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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. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family or homeland)
mural
torpor
facetious
alienated
2. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
equanimity
realism
obsolete
benign
3. Unemotional; serious
pugnacious
benevolent
staid
permeated
4. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
dilatory
modest
discourse
decorous
5. Highly respected
ruse
vilify
venerated
enlightening
6. Supported with proof or evidence; verified
substantiated
acquired
proximity
premonition
7. Having no useful purpose; pointless
misconception
futile
paramount
despotic
8. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
imperious
compelling
lucid
venerated
9. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
rational
affable
emphasize
dictatorial
10. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
misconception
prodigious
pragmatic
biased
11. Appropriateness of behavior
camouflage
ostentatious
facile
propriety
12. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
benevolent
theoretical
realism
auspicious
13. Spread or flowing throughout
abstract
coherent
permeated
inconsequential
14. Habitually late
dilatory
obdurate
listless
novice
15. Express grief for; mourn
permeated
fluid
lament
effusive
16. A judge who decides a disputed issue
servile
convoluted
feral
arbiter
17. Submissive; like a servant
sanction
benevolent
servile
insolent
18. To leave one country or region and settle in another
disdain
alienated
emigrate
exemplary
19. To grow or increase rapidly
fluid
deleterious
meticulous
proliferate
20. To give special attention to something - to stress
emphasize
facile
indolent
florid
21. Savage; untamed
feral
camouflage
gratuitous
nocturnal
22. Not straightforward; crafty
dilatory
harbinger
genre
disingenuous
23. Combative; belligerent
intuition
austere
pugnacious
contemporary
24. Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
pejorative
sedentary
pervasive
alleviate
25. Not applied to actual objects
context
abstract
naive
heinous
26. Intense enthusiasm
camaraderie
ebullience
fastidious
plausible
27. Uninteresting; unchallenging
abstract
coup
insipid
acquired
28. (adj.) softening and soothing (n.) something that softens or soothes
florid
malleable
brittle
emollient
29. Current - modern; from the same time
deleterious
sanction
contemporary
consensus
30. Rudely abrupt
novel
toxic
brusque
contemptuous
31. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
egregious
perspective
discredit
parody
32. Referring to the Middle Ages - old-fashioned
stoic
medieval
misconception
conflagration
33. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
idealize
indifferent
alienated
maverick
34. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
subdue
conception
torpor
notorious
35. A feeling about the future
dilettante
mural
premonition
serene
36. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
prodigious
cogent
diligent
plausible
37. To slow the progress of
candor
haughty
impede
eloquence
38. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
disdain
meticulous
pugnacious
impartial
39. Cunning
frenetic
transient
wily
paradigm
40. Large in scope or content
substantiated
comprehensive
malice
sedentary
41. Profoundly moving; touching
naive
vindicated
lucid
poignant
42. A place of retreat or security
hackneyed
ruse
embellish
asylum
43. One who designs or makes maps
copious
asylum
cartographer
enmity
44. (adj.) characterized by the telling of a story (n.) a story
insolent
inevitable
narrative
arid
45. Exercising good judgment or common sense
prudent
dogged
disdain
egregious
46. Hard-working
mural
assiduous
exemplary
impartial
47. Possessed at birth; inborn
brusque
innate
lucid
candor
48. Without decoration; strict
excerpt
proliferate
austere
copious
49. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; difference
parody
incorrigible
haughty
disparity
50. Dine by secretive means
surreptitiously
realism
asylum
diligent