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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. Complex or complicated
convoluted
odious
pungent
quibble
2. Abundant in size - force - or extent; extraordinary
avarice
guile
lassitude
prodigious
3. Hostile - unfriendly
placate
dissemble
inimical
abate
4. Not easily managed or directed; stubborn; obstinate
ephemeral
penury
qualified
intractable
5. Unoriginal; obtained from another source
attenuate
fanatical
derivative
satire
6. Intended to delay
vacillate
capricious
forestall
dilatory
7. Lacking self-confidence
viscous
viscous
relegate
diffident
8. Grow forth; send out buds
cacaphony
misanthrope
burgeon
pedagogy
9. Characterized by filth - grime - or squalor; foul
convoluted
substantiate
stupefy
sordid
10. Wary; cautious; sparing
chary
reticent
torpid
chauvinist
11. Characterized by brightness and the emission of light
sporadic
soporific
reticent
luminous
12. Something that brings about a change in something else
aesthetic
quaff
catalyst
garrulous
13. Be thrifty; set limits
tangential
stint
castigate
disabuse
14. False; misleading
mollify
fallacious
salubrious
daunt
15. To loudly attack or denounce
fulminate
propriety
cynicism
coda
16. A speech honoring the dead
chaos
exonerate
impetuous
eulogy
17. Comparable
analogous
transitory
flout
imperturbable
18. Sad; sullen; melancholy
subpoena
waver
deterrent
morose
19. Easily made angry
irascible
efficacy
banal
salubrious
20. To make thinner or sparser
rarefy
effrontery
impetuous
adulterate
21. Characterized by or given to pretentiousness
exigent
gullible
ostentatious
effrontery
22. Taken as a given; possessing self-evident truth
gregarious
heretical
axiomatic
perfunctory
23. To reduce purity by combining with inferior ingredients
adulterate
platitude
reticent
equanimity
24. Similar or alike in some way; equivalent to
viscous
analogous
chicanery
cynicism
25. Devoutness; reverence for God
tortuous
pine
deterrent
piety
26. Plan of a trip
desultory
itinerary
quaff
implacable
27. A person or thing that causes change
succinct
foment
discern
catalyst
28. Prevent by taking action in advance
abate
anachronism
forestall
fervid
29. Winding; full of curves
disparage
tortuous
pragmatic
profligate
30. Showy; pretentious; trying to attract attention
amenable
cacophony
ostentatious
imperturbable
31. To make more bearable
probity
quotidian
striated
alleviate
32. Trying to please; overly polite; obliging
complaisant
pristine
prudence
supplant
33. Lacking coherence
disjointed
assuage
oscillation
contention
34. Irritable; easily angered
irascible
goad
ostentatious
document
35. Harmless; causing no damage
burnish
innocuous
luminous
condone
36. Foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring
prescience
chary
adulterate
itinerary
37. Urgent; pressing; requiring immediate action or attention
exigent
itinerary
abstain
forestall
38. Soak thoroughly
partisan
saturate
indifferent
decorum
39. Pompous; bombastic; using high-sounding language
precipitate
grandiloquent
elegy
welter
40. Occurring or recurring daily; commonplace
quotidian
frugality
maverick
incongruity
41. To support; to prop up
opprobrium
equanimity
bolster
occlude
42. Public disgrace
catalyst
tirade
tacit
opprobrium
43. Unpredictable; fickle
capricious
tacit
invective
pathological
44. Kindly; doing good
precipitate
contention
beneficent
perfidious
45. Hinder - block
disjointed
fawn
impede
intrepid
46. Effectiveness
efficacy
euphemism
anachronism
refute
47. Abstruse; profound; secret
abate
recondite
convoluted
gregarious
48. One-sided; prejudiced; committed to a party
impede
archaic
unfeigned
partisan
49. Urgent situation; pressing needs or demands; state of requiring immediate attention
spurious
predilection
placate
exigency
50. A figure of speech comparing two different things; a symbol
plummet
lucid
metaphor
cacaphony