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SAT Vocab Most Important Words
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sat
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english
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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. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
ambivalent
paradigm
wary
exemplary
2. Removed or disassociated from (friends - family or homeland)
assimilation
ingrate
alienated
modest
3. Given freely; unearned; unwarranted
gratuitous
solvent
ominous
comprehensive
4. Sadness; depression
innate
arbiter
condescending
melancholy
5. Easily flowing
cryptic
sonorous
fluid
truncated
6. To give official authorization or approval
impartial
maverick
serene
sanction
7. To absorb; to make similar
embellish
brittle
assimilation
enlightening
8. Quarrelsome; unruly
amenable
deleterious
fractious
camouflage
9. A union of two or more groups
assertion
incorrigible
alliance
spurious
10. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
dilettante
rational
archaic
parody
11. Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
superficial
rhetoric
harbinger
meticulous
12. An assortment or a mixture - especially of musical pieces
medley
realism
disdain
medieval
13. Impulsive and unpredictable
servile
capricious
arbiter
clarity
14. Inborn; built-in
superficial
tenuous
inherent
objectivity
15. Coming into existence; emerging
nascent
frenetic
lucid
impinge
16. Without decoration; strict
solvent
acquired
austere
innate
17. Having great depth or seriousness
malice
comprehensive
profound
coup
18. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
novice
despotic
insipid
misconception
19. Open and sincere in expression; straightforward
feral
alleviate
contemporary
frank
20. Possessed at birth; inborn
anthology
prosaic
perspective
innate
21. Prejudiced
penitent
ambivalent
copious
biased
22. Made up of a variety of sources or styles
eclectic
rancorous
trivial
heinous
23. Treating people as weak or inferior
impartial
rancorous
modest
condescending
24. A feeling about the future
hypocrisy
hierarchy
premonition
eloquence
25. Savage; untamed
feral
heinous
pugnacious
naive
26. Plentiful; having a large quantity
copious
elusive
contemptuous
suppressed
27. Copied or adapted from a source
dilettante
derived
genre
meticulous
28. Mutual hatred or ill-will
solvent
enmity
parody
ruse
29. A large painting applied directly to a wall or ceiling surface
intrepid
novice
implication
mural
30. Not in favor of one side or the other - unbiased
lament
impartial
dogged
laudatory
31. Open to more than one interpretation
prudent
ambiguous
listless
dogmatic
32. Combative; belligerent
transient
condescending
camaraderie
pugnacious
33. Logically connected
benign
comprehensive
coherent
mundane
34. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; difference
candor
pejorative
cryptic
disparity
35. The act of suggesting or hinting
spontaneous
implication
fastidious
ostentatious
36. Referring to the Middle Ages - old-fashioned
medieval
parody
wily
melancholy
37. Describing words or phrases that belittle or speak negatively of someone
pejorative
frenetic
cordial
decorous
38. Having to do with the appreciation of beauty
camouflage
plagiarism
equivocate
aesthetic
39. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
imperious
premonition
conviction
superfluous
40. A beginner
frenetic
nascent
hierarchy
novice
41. To cause to be doubted
phenomenon
nascent
discredit
fastidious
42. Emotionally unrestrained; gushy
effusive
ambivalent
stoic
brusque
43. Uncertainty; apprehension
biased
trepidation
stratagem
equivocate
44. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
flagrant
harbinger
contemporary
dilettante
45. To make vicious statements about
permeated
apprehension
vilify
assimilation
46. An ungrateful person
surreptitiously
endure
lament
ingrate
47. A feeling or understanding resulting from an experience
impression
naive
feral
facetious
48. Anxiety or fear about the future
apprehension
eclectic
benign
mollify
49. Abundantly supplied; filled to capacity
replete
subdue
malleable
decorous
50. Intense enthusiasm
deleterious
ebullience
putrid
benign