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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. Possessed at birth; inborn
ambiguous
tenacity
innate
emigrate
2. Extremely or deliberately shocking or noticeable
mollify
patronizing
flagrant
coup
3. Favorable; promising
timorous
endure
auspicious
fluid
4. Shortened; cut off
truncated
slander
inherent
paradigm
5. To consider perfect
servile
clandestine
whimsical
idealize
6. Timid; fearful about the future
timorous
catalog
wily
heinous
7. Unimaginative; dull
inherent
sedentary
prosaic
penitent
8. Responsive; agreeable
discredit
amenable
prodigious
nocturnal
9. Describing a large amount of something
ample
substantiated
conception
discourse
10. Describing a category of artistic endeavor
genre
modest
archaic
putrid
11. Able to pay one's debts
exculpate
solvent
mollify
frank
12. Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
superficial
hackneyed
paramount
venerated
13. Calm
serene
sanction
trepidation
exemplary
14. Submissive; like a servant
servile
hypocrisy
wary
brittle
15. Strikingly new or unusual
flagrant
novel
medieval
arbitrary
16. Of or occurring in the night
conception
jurisprudence
indifferent
nocturnal
17. Shrewd; clever
astute
reclamation
narrative
arid
18. Abundantly supplied; filled to capacity
replete
contemptuous
impartial
alleviate
19. Plentiful; having a large quantity
flagrant
copious
cryptic
listless
20. Informative; contributing the one's awareness
obdurate
stratagem
dilettante
enlightening
21. A crafty trick
ruse
subdue
listless
inherent
22. To calm or soothe
superficial
omnipotent
imperious
mollify
23. Clearness in thought or expression
replete
anthology
clarity
futile
24. To slow the progress of
haughty
vindicated
impede
venerated
25. Playfully humorous
facetious
impression
replete
dilatory
26. Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
assertion
pejorative
stratagem
profound
27. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
prudent
mural
mundane
gratuitous
28. Subdued; kept from being circulated
heinous
suppressed
condemn
incumbent
29. Prejudiced
malice
pugnacious
biased
fractious
30. Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
spurious
superfluous
effusive
substantiated
31. Feeling hatred; scornful
mural
trepidation
contemptuous
frank
32. Uninteresting; unchallenging
insipid
sanction
florid
copious
33. Logically connected
condescending
acquired
coherent
toxic
34. Dispersed throughout
mural
pervasive
fabricated
alienated
35. Doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
pervasive
disparity
truncated
dubious
36. Unemotional; serious
staid
discourse
theoretical
poignant
37. Practical
pragmatic
spontaneous
suppressed
staid
38. The act of suggesting or hinting
pundit
substantiated
idealize
implication
39. Arrogant; vainly proud
fastidious
haughty
derived
torpor
40. An example or model
emigrate
paradigm
impede
omnipotent
41. Sadness; depression
melancholy
flagrant
inveterate
prosaic
42. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
inconsequential
archaic
incumbent
aesthetic
43. Express grief for; mourn
lament
heinous
assertion
medley
44. Hatefully evil; abominable
clarity
ostentatious
parody
heinous
45. A place of retreat or security
enlightening
asylum
insipid
serene
46. A union of two or more groups
alliance
ingrate
biased
dogged
47. Cunning
conflagration
parody
plagiarism
wily
48. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
equivocate
impression
austere
mollify
49. (adj.) relatively unknown (v.) to conceal or make indistinct
obscure
cartographer
asylum
pejorative
50. To grow or increase rapidly
proliferate
genre
paradigm
obscure