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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. Appropriateness of behavior
propriety
imperious
endure
brittle
2. Biting sarcastic or witty
equivocate
caustic
elusive
facile
3. Having a harmful effect; injurious
lament
egregious
spontaneous
deleterious
4. Condition of sticking together
surreptitiously
conflagration
cohesive
brusque
5. To restrain; to hold back
vocation
innate
subdue
nocturnal
6. To give official authorization or approval
vocation
slander
perspective
sanction
7. Of or occurring in the night
modest
dictatorial
sanction
nocturnal
8. Habitually late
florid
jurisprudence
fabricated
dilatory
9. Supported with proof or evidence; verified
implication
laudatory
substantiated
intuition
10. Seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
premonition
haughty
tenacity
plausible
11. Short-lived or temporary
transitory
facile
ample
disparage
12. Mutual hatred or ill-will
timorous
enmity
arid
servile
13. Extra; unnecessary
superfluous
mediocrity
intrepid
contemporary
14. Rotten
putrid
pragmatic
contemptuous
abstract
15. Of chief concern or importance
arid
paramount
hackneyed
toxic
16. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
impede
fractious
malleable
eloquence
17. Exhibiting a display of great wealth
opulent
ingrate
pragmatic
clarity
18. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
inveterate
copious
spurious
superfluous
19. Cunning
stoic
wily
prudent
inveterate
20. To make vicious statements about
arbiter
alliance
vilify
deleterious
21. Energy; power to survive
vindicated
vitality
whimsical
ornate
22. On guard; watchful
apathetic
vitality
impression
wary
23. Circumstances of a situation; environment
rhetoric
exculpate
context
substantiated
24. Worthy of blame
convoluted
feral
reprehensible
apathetic
25. The art of using language effectively and persuasively
florid
rhetoric
suppressed
apathetic
26. Practical
discredit
pragmatic
disdain
prodigious
27. Extremely careful and precise
context
meticulous
apathetic
affable
28. (n.) contempt - scorn (v.) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
idealize
frenetic
disdain
tenacity
29. Plentiful; having a large quantity
copious
benevolent
frank
tenacity
30. Dine by secretive means
surreptitiously
diligent
imperious
biased
31. Unable to be reformed
cogent
omnipotent
incorrigible
replete
32. Hard-working
frenetic
serene
assiduous
mediocrity
33. A declaration or statement
assertion
assiduous
exculpate
hierarchy
34. Intended to instruct
truncated
novel
didactic
ambiguous
35. Anxiety or fear about the future
contemptuous
obsolete
deleterious
apprehension
36. Freed from blame
medieval
wily
vindicated
paradigm
37. Easily understood; clear
lucid
listless
notorious
quandary
38. (v.) to make an itemized list of
arbitrary
catalog
virtuoso
phenomenon
39. Playfully humorous
facetious
assertion
omnipotent
aesthetic
40. Lazy
impede
indolent
imperious
contemptuous
41. All-powerful
spontaneous
alliance
effusive
omnipotent
42. Commonplace; ordinary
astute
implication
mundane
alliance
43. Referring to the Middle Ages - old-fashioned
medieval
cordial
context
eclectic
44. Open to more than one interpretation
fastidious
cartographer
ambiguous
enlightening
45. A group organized by rank
hierarchy
perspective
trivial
pejorative
46. Convincing; reasonable
cogent
impinge
hypocrisy
derived
47. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
coherent
impression
narrative
disparity
48. Extremely dull
facetious
notorious
wily
ponderous
49. Strikingly new or unusual
apathetic
medieval
trivial
novel
50. To cause to be doubted
facile
idealize
discredit
sanction