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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. Given or coming forth abundantly; extravagant
alchemy
log
profuse
taciturn
2. Appropriateness of behavior or conduct; propriety
decorum
derision
conciliatory
approbation
3. Pompous in speech and manner
laud
porous
compendium
bombastic
4. A speech honoring the dead
dogma
verbose
eulogy
irascible
5. Persuasive and moving - especially in speech
eloquent
crescendo
dismiss
impassive
6. Courteous regard for another's wish
sublime
deference
connoisseur
supposition
7. To leave secretly
abscond
peruse
apathy
urbane
8. Smallness of quantity or number; scarcity; a lack
indifferent
dearth
profuse
compliant
9. Hard; strenuous
convoluted
arduous
hedonism
diatribe
10. Exonerate; to clear of blame
exculpate
reproach
exacerbate
terse
11. Relevant to the subject at hand; appropriate in subject matter
convoluted
germane
veracity
equivocate
12. Droop; grow feeble
flag
platitude
ephemeral
antipathy
13. Pompous; bombastic; using high-sounding language
heretical
alleviate
grandiloquent
disparate
14. Ancient - old-fashioned
stolid
anachronism
archaic
bucolic
15. To soften; to lessen
mitigate
reverent
squalid
convoluted
16. Easily deceived
gullible
exculpate
neologism
monotony
17. Violation of a law; sin
decorum
transgression
conciliatory
prescience
18. Extremely harmful; potentially causing death
disparate
stupefy
emulate
pernicious
19. One who hates mankind
superfluous
lucid
perfidious
misanthrope
20. To take the place of; supersede
repudiate
fervor
malingerer
supplant
21. Lying; habitually dishonest
mendacious
coagulate
probity
precipitate
22. Inclined to prevent or forbid
paragon
rancorous
prohibitive
impair
23. Portray; depict; sketch
quiescent
delineate
transient
onerous
24. Easily made angry
irascible
dupe
complaisant
hubris
25. Clear; easily understood
tirade
supersede
lucid
bombastic
26. To make impure
goad
exigent
gullible
adulterate
27. Clear and easily understood
paragon
stipulate
dissonance
lucid
28. Gather; accumulate
indolent
beneficent
canon
aggregate
29. Shyness
diffidence
furtive
officious
analogous
30. Seemingly reasonable but incorrect; misleading (often intentional)
disinterested
presumptuous
ennui
specious
31. Worried - concerned
solicious
foment
harangue
sporadic
32. Useless; hopeless; ineffectual
futile
transitory
polemical
abate
33. Readily changing to a vapor; changeable; fickle; explosive
obtuse
perennial
volatile
presumptuous
34. Lacking authenticity or validity; false; counterfeit
coagulate
spurious
prevaricate
harangue
35. Brief; concise
succinct
eulogy
chaos
precursor
36. Abstruse; profound; secret
recondite
untenable
homogenous
enervate
37. Pompous speech or expression
venerate
grandiloquence
stipulate
credulous
38. To undeceive; to set right
satiate
disabuse
catalyst
gullible
39. Grow rapidly; spread; multiply
proliferate
approbation
sublime
paean
40. Stubborn
aberrant
aggrandize
obdurate
laconic
41. Authoritative permission or approval; a penalty intended to enforce compliance
sanction
esoteric
coda
obdurate
42. Recurrent through the year or many years; happening repeatedly
perennial
discordant
peruse
precipitate
43. To deceive; a person who is easily deceived
dupe
opprobrium
vilify
imminent
44. To make something unpleasant less sever
homogenous
assuage
truculent
sanction
45. A recent convert; a beginner; novice
intransigent
banal
effrontery
neophyte
46. One who hates all other humans
inert
belie
recluse
misanthrope
47. Supporting bar
gainsay
eclectic
strut
striated
48. To express sorrow; to grieve
mitigate
flout
lament
appropriate
49. Without deceit
guileless
opprobrium
relegate
aggrandize
50. At rest; dormant; temporarily inactive
quiescent
pristine
disabuse
refractory