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SAT Vocab Most Important Words
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sat
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english
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1. Referring to the Middle Ages - old-fashioned
medieval
inherent
meticulous
pervasive
2. The act of making something useful again
pugnacious
reclamation
caustic
paradigm
3. Not caring one way or the other
egregious
lucid
opulent
indifferent
4. Submissive; like a servant
narrative
servile
substantiated
ample
5. Indisputable; not open to question
caustic
facile
assiduous
incontrovertible
6. Long established; deep-rooted; habitual
inveterate
plagiarism
transient
enmity
7. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
vocation
pugnacious
despotic
deleterious
8. Rudely abrupt
mundane
inherent
conception
brusque
9. Trustworthiness; completeness
integrity
convoluted
deleterious
fabricated
10. Commonplace; ordinary
maverick
ample
mundane
phenomenon
11. Freed from blame
parody
vindicated
dilettante
frenetic
12. Certain to happen - unavoidable
inevitable
compelling
feral
medieval
13. To consider perfect
idealize
gratuitous
disparity
florid
14. Exercising good judgment or common sense
aesthetic
prudent
patronizing
quandary
15. Not genuine; false - counterfeit
indifferent
dogmatic
spontaneous
spurious
16. Calm
permeated
proximity
serene
deleterious
17. Lazy
heinous
jurisprudence
egregious
indolent
18. A union of two or more groups
assiduous
integrity
rancorous
alliance
19. Favorable; promising
impede
proximity
auspicious
enlightening
20. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action
obstinate
camaraderie
cartographer
ingrate
21. Current - modern; from the same time
indifferent
perception
contemporary
timorous
22. A beginner
suppressed
lament
novice
diligent
23. Elaborately decorated
ornate
plausible
enmity
nascent
24. Determined by impulse rather than reason
fluid
impartial
arbitrary
indifferent
25. (adj.) softening and soothing (n.) something that softens or soothes
mural
emollient
facetious
reclamation
26. (n.) contempt - scorn (v.) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
discourse
disparity
disdain
archaic
27. No longer in use; old-fashioned
candor
obsolete
pragmatic
haughty
28. The philosophy or science of law
impinge
listless
jurisprudence
capricious
29. Poisonous
penitent
naive
toxic
coup
30. Copied or adapted from a source
ambiguous
arbitrary
derived
maverick
31. Easily broken when subjected to pressure
parody
fastidious
ample
brittle
32. Unemotional; serious
modest
staid
vindicated
rancorous
33. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
effusive
condemn
patronizing
gratuitous
34. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
endure
facile
whimsical
subdue
35. Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
phenomenon
indolent
ruse
effusive
36. Of little importance or significance
novice
didactic
clarity
trivial
37. To make vicious statements about
vilify
realism
melancholy
dilatory
38. Abundantly supplied; filled to capacity
replete
alliance
assertion
hierarchy
39. Convincing; reasonable
feral
flagrant
propriety
cogent
40. Stubborn; inflexible
clandestine
omnipotent
obdurate
conflagration
41. Enormous
naive
ebullience
prodigious
inveterate
42. To slow the progress of
impede
excerpt
pervasive
incontrovertible
43. A declaration or statement
intrepid
assertion
flagrant
copious
44. A place of retreat or security
asylum
clarity
heinous
reprehensible
45. Hard-working
didactic
harbinger
obsolete
assiduous
46. Secretive
insipid
mediocrity
clandestine
assiduous
47. Menacing; threatening
innate
clandestine
ominous
conflagration
48. A group organized by rank
impinge
hierarchy
surreptitiously
cartographer
49. Coming into existence; emerging
feral
subdue
disparity
nascent
50. Difficult to comprehend
novel
harbinger
transient
cryptic