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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. Anxiety or fear about the future
apprehension
camaraderie
conviction
dictatorial
2. Lazy
indolent
pervasive
endure
mediocrity
3. Hard-working
substantiated
frank
assiduous
excerpt
4. Wildly excited or active
servile
arbitrary
frenetic
impression
5. The art of using language effectively and persuasively
venerated
notorious
rhetoric
mediocrity
6. Responsive; agreeable
condescending
suppressed
amenable
meticulous
7. A clever trick used to deceive or outwit
stratagem
disparity
alliance
nascent
8. Courageous; fearless
intrepid
eclectic
spontaneous
prodigious
9. Without decoration; strict
conviction
exemplary
austere
despotic
10. Verbal expression or exchange; conversation
discourse
stratagem
excerpt
cordial
11. (adj.) softening and soothing (n.) something that softens or soothes
hackneyed
timorous
rational
emollient
12. Plentiful; having a large quantity
excerpt
copious
inveterate
impartial
13. Dispersed throughout
pervasive
dilettante
condemn
jurisprudence
14. Arrogantly domineering or overbearing
permeated
omnipotent
imperious
transient
15. Treating facts without influence from personal feelings or prejudices
objectivity
superficial
disingenuous
opulent
16. The philosophy or science of law
dilettante
impinge
jurisprudence
decorous
17. Extreme ill will or spite
malice
dogged
contemporary
vocation
18. Freed from blame
ample
serene
vindicated
sedentary
19. Possessed at birth; inborn
condescending
clarity
serene
innate
20. Convincing; reasonable
quandary
equanimity
candor
cogent
21. One who designs or makes maps
cartographer
discredit
impinge
proximity
22. Simultaneously having opposing feelings; uncertain
ambivalent
fractious
conviction
perception
23. Subdued; kept from being circulated
dubious
proximity
whimsical
suppressed
24. Shortened; cut off
truncated
benign
cohesive
frenetic
25. An authority who expresses his/her opinions
paramount
hackneyed
pundit
disparity
26. An occupation or profession
stoic
vocation
sanction
assimilation
27. Savage; untamed
wary
feral
contemporary
parody
28. Uncertainty; apprehension
trepidation
solvent
caustic
didactic
29. Practical
fractious
pragmatic
astute
consensus
30. Habitually late
condemn
meticulous
incontrovertible
dilatory
31. Expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
inherent
brittle
dilettante
penitent
32. Point of view
dictatorial
imperious
nocturnal
perspective
33. Imposed as a duty; obligatory
imperious
trivial
incumbent
insolent
34. Condition of sticking together
dubious
cohesive
rational
disdain
35. Combative; belligerent
idealize
pugnacious
stoic
decorous
36. To calm or soothe
dubious
prudent
lucid
mollify
37. Well-meaning; generous
prodigious
gratuitous
obscure
benevolent
38. Producing a deep or full sound
innovative
sonorous
spurious
dictatorial
39. A brilliantly executed plan
clandestine
superfluous
biased
coup
40. Conspicuously bad or offensive
fastidious
pervasive
inevitable
egregious
41. Dine by secretive means
misconception
paradigm
condescending
surreptitiously
42. Easy-going; friendly
astute
innovative
copious
affable
43. Misconduct or wrongdoing - especially by a public official
lucid
frenetic
malfeasance
meticulous
44. To leave one country or region and settle in another
archaic
obstinate
despotic
emigrate
45. Shrewd; clever
cordial
astute
medley
dogged
46. Large in scope or content
indifferent
suppressed
misconception
comprehensive
47. (adj.) relatively unknown (v.) to conceal or make indistinct
nascent
obscure
objectivity
arbiter
48. (n.) contempt - scorn (v.) to regard or treat with contempt; to look down on
disdain
ambivalent
novice
poignant
49. A tremendously skilled artist
conception
derived
emphasize
virtuoso
50. Concerned only with what is on the surface or obvious; shallow
eclectic
tenuous
mundane
superficial