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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. To make vicious statements about
solvent
vilify
superficial
exemplary
2. To absorb; to make similar
assimilation
servile
propriety
inconsequential
3. Stubborn; inflexible
obdurate
ponderous
pundit
trivial
4. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
ominous
camaraderie
reclamation
archaic
5. Lazy
indolent
integrity
florid
inevitable
6. Supported with proof or evidence; verified
brusque
omnipotent
arid
substantiated
7. Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
pejorative
embellish
camaraderie
transient
8. To leave one country or region and settle in another
florid
emigrate
apparatus
anthology
9. Hatefully evil; abominable
heinous
jurisprudence
conception
alienated
10. Open and sincere in expression; straightforward
dubious
melancholy
spurious
frank
11. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
timorous
ambiguous
malleable
servile
12. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
disparage
abstract
derived
florid
13. Inborn; built-in
catalog
phenomenon
prodigious
inherent
14. Combative; belligerent
frenetic
penitent
dilatory
pugnacious
15. An authority who expresses his/her opinions
pundit
condescending
sanction
torpor
16. Impulsive and unpredictable
capricious
alliance
exculpate
asylum
17. Extra; unnecessary
superfluous
pundit
insolent
perception
18. Condition of sticking together
brusque
contemporary
cohesive
vitality
19. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
elusive
rancorous
context
contemporary
20. A selected part of a passage or scene
replete
inevitable
excerpt
obscure
21. Arrogant; vainly proud
haughty
permeated
obscure
obdurate
22. A tremendously skilled artist
facetious
virtuoso
sonorous
innovative
23. Open to more than one interpretation
embellish
phenomenon
vocation
ambiguous
24. Energy; power to survive
emollient
vitality
heinous
dogged
25. Shrewd; clever
amenable
rhetoric
astute
conviction
26. Practical
equanimity
haughty
frenetic
pragmatic
27. Stubbornly persevering
premonition
consensus
hackneyed
dogged
28. (v.) to make an itemized list of
catalog
disparity
hypocrisy
cohesive
29. Freed from blame
mural
vindicated
cartographer
impede
30. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
inveterate
objectivity
camouflage
obdurate
31. Poisonous
indolent
ornate
toxic
decorous
32. A state of uncertainty or perplexity
quandary
truncated
assimilation
apparatus
33. Anxiety or fear about the future
impression
apprehension
fabricated
ambivalent
34. One who is independent and resists adherence to a group
haughty
maverick
derived
venerated
35. Shortened; cut off
diligent
truncated
equivocate
impede
36. Elaborately decorated
eclectic
heinous
ornate
exemplary
37. An ungrateful person
ingrate
mollify
gratuitous
eclectic
38. Persistence
aesthetic
tenacity
theoretical
pugnacious
39. Plentiful; having a large quantity
prudent
heinous
clarity
copious
40. Timid; fearful about the future
ostentatious
florid
impression
timorous
41. Mutual hatred or ill-will
enmity
tenuous
phenomenon
archaic
42. Not caring one way or the other
indifferent
trivial
benevolent
genre
43. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
servile
fabricated
ambivalent
ornate
44. Copied or adapted from a source
abstract
servile
derived
comprehensive
45. A declaration or statement
capricious
ambivalent
condemn
assertion
46. Intense enthusiasm
ebullience
acquired
archaic
eloquence
47. The art of using language effectively and persuasively
assimilation
harbinger
cohesive
rhetoric
48. Enormous
flagrant
prodigious
brittle
arbiter
49. An occupation or profession
candor
vocation
frenetic
subdue
50. Favorable; promising
auspicious
implication
mundane
eloquence