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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
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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. To stop up; to prevent the passage of
peruse
pedagogy
alleviate
occlude
2. Fierce and cruel; eager to fight
diffuse
obdurate
paragon
truculent
3. Artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful
recondite
beneficent
aesthetic
convoluted
4. Intended to delay
precipitate
aesthetic
laconic
dilatory
5. Pompous speech or expression
venerate
vituperate
grandiloquence
volatile
6. Clear; easily understood
lucid
default
loquacious
elegy
7. A person who dislikes others
misanthrope
archaic
eclectic
desiccate
8. Winding; full of curves
pedagogy
tortuous
archaic
conundrum
9. To demonstrate contempt for - as in a rule or convention
flout
specious
recondite
attenuate
10. Lavish - wasteful
impermeable
tractable
prodigal
opaque
11. Respect - courtesy
catalyst
onerous
ephemeral
deference
12. To clear from blame; prove innocent
germane
exculpate
pedantic
fawn
13. Not obvious; elusive; difficult to discern
quaff
vacillate
pious
subtle
14. Lacking self-confidence
diffident
erudite
impetuous
gullible
15. Silent - reserved
levee
eloquent
irascible
reticent
16. Vibrate pendulumlike; waver
euphemism
amalgamate
oscillate
crescendo
17. Rebel; nonconformist
culpable
maverick
waver
redoubtable
18. Hide away or cache; produce and release a substance into an organism
hegemony
pervade
prodigal
secrete
19. Worship of idols; excessive admiration
dirge
pernicious
idolatry
fervid
20. Too trusting; gullible
credulous
desiccate
tenuous
axiomatic
21. Winding; twisting; excessively complicated
pine
tortuous
arbitrate
approbation
22. Discordant; inharmonious
prolific
cacophonous
elegy
engender
23. Wordy
spendthrift
derision
verbose
assuage
24. Having a tightening effect on living tissue; harsh; severe
vacillate
coagulate
prevaricate
astringent
25. Abuse
reprobate
invective
quiescent
prodigal
26. To ease or lessen; to appease or pacify
inchoate
penury
assuage
immutable
27. To overlook - pardon - or disregard
eclectic
condone
fervor
venerate
28. Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive
gouge
volatile
pathological
laud
29. Approve; ratify
intractable
sanction
torque
spendthrift
30. Sleep-causing; marked by sleepiness
spectrum
dilettante
disabuse
soporific
31. Extremely talkative
decorum
eloquent
aesthetic
loquacious
32. Bright - brilliant - glowing
intractable
sporadic
stint
luminous
33. Deviating from the norm
saturate
aberrant
banal
disabuse
34. Causing sleep or lethargy
whimsical
alchemy
converge
soporific
35. Suspended action
latent
preen
abeyance
lucid
36. Blacken
denigrate
analogous
impervious
nascent
37. Strip; deprive
divest
pathological
pious
archaic
38. To count - list - or itemize
euphemism
apprise
garrulous
enumerate
39. Relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter
derivative
imminent
lament
germane
40. Having or showing often vicious ill-will - spite - or hatred
discredit
vacillate
stupefy
malevolent
41. Confuse; puzzle
gregarious
confound
pervasive
permeate
42. To make more bearable
pungent
probity
alleviate
oscillation
43. Hastily or rashly energetic; impulsive and vehement
reprobate
impetuous
rhetoric
capricious
44. Hackneyed; commonplace; trite; lacking originality
recluse
precipitate
banal
striated
45. Purify; refine; concentrate
apprise
impede
esoteric
distill
46. To choose not to do something
engender
impervious
conundrum
abstain
47. A tendency to be thrifty or cheap
decorum
specious
frugality
astringent
48. About to happen; impending
aesthetic
torpor
voracious
imminent
49. Uncertain; not clearly fixed; indefinite
indeterminate
conundrum
impervious
pungent
50. Greatly emotional or zealous
erudite
insipid
deference
fervent