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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. Impulsive and unpredictable
capricious
ingrate
slander
decorous
2. The act of suggesting or hinting
archaic
inevitable
implication
copious
3. The act of passing off the ideas or writing of another as one's own
plagiarism
didactic
vocation
astute
4. Logical; motivated by reason rather than feeling
obscure
catalog
rational
conviction
5. Not caring one way or the other
harbinger
haughty
abstract
indifferent
6. (v.) to make an itemized list of
enlightening
vilify
assimilation
catalog
7. Easily flowing
biased
fluid
coherent
cordial
8. Mutual hatred or ill-will
hierarchy
penitent
enmity
emphasize
9. Unable to be reformed
incorrigible
context
genre
benevolent
10. Wildly excited or active
frenetic
embellish
pragmatic
vitality
11. An ungrateful person
coherent
servile
ingrate
paradigm
12. Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
arbitrary
cogent
pundit
flagrant
13. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
incumbent
prosaic
slander
feral
14. One who designs or makes maps
cartographer
hypocrisy
biased
poignant
15. Describing flowery or elaborate speech
florid
cogent
paradigm
catalog
16. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
trivial
paramount
cordial
gratuitous
17. The act of making something useful again
reclamation
harbinger
pragmatic
pundit
18. Supported with proof or evidence; verified
substantiated
excerpt
florid
hypocrisy
19. Arrogant; vainly proud
hypocrisy
vocation
medieval
haughty
20. Of little importance or significance
hypocrisy
emigrate
prodigious
trivial
21. Unemotional; serious
rhetoric
prodigious
staid
putrid
22. Responsive; agreeable
amenable
fastidious
virtuoso
gratuitous
23. Treating people as weak or inferior
disingenuous
condescending
slander
nocturnal
24. Insulting in manner or speech
malice
inevitable
copious
insolent
25. Strikingly new or unusual
theoretical
poignant
context
novel
26. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
aesthetic
superfluous
sanction
dogmatic
27. Appropriateness of behavior
derived
propriety
equivocate
notorious
28. To slow the progress of
abstract
substantiated
impede
impression
29. Not applied to actual objects
abstract
consensus
mural
phenomenon
30. Cunning
ponderous
compelling
wily
reprehensible
31. Determined by impulse rather than reason
arbitrary
phenomenon
paramount
obstinate
32. Developed or learned; not naturally occurring
obdurate
acquired
dilatory
copious
33. Extreme ill will or spite
frank
malice
sanction
rational
34. Made; concocted in order to deceive
profound
egregious
fabricated
deleterious
35. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
slander
futile
condescending
contemptuous
36. An unusual - observable event
contemptuous
tenuous
phenomenon
suppressed
37. (n.) contempt - scorn (v.) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
venerated
impression
disdain
vilify
38. Biting sarcastic or witty
perspective
ebullience
plausible
caustic
39. Laziness; inactivity; dullness
apathetic
laudatory
torpor
nocturnal
40. Energy; power to survive
pragmatic
vitality
ruse
eclectic
41. Clearness in thought or expression
conflagration
ornate
clarity
profound
42. Lazy
obdurate
benevolent
indolent
dogmatic
43. Giving praise
servile
spontaneous
mundane
laudatory
44. Difficult to comprehend
cryptic
astute
contemporary
melancholy
45. A crafty trick
ruse
aesthetic
perception
prosaic
46. Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
mollify
superficial
pundit
solvent
47. Hard-working
eclectic
assiduous
poignant
venerated
48. Proper; marked by good taste
enmity
discourse
superfluous
decorous
49. Difficult to capture - as in something actually fleeting
comprehensive
convoluted
elusive
stratagem
50. Exercising good judgment or common sense
prudent
despotic
imperious
cryptic