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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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This is a study tool. The 3 wrong answers for each question are randomly chosen from answers to other questions. So, you might find at times the answers obvious, but you will see it re-enforces your understanding as you take the test each time.
1. Prejudiced
mollify
comprehensive
capricious
biased
2. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
stratagem
genre
clandestine
equivocate
3. Rotten
inherent
medieval
deleterious
putrid
4. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
disingenuous
solvent
profound
equanimity
5. Of or occurring in the night
feral
nocturnal
intrepid
camaraderie
6. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
conception
perspective
torpor
facile
7. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
transitory
archaic
aesthetic
pundit
8. A beginner
opulent
rhetoric
novice
listless
9. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family or homeland)
clarity
alienated
dictatorial
vindicated
10. A crafty trick
contemptuous
ruse
benign
florid
11. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
parody
embellish
innovative
contemporary
12. To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
stoic
omnipotent
malfeasance
disparage
13. Circumstances of a situation; environment
caustic
alienated
didactic
context
14. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
servile
indolent
embellish
prodigious
15. A union of two or more groups
alliance
mediocrity
dilettante
hackneyed
16. Intricate; complex
idealize
innovative
lament
convoluted
17. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
dictatorial
quandary
diligent
serene
18. Enormous
prodigious
theoretical
stratagem
dilatory
19. (v.) to make an itemized list of
derived
malice
catalog
venerated
20. A collection of literary pieces
insolent
diligent
anthology
haughty
21. The act of making something useful again
rational
reclamation
impede
biased
22. Biting sarcastic or witty
facile
caustic
fluid
inconsequential
23. Convincing; reasonable
anthology
imperious
cogent
discredit
24. Poisonous
contemporary
emollient
omnipotent
toxic
25. Large in scope or content
clandestine
futile
comprehensive
pervasive
26. To consider perfect
decorous
condemn
idealize
elusive
27. Highly respected
cohesive
venerated
propriety
sedentary
28. Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
effusive
indolent
stoic
cogent
29. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
incumbent
archaic
misconception
fastidious
30. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
medley
plagiarism
idealize
rhetoric
31. Without decoration; strict
apprehension
austere
heinous
staid
32. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
archaic
brusque
theoretical
auspicious
33. Quarrelsome; unruly
fractious
inevitable
frenetic
omnipotent
34. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; difference
genre
disparity
impede
facetious
35. Trustworthiness; completeness
condescending
camouflage
parody
integrity
36. Strikingly new or unusual
novel
alleviate
whimsical
sanction
37. Dine by secretive means
facetious
misconception
surreptitiously
dictatorial
38. Unable to be reformed
incorrigible
vocation
fastidious
didactic
39. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
discredit
aesthetic
emphasize
maverick
40. Treating in a condescending manner
prosaic
malleable
impede
patronizing
41. Easily broken when subjected to pressure
enlightening
context
impinge
brittle
42. Worthy of blame
camaraderie
slander
reprehensible
obsolete
43. Stubborn; inflexible
pejorative
obdurate
enlightening
futile
44. Developed or learned; not naturally occurring
exculpate
acquired
pugnacious
insolent
45. The philosophy or science of law
medieval
jurisprudence
mediocrity
excerpt
46. Not caring one way or the other
indifferent
reprehensible
sedentary
frank
47. To make vicious statements about
apprehension
benevolent
facile
vilify
48. Not straightforward; crafty
plagiarism
asylum
disingenuous
context
49. Informative; contributing the one's awareness
frank
enlightening
opulent
clandestine
50. Domineering; oppressively overbearing
dictatorial
brittle
laudatory
listless