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SAT - TOEFL High Frequency Words
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Subjects
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sat
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english
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vocabulary
Instructions:
Answer 50 questions in 15 minutes.
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Match each statement with the correct term.
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1. Treacherous; disloyal
perfidious
approbation
estimable
solvent
2. Eliminate from consideration; reject
prodigious
stolid
idolatry
dismiss
3. To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
adulterate
fallacious
presumptuous
qualms
4. Aggressiveness; ferocity
disparage
inchoate
truculence
noxious
5. To make thinner or sparser
dilettante
rarefy
magnanimity
commensurate
6. Seeming true - but actually being fallacious; misleadingly attractive
craven
reverent
amenable
specious
7. Dry up
stupefy
irascible
desiccate
penury
8. Inclined to prevent or forbid
oscillation
sporadic
prohibitive
pious
9. Stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic
pungent
decorum
succinct
profligate
10. Hinder - block
abstain
refute
impede
aggrandize
11. To give praise; to glorify
inveigle
laud
castigation
insularity
12. Help bring about; make less difficult
mundane
efficacy
pine
facilitate
13. Strip; deprive
canon
ephemeral
diatribe
divest
14. Burdensome
estimable
eclectic
inert
onerous
15. Practical (as opposed to idealistic)
paradox
placate
pragmatic
eulogy
16. To lessen in intensity or degree
static
qualified
abate
erudite
17. Extremely harmful; potentially causing death
abscond
dogmatic
pernicious
disinterested
18. Sharply perceptive; keen; penetrating
contentious
trenchant
connoisseur
capricious
19. Pompous; using inflated language
ameliorate
avarice
magnanimity
bombastic
20. Extreme boldness; presumptuousness
conciliatory
surfeit
effrontery
veracity
21. Determination
veracity
subpoena
resolution
abyss
22. Speech in praise of someone
opprobium
eulogy
penurious
stint
23. Improve
ameliorate
pragmatic
specious
vilify
24. Full of pores; like a sieve
prattle
canon
porous
squalid
25. Combine; unite in one body
delineate
amalgamate
exculpate
audacious
26. Soothe
vituperate
harangue
mollify
articulate
27. Mysterious; obscure; difficult to understand
laconic
naive
enigmatic
tirade
28. Something that discourages; hindrance
deterrent
salubrious
inimical
condone
29. Producing large volumes or amounts; productive
flag
prolific
volatile
conciliatory
30. Belittle
intractable
disparage
gullible
torpor
31. To block; thwart
inchoate
austere
stymie
canonical
32. Wandering away from the subject
bolster
harangue
digression
officious
33. Characteristic of earlier times; primitive; unspoiled
luminous
audacious
malleable
pristine
34. Devotion to pleasurable pursuits - esp. to the pleasures of the senses
obtuse
arduous
hedonism
warranted
35. Appease
propitiate
refractory
truculent
pine
36. One who practices rigid self-denial - esp. as an act of religious devotion
nebulous
diverge
coda
ascetic
37. Make shiny by rubbing; polish
tirade
burnish
abscond
levee
38. Incapable of being pacified
abate
anarchy
implacable
implode
39. Stubborn; unmanageable
refractory
eulogy
eulogy
garrulous
40. Excessively wasteful; recklessly extravagant
indeterminate
profligate
discrepancy
dilettante
41. A piece of broken pottery or glass
assuage
lavish
recalcitrant
shard
42. To calm or make less severe
sanction
reticent
acerbic
mollify
43. Well-spoken; expressive; articulate
assuage
venerate
rhetoric
eloquent
44. The art or study of effective use of language for communication and persuasion
imperturbable
idolatry
cacophonous
rhetoric
45. Vague; cloudy; lacking clearly defined form
nebulous
esoteric
contrite
cacophony
46. Unyielding; hardhearted; intractable
obdurate
viscous
disparage
squalid
47. Reconciling; soothing
innocuous
boorish
perennial
conciliatory
48. Warn; reprove
diffuse
admonish
desultory
adulterate
49. Lavish - wasteful
exacerbate
subpoena
penurious
prodigal
50. Similar or alike in some way; equivalent to
analogous
penurious
obviate
soporific