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SAT Vocab Most Important Words
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sat
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english
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1. Plentiful; having a large quantity
copious
tenuous
conviction
lament
2. Worthy of blame
opulent
reprehensible
ingrate
alliance
3. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
mural
inevitable
vilify
notorious
4. Without decoration; strict
cogent
trivial
austere
indifferent
5. A beginner
stratagem
hypocrisy
copious
novice
6. Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
stoic
incumbent
effusive
transitory
7. Treating in a condescending manner
capricious
parody
patronizing
hypocrisy
8. Clearness in thought or expression
vindicated
flagrant
clarity
narrative
9. Shrewd; clever
meticulous
dilatory
astute
endure
10. False charges and malicious oral statements about someone
slander
medley
assertion
ebullience
11. Cunning
novice
cogent
wily
vilify
12. Producing a deep or full sound
pugnacious
sonorous
torpor
nascent
13. Describing a dry - rainless climate
conviction
intuition
arid
superfluous
14. Submissive; like a servant
servile
mundane
assiduous
rhetoric
15. Not migratory; settled
ponderous
plagiarism
sedentary
condescending
16. Stubbornly adhering to an opinion or course of action
replete
gratuitous
obstinate
mural
17. Hard-working
austere
assiduous
exculpate
transitory
18. Extreme ill will or spite
malice
prodigious
harbinger
mundane
19. Unplanned; naturally occurring
propriety
spontaneous
decorous
timorous
20. Having a harmful effect; injurious
phenomenon
putrid
deleterious
assimilation
21. Energy; power to survive
aesthetic
vitality
ponderous
laudatory
22. Quarrelsome; unruly
propriety
acquired
mollify
fractious
23. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; difference
didactic
harbinger
wary
disparity
24. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
incumbent
slander
medley
dilettante
25. Hatefully evil; abominable
ingrate
pragmatic
heinous
alliance
26. Poisonous
toxic
affable
idealize
plausible
27. Having little substance or strength; shaky; unsure - weak
discredit
eloquence
tenuous
didactic
28. Seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
medieval
pejorative
plausible
asylum
29. Conspicuously bad or offensive
subdue
inherent
egregious
intuition
30. Closeness
dilettante
apparatus
virtuoso
proximity
31. Describing a showy or pretentious display
serene
ostentatious
assertion
disparage
32. Hinder; interfere with
superficial
permeated
didactic
impinge
33. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
derived
coup
dictatorial
impression
34. Large in scope or content
derived
insolent
equivocate
comprehensive
35. On guard; watchful
wary
nascent
malice
ornate
36. A union of two or more groups
alliance
feral
embellish
virtuoso
37. Circumstances of a situation; environment
context
theoretical
clandestine
incorrigible
38. Of or occurring in the night
deleterious
equivocate
nocturnal
incumbent
39. (adj.) characterized by the telling of a story (n.) a story
narrative
impede
elusive
ornate
40. To give special attention to something - to stress
incorrigible
emphasize
conflagration
impede
41. To grow or increase rapidly
omnipotent
ponderous
proliferate
equivocate
42. Introducing something new
trivial
ambiguous
innovative
facetious
43. Copied or adapted from a source
insipid
derived
indifferent
omnipotent
44. Not applied to actual objects
subdue
wary
nascent
abstract
45. General agreement
consensus
mural
emigrate
stoic
46. Practical
integrity
sonorous
mediocrity
pragmatic
47. A crafty trick
ruse
vitality
phenomenon
whimsical
48. To give official authorization or approval
harbinger
sanction
opulent
heinous
49. Lacking application or practical application
conception
malice
abstract
theoretical
50. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
feral
camouflage
disparage
despotic