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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. Reconciling; soothing
morose
conciliatory
ebullience
nascent
2. One who practices rigid self-denial - esp. as an act of religious devotion
acumen
probity
ascetic
chicanery
3. Selecting from or made up from a variety of sources
divulge
eclectic
dogma
equanimity
4. Meddlesome; excessively pushy in offering one's services
maverick
belie
officious
waver
5. A force that causes rotation
torque
pungent
hyperbole
exacerbate
6. Urge on
abscond
inimical
goad
complaisant
7. Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
laconic
soporific
facetious
axiomatic
8. To set right; to free from error
soporific
disabuse
soporific
approbation
9. Understood; not put into words
pine
goad
explicit
tacit
10. Evoking intense aversion or dislike
compendium
glib
acumen
odious
11. To combine several elements into a whole
soporific
amalgamate
condone
perfidious
12. Scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment
derision
abate
inert
ebullient
13. Extremely harmful or poisonous; bitterly hostile or antagonistic
amalgamate
disabuse
virulent
complaisance
14. Exaggeration; overstatement
ingenuous
hyperbole
anomaly
impetuous
15. To copy; to try to equal or excel
contentious
deride
emulate
emollient
16. Separate; unconnected; consisting of distinct parts
propitiate
inchoate
placate
discrete
17. Worried - concerned
solicious
contentious
contrite
insipid
18. Cause; produce
specious
precipitate
precursor
engender
19. Accustomed; hardened
capricious
inured
dissolution
sanction
20. Yielding; conforming to requirements
spectrum
dilate
immutable
compliant
21. Steadfast and courageous
intrepid
torque
flag
putrefy
22. Exceeding what is sufficient or necessary
superfluous
exigent
aberrant
inchoate
23. Harsh - jarring noise
rhetoric
morose
cacaphony
viscous
24. The quality of lively or enthusiastic expression of thoughts and feelings
ascetic
ebullience
default
misanthrope
25. Harmless
innocuous
pedantic
specious
inimical
26. Silent - reserved
germane
pedantic
guile
reticent
27. Deviation form what is normal
sparse
anomaly
satire
satiate
28. To calm or soothe; to reduce in emotional intensity
mollify
obstinate
distill
naive
29. To publicly praise or promote
specious
obsequious
tout
contiguous
30. Portray; depict; sketch
proliferate
delineate
satiate
admonish
31. Easily aroused or changeable; lively or explosive
reproach
volatile
implode
garrulous
32. To use harsh condemnatory language; to abuse or censure severely or abusively; to berate
malingerer
vituperate
abscond
divulge
33. A superficial remark - esp. one offered as meaningful
platitude
mollify
convoluted
maverick
34. Unconscious; unresponsive
recondite
preamble
insensible
lucid
35. To deliberately obscure; to make confusing
obfuscate
erratic
penury
complaisant
36. Revere
venerate
soporific
vituperate
disparage
37. Vary; go in different directions from the same point
exculpate
inured
diverge
sedulous
38. Hard; strenuous
preamble
morose
zeal
arduous
39. Without adornment; bare; severely simple; ascetic
austere
iconoclast
exacerbate
corroborate
40. Intensely emotional; feverish
zealous
fervid
abate
ubiquitous
41. Opinionated; arbitrary; doctrinal
foment
dogmatic
insipid
obstinate
42. Showing excitement; overflowing with enthusiasm
ebullient
soporific
preamble
inherent
43. To present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character
dissemble
implode
disseminate
malleable
44. Cancel
pragmatic
foment
rescind
insipid
45. Riddle; difficult problem
conciliatory
conundrum
discretion
perfunctory
46. Glowing ardor; intensity of feeling
abate
fervor
incorporate
efficacy
47. Ease or lessen (pain); satisfy (hunger); soothe (anger)
stolid
diffuse
assuage
verbose
48. An overabundance; a surplus
onerous
vexation
plethora
explicit
49. Abstruse; profound; secret
maverick
enervate
recondite
tangential
50. To deceive; a person who is easily deceived
supposition
obviate
opprobrium
dupe