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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. Not migratory; settled
intrepid
sedentary
auspicious
perspective
2. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
lament
permeated
malleable
compelling
3. Referring to the Middle Ages - old-fashioned
malfeasance
cohesive
medieval
deleterious
4. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
obdurate
ambivalent
penitent
frenetic
5. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
melancholy
coherent
innate
genre
6. Hard-working
ample
assiduous
affable
parody
7. To make vicious statements about
emigrate
inconsequential
cartographer
vilify
8. An authority who expresses his/her opinions
dictatorial
permeated
egregious
pundit
9. Responsive; agreeable
equivocate
abstract
cartographer
amenable
10. A feeling about the future
affable
arid
decorous
premonition
11. Express grief for; mourn
malleable
lament
obdurate
benevolent
12. Shortened; cut off
integrity
disingenuous
truncated
innovative
13. To hide by blending in with surroundings
camouflage
objectivity
servile
clandestine
14. An example or model
spurious
frank
paradigm
harbinger
15. Convincing; reasonable
anthology
incontrovertible
cogent
vocation
16. Sincerity; openness
candor
trivial
suppressed
enmity
17. To give special attention to something - to stress
emphasize
fastidious
spurious
ominous
18. Having no useful purpose; pointless
futile
convoluted
malleable
maverick
19. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
alienated
notorious
objectivity
imperious
20. Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
paradigm
effusive
emigrate
inherent
21. Made; concocted in order to deceive
fabricated
alienated
conviction
assimilation
22. To absorb; to make similar
staid
assimilation
fabricated
intrepid
23. To free from guilt or blame
exculpate
apathetic
realism
nocturnal
24. A widespread fire
ruse
mediocrity
timorous
conflagration
25. Not genuine; false - counterfeit
disparity
cogent
frank
spurious
26. Describing a showy or pretentious display
ostentatious
venerated
biased
reclamation
27. Passing away with time; passing from one place to another
transient
staid
phenomenon
futile
28. Easily broken when subjected to pressure
flagrant
meticulous
brittle
malice
29. A fixed or strong belief
conviction
facetious
stratagem
superfluous
30. Playfully humorous
impede
excerpt
archaic
facetious
31. Misconduct or wrongdoing - especially by a public official
insipid
virtuoso
malfeasance
contemptuous
32. Open to more than one interpretation
spontaneous
assiduous
fastidious
ambiguous
33. Made up of a variety of sources or styles
apathetic
ingrate
cartographer
eclectic
34. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
stoic
slander
malleable
omnipotent
35. Treating in a condescending manner
comprehensive
lament
patronizing
austere
36. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
ambivalent
serene
realism
plagiarism
37. Of or occurring in the night
listless
obscure
nocturnal
proximity
38. Introducing something new
misconception
discredit
cogent
innovative
39. To restrain; to hold back
objectivity
brusque
subdue
frenetic
40. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
perception
inveterate
fractious
excerpt
41. Lacking energy
listless
malice
alleviate
decorous
42. To calm or soothe
aesthetic
egregious
mollify
transient
43. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
diligent
prosaic
maverick
whimsical
44. A brilliantly executed plan
patronizing
coup
hypocrisy
sanction
45. Extremely dull
dilatory
ponderous
transitory
servile
46. Freed from blame
vindicated
paramount
solvent
assertion
47. Easy-going; friendly
enmity
affable
fastidious
astute
48. Combative; belligerent
plagiarism
pugnacious
omnipotent
frenetic
49. Stubbornly adhering to insufficiently proved beliefs
tenacity
innovative
dogmatic
proximity
50. The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
cartographer
inconsequential
hypocrisy
austere