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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. To make beautiful by ornamenting; to decorate
embellish
incumbent
arid
copious
2. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
malleable
alienated
ponderous
effusive
3. Producing a deep or full sound
profound
novel
sonorous
trepidation
4. Treating people as weak or inferior
condescending
misconception
intrepid
affable
5. Describing a large amount of something
assimilation
eloquence
propriety
ample
6. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
objectivity
notorious
clandestine
staid
7. Intense enthusiasm
mediocrity
notorious
ebullience
replete
8. Large in scope or content
inevitable
emigrate
whimsical
comprehensive
9. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
exemplary
rancorous
notorious
fractious
10. Express grief for; mourn
incumbent
lament
cartographer
paradigm
11. Enormous
ponderous
mediocrity
prodigious
vitality
12. (adj.) characterized by the telling of a story (n.) a story
impede
narrative
capricious
intuition
13. To avoid making a definite statement
lucid
equivocate
exemplary
incumbent
14. An ungrateful person
effusive
assertion
incumbent
ingrate
15. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
imperious
mural
abstract
auspicious
16. Open to more than one interpretation
ambiguous
rhetoric
enlightening
fractious
17. Short-lived or temporary
eclectic
transitory
emollient
florid
18. Plentiful; having a large quantity
impede
copious
pervasive
pugnacious
19. A declaration or statement
venerated
inconsequential
assertion
incontrovertible
20. Friendly; sincere
apathetic
cordial
intrepid
conception
21. To free from guilt or blame
permeated
astute
conception
exculpate
22. Quarrelsome; unruly
dilettante
fractious
ornate
whimsical
23. Lacking sophistication
paradigm
naive
dictatorial
abstract
24. An artistic work that imitates the style of another work for comic effect
effusive
contemptuous
cryptic
parody
25. Certain to happen - unavoidable
inevitable
trepidation
mural
proliferate
26. Feeling hatred; scornful
consensus
enmity
contemptuous
insolent
27. A selected part of a passage or scene
parody
superfluous
arbiter
excerpt
28. Proper; marked by good taste
pejorative
decorous
contemporary
abstract
29. Calm
plagiarism
frenetic
conviction
serene
30. (adj.) softening and soothing (n.) something that softens or soothes
emollient
compelling
rhetoric
prodigious
31. Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
malfeasance
pejorative
flagrant
mediocrity
32. Worthy of blame
amenable
replete
arbiter
reprehensible
33. Extreme ill will or spite
discredit
malice
insolent
effusive
34. The ability to form or understand an idea
conception
alleviate
mural
indifferent
35. To consider perfect
integrity
sedentary
clandestine
idealize
36. Impulsive and unpredictable
contemptuous
capricious
apparatus
astute
37. The philosophy or science of law
solvent
coup
venerated
jurisprudence
38. Giving praise
perspective
tenuous
camaraderie
laudatory
39. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
exemplary
compelling
impartial
incorrigible
40. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
medley
auspicious
benevolent
obsolete
41. Done or achieved with little effort; easy
insolent
facile
inveterate
alliance
42. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
nocturnal
dilatory
paradigm
incumbent
43. Having a harmful effect; injurious
incumbent
apathetic
enlightening
deleterious
44. Commendable; worthy of imitation
exculpate
exemplary
prosaic
transitory
45. Strikingly new or unusual
reclamation
discourse
medieval
novel
46. Inborn; built-in
inherent
profound
facile
pugnacious
47. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
meticulous
hierarchy
impression
emigrate
48. Hatefully evil; abominable
heinous
caustic
opulent
impression
49. Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
putrid
convoluted
ostentatious
effusive
50. An incorrect understanding or interpretation
suppressed
effusive
exculpate
misconception