mediocrity
eclectic
20. Possessed at birth; inborn
sanction
alienated
plausible
innate
21. Savage; untamed
intuition
feral
apathetic
permeated
22. Insulting in manner or speech
dogged
obscure
jurisprudence
insolent
23. Hinder; interfere with
alliance
sedentary
impinge
substantiated
24. To hide by blending in with surroundings
sanction
camouflage
mundane
medieval
25. Stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
auspicious
rancorous
pervasive
dogmatic
26. The act of making something useful again
equanimity
mundane
dilettante
reclamation
27. A crafty trick
brusque
rational
ambivalent
ruse
28. Unimportant
dilatory
inconsequential
pragmatic
integrity
29. A beginner
novice
reprehensible
inevitable
transient
30. An unusual - observable event
phenomenon
quandary
cordial
perspective
31. Sadness; depression
feral
brittle
melancholy
frenetic
32. Worn-out through overuse; trite
hackneyed
ponderous
staid
disparity
33. A large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface
apprehension
perspective
austere
mural
34. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
brittle
intrepid
ambivalent
austere
35. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
endure
facile
candor
obdurate
36. Habitually late
dilatory
dubious
hackneyed
nascent
37. Passing away with time; passing from one place to another
realism
impede
servile
transient
38. Having no useful purpose; pointless
listless
futile
coup
ambiguous
39. Calm
florid
intuition
serene
alienated
40. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
misconception
transient
nascent
assimilation
41. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
fabricated
genre
contemptuous
tenacity
42. Referring to the Middle Ages - old-fashioned
medieval
flagrant
incontrovertible
conviction
43. (n.) contempt - scorn (v.) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
substantiated
disdain
opulent
novice
44. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
cogent
exemplary
heinous
objectivity
45. Arrogant; vainly proud
feral
archaic
discourse
haughty
46. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
replete
facetious
stratagem
archaic
47. Proper; marked by good taste
phenomenon
decorous
idealize
astute
48. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
superfluous
lament
assertion
condemn
49. Combative; belligerent
surreptitiously
solvent
assertion
pugnacious
50. The power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight
cordial
intuition
ambivalent
harbinger