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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. Brainless; inane; foolish - yet smug
fatuous
laconic
pragmatic
transgression
2. Playful; humorous
mitigate
iconoclast
facetious
decorum
3. Harmful; injurious
malinger
probity
noxious
metamorphosis
4. An attitude or quality of belief that all people are motivated by selfishness
impervious
audacious
cynicism
piety
5. Lack of consistency; difference
eulogy
axiomatic
distill
discrepancy
6. Similar or alike in some way; equivalent to
analogous
rarefy
erratic
redoubtable
7. Propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners
irascible
decorum
facetious
obdurate
8. To loudly attack or denounce
metaphor
fulminate
shard
stupefy
9. Overwhelm; flood; submerge
obdurate
inundate
laconic
rarefy
10. Scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment
onerous
derision
germane
impermeable
11. Changeable; explosive; evaporating rapidly
volatile
condone
prosaic
plummet
12. Coming into being; in early developmental stages
veracity
propensity
nascent
admonish
13. Use of an inoffensive word or phrase in place of a more distasteful one
chaos
terse
pious
euphemism
14. One who hates mankind
misanthrope
latent
parody
acumen
15. Determination; firmness of purpose
grandiloquence
resolve
lavish
indeterminate
16. Selecting from or made up from a variety of sources
prevaricate
embellish
magnanimity
eclectic
17. Deny
inured
perfidy
verbose
gainsay
18. Sordid; wretched and dirty as from neglect
inchoate
discrepancy
squalid
vigilant
19. Quick to act without thinking
empirical
axiom
qualified
impetuous
20. Exonerate; to clear of blame
decorum
exculpate
placate
exigent
21. Showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention
torpid
ostentatious
distend
malevolent
22. To permeate throughout
desultory
abstain
laud
pervade
23. Occurring or recurring daily; commonplace
quotidian
stigma
capricious
futile
24. Acutely perceptive; having keen discernment
acumen
perspicacious
aberrant
tacit
25. A firmly held opinion - often a religious belief
dogma
equivocate
assuage
recant
26. Foolishly impractical; marked by lofty romantic ideals
alchemy
quixotic
vituperate
euphemism
27. Brief and concise in wording
terse
exculpate
superfluous
resolution
28. Hostile - unfriendly
garrulous
demur
inimical
discrepancy
29. To drink deeply
rarefy
paragon
imperturbable
quaff
30. Increase; improve
disabuse
satiate
abate
enhance
31. An exaggerated statement - often used as a figure of speech
insularity
amenable
hyperbole
divest
32. Languor; weariness
lassitude
exacerbate
pervasive
diverge
33. Refusing to compromise
intransigent
diatribe
gullible
substantiate
34. Characterized by a strong - sharp smell or taste
belie
pungent
volatile
dirge
35. Hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement
sanction
impetuous
implacable
malleable
36. Characterized by brightness and the emission of light
pernicious
luminous
irascible
impede
37. Shining; issuing light
luminous
metamorphosis
maverick
obviate
38. To make impure
malingerer
adulterate
precipitate
austere
39. Generosity
discredit
complaisance
magnanimity
irascible
40. To make or become thin - less dense; to refine
reticent
implacable
rarefy
catalyst
41. Make shiny by rubbing; polish
spectrum
neophyte
wary
burnish
42. Comparable
gregarious
analogous
capricious
eloquent
43. To give unsparingly (V); Extremely generous or extravagant (ADJ)
lavish
disjointed
disparate
credulous
44. Doubtful or uncertain; able to be interpreted in several ways
abate
perspicacious
ambiguous
fawning
45. Predictable - cliched - boring
banal
occlude
satiate
mendacity
46. To sway physically; to be indecisive
pirate
frugality
mitigate
vacillate
47. Record of a voyage or flight; record of day-to-day activities
assuage
idolatrous
homogenous
log
48. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
prodigious
eulogy
prodigal
inundate
49. Distribute; spread; scatter (like seeds)
profuse
chicanery
wary
disseminate
50. Thick; sticky
dogmatic
viscous
parody
flout