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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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1. Circumstances of a situation; environment
acquired
context
virtuoso
apparatus
2. Closeness
proximity
endure
impartial
impression
3. A feeling about the future
premonition
pejorative
futile
dogged
4. The philosophy or science of law
jurisprudence
impartial
facile
egregious
5. (adj.) relatively unknown (v.) to conceal or make indistinct
obscure
incumbent
implication
feral
6. Persistence
tenacity
caustic
objectivity
indolent
7. Prejudiced
biased
pugnacious
alleviate
vindicated
8. Referring to the Middle Ages - old-fashioned
apathetic
inveterate
medieval
didactic
9. Strikingly new or unusual
condemn
novel
ponderous
ruse
10. Kind and gentle
ornate
plagiarism
benign
nocturnal
11. Trustworthiness; completeness
paramount
caustic
haughty
integrity
12. Copied or adapted from a source
sedentary
auspicious
benign
derived
13. Able to pay one's debts
ambivalent
enmity
alienated
solvent
14. The act of making something useful again
impinge
reclamation
serene
gratuitous
15. Developed or learned; not naturally occurring
inconsequential
astute
discourse
acquired
16. Logically connected
coherent
conflagration
despotic
pundit
17. A selected part of a passage or scene
rational
excerpt
dilatory
plausible
18. Hateful; marked by deep seated ill-will
alliance
rancorous
caustic
disdain
19. Express grief for; mourn
melancholy
cogent
lament
impede
20. Not migratory; settled
disingenuous
genre
sedentary
surreptitiously
21. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
incontrovertible
despotic
patronizing
medieval
22. Possessed at birth; inborn
innate
conflagration
excerpt
embellish
23. Uncertainty; apprehension
integrity
hypocrisy
mediocrity
trepidation
24. Enormous
amenable
prodigious
modest
equanimity
25. Submissive; like a servant
fabricated
superfluous
servile
subdue
26. Hatefully evil; abominable
heinous
gratuitous
effusive
dilettante
27. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
despotic
whimsical
incorrigible
exculpate
28. Subdued; kept from being circulated
fastidious
astute
suppressed
didactic
29. Responsive; agreeable
conception
ruse
amenable
obsolete
30. Favorable; promising
ornate
parody
auspicious
idealize
31. Condition of sticking together
innovative
cohesive
benign
asylum
32. Short-lived or temporary
dogmatic
trivial
mollify
transitory
33. To leave one country or region and settle in another
servile
emigrate
dictatorial
quandary
34. Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
replete
plagiarism
dogmatic
pejorative
35. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
incumbent
toxic
torpor
pervasive
36. Shrewd; clever
rancorous
medieval
impartial
astute
37. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
integrity
torpor
rational
innate
38. Easily broken when subjected to pressure
decorous
spontaneous
tenuous
brittle
39. Possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please
transient
exemplary
pugnacious
fastidious
40. Spread or flowing throughout
maverick
contemptuous
permeated
dilettante
41. Hard-working
coherent
consensus
toxic
assiduous
42. Wildly excited or active
condemn
frenetic
mundane
obsolete
43. The power of knowing things without thinking; sharp insight
intuition
mediocrity
tenuous
fluid
44. Open and sincere in expression; straightforward
conflagration
frank
ample
amenable
45. Quiet or humble in manner or appearance
benign
ambiguous
modest
camouflage
46. Mutual hatred or ill-will
harbinger
obstinate
enmity
sedentary
47. Marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
parody
toxic
misconception
diligent
48. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
discourse
modest
incumbent
proximity
49. A group organized by rank
asylum
conflagration
hierarchy
solvent
50. Insulting in manner or speech
aesthetic
equivocate
nocturnal
insolent