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Your Test is Monday, 10/29/2018
TOP 50 SAT WORDS 2018
1. Abstract: not concrete
2. Aesthetic: having to do with the appreciation of beauty
3. Alleviate: to ease a pain or a burden
4. Ambivalent simultaneously feeling opposing feelings; uncertain
5. Apathetic: feeling or showing little emotion
6. Auspicious: favorable; promising
7. Benevolent: well-meaning; generous
8. Candor: sincerity; openness
9. Cogent: convincing; reasonable
10. Comprehensive: broad or complete in scope or content
11. Contemporary: current, modern; from the same time
12. Conviction: a fixed or strong belief
13. Diligent: marked by painstaking effort; hard-working
14. Dubious: doubtful; of unlikely authenticity
15. Eclectic: made up of a variety of sources or styles
16. Egregious: conspicuously bad or offensive
17. Exculpate: to free from guilt or blame
18. Florid: flowery or elaborate in style
19. Gratuitous: given freely; unearned; unwarranted
20. Hackneyed: worn out through overuse; trite
21. Idealize: to consider perfect
22. Impartial: not in favor of one side or the other; unbiased
23. Imperious: arrogantly domineering or overbearing
24. Inherent: inborn; built-in
25. Innovative: introducing something new
26. Inveterate: long established; deep-rooted; habitual
27. Laudatory: giving praise
28. Maverick: one who resists adherence to a group
29. Mollify: to calm or soothe
30. Novel: strikingly new or unusual
31. Obdurate: stubborn; inflexible
32. Objectivity: judgment uninfluenced by emotion
33. Obstinate: stubbornly adhering to an opinion
34. Ornate: elaborately decorated
35. Ostentatious: describing a pretentious display
36. Paramount: of chief concern or importance
37. Penitent: expressing remorse for one's misdeeds
38. Pervasive: dispersed throughout
39. Plausible: seemingly valid or acceptable; credible
40. Profound: having great depth or seriousness
41. Prosaic: unimaginative; dull; ordinary
42. Quandary: a state of uncertainty or perplexity
43. Rancorous: hateful; marked by deep-seated ill will
44. Spurious: not genuine; false; counterfeit
45. Stoic: indifferent to pleasure or pain; impassive
46. Superfluous: extra; unnecessary
47. Tenuous: having little substance or strength; unsure; weak
48. Timorous: timid; fearful
49. Transitory: short-lived; temporary
50. Vindicated: freed from blame