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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. Treating in a condescending manner
meticulous
patronizing
impartial
cartographer
2. Known widely and usually unfavorably; infamous
condemn
superfluous
notorious
transient
3. Appropriateness of behavior
obscure
cartographer
meticulous
propriety
4. Something that indicates what is to come; a forerunner
malfeasance
equivocate
harbinger
hackneyed
5. Intricate; complex
naive
convoluted
fabricated
equanimity
6. Referring to the Middle Ages - old-fashioned
trepidation
trivial
medieval
feral
7. To speak of in a slighting way or negatively; to belittle
heinous
slander
disparage
cordial
8. Mutual hatred or ill-will
enmity
transient
emphasize
discourse
9. To ease a pain or a burden
vitality
alleviate
apparatus
capricious
10. Extra; unnecessary
superfluous
whimsical
derived
ominous
11. An authority who expresses his/her opinions
ambiguous
pundit
mollify
proximity
12. Rudely abrupt
plagiarism
brusque
inevitable
intrepid
13. A place of retreat or security
replete
arid
naive
asylum
14. Intense enthusiasm
disingenuous
ebullience
heinous
rancorous
15. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
plagiarism
despotic
impression
assimilation
16. Condition of sticking together
cohesive
perspective
consensus
sonorous
17. Difficult to comprehend
harbinger
facile
cryptic
clandestine
18. To slow the progress of
impede
incumbent
dictatorial
reclamation
19. Giving praise
benign
laudatory
spontaneous
meticulous
20. Lacking energy
listless
hierarchy
condemn
alienated
21. Hatefully evil; abominable
disingenuous
harbinger
heinous
effusive
22. Introducing something new
obsolete
indolent
dilettante
innovative
23. Cunning
coherent
consensus
disingenuous
wily
24. To consider perfect
melancholy
suppressed
idealize
asylum
25. Extreme ill will or spite
serene
malice
archaic
compelling
26. Possessing careful attention to detail; difficult to please
spontaneous
obstinate
fastidious
insolent
27. Of chief concern or importance
clandestine
genre
paramount
torpor
28. Indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
stoic
disingenuous
discourse
tenacity
29. Easily shaped or formed; easily influenced
trepidation
maverick
benign
malleable
30. Favorable; promising
ominous
alienated
auspicious
didactic
31. Certain to happen - unavoidable
inevitable
emigrate
affable
hackneyed
32. Equipment; a group of machines
ample
innovative
apparatus
diligent
33. To grow or increase rapidly
lament
innate
coup
proliferate
34. Lazy
fractious
indolent
insolent
inevitable
35. Artistic representation that aims for visual accuracy
replete
pejorative
haughty
realism
36. Menacing; threatening
poignant
ominous
embellish
context
37. Point of view
hierarchy
perspective
ambiguous
pervasive
38. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
vitality
intuition
discourse
malleable
39. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
incumbent
emollient
egregious
transient
40. An example or model
coherent
paradigm
insipid
impinge
41. To restrain; to hold back
notorious
subdue
alleviate
laudatory
42. Unimaginative; dull
capricious
realism
prosaic
dilatory
43. Open to more than one interpretation
ambiguous
auspicious
haughty
medley
44. Extremely dull
meticulous
theoretical
ponderous
substantiated
45. Goodwill between friends
exemplary
camaraderie
prudent
compelling
46. To make vicious statements about
proximity
parody
vilify
rancorous
47. A group organized by rank
hierarchy
ruse
intrepid
facile
48. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
despotic
decorous
mundane
replete
49. To avoid making a definite statement
equivocate
flagrant
frank
perspective
50. Easily flowing
clarity
mollify
cohesive
fluid