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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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1. The ability to form or understand an idea
dilatory
conception
exculpate
discourse
2. Equipment; a group of machines
benevolent
apparatus
reprehensible
amenable
3. To grow or increase rapidly
prudent
asylum
apparatus
proliferate
4. To leave one country or region and settle in another
melancholy
emigrate
incontrovertible
equanimity
5. Extremely careful and precise
alliance
meticulous
obstinate
rhetoric
6. Point of view
ostentatious
perspective
paramount
dictatorial
7. Friendly; sincere
coup
cordial
vitality
cohesive
8. Characteristic of an earlier period; old-fashioned
spontaneous
novice
archaic
eclectic
9. Referring to the Middle Ages - old-fashioned
medieval
malice
objectivity
emollient
10. Misconduct or wrongdoing - especially by a public official
serene
malfeasance
phenomenon
tenuous
11. A collection of literary pieces
mollify
anthology
alliance
auspicious
12. Developed or learned; not naturally occurring
disparity
timorous
acquired
impression
13. Of little importance or significance
lament
conflagration
trivial
catalog
14. Able to pay one's debts
maverick
paradigm
exculpate
solvent
15. To give official authorization or approval
disparage
sanction
biased
ambivalent
16. Not migratory; settled
servile
sedentary
decorous
eclectic
17. Trustworthiness; completeness
rancorous
affable
integrity
naive
18. To restrain; to hold back
insipid
subdue
camouflage
conception
19. Rotten
putrid
rancorous
conviction
astute
20. To express strong disapproval of; denounce
penitent
cryptic
condemn
coup
21. Timid; fearful about the future
ostentatious
perception
timorous
wily
22. One with an amateurish or superficial understanding of a field of knowledge
affable
dilettante
embellish
egregious
23. Freed from blame
vindicated
perception
conflagration
biased
24. Domineering; oppressively overbearing
dictatorial
harbinger
ominous
cogent
25. Persistence
pejorative
tenacity
benign
intrepid
26. An authority who expresses his/her opinions
pundit
disdain
integrity
decorous
27. Lacking energy
listless
venerated
cogent
deleterious
28. To calm or soothe
egregious
transient
mollify
truncated
29. Convincing; reasonable
disdain
dubious
cogent
plausible
30. Prejudiced
caustic
poignant
biased
ponderous
31. Wildly excited or active
frenetic
dogmatic
inveterate
whimsical
32. Dispersed throughout
incontrovertible
pervasive
context
maverick
33. (v.) to make an itemized list of
naive
realism
catalog
patronizing
34. Extra; unnecessary
servile
perspective
superfluous
impartial
35. To give special attention to something - to stress
ambiguous
naive
didactic
emphasize
36. Menacing; threatening
ominous
poignant
plausible
parody
37. Subject to erratic behavior; unpredictable
florid
whimsical
listless
disparage
38. Forceful; urgently demanding attention
camaraderie
torpor
nascent
compelling
39. Favorable; promising
abstract
auspicious
comprehensive
alienated
40. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
discourse
genre
inconsequential
reprehensible
41. Inequality in age - rank - or degree; difference
paradigm
obscure
vindicated
disparity
42. The quality of being calm and even-tempered; composure
theoretical
condemn
exculpate
equanimity
43. All-powerful
omnipotent
benign
astute
proliferate
44. Describing a showy or pretentious display
biased
ostentatious
catalog
wary
45. Possessed at birth; inborn
innate
perception
inconsequential
innovative
46. Inborn; built-in
equivocate
inherent
disdain
mural
47. Exercising absolute power; tyrannical
despotic
obdurate
cryptic
brittle
48. Hatefully evil; abominable
heinous
fastidious
feral
patronizing
49. Anxiety or fear about the future
assimilation
asylum
proliferate
apprehension
50. Biting sarcastic or witty
paramount
indifferent
caustic
fabricated