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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. Fleeting; passing quickly; brief
whimsical
condone
transient
contentious
2. Vibrate pendulumlike; waver
oscillate
eulogy
disabuse
recalcitrant
3. To appease; to calm by making concessions
supposition
alleviate
placate
profligate
4. Fragment; generally of pottery
shard
contentious
decorum
antipathy
5. Apt; suitably expressed; well chosen
enumerate
felicitous
inured
contentious
6. Unconscious; unresponsive
dissemble
insensible
perfidious
hyperbole
7. To sway physically; to be indecisive
vacillate
soporific
welter
obviate
8. Mentally quick and observant; having insight
innocuous
discerning
transgression
ephemeral
9. Something out of place in time
beneficent
mendacious
voracious
anachronism
10. A person who dislikes others
quixotic
prodigal
misanthrope
cacophony
11. Make unnecessary; get rid of
derivative
obviate
tenacity
perfunctory
12. Able to be molded - altered - or bent
malinger
stigma
culpable
plastic
13. Support; reinforce
veracious
bolster
capricious
tacit
14. To produce - cause - or bring about
engender
voracious
tirade
diverge
15. A harsh and disagreeable combination - often of sounds
queries
dirge
analogous
dissonance
16. To deliver a pompous speech or tirade
magnanimity
partisan
hyperbole
harangue
17. Scarcity
paucity
abeyance
pedantic
trenchant
18. Rude; insensitive
ambiguous
prodigal
inchoate
boorish
19. Beginning to come into being or to become apparent
gullible
efficacy
incipient
austere
20. To use expressions of double meaning in order to mislead
equivocate
soporific
subside
candid
21. Lack of harmony; absurdity
perfidy
incongruity
inveigle
insularity
22. Cause to be set aside; replace; make obsolete
audacious
supersede
peruse
recalcitrant
23. Of the same kind
pith
lethargic
homogenous
malleable
24. The essential or central part
pith
alacrity
explicit
subpoena
25. Inclined to change one's mind impulsively; erratic; unpredictable
vacillate
capricious
penchant
immutable
26. Cancel
rescind
abstain
eclectic
soporific
27. The quality of adherence or persistence to something valued
tenacity
propitiate
erudite
derivative
28. Satisfy fully
disparage
satiate
assuage
fervor
29. Playful; humorous
chaos
facetious
impair
catalyst
30. Hinder - block
bombastic
impede
perfidious
torpor
31. An exaggerated statement - often used as a figure of speech
hyperbole
facetious
mollify
venerate
32. Strong inclination; liking
propensity
pungent
canonical
penchant
33. To make better or more tolerable
ameliorate
contentious
aesthetic
stymie
34. Intensely emotional; feverish
dissolution
tortuous
truculent
fervid
35. Lack of consistency; difference
rescind
discrepancy
fawn
arduous
36. Fundamentally distinct or dissimilar
catalyst
tirade
metamorphosis
disparate
37. Failure to act
sordid
imperturbable
default
placate
38. Unclear or doubtful in meaning
ambiguous
articulate
extemporaneous
emulate
39. Writ summoning a witness to appear
facetious
acumen
torque
subpoena
40. Wandering and unpredictable
prohibitive
emulate
erratic
tenacity
41. An overabundance; a surplus
plethora
stymie
aesthetic
reticent
42. An established set of principles or code of laws - often religious in nature
canon
aesthetic
adulation
laconic
43. Change of form
sedulous
cogent
metamorphosis
inchoate
44. Cursory; done without care or interest
perfunctory
gouge
anachronism
castigation
45. Propriety; orderliness and good taste in manners
pedantic
bombastic
quiescent
decorum
46. Lazy
fortuitous
indolent
ingenuous
amalgamate
47. Courteous regard for another's wish
desultory
garrulous
deference
hedonism
48. Motionless
quiescent
ingenuous
lucid
viscous
49. Genuine; not false or hypocritical
insularity
unfeigned
axiom
mundane
50. To remove blame
pernicious
exonerate
succinct
alacrity