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SAT - TOEFL High Frequency Words
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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. Penitent
polemical
enervate
contrite
engender
2. Wandering and unpredictable
welter
cacaphony
erratic
meticulous
3. A medieval science aimed at the transmutation of metals - esp. base metals into gold
alchemy
impetuous
paradox
veracity
4. Occurring irregularly
lucid
sporadic
substantiate
sedulous
5. To demonstrate contempt for - as in a rule or convention
cacophonous
prodigious
discordant
flout
6. The combination of parts to make a whole
transitory
diffuse
veracity
synthesis
7. Excessively careful; painstaking; scrupulous
disinterested
meticulous
apathy
assiduous
8. Brainless; inane; foolish - yet smug
disinterested
fatuous
stolid
facilitate
9. Joking (often inappropriately); humorous
burgeon
anomalous
inured
facetious
10. A humorous imitation intended for ridicule or comic effect - esp. in literature and art
eclectic
parody
monotony
supersede
11. Cowardly
daunt
craven
desiccate
ameliorate
12. Overstepping due bounds (as of propriety or courtesy); taking liberties
presumptuous
disabuse
ascetic
luminous
13. The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings
ebullience
conciliatory
meticulous
crescendo
14. To express sorrow; to grieve
waver
lament
laud
arduous
15. Something or someone misplaced in time
repudiate
anachronism
cogent
chicanery
16. Docile; easily managed
veracious
disparage
aver
tractable
17. A sorrowful poem or speech
endemic
disseminate
elegy
deride
18. Quarrelsome
anachronism
contentious
succinct
occlude
19. Unyielding; hardhearted; intractable
lament
garrulous
incorporate
obdurate
20. To set right; to free from error
connoisseur
disabuse
prosaic
abyss
21. Healthful
salubrious
prodigious
implode
renege
22. To court favor by a flattering manner
enervate
qualms
empirical
fawn
23. Lacking funds; without money
approbation
presumptuous
impecunious
platitude
24. Grow rapidly; spread; multiply
effrontery
proliferate
perennial
adulterate
25. Dealing with - appreciative of - or responsive to art or the beautiful
aesthetic
eloquent
partisan
rarefied
26. Artistic; dealing with or capable of appreciating the beautiful
aesthetic
perfunctory
pristine
harangue
27. Depart secretly and hide
warranted
preamble
artless
abscond
28. A court order requiring appearance and/or testimony
confound
aggregate
subpoena
abstain
29. In an initial stage; not fully formed
inchoate
anomalous
accolade
advocate
30. Claim; thesis
contention
verbose
bombast
truculence
31. Soak thoroughly
hackneyed
saturate
prescience
spurious
32. Someone easily fooled
rhetoric
qualified
dupe
inconsequential
33. Fitness; correct conduct
solvent
mollify
infelicitous
propriety
34. Understood but not stated
disjointed
stigma
implicit
insinuate
35. Unprejudiced
culpable
disinterested
gullible
pragmatic
36. Burning; sarcastically biting
caustic
garrulous
rarefy
audacious
37. Showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm
opprobrium
insipid
ebullient
ardor
38. Brief; fleeting
strut
querulous
prattle
ephemeral
39. Appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety
pernicious
exigency
propriety
decorum
40. Extremely harmful; potentially causing death
pernicious
placate
obdurate
abscond
41. Regretful; penitent; seeking forgiveness
convention
inherent
lethargic
contrite
42. To grow rapidly or flourish
monotony
perfidy
culpable
burgeon
43. Temporary - lasting a brief time
transitory
iconoclast
idolatrous
repudiate
44. To increase in number quickly
proliferate
mitigate
impermeable
hyperbole
45. Damaging; harmful; injurious
inimical
diverge
dissonance
mundane
46. Intensely emotional; feverish
decorum
fervid
eclectic
coagulate
47. Poverty
indigence
homogenous
tirade
implicit
48. Intense and passionate feeling
ardor
discern
oscillate
apathy
49. Abstruse; profound; secret
viable
perennial
recondite
soporific
50. To publicly praise or promote
transient
innocuous
torpor
tout