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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. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
copious
apprehension
discourse
asylum
2. Responsive; agreeable
paradigm
equivocate
cordial
amenable
3. An occupation or profession
vocation
disparage
effusive
affable
4. Commendable; worthy of imitation
exculpate
exemplary
benign
malfeasance
5. Determined by impulse rather than reason
misconception
assertion
arbitrary
wily
6. Easy-going; friendly
clandestine
aesthetic
affable
incumbent
7. Biting sarcastic or witty
deleterious
clandestine
caustic
stoic
8. Elaborately decorated
effusive
inherent
endure
ornate
9. Enormous
futile
prodigious
capricious
serene
10. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
propriety
suppressed
disingenuous
equanimity
11. Not migratory; settled
innate
naive
sedentary
phenomenon
12. Short-lived or temporary
harbinger
innovative
anthology
transitory
13. Subdued; kept from being circulated
suppressed
elusive
servile
exemplary
14. Hinder; interfere with
impinge
replete
egregious
inconsequential
15. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; difference
emollient
disparity
trivial
trepidation
16. To slow the progress of
impede
pervasive
pragmatic
eclectic
17. Hateful; marked by deep seated ill-will
integrity
cohesive
rancorous
apprehension
18. Without decoration; strict
elusive
facile
derived
austere
19. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
malleable
discourse
poignant
equivocate
20. A crafty trick
contemporary
perception
vindicated
ruse
21. Made; concocted in order to deceive
pejorative
vitality
dilettante
fabricated
22. Practical
genre
poignant
quandary
pragmatic
23. A brilliantly executed plan
ornate
cordial
coup
egregious
24. Open to more than one interpretation
frank
idealize
ambiguous
tenuous
25. Shortened; cut off
truncated
notorious
wily
sedentary
26. Of little importance or significance
trivial
equanimity
incontrovertible
jurisprudence
27. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
pejorative
condescending
tenacity
aesthetic
28. Giving praise
discourse
laudatory
obsolete
virtuoso
29. Hard-working
comprehensive
candor
conviction
assiduous
30. Lacking energy
spontaneous
eclectic
auspicious
listless
31. (n.) an economic or military measure put in place to punish another country
imperious
discourse
sanction
paramount
32. Developed or learned; not naturally occurring
acquired
ambivalent
genre
incorrigible
33. Unemotional; serious
feral
incumbent
spurious
staid
34. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
ambivalent
capricious
substantiated
genre
35. Feeling hatred; scornful
vocation
lucid
contemptuous
prosaic
36. Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
misconception
dubious
reprehensible
mollify
37. General agreement
florid
intrepid
consensus
staid
38. Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
permeated
lament
insipid
flagrant
39. Sadness; depression
pejorative
innate
parody
melancholy
40. A place of retreat or security
discredit
archaic
propriety
asylum
41. Equipment; a group of machines
malice
fractious
apparatus
assertion
42. Rudely abrupt
decorous
equivocate
narrative
brusque
43. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
despotic
cohesive
mundane
solvent
44. Poisonous
contemporary
toxic
coherent
surreptitiously
45. A collection of literary pieces
perception
impede
disdain
anthology
46. Extra; unnecessary
theoretical
superfluous
austere
contemporary
47. To calm or soothe
innate
acquired
mollify
asylum
48. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
fabricated
quandary
modest
hierarchy
49. To leave one country or region and settle in another
inconsequential
venerated
copious
emigrate
50. Able to pay one's debts
solvent
conception
despotic
patronizing