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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. Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
replete
penitent
frenetic
cogent
2. Unimaginative; dull
pejorative
prosaic
apprehension
replete
3. To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
prodigious
conception
disparage
insipid
4. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
facile
benign
equanimity
dilettante
5. Treating people as weak or inferior
emphasize
medieval
condescending
mollify
6. General agreement
suppressed
disparage
consensus
novel
7. Uninteresting; unchallenging
prodigious
insipid
mundane
meticulous
8. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
genre
malfeasance
brusque
premonition
9. Lacking energy
diligent
caustic
asylum
listless
10. To absorb; to make similar
dilettante
inveterate
assimilation
ponderous
11. To leave one country or region and settle in another
benevolent
fractious
transitory
emigrate
12. Wildly excited or active
tenacity
biased
frenetic
emphasize
13. Lazy
pervasive
indifferent
indolent
impression
14. Abundantly supplied; filled to capacity
equanimity
brusque
replete
insipid
15. A judge who decides a disputed issue
quandary
arbiter
insipid
prosaic
16. Dispersed throughout
pervasive
sanction
substantiated
compelling
17. The practice of pretending to be something one is not; insincerity
vilify
inconsequential
hypocrisy
derived
18. Biting sarcastic or witty
discredit
proliferate
naive
caustic
19. Able to pay one's debts
eloquence
solvent
anthology
eclectic
20. Not straightforward; crafty
disingenuous
theoretical
abstract
exemplary
21. Arrogant; vainly proud
obdurate
haughty
auspicious
impinge
22. Proper; marked by good taste
tenuous
decorous
compelling
toxic
23. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
plagiarism
florid
auspicious
fractious
24. Giving praise
facile
paradigm
incumbent
laudatory
25. An occupation or profession
vocation
pugnacious
obscure
staid
26. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
dictatorial
torpor
genre
catalog
27. Hard-working
biased
reprehensible
assiduous
pejorative
28. Of chief concern or importance
brusque
paramount
enmity
excerpt
29. A feeling about the future
perspective
wary
premonition
decorous
30. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
apparatus
medieval
disdain
misconception
31. Plentiful; having a large quantity
haughty
copious
cohesive
conception
32. Describing a dry - rainless climate
disparity
incontrovertible
arid
feral
33. To restrain; to hold back
subdue
nascent
patronizing
malfeasance
34. Uncertainty; apprehension
trepidation
prodigious
inherent
benevolent
35. Easy-going; friendly
affable
florid
obsolete
futile
36. Mutual hatred or ill-will
brusque
coherent
enmity
superfluous
37. To cause to be doubted
superficial
discredit
inveterate
substantiated
38. Producing a deep or full sound
copious
novel
trivial
sonorous
39. An authority who expresses his/her opinions
pundit
innovative
fastidious
transitory
40. No longer in use; old-fashioned
cogent
brittle
obsolete
transient
41. Difficult to comprehend
lament
pundit
proliferate
cryptic
42. Trustworthiness; completeness
consensus
conception
asylum
integrity
43. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
objectivity
propriety
cordial
biased
44. (n.) contempt - scorn (v.) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
modest
dogged
mediocrity
disdain
45. A tremendously skilled artist
cryptic
subdue
virtuoso
inconsequential
46. Possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please
cogent
gratuitous
fastidious
toxic
47. Referring to the Middle Ages - old-fashioned
alleviate
medieval
omnipotent
phenomenon
48. Having no useful purpose; pointless
rancorous
plagiarism
condescending
futile
49. Certain to happen - unavoidable
comprehensive
virtuoso
medieval
inevitable
50. Profoundly moving; touching
spontaneous
despotic
mural
poignant