Vocab Booster SAT Supplement Vocabulary: Importance Words

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  1. applicable
    having relevance
  2. germane
    relevant and appropriate
  3. pertinent
    being of striking appropriateness
  4. relevant
    having a bearing on or connection with the subject at issue
  5. critical
    of a serious examination and judgment of something
  6. crucial
    of extreme importance; vital to the resolution of a crisis
  7. dire
    fraught with extreme danger; nearly hopeless
  8. essential
    basic and fundamental
  9. fundamental
    serving as an essential component
  10. grave
    a place for the burial of a corpse
  11. gravity
    the force of attraction between all masses in the universe
  12. imperative
    requiring attention or action
  13. indispensable
    essential
  14. incumbent
    necessary as a duty or responsibility; morally binding
  15. integral
    existing as an essential constituent or characteristic
  16. momentous
    of very great significance
  17. obligatory
    required by compulsion or convention
  18. paramount
    more important than anything else; supreme
  19. pivotal
    being of crucial importance
  20. primarily
    for the most part
  21. principle
    a basic generalization that is accepted as true
  22. prominent
    conspicuous in position or importance
  23. requisite
    necessary for relief or supply
  24. salient
    conspicuous, prominent, or important
  25. significant
    rich in implication
  26. underscore
    give extra weight to
  27. vital
    performing an essential function in the living body
  28. watershed
    a ridge of land that separates two adjacent river systems
  29. weight
    the vertical force exerted by a mass as a result of gravity
  30. ancillary
    furnishing added support
  31. arbitrary
    based on or subject to individual discretion or preference
  32. excessive
    beyond normal limits
  33. exorbitant
    greatly exceeding bounds of reason or moderation
  34. extraneous
    not belonging to that in which it is contained
  35. extravagant
    recklessly wasteful
  36. extrinsic
    not forming an essential part of a thing
  37. gratuitous
    unnecessary and unwarranted
  38. immaterial
    lacking importance; not mattering one way or the other
  39. impertinent
    improperly forward or bold
  40. impractical
    not workable
  41. inconsequential
    lacking worth or importance
  42. insignificant
    conveying nothing
  43. irrelevant
    having no bearing on or connection with the subject at issue
  44. luxury
    something that is an indulgence rather than a necessity
  45. moot
    of no legal significance, as having been previously decided
  46. negligible
    so small as to be meaningless; insignificant
  47. nominal
    relating to or constituting or bearing or giving a name
  48. peripheral
    on or near an edge or constituting an outer boundary
  49. petty
    small and of little importance
  50. superfluous
    more than is needed, desired, or required
  51. redundant
    more than is needed, desired, or required
  52. tangent
    a line that touches a curve at only one point
  53. tangential
    of superficial relevance if any
  54. trifling
    not worth considering
  55. trivial
    (informal) small and of little importance
  56. unimportant
    not important
Created on Fri Jan 31 17:34:48 EST 2020 (updated Thu Apr 02 20:06:15 EDT 2020)

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