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SAT Vocab Most Important Words
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sat
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english
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1. Equipment; a group of machines
apparatus
pervasive
facile
deleterious
2. The ability to speak vividly or persuasively
inevitable
listless
eloquence
sanction
3. Unplanned; naturally occurring
parody
spontaneous
perception
virtuoso
4. No longer in use; old-fashioned
ruse
conviction
sonorous
obsolete
5. To slow the progress of
substantiated
listless
diligent
impede
6. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
disparage
obstinate
notorious
malice
7. Anxiety or fear about the future
ornate
facile
apprehension
realism
8. Friendly; sincere
listless
camouflage
reclamation
cordial
9. The power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight
nocturnal
assimilation
intuition
futile
10. A widespread fire
reclamation
conflagration
heinous
contemporary
11. To calm or soothe
impede
vilify
mollify
virtuoso
12. A group organized by rank
hierarchy
tenacity
inconsequential
virtuoso
13. Extra; unnecessary
timorous
endure
ornate
superfluous
14. Made; concocted in order to deceive
fabricated
objectivity
benevolent
rhetoric
15. A tremendously skilled artist
ponderous
virtuoso
asylum
ingrate
16. A brilliantly executed plan
toxic
facetious
coup
condemn
17. Shortened; cut off
theoretical
dictatorial
truncated
equanimity
18. Closeness
proximity
despotic
cryptic
equivocate
19. Having a harmful effect; injurious
conception
proliferate
deleterious
disparage
20. To give special attention to something - to stress
dictatorial
emphasize
cordial
arbitrary
21. Exhibiting a display of great wealth
disparage
opulent
medley
innate
22. Easily broken when subjected to pressure
wily
coup
brittle
plausible
23. Insulting in manner or speech
nocturnal
pragmatic
insolent
mural
24. Submissive; like a servant
decorous
malice
servile
parody
25. Extremely dull
ponderous
heinous
tenuous
cohesive
26. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
candor
embellish
ruse
omnipotent
27. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
coherent
jurisprudence
malleable
cordial
28. (adj.) characterized by the telling of a story (n.) a story
astute
narrative
mundane
conception
29. Informative; contributing the one's awareness
facetious
enlightening
dilettante
integrity
30. Mutual hatred or ill-will
lament
impression
reclamation
enmity
31. Worthy of blame
facetious
permeated
plausible
reprehensible
32. Supported with proof or evidence; verified
substantiated
contemporary
enlightening
malleable
33. Large in scope or content
cryptic
realism
comprehensive
stoic
34. Timid; fearful about the future
amenable
timorous
servile
fabricated
35. Treating people as weak or inferior
condescending
timorous
disparage
haughty
36. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
misconception
exculpate
arid
alienated
37. Lazy
melancholy
hypocrisy
indolent
nascent
38. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
impartial
incumbent
narrative
insolent
39. To ease a pain or a burden
melancholy
facetious
alleviate
capricious
40. Clearness in thought or expression
insolent
clarity
truncated
alienated
41. All-powerful
rancorous
tenuous
endure
omnipotent
42. Arrogant; vainly proud
transitory
haughty
nocturnal
pundit
43. To hide by blending in with surroundings
brusque
impede
ominous
camouflage
44. Referring to the Middle Ages - old-fashioned
wily
medieval
sanction
reclamation
45. Shrewd; clever
astute
modest
catalog
coherent
46. Of or occurring in the night
genre
reprehensible
nocturnal
objectivity
47. Dispersed throughout
venerated
ebullience
benign
pervasive
48. To restrain; to hold back
intrepid
propriety
subdue
trivial
49. General agreement
plausible
insipid
alienated
consensus
50. Something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
discredit
alleviate
apparatus
harbinger