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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. Basically different; unrelated
abstemious
disparate
innocuous
cogent
2. Capable of being shaped
divest
elegy
secrete
malleable
3. A universally recognized principle
credulous
document
eclectic
axiom
4. To court favor by a flattering manner
coagulate
fawn
anomaly
precarious
5. To annoy or provoke to anger
effrontery
permeate
contentious
antagonize
6. Punishment; severe criticism
zealot
castigation
converge
guile
7. Talkative
sage
abstain
loquacious
ascetic
8. Easily made angry
irascible
inimical
verbose
sanction
9. Prevent by taking action in advance
garrulous
resolution
anachronism
forestall
10. Having a sour or bitter taste or character
acerbic
erudite
penury
archaic
11. Grow forth; send out buds
torpor
burgeon
complaisance
iconoclast
12. To lessen in intensity or degree
abate
inchoate
supposition
waver
13. Refusing to compromise
caustic
insinuate
intransigent
abscond
14. To question or oppose
harangue
grandiloquent
demur
chary
15. To present a false appearance; to disguise one's real intentions or character
derision
intransigent
dissemble
astringent
16. Unmoving; lethargic; sluggish
diverge
inert
refute
buttress
17. Hint; imply; creep in
insinuate
prattle
immutable
preamble
18. Doubter; person who suspends judgment until having examined the evidence supporting a point of view
welter
alacrity
skeptic
censure
19. Exaggeration; overstatement
endemic
hyperbole
inert
castigation
20. Unfortunate; inappropriate
pedantic
derision
infelicitous
irascible
21. Plan of a trip
itinerary
glib
mollify
efficacy
22. Stinging; sharp in taste or smell; caustic
truculent
subside
pungent
pathological
23. Recent convert; beginner
subside
magnanimity
lethargic
neophyte
24. Reserved; uncommunicative; inclined to silence
reticent
prodigal
rhetoric
perfidious
25. Recklessly wasteful; extravagant; profuse; lavish
axiom
prodigal
ephemeral
pedantic
26. Token of disgrace; brand
aggrandize
opprobrium
engender
stigma
27. Aversion; dislike
antipathy
engender
skeptic
occlude
28. Lack of harmony; absurdity
dirge
satire
lavish
incongruity
29. To grow rapidly or flourish
halcyon
efficacy
tirade
burgeon
30. To make larger; to expand
dilate
enumerate
mollify
hyperbole
31. Scorn; ridicule; contemptuous treatment
derision
veracity
anarchy
extemporaneous
32. Something long-lasting
perennial
vilify
burgeon
warranted
33. To demonstrate contempt for - as in a rule or convention
aggrandize
ameliorate
flout
disparate
34. Not harmonious; conflicting
discordant
whimsical
grandiloquent
sparse
35. Urge on
goad
prosaic
dupe
divulge
36. A contradiction or dilemma
ephemeral
magnanimity
equivocate
paradox
37. Suspended action
abeyance
disparate
erudite
austere
38. To state as a fact; to confirm or support
oscillate
dogmatic
irascible
aver
39. Brief and to the point
fawn
rarefy
transgression
laconic
40. Admirable
estimable
emollient
pervasive
inundate
41. To deceive; a person who is easily deceived
dupe
penury
irascible
fawning
42. Unconscious; unresponsive
grandiloquent
insensible
lethargic
dissemble
43. Acting in an indifferent or slow - sluggish manner
discrepancy
platitude
lethargic
preen
44. Pure; uncorrupted; clean
enumerate
emulate
prosaic
pristine
45. The state of having contradictory or conflicting emotional attitudes
foment
anomalous
ambivalence
obtuse
46. Conflicting; dissonant or harsh in sound
extemporaneous
impassive
conciliatory
discordant
47. Predictable - cliched - boring
castigate
banal
qualms
immutable
48. Foreknowledge of events; knowing of events prior to their occurring
halcyon
plethora
meticulous
prescience
49. Capable of being shaped or formed; tractable; pliable
pervasive
indolent
mundane
malleable
50. A substance that accelerates the rate of a chemical reaction without itself changing
specious
dilate
catalyst
pungent