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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. Easily flowing
malleable
fluid
surreptitiously
transient
2. A group organized by rank
wary
incontrovertible
conception
hierarchy
3. To give special attention to something - to stress
realism
harbinger
implication
emphasize
4. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
impartial
surreptitiously
melancholy
ambivalent
5. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
embellish
innovative
disingenuous
harbinger
6. Having a harmful effect; injurious
deleterious
dictatorial
effusive
contemporary
7. Biting sarcastic or witty
novice
permeated
cordial
caustic
8. Large in scope or content
jurisprudence
compelling
exemplary
comprehensive
9. Seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
obdurate
mediocrity
plausible
elusive
10. Spread or flowing throughout
fastidious
assiduous
permeated
eloquence
11. Lacking sophistication
naive
toxic
asylum
cohesive
12. The state or quality of being average; of moderate to low quality
mediocrity
obstinate
deleterious
frank
13. Goodwill between friends
innovative
superficial
camaraderie
toxic
14. Trustworthiness; completeness
vindicated
nocturnal
heinous
integrity
15. Menacing; threatening
mural
cordial
ominous
obsolete
16. Having great depth or seriousness
perspective
profound
compelling
eclectic
17. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
florid
haughty
brittle
patronizing
18. Dine by secretive means
surreptitiously
mollify
dilatory
toxic
19. Certain to happen - unavoidable
inevitable
innovative
prudent
perception
20. Unemotional; serious
condescending
staid
slander
indolent
21. An unusual - observable event
substantiated
phenomenon
cohesive
diligent
22. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
contemptuous
realism
sanction
prudent
23. A fixed or strong belief
propriety
conviction
arbitrary
prudent
24. Copied or adapted from a source
rational
derived
harbinger
disingenuous
25. To consider perfect
idealize
tenacity
laudatory
inherent
26. Appropriateness of behavior
benevolent
propriety
putrid
penitent
27. Describing a showy or pretentious display
servile
ostentatious
theoretical
lament
28. Something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
harbinger
despotic
clarity
brusque
29. To calm or soothe
fluid
cordial
mollify
camouflage
30. All-powerful
omnipotent
tenuous
lament
solvent
31. Developed or learned; not naturally occurring
acquired
staid
dubious
coup
32. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
paramount
discourse
impression
deleterious
33. Closeness
torpor
vocation
proximity
incorrigible
34. Poisonous
flagrant
astute
perception
toxic
35. Domineering; oppressively overbearing
endure
imperious
dictatorial
compelling
36. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
surreptitiously
hierarchy
facile
maverick
37. An occupation or profession
vocation
dilatory
venerated
comprehensive
38. To ease a pain or a burden
diligent
alleviate
enlightening
conviction
39. Treating people as weak or inferior
dubious
asylum
condescending
facetious
40. Made; concocted in order to deceive
enmity
assertion
fabricated
emigrate
41. Extremely dull
dictatorial
assimilation
ponderous
medley
42. Convincing; reasonable
lucid
paradigm
despotic
cogent
43. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
archaic
fabricated
patronizing
solvent
44. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
sanction
cogent
disingenuous
inveterate
45. To absorb; to make similar
prodigious
assimilation
whimsical
emphasize
46. Impulsive and unpredictable
didactic
capricious
superfluous
frenetic
47. To leave one country or region and settle in another
cryptic
cogent
embellish
emigrate
48. Condition of sticking together
capricious
obstinate
cohesive
amenable
49. To free from guilt or blame
dictatorial
maverick
alliance
exculpate
50. The philosophy or science of law
apprehension
jurisprudence
auspicious
cogent